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Whoopi Goldberg completely dispensed with pleasantries on Wednesday morning’s episode of The View where she called out Republicans who offer nothing but “thoughts and prayers” after deadly shootings like the one in Uvalde, Texas that claimed the lives of 19 elementary school children.

At the top of the panel discussion on the tragic event that arrived on the heels of a mass shooting less than two weeks ago in Buffalo, Goldberg threatened to “punch” the next Republican who responds with empty rhetoric that isn’t backed up by action. Via Mediaite:

“Why are we always at square one with this? And I swear to god if I hear another Republican senator talk about their heart being broken, I’m going to punch somebody. I can’t take any thoughts and prayers,” said Goldberg. “If your thoughts and prayers were with everybody, you would have done something by now. It’s not like everybody’s not trying to make something happen. What the hell is going on?”

Clearly incensed by yet another senseless shooting, Goldberg turned things over to her co-hosts, starting with Joy Behar who was equally tired with Republicans “gaslighting” these situations.

“Stop saying it’s not guns that kill people, it’s people that kill people,” Behar said. “It’s guns that kill people, okay? Stop saying the opposite. Stop saying that mental illness is behind this. There’s mental illness in every country in the world, and they don’t have this problem. So stop gaslighting me on that one, and stop saying that you can have a good guy stop a bad guy with a gun.”

Ana Navarro blasted the lack of action after Sandy Hook, and how a decade later, an 18-year-old still has easy access to “weapons of war.”

Sunny Hostin highlighted how guns are the “leading cause of death in children” in America:

And Sara Haines urged a passing of red flag laws in every state, which would’ve prevented the Uvalde shooter. “Can’t we all agree that people that have a problem or have threatened people should not have a weapon for a period of time?” Haines said.

(Via Mediaite)

After the tragic school shooting in Texas that took the lives of 21 people, including 19 kids, CBS has pulled the fourth season finale of the cop show FBI, which featured an attempted school shooting plotline.

The finale follows the titular FBI team as they investigated an armed robber that turned out to be a student. According to the episode synopsis: “As the team investigates a deadly robbery that garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers, they discover one of the perps is a classmate of Jubal’s son, who is reluctant to cooperate with the case.”

Instead of the episode, CBS will air a rerun from February with no plans to air the pulled finale yet. The season finales of the FBI spinoff shows FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International will still air this week as scheduled.

Several stars and government leaders have responded to the heartbreaking events by encouraging action and stricter gun control laws. As the media reacts to the tragedy, there is an unfortunate history of TV episodes being pulled from the air surrounding the events of a school shooting. A week after the 1999 Columbine shooting, an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was pulled after it featured a student bringing a gun to school. Over two decades later, this stuff is still happening.

(Via Deadline)

“Seacrest out” has just taken on a whole new, and NSFW, meaning.

On Monday morning, as the New York Post reports, Ryan Seacrest told his Live With Kelly and Ryan co-host Kelly Ripa about an unfortunate wardrobe malfunction that occurred over the weekend. Seacrest was working one of his 72 other jobs—this one as the host of American Idol, which was filming its season finale—when he was informed by his stylist, Miles, that his underwear was creating a problem.

“Apparently, America voted, and decided there was anatomy in the shot,” Seacrest joked of the so-called “penis panic.” When Miles told Ryan that they needed to change his undies pronto, Seacrest informed him that “I didn’t bring any extra underwear.”

Without missing a beat, Miles informed Ryan that “Don’t worry—I’ve got mine.”

It should be noted that Ripa was not impressed with the impromptu plan, and pointed out that they could have easily just “change[d] the camera shot—crotch up,” but the ol’ skivvies switcheroo was already in motion.

While Ripa didn’t really seem all that interested in hearing how the story ended, Seacrest kept going:

“So we go backstage during the commercial and find a little corner. And I’m literally taking off my pants, off my underwear and putting his on… Guys, anything for the show, right? It’s a family show.”

Ripa was adamant that she would have simply had the crew change the camera angle, because “women do not share panties.” Seacrest, really pushing the TMI envelope, noted that: “For the record, they weren’t panties. They were tight, elastic underwear.”

When Seacrest’s stylist heard that his drawers were making headlines, he took to Twitter to offer a little more information—including the fact that they were Calvin Klein.

