ICE Deaths Spark Outrage, Royals Cut Back and Hollywood Scandals Explode This Week

Pedro Pascal and Madonna Signed a Letter to Shut Down an ICE Facility But 14 People Have Already Died in Custody This Year

Pedro Pascal wants you to know he thinks children shouldn’t be locked in detention centers. Madonna agrees. So does Mark Ruffalo, Javier Bardem, Elliot Page, Jane Fonda, John Legend, and a parade of other celebrities who have signed an open letter demanding the federal government shut down the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. “Children…

BBC Finally Admits The Royals Just Aren’t Worth the Money Anymore and Cuts Events Team to a Single Staffer

For decades, the BBC has treated royal coverage like the crown jewels themselves, polished, protected, and presented to the nation with the kind of reverence usually reserved for religious relics. The dedicated events team, that elite unit responsible for broadcasting every ceremonial moment from the late Queen’s coronation in 1953 to her state funeral in…

Hugo Vickers’ New Book Blames Harry and Meghan Instead of Andrew for the Queen’s Distress

Another week, another royal biography. Another round of “sources” crawling out of the woodwork to tell us, with certainty, exactly what the late Queen Elizabeth II really thought about Meghan Sussex. And another opportunity for the British press to recycle the same tired narratives while conveniently ignoring the elephant, or rather, the former Prince, still very much…

Nick Cannon says Democrats are the “party of the KKK” while praising Trump

Nick Cannon has twelve children by six different women. He has a talk show. He has, by most accounts, a career that refuses to flatline no matter how many times the internet begs it to. But apparently, what he doesn’t have is a functioning understanding of American political history, or, more likely, the self-awareness to realize that…

TLC’s Chilli Faces Fallout Over Trump Donations and Michelle Obama Conspiracy Post

There is a particular kind of cognitive dissonance that occurs when a beloved 1990s icon – the woman who taught a generation to reject “no scrubs” – turns up on federal donation records giving money to the political party of scrubs. Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, one-third of TLC, has been quietly bankrolling MAGA Republicans throughout the…

Thomas Markle finds love with a nurse 35 years his junior, but Caroline Graham is the real third wheel in this relationship

There is a particular kind of choreography that has played out between Thomas Markle and the Daily Mail for nearly a decade. He surfaces with a story, a health scare, a stroke, an amputation, a move to the other side of the world, and Caroline Graham materialises, notebook in hand, to document every detail. The…

The Drama Director Kristoffer Borgli’s Disgusting 2012 Essay About Dating A Teenager Resurfaces

There is something rather odd happening in Hollywood this week, and it involves a director, a former child star, and a gossip website with a form for causing trouble. To understand what is happening, we need to begin with the film that seems to be the target: The Drama. The A24 film, which stars Zendaya…