Tag: controversy

Categories
Abuse Ad Amber Heard arms Celebrity Controversy Disney Divorce domestic abuse Drunk future Gallery Hollywood image interview Johnny Depp Kids lace live magazine Movie OWN Rant rap Rapper real restraining order RIP son style sur thin

Johnny Depp Flees LA, Gets Support From Daughter & Disney

Like the swaggering pirate he so memorably portrayed, Johnny Depp might be wondering where the rum is these days.

The answer? In the Caribbean, of course.

Johnny Depp: Drunk?

According to several sources, Depp has been riding out his divorce from Amber Heard at his private island in the Bahamas.

“He has no plans to return to L.A.,” a source close to Depp tells People magazine.

“He misses nothing about L.A. but his kids, and they are visiting him in the Bahamas.”

We suppose there are worse places to be self-exiled.

The magazine states that Depp is currently being visited by his 17-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose.

His son 14-year-old son, Jack, is expected to arrive with his mother, Vanessa Paradis, sometime this week.

“Having his kids around is always great for him. He has really missed his kids,” the insider adds.

“He likes being surrounded by people and everyone is trying to cheer him up.” 

As you’ve likely heard, Depp has been accused of assault by his estranged wife.

View Slideshow: Johnny Depp Domestic Abuse Allegations: Stars React

Heard has been granted a temporary restraining order, and she and Depp are reportedly on the verge of reaching a divorce settlement.

Heard’s allegations have called into question the future of Depp’s career, but it seems the actor needn’t worry about his most lucrative properties.

Disney – who, as the studio behind the Pirates of the Caribbean and the live-action Alice in Wonderland franchises is as responsible for Depp’s career renaissance as anyone – basically confirmed this week that it has no plans to cut ties with the actor, despite his recent legal troubles.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Disney CEO Bob Iger stated that he is “not worried” about Depp’s “personal problems.”

Asked if he believes the current controversy will pass, Iger responded:

“I don’t know whether it passes or not. We have Jack Sparrow.”

Asked if he thinks people will separate the actor from his most famous character, Iger responded, “Right.”

So it sounds like Depp can do no wrong in the eyes of those in his inner circle.

The question now is – will the movie-going public be as forgiving?

View Slideshow: 15 Celebs Who Have Been Accused Of Domestic Violence

Continue reading “Johnny Depp Flees LA, Gets Support From Daughter & Disney”
Categories
abs Ad art Book Books casting celebrities Celebrity Controversy criticism Died Fashion H&M hair Harry Potter Heroin image interview IRS J.K. Rowling lace Lost Married Movie Movies Music NBC OWN photos pot quote real red RIP size skin son stage style sur tan thin thor tiffany Twitter Weight white Win

J.K. Rowling on reaction to new Hermione: ‘I thought that idiots were going to idiot’

FFN_BIG_Grint_Radcliffe_Watson_Rowling_070711jpg_7568440

Character portraits for the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child were released over the weekend and they are all lovely; take a look on Pottermore. As we reported in December of last year, Olivier-Award winning actor, Noma Dumezweni, was cast as Hermione in this production. After the announcement, people with nothing better to do complained to the Twitterverse about her casting. The issue was not her credentials but the fact that she is not white and that somehow flies in the face of the characterization of Hermione. At the time, J.K. Rowling gave the following statement in support of the casting choice:

JK wrote the story upon which Jack Thorne’s play is based. HPatCC takes place 19 years after the gang has graduated Hogwarts. Harry is married with three children and the youngest, Albus, is reluctant to carry on the family legacy. The story is a continuation from the books, not the movies so it really doesn’t matter who played the part in the movie, even if they did a wonderful job in that role. Now that the dust up on social media has died down, JK expressed her annoyance about the controversy and did so in classic JK fashion.

JK Rowling has revealed her frustration at online reaction by “a bunch of racists” to news that the role of Hermione will be played by a black actress in the eagerly awaited new play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

The production, which has broken records by selling 175,000 tickets in 24 hours, is tipped to be the theatrical event of the year. But the Harry Potter creator criticised those who have suggested that Hogwarts’ studious heroine could not be played by the Olivier-award-winning actress Noma Dumezweni.

