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Don’t look for Amy Schumer in any Super Bowl commercials this time around. She’s sitting this one out as she stands with Colin Kaepernick and his take-a-knee protest against racial discrimination and police brutality. The comedian and I Feel Pretty actress explained her stance at length Friday on Instagram, challenging white NFL players to kneel as well. Addressing them directly, she wrote: “Otherwise how are you not complicit?” “I personally told my reps I wouldn’t do a Super Bowl commercial this year,” Schumer wrote. “I know it must sound like a privilege ass sacrifice but it’s all I got.” Among more than 8,000 comments left on the post, Diddy, Jessica Seinfeld and Christie Brinkley offered their support. During Super Bowl 50 in 2016, Schumer appeared with Seth Rogen in a politically themed campaign for Bud Light. It was not immediately clear whether she had been approached to appear in an ad during the next one. “Hitting the nfl with the advertisers is the only way to hurt them,” Schumer wrote of her decision. “I know opposing the nfl is like opposing the nra. Very tough…”
Prince Harry paid tribute to Australian service members by opening a new wing of a war memorial on Saturday as he and wife Meghan continued their visit to Australia and the South Pacific. A thus-far joyous debut royal tour by the couple, buoyed by news that they are expecting their first baby, turned solemn as the Duke of Sussex opened a long-awaited extension to the Anzac Memorial in downtown Sydney’s Hyde Park on Saturday morning. The former British army captain and his wife laid a wreath of Australian native flowers at the steps of the memorial, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison and service members looked on. Harry and Meghan were then taken on a tour of the newly remodeled shrine, which was first opened in 1934 by Harry’s greatgreat-uncle, Prince Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, but was left incomplete due to a shortage of funds during the Great Depression. In a handwritten signed note pinned to the wreath, Harry wrote, “In memory of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and in recognition of the men and women for whom the scars endure.” Wearing the tropical dress of his regiment, the Blues and Royals, Harry unveiled a plaque that noted the extension was “opened by a grandson of the Queen.” The wording was a nod to the original plaque Prince Henry unveiled 84 years ago, which noted that the memorial was “opened by the son of a king.” Harry saluted as the Last Post rang out across Hyde Park, while Meghan, in a long black dress by New Zealand designer Emilia Wickstead, stood beside him.