Lady Gaga gets Fortnite treatment
A digital version of Lady Gaga is set to appear in the wildly popular online game Fortnite.
The star teased her participation in an upcoming Fortnite Festival on Tuesday by tweeting a playful correction to her previous misspelling of the smash-hit game and including a glam Fortnite-style likeness of herself.
She quote-tweeted her own 2019 tweet asking, “what’s fortnight”?
The one-word text of the new tweet consisted of just the video game’s title spelled correctly, with an asterisk to indicate the “Shallow” singer knew she was making a correction.
Fortnite Festival was introduced last year as the platform’s rhythm game, comparable to Guitar Hero or Rock Band, which rose to popularity in the mid-2000s.
The headliner for the first season was The Weeknd, whose songs were featured in Fortnite and whose likeness was used to create a wearable “skin” for players.
Little information is known on what this year’s festival has in store, or if Gaga’s role will function similar to how The Weeknd’s did last year.
Tapper to release new picture book:
The new book from bestselling author Alice Paul Tapper, daughter of CNN anchor Jake Tapper, was inspired by a near-fatal health emergency.
“Use Your Voice,” with illustrations by Fanny Liem, is a fictionalized take on Alice’s hospitalization in 2021 after she experienced intense stomach pain, chills and vomiting — what turned out to be appendicitis. Doctors misdiagnosed her condition as a viral infection and only gave her an ultrasound
after her father pleaded with the hospital’s administrator.
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, will release “Use Your Voice” on Aug. 27, the author’s 17th birthday.
“I am so excited to share this book and empower kids visiting the hospital, a place that can be scary for everyone, not just children,” Alice Paul Tapper said in a statement Wednesday.
Tapper is also the author of “Raise Your Hand,” a 2019 bestseller about the need for girls to be heard in the classroom.
Stallone reveals ‘Expendables’ injuries:
Sylvester Stallone recently revealed he underwent more than a half-dozen back surgeries after a stunt on the set of the first “Expendables” film left him with injuries from which he “never recovered.”
In the newly released
second season of his Paramount+ reality series, “The Family Stallone,” the “Rocky” star, 77, says he was forced to go under the knife seven times after filming a fight scene that involved getting bodyslammed by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin.
“I did stupid stuff. I was directing ‘Expendables’ and, like an idiot, I’m doing take 10, take whatever, and I remember one slam and I could actually feel one bang,” Stallone recalls in the show, which premiered Wednesday. “Steve knew.”
Feb. 23 birthdays: Actor Patricia Richardson is 73. Guitarist Brad Whitford is 72. Singer Howard Jones is 69. Actor Kristin Davis is 59. TV personality Daymond John is 55. Actor Niecy Nash is 55. Actor Josh Gad is 43. Actor Aziz Ansari is 41. Actor Emily Blunt is 41. Actor Tye White is 38. Actor Dakota Fanning is 30.