“With my experience of social media, I thought that idiots were going to idiot,” she said in an interview with the Observer. “But what can you say? That’s the way the world is. Noma was chosen because she was the best actress for the job.”

While the vast majority of people responded positively to the casting decision, Rowling said: “I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ – that is, lost colour from her face after a shock – that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with. But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”

Dumezweni was cast by the play’s director, John Tiffany – known for the productions Black Watch and the musical Once – who has collaborated with Rowling and the playwright Jack Thorne, writer of This Is England and The Last Panthers.

Tiffany said he was surprised by the opinions expressed online, but had stopped reading the comments. “I am not as Twitter-familiar as Jo and Jack, so I hadn’t encountered its dark side, which is just awful. But what shocked me was the way people couldn’t visualise a non-white person as the hero of a story. It’s therefore brilliant that this has happened.”

[From The Guardian]

I always cast books in my head and producers never go with my picks when they are made into movies. Shockingly, I am able to get over it and see the film without bias. I remain at a loss over the criticism of Noma; I would be thrilled to see someone of her caliber perform. Elphaba in Wicked needed to be green, it was a huge point in the story but Hermione’s skin color has no affect on her. I think I’ll save my outrage for the fact that I will never get tickets to this show and not the fact that Hermione is not alabaster or Ron not-ginger enough.

wenn23703887

FFN_BARM_Potter_070711jpg_7570626

Photo credit: WENN and Fame/Flynet Photos and Getty Images

FFN_BARM_Potter_070711jpg_7570626
FFN_BIG_Grint_Radcliffe_Watson_Rowling_070711jpg_7568440
wenn505276
wenn22373748
wenn23703887

More at Cele Bitchy

Categories
Actresses Ad art celebrities Celebrity Controversy Country Court Death Debra Messing donald trump future Gay H&M Hollywood image interview Jamie Lee Curtis NBC photos Police quote Rant Rants real red RIP shape size slim son Susan Sarandon tan thin Twitter Win

Susan Sarandon & Debra Messing are Twitter-beefing about Bernie Sanders

wenn22750546

Susan Sarandon and Debra Messing are in a Twitter war. Those are words I never thought I would write. The whole thing started when Sarandon did an interview on Chris Hayes’ MSNBC show, All In. Here’s the exchange that got the controversy-ball rolling:

SARANDON: I think Bernie would probably encourage people to [support Hillary if he loses] because he doesn’t have any ego in this thing. But I think a lot of people are, ‘sorry, I just can’t bring myself to [vote for Hillary].’

HAYES: How about you personally?

SARANDON: I don’t know. I’m going to see what happens.

HAYES: Really?

SARANDON: Really. It’s dangerous to think we can continue the way we are with the militarized police force, with the death penalty and the low minimum wage and threats to women’s rights and think you can’t do something huge to turn that around. The country is not in good shape if you’re in the middle class. It’s disappearing.

[From Salon]

A lot of people took Sarandon’s words in the proper context and assumed that she was coming close to advocating for Democrats, liberals and progressives to stay home if Hillary Clinton gets the nomination. Sarandon was widely criticized for her “blind privilege” and more. She was even criticized by Hollywood actresses like Jamie Lee Curtis and Debra Messing.

After that, there was a flurry of tweets, retweets, replies, etc. For those you not following it, you can see Susan’s Twitter feed here and Debra’s feed here. Be careful of Debra’s Twitter, she’s talking to everybody and there are literally hundreds of tweets and re-tweets from the past few days. The basic gist seems to be that Susan left the door open for either voting for Trump (because he would start a revolution?) or staying home if Hillary Clinton got the nomination. Debra was being sort of pedantic about what Susan actually said and did not say during the interview, but the fact of the matter is that Susan is not advocating voting for anyone other than Bernie Sanders, even if Clinton gets the nomination. And considering the very real possibility of Donald Trump or Ted Cruz getting the GOP nomination, I do think that’s a privileged stance to take.

wenn23163330

Photos courtesy of WENN.

wenn22750546
wenn22755131
wenn23163330

Special thanks Cele Bitch

Categories
Ad Celebrity Controversy Gallery Hollywood image Kardashian kim ka Kim Kardashian Owe OWN rap Rapper real red RIP sex tape son style sur thin Win

Kim Kardashian Celebrates Easter with Black Jesus Kimoji

Kim Kardashian is here to help you celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Easter Kimojis

The former sex tape star shared a new set of her special emojis on her official website this week, writing as an affiliated message to the photo above:

“It’s almost Easter! I want to give you guys a little surprise: new Easter Kimoji!

