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Norway's beach handball team was fined for not wearing bikini bottoms during the European Championships. Well, Pink is so furious she's doing something about it. The team was fined $150 Euros apiece (for a total of 1,500 Euros, or about $1766) for wearing shorts instead of the normal bikini bottoms, and Pink has offered to pay the fine for what she says is "sexist rules." She tweeted, "I'm VERY proud of the Norwegian female beach handball team FOR PROTESTING THE VERY SEXIST RULES ABOUT THEIR 'uniform. The European handball federation SHOULD BE FINED FOR SEXISM." She added, "Good on ya, ladies. I'll be happy to pay your fines for you. Keep it up."
Peacock has ordered five episodes of "Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem." The episodes, which will take place over a long weekend, will feature several key characters leaving their hometown for adventures. Lisa Rinna will return in the role of Billie Reed. Lisa recently reflected on her career as a soap opera star and revealed she hooked up with her former "Days of Our Lives" costar Patrick Muldoon. According to OK, when asked what her most "surreal" moment of the '90s was, she said, "Having an affair with the guy who played my brother. Well, not an affair, but a couple of one-night stands with the guy who [played] my brother. Patrick Muldoon and I had like, a thing." Patrick played her brother, Austin Reed.
Sean Penn is currently working on the Starz limited series "Gaslit," which covers the Watergate scandal and co-stars Julia Roberts, Dan Stevens, and Betty Gilpin. But, according to Deadline, Sean is refusing to return to work on the set until everyone on the production crew has been vaccinated. He even offered to help through his organization, CORE, to distribute the vaccine free of charge. NBC has now made it mandatory to get the vaccine before anyone returns to set. No word on if this was due to Sean's demand or not.
"The Simpsons" will go where they've never gone before to kick off their 33rd season. They're going to present their first-ever all-musical episode. According to executive producer Matt Selman – who spoke at a Comic-Con video panel over the weekend – "The Star of the Backstage" episode will be like "a Broadway musical of an episode with all original songs." Kristen Bell will be featured as Marge Simpson's singing voice when the season kicks off on September 26th.
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BTS continues to hold on to number one. The K-Pop group's hit "Butter" returns to the top of the "Billboard" Hot 100, one week after being dethroned by their new song "Permission to Dance." "Butter" now tops the Hot 100 for an eighth non-consecutive week, which ties it with Olivia Rodrigo's "Driver's License" for the most weeks at number one this year.
Britney Spear's long time agent and best friend Cade Hudson just posted a message on social media supporting the #FreeBritney movement. He wrote, "I've kept my mouth shut for 12 + years on Britney. Enough is enough. After getting thousands of death threats, getting water bottles thrown at my head in bars from bystanders telling me I'm brainwashing her - Britney I'm now speaking up." According to TMZ, Cade calls Britney's situation "sexism at its best," noting, "This is a violation of someone's basic human rights that were taken away." He also admitted that he hadn't spoke up before "out of the fear of losing my job," suggesting Britney's father threatened him, calling him, "the man we all know who, but I won't even dignify mentioning his name." He wrapped up saying, "The system and the public failed her. The nonsense needs to end, and the healing process needs to begin. The lord tends to pay those people back in his own ways. So for the first time I'm publicly saying #FREEBRITNEY."
"F9," the latest installment of the "Fast & Furious" franchise, has passed the $600-million mark worldwide, the first to do so since the 2019 Christmas premiere of "Jumanji: The Next Level."
Producer and actress Issa Rae got married over the weekend in the South of France to businessman/banker Louis Diame. Even though she posted the announcement, people thought she was kidding. She posted pics in her gorgeous Vera Wang gown and wrote, "A) Impromptu photo shoot in a custom [Vera Wang] dress. B) My girls came to help me, but they all coincidentally had on the same dress! They were sooooo embarrassed. C) Then I took a few flicks with Somebody's Husband." If she's going to be so coy about it, does that mean we can pass on getting her present?
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Simone Biles is considered to be the greatest gymnast of all time with 30 combined Olympic and World Championship medals, but her Tokyo dreams may be over. Simone is out of the Olympics team final with an apparent injury, according to multiple reports. Simone appeared to have issues during the first vault event, switching out her planned vault for an easier one in mid-air. No word on what her injury is. She is currently being assessed to see if there's a chance she can still compete in the individual events.Simone was the first woman since 1992 to advance to all six possible Olympic finals, but it's not clear if she'll still be able to compete in the all-around final on Thursday night and the event finals later in the Games. The team finished with silver, and according to CBS, the American women hadn't lost a gymnastics event at the world championships or Olympics team event since 2010. Russia won the gold, its first since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
"Bachelorette" alum Ryan Sutter is opening up about his battle with Lyme disease. He took to Instagram to talk about his intense health regimen. He says several pill bottles of supplements are the "first and last thing" he sees every day, showing off about a dozen expensive bottles, and in between, he's getting treatments like IV, infrared saunas, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, along with keeping up an "intentional diet" to keep his immune system in top shape. He wrote, "I can't afford to do all of these at once so I try to find combinations that are doable without compromising too much effectiveness. The effort here is physical and stress relieving. It is here where I want to be and here that justifies the efforts needed to find a way forward … And so it goes. Onward."
Weeks after she hired Mathew Rosengart as her lawyer, Britney Spears is making more moves to remove her dad Jamie Spears as conservator. According to extratv.com, Britney has filed court documents, proposing that CPA Jason Rubin be appointed conservator of her estate with the right to make financial decisions regarding her estate, healthcare, and real estate decisions. Right now, Jamie is the sole conservator of her estate, and Jodi Montgomery the sole conservator of her personal life. The documents also note that Britney has $2,730,454 in cash assets and over $57 million in non-cash assets. A hearing regarding the appointment has been set for December 13.
Ed Sheeran recently returned from a musical break to drop the new song "Bad Habits" but it sounds like he almost didn't return at all. According to nme.com, Ed said that after the birth of his daughter, Lyra, he considered giving up music altogether. Ed explained, "I stopped playing music for a bit. And music is entirely me as a person. Then I had my daughter and I was like: 'Right, that's it. This is me. I am probably just going to be a dad. I am not going to play music anymore.'" But eventually Ed realized he needed to go back to work. He added, "Then I was suddenly like: it is more important for my daughter to grow up knowing that her parents have a work ethic? I slowly got back into music that way and the creative process started flowing again."
