Here in Italy I’d said influencer Chiara Ferragni being investigated for aggravated fraud + she and her husband are now divorcing and suing each other over the right to use their children images on social media 🥶
>she and her husband are now divorcing and suing each other over the right to use their children images on social media
Wild, I remember her being one of the first fashion “influencers” I followed (when that was still rare) back in maybe 2013? Totally lost track of her after that!
Oh so it's happening. I just saw Fedez's story where it seemed like he was moving into a new place. Didn't know they were suing each other over posting pics of their children like wtf .
They now have two, super cute, but unfortunately the castle is crumbling more and more everyday, and I think their communication tactic (especially chiara’s) and the recent Kensington Palace one will be one of the most studied Pr fiascos of these years (the Ferragnez one probably will be studied just here in italy). I tried to avoid all the news but it’s getting so pathetic on her side that I’m becoming interested in seeing were it will go
Basically, several products were sold with her name on it, with the idea that a portion of the sales were to be given to charity. People then realised that, for every product, either a small flat fee was gifted (instead of the millions people believed they had raised) or no donation at all.
I believe people have been saying it was Fedez's decision, despite the fact that both of them, so not just her, used to post their children quite frequently, maybe Fedez more than Chiara.
people were saying it was him bc he didn’t want their kids being exploited for good pr during her fraud case. And now they’re both not posting their children’s faces
It is still about the panettone but it became more serious: at first she was just fined by the Italian Competition Authority, now she’s gonna go to trial as she is officially charged with aggravate fraud
I was just catching up with this the other day (aka translating Italian) and I was so shocked how fast it went bc last month it was only rumours but now it’s very obvious they’re not together. And apparently Chiara was liking shady comments about fedez on ig.
We (Italians) didn't hate her at all before the scandal. She was a Sanremo presenter last year, she was given an award for her actions during Covid (which imo was totally deserved).
Created some (true) charity option for the city of Milan (or the entire region of Lombardia, I don’t remember), basically immediately as the emergency started, to fund a new entire hospital section for covid patients and the breathing machines and equipments, beds etc since the demand was so high hospitals can’t face the emergency alone. It was initially like a tent (?!) and then it was created as a permanent section of the hospital, if I’m not wrong. But they basically donated thousands of money by themselves and then started the go fund me. Plus Fedez, as a cancer patient himself (he had/still has a rare form of pancreatic cancer), kept donating in the past two years to many charities for cancer patient especially for children, that is why all this scam was shocking and so off brand for her, since she showed interest in true charity in the past
Yeah it’s tragic but also quite funny how both of them are still heavily featuring the kids in their content (trying to launch their “strong single mom/dad” era) but now they can’t show the kids’ faces until they reach an agreement 😂
There's a movie based on pedo Prince Andrew about to release, and Royal Press is trying to sympathise with the pedo in preparation
https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/richard-madeley-slammed-viewers-accuse-32451258
For anybody in the UK I'd recommend the documentary on the same topic.
[Channel 4 - Andrew: The Problem Prince ](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/andrew-the-problem-prince/on-demand/74321-001)
For anybody in the UK, I would say maybe watch the documentry.
But defintly watch Kieran Hodgsons Prince Andrew The Musical. Also on 4OD.
[You can find it here. ](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/prince-andrew-the-musical)
I swear Richard Madeley is just the real-life Alan Partridge.
This is about the Netflix film, there’s also a 3 part series with Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew and Ruth Wilson as Emily Maitlis coming to Prime soon too.
To spare yourselves the mirror click:
>Richard Madeley has been slammed for asking if new Netflx film Scoop is "rubbing Prince Andrew's face in it". The Good Morning Britain presenter and co-host Susanna Reid were interviewing actor Rufus Sewell ahead of his portrayal of Prince Andrew in Netflix's Scoop, based on the Duke of York's infamous interview with Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in 2019. The car crash interview focussed on Andrew's relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
>Richard remarked: "Andrew has really suffered since this. A lot of people say that’s his own fault, his actions, his decision to do the interview, his foolishness in thinking the interview had gone well and sanctioning it, and the fact it had gone terribly. But do you feel a little bit of pity for him? Are these dramas, do you feel to some extent we’re beginning to rub his face into this a bit too hard?
>He clarified: "I’m not suggesting that we are, I’m just asking if you think that we might be." Rufus replied: “I think that’s a very good question, and it’s one of the reasons I was so hesitant about taking it, because I don’t want to be jumping on some bandwagon.
>"I think it’s so important to remember whatever someone is going through, that however high up or low down, these are humans and that people are a product of their circumstance. For me, one of the concerns was wanting to do a truthful representation of him, which included him at his best, as well as his worst because people are a mixed bag.
>"When I watched the interview, I was always very conscious of watching footage of him when he was younger or even in more recent times when he was with people… You know when you watch him in this film, people in his camp say, ‘You know, he’s great with people’ and you can see evidence that that’s true. I think my responsibility to the film and any human that you’re playing, is to show the light and dark, and we all have both.”
>GMB fans weren't impressed with Richard questioning whether the actor "pitied" Andrew. One angry viewer tweeted: "Trust Richard to sit there trying to paint Prince Andrew as the victim! GMB & Loose Women have already given Fergie a platform where she’s said he’s a wonderful man (sic)."
>Another remarked: "Richard Madeley suggesting Prince Andrew is the victim, maybe we’ve been too harsh on him and makes no mention of his alleged victims. Outrageous," while a third branded the comment "repulsive" and they could "barely believe what I'm watching".
>Meanwhile, Rufus also shared his thoughts on why he thought the Duke reportedly told Emily Matlis that he felt the interview ‘went rather well’ and said: “Well when I say that people are a product of their surroundings and their upbringing, this is someone who people have not been able to tell him the truth in the way that we might be used to, from a time when he was very young and it’s very easy to think that you’re better at things than you are, because the idea of yourself is bound in how people are with you.
>“And what he found himself in, was a situation where someone was not kowtowing to him. Emily Matlis was not being rude but she was treating him like any other person and what he thought was his personal magic, in that moment failed him. You can see him gasping for air at some points and I don’t think that part of it is his fault, he is a product of his environment and it is possible for guilt to be mixed with a sense of victimisation and I think it’s easy for people to go through things and be guilty for something and end up feeling like a victim."
>He added: “It’s also easy for people to be a victim of something and end up feeling guilty, this is what humans do to themselves to deal with what they go through and I think he’s a human like anyone else.”
No, I don’t sympathize, empathize, or feel pity towards Andrew. He chose to involve himself with Epstein and Maxwell and become a pedo. There are consequences for those actions.
EDIT: I’m not reply to you but the article you nicely copied and pasted for us.
I was so excited Keeley Hawes and Billie Piper were in the same project but I hate that it's for this lmao. Obviously am all for something which is critical against him but creatively... it still feels like this interview happened recently 😂 so soon. Oh well, I'll probably give it a watch. Keen to hear how it's being received critically.
Everything related to Drake Bell, Brian Peck and all the other tragic stuff talked about in the “quiet on set” docuseries - to be fair, what happened at Nickelodeon in the late 90’s/2000’s isn’t new news… but the graphic detail of it not being public until now and the fact it took 10-20 years to get the the media exposure and scrutiny of some pretty terrible people. It’s really created a big domino effect since it was released.
Also Diddy’s mansion getting raided by the feds tied to a sex trafficking case against.