“There are over a dozen new Kimoji, including colorful eggs, me in bunny ears and a fun KIMOGIF! Easter is a really big deal in my family and I get super into it.

“These new Kimoji are seriously soooo cute, I can’t deal!!!”

Most followers have taken note of the African-American Jesus Christ icon because it’s not something you see very often.

But it is common knowledge that Kim likes her men black. So why would she not like her Sons of God the same way?

When Kardashian launched her Kimojis last December, they actually crashed the Apple store.

According to reports at the time, there was a point where 9,000 downloads of these icons were happening per millisecond. Which is utterly insane and depressing.

Kim previously stirred up controversy with the feature when a series of Kimojis appeared to glorify the ratchet life.

What do you think of her Easter-themed options? Will you be downloading any of them in celebration of the holiday?

And, if so, allow us to ask the following question: WHY?!?!?!?!?

View Slideshow: Kim Kardashian Emojis: Yes, These Exist

Continue reading “Kim Kardashian Celebrates Easter with Black Jesus Kimoji”
Categories
ABC Ad Adele Album Blind Item celebrities Controversy Harry Styles image instagram IRS Killed lips looks Money Music music video music videos one direction Owe Pissed quote rap real red RIP rock size son Songs style styling sur Taylor Swift thin TV Video videos Weight white YouTube

Taylor Swift debuts ‘Out of the Woods’ music video on NYE: fun or silly?

Are we in the clear yet? #OOTWMusicVideo Premiering at approximately 10:51pm EST on ABC

A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on

As we all know, Taylor Swift’s 1989 has many thinly veiled blind-item songs about her months-long, on-and-off thing with Harry Styles. When the album first came out, I remember in-the-know Swiftloonies saying that “Out of the Woods” was one of the most obvious ones, with several lyrical callbacks to her relationship with Styles. So… even though Swifty is happy with Calvin Harris now (and stockpiling references about him which will go on her next album), she’s still dealing with Styles in various ways. So while One Direction performed on New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, Swifty made sure that the night was also about her. She debuted her new video for “Out of the Woods” on the show, without even having to show up in person.

“Out of the Woods” is the music video she filmed in New Zealand in November. There was a controversy because Taylor’s film crew was massive, and the beach they were using has strict limitations as to the allowed vehicles, which is why “Swifty hates endangered Dotterels” is a thing. Anyway, here’s the video (which probably killed some endangered Dotterels).

Continue reading “Taylor Swift debuts ‘Out of the Woods’ music video on NYE: fun or silly?”
Categories
2012 abs Ad art celebrities Controversy Court Gisele Bundchen H&M image Kids Lost magazine model Movie Movies photos Pissed quote scandal size son style Super Bowl supermodel tan Television The Game thin TMZ TV Weight Win

Did Tom Brady try to ‘ban’ Gisele Bundchen from the Super Bowl?

wenn21325022

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, and on a gossip-level, I could not be less interested in the actual game. I want to see if there are any more ball-shenanigans and I’m interested to see if Gisele Bundchen is going to alienate a bunch of people again, but other than that… yeah, not interested. I’m probably going to go the movies. Still, let’s talk about Gisele! Back in 2012, when the Patriots lost to the Giants, Gisele mouthed off to a reporter right after the game. She was trying to defend Tom Brady and she ended up throwing his teammates under the bus when she said: “My husband canot f—king throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.” Allegedly, the Patriots were super-pissed at Gisele about that. Obviously.

