J.LO, A-rod call it quits
Celebrities Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez have called off their two-year engagement, according to multiple reports based on anonymous sources.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez called off their two-year engagement, according to multiple reports based on anonymous sources. The former New York Yankees third baseman proposed to the actor a couple years ago after the celebrity couple started dating in early 2017.
The New York Post’s Page Six was the first to report on the couple’s breakup. A representative for Lopez did not return an email request for comment.
The last time Lopez and Rodriquez posted a photo together was last month in the Dominican Republic.
The couple was given the nickname, J-rod, three years ago after they landed on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
In 2019, Rodriguez said he and Lopez had similar backgrounds and her latest film “Second Act” reflected the ties that drew them together. — Associated Press
Mrs. O clarifies defense of Morgan
Let’s hope someone is getting a bulk rate on apologies and accusations this week, because Piers Morgan is accusing bullies of forcing Sharon Osbourne into an apology after the panelists on “The Talk” got into heated discussions this week regarding whether he’s a racist for disparaging the former Meghan Markle.
Osbourne issued an apology overnight for her emotional behavior on the show, saying, “I panicked, felt blindsided, got defensive & allowed my fear & horror of being accused of being racist take over. There are very few things that hurt my heart more than racism so to feel associated with that spun me fast!”
Mrs. O, as she’s called on “The Talk,” insisted Tuesday and Wednesday that she had defended Morgan’s right to freedom of speech, not the content of his comments. Morgan quit “Good Morning Britain” Tuesday after a terse discussion about race, mental health and the Duchess of Sussex.
Osbourne said Wednesday that she didn’t agree with Morgan’s thoughts on what Meghan said during her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
But in her apology late Thursday, she said she should have made that clear from the get-go. “Please hear me when I say I do not condone racism, misogyny or bullying,” she wrote on social media. “I should have been more specific about that in my tweet. I will always support freedom of speech, but now I see how I unintentionally didn’t make that clear distinction. I hope we can collectively continue to learn from each other & from ourselves so we can all continue to pave the way for much needed growth & change.”
Meanwhile, Morgan retweeted her note, prefaced by his own comment.
“Sharon’s been shamed & bullied into apologising for defending me against colleagues accusing me of racism because I don’t believe Meghan Markle’s bull—t,” he wrote. “This is where we’ve reached. I demand an apology from those bullies @Thetalkcbs for their disgraceful slurs against ME.”
Morgan questioned Meghan’s integrity and slammed the couple’s interview Monday on “Good Morning Britain,” which he co-hosted a few days a week.
“This is a two-hour trash-a-thon of our royal family, of the monarchy, of everything the queen has worked so hard for, and it’s all being done as Prince Philip lies in hospital,” Morgan said on the show. “They trash everybody. They basically make out the entire royal family are a bunch of white supremacists by dropping this race bombshell. They didn’t name which one it was. They just throw it out there, so it can be any member of the royal family.”
After co-host Susanna
Reid brought up Meghan’s talk about suicidal thoughts, Morgan said, “I’m sorry, I don’t believe a word she says, Meghan Markle.”
The conversation continued the next day, after the interview ran in the U.K., culminating with Morgan’s departure.
Tuesday on “The Talk,” Osbourne backed Morgan, saying he was paid to give his opinion. Her fellow panelists criticized him for his words and for what they saw as his inability to handle personal criticism.
Osbourne, who had been a judge on “America’s Got Talent” alongside Morgan, said Morgan should have stayed and listened to weatherman Alex Beresford rather than walk off set after Beresford brought up Morgan’s erstwhile friendship with the duchess.
But by Wednesday the tone on the show had grown tense.
“Why is it that because I supported a longtime friend and work colleague of mine, for years, that everybody goes, ‘If you support him, then you must be racist, because he’s racist,’” she said. Osbourne ultimately asked co-host Sheryl
Underwood, who is Black, to educate her on what Morgan had said that was racist.
“It’s not the exact words of racism. It’s the implication and the reaction to it. To not want to address that because she is a Black woman and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is, that’s what makes it racist,” Underwood said.