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Mary J Blige blasts controversial 2012 Burger King ad

Mary J Blige blasts controversial 2012 Burger King ad

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Mary J. Blige has reflected on her controversial Burger King commercial, stating the backlash toward it “deeply affected” her. The 55-year-old singer was a part of a 2012 advertisement for the fast food chain where she sang about the brand’s Crispy Chicken snack wraps, listing the ingredients to the tune of her song, “Don’t Mind.” When a preview of the advertisement was shared on Burger King’s YouTube channel, it was met with immense criticism, including claims that it perpetuated racial stereotypes. Blige looked back on the controversy during a recent interview with TV personality Scott Evans, who asked her: “Are you in a place where you can yet laugh about that Burger King commercial?” “Um, no,” she responded. “I’m not because I would never laugh at that. Because my true, honest fans did not think that s*** was funny. The whole …

Charlize Theron Blasts Timothée Chalamet for his Controversial Comments on Ballet

Charlize Theron Blasts Timothée Chalamet for his Controversial Comments on Ballet

Published by Sam Flores

The rest of the world might have already forgotten about Timothée Chalamet’s comments on the ballet and opera, but not Charlize Theron. The Fury Road headliner is furious with the actor, whose Oscar dreams were famously dashed last month. “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day,” the combat-trained star tells the New York Times, in an interview published on April 18. At a Variety/CNN town hall event in February, Chalamet told Matthew McConaughey that he doubted the ongoing viability of some types of performance. “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera where it’s like, ‘Hey! Keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore,’” Chalamet said. “All respect to the ballet and opera people out there … I just lost 14 cents in viewership. I’m taking shots for no reason.” Chalamet’s comments didn’t surface in the media until the second week of March, several days after Academy Awards voting had closed. Still, some blame those statements for his best actor loss to Michael B. Jordan at …

Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the world

Pope blasts ‘tyrants’ ravaging the world

Published by Sam Flores

Days after being criticised on social media by US President Donald Trump, Pope Leo continues his four-nation tour of Africa. He is traveling to Douala, the country’s main port city, where he is set to celebrate Mass and visit a hospital. The Vatican expects around 600,000 people to attend the liturgy. On Thursday, the Pope spoke out against war during a visit to the largest city in Cameroon’s anglophone regions, where a nearly decade-long conflict has claimed thousands of lives. Emerald Maxwell reports. Keywords for this article Source link

Katy Perry blasts Ruby Rose’s sexual assault claims as ‘categorically false and dangerous lies’

Katy Perry blasts Ruby Rose’s sexual assault claims as ‘categorically false and dangerous lies’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Katy Perry has vehemently denied Ruby Rose’s claims that she sexually assaulted the Batwoman star nearly 20 years ago. The 40-year-old Australian actor made the accusations on Threads in response to a post by music outlet Complex about Perry’s reaction to Justin Bieber’s headlining performance at Coachella. “Katy Perry sexual [sic] assaulted me at spice market nightclub in Melbourne,” Rose commented. “Who gives a s*** what she thinks.” In a statement shared with Variety, a representative for the “California Gurls” pop star said: “The allegations being circulated on social media by Ruby Rose about Katy Perry are not only categorically false, they are dangerous reckless lies. “Ms. Rose has a well-documented history of making serious public allegations on social media against various individuals, claims that have repeatedly been denied by those named.” Katy Perry (left) has slammed sexual assault allegations made against her …

Trump blasts Pope Leo for criticism of U.S. foreign policy

Trump blasts Pope Leo for criticism of U.S. foreign policy

Published by Sam Flores

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the popemobile after the Easter Mass as part of the Holy Week celebrations, at St Peter’s square in the Vatican on April 5, 2026. Alberto Pizzoli | Afp | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Sunday bashed Pope Leo XIV over the U.S.-born Roman Catholic pontiff’s criticism of the U.S. war in Iran. The president said he does not “want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I’m doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do,” in a Truth Social post. Trump linked the pope’s ascension to his return to office as president. “Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise,” Trump said. “He wasn’t on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn’t in the White House, Leo wouldn’t be in the Vatican.” Trump said …