(Via New York Post)

Drake’s fondness for the game of basketball is evident in his many, many courtside appearances at NBA games. It’s also clear in the videos he posts from his in-home basketball court where he hosts pickup games with his friends and trains his son to play like LeBron James. However, it looks like one of his friends is feeling left out. Quavo, who is a hoops junkie in his own right, working with grassroots leagues in California and balling out in NBA2k22, lobbied for inclusion in the fun at The Sanctuary (the nickname of Drake’s home court) in a post on Instagram.

“@champagnepapi They don’t want Us At The OVO Arena So We Take 7 Footers Instead,” he captioned a video on his Instagram Story. In the video, Quavo faces off with a taller opponent at the Georgia Tech gym, showing off some nasty handles and quick footwork to shake his defender for a stepback 20-footer. It’s an impressive combo and the sort of thing that could have Quavo moving up LeBron James’ rappers-who-hoop rankings, where Lil Durk currently reigns supreme.

Personally, I’d love to see a rapper-centric league where the likes of Quavo, Drake, 2 Chainz, Durk, and official professional player J. Cole can square off to show their other talents. For now, we’ll have to settle for social media videos or maybe Jack Harlow’s White Men Can’t Jump remake and Kawhi Leonard commercials.

The Brooklyn Nets are heading into this offseason with a number of major questions, the biggest of which is the long-term future of Kyrie Irving. As of this writing, there is no indication of which direction Irving is leaning on his player option worth about $36.5 million, but no matter what he does, Irving can hit the open market no later than next summer.

It raises the question of what a possible extension will look like from Brooklyn. General manager Sean Marks has already said that the team will sit down with Irving this offseason to talk about an extension and “see if it’s the right fit for both sides,” and according to a new report by Kristian Winfield of the New York Daily News, this is going to include the Nets being resistant to giving Irving a long-term extension.

In layman’s terms, if Irving leaves the Nets, it wouldn’t be a surprise if Durant becomes frustrated with the organization’s ability to put championship pieces around him. They failed to do so at the beginning of last season, with none of their top offseason acquisitions – James Johnson, DeAndre Bembry or Jevon Carter – finishing the year in Brooklyn.

This is why, as I’ve already written, the Nets’ championship hopes hinge on an amicable solution with Irving, whose personal decision not to get vaccinated and unpredictable injury history have left the Nets hesitant, and now, according to a source familiar with the Nets’ thought process, outright unwilling to give him a long-term extension.

Irving appeared in only 29 games last season due in large part to his refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19. It led to him getting labeled as “one of the absolute professionals at missing work” by Stephen A. Smith, who argued that Irving should only get 1-year extensions going forward. Winfield addressed this in his piece, writing that Irving’s camp would view that sort of extension as “unacceptable.”

It’s been a tough few weeks for NFT lovers. Earlier this month, Seth Green lost his beloved Bored Ape NFT which he was planning to turn into a sitcom star for some reason. The NFT was stolen during a phishing scam, along with several more of his expensive doodles. The ape was sold for over $200k (!) and Green has taken to Twitter to plead for his little friend (named Fred) back, but it doesn’t look like it’s gonna happen!

Buzzfeed News reached out to the new NFT owner, who goes by Mr. Cheese, and is allegedly a surgeon hailing from Australia. “I have no plans for the ape,” Mr. Cheese, formerly known as DarkWing84, told Buzzfeed.

“As you can see I have been collecting for a while. I bought it because I liked it,” the mysterious Cheeseman added. “It wasn’t a cheap buy either and was not marked as suspicious so I bought it in good faith. I’m happy to be in contact with Seth to chat about this.”

It seems like, despite all of Green’s pleading, the elusive Mr. Cheese hasn’t really been keeping up with the drama. When asked if they’d consider returning the NFT, they added, “Haven’t really thought about it as this is all very new news to me. Can you arrange contact with him?” Green is now following Mr. Cheese’s Twitter account. Perhaps Mr. Cheese will land a role on Green’s TV show!

A month out from their upcoming self-titled album, Muna has released “Home By Now,” a new single in which the Los Angeles-based trio dwells on a breakup, wondering if they’ve made the right choice.

Rife with pulsing synths and bass, the ’80s-influenced track features the group’s Kate Gavin asking, “Would we have turned a corner if I had waited? Do I need to lower my expectations? If we kept heading the same direction, would we be home by now?” It’s a song that beautifully embodies the feelings of loss while offering a form of solace on the dance floor.