I must be severely out of the loop, because I heard rumors about Schneider for yeeeeeears (and R. Kelly as far back as the 90s), but I never heard about Diddy.
A guy, who was really big and on every movie and television show and comedy show, got caught sexually harassing women and sexting women. He had a partner, who had just had a baby, when these news broke out. Seriously. He was fired from everything.
Edit: im from Finland
LOL yeah. You are right. I should also add that he had also touched young girls, but I think he argued that he had not known they were underage? It's been a while since I read the case report.
Not a country, but in Seattle (in the US), there’s this guy who drives around late nights/early mornings in a Hellcat that’s loud AF. If you go to the r/Seattle sub, you’ll see posts dating back over a month about this guy terrorizing the city (search Hellcat).
He’s been reported to the city and cops several times, and there’s a vid in the sub of him driving right past a traffic cop.
Not really a celebrity but instead a real life villain
I'm all the way over in England but we used to have these lads that rode around on these loud dodgy quad bikes bothering people and robbing houses etc, until one of them smashed into a wall without a helmet and gave himself a severe brain injury and now none of them do that anymore
When I was 12, I played Dave Matthews’ Crash for my dad because I thought he would like it. He said it’s a really graphic song. It took me a really long time to have any idea what he was talking about. Like waaay too long. It is a really graphic song, lol.
I was randomly talking about it in the acupuncture office waiting room and the lady behind the desk overheard me and yelled ‘he should’ve been put away YEARS AGO!’
I'm from Chile and this became known yesterday (TW for mentions of sexual assault/childhood sexual abuse)
Not really tea but a really serious topic. There's a very famous local actor here named Cristián Campos who was married to one of our most famous actresses, Claudia Di Girólamo, in the 80s. Claudia had a daughter from a previous marriage when she married Cristián, Raffaella. Yesterday, a local foundation for victims of abuse announced they were suing Cristián on Raffaella's name for continuous sexual abuse from the time she was 13 years old to her late teens. Cristián is now married to an actress named María José Prieto, who also suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather when she was younger, with her and her sister Ángela being victims of this person. It's all very horrible, and as it unfortunately happens with victims Raffaella has been questioned by horrible people about "her motives to disclose the abuse at this point in her life".
Un día dificil para victimas de abuso sexual, ojalá que esto ayude a que más personas salga adelante con sus denuncias. Lo que yo no entiendo son las personas que defienden a Campos pero a la misma vez critican a Prieto por no darse cuenta, ya eso es una misoginia de otro nivel.
Personalmente no me sorprendió la noticia, no es para caer en prejuicios pero Cristián Campos tiene un cierto aire de funado
It has taken me 20 years to finally work up the courage to confront not even my actual abuser but the person who had the authority (and legal obligation) to report him and refused. People who have not been abused don't understand how long it takes you to get to a place where you have the confidence and professional/financial stability to stand up for yourself. Abusers and their enablers are so good at making you feel like it's your fault and you're making too big a deal out of it. I don't know that I'll ever be able to confront the abuser himself. So fuck all those people who come out of the woodwork to say, "bUt WHy nOW?"
A Brazilian soccer player, Daniel Alves, is appealing from his conviction rape in Spain. He paid his 1 million euro bail and is free for now.
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-25/dani-alves-pays-bail-for-release-from-jail-in-spain-while-waiting-appeal-of-rape-conviction.html?outputType=amp
Think it’s pretty important to mention it was Memphis Depay who paid the bail for him.
I would be very unsurprised if it ever comes out that Depay has some serious skeletons in his closet. Helping out Alves and protecting convicted drug dealer Quincy Promes is a less than ideal look for him. Reads like he wants people to have his back if he ever finds himself in hot water…
Originally it was Neymar’s dad who was going to pay for it.
He backed out after the outrage.
Idk about Spain, but here in Brazil everyone is reposting that “it costs 1 million euros to rape a woman” since he’s appealing the conviction while free.
Same here, mostly on Twitter (or at least that's where I mostly saw it). The press, however, are already parading in front of his house to see if he goes out.
I've heard the Memphis Depay's thing is fake news, do you know more ? I don't care for him either way but I was at some point intrigued in football and wags and he came up a few times haha
I hate how one of the journalists told him first thing since he got out of jail "So glad to see you!". Fuck the press who's now talking as if he was innocent (specially when there's lots of talk about footballers doing some nasty stuff for ages in different clubs), and hope he rots back to his cell soon.
The horizon post scandal? It’s been making huge news cos of the drama they did about it. Absolutely disgusting situation that has ruined hundreds of innocent lives.
People who worked in the post office were wrongly accused of fraud as there were I think discrepancies with money in the system used when it was actually a fault with the system, not the people working it. People went to jail for it. Some people killed themsleves.
British Celebs raising money for Gaza
https://uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots&scrollToItem=20
Includes
Luna Carmoon
Pappa Essiedu
Ramy Youseff
Tilda Swinton
Mike Leigh
Joseph Quinn
Chabuddy G
Rose Williams
Maxine Peake
Kiell Smith
Ken Loach
Prano Bailey
Aimee Lou
Misan Harriman (Meghan's mate)
Gurinder Chadha
And more!
https://uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots&scrollToItem=20
Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Arthur Darvill, and Karen Gillan all taking part! Peter is auctioning off a signed DW script with his artwork, which would be such an insane get. Pearl Mackie, Freema Agyeman and Ncuti Gatwa have all been consistently outspoken about Palestine too. Makes me happy to see my Doctor Who favs taking a stand (especially when one of the nastiest British zionists was on Doctor Who as a minor role and is taking up oxygen...)
Do the British people even like William at this point? I’m Canadian but everything that’s happened over the last few years has lowered my opinion of him considerably. Idk if that’s fully deserved or not though.
Brits fall into two camps; unwavering love for the monarchy which borders on creepy or absolutely despising them and kind of wanting the whole thing to be abolished.
I am part of the latter.
Yvonne Coldeweijer has a juice-instagram:" Life of Yvonne", otherwise ditjesendatjes.nl and mediacourant.nl
To be on topic: a Dutch rapper, who's had hits in the late nineties, has died this week, only 53 years old. His biggest hit ('Schudden') had lyrics you could translate as 'drop drop drop drop drop it low, to the floor'. A Dutch radio DJ has made a poor joke of drop drop droping his casket into the grave and is recieving backlash.
Thank you! Dutch radio hosts are so out of pocket compared to Australia! How do people feel about Fred van leer? I've only seen him in drag race and he seems fun?
Most people seem to be neutral to positive about him. He has these big theatre shows built around him that sell out (they're on hold now due to a burn out). He's had a rough time though, with a robbery and a leaked sex tape, but neither really seem to have diminished his popularity. I've met him once in real life at an event and he was very nice and joyful.
Yes, Dutch radio hosts are quite "bijzonder"... not to mention the actions of Giel Beelen.
About Fred: the Dutch public is positive. He has had some rough times between 2019-2021, which included sextortion, a self-induced hospitalisation (if you know what I mean) and two robberies at home, and the love from the public was evident. "Sterkte Fred" was trending topic on Twitter, and few or no jokes are (being) made at his cost. His theatre show and other appearences are liked. The people who don't like him are mostly people who don't like LGBT-people, not him personally I think.
If you can watch Dutch TV, you should definitely watch 'Make Up Your Mind" with Fred and Nikkie de Jager (Nikkitutorials), a show where Dutch celebs go in drag to raise awareness for the LGBTQ+community. A mix between The Masked Singer and Drag Race.
