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The daytime talk show The Talk has been off the air for a couple days now, and with good reason: One of its stars flipped out on a co-host — and all so she could defend Piers Morgan. Sharon Osbourne didn’t take it lightly when colleague Sheryl Underwood asked about her longtime friend, who got into hot water after his repeated and over-the-top attacks on Duchess of Essex Megyn Markle. The show went on what they said would be a brief hiatus, but it seems the break won’t be as short as once planned.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, The Talk, which was supposed to come back on Wednesday the 17th, is now (tentatively!) scheduled to return Tuesday the 23rd. The official reason is that CBS is not yet done investigating what happened, which, a spokesperson for the network said, includes “a process where all voices are heard, claims are investigated and appropriate action is taken where necessary.”

But since CBS announced the hiatus, other issues have come to light. Fellow original cast member Holly Robinson Peete tweeted that Osbourne had made racist comments about her back in the day. Osbourne disputed that claim over Twitter. But on Tuesday, reporter Yashar Ali posted a Substack featuring allegations of other such language made by her, complete with comments from former co-panelist Leah Remini.

Osbourne, who is the last remaining original co-host of The Talk, first came under fire last Wednesday when she aggressively defended Morgan, “Educate me, tell me when you have heard him say racist things,” Osbourne said to Underwood. “I very much feel like I’m about to be put in the electric chair because I have a friend, who many people think is a racist, so that makes me a racist?”

Osbourne was roundly condemned for what was seen as a privileged response, and she apologized over social media. In light of the more recent allegations, her new publicist responded defensively, writing, “The only thing worse than a disgruntled former employee is a disgruntled former talk show host,” and alleging that over the years she’s been “kind, collegial and friendly with her hosts as evidenced by throwing them parties, inviting them to her home in the U.K. and other gestures of kindness too many to name.”

(Via THR)

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences revealed the nominees for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards on Monday, with plenty of powerhouse thespians, like Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, receiving nominations. But a couple big names in the music industry also received quieter acclaim.

Diddy and Joey Badass both landed Oscar nominations for their contributions to the film Two Distant Strangers. It was nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film category, and as for their respective roles, Diddy served as producer while Badass played its main character, Carter James. After hearing the news, Badass took to Twitter, writing, “I’m officially Oscar-nominated. That’s crazy. #TwoDistantStrangers… Imma be a F*CKING EGOT.” Diddy, meanwhile, tweeted three prayer hand emojis with a graphic of the Best Live Action Short Film nominees.

The Two Distant Strangers team also celebrated the nomination on their Instagram page. “Filming in the middle of a pandemic, in just five days, brought numerous challenges,” they wrote. “But our team was united and persevered. Thank you to everyone that has believed in us and helped us to get to this point. We can’t wait to share this story with everyone.”

The nominations arrived weeks after the documentary Bigge: I Got A Story, which Diddy co-produced. As for Joey, following a few quiet years on the music side of things, he’s been quite active lately, with his video for “Trust Nobody (2 My Brothers),” with DJ Scheme, and his remix of Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats’ “Cosmic.m4a,” with The Alchemist.

Over the summer, there were no games as big as Fall Guys and Among Us, two party games were nothing alike. One is a platformer battle royale with intentionally janky controls, and the other is a murder mystery between a group of friends.

Both took the world by storm in large part due to the Twitch communities that quickly formed around them while in-person interactions were limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but more importantly, they are fun. Getting a group of friends together to laugh your way through a few rounds of Fall Guys is a blast, while Among Us is a great way to determine which people you know are really good at lying about being a horrifying space villain.

On Monday, Fall Guys released a trailer for Season 4, which means new costumes, new courses, and a new theme. The future theme looks cool, but right at the end of the teaser is an impossible-to-miss reference to Among Us.

It’s a crossover that makes sense — these two titles are forever going to be connected with one another because of when they both came to prominence, so of course, they have to crossover. A Fall Guy and an Among Us crew mate look eerily similar, with both being cute ovalish creatures. And when Among Us first started blowing up, it wasn’t uncommon for people to think that the memes about it were related to Fall Guys. They were easily the two biggest surprises of 2020 and so many gamers have memories of the fun time spent playing these games.