“‘Home By Now’ is the song on the record that we feel might be closest to our first album in that it’s a dance song with brutal lyrics and an emo bridge, said Gavin in a statement. “It’s a breakup song that’s a bit more full of longing and doubt than ‘Anything But Me.’ While a lot of this album does seem to be about trusting my instincts, this song acknowledges the pain of not knowing if I left a relationship that I was meant to be in.”

Check out “Home By Now” above.

Muna is out 6/24 via Saddest Factory. Pre-save it here.

In the wake of such tragic events as the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, many people take to social media to express their grief and frustrations about how a lack of gun laws have led to a generation of Americans who have grown up amidst an epidemic of gun violence in the places where they should feel safe.

As Mediaite reports, Ruben Gallego is one of the people who was overcome with anger and emotion following the needless murder of 21 people, including 19 children, during yesterday’s attack. Unlike the rest of us, Gallego also happens to be a Democratic Congressman from Arizona. Still, that didn’t stop him from going off on Texas senator Ted Cruz, who claimed that while he was just as heartbroken as anyone else in the country that nearly two dozen people were senselessly killed, he doesn’t think that restricting gun laws is the answer.

“You see politicians trying to politicize this,” Cruz said, in a statement that clearly politicized the issue. “You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”

Gallego was having absolutely none of Cruz’s bullsh*t—especially in light of the Texas senator’s extreme pro-life stance. In a series of tweets, he suggested that Cruz was better off just getting his “a** to Cancun. You are useless.”

In case anyone misunderstood his message, Gallego sent another tweet in which he outright called Cruz a “f*#king baby killer.”

Cruz wasn’t Gallego’s only target. When Darrell Issa, a Republican congressman from California, tweeted the much-maligned “thoughts and prayers,” the Arizonan told Issa what he could do with his thoughts and prayers in no uncertain terms.

(Via Mediaite)

Beast finally asks the question: “what if Cujo, but a lion? Also, Idris Elba.”

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur (2 Guns), the survival-thriller stars The Wire actor as a widowed father of two who visits a game reserve in South Africa with his daughters. While taking in the sights, the family is attacked in their car by a “devil” lion.

“We’re in his territory now,” the game reserve manager (played by Sharlto Copley) says in the trailer above. “It’s the law of the jungle, it’s the only law that matters.” If Beast ends with Idris Elba and the lion teaming up to kill some poachers, it will be the best movie of the year (or at least the best “when animals attack” movie since Crawl).

Here’s more:

Elba plays Dr. Nate Daniels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip with their daughters to a game reserve managed by Martin Battles (Copley), an old family friend and wildlife biologist. But what begins as a journey of healing jolts into a fight for survival when a lion, a survivor of blood-thirsty poachers who now sees all humans as the enemy, begins stalking them.

Beast, which also stars Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Riley Keough, opens in theaters on August 19.

When iconic director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge) set out to make a biopic about Elvis Presley, he surprisingly found his King in former Nickelodeon and Disney star Austin Butler. The young actor snatched the coveted role in Elvis, which will finally make its way into theaters next month after the production was notably delayed when co-star Tom Hanks became one of the first major celebrities to test positive for COVID at the start of the pandemic.

However, as Austin reveals in a new interview, Hanks wasn’t the only one to experience a health scare. After thoroughly immersing him in the role, Austin was hospitalized the day after he wrapped filming. According to the actor, his body completely revolted. Via GQ UK:

“The next day I woke up at four in the morning with excruciating pain, and I was rushed to hospital,” Butler says. He was diagnosed with a virus that simulates appendicitis and spent a week bedridden.

“My body just started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.”

When the Australia production shut down after Hanks and wife Rita Wilson tested positive for COVID, Luhrmann and the production team were prepared to send Butler home to Los Angeles. Instead, the actor chose to stay and holed up in his apartment, which he essentially wallpapered with photos of Elvis.

“Just images of Elvis everywhere, from every time period,” Butler said. “I think the film would have been very different if we had started shooting at that point, and I’m grateful I had the time to let myself marinate.”

Obviously, Butler’s immune system felt differently about being that immersed in all things Elvis for that long, but he appears to be in good spirits after the ordeal.

Elvis shakes its hips into theaters on June 24.

(Via GQ UK)