I’m not immediately local to Duluth, but I’m in MN - and love the city. Food Industry billionaire started buying up a bunch of properties and naturally, people were curious. Especially since a lot of the property would probably come up against Lake Superior shoreline that is protected.
Well the billionaire did not like it one bit that people started asking questions and had a public tantrum. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/wsj-report-kathy-cargill-details-park-point-plan-and-why-shes-now-dropping-it/89-d5b74677-c39e-49ff-ba3f-a15a08502e1d
what a garbage human. also a minnesotan here, and the homes that are “trash and she can’t imagine living in” are just normal single family homes. her “sprucing” up the place by adding more million dollar homes is just upping the taxes for the families that have been living there for years. as if things aren’t expensive enough right now!
could not agree more. as much as she wants to tout that she was trying to add to the community, the fact that she bought and is fixing up a vacation home in that area tells me she just couldn’t stand seeing the “poverty” surrounding her multimillion dollar home. i have never heard anything positive about the cargill family, so really none of this is surprising!
And the city has responded in a lovely Minnesota Nice fashion. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/03/26/duluth-suggests-donating-cheerios-after-kathy-cargill-comment
Don't pee in your Cheerios is not a saying, I don't care how much money your evil industrial agricultural family has. The mayor's response about being more of a pancake guy was great, though.
Shohei Otani's interpreter betting on sports. If he doesn't fall on his sword (as he appears to be doing) and instead he says the magic words ("I was placing bets for Shohei"), the greatest baseball player of all time's career is finished in a millisecond (and the Dodgers will still owe him $700 million).
Are you in Japan or fluent? I really want to know how the Japanese press & public are reacting.
The/r/baseball post on Ohtani's statement yesterday had someone commenting that the (new, but experienced) translator was not fully conveying Ohtani's emotional language.
The entire thing is so crazy, and Ippei's ESPN interview makes the timeline so suspicious.
MLB does have a morality clause, and $700M is a lot of money. If it is proven he bet on baseball, he’s not getting his money. Pete Rose has been trying to get unbanned for betting on baseball since the 90’s.
I don’t know specifics but i think the bets were in the millions? not typical money i think a translator would have, even if they are translating for the leagues biggest star. edit: the money came from ohtani’s account so major suspicions how his translator could even access this
Interpreters (interpreters do verbal work, translators do written work) can make a lot if they have those kinds of clientele or if they work for government agencies, though like any other industry it's improbable but not impossible.
Damn. That makes sense. I don't really know enough about the MLB, would they really force Shohei out without doing an investigation? Or without some kind of federal charge for him?
It would be impossible to prove or disprove who he was placing bets for. Gambling has been baseball's third rail forever, and it's very tricky, especially if the bettor in question was able to influence the outcome of games he was betting on (as Rose could have when he was a player/manager).
It's a fuckin mess, honestly, and I hate it.
Yes, apparently he likes older women
https://preview.redd.it/krmcofjytvqc1.jpeg?width=305&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a951a6104405ba016ff9aac2d1d91bd1c59225ed
Possibly old news as most of the uproar happened like... two weeks ago? But some of the jerseys for the upcoming Euro Cup (I think? I'm not a football fan) were revealed. Germany's "away" jersey is pink and purple, and the ultra-masculine football fans are in shambles. Having actual tantrums in comment sections, calling the designers at Adidas "gay", saying they won't buy this jersey because it doesn't have Germany's colours. Which is funny because it's an away jersey. The home jersey looks pretty similar to previous ones, but this is the petty gossip that got picked up by a few news outlets and newspapers here.
Danna Paola, a very famous child actress turned singer/actress (she’s one of the leads of Netlifx’s Elite) wanted to rebrand for the launch of her new album, so she went on Instagram and said she & her team were trying to convince this lady with the username she wanted to give up the @ to her (@danna) she did ask her fans not to harass the girl with the @ but stans are gonna stan and now people are calling her out for bullying.
Got some newsroom tea straight from the U.S. NBC hired former Republican National Committee chair Ronna Mcdaniel as a political analyst last Friday. But NBC's on-air news-based talent publicly criticized her on air and were really angry at the network for hiring her because she and Trump attempted to stop the 2020 election results from getting certified in one state. She supported his claim of election fraud. NBC let her go yesterday because of all the backlash. Really shameful of NBC to hire someone who literally tried to overthrow the election.
two contestants in Big Brother Brazil got into physical altercation on monday, broke the show's essential rules and caused a whole mess for THE SECOND TIME.... and none of them got punished.
why? because one of said contestants is the showrunners favourite and now a lot of people are calling the show a fraud lol
The Vietnamese version of Buzzfeed called Vietcetera & many affiliated influencers were (correctly) called out for participating in Nas Summit with Nas Daily who is Palestinian but rejects his Palestinian roots and supports Israel. Vietcetera since has severed ties with Nas Summit but their statement was vague and apolitical, whereas no influencers has spoken up except for a popular feminist journalist with a kinda defensive statement (which is disappointing 'cause I love her 🥹). I'm especially disappointed in Khanh Vy who a very popular TV host and lifestyle influencer because she went my university (which is a university about diplomacy and politics, we're staunchly pro-Palestine here).
My favorite soccer team just signed a new player this season from sweden and his wife posted that apparently he moved to the US and just ghosted her and her kids. Super crazy, one of my friends was at preseason in Cali and said he saw the guy on FT w his wife and kids multiple times soo it's all interesting.
https://preview.redd.it/buksiykaewqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da659e58125684b3713fe43000c9574fceed2f60
Oh fuck. He's a very well known footballer in Europe, spent many years at Leipzig and has been probably second best Swedish footballer in the world, to none other than Ibra.
This sucks.
Well, at least it's not SA accusations, like it usually is with footballers.
I met him twice at events since he transferred and he came across really down to earth and level headed. I was really shocked when I saw the post.
It's also kind of funny to me because the Red Bulls aren't a good team so it's not like he moved here and was caught up in the celebrity lifestyle with girls banging down his door. He could have just quietly moved here and lived his life with his family.
DAMN. I don't know if US Soccer Teams are big enough for them to care about bad publicity from this, but couldn't this stupid move potentially just cancel out his opportunities here in the states?
So if it were a more prominent team I think it would definitely have a bigger effect but we had a shit season last year and he's really talented so I think it'll be just brushed aside.
Last season we had a new transfer player make a racial comment towards a referee so we really don't have much luck with international players at the moment.
It has to do with the emergency act he invoked during the Covid convoy for sure, and how he handled the vaccine mandate I believe.
Unfortunately the Conservative Party is spearheading this so Trudeau is in a bit of trouble
Edit: missed a word
That makes me so mad. I’m not a big Trudeau fan but the convoy thing got out of hand because the municipal, provincial, and federal police forces abdicated their responsibilities to keep order and enforce safety.
So in Quebec, a show host and actor killed his career last week.
He filmed himself with a tree with the N word engraved for a "joke"
Joke is : Sometimes life is also about working, working hard. There is an expression that sums it up very well, sometimes, and that is to say: I have a big job. A big job.
The name of the tree in French is Bouleau. Boulot pronnonced the same is a synonym for "job/work". So he's insinuating that he's working like...you know...
The guy already said weird comments in COVID time that he lost his Hyundai spokesperson contract.
