A thief in Mumbai got quite literally more than he bargained for after swiping a gold necklace this weekend. Anil Jadhav took the gold chain right off a woman’s neck and led police on a merry chase before swallowing it when it became clear he would be captured. Police were not fooled, and took…
If you’re just now asking yourself “There was a Duck Dynasty musical?”, rest easy, because you’re not alone. The show–appropriately titled The Duck Commander Musical–is set to close on May 17, though it only debuted on April 15. Playbill, the source for musical theater inside information, did not give a specific reason for the…
Supermodel, occasional actress, and noted beautiful person Brooklyn Decker is pregnant! She and former tennis pro husband Andy Roddick made the announcement in typically goofy fashion, via a delightful Instagram posting this weekend. #the3ofus indeed: So this happened… #the3ofus A photo posted by Brooklyn Decker (@brooklynddecker) on May 2, 2015 at 1:50pm PDT…
The weeklong, on-again-off-again drama between Kylie Jenner and Tyga is finally resolved. After Kylie cited her father’s bravery in acknowledging his gender transition as the main reason she was able to stand up to Tyga and his cheating ways, the 25-year-old rapper was heartbroken. He’d just gotten that now-famous “Kylie” tattoo on his arm,…
Tonight marks the final performance of Bill Cosby’s beleaguered Far From Finished stand-up tour. What was supposed to be a triumphant return to the stage has been anything but: about one-third of the shows were canceled amid a constant stream of protests and rape accusations. The number of women who have accused Cosby of…
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan did a Reddit AMA on Friday. As is often the case with an AMA, a wide, far-reaching number of topics came up. And one of those is of particular interest to the many fans of the fictional Los Pollos Hermanos fried chicken fast food franchise….
Kylie Jenner has a lot on her plate these days. She’s spent the past week being the subject of her ex-boyfriend Tyga’s arm tattoos and then his entreaties to take her back after she dumped him. Now, she’s feuding with older sister Kendall–because Kendall has started to hog the spotlight in new and challenging…
Relax, America: The 76-year-old breastfeeder story is a hoax. The weirdest viral story of the week has been disproven. But it is still the weirdest story of the week. The internet was taken aback earlier this week–and rightly so–when the story of a 76-year-old mother getting kicked out of a KFC for breastfeeding her 42-year-old son…
It’s been an up-and-down few days for 25-year-old rapper Tyga. About a week ago, he got a nice big tattoo of the word “Kylie” right there on the inside of his right forearm, in order to prove that his love for the 17-year-old was real. Then, Tyga sexted with baby mama Blac Chyna, got…
Florida man Jeff Waters had no reason to expect that his transaction at his local Bank of America would go any differently than any other. After all, he had his identification on him; he had the check he wanted to fill out, and he had signed it properly; and he wasn’t–to the best of…
Taylor Schilling is on the cover of this month’s Elle Canada–and the interview the Orange is the New Black star gave the magazine is well-worth reading. Schilling dishes (and, some might say, throws shade) on a wide array of celebrity-centered topics, including the widespread popularity of selfies, the constant need for celebrities to push…
Emily Beazley is a 12-year-old Chicago girl who has battled non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma since 2011, saw her wish come true this week when she received a phone call from her idol, Taylor Swift. The two talked for about ten minutes while Emily was in the car with her family, headed back home after a chemotherapy session….
Amy Schumer is on quite a hot streak lately. First, her booty anthem parody “Milk Milk Lemonade” went viral; next, her “Last F•ckable Day” video, a send-up of Hollywood ageism, went even viraler. Now, she’s revisiting a recent tiff with unstoppable boy band juggernaut One Direction, and mocking phony beauty standards in the process….
Bud Light’s well-known “Up For Whatever” campaign, the centerpiece of its last two Super Bowl ads, took a sharp left turn this week. The company has apologized for the newest #UpForWhatever-based slogan, which adorns beer bottles and cans across the country, in light of women’s right advocates pointing out that the slogan could be…
A noted hot dog eatery has found itself in some rather hot water after a naming stunt went awry. Senate, the famed Cincinnati gastropub once featured on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, decided to take advantage of the attention currently being paid Bruce Jenner’s ongoing transition by naming one of its newest creations after him….
