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Is there any creative avenue pop singer Halsey hasn’t explored? It sure doesn’t feel like it. During their performance at last night’s (December 8) The Game Awards, Halsey revealed their highly anticipated collaboration with Blizzard’s upcoming game Diablo IV, which is set to hit consoles in June of 2023.

The singer took the stage of the award show to perform “Lilith,” which appears on their 2021 album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power and is named after one of the game’s characters. The stage was hauntingly lit as a cloaked entourage formed amongst the smoke. A gigantic statue of Lilith towers over them as they sing. Dressed in a figure-hugging black sheer leotard with an elegantly draped corset, thorned black necklace, veining red eye makeup, and their signature short pixie cut with on-theme spit curls, Halsey is creeping in all the best ways.

Lilith first appeared in Diablo 2, is derived from Jewish mythology, and is a sinister primordial she-demon. When asked about the collaboration, the singer replied, “As soon as Diablo 4 was announced, I knew I wanted to be a part of the lead-up and launch. Lilith is such an influence on my own art and has informed so many characteristics of my alter-ego.”

Halsey ensured this collaboration is just the tip of the iceberg, as they said, “This is just the beginning of what Blizzard Entertainment and I have in store. A lot of exciting things are coming for Halsey fans, Diablo fans, and the crossover; waiting for Lilith’s embrace.”

In a press release, Rod Fergusson, the General Manager of Diablo at Blizzard Entertainment, shared his approval of the collaboration, writing, “It’s so exciting to collaborate with a talented artist who has loved Diablo for years, and we can’t wait to continue working with Halsey to support the launch of Diablo 4. Together, Halsey and the Diablo team will bring the relentless battle between angels and demons to the world as they invite everyone to join us in the most brutal vision of Sanctuary to date.”

Diablo IV is slated to be released on June 6, 2023. To pre-order, click here.

Watch Halsey’s performance of the game’s featured track, “Lilith,” above.

Thursday night’s episode of The Daily Show had fewer laugh-out-loud moments as usual, as it Trevor Noah’s final episode as host. Noah himself took several minutes to offer a heartfelt thank you to his viewers and supporters, and to share the many reasons why he is thankful to Black women for teaching him everything he knows. Meanwhile, The Daily Show’s talented lineup of regular correspondents each took some time to bid Noah a fond farewell in their very own ways.

First up was Michael Kosta, who chose not to talk about the stock market, “because as much as I love numbers, there’s a different N word I love even more: Nostalgia.” Kosta shared a chart of the six years he and Noah have spent working together, which had its ups and downs, but began at a high point “because you hired me,” Kosta explained. “Which meant I could stop sleeping in my sh*tty old Honda Civic.”

Desi Lydic, meanwhile, conducted Noah’s exit interview, which included such questions as “What will you miss most about me?” Dulcé Sloan delivered the lottery numbers, but said there was “only one lotto winner tonight, and that is my friend — my light-skinned friend — my homie, Trevor Ezekiel Noah.” (No, his middle name is not Ezekiel.) Though she was later confused to learn that he was leaving the show without having another job: “So you just leaving a job to do nothing?!,” Sloan wanted to know, before declaring: “Wow, you really are half-white.”

Ronny Chieng shared what was trending, and admitted that it was his “feelings! I can’t believe you’re leaving! It’s like a part of my heart is being ripped out of my body, and not in the cool, Indiana Jones way.”

Roy Wood Jr. came on to do the traffic, but instead decided that Noah might want to think about just moving over to Good Morning America. “The light-skinned dude over there’s in a lot of trouble,” Wood relayed. “They might have an opening for you.” But Wood also begged Noah to come clean about who he really is: a shyster from Birmingham named Slippery J. who Wood used to run credit cards with back in the mid-1990s. Noah refused to confess.

The biggest surprise came when Jordan Klepper, who Noah was pretty sure had perished during his latest assignment, joined Noah on stage. Despite his job requiring him to be sent out “every other week to the heart of America to almost get murdered by QAnon psychopaths,” according to Klepper, he was there to prove that he was indeed still alive and to present a special “Farewell Trevor Edition” of “Fingers the Pulse,” in which the city of New York said their final goodbyes.

You can watch all the goodbyes in the clip above.

If celebrities have learned one lesson about paid endorsements in 2022, it’s that promoting crypto can be a risky business. (See: Kim Kardashian, Tom Brady, and Madison Cawthorn — remember him?) As The Daily Beast reports, Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary is the latest bold-faced name to learn that lesson the hard way.

