The entertainment industry did not disappoint in 2022 as it made a drama-fuelled comeback after two years of coronavirus disruption. The worlds of film, TV and music offered a deluge of headlines, from Will Smith’s on-stage slap at the Oscars to a new Time Lord and an MP in the Australian jungle. With 2023 on the horizon, we look back …
Johnny Depp topped the list of Google’s 2022 trending people. The 59-year-old actor is No. 1 on the search-engine’s list of people who “had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2022 as compared to 2021,” according to Google. Right behind Depp at No. 2 is Will Smith, followed by Depp’s ex-wife Amber Heard, with whom he …
Kanye West had lost business due to antisemitic remarks he made Kanye West, the embattled rapper now known as Ye, appeared to support sports commentator Stephen A. Smith and Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving in a series of Instagram posts on Sunday. Ye posted headshots of Smith and Irving in subsequent posts, as well as former NFL running back-turned-Republican Senate …
Jada Pinkett Smith is releasing a new memoir. Scroll on for the details about the book, including how it will cover her childhood, her rise to fame and her marriage to Will Smith. Jada Pinkett Smith is starting a new chapter. The Matrix Resurrections actress, 51, is releasing a new memoir in Fall 2023, according to a press release obtained …
The comedians opened up about the infamous slap during their European tour. Six months after the world watched Will Smith slap Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards and it is still a hot topic of discussion. Both Chris and Will took some time away from the media to regroup after the incident; but the Everybody Hates Chris star didn’t …
YouTube star Everleigh Rose’s father, Tommy Smith, has died. He was 29. Nine-year-old Everleigh’s mother Savannah LaBrant, 29, shared the news on Instagram Thursday. Posting a sweet photo of Everleigh with her father, Savannah — also a YouTube star — wrote, “Our hearts are incredibly heavy as we process the loss of Everleigh’s dad, Tommy. He loved Everleigh immensely. …
London’s O2 Arena was rocking Saturday evening as Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock continued their European stand-up tour, including new commentary on their assaults on stage. We were in the crowd. Rock, who took the stage first, dedicated a small portion of his lengthy set to talking about Will Smith, during which he said, “f*ck your hostage video,” in …
New Academy CEO Bill Kramer says the goal is to “move forward and to have an Oscars that celebrates cinema” The Oscars appear ready to leave the slap in the past. During a roundtable with reporters earlier this week, new Academy CEO Bill Kramer was asked if there have been early conversations to address, at next year’s ceremony, the …
As he joked earlier this week, Will Smith is “trying to get back on social” after a months-long break following his on-stage skirmish at the Oscars in March. Over the weekend, the actor made the leap into business-as-usual posting with a video that shows him and his eldest son, Trey, trying to capture a large tarantula that had invaded …
“It’s a scary time to have an opinion or to say the wrong thing or to make controversial art or statements or thoughts or anything,” says Zoë Kravitz Zoë Kravitz is reflecting on comments she made about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face at the 2022 Academy Awards. In her cover story for WSJ. Magazine’s Fall 2022 …