Well, that happened fast. Just days after Tyga got a huge tattoo of the word “Kylie” on the inside of his right forearm–reportedly to prove how much he loves Kylie Jenner, and how much he wanted to be together forever with the 17-year-old, Kylie has given him the boot. According to sources close to…
In what has to be the all-time most memorable yet somehow least appropriate tribute to a dead lover, you can now purchase–and use–a dildo filled with the ashes of the deceased. That’s right–there’s a company that will put your lover’s ashes in a dildo for you. They make a dildo urn. (Some people are calling it…
Bobby Brown has petitioned a court to become the legal guardian of daughter Bobbi Kristina’s estate. Previously, Brown had the power to make medical decisions on his daughter’s behalf–something he’s been doing since Bobbi Kristina slipped into a coma on January 31st. Now, though, he’s asking to be put in charge of all of…
Most of the attention paid to Bruce Jenner in the wake of his transition announcement has been positive. Celebrities as diverse and major as Oprah, Elton John, and Kim Kardashian have offered up their love and support for Jenner and for what is quickly becoming a major topic of discussion internationally–namely, that of transgender…
Justin Bieber, fresh off his Comedy Central roast and feeling like a million bucks, decided to do something special this weekend. He accepted an invitation from a fan to attend the Chatsworth Charter High School prom in Los Angeles, showed up, and made everyone shriek with delight. Whoever says that kids today have no…
Bruce Jenner’s interview with Diane Sawyer this weekend was the biggest moment in an already big week for the transgender community. The interview was seen by around 17 million people, making it perhaps the single most visible moment in transgender history. The second biggest might just be the hit Netflix series Orange is the…
Adam Sandler has had a rough go of things for the entirety of the current decade. Forbes has called the Most Overpaid Actor in Hollywood for two years running; his movies are critically panned, and increasingly avoided; he’s basically broken the loud, fratty, fart joke formula that made him popular about twenty years ago….
25-year-old rapper Tyga has been involved in his fair share of drama relating to girlfriend Kylie Jenner. The 17-year-old Jenner raised Kanye’s eyebrows–in a good, older brother way–not too long ago; and, earlier this year, the two got involved in a major Twitter war with Amber Rose. They’ve never actually, technically, 100% confirmed that…
Bruce Jenner officially acknowledged his transition from man to woman in an interview with Diane Sawyer this weekend. The interview had an audience of 17 million people, and, immediately afterward, celebrities and people from all walks of life took to social media to express their support for the Olympian. Oprah and Maria Schriver were…
A Florida police officer has been fired and may face criminal charges after he ignored a 911 call for 50 minutes in order to finish having lunch. Lee County deputy Yvan Fernandez was dispatched to the house of Gwen Minnis, a 47-year-old woman who had just been released from the hospital after suffering a…
What are funeral strippers? Why are they a thing in China? Strippers at a funeral is actually a long-standing tradition in parts of China, where large numbers of mourners are highly desirable. But if the government has its way, families of the deceased will have to find some other way to draw crowds. Funeral strippers,…
There’s been way more drama surrounding the Fifty Shades of Grey movie sequels than there will be in the movie itself. First there were the numerous reports, during the Fifty Shades press tour, that stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson don’t really get along, and possibly can’t stand each other. Then came the story…
Sawyer Sweeten, whose career in show business began when he was just 18 months old, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot at the age of 19. Sawyer (on the left in the above photo) and his twin brother, Sullivan, played Michael and Geoffrey on Everybody Loves Raymond for the duration of the show’s 10 season…
They’re worth an estimated $155 million, but Kim Kardashian and Kanye West took the cheapest possible option for their recent jaunt out to Armenia. The couple flew coach a couple of weeks back, as seen and captured by Twitter user MilesNewlove. The world probably would have reacted to this sooner, but any coach sleeping…
Mila Kunis is being accused of something very banal and highly unusual–stealing a chicken from a little girl when the two were growing up together in Ukraine. Kristina Karo, a singer who claims to have grown up with Kunis before the two moved to the United States, says Kunis stole a live chicken that…