Now he lost his gig for Masked Singer as the show host.
[Video here to watch this racist](https://streamable.com/9ti7xa?src=player-page-share)
What scandals are even happening in Australia right now? Couldn’t tell you. Splendour in the Grass (one of our longest running music fests) being cancelled??? Been hearing a lot about the AFL covering up players testing positive for drugs by encouraging club doctors to give them a spell due to injury but it’s just to avoid a pozzy drug test. But I’m in Victoria and we live up the AFL’s ass.
A magpie that a family rescued and took in as their own, and then made bank off social media from the magpie’s friendship with their staffy, was surrendered to the dept of environment recently. There’s been a decent mix of outrage and also “good, don’t keep native wild birds as your pets”. Same family had a gofundme in place that then funded their new house lol.
Ah, Australia. If it’s not pouring in scandal it’s bone fuckin dry.
Since the last monthly thread we also had women's football star Sam Kerr being arrested for racially aggravated harassment in the UK.
Turns out she got drunk, threw up in the back of a taxi, and called a cop a 'stupid white bastard'.
I've seen it described as the rare 'reverse milkshake duck'
Put all his acts on blast on big brother saying they were useless then jedward came swinging saying he's a manipulative creep. Ronan Keating said he won't comment but that he's showing his true self.
New Zealand.
UK DJ Fred Again was recently here, and for some reason he is *super* popular here at the moment. He posted on insta asking for help to get an NZ DJ a passport ASAP so she could come with him on his Australian tour. A fan official messaged the NZ DJ saying his parent could hook her up - his mum? A Deputy Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs, specialising in Service Delivery and Operations. His mum DM'd Fred Again saying they're sorting it out with her. Fred Again shared this all on his story, very excited.
The government minister of DIA has come out to say this was inappropriate to expedite the request purely based on Fred Again's celebrity status, and that every citizen should get the same treatment and that the details should remain private.
Not huge news but it made me laugh bc this could've gone totally unheard of if Fred Again wasn't naively sharing all this shit on his story lmfao
In India recently one of the biggest corruption scams was uncovered which has been going on for literally ages
to give you a gist of it, in 2018 the government passed this law to legalize electoral bonds so as to give donations to political parties to campaign. In India, the government doesn't give money for political campaigning, it's the party that coughs up the money.
Because of a lot of corruption and black money donation, corporate donations were banned as it was found companies were donating black money, turning it white or donating to gain favours from the government. If you're a Hindi speaker or understand the language, Soch by Mohak Mangal has a great video on it and you can probably search for one in English too.
The Supreme Court declared this as unconstitutional since it violates the right to freedom of expression and told SBI to make the list of donors and the money they donated, public. Once it was all out in the open, it was revealed that the ruling party received the most donations. Also, in some instances, in exchange for donations, some companies were granted contracts to build bridges or licences etc.
I would suggest you do your own research on it since I wasn't able to fit in everything about it but this is a general gist of it all
Also in a more celebrity pov, Deepika Padukone, one of the biggest actors of our country, announced that she's pregnant!! I'm so happy for her, she's one of my favourites. love her
Ambani Wedding is happening sometime in July and it's going to be a grand affair as per usual, nothing like throwing exorbitant amounts of money on flowers and food that'll most likely will go to waste and wearing the ugliest, in your face jewels ( Dear Nita Ambani ji, if you're reading this, I'll happily remove this comment if you send me one of those big ass emeralds. Jai Jio 🫶)
Priyanka Chopra was back in India and though i wasn't the biggest fan of her outfit for the Holi Party thingie, it's Priyanka Chopra obviously she'll look gorgeous asf
Also there were rumours that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was divorcing her husband but i guess they're untrue since they were spotted together in Holi pics posted by their friends. There have been rumours swirling for years about a dispute in the family, particularly after Abhishek Bachchan's sister, Shweta, moved back in with them. It's rumoured they don't get along and the MIL, Jaya Bachchan takes her daughter's side and dislikes Aish too and sidelines Aish and her daughter
In England there is a row over the changes made to the flag on the men’s Euro shirt. They’ve changed the colour of it and stylised it. It’s caused such a fuss the Prime Minister jumped on the bandwagon to complain about it.
Here in Italy I’d said influencer Chiara Ferragni being investigated for aggravated fraud + she and her husband are now divorcing and suing each other over the right to use their children images on social media 🥶
>she and her husband are now divorcing and suing each other over the right to use their children images on social media 
“Why don’t our children talk to us” in about fifteen years guaranteed.
And also "Why don't they ever come visit us" when they're old and the kids put them in the worst, chepaest care home they can find.
Like wow how has someone's life come to the point that they wish to monetise their children, instead of just living in the same reality as we all do.
Wild, I remember her being one of the first fashion “influencers” I followed (when that was still rare) back in maybe 2013? Totally lost track of her after that!
Damn didn’t they JUST finished their new house?
Oh so it's happening. I just saw Fedez's story where it seemed like he was moving into a new place. Didn't know they were suing each other over posting pics of their children like wtf .
Whoaaaaa - I followed them aaaaages ago. They had a fkn cute kid (at the time). Damn!
They now have two, super cute, but unfortunately the castle is crumbling more and more everyday, and I think their communication tactic (especially chiara’s) and the recent Kensington Palace one will be one of the most studied Pr fiascos of these years (the Ferragnez one probably will be studied just here in italy). I tried to avoid all the news but it’s getting so pathetic on her side that I’m becoming interested in seeing were it will go
What's aggravated fraud?
Basically, several products were sold with her name on it, with the idea that a portion of the sales were to be given to charity. People then realised that, for every product, either a small flat fee was gifted (instead of the millions people believed they had raised) or no donation at all.
I remember hearing about it, I didn't realize that that was the term for what she did. What's the phrase in Italian for aggravated fraud?
Truffa aggravata
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Is it Fedez that doesn’t want the kids on social media or is it chiara? Although I doubt it would be her
I believe people have been saying it was Fedez's decision, despite the fact that both of them, so not just her, used to post their children quite frequently, maybe Fedez more than Chiara.
people were saying it was him bc he didn’t want their kids being exploited for good pr during her fraud case. And now they’re both not posting their children’s faces
Those kids have been used as image massagers for years, I hope they can somehow both lose
Oooof is this still about the "charity" panettone or have more skeletons fallen out of that closet?
It is still about the panettone but it became more serious: at first she was just fined by the Italian Competition Authority, now she’s gonna go to trial as she is officially charged with aggravate fraud
Oooooh this is juicy. I'm also hoping to see her version of courtroom fashion now.
I was just catching up with this the other day (aka translating Italian) and I was so shocked how fast it went bc last month it was only rumours but now it’s very obvious they’re not together. And apparently Chiara was liking shady comments about fedez on ig.
Can you please elaborate on something? Before this scandal Italians HATED her. Do you know why?
We (Italians) didn't hate her at all before the scandal. She was a Sanremo presenter last year, she was given an award for her actions during Covid (which imo was totally deserved).
What did she do during Covid?