Now there’s one more important question: They managed to get a crew mate into Fall Guys, will they be able to get a Fall Guy into Among Us? The idea of little bean guys running around with the crew mates all trying to figure out who the murderer is sounded too funny to not happen at some point.

Tony Soprano is a horse boy on the latest Pod Yourself A Gun.

Stavros Halkias from the Cumtown and Pod Don’t Lie podcasts joins Matt and Vince to talk about The Sopranos season four, episode five, “Pie-O-My.” NOTE: We’re releasing this episode early for our Patrons at Patreon.com/Frotcast. For everyone else, it will be live on the free feed in a day or two.

Before we get too far, if you’re worried about spoilers, maybe don’t listen to this episode just yet. Put it on and leave the room so we can still wet our beaks a little bit, but some future events are mentioned. There — you were warned. If you listen to this episode and hear some stuff you didn’t want to hear, that’s on you. You had 20 years to prevent this. What were you waiting for, by the way? The show saved Stav’s life twice already. Meanwhile you were watching what? House of Cards? Louie? That Workaholics episode where Chris D’Elia plays himself? You’re sick in the head.

Anyways for all the cool, normal folks who already saw it or won’t get mad because they understand how time, television and the internet work, this is a fun episode. The guys talk about the shady origins of Stav and Vince’s surnames, the audacity of Janice Soprano, and some excuses to do heroin. They also listen to a couple voicemails and Stav offers his thoughts on who did 9/11.

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Pooh Shiesty has accomplished a lot in 2021. Earlier this year, the Memphis-born rapper released his debut commercial mixtape, Shiesty Season, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard albums chart, and which features his most successful single, “Back In Blood,” with Lil Durk. Now he’s Shiesty added a very personal accomplishment to his growing list of feats.

Shiesty recently bought a new home for his mother and took to Instagram to celebrate, dropping a video that shows him and his mother enjoying the house. It’s a big deal after the tragedy that recently befell he and his family: In late February, his brother Tarrance Henderson passed away after a battle with brain cancer. The death prompted Drake to send his condolences to the rapper in an audio message that Shiesty shared with fans.

“I just want to send you my condolences, man,” Drake said in part. “In tough times like this, realize what you’ve been able to accomplish in this short time and what you have in front of you. I’m wishing you strength in these times, man.”

Check out Pooh Shiesty’s Instagram post above.

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Pete Davidson has an interesting enough life that he can basically play himself on SNL, appearing with fair regularity on Weekend Update to talk about whatever’s on his mind. But this is next level strange: The actor and comic had to put out a statement that shot down a rumor that he’d gotten married. What’s more, the (fake) news arrived via a press release.

According to Entertainment Weekly, a production company sent out a news item on Tuesday, breaking two stories. One, that they were teaming with Davidson on something called “Bodega Cats Presents,” intended to help people break into the entertainment industry. Perhaps more shocking was this: Davidson had gotten married to Michelle Davidson, the company’s alleged co-CEO and purportedly his childhood friend.

But neither, it seems, is true. Davidson’s attorney released a statement to numerous outlets, among them Page Six, saying, “Not a word of it is true. Mr. Davidson has no idea who this person is. We are investigating and considering all legal and equitable remedies.”

It’s a strange turn of events, no less because the press release included a statement attributed to Davidson about his involvement. “I am really excited to be part of this company and help people get a start in this industry,” the quote read. “I never thought I would do something like this, but I met some of my closest friends doing stand-up, so I felt this was the right thing to do to give back to my community.”

Neither Davidson nor Bodega Cats have responded to outlets’ request for a response. But this could make for a very entertaining Weekend Update monologue.

(Via EW and Page Six)

It was almost a year ago that the internet got into a bit of an argument: Who should star in a theoretical reboot of Peter Falk’s detective classic Columbo? Is it Mark Ruffalo, who has a kind of nervous-aloof-eccentric energy to him that could work? Or how about thinking outside the box and going female with Natasha Lyonne, who has her own thing going? Jump to the present day and we still don’t have a Columbo 2.0, but we do have this: A detective show starring Lyonne, helmed by no less than Rian Johnson.

