Sports Illustrated’s Entire Staff Told Their Jobs Have Been Eliminated After Authenic Brands Revokes License To Publish; Union Vows To “Fight For Every One Of Our Colleagues”

Colin Jost and Michael Che had a field day roasting Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment.

“shrink the budget to fill their pockets.” During this unprecedented work stoppage, employees got an unlikely supporter when Baldwin — who has gotten into frequent physical altercations with the press — showed up to talk to and support them. NPR joked about him showing up, and sure enough, he did. “And for the listeners.

A man who has been accused of stalking Taylor Swift is in trouble with the law again.

The Church of Satan would like to make it clear that members don’t worship the Devil, nor do they believe Satan is real. What they do believe in, and the rituals they practice, emerge in the documentary Realm of Satan, which just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. 

Travis Kelce may have been scoring touchdowns on Sunday, but Taylor Swift was scoring fan adoration.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor When Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of “Reservation Dogs,” started writing his first play with the other members of The 1491s, the sketch comedy troupe of which he was member, he and the group began working on the project in the same way they would have brainstormed one of their comic YouTube shorts: “The first day of working, we sat around and drew dicks on a dry-erase board for half the day,” he said. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: Harjo recalled the process in a conversation with Bobby Wilson, another one of the five members of The 1491s, during the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. The play, “Between Two Knees,” was commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as part of a series of plays focused on U.S.

The Great British Bakeoff star Ruby Bhogal has revealed that she is engaged to boyfriend James Stewart, a BBC presenter. Ruby, 35, took to Instagram to share the happy news, three weeks after James actually proposed, during a trip to New York.

SAG-AFTRA has fired a warning shot to casting websites that attempt to collect fees from actors who want to submit themselves for commercial casting.

Anna Wintour kept her trademark dark sunglasses on even as she was delivering bad news to Pitchfork staffers, one writer that was part of the purge complains.

Sports Illustrated‘s stunning mass layoffs Friday, which cast doubt on the future of the 70-year-old media stalwart, have prompted waves of emotional reaction across social media.

Kid Cudi has opened up on why he forgave Kanye West after their public feud back in 2022.In August of 2022, the ‘Soundtrack 2 My Life’ singer spoke out about the vitriol he received from West – who now goes by Ye – that year, saying the ‘Donda’ rapper’s online attacks damaged his mental health and irreparably damaged their friendship.The two artists were previously close friends and collaborators but have had a tumultuous relationship since the mid-2010s. They fell out again that year, allegedly due to Cudi’s friendship with Pete Davidson – West’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian’s ex who she was dating at the time – which led Ye to remove Cudi’s contributions from his ‘Donda 2’ album.Speaking to Esquire at the time, Cudi said of West: “I’ve been on every one of that man’s albums. He’s only been on two of mine.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Sports Illustrated has been hit with mass layoffs — which will potentially eliminate the entire editorial team of the nearly 70-year-old sports media brand. The union that reps SI’s editorial workers, which is affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York, said in a post on X that on Friday staff members of Sports Illustrated were notified that its parent company, the Arena Group, “is planning to lay off a significant number, possibly all, of the Guild-represented workers at SI, a result of Authentic Brands Group (ABG) revoking Arena’s license to publish SI.” In 2019, Authentic Brands Group purchased Sports Illustrated from Meredith for $110 million (before Meredith was acquired by IAC’s Dotdash).

A sports star has shockingly revealed that he found out his girlfriend was already married, leading him to "delete" her from his life. UFC world champion Alex Pereira was dating Merle Christine last year after divorcing his wife, with whom he shares two children. Both Alex and Merle have since unfollowed each other on social media and removed all traces of their relationship.

Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed that he almost gave a Green Day fan favourite track to 5 Seconds Of Summer.Armstrong spoke to People magazine about Green Day’s biggest hits throughout their career ahead of the release of upcoming album, ‘Saviors’. When the interview approached their 2016 full-length ‘Revolution Radio’, Armstrong spoke about ‘Still Breathing’, which he admitted was a song originally written for Australian pop rock band 5 Seconds Of Summer.“There’s a band called 5 Seconds of Summer who wanted me to write a song for them,” he stated.

Ron Howard nearly left “Happy Days” after Henry Winkler’s popularity changed the course of the show.Howard almost quit when producers floated the idea of calling the hit show “Fonzie’s Happy Days” in an effort to capitalize on fans’ love of Winkler’s character, Arthur Herbert “The Fonz” Fonzarelli.“They came to me at ABC and they wanted to change the title to ‘Fonzie’s Happy Days,'” Winkler told the New York Times. “I said, ‘If you do that, it is an insult to everybody I’m working with.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After more than seven years at the helm of Barstool Sports — and in the wake of the company’s ill-fated sale in 2023 — Erika Ayers Badan announced Tuesday that she is stepping down as CEO. Last summer, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy bought the site back from casino and online gambling operator Penn Entertainment for $1. That came after Penn Entertainment paid a total of about $550 million to acquire 100% control of Barstool, a few months before deciding to part ways with Barstool.

Dua Lipa and Seth Meyers got matching tattoos during a hilarious segment. The two celebrities began taking shots from a “Barbie Dreamhouse shot luge” to honor Lipa’s song in the “Barbie” movie.

Well, looks like someone effed around and found out?

BreAnna Bell “The Holdovers” star Paul Giamatti, Emma Stone (“Poor Things”) and “Rustin” star Colman Domingo were among the stars reacting to their Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations on Wednesday morning. Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani revealed this year’s noms via an early morning Instagram Live video. The awards cycle comes following the end of the SAG-AFTRA strike, giving the guild a chance to celebrate after spending much of last year on the picket line.

Chicago PD‘s onscreen love affair seemingly translated to real life, too!