In August 2021, O’Leary, a.k.a. “Mr. Wonderful,” publicly announced that he had made a deal worth $15 million to become a stakeholder and spokesperson for FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that also managed to sign Larry David and Tom Brady as celebrity spokespeople. Last month, the company officially declared bankruptcy — but its behind-the-scenes dealings are rumored to be much more devious. According to reports, 30-year-old company founder Sam Bankman-Fried (who goes by SBF) actually made off with about $10 billion before letting the company collapse.

On Thursday, O’Leary was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box, where co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin grilled him on his journey from “calling crypto ‘garbage’ at one point… to deciding that this was something you were going to stand behind.” Sorkin also, of course, wanted to know how much money O’Leary had lost in all the shady shenanigans. The Shark didn’t mince words: “We all look like idiots,” O’Leary said. “Let’s put that on the table. We relied on each others’ due diligence.”

As for how his change of heart regarding crypto came about, O’Leary says that it was largely due to Bankman-Fried, who was offering one of the few Americans offering a chance to invest in crypto. And that witnessing the digital currency’s growth in other countries such as Canada, Switzerland, and Australia got O’Leary thinking: “Wait a second, [the] world’s changing, I’ve got to be an investor.”

Unfortunately, that investment cost him just about every penny of that $15 million payday he was supposed to see. As The Daily Beast wrote:

O’Leary insisted that virtually all of his $15 million payday has disappeared. Some of the original figure went to agent fees, he said. A $1 million equity stake in FTX has vaporized, as has $9.7 million he put into crypto assets.

The Shark Tank judge claimed that other investors had approached him seeking a way to acquire a piece of FTX and he rebuffed them because he was a paid spokesperson. “Not a single dollar that I lost is anybody else’s money,” he said.

Ultimately, however, O’Leary is sticking by SBF, who recently swore that there was no malicious intent on his part and that he did not defraud his customers.

You can watch O’Leary’s Squawk Box interview in two parts, above and below:

(Via The Daily Beast)

Let’s see how “isolated” Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is doing so far.

“Trump’s horrific month” — Axios

“Donald Trump is begging for attention. Nobody cares.” — Washington Post

“Trump’s 2024 campaign so far is an epic act of self-sabotage” — New Yorker

So, yeah, things could be better for Trump. But that’s the mainstream media. He must be doing better among the people who matter to him most: donors. Right? Not quite. Bloomberg reports that “Trump raised $4.2 million from donors using the GOP’s online platform WinRed in the two weeks after his Nov. 15 announcement, an underwhelming sum for a critical period.” It’s “a far cry from his typical fundraising prowess.”

[His campaign] spent less than $7,500 on Facebook ads since then, and spent just $115,000 on Google. By comparison, Trump spent a combined $2.2 million on those ads in the first three weeks after his 2020 campaign launched… The WinRed post-general election report filed Thursday showed that Trump raised an average of $298,000 a day on the day of his announcement and the following 13 days — just $14,800 more than the daily average the previous two weeks. By comparison, Trump raised $130 million through WinRed in the two weeks after the 2020 election.

It’s hard to imagine why people don’t want to invest their money in him.

(Via Bloomberg)

Ticketmaster is currently facing a lawsuit from frustrated Taylor Swift fans after the company underestimated how many people would be trying to get tickets to her Eras Tour, expecting 1.5 million users to enter the website and instead having 14 million show up. This left a majority of the fan base devastated, and now another, albeit very different, group of musical devotees is upset for similar reasons.

It’s safe to say that Death Grips fans were prepared this morning to go to war for tickets for the band’s first tour in four years. It was just announced and the shows are set to kick off in May of next year and go all the way to October.

The tickets went on the cursed Ticketmaster site, and unsurprisingly, chaos ensued. Fans are saying it sold out within minutes, claiming most tickets when to bots and resellers. This will surely only amplify the retaliation against Ticketmaster. “No way death grips tix sold out within a minute Ticketmaster you’ve pissed off swifties and now death grippers… it’s gonna be bad,” one user wrote.

“death grips sold out literally within 4 minutes and the sale went from 37.50 to 119 on stubhub in other words all scalpers deserve to be executed,” another wrote.

So, as Swift fans are enraged evermore, Death Grips lovers now also find themselves in a bottomless pit of despair.