As per Variety, the pair are teaming up for Poker Face, which Johnson describes as a “fun, character driven, case-of-the-week mystery,” for Peacock. If your mind darted to Columbo, then let us remind you that TV was very different before our current Golden Age of Television, with its continuing stories spread out over multiple seasons. There were lots of detective shows and they were all comprised of self-contained, killer-du-jour episodes. Columbo just did it better than most, with a famous guest killer every week, from John Cassavetes to Janet Leigh to Johnny Cash to William Shatner (twice!), among so many more.

But again, this isn’t a Columbo reboot! And that’s for the best! It would be impossible, maybe even sacrilegious to try and copy what Falk and company did with the show, which was tailor-made for its star, who wanted to do TV work as infrequently as possible, all so he could be free to pursue his film and stage careers.

That said, it wouldn’t be particularly blasphemous if Johnson — already busy with his own detective film series, revolving around Knives Out’s Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig — nicked that show’s main structural gimmick, in which we learned who the murderer was right off the bat, didn’t meet Columbo till the 20-or-so-minute mark, then tried to see how our secretly not-really-bumbling hero would crack the case. And Lyonne, who’s currently busy with the second season of Russian Doll, has exactly the dynamic and unique personality to make for a backdoor Columbo remake far better than an actually Columbo remake.

But upon hearing about this new dynamic duo, everyone was stoked, including Lyonne and Johnson themselves.

Others agreed that this is a better idea than a Columbo revival.

In any case, the only way this news can get better is if Mark Ruffalo announced he’s teaming with some other hot shot director for his own non-Columbo detective series. Two is better than one!

(Via Variety)

The Chicago Bears have needed a quarterback for what feels like forever, trapped in a Browns-ian cycle of mediocrity (at best) at the most important position on the field. The Bears quarterback struggles have put immense stress on their defense, which puts in yeoman’s work to try and keep the team competitive, but seemingly annually eventually succumbs to the strain placed on them by a woeful offense.

This year, there was brief hope on the horizon when Russell Wilson and Deshaun Watson both put forth trade requests, with Wilson even including the Bears on his shortlist of teams he’d want to play for. However, on Tuesday, the Bears made a quarterback signing in free agency that left fans shaking their heads, as Andy Dalton was brought on board, which is a sharp turn from Wilson dreams.

According to Adam Schefter, the Bears were “aggressive” in trying to deal for Wilson but couldn’t get the Seahawks to bite, with Seattle refusing to trade him for now. As such, Chicago turned to Plan B, which was apparently the 33-year-old former Bengals starter and, most recently, Cowboys backup-turned starter after Dak Prescott got hurt.

It is an uninspiring move, one that even saw the Bears Super Bowl odds drop at some sportsbooks, as the hope of finally having not just a competent but actually good quarterback has, unfortunately, been dashed for 2021 barring something unforeseen.

The world of online dating is competitive. Single people have to use every advantage they can to make themselves more attractive than the next person being swiped through. Right now, one of the best ways to stand out is to let the world know that either you’ve been vaccinated or intend to be.

It makes sense, who in the world wants to go out on a date and come back with COVID-19?

“Yeah, I had a great date with Eddie. The problem is the next day I lost my sense of smell.”

An OkCupid spokesperson told the New York Times that those who claim to have been vaccinated are being liked at double the rate of those who’ve said they aren’t interested.

“Basically,” he said, “getting the vaccine is the hottest thing you could be doing on a dating app right now.”

A Tinder spokesperson told Vice that the site has seen a 238% increase in the mention of vaccines in user bios, noting “a significant increase starting in November 2020 and continuing to rise in December.”

After OkCupid added the question “will you get the Covid-19 vaccine?” to its platform, it saw that those who answered “yes” get 13% more likes from potential partners.

Forty percent of Millennials and Generation Z say they would cancel the first date with someone if they said they had no intention of getting vaccinated. That number jumps to 80% when they’re members of the LGBT community.

Being fully vaccinated also means that you can date other fully-vaccinated people without having to worry. According to the latest CDC guidelines, the fully-vaccinated can “gather indoors with fully vaccinated people without wearing a mask.”

