This woman used ChatGPT to cash in for her good deeds. In a remarkable story of generosity and gratitude, a woman who recently won the lottery has announced that she plans to donate every penny to charity. Carrie Edwards, a resident of Midlothian, Virginia, matched four of the first five numbers plus the Powerball in … Read more
It was a real d–k move. Cursing out the brass might seem like a justifiably fireable offense. However, a UK supervisor was awarded over $40,000 after a court ruled that she was wrongfully canned for labeling her boss a “d–khead.” “Although her comments were inappropriate and regrettable, they did not justify summary dismissal,” declared Judge … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Beyoncé has an Emmy to go with her 35 Grammys. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, her legal name, was listed as one of a half dozen people on a team that won outstanding costumes for a variety, nonfiction or reality show for “Beyoncé Bowl,” her Western-themed halftime show on Netflix’s Christmas NFL game between the Baltimore Ravens and Houston Texans. The … Read more
Blake Lively scored two victories Friday in her heated legal battle with “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, with a judge ruling to keep her deposition transcript under wraps — at least for now. Manhattan federal Judge Lewis Liman issued two blistering orders, one of which scolded Baldoni’s side for seemingly trying to “invite … Read more
In an Australian first your flight is set to soon become a little bit furrier with the regulatory green light flashing to bring one small pet dog or cat on Virgin Australia domestic flights. A previous regulatory loophole that classed airplanes as restaurants, prohibited food and drink from being served when pet cats and dogs … Read more
Nick Kyrgios isn’t too fired up about Jannik Sinner’s Wimbledon title. Following Sinner’s, 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4, win Sunday over Carlos Alcaraz in the final, Kyrgios took to X with a cryptic, one-character message about the victory by the world’s top-ranked player: an asterisk. Kyrgios is likely referencing the fact that Sinner was previously suspended … Read more
He’s been crowned Dicaprio’s doppelgänger. It was Leos galore in New Jersey on Saturday as lookalikes for a DiCaprio lookalike contest battled it out on stage for a $50 cash prize. Among the seven contestants from places like Philadelphia and Providence was Nick Fine, 21, who was eventually crowned the winner. The swarthy local confessed … Read more
Luxe NYC bridal designer Reem Acra, whose gauzy creations are beloved by celebs like Taylor Swift, won a whopping $38.7 million judgment — more than a decade after smoke from a nearby fire ruined more than 2,000 dresses in her Midtown studio. A Manhattan judge ordered troubled real estate developer the Chetrit Group to make … Read more
The Pedro Pascal look-alike winner has a plea for the real Pedro Pascal. Brooklyn dad George Gountas appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” where he works as a lighting designer, and spoke to host Jon Stewart about his big victory at the look-alike contest — including his wife Jenny Gania’s reaction. “Her position … Read more
Nicole Scherzinger is the greatest star of all. The former Pussycat Dolls singer took home the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8, beating record-breaking six-time winner Audra McDonald. Scherzinger, 46, stars as the faded silent film star Norma Desmond … Read more
It’s another success(ion) for Sarah Snook. The actress, 37, took home the award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday, June 8. Snook took on all 26 roles in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” the 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic horror by Oscar Wilde. Sarah … Read more
Blake Lively just scored a victory in her ongoing battle with Justin Baldoni. Judge Lewis J. Liman signed off on the actress’ motion to strike the claims that her lead attorney, Michael Gottlieb, allegedly threatened to release Taylor Swift’s text messages if the singer didn’t publicly support Lively in the “It Ends With Us” legal battle, … Read more
She kicked the Darth haters to the curb. Aggrieved UK worker Lorna Rooke was awarded almost $40,000 in compensation after being compared to Darth Vader — an analogy that litigators deemed “upsetting.” “Darth Vader is a legendary villain of the Star Wars series, and being aligned with his personality is insulting,” employment judge Kathryn Ramsden … Read more
Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Los Angeles in a ruling on Wednesday said the writers of Vince Vance and the Valiants’ “All I Want for … Read more
Persistence is key on “Jeopardy!” — at least for one winner, who was finally able to fulfill his lifelong dream to participate on the show. Harvey Silikovitz, an attorney and “worldwide karaoke singer” who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2019, broke returning contestant Laura Faddah‘s eight-game winning streak when he appeared on the Monday, March … Read more
Adrien Brody’s performance as a Hungarian architect in “The Brutalist” has won him his first Golden Globe. In the three-and-a-half hour film directed by Brady Corbet, the actor plays László Tóth, a Holocaust survivor trying to rebuild his life in America following the war. The performance and film are so detailed that some viewers have … Read more
Playing an actor with a facial disfigurement who gets an experimental treatment that transforms his appearance but doesn’t help his career has won Sebastian Stan his first Golden Globe, for “A Different Man.” “Our ignorance and discomfort around disability and disfigurement has to end now,” Stan said while accepting his award. “We have to normalize … Read more
“The Brutalist,” the epic starring Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor and architect, took home the top drama prize at the Golden Globes on Sunday, triumphing in a field that included the journalism ethics thriller “September 5” and the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.” In the weighty film, directed by Brady Corbet (“Vox Lux”), … Read more
Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy on Sunday for playing a fading star who goes to extreme lengths to regain her youth in the body horror film “The Substance.” The role has been viewed as a major comeback for the actress, who was best known for her … Read more
Kieran Culkin has earned his second Golden Globe, his first in a movie category, for his work in “A Real Pain.” In the film, which was written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, who also co-stars, Culkin plays Benji, one of two cousins on a heritage tour of Poland to honor their recently deceased grandmother, who … Read more