Iconic rapper Wiz Khalifa is on People’s Party with Talib Kweli next week. On the episode, he tells an inspirational story about visually manifesting himself working with Snoop Dogg. He truly believes you can achieve much by keeping faith in what you see. Wiz says he first started driving around playing the groundbreaking Doggystyle album consistently. “Since Doggystyle came out I always had it in the whip- no matter what other Snoop Dogg albums I had in the car.” From then on, he felt an unusual belief that he could and should be working with “The Doggfather” on multiple projects.

He shares how he used to talk to himself about it “I’m gonna be on stage with that n****. I’m gonna be right next to that n****. Smoking weed with that n****. I’m so cool. We deserve to hang out together,” he says confidently. “Snoop’s son became a huge fan of mine. Snoop’s oldest son is in his room, smoking, listening to my shit. Snoop came in the room and was like ‘What the F*ck is this? This shit is actually hard!’”

Snoop reached out to Wiz Khalifa while he was on tour.

“He was like ‘Yo, I fuck with your music. My son put me onto you. When you come to LA, call me. Don’t link up with nobody else.’ I’m like, ‘N**** of course, what the fuck else would I do?’”

Wiz continues:

“I got out there, we chopped it up. We did the ‘Black and Yellow’ remix. We shot the video for that. It was me, him, Juicy J, and T-Pain. Immediately after that, we went to the studio. We started recording and he was like, ‘Yo, we’re gonna do a movie. We’re gonna do a soundtrack. We’re gonna go on tour. We’re gonna do merch. It’s locked in! We’re gonna do it!’ He kept his word.”

Catch more of this insightful and funny interview on People’s Party with Talib Kweli with co-host Jamin Leigh.

Becky G celebrated some big news with her fans today (December 9). The Mexican-American superstar revealed that she is engaged to her boyfriend Sebastian Lletget.

Becky G started dating Lletget, a soccer player for the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy, in April 2016. He appeared in the music video for her 2020 track “My Man.” After six years of dating, Becky G surprised her fans with an engagement announcement on Instagram. In a series of photos with the caption “our spot forever,” Lletget can be seen getting down on one knee with a ring. The happy couple is all smiles with Becky G flashing her new rock to the camera. She said “yes” to getting engaged to her future husband.

Many of Becky G’s famous friends congratulated her on her engagement to Lletget. Among the artists that left sweet messages were her “Mamiii” collaborator Karol G, Brazilian singer Anitta, Batgirl star Leslie Grace, and Mexican singer Carlos Rivera.

“Fiesta fiesta fiesta!!!” wrote Karol G. “Imma get my dress ready RIGHT NOW wowwwww,” responded Anitta.

“”YESSSSS!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH AGHHHHH,” wrote Grace. Rivera commented, “Congratulations Becky!! Many blessings for you both.”

Becky G’s engagement tops of a stellar year in music for the singer. In May, she released her second album Esquemas featuring the global hits “Mamiii” and “Bailé Con Mi Ex.”

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Similarly Fraser—which he lightheartedly confirmed is pronounced “Fray-zur,’ like a razor—praised an often ignored layer of nuance in Sandler’s roles, saying, “He doesn’t play underdogs, he plays champions that are overlooked.”

But what’s even better than any of that is seeing a couple of really good guys enjoying each other’s company. From bonding over surgeries to making playful jabs about Sandler’s beard, the wholesome dad vibes were at an 11.

“Finally an interview using a language we can all fully appreciate and understand, the language of true friendship,” commented one person.

One person wrote, “This is the first ‘Actors on Actors’ that I watched in full and lost track of the time. Their chemistry as friends is so genuine.”

Another added, “OMG!!! This video could have been 12+ hours and I would still be sitting here enjoying every second with these two sharing stories and experiences through the entertainment business and you can tell they have a great history together as friends throughout their careers and that is such an amazing thing to witness.”

Fraser and Sandler likely gave us some of the best sources of delight and laughter throughout our childhoods. It’s great to see that some things never change.

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Alanah Story, who was traveling with her mom, had the passengers give a quick introduction on TikTok before hitting the road, knowing that others would probably get a kick out of it.