So is Gisele coming to this year’s Super Bowl in Arizona? Probably. Although she might only come on game day. On the NFL’s Media Day earlier this week, Tom was asked where Gisele was and he replied, “She’s at home [in Boston] taking care of everybody, all the kids. She’s gonna come out this weekend. There’s obviously a lot going on with media day and our preparations [here], so she’s taking care of the home front.” But OK! Magazine (I know, I know) claims that Tom would love it if Gisele would just STAY HOME completely:

The University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona will be completely packed for Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, but New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is hoping one person doesn’t attend: his wife, Gisele Bündchen! A source revealed to OK! Magazine that Tom is “desperate” to keep wife from attending the game on Feb. 1.

“He knows there’s way too much on his mind to let Gisele become a distraction,” the source told OK! Instead, Brady asked his supermodel wife to watch on the television like millions of others with their three children.

“He suggested she watch from a remote location,” the source added. The insider said that Brady’s ban on Bündchen is because of her bad behavior on game day in the past. In 2012, Tom was mortified when Gisele was caught on camera dissing his team after they lost to the New York Giants, saying her “husband cannot f***ing throw the ball and catch the ball.”

“Tom knows all of Boston, not to mention that his teammates, were stunned by Gisele’s poor sportsmanship after the Super Bowl slipped away from them,” the OK! source said. Plus, the insider added, Gisele has not been welcome to watch regular season games in the players’ family box because she “doesn’t get along with most of the other women.”

And now that one controversy hangs over the Pats as they enter the Super Bowl (the Deflategate scandal, alleging the team deflated footballs during the Jan. 18 AFC Championship Game), Tom does not want anything else to go wrong.

[From OK! Magazine]

I’m kind of torn. I would imagine Tom is too. Like, I do believe that he loves his wife and he loves how she passionately supports him, but he’s probably also aware of the fact that Gisele alienates a lot of people, including his teammates and their wives. In any case, Gisele is coming to Arizona, I have no doubt.

Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.

wenn21325022
wenn21546245
wenn21546252

Thanks to Cele Bitchy

Categories
Ad Album Albums art celebrities Controversy Court Crazy Eminem Fight figure Gay H&M image Lana del Lana Del Rey Law LOL Nicki Minaj NSFW OWN photos quote rap red size slim son style sur thin Video YouTube

Eminem raps about ‘punching Lana Del Rey in the face like Ray Rice’

Eminem

Last Friday, I predicted that Eminem’s rare public appearance for Dre would be the last time we saw him until he promoted a new project. Well, I was right. I just didn’t expect him to promote something so soon. I certainly didn’t expect him to start stunt queening like Nicki Minaj right out of the gate. That’s exactly what Eminem is doing.

Em’s Shady XV is on the horizon. He released a new video, which is actually a 6-minute freestyle rap, “CXVPHER,” with other artists like Yelawolf and Slaughterhouse. Eminem’s part of the rap comes in at the end, so he can prove his “Rap God” credentials and wipe the other dudes off the map. It goes without saying that many of the lyrics are NSFW, and you can see the whole video on Vevo. Here is the part that everyone is upset about:

“But I may fight for gay rights, especially if they d**e is more of a knockout than Janay Rice/Play nice? Bitch I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice in broad daylight in the plain sight of the elevator surveillance/’Til her head is banging on the railing, then celebrate with the Ravens.

[From Eminem on Vevo]

*Sigh* He had to go there, didn’t he? Look … I know these sort of lyrics from Em are nothing new. In more than one song, he rapped about Pamela and Tommy Lee and their cycle of domestic violence. He criticized and satirized their relationship through the Slim Shady persona. He riffs on public figures like crazy. That’s what he does.

At the same time, I thought Eminem had grown past this routine. Yes, I know he’ll assign these lyrics to Slim Shady, but this act is getting old. Em’s last few albums have shown an incredible amount of maturity. Now? Dude is 42 years old, and he’s still plucking low-hanging fruit and milking it for controversy. One could make a case for Em simply riffing off Lana Del Rey’s own morbid Ultraviolence lyrics which include, “He hit me, and it felt like a kiss.” But he had to drag Ray and Janay Rice into it.

Eminem

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

FFN_Lollopalooza_Day1_BRY_080414_51494881
wenn5701449
wenn20563612
wenn20594102

Source Cele Bitchy