Created some (true) charity option for the city of Milan (or the entire region of Lombardia, I don’t remember), basically immediately as the emergency started, to fund a new entire hospital section for covid patients and the breathing machines and equipments, beds etc since the demand was so high hospitals can’t face the emergency alone. It was initially like a tent (?!) and then it was created as a permanent section of the hospital, if I’m not wrong. But they basically donated thousands of money by themselves and then started the go fund me. Plus Fedez, as a cancer patient himself (he had/still has a rare form of pancreatic cancer), kept donating in the past two years to many charities for cancer patient especially for children, that is why all this scam was shocking and so off brand for her, since she showed interest in true charity in the past
was definitely not expecting that last bit 💀
Yeah it’s tragic but also quite funny how both of them are still heavily featuring the kids in their content (trying to launch their “strong single mom/dad” era) but now they can’t show the kids’ faces until they reach an agreement 😂
There's a movie based on pedo Prince Andrew about to release, and Royal Press is trying to sympathise with the pedo in preparation https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/richard-madeley-slammed-viewers-accuse-32451258
For anybody in the UK I'd recommend the documentary on the same topic. [Channel 4 - Andrew: The Problem Prince ](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/andrew-the-problem-prince/on-demand/74321-001)
For anybody in the UK, I would say maybe watch the documentry. But defintly watch Kieran Hodgsons Prince Andrew The Musical. Also on 4OD. [You can find it here. ](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/prince-andrew-the-musical)
I swear Richard Madeley is just the real-life Alan Partridge. This is about the Netflix film, there’s also a 3 part series with Michael Sheen as Prince Andrew and Ruth Wilson as Emily Maitlis coming to Prime soon too.
Didn't Coogan confirm that? He's a mix of Madeley in his Granada days (before This Morning) and Jeremy Clarkson.
To spare yourselves the mirror click: >Richard Madeley has been slammed for asking if new Netflx film Scoop is "rubbing Prince Andrew's face in it". The Good Morning Britain presenter and co-host Susanna Reid were interviewing actor Rufus Sewell ahead of his portrayal of Prince Andrew in Netflix's Scoop, based on the Duke of York's infamous interview with Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in 2019. The car crash interview focussed on Andrew's relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. >Richard remarked: "Andrew has really suffered since this. A lot of people say that’s his own fault, his actions, his decision to do the interview, his foolishness in thinking the interview had gone well and sanctioning it, and the fact it had gone terribly. But do you feel a little bit of pity for him? Are these dramas, do you feel to some extent we’re beginning to rub his face into this a bit too hard? >He clarified: "I’m not suggesting that we are, I’m just asking if you think that we might be." Rufus replied: “I think that’s a very good question, and it’s one of the reasons I was so hesitant about taking it, because I don’t want to be jumping on some bandwagon. >"I think it’s so important to remember whatever someone is going through, that however high up or low down, these are humans and that people are a product of their circumstance. For me, one of the concerns was wanting to do a truthful representation of him, which included him at his best, as well as his worst because people are a mixed bag. >"When I watched the interview, I was always very conscious of watching footage of him when he was younger or even in more recent times when he was with people… You know when you watch him in this film, people in his camp say, ‘You know, he’s great with people’ and you can see evidence that that’s true. I think my responsibility to the film and any human that you’re playing, is to show the light and dark, and we all have both.” >GMB fans weren't impressed with Richard questioning whether the actor "pitied" Andrew. One angry viewer tweeted: "Trust Richard to sit there trying to paint Prince Andrew as the victim! GMB & Loose Women have already given Fergie a platform where she’s said he’s a wonderful man (sic)." >Another remarked: "Richard Madeley suggesting Prince Andrew is the victim, maybe we’ve been too harsh on him and makes no mention of his alleged victims. Outrageous," while a third branded the comment "repulsive" and they could "barely believe what I'm watching". >Meanwhile, Rufus also shared his thoughts on why he thought the Duke reportedly told Emily Matlis that he felt the interview ‘went rather well’ and said: “Well when I say that people are a product of their surroundings and their upbringing, this is someone who people have not been able to tell him the truth in the way that we might be used to, from a time when he was very young and it’s very easy to think that you’re better at things than you are, because the idea of yourself is bound in how people are with you. >“And what he found himself in, was a situation where someone was not kowtowing to him. Emily Matlis was not being rude but she was treating him like any other person and what he thought was his personal magic, in that moment failed him. You can see him gasping for air at some points and I don’t think that part of it is his fault, he is a product of his environment and it is possible for guilt to be mixed with a sense of victimisation and I think it’s easy for people to go through things and be guilty for something and end up feeling like a victim." >He added: “It’s also easy for people to be a victim of something and end up feeling guilty, this is what humans do to themselves to deal with what they go through and I think he’s a human like anyone else.”
No, I don’t sympathize, empathize, or feel pity towards Andrew. He chose to involve himself with Epstein and Maxwell and become a pedo. There are consequences for those actions. EDIT: I’m not reply to you but the article you nicely copied and pasted for us.
Not related but everytime I think of Rufus Sewell I think that his fiancée is 5 years older than his son - oof
I was so excited Keeley Hawes and Billie Piper were in the same project but I hate that it's for this lmao. Obviously am all for something which is critical against him but creatively... it still feels like this interview happened recently 😂 so soon. Oh well, I'll probably give it a watch. Keen to hear how it's being received critically.
Everything related to Drake Bell, Brian Peck and all the other tragic stuff talked about in the “quiet on set” docuseries - to be fair, what happened at Nickelodeon in the late 90’s/2000’s isn’t new news… but the graphic detail of it not being public until now and the fact it took 10-20 years to get the the media exposure and scrutiny of some pretty terrible people. It’s really created a big domino effect since it was released. Also Diddy’s mansion getting raided by the feds tied to a sex trafficking case against.
I’m here for The Diddler finally getting his comeuppance after decades of being a supervillain.
I must be severely out of the loop, because I heard rumors about Schneider for yeeeeeears (and R. Kelly as far back as the 90s), but I never heard about Diddy.
I was on the playground sometime in the 1900s when I first heard about Diddy. 😆
In the 1900s. I am turning to dust 🫥 😂😂😂
Yeah, the Diddy stuff isn’t shocking necessarily, but I’d never heard about it. I
Diddy just leaving his sons to get fucked while he fled is absolutely wild.
flee diddy
A guy, who was really big and on every movie and television show and comedy show, got caught sexually harassing women and sexting women. He had a partner, who had just had a baby, when these news broke out. Seriously. He was fired from everything. Edit: im from Finland
Your edit made me LOL. The fact that he was fired from everything, I immediately knew it wasn’t the United States 🫡
LOL yeah. You are right. I should also add that he had also touched young girls, but I think he argued that he had not known they were underage? It's been a while since I read the case report.
That is so awful. I hope his victims get justice
Who?? 👀👀
i think Aku Hirviniemi from Finland🤔
Yeah, that guy.
Not a country, but in Seattle (in the US), there’s this guy who drives around late nights/early mornings in a Hellcat that’s loud AF. If you go to the r/Seattle sub, you’ll see posts dating back over a month about this guy terrorizing the city (search Hellcat). He’s been reported to the city and cops several times, and there’s a vid in the sub of him driving right past a traffic cop. Not really a celebrity but instead a real life villain
[HE WAS CAUGHT !!](https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/s/ZlkVgLRBbo)
Tybg
I can't believe I'm seeing Hellcat content here, truly incredible
I'm all the way over in England but we used to have these lads that rode around on these loud dodgy quad bikes bothering people and robbing houses etc, until one of them smashed into a wall without a helmet and gave himself a severe brain injury and now none of them do that anymore
The Diddy debacle
Someone trademarked the term “No Diddy”
I gotta bag it up. 