Why did Blake Lively name her daughter James? Lively revealed the reasons for and origin of the name during a visit to Good Morning America. Then, she played one of the goofiest versions of “Say Anything” you’re likely to ever see while chatting it up with Jimmy Fallon. Blake Lively has been doing the talk show…
Bridget Olinda Garcia, 32, of Port St. Lucie FL, has been charged with child abuse after driving away from her home with her son on the hood of her car. The comedy began when Garcia took her oldest child’s phone away from him as punishment for an undisclosed act. This started a fight between…
It wasn’t too long ago that man-caves were the hottest thing in real estate. You couldn’t go twenty minutes without a stoic, polo shirt-wearing fella spout words to the effect of “This would be a great basement for my man-cave” on HGTV. Well, the long-awaited counter-punch has come, only it’s not quite striking back…
It’s only taken a couple of days for the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge (KJLC) to become a phenomenon on the order of #TheDress (remember the dress?) or the time it was cool to like President Obama. In case you fell asleep for those couple of days, though, here’s a quick primer: Teens and those…
Fire crews in Idaho were baffled when, after running into a burning home to save whoever was trapped inside, they heard cries of “Help!” and “Fire!” but couldn’t find any humans to carry out. The perfectly normal reason why? It wasn’t a human crying out, but a particularly verbal parrot. One of a pair…
If you want big, beautiful, pouty lips like known PacSun saleswoman Kylie Jenner, save your pennies and have plastic surgery like a normal person. That’s the opinion of a growing number of members of the medical community, who warn that the increasingly popular “Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge” can do serious damage to your kisser….
It’s been years in the making, and rumored for almost as long, but, now, we have official confirmation: Full House is back. John Stamos, still best-known for playing Uncle Jesse during the show’s original early-90s run, stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to drop the official word. Which, according to Stamos, he received…
Unfortunately, it looks like more heartbreak is in store for Bobbi Kristina’s family members–this after having their hopes raised over the weekend. There have been a pair of conflicting reports from the BK camp. First, at a performance over the weekend, Bobby Brown told a crowd of cheering fans that his daughter was “awake”…
What is synthetic marijuana? An outbreak of synthetic marijuana-related hospitalizations over the past week have renewed controversy over and scrutiny of the mysterious product. Find out how it is and isn’t like actual marijuana, and why it’s such a touchy subject. Last week, over 120 people in New York state alone were hospitalized because of…
Molly Schuyler is a 120-pound mother of four. She is also a pro on the competitive eating circuit–one of her most notable feats was finishing a 72-ounce steak dinner at Amarillo’s Big Texan Steak Ranch in four minutes and fifty-eight seconds last May. That was the record for a single dinner, until very recently….
Ben Affleck has gotten in a bit of a pickle regarding slavery–but it’s not for the reasons you might expect. B-Aff was recently featured on the hit PBS show Find Your Roots. The show explores the genealogy of a wide variety of folk, from commoners to superstars, and presents its findings for the world…
It’s been almost three full months since Bobbi Kristina was found unresponsive in a bathtub in her Georgia home, but there’s finally some good news to report: according to a Facebook post her Aunt Tina made, Bobbi is both awake and off life support. The post read: So many messages,sorry can’t answer them…
Well, that didn’t take long. Four days into her week-length Food Stamp Challenge, Gwyneth Paltrow has broken fast–literally. Paltrow took to GOOP, her oft-derided blog, to detail her reaction to the challenge and to the reaction to her challenge that blew up social media. In Paltrow’s own words, As I suspected, we only made…
The TIME 100 is out–and the magazine’s selection for Most Influential Person in the World might surprise you. Kanye West sngged one of the five coveted cover stories for the issue, which comes complete with a brief and highly complimentary write-up from noted tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. Here’s Musk explaining Kanye’s inclusion: Kanye…
An Argentine man is making worldwide headlines for his relentless and bloodthirsty self-defense. The unnamed steelworker awoke to rustling and crashing sounds in his house, and found three burglars attempting to loot him dry. The groggy Córdoban went for the first thing he could think of–one of the decorative samurai swords he had on…
