Snoop Dogg apologizes to Gayle King for rant over Bryant
After days of blistering criticism, Snoop Dogg has apologized to Gayle King for attacking her over her interview with former basketball star Lisa Leslie about the late Kobe Bryant.
“Two wrongs don’t make no right. when you’re wrong, you gotta fix it,” he said in an Instagram post Wednesday.
“So with that being said, Gayle King, I publicly tore you down by coming at you in a derogatory manner based off of emotions of me being angry at a question you asked. Overreacted,” he said. “I should have handled it way different than that, I was raised way better than that, so I would like to apologize publicly for the language that I used and calling you out your name and just being disrespectful.”
The rapper was furious that the “CBS This Morning” anchor brought up rape allegations from Bryant’s past in her interview with Leslie, a friend of Bryant. The retired Lakers star was killed in a helicopter crash last month along with his daughter and seven others.
Paul English, Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer, has died
Paul English, Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer and the inspiration for Nelson’s song “Me and Paul,” has died. He was 87.
English joined Nelson’s band, nicknamed the Family, in 1966 and continued with him for most of his long career. English earned a reputation for brandishing a firearm and engaging in off-stage scuffles that made him an outlaw sideman as tough as Nelson himself.
Nelson bragged on their escapades in the song, singing “And at the airport in Milwaukee, They refused to let us board the plane at all, They said we looked suspicious, But I believe they like to pick on me and Paul.”
English was also known for wearing a black cape on stage, and one of his capes is on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in the “Outlaws and Armadillos” exhibit.
Bieber says fear led him to stay away from music
Justin Bieber admits getting back in the studio to record his first album in five years wasn’t easy.
“I was dealing with a lot of fear,” the singer
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told Zane Lowe in an interview with Apple Music released on Thursday. “Just was afraid of, at that point, just even the process; what am I going to talk about again, is it gonna be received. I’m starting to compare with other artists.”
Bieber releases his first album of new music since 2015 on Friday with “Changes,” the follow-up to his Grammy-winning, multiplatinum album “Purpose.” While he married Hailey Baldwin last year, Bieber has also talked about enduring several challenges in the past few years, including dealing with depression, recovering from past drug use and contracting Lyme disease, which he says seriously affected his health.
Bieber says it wasn’t until he performed on stage with Ariana Grande last year at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and received an ovation that he got a “boost of confidence.”
“It kind of reminded me … this is what I do, this is what I’m good at, and I don’t need to run away from it,” he said.
Jamil rebuts ‘conspiracy theories’ after coming out as queer
Jameela Jamil returned to Twitter on Wednesday, addressing her critics head-on for the first time since coming out as queer and quitting the social media site last week.
The “Good Place” actress and activist tweeted about her frustration after online critics accused her of having factitious disorder, formerly known as Munchausen syndrome, citing what some believed to be inconsistencies in Jamil’s previous interviews about her health.
“First I’m lying about my sexuality, now I’m now being accused of munchausens? By an unhinged idiot who didn’t even realize in all her ‘research’ that my car accident injury stories are ‘different’ because they were about TWO SEPARATE CAR ACCIDENTS 13 years apart? You can keep it,” Jamil tweeted.
Factitious disorder imposed on self is a type of mental illness in which a person repeatedly acts as if he or she has a physical or mental disorder when that person actually has caused the symptoms, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
Two-time Emmy-nominated actress Paula Kelly dies at 77
Actress, singer and dancer Paula Kelly, who earned an Emmy Award nomination on the sitcom “Night Court” and co-starred with Chita Rivera and Shirley MacLaine in the film “Sweet Charity,” died Sunday of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to Los Angeles’ Ebony Repertory Theatre. She was 77.
Kelly earned a best supporting actress Emmy nod in 1984 for portraying public defender Liz Williams on the first season of NBC’s “Night Court” and received another in 1989 for playing a lesbian on the ABC miniseries “The Women of Brewster Place.”
Kelly’s film credits include “The Andromeda Strain,” “Top of the Heap” and “Soylent Green.” Her vast TV credits also include “Kojak” and “The Golden Girls.”
From wire reports