@alanahstory21 I cant make this up. Road trip! 🚐 @The Farm Babe @StarrPuck @doerksen92 @Renee @robinwharton976 @CozumelAutentico ♬ original sound – Alanah

“If I thought that this was crazy, I knew other people might think it’s crazy also,” she told CNN. “And so I just figured, this is a very unique bunch of people, we’re all very different. So I don’t know, maybe other people would want to see it too, because things like this just don’t happen on the regular.”

Clearly the group had bonded by the time they stopped to fill up on gas. Alanah posted another video where each member of the group—now numbered 1 to 13—gave a lighthearted update, joking about being there for the snacks and the liquor store. Obviously the funniest quip belongs to the sole Black man in the group, who said “Y’all know I’m dyin’ first.”

@alanahstory21

♬ original sound – Alanah

Alanah’s original post had already begun blowing up online, and people were invested in the journey and looking forward to more updates. Several even commented that this story should be a Hallmark movie.

The gang finally made it to Knoxville at 8:30 a.m. the next morning, arriving early enough for no one to miss their event. Alanah posted one last video as the group said their goodbyes.

@alanahstory21 Replying to @lul.ken and thats a wrap folks! #roadtrip ♬ original sound – Alanah

Number 1, the driver, said “I’m really grateful to all these guys who are here … we made our 10 a.m. appointment all because of a community that got together.”

Number 13, the keynote speaker, learned along the way that two other passengers would be attending the same conference. Those same two guys were apparently dubbed “Russian spies” by commenters, but rest assured, they are but friendly farmers.

All in all, it only took a few hours and one minivan to turn these strangers into friends, with plans to keep the friendship going. The experience, both for the group and for those who watched along, became a heartwarming reminder that humans are capable of doing great things together when we choose to connect and help one another.

“I feel like this situation for me specifically kind of restored my trust and humanity a little bit,” Alanah told CNN. “There’s definitely hope for people—people, they can be good. And also, if you get the opportunity to go on a crazy adventure, you should take it, because you never know what’s gonna come out of it.”

If you or someone you know is the victim of domestic abuse, call the National Domestic Abuse Hotline at 800-799-7233.

A disturbing story that happened four years ago in DeLand, Florida, shows how brave workers at an animal hospital were able to free an abused woman from her deranged and violent abuser.

According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department, on Wednesday, May 23, 2018, Carolyn Reichle was beaten, held hostage and threatened at gunpoint by her boyfriend, Jeremy Floyd. During the incident, two rounds were fired, which passed through drywall and were later found in another room.

The next day, Thursday, May 24, Reichle spent in bed with a head injury.

That Friday, Reichle felt well enough to get out of bed and concocted a plan to get away from her abusive boyfriend. She convinced him that they should take their dog to the veterinarian’s office. She was worried that the dog’s ear had been grazed by a stray bullet but told the animal hospital that she thought it had an ear infection.

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Floyd agreed to go to the veterinarian’s office as long as he accompanied her.

“On the drive to the vet, Floyd reportedly again pointed the gun at Reichle, threatening to kill her and her family,” the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department wrote on Facebook.

At the hospital, Reichle was able to slip a handwritten note to Darla Fadden, who worked the front desk at the hospital. “Call the cops. My boyfriend is threatening me. He has a gun. Please don’t let him know,” the note read.

“I wrote it on my hand. Just took off my bank note and wrote it and then, my handwriting isn’t usually that sloppy,” Reichle told Click Orlando. Fadden took the note seriously and sprung into action. “I read it and just went into the back and called 911,” Fadden said.

After the deputies arrived at the animal hospital they quickly disarmed Floyd and he was arrested and taken to Volusia County Branch Jail. Floyd was charged with domestic violence, aggravated assault with a firearm, false imprisonment, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon and simple battery.

While in jail, Floyd called Reichle “dozens and dozens” of times, and a stalking charge was later added. “I understand you’re upset with me. I’m sorry. I know you’re upset with me and I apologize about what I did to you. I’ll make it up to you. I apologize and I love you,” one of the voicemails said.

Reichle was taken to Florida Hospital DeLand where she was treated for her injuries, which included a head wound, a black eye and bruised arms.

This is a terrible story of abuse, but it could have been much worse. Reichle was incredibly brave to be able to write a note and get it to the animal hospital staff, especially being that Floyd was armed and in the other room. If he saw what she was doing, the situation could have quickly become very dangerous. The staff was also incredibly courageous because they put themselves in harm’s way by calling the police while in the presence of an armed man.

Luckily, no one was hurt and the arrest went peacefully.