Bublé on his son’s cancer: ‘I’m not OK’
Michael Bublé is opening up about his son’s battle with cancer.
During a special Stand Up to Cancer episode of “Carpool Karaoke” Saturday, the singer got emotional talking to James Corden about his 5-year-old son Noah, who was diagnosed with liver cancer at 3.
“It’s so hard to have to acknowledge it because it is so painful to talk about,” Bublé began. “We got the diagnosis and that was it, man. My whole life ended.”
Bublé and Argentine TV actress Luisana Lopilato have three children: sons Noah and Elias, 2, and daughter Vida, who was born in July. He said his entire extended family relocated to Los Angeles to be closer to Noah while he underwent treatment.
“We took it day by day,” Bublé said, wiping tears from his face. “We all moved and lived by (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles) and we just had the best doctors. God, thank you Jesus Christ.”
He said he remained strong for his family during Noah’s battle but, now that Noah is doing well, Bublé said he relies on his wife: “I’m not OK.”
At the end of the “Carpool Karaoke” episode, Bublé pleaded with viewers to donate to Stand Up to Cancer.
Bank gives $1.5M to Stratford fest
The Stratford Festival has its first corporate donor for its new Tom Patterson Theatre Centre.
BMO Financial Group has committed $1.5 million to the project, which will see a larger theatre with better acoustics replace the early 20th-century building that originally sat on Lakeside Dr., with room for the festival’s education department, Forum and Laboratory programs and other initiatives, plus a two-acre terraced garden.
The festival launched its $100-million Spirit of the Tent Campaign in January.
The new building, designed by Siamak Hariri of Toronto’s Hariri Pontarini Architecture, is scheduled to open for the 2020 season.
BMO’s donation, which will be earmarked for the naming of the new theatre’s BMO Box Office, brings support for the campaign to more than $80 million, the festival said.
Yep, Bieber burrito photo was fake
It was too fun to be true.
Celebrity watchers went berserk last Thursday when a photo surfaced on Reddit that appeared to show a pink hoodieclad Justin Bieber sitting on a park bench, scarfing down a burrito the wrong way. As in, from the middle, as if he were eating an ear of corn.
Many news sites cast doubt on the photo, including Star columnist Vinay Menon, scrutinizing his hair (too blond) and eyebrows (too well-groomed).
“Justin Bieber is an eating machine. And an eating machine would never botch a burrito,” Menon wrote.
The truth was revealed in a detailed debunking video, titled “We Fooled the internet w/ Fake Justin Bieber Burrito Photo,” posted Sunday by a group called Yes Theory. The YouTube tricksters claimed responsibility for the elaborate prank, saying they recruited Canadian Bieber lookalike Brad Sousa to commit the crime against food.
In an Instagram video, Scooter Braun, Bieber’s manager, took credit for outing the pranksters by (briefly) pretending he thought the image was real.
“I had so many people hitting me, saying, ‘Why is your boy eating a burrito like this?’ ” says Braun. In a matter of seconds, he says, the group’s manager called him to come clean.