MAGA Divide Deepens on Iran as Trump Blasts His Onetime Allies

MAGA Divide Deepens on Iran as Trump Blasts His Onetime Allies

Published by Daniella Wilson

Reactions are rolling in to President Donald Trump’s lengthy Truth Social post on Thursday, in which he eviscerated several members of the online MAGA-sphere — again roasting Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, while going after Candace Owens in an even-for-him personal manner and mocking Alex Jones — all of who have recently emerged as voices of opposition to the war in Iran. Trump’s latest missive follows an Iran-focused war of words with Carlson, the former CNN and Fox News host who now commands a large audience on his namesake daily video podcast. Clocking in at 482 words, the president’s post scorches four of the biggest names in the MAGA-aligned online commentary space. Carlson, after taking repeated hits from the president in the past week, was dubbed a “hand flairrlring Fool”; Kelly was again chastised for a decade-old debate question about Trump’s criticism of women. Rising star Owens was mocked for her conspiracy theory that French first lady Brigitte Macron was born a man — with Trump adding that Owens is less attractive — while Jones …

George Clooney blasts White House for calling his acting a war crime: ‘Infantile name calling’

George Clooney blasts White House for calling his acting a war crime: ‘Infantile name calling’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter George Clooney has responded to the White House calling his acting a “war crime”, saying it was time for“vigorous debate” not “infantile name calling”. American president Donald Trump has received widespread backlash for threatening to obliterate Iran in the hours before reaching a fragile ceasefire to pause the US-Israeli war on the country on Tuesday. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump declared on his Truth Social platform hours before his deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction. Clooney condemned Trump’s threat while addressing high school students at an event in Italy’s Cuneo, saying: “Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime.” “You can still support the conservative point of view but there must be a line of …

Burundi’s main city rocked by blasts after electrical fire at military store

Burundi’s main city rocked by blasts after electrical fire at military store

Published by Sam Flores

Multiple explosions ripped through the city of Bujumbura after a fire broke out late on Tuesday at a military arsenal in Burundi’s economic capital, an army spokesman said. Fear of a coup in the small African Great Lakes nation gripped the population after a projectile landed close to the national radio broadcaster, a resident living near the affected building told AFP, requesting anonymity. In a video seen by AFP, a tall mushroom cloud of smoke loomed over a neighbourhood in Bujumbura at nightfall, which another resident described as “spreading terror” across the city. Very tall flames were also visible in a photo sent to AFP, while a Burundian media platform also relayed reports of gunfire. “A serious electrical accident in the ammunition store of the FDNB (Burundi National Defence Force) based in Musaga is the cause of the explosions currently being heard in the economic capital Bujumbura,” Burundian army spokesman Gaspard Baratuza said. Musaga sits in the southern suburbs of Bujumbura, the economic capital of a country ranked by the World Bank as the Earth’s …

Jack White blasts ‘egomaniacal conman’ Trump’s decision to include his own signature on dollar bills

Jack White blasts ‘egomaniacal conman’ Trump’s decision to include his own signature on dollar bills

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Jack White has mocked Donald Trump’s decision to add his own signature to all newly printed U.S. paper currency. The U.S. Treasury Department announced the unprecedented move last week, which is a first for a sitting president. In response to the news, the 50-year-old former White Stripes frontman wrote on Instagram: “Oh how humble! But why stop there donnie? Why don’t you use your small hands to sign into law that your oh so stern orange face appears on the front of the hundred dollar bill as well? “You might as well, since Congress and the American people (and to an extent, the rest of the world) are all just letting you do whatever you want to anyways, so go ahead!” White’s post continued with reference to the president’s recent threats to Cuba, with the musician writing: “Invade Cuba next? Sure! Go ahead, nobody’s stopping …

Vince Vaughn Blasts Late-Night TV: “They All Became The Same Agenda-Based Show”

Vince Vaughn Blasts Late-Night TV: “They All Became The Same Agenda-Based Show”

Published by Jenni Sidey

During a recent podcast with Theo Von, Actor Vince Vaughn calls out late-night comedians, says people like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others have all become the “SAME SHOW.” Via @VigilantFox: THEO VON: “A lot of the late shows have struggled.” VINCE VAUGHN: “Oh, bro.” THEO: “Because… the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it f*cking tanked [ratings].” VINCE: “I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based.” “They were gonna evangelize people to what they thought… It felt like they had an agenda.” “It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.” “They all became the same show.” “And they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad.” “Imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f*cking plane. You’d be like, how do I get out of this f*cking seat?” THEO: “I would FART right next to them.” VINCE: “You’d fart your way out of it?” THEO: “Yeah, I …