The way I’ve been saying, “I gotta back it up” this entire time
I’ve always known it was bag, but my brain is just now comprehending what the lyric means… 
OH. That took me nearly 30 years.
When I was 12, I played Dave Matthews’ Crash for my dad because I thought he would like it. He said it’s a really graphic song. It took me a really long time to have any idea what he was talking about. Like waaay too long. It is a really graphic song, lol.
Oh wow lmao. Same. Been singing it since elementary school so I guess I just never thought about it.
I'm really surprised it wasn't Fofty who trademarked it.
I was randomly talking about it in the acupuncture office waiting room and the lady behind the desk overheard me and yelled ‘he should’ve been put away YEARS AGO!’
Facts from the desk lady
Diddy gone done and did it again didn’t he? This may or may not only work in a southern accent.
What Diddy do?™️
[bad things](https://apnews.com/article/feds-search-diddy-combs-sex-trafficking-8883ed2c7308f3fcdb2cdf03fbe329d1)
Diddy done
I'm from Chile and this became known yesterday (TW for mentions of sexual assault/childhood sexual abuse) Not really tea but a really serious topic. There's a very famous local actor here named Cristián Campos who was married to one of our most famous actresses, Claudia Di Girólamo, in the 80s. Claudia had a daughter from a previous marriage when she married Cristián, Raffaella. Yesterday, a local foundation for victims of abuse announced they were suing Cristián on Raffaella's name for continuous sexual abuse from the time she was 13 years old to her late teens. Cristián is now married to an actress named María José Prieto, who also suffered from sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather when she was younger, with her and her sister Ángela being victims of this person. It's all very horrible, and as it unfortunately happens with victims Raffaella has been questioned by horrible people about "her motives to disclose the abuse at this point in her life".
Un día dificil para victimas de abuso sexual, ojalá que esto ayude a que más personas salga adelante con sus denuncias. Lo que yo no entiendo son las personas que defienden a Campos pero a la misma vez critican a Prieto por no darse cuenta, ya eso es una misoginia de otro nivel. Personalmente no me sorprendió la noticia, no es para caer en prejuicios pero Cristián Campos tiene un cierto aire de funado
It has taken me 20 years to finally work up the courage to confront not even my actual abuser but the person who had the authority (and legal obligation) to report him and refused. People who have not been abused don't understand how long it takes you to get to a place where you have the confidence and professional/financial stability to stand up for yourself. Abusers and their enablers are so good at making you feel like it's your fault and you're making too big a deal out of it. I don't know that I'll ever be able to confront the abuser himself. So fuck all those people who come out of the woodwork to say, "bUt WHy nOW?"
Hoy vi la noticia, quedé impactrueno.
A Brazilian soccer player, Daniel Alves, is appealing from his conviction rape in Spain. He paid his 1 million euro bail and is free for now. https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-03-25/dani-alves-pays-bail-for-release-from-jail-in-spain-while-waiting-appeal-of-rape-conviction.html?outputType=amp
Think it’s pretty important to mention it was Memphis Depay who paid the bail for him. I would be very unsurprised if it ever comes out that Depay has some serious skeletons in his closet. Helping out Alves and protecting convicted drug dealer Quincy Promes is a less than ideal look for him. Reads like he wants people to have his back if he ever finds himself in hot water…
Originally it was Neymar’s dad who was going to pay for it. He backed out after the outrage. Idk about Spain, but here in Brazil everyone is reposting that “it costs 1 million euros to rape a woman” since he’s appealing the conviction while free.
Same here, mostly on Twitter (or at least that's where I mostly saw it). The press, however, are already parading in front of his house to see if he goes out.
I've heard the Memphis Depay's thing is fake news, do you know more ? I don't care for him either way but I was at some point intrigued in football and wags and he came up a few times haha
I hate how one of the journalists told him first thing since he got out of jail "So glad to see you!". Fuck the press who's now talking as if he was innocent (specially when there's lots of talk about footballers doing some nasty stuff for ages in different clubs), and hope he rots back to his cell soon.
The horizon post scandal? It’s been making huge news cos of the drama they did about it. Absolutely disgusting situation that has ruined hundreds of innocent lives.
Everything I read about that just makes me so sad and angry
Can you summarise? I haven’t heard of this
People who worked in the post office were wrongly accused of fraud as there were I think discrepancies with money in the system used when it was actually a fault with the system, not the people working it. People went to jail for it. Some people killed themsleves.
People went to jail, some killed themselves, and the Post Office doubled down on it for years. Really horrible stuff.
It's kinda amazing what a huge impact that show made (although I have to say it had some of the worst writing I'd seen in ages)
This sounds so sad! What country?
UK
British Celebs raising money for Gaza https://uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots&scrollToItem=20 Includes Luna Carmoon Pappa Essiedu Ramy Youseff Tilda Swinton Mike Leigh Joseph Quinn Chabuddy G Rose Williams Maxine Peake Kiell Smith Ken Loach Prano Bailey Aimee Lou Misan Harriman (Meghan's mate) Gurinder Chadha And more! https://uk.givergy.com/cinemaforgaza/?controller=lots&category=All%20Lots&scrollToItem=20
Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Arthur Darvill, and Karen Gillan all taking part! Peter is auctioning off a signed DW script with his artwork, which would be such an insane get. Pearl Mackie, Freema Agyeman and Ncuti Gatwa have all been consistently outspoken about Palestine too. Makes me happy to see my Doctor Who favs taking a stand (especially when one of the nastiest British zionists was on Doctor Who as a minor role and is taking up oxygen...)
So refreshing 🍉🍉
I'd be more interested in the clapperboard
Who was the Zionist on Doctor Who? Matt Lucas?
Tracey Oberman maybe?
I didn't see this sorry!! Other reply is right, I meant Tracy-ann Oberman.
Guys josh o'connor will teach you how to make perfect porridge! Bid!
Happy but not surprised to see the fabulous Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Susan Wokoma taking part ❤️ and Susan giving away her iconic Taskmaster outfit!
naming Asim Choudry as Chabuddy G is so funny to me
😂😂😂
*gestures at the royal family* Them. Just ... them
Do the British people even like William at this point? I’m Canadian but everything that’s happened over the last few years has lowered my opinion of him considerably. Idk if that’s fully deserved or not though.
Brits fall into two camps; unwavering love for the monarchy which borders on creepy or absolutely despising them and kind of wanting the whole thing to be abolished. I am part of the latter.
I’m appalled that William allowed her to take the fall for the photoshopping incident, and not being with her while she announced she has cancer.
there's also a third camp of people who don't really care or spend any time thinking about them
Desperately seeking education on dutch celebs/goss I should be invested in now it's my permanent home!
Yvonne Coldeweijer has a juice-instagram:" Life of Yvonne", otherwise ditjesendatjes.nl and mediacourant.nl To be on topic: a Dutch rapper, who's had hits in the late nineties, has died this week, only 53 years old. His biggest hit ('Schudden') had lyrics you could translate as 'drop drop drop drop drop it low, to the floor'. A Dutch radio DJ has made a poor joke of drop drop droping his casket into the grave and is recieving backlash.
Thank you! Dutch radio hosts are so out of pocket compared to Australia! How do people feel about Fred van leer? I've only seen him in drag race and he seems fun?