Because let’s face it, masks may be safe but they aren’t very sexy unless, of course, you have a thing for people with partially-obscured faces.

via Pexels

Aside from the practical health considerations of meeting someone in the COVID-19 era, learning someone’s opinions on vaccines is a great way to know what they’re really about.

“It potentially signals people’s approach to health care, to their relationship, to science, their trust, and expertise,” Sociology professor Jennifer Reich, told ABC.

“It can signal a lot of other kinds of things that might be an indication of whether someone shares some of your values and perceptions about things like their relationships, their community, and their personal lifestyle,” said Reich added.

The fact that getting vaccinated makes people more appealing may have a positive effect on the overall vaccination rate. If refusing to get vaccinated begins limiting people’s ability to hook up, they may just decide to get a shot in order to improve their sex life.

“I guess from a public health perspective, dating apps could help win the war on the virus, because people will go: if I want to date somebody, then I better be vaccinated,” Ivo Vlaev, professor of behavioral science at Warwick Business School in England, told Insider. “The more governments and other organizations require vaccination status, the more we are going to require from each other.”

Anyone who has raised children knows that helping kids navigate their emotions is a big part of the job. Humans have feelings, and feelings can be hard to manage sometimes. Heck, when a whole mess of adults have a hard time consistently regulating their emotions (as evidenced by countless grownups throwing toddler tantrums in public over being asked to wear a mask, among other things), expecting small children to be able to get a hold of themselves is a tall order.

That’s what makes this 6-year-old expertly walking his 4-year-old brother through a breathing exercise to fend off a preschool tantrum pure, golden goodness.

Ashley West, a California mom of three boys, shared a video that’s gone viral of her son Noah (6) talking to his brother Cory (4), who was on the verge of throwing a fit. Truly, it’s worth the 21 seconds.

The way Noah coaches Cory through taking deep breaths, giving him visual cues with his hands while modeling the breathing himself is perfect. The way he gets his attention when Cory starts ramping up by raising his fingers and calmly saying “Breathe,” before continuing to breathe with him is just awesome.

And then the positive reinforcement and pat on the back once he calmed down? Priceless.

It’s clear that Noah has seen these techniques modeled for him at home. West told Upworthy that she is studying to become a social worker, so she has a lot of background in social-emotional work. (Yay, social workers! Pay them more!) She says the family also does a lot of yoga together, which helps explain why Noah’s efforts seemed almost automatic.

West explained on Twitter that Cory was upset because the Nintendo had just gotten plugged in and wasn’t charged enough to play yet—a relatable psychological challenge for a young child. But Noah stepped right in when the meltdown began.

“Y’all would’ve LOST it had I recorded it from the very beginning,” she said. “My baby was all ‘I understand the pain, I do, but you just have to wait, it’s not done yet.”

Gracious. Nothing like a master class in empathy and emotional regulation from a 6-year-old child.

Once you see it, it’s clear why this video has gone viral. The world needs more emotionally healthy kids and adults in the world, and we all know it. While West says she’s not a perfect parent and doesn’t have all the answers, it’s clear that she’s doing a lot of things right with her kids.

It may seem like a simple thing, but intentional breathing can be an effective calming technique no matter what age you are. According to the University of Michigan, taking deep breaths mimics the way we breathe when we’re relaxed, which makes our body tell our brain to calm down, which prompts our brain to sends a message back to our body to relax.

However, when your brain and body are in a heightened state, it can be hard to remind yourself to breathe, so having someone there to guide you through it can be helpful. My son went through a period of having panic attacks when he was younger, and we would do “box breathing” or “square breathing” together. I’d slowly draw an imaginary square in the air with my fingers, and we’d breathe in together as my finger went up one side (about five seconds), hold our breath as it went across the top, breathe out as it went down the other side, and then hold the exhale to complete the square. After a while, I’d just remind him to “box breathe” whenever he’d feel anxious, and he could do the square himself.

Good for Noah for already developing such excellent skills at such a young age, and good for his mom for giving him emotional tools he’ll use for the rest of his life.

Now if we could just hire them to go around and teach the adults how to get a hold of themselves when they start pitching a fit, that’d be fabulous.