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After catching heat for her private jet usage and being branded a "climate criminal," Kylie Jenner posted a TikTok video of herself pushing her daughter Stormi and her nieces Chicago and True in a shopping cart at a Target, and now she's catching heat for that, with people accusing her of "trying to cosplay as middle class." A commenter on the video asked, "Did u rent out Target for this," and another said she was "playing normal life simulator." In a Reddit thread about the video, commenters weren't any kinder, accusing her of "trying to appeal to us peasants" and calling her "out of touch." There's time for social media and there's a time to chill and lay low til memories run short. She should recognize it's lay low time.
Armie Hammer showed up in Los Angeles just days after he quit his job as a timeshare salesman in the Cayman Islands. Armie, who's facing allegations of assault and even cannibalism, allegedly took the job because he had no money after he got out of rehab. It's suspected he quit this new job after it leaked that he worked there.
Justin Bieber's team announced he is ready to go back on his tour now that he's recovered from Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, which caused facial paralysis, among other issues. He's got to hit the other part of the world first, but then he will head back to the US go make up the dates he missed, according to TMZ.
Baby news…
Congratulations to "Wizards of Waverly" place star David Henrie and wife Maria Cahill on the birth of their third child. The two welcomed baby girl Gemma Claire Henrie on Sunday. She now joins her 18-month-old brother James Thomas Augustine Emanuel and 3-year-old sister Pia Philomena Francesca.
"Dancing with the Stars" pros Jenna Johnson, 28, and Val Chmerkovskiy, 36, have a baby on the way, due this January!
TMZ reports that police were called to Drake's new home on Friday after an employee reportedly spotted someone near the pool house. They found a 23-year-old who claimed he was Drake's father (Drake, who is 35, by the way). The guy said he was waiting for his "son" Drake to come home. They arrested him.
Dina's Dirt at 7:40
It's no secret by now that Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul of "Breaking Bad" will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in the series finale of "Better Call Saul." While the secret is out, the two actors were initially brought in to film their roles under complete secrecy, being told they could never reveal their participation in the episode. After all that, the secret was ultimately revealed by none other than series co-creator Peter Gould, who told fans the two would be back. The final episode airs on AMC on July 25th.
"Flip or Flop" star Tarek El Moussa's wife, "Selling Sunset" star Heather Rae, said that her husband diffused a situation on a plane. She went to far as to call him "heroic." She shared, "My husband did something very heroic when a man went crazy on our flight and verbally attacked and physically got in flight attendants' and pilots' faces." The flight ended up getting canceled, according to extratv.com.
Singer Nolan Neal, who competed on "The Voice" and "America's Got Talent," has died at the age of 41. He was found in his Nashville apartment, according to extratv.com. His cause of death has not been determined. Nolan had shared his struggles over the years, including his father's suicide and his own battle with addiction and efforts to stay sober.
"Ted Lasso" star Brett Goldstein is joining the MCU as Hercules. He showed he has potential, being shirtless on the show and all, and with his cameo in "Thor: Love and Thunder." But if he really wants to play a convincing Hercules, he's going to have to bulk up. Brett knows and said, "I'm going to be having 19 chickens a day… Chicken and veg all day, all night, in your sleep." Read more with extratv.com.
Dina's Dirt at 8:40
A tragedy occurred on the set of "Law & Order: Organized Crime." In an earie sense, it was similar to a script from the show. According to Variety, a crew member was shot and killed in Brooklyn early Tuesday morning, where the crew was prepping the area for filming. A 31-year-old crew person was sitting in his car when someone came up and opened fire on him, hitting him in the face and neck. People in the area heard the gunfire, but no one paid much attention because they thought it was fake.
Twitter is moving forward with a lawsuit against Elon Musk for backing out of their sale. They say he's only backing out because the stock market plummeted right after he signed the deal in April to buy Twitter for $44 billion, according to TMZ. Elon has stated his concern over all the bot accounts, but Twitter points out that Elon had said one of the reasons he wanted to buy Twitter was to "defeat the spam bots." Now, they will go to trial in October after a Delaware judge said Twitter deserved a quick resolution of the deal's uncertainty.
MrBeast is getting closer and closer to 100 million subscribers, and he's planning something special - and expensive - for when he hits it. He teased fans on Twitter, writing, "We've been working on our 100 million subscriber special all year and it's my most expensive and insane video ever! I can't wait to hit 100 mil and upload this." Considering his 2021 "Squid Game" recreation cost an estimated $3.5 million, this is sure to be big.
Texas State University's Honors College has added a course on Harry Styles to its Spring 2023 semester. "Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet and European Pop Culture" will focus on the former One Direction star and "the political development of the modern celebrity as related to questions of gender and sexuality, race, class, nation and globalism, media, fashion, fan culture, internet culture and consumerism." The day my kid tells me she's taking a class on Harry Styles is the day I stop helping pay for school.
