Lizzo's former backup dancers have hit back at the "Truth Hurts" singer's response to their bombshell lawsuit that alleged a toxic work environment including sexual harassment and incidents of body-shaming. "It took me until actually leaving the camp that I figured out that everything that went on was bad, because I just chalked it up to, you know, oh, Lizzo might be a diva, or this is just the industry, this is what we go through,"
You unlock this Saturday Night Live recap with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension — a dimension of sketch comedy, a dimension of music, a dimension of live TV. You're moving into a land of both streaming and network broadcasting, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into SNL in Review. We have Lizzo pulling double duty as host and musical guest tonight, Conehead nation. But first: a brief acknowledgement about the passing of former SNL cast member, and comedy legend, Gilbert Gottfried.
He really is every f---in' where. Brett Goldstein has taken home an Emmy for the second year in a row for his work as beloved grump Roy Kent on Ted Lasso. And this time, he was handed the award by none other than Lizzo. Lizzo, an Emmy winner herself for her Prime Video series Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, took the stage to hand out the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series when some teleprompter copy seemed to catch her off guard.
The first night of Lollapalooza was evacuated from Chicago’s Grant Park due to severe weather. Organizers of the music festival ordered the evacuation shortly after 9 p.m. local time, while performances from headliners Lorde and Muse were just getting underway. The performances would not resume, organizers announced. Lorde, who performed a few songs in pouring rain before being pulled from the stage, shared her disappointment on Twitter. “I am so gutted guys i don’t know what to tell you,” she wrote.
Some people just want to make a buck. In an exclusive preview clip from Tuesday's episode of 9-1-1: Lone Star, Marjan (Natacha Karam) is confronted by a woman she rescued in the season 4 premiere. In the heat of the moment, as the fire fighter attempted to convince the woman to strap into a harness so she could pull her out of a mobile home barreling down the freeway at 50 miles an hour, Marjan called the woman "
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Like a block of good cheese, George Clooney’s career has improved with age. Just think: Fifteen years ago, the Hollywood power broker was a virtual unknown heading up the cast of Sunset Beat, a cops-on-Harleys drama that was a chunk of cheese in its own right. Reviewer Ken Tucker, who gave the show a C, called it ”more amusing than 21 Jump Street” — and no wonder: Clooney’s Chic Chesbro (far left) fought crime by day and played lead guitar with a band called Private Prayer by night.
In the 1995 NBC movie Serving in Silence: The Grethe Cammermeyer Story, Glenn Close plays a real-life colonel in the Washington State National Guard who was discharged after revealing she was a lesbian during a routine inquiry. (Cammermeyer was eventually reinstated after taking the issue to court). Here, Close – who won her first Emmy for the role – and the now-retired Cammermeyer look back on the movie’s emotional impact. GRETHE CAMMERMEYER: I was approached probably six or eight months before my book came out.
You know those empowering stories about a mild-mannered Average Joe who gets pushed and pushed and pushed, until he finally stands up and puts a couple of nudniks half his age in their place. This is not one of those stories. On April 11, a man who was watching Titanic 3-D with his girlfriend in an AMC theater in Kent, Wash., finally lashed out at the group of loud ruffians sitting behind him.
Is love truly blind? Mitchell Haaseth/Netflix (2) After five couples got engaged in the pods, Love Is Blind season 3 followed them all the way to the altar. Scroll through our gallery to see exclusive photos from the weddings of Zanab and Cole, Nancy and Bartise, Alexa and Brennon, Raven and SK, and Colleen and Matt and to find out what happened in the finale. And obviously, spoilers ahead!
Update no. 2: Netflix announced that the live reunion will air Monday, April 17, at 3pm ET/12pm PT. Update: Netflix tweeted that the not-so-live reunion is currently filming and will be available to stream "as soon as humanly possible." Original story: The Love Is Blind hive is angry. The highly-anticipated season 4 live reunion, scheduled to premiere Sunday, April 16 at 5pm PT, has so far experienced over an hour delay with many users unable to get into Netflix without an error sign or the dreaded, "