Fashion Police will indeed be coming back to E!, and just in time for the start of the long, swanky awards season. Co-host Giuliana Rancic confirmed as much in a recent interview with Access Hollywood, in which the controversy-plagued presenter said all the drama surrounding the show only proves its viability. “I think more…
If you’ve been on the internet in the past eight years, you’ve seen the “Success Kid” meme. It’s the one of the adorable, chubby-cheeked little boy pumping a fist full of sand at the beach. And probably eating some of the same sand. But he’s adorable and chubby-cheeked and eminently meme-able, so who cares?…
A rural Georgia man, intending to shoot a pesky armadillo, was instead left red-faced after the bullet bounced off and struck his mother-in-law. Larry McElroy, 54, of Lee County GA, will forever live in local lore after the pecular trek of his determined bullet. McElroy fired a nine-millimeter pistol at the armadillo, which had…
Kim Kardashian has a new book coming out. It’s called Selfish, and it’s a collection of the reality star’s favorite selfies from the past few years. To celebrate its release, Kimmy K sat down with Harper’s Bazaar for an exclusive, intimate look at she and Kanye’s (but mostly her) daily routines. Among the reveals?…
Bobby Brown has been silent on the issue of his daughter’s hospitalization and health since Bobbi Kristina slipped into a coma on January 31st. This weekend, the father and entertainer shared his first public words on the state of his daughter, while onstage at what was also his first performance in several months. Brown…
Last week, Gwyneth Paltrow agreed to take her friend Mario Batali’s challenge and live for seven days on only $29 in food stamps. The $29 figure comes from the average amount that a person who receives assistance from the food stamp program–the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP–every week. Celebrity chef Batali urged Paltrow…
Four college students en route from Louisiana State to a Spring Break paradise got quite a bit more than they bargained for when pulled over on the way. The “Semi-Fantastic Four,” as the Baton Rouge press has begun calling them, were driving a Ford F-150 with an expired tag when an officer from the…
Coachella–the West Coast Woodstock, the High Desert Festival of Peace and Good Vibes–was marred by an encounter with Justin Bieber this past weekend. According to eyewitness reports and festival staff, the Biebenator and his entourage were held up by security while trying to get into the backstage area during Drake’s set. To his credit,…
The much-anticipated Fifty Shades of Grey film got trashed by critics, but rode a wave of moviegoer curiosity all the way to the bank of laughs. The film has made $566 million worldwide against a budget of $40 million, which is a success even by notoriously strange and shady Hollywood bookkeeping standards. (The…
Back in 2011, when Beyoncé was finishing up work on 4, she was also putting the finishing touches on a loose collection of around twenty tracks. The songs never came together in the form of a proper, record-company-promotable album, but they were fully-formed expressions of some of the many ideas Bey and Jay-Z were fleshing…
A&E’s Neighbors With Benefits has gotten a lot of attention over the past couple of months, largely for its fun, outlandish premise. And, while some of that attention has focused on whether or not the show is genuine or full of out-of-state actors, lately, it’s taking some heat from an unexpected group: namely, other…
Why hasn’t Bill Cosby been charged with a crime? The now-disgraced comedian has been accused of various sexual improprieties by over 40 women–yet he hasn’t been charged with any crime in a criminal court, and likely never will be. This weekend, while Bill Cosby performed a loudly-protested show in Baltimore, two more women came forward…
The rumors started to swirl late last night, and, by this morning, they were true: South African comedian Trevor Noah is the new host of The Daily Show. He’ll replace outgoing anchorman Jon Stewart, who took over for Craig Kilborn in 1999 and has since turned TDS into the whirlwind of political satire it is…
April Corcoran, 30, of Warren County OH, is in jail after being charged with 27 felonies involving the trafficking of her eleven-year-old daughter for heroin. According to prosecutors, Corcoran regularly drove her daughter to the Cincinnati apartment of a heroin dealer, drop the daughter off, and leave with drugs, returning several hours later to pick…
In one of the most bizarre “Is this really 2015” moments of the year so far, a man has managed to wrangle the “Sodomite Suppression Act” onto the ballot in California. And it’s not so much that there are still fervent anti-gay people out there; it’s the language of this specific amendment that has…
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