Facebook's Company Becomes Meta and More 'EntertainMinutes' for 10-29

Facebook's parent company is now called 'Meta' for METAVERSE?!!
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The Wake Up with Bret & Julie's Julie Tristan has all the entertainment news that you'll need, and she'll even give you a "Hot Guy Fact of the Day". Today's "EntertainMinutes" include...

Facebook has changed the name of its parent company to "Meta". Facebook itself will still be called Facebook, but it'll just be one of the technologies under what MARK ZUCKERBERG is calling the "metaverse".

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GIGI HADID and ZAYN MALIK apparently broke up. This news came out after reports said Zayn hit Gigi's mom YOLANDA during an argument. Zayn "adamantly" denies hitting her.

TOM HANKS crashed a wedding on the beach in Santa Monica last weekend. But at first he didn't know it was a same-sex affair. He asked, "Where's the groom?" When he realized it was a woman wearing a suit, he said, quote, "Oh get out! Oh man, my stock just exploded!"

ASHTON KUTCHER ended up in the hospital twice with pancreatitis while preparing to play STEVE JOBS, because he tried to replicate Jobs' fruit-heavy diet. MILA KUNIS says, "He's so dumb, he also only ate, like, grapes at one point . . . it's so stupid."

PETA wants to ban the term "bullpen" from baseball, because it refers to the place cows are held before they're slaughtered. They've suggested an alternate term for the area where pitchers warm up: The ARM BARN.

Eating disorder advocates take issue with "Great British Bake Off" judge PRUE LEITH calling desserts, "worth every calorie." They say, "equating food with 'good' or 'bad' moral connotations can lead to feelings of guilt and shame, and can even encourage eating disorder behaviors."

Did you know an"Elf" sequel was written? But WILL FERRELL turned it down, even though he would have made $29 million. He says he didn't like the script, and he would have just been doing it for the money.

Is CHRIS HEMSWORTH trying to bring back "Fat Thor"?

TARA REID calls new photos of her "hot" and "artsy" . . . but her fans think she looks way too skinny. Tara wants you to know she just has a high metabolism and can't gain weight no matter how much she eats.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS and a special guest helped CHRIS HARDWICK and his wife reveal their baby's gender.

ARIANA GRANDE channeled Barbarella in a shoot for her r.e.m. cosmetics line.

CRISTIANO RONALDO and his wife are expecting twins.

"Succession" star BRIAN COX trashes a bunch of people in his upcoming memoir, including Johnny Depp, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Seagal and (kind of) Michael Caine.

And speaking of memoirs, MATTHEW PERRY is going to write a memoir about his battle with addiction and "Friends".

And when you play golf in Australia, sometimes the kangaroos play through.

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