The nominations for the 2022 Country Music Association Awards were just revealed!
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I want to explain why Black Pride is essential to our community’s health. As a white person, I probably have no business attempting this, but humor me. I will, as always, proceed elliptically.
I start with white nationalist Josh Hawley. I confess that when I first saw the infamous photo of the senator from Missouri pumping his fist in support of the white crowd of rioters gathering outside the Capitol, I experienced a rush of testosterone. I thought he looked hot in that stupid bad-boy-in-a-suit way. Granted, he was a neo-Nazi posturing behind barriers, surrounded by annoyed police tasked with protecting him, but it was such a perfect photo op for a senator who was leading the charge to overturn an election that ejected his beloved neo-Nazi racist pussy-grabbing daddy. In a subsequent act of bravery — copyright infringement — the Republican senator from Missouri proudly plastered the image on white coffee mugs that sold for $20 each.
I really hate it when my libido usurps my rationality, as it did for a second when I saw Hawley posing for thousands of armed white nationalists. Libidinal short-circuiting is common and embarrassing, but it’s frequently an opportunity to acknowledge that nobody escapes the lunacy of the culture in which we are bred. The degree to which we deny those culturally internalized quirks and cruelties is the degree to which they will eventually and dramatically reveal themselves. Thus, the House investigatory committee, led in part by the wonderfully spiteful but still reprehensible Liz Cheney, closed its summer session with a hilarious video of the balls-to-the-wall fist pumper racing out of the Capitol while his followers hunted the vice president for a manly public hanging. Alas, Hawley
The nominations for the 2022 Country Music Association Awards were just revealed!
Ryan Reynolds has revealed that wife Blake Lively helped him make the decision to buy the Wrexham soccer team, joking that he had to get her permission as he can't even make "unilateral decisions on milk".MORE: Inside Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds's incredible NY houseSpeaking on Good Morning America, Ryan was asked by Michael Strahan how Blake took to the news that he was buying the team along with friend Rob McElhenney, to which he quipped: "First off, let's back the truck up — I would not just buy a team and then tell my wife. I don't make unilateral decisions on milk."WATCH: Welcome to Wrexham, available on Disney+Ryan then shared that his wife of 10 years helped him talk through the decision, and that she "saw some of the things — the blind spots — that I didn't see, and I saw some of the other blind spots."He also went on to reveal that the decision was "one of the greatest things to happen to me and genuinely one of the worst," adding: "I now love this sport so much I hate it."MORE: Blake Lively's incredible unicorn cake is perfect for her three young daughtersRob and Ryan purchased Wrexham AFC, a club in North Wales, in 2020, and cameras followed their move to try to try to turn its fortunes around as well as Wrexham as a working-class town where the historic yet struggling football club is a source of pride among residents.However the documentary also saw Ryan speak emotionally about his own relationship with his father, revealing that he only got validation from his late dad when it came to sport, and he still feels upset over their strained relationship today.
Friday went viral for all the wrong reasons, but a decade on she’s resurfaced and reclaimed her infamous track.WATCH: Rebecca Black's viral song 'Friday'Appearing on Today Extra in September 2022, the singer was looking all grown up and nothing like we remember her as a teen in the Friday music video.Sporting black hair and microbangs, Rebecca is now a TikTok sensation and favourite among the queer community – so how has she come so far from her Friday infamy?“I put out a remix for the 10-year anniversary where I completely remade the song and made it my own,” she said on the show.“It was such an opportunity to reclaim it and show people what I have been up to in the past because I was 13 then and I am 25 now.”Rebecca Black in her viral 'Friday' video and now.The singer added that she never knew her song would go viral and she struggled with the attention as a teen finding her way in an “industry that I wasn’t even ready to step into”.But now she’s gearing up to speak at the Big Sounds music conference in Brisbane and she couldn’t be more proud of the person she’s become since her Friday fame.“It just took a lot of perseverance a lot of willingness to believe in myself,” she said.“I just feel so fortunate to have found a space and an audience that allows me to be myself, allows many to share my experiences, share queer music and, yeah, things have changed a lot.
No end in sight. Bachelor Nation’s Blake Horstmann doesn’t see an end to his feud with Nick Viall, he exclusively told Us Weekly at the MTV Video Music Awards.
It’s summer — and Blake Lively is having a blast. The actress took to Instagram ahead of her 35th birthday with a picturesque snap of herself poolside.
Blake Lively is having a blast. The actress took to Instagram ahead of her 35th birthday with a picturesque snap of herself poolside.The star smiled in a white bikini against a backdrop of palm trees and sunshine. «Summer lovin’ …had me a blast,» she captioned the post, a reference to 's «Summer Nights.»Lively's comment section was filled with compliments, including from celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz, who wrote back, «With a body like that I’d have a blast all year round.»«Ok smoke show,» her sister, Robyn Lively, commented. As for her husband, Ryan Reynolds, the star weighed in with a punchline — as he's known to do.