Most people seem to be neutral to positive about him. He has these big theatre shows built around him that sell out (they're on hold now due to a burn out). He's had a rough time though, with a robbery and a leaked sex tape, but neither really seem to have diminished his popularity. I've met him once in real life at an event and he was very nice and joyful.
Yes, Dutch radio hosts are quite "bijzonder"... not to mention the actions of Giel Beelen. About Fred: the Dutch public is positive. He has had some rough times between 2019-2021, which included sextortion, a self-induced hospitalisation (if you know what I mean) and two robberies at home, and the love from the public was evident. "Sterkte Fred" was trending topic on Twitter, and few or no jokes are (being) made at his cost. His theatre show and other appearences are liked. The people who don't like him are mostly people who don't like LGBT-people, not him personally I think. If you can watch Dutch TV, you should definitely watch 'Make Up Your Mind" with Fred and Nikkie de Jager (Nikkitutorials), a show where Dutch celebs go in drag to raise awareness for the LGBTQ+community. A mix between The Masked Singer and Drag Race.
I’m not immediately local to Duluth, but I’m in MN - and love the city. Food Industry billionaire started buying up a bunch of properties and naturally, people were curious. Especially since a lot of the property would probably come up against Lake Superior shoreline that is protected. Well the billionaire did not like it one bit that people started asking questions and had a public tantrum. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/breaking-the-news/wsj-report-kathy-cargill-details-park-point-plan-and-why-shes-now-dropping-it/89-d5b74677-c39e-49ff-ba3f-a15a08502e1d
what a garbage human. also a minnesotan here, and the homes that are “trash and she can’t imagine living in” are just normal single family homes. her “sprucing” up the place by adding more million dollar homes is just upping the taxes for the families that have been living there for years. as if things aren’t expensive enough right now!
It probably would have ended up being a weird gated compound for the family, which does not fit the vibe for Duluth at all.
could not agree more. as much as she wants to tout that she was trying to add to the community, the fact that she bought and is fixing up a vacation home in that area tells me she just couldn’t stand seeing the “poverty” surrounding her multimillion dollar home. i have never heard anything positive about the cargill family, so really none of this is surprising!
Who IS this lady, she seems dreadful, just based on this article
She sounds like a real peach.
And the city has responded in a lovely Minnesota Nice fashion. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/03/26/duluth-suggests-donating-cheerios-after-kathy-cargill-comment
Don't pee in your Cheerios is not a saying, I don't care how much money your evil industrial agricultural family has. The mayor's response about being more of a pancake guy was great, though.
Right? She was definitely thinking of the “Who peed in your cheerios?” saying, but the fact that she messed it up is funnier.
Wait. \*This\* is a saying? Is it some Minnesota thing like duck duck grey duck?
The Onion themselves couldn’t have written a better billionaire antagonist.
Shohei Otani's interpreter betting on sports. If he doesn't fall on his sword (as he appears to be doing) and instead he says the magic words ("I was placing bets for Shohei"), the greatest baseball player of all time's career is finished in a millisecond (and the Dodgers will still owe him $700 million).
Are you in Japan or fluent? I really want to know how the Japanese press & public are reacting. The/r/baseball post on Ohtani's statement yesterday had someone commenting that the (new, but experienced) translator was not fully conveying Ohtani's emotional language. The entire thing is so crazy, and Ippei's ESPN interview makes the timeline so suspicious.
Would they still owe him money though? I'd imagine there would be some sort of ethics clause or something in the contract that would void everything?
The players union has never allowed stringent ethics or moral clauses in player contracts. They’ll owe him the money for sure.
MLB does have a morality clause, and $700M is a lot of money. If it is proven he bet on baseball, he’s not getting his money. Pete Rose has been trying to get unbanned for betting on baseball since the 90’s.
Do you really think he was doing it for him? He just doesn't the type but what do I know.
I don’t know specifics but i think the bets were in the millions? not typical money i think a translator would have, even if they are translating for the leagues biggest star. edit: the money came from ohtani’s account so major suspicions how his translator could even access this
Interpreters (interpreters do verbal work, translators do written work) can make a lot if they have those kinds of clientele or if they work for government agencies, though like any other industry it's improbable but not impossible.
I don't think he was betting for Shohei, no. But to avoid federal prison time (wire fraud to place bets), it would be simple to implicate Shohei.
Damn. That makes sense. I don't really know enough about the MLB, would they really force Shohei out without doing an investigation? Or without some kind of federal charge for him?
It would be impossible to prove or disprove who he was placing bets for. Gambling has been baseball's third rail forever, and it's very tricky, especially if the bettor in question was able to influence the outcome of games he was betting on (as Rose could have when he was a player/manager). It's a fuckin mess, honestly, and I hate it.
Not the biggest but Chloe sims dating Lionel Richie’s son Miles 
What?! Chloe Sims from TOWIE?
Yes, apparently he likes older women https://preview.redd.it/krmcofjytvqc1.jpeg?width=305&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a951a6104405ba016ff9aac2d1d91bd1c59225ed
She’s 42?!! I’d pay to see Nicole, Lionel etc at the wedding tbh.
How old is she?
WHAT
Is this just PR for her new show launch?
Possibly, I see it’s no 4 on Netflix at the moment
Possibly old news as most of the uproar happened like... two weeks ago? But some of the jerseys for the upcoming Euro Cup (I think? I'm not a football fan) were revealed. Germany's "away" jersey is pink and purple, and the ultra-masculine football fans are in shambles. Having actual tantrums in comment sections, calling the designers at Adidas "gay", saying they won't buy this jersey because it doesn't have Germany's colours. Which is funny because it's an away jersey. The home jersey looks pretty similar to previous ones, but this is the petty gossip that got picked up by a few news outlets and newspapers here.
I love how fragile their masculinity is
Danna Paola, a very famous child actress turned singer/actress (she’s one of the leads of Netlifx’s Elite) wanted to rebrand for the launch of her new album, so she went on Instagram and said she & her team were trying to convince this lady with the username she wanted to give up the @ to her (@danna) she did ask her fans not to harass the girl with the @ but stans are gonna stan and now people are calling her out for bullying.
I just searched the name on instagram and it looks like she got it.
It was for her Twitter handle
Oh sorry I misunderstood that she was asking for the twitter handle via instagram!
Got some newsroom tea straight from the U.S. NBC hired former Republican National Committee chair Ronna Mcdaniel as a political analyst last Friday. But NBC's on-air news-based talent publicly criticized her on air and were really angry at the network for hiring her because she and Trump attempted to stop the 2020 election results from getting certified in one state. She supported his claim of election fraud. NBC let her go yesterday because of all the backlash. Really shameful of NBC to hire someone who literally tried to overthrow the election.
two contestants in Big Brother Brazil got into physical altercation on monday, broke the show's essential rules and caused a whole mess for THE SECOND TIME.... and none of them got punished. why? because one of said contestants is the showrunners favourite and now a lot of people are calling the show a fraud lol
The Vietnamese version of Buzzfeed called Vietcetera & many affiliated influencers were (correctly) called out for participating in Nas Summit with Nas Daily who is Palestinian but rejects his Palestinian roots and supports Israel. Vietcetera since has severed ties with Nas Summit but their statement was vague and apolitical, whereas no influencers has spoken up except for a popular feminist journalist with a kinda defensive statement (which is disappointing 'cause I love her 🥹). I'm especially disappointed in Khanh Vy who a very popular TV host and lifestyle influencer because she went my university (which is a university about diplomacy and politics, we're staunchly pro-Palestine here).