Ethan Shanfeld “House of the Dragon” star Steve Toussaint, who plays Lord Corlys Velaryon a.k.a. “The Sea Snake” on the series, slammed viewers of the “Game of Thrones” prequel who took issue with his casting.“It seems to be very hard for people to swallow,” Toussaint said in an interview with Men’s Health.
This week, Marvel’s launched its latest series, “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law,” a much more comedic riff on their superhero tales. While the early VFX in trailers had audiences worried, by the time the show hit the air, it mainly had hit the mark.
Blake Shelton has done a major change – plus a serious confession – and fans truly don't know what to think!MORE: Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton sleep in a rainbow bed of dreams - watchThe star recently made fans nostalgic when his iconic mullet made an epic return as he promoted his brand new song, No Body, and it got him thinking about both his upbringing and the early stages of his country music career.He has taken to Instagram to share behind-the-scenes of the music video, and the mullet comeback, and just revealed how much having the hairstyle again has impacted him.WATCH: Gwen Stefani serenades BlakeMORE: Blake Shelton shares his delight as he reveals exciting The Voice updateIn a video where he is seen sporting western attire, with a guitar on his hand, and of course, the mullet, Blake confessed: "You know I'm just realizing that something hasn't felt right over the last fifteen or so years…"He goes on to flip his hair back and forth to show off the old-new look, and admits to his fans: "I'm starting to realize what has been missing."In the caption, the singer wrote: "Yep, all is finally right again…" and he promptly sparked a heated debate among fans as they divided themselves into team mullet or team no mullet.A post shared by Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton)The star's mullet confessionEach side was quite adamant about their position, with those who opted for his modern haircut writing: "That's a BIG NO!" and: "Just say no to mullets!!" as well as: "Please be extensions," plus another added: "You look much better with the short hair.
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are about to face off on for the first time as a married couple — but they've had plenty of adorable moments since first pairing up on the singing competition!Gwen returns to the show this fall for season 22 — coming back as a coach for the first time since her first-ever victory in season 19, as well as the first time since she tied the knot with Blake in July 2021. But according to ET's exclusive new promo, her hubby, 's most-decorated winner, isn't going to let his wife have any freebies!The pair first met when Gwen joined the show as a season 7 coach in 2014. Both were going through divorces, and by the time Gwen returned for season 9 the following year, they were an official couple.
“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” which just debuted on Disney+, is arguably the most delightful Marvel Studios series yet. Created by Jessica Gao and starring Tatiana Maslany as the lawyer-turned-superhero, “She-Hulk” is effervescent and refreshing, a balmy tonic after the darkness of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and other, more somber Marvel Studios productions.
This is the third article from “Reclaiming Our Time: A History of Atlanta’s Black LGBTQIA Life,” a series of editorials that presents vivid and personal accounts of one of the city’s most definitive communities. James Warren Jackson is a Black gay man
BreAnna Bell Netflix has ordered Kathleen Jordan’s period soap drama “The Decameron” with Jenji Kohan executive producing under her overall deal with the streamer.The eight episode drama takes place in 1348, as the Black Death strikes hard in the city of Florence. A handful of nobles are invited to retreat with their servants to a grand villa in the Italian countryside and wait out the pestilence with a lavish holiday.
Bryce Dallas Howard is speaking up about the gender pay gap in Hollywood, revealing that she earned less than her co-star Chris Pratt in the ‘Jurassic Park’ films.The 41-year-old actress explained to Insider that she was paid “so much less than the reports even said, so much less.” It had been reported that Pratt was paid $2 million more for the second installment ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ in 2018, and that he was paid $10 million while Howard made $8 million.Bryce continued to say that when she “started negotiating for Jurassic, it was 2014, and it was a different world, and I was at a great disadvantage,“ adding that “unfortunately, you have to sign up for three movies, and so your deals are set.”She also revealed that she talked about the pay disparity with her co-star, and he wanted equal payment for licensing deals, and earnings not included in the contracts previously negotiated with executives.“What I will say is that Chris and I have discussed [the pay gap] and whenever there was an opportunity to move the needle on stuff that hadn’t been already negotiated, like a game or a ride, he literally told me: ‘You guys don’t even have to do anything. I’m gonna do all the negotiating.
A federal court has ruled that in refusing to provide healthcare benefits for the husband of a gay employee, Catholic Relief Services has broken federal anti-discrimination laws. For secular jobs, the Baltimore-based humanitarian organization must offer coverage to the spouses of gay employees, U.S.