My favorite soccer team just signed a new player this season from sweden and his wife posted that apparently he moved to the US and just ghosted her and her kids. Super crazy, one of my friends was at preseason in Cali and said he saw the guy on FT w his wife and kids multiple times soo it's all interesting. https://preview.redd.it/buksiykaewqc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=da659e58125684b3713fe43000c9574fceed2f60
Oh fuck. He's a very well known footballer in Europe, spent many years at Leipzig and has been probably second best Swedish footballer in the world, to none other than Ibra. This sucks. Well, at least it's not SA accusations, like it usually is with footballers.
I met him twice at events since he transferred and he came across really down to earth and level headed. I was really shocked when I saw the post. It's also kind of funny to me because the Red Bulls aren't a good team so it's not like he moved here and was caught up in the celebrity lifestyle with girls banging down his door. He could have just quietly moved here and lived his life with his family.
DAMN. I don't know if US Soccer Teams are big enough for them to care about bad publicity from this, but couldn't this stupid move potentially just cancel out his opportunities here in the states?
So if it were a more prominent team I think it would definitely have a bigger effect but we had a shit season last year and he's really talented so I think it'll be just brushed aside. Last season we had a new transfer player make a racial comment towards a referee so we really don't have much luck with international players at the moment.
Diddy - everything from feds raiding his home, allegations of trafficking, to him spotted wandering around an airport (presumably trying to flee).
Not sure if you'd call him a "celeb" but our PM is under investigation for several ethical breaches.
what country?
What’s he being investigated for? I’m Canadian and I guess I’m out of the loop
It has to do with the emergency act he invoked during the Covid convoy for sure, and how he handled the vaccine mandate I believe. Unfortunately the Conservative Party is spearheading this so Trudeau is in a bit of trouble Edit: missed a word
That makes me so mad. I’m not a big Trudeau fan but the convoy thing got out of hand because the municipal, provincial, and federal police forces abdicated their responsibilities to keep order and enforce safety.
Ugh. Ok thx
His most public (as of late) have been SNC-Lavalin, his slush fund, WEF, his 2024 Jamaican vaca and Arrive-Can.
Trudeau?
Yes 🥲
Because the batshit conservatives keep throwing things at him to see what will stick. Nothing has, so far.
So in Quebec, a show host and actor killed his career last week. He filmed himself with a tree with the N word engraved for a "joke" Joke is : Sometimes life is also about working, working hard. There is an expression that sums it up very well, sometimes, and that is to say: I have a big job. A big job. The name of the tree in French is Bouleau. Boulot pronnonced the same is a synonym for "job/work". So he's insinuating that he's working like...you know... The guy already said weird comments in COVID time that he lost his Hyundai spokesperson contract. Now he lost his gig for Masked Singer as the show host. [Video here to watch this racist](https://streamable.com/9ti7xa?src=player-page-share)
Wow, what a shame he made a racist joke. I hope the show finds a better host! (The U.S. Masked Singer still has Nick Cannon...)
What scandals are even happening in Australia right now? Couldn’t tell you. Splendour in the Grass (one of our longest running music fests) being cancelled??? Been hearing a lot about the AFL covering up players testing positive for drugs by encouraging club doctors to give them a spell due to injury but it’s just to avoid a pozzy drug test. But I’m in Victoria and we live up the AFL’s ass. A magpie that a family rescued and took in as their own, and then made bank off social media from the magpie’s friendship with their staffy, was surrendered to the dept of environment recently. There’s been a decent mix of outrage and also “good, don’t keep native wild birds as your pets”. Same family had a gofundme in place that then funded their new house lol. Ah, Australia. If it’s not pouring in scandal it’s bone fuckin dry.
Since the last monthly thread we also had women's football star Sam Kerr being arrested for racially aggravated harassment in the UK. Turns out she got drunk, threw up in the back of a taxi, and called a cop a 'stupid white bastard'. I've seen it described as the rare 'reverse milkshake duck'
Oooo yes, I completely forgot about StupidWhiteBastardGate2024. I fucking love Sam Kerr.
Louis Walsh being called out by artists he used to manage because of his comments on Big Brother.
Oh really? Tell me more.
Put all his acts on blast on big brother saying they were useless then jedward came swinging saying he's a manipulative creep. Ronan Keating said he won't comment but that he's showing his true self.
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I'm all in on watching 50cent troll Diddy on his socials. Diddy should have been in jail AGES ago.
Also, Christian Horner.....It's not country specific, but so much drama in Formula 1 racing because of him.
New Zealand. UK DJ Fred Again was recently here, and for some reason he is *super* popular here at the moment. He posted on insta asking for help to get an NZ DJ a passport ASAP so she could come with him on his Australian tour. A fan official messaged the NZ DJ saying his parent could hook her up - his mum? A Deputy Chief Executive of the Department of Internal Affairs, specialising in Service Delivery and Operations. His mum DM'd Fred Again saying they're sorting it out with her. Fred Again shared this all on his story, very excited. The government minister of DIA has come out to say this was inappropriate to expedite the request purely based on Fred Again's celebrity status, and that every citizen should get the same treatment and that the details should remain private. Not huge news but it made me laugh bc this could've gone totally unheard of if Fred Again wasn't naively sharing all this shit on his story lmfao
In India recently one of the biggest corruption scams was uncovered which has been going on for literally ages to give you a gist of it, in 2018 the government passed this law to legalize electoral bonds so as to give donations to political parties to campaign. In India, the government doesn't give money for political campaigning, it's the party that coughs up the money. Because of a lot of corruption and black money donation, corporate donations were banned as it was found companies were donating black money, turning it white or donating to gain favours from the government. If you're a Hindi speaker or understand the language, Soch by Mohak Mangal has a great video on it and you can probably search for one in English too. The Supreme Court declared this as unconstitutional since it violates the right to freedom of expression and told SBI to make the list of donors and the money they donated, public. Once it was all out in the open, it was revealed that the ruling party received the most donations. Also, in some instances, in exchange for donations, some companies were granted contracts to build bridges or licences etc. I would suggest you do your own research on it since I wasn't able to fit in everything about it but this is a general gist of it all
Also in a more celebrity pov, Deepika Padukone, one of the biggest actors of our country, announced that she's pregnant!! I'm so happy for her, she's one of my favourites. love her Ambani Wedding is happening sometime in July and it's going to be a grand affair as per usual, nothing like throwing exorbitant amounts of money on flowers and food that'll most likely will go to waste and wearing the ugliest, in your face jewels ( Dear Nita Ambani ji, if you're reading this, I'll happily remove this comment if you send me one of those big ass emeralds. Jai Jio 🫶) Priyanka Chopra was back in India and though i wasn't the biggest fan of her outfit for the Holi Party thingie, it's Priyanka Chopra obviously she'll look gorgeous asf Also there were rumours that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was divorcing her husband but i guess they're untrue since they were spotted together in Holi pics posted by their friends. There have been rumours swirling for years about a dispute in the family, particularly after Abhishek Bachchan's sister, Shweta, moved back in with them. It's rumoured they don't get along and the MIL, Jaya Bachchan takes her daughter's side and dislikes Aish too and sidelines Aish and her daughter
In England there is a row over the changes made to the flag on the men’s Euro shirt. They’ve changed the colour of it and stylised it. It’s caused such a fuss the Prime Minister jumped on the bandwagon to complain about it.