WENN.com Seal Insists He Didn’t Mean To Insult Oprah With His Weinstein Meme Seal was under fire on Thursday for a post he made about Oprah, implying that she cannot be a “Me Too” advocate after years of friendship with Harvey Weinstein. Though many people have been trying to use old pictures of (insert celebrity here) with Weinstein against them, nobody can say that those old friends knew anything about what the powerful producer was doing to various women–especially someone like Oprah, so powerful herself she wouldn’t have been subjected to any of it. Even worse for Seal, he was further labeled as a hypocrite since his ex-wife Heidi Klum was also photographed multiple times with Weinstein, who was a producer for her show Project Runway . Now, unsurprisingly, Seal is backtracking and apologizing for what he posted about Oprah and insisting he has a great deal of respect for the mogul. The singer explains that he only used the meme for the actual message itself, and not to take shots at her in particular. Seal says in a video posted to his Facebook page, “What I re-posted was not an attack on Oprah at all…She just happened to be the person photographed with the pig in the picture. What I re-posted was commentary on the hypocritical and double-standard nature and behavior of Hollywood.” The “Kiss From A Rose” singer also took the opportunity to stick to to Stacey Dash and let her know he isn’t okay with her tweeting articles about him and trying to prove a point. He fired at the Fox News commentator, “Stacey Dash, keep my name out of your mouth. Do not retweet, re-quote anything I said in order to reinforce your self-hating agenda. You live in the Sunken Place.” Can’t really win people over any more than loving on Oprah and hating on Stacey Dash, right?
WENN.com Seal Insists He Didn’t Mean To Insult Oprah With His Weinstein Meme Seal was under fire on Thursday for a post he made about Oprah, implying that she cannot be a “Me Too” advocate after years of friendship with Harvey Weinstein. Though many people have been trying to use old pictures of (insert celebrity here) with Weinstein against them, nobody can say that those old friends knew anything about what the powerful producer was doing to various women–especially someone like Oprah, so powerful herself she wouldn’t have been subjected to any of it. Even worse for Seal, he was further labeled as a hypocrite since his ex-wife Heidi Klum was also photographed multiple times with Weinstein, who was a producer for her show Project Runway . Now, unsurprisingly, Seal is backtracking and apologizing for what he posted about Oprah and insisting he has a great deal of respect for the mogul. The singer explains that he only used the meme for the actual message itself, and not to take shots at her in particular. Seal says in a video posted to his Facebook page, “What I re-posted was not an attack on Oprah at all…She just happened to be the person photographed with the pig in the picture. What I re-posted was commentary on the hypocritical and double-standard nature and behavior of Hollywood.” The “Kiss From A Rose” singer also took the opportunity to stick to to Stacey Dash and let her know he isn’t okay with her tweeting articles about him and trying to prove a point. He fired at the Fox News commentator, “Stacey Dash, keep my name out of your mouth. Do not retweet, re-quote anything I said in order to reinforce your self-hating agenda. You live in the Sunken Place.” Can’t really win people over any more than loving on Oprah and hating on Stacey Dash, right?
At one point or another, we’ve all daydreamed about what we would do if we had a virtually unlimited supply of time and money. Perhaps you’d like to sail around the world on a yacht that’s twice the size of your first apartment, or eat manatee burgers on Richard Branson’s private island. There are many ways to blow staggering amounts of cash in frivolous and obnoxious ways, and as far as we can tell, that’s the best reason to amass staggering amounts of cash. Of course, saying you want to pull a Magellan or feast on some ground endangered species is that tres noveau riche sh-t that’ll get you tossed out of the Secret Rich Guys’ Club before you can say “DJ Jazzy Jeff.” The folks who have been annoyingly well-heeled for most of their lives have moved beyond such pedestrian fantasies and are now only excited by displays of wealth that work-a-day schmucks like you and I would never even dream of. Take for example, the latest expenditure by Mr. Brad Pitt, who began life by winning the genetic lottery, and then rode that wave all the way to unimaginable financial success. At 54, Brad’s been rich and famous for nearly three decades, which means those nightly Illuminati orgies are just a tedious chore to him at this point. This is a guy who’s done it all, which means he needs something truly wondrous to get his motor running. You can only drive so many luxury cars and observe so many alien autopsies before you begin to crave the purest and most universal pleasure known to man. We’re talking, of course, about enjoying the company of the Mother of Dragons herself, Emilia Clarke. Proving once again that he’s living the very best of lives, Pitt recently bid $120,000 for a chance to spend an evening watching Game of Thrones with Emilia. Obviously, Clarke is gorgeous , but it seems Pitt ponied up the dough simply out of sheer GoT fanboy geekiness. Clarke auctioned off her time as part of a benefit for Haiti organized by Sean Penn. Sadly, like the Red Wedding, this tale has a tragic ending. It seems Brad’s colossal bid was insufficient, and someone who we’re just gonna assume was George R.R. Martin in disguise dropped an astonishing $160,000 for an hour of Emilia’s time. That may seem ludicrous, but the way our cable bills have been looking lately, we’ll all be dropping six figures to watch HBO before the year is out, amirite?! Yes, that was an incredibly lame joke, but if we told it you while we were clinking glasses of $800 champagne aboard our private space shuttle, you’d be in hysterics right now. Maybe money can’t always buy you a night with the Khaleesi, but it can always buy you fake friends. View Slideshow: 13 Reasons to Be Glad You Never Slept With Brad Pitt
You know how some celebrities always look the same in photos? Woody Allen’s one of those. He tends to look bewildered. And bewildered is how many feel every time that they see Woody Allen out and about instead of, you know, rotting in a jail cell. Ellen Pompeo is courageously speaking out and slamming Woody Allen. Honestly? “Fool” is, relatively speaking, one of the nicest thing’s Allen’s ever been called. Ellen Pompeo quoted a HelloGiggles (love that site) tweet that read: “A journalist went through Woody Allen’s personal journals and found he was obsessed with teenage girls.” Pompeo quoted that tweet with, well, what we were all thinking: “I haven’t gone through his personal journals and I knew that… shocked the people that work with this man # ambition is [blind].” And that was only the beginning of what she had to say. When someone in a now-deleted tweet apparently tried to suggest that Woody Allen had “made mistakes” in the past (that’s what we infer that they said,” Pompeo replied: “I don’t call it a mistake… he married his daughter…people see what they want to see or don’t…Kind of hard not to see who this fool is.” Like we said — “fool” is pretty much the nicest word for Woody Allen, considering the damning accusations that he molested Dylan Farrow as a child . Also he married his daughter, Soon-Yi. But Ellen Pompeo was just getting started Ellen Pompeo continued by targeting Woody Allen’s alleged racism, tweeting: “And while we’re on the subject & I’m fired up has this fool ever put one poc in any of his movies ever?” and “What about Hispanic or Asian actors? Or are asians only for him to molest? You know me when I get started.” Woody Allen’s casting tends to be about as white as snow on a golf course, but one follower pointed out that Penelope Cruz won an Oscar for her role in one of his films. Pompeo acknowledged this, but notes that she genuinely doesn’t know about who’s in his films, because: “I wouldn’t know because I don’t watch that bougie s–t.” Honestly, it’s always nice to see Ellen Pompeo go off. One tweeter mentioned to Ellen Pompeo that some people try to “separate the professional from the person.” You know, like going to Chick-fil-A despite their politics, or seeing a Johnny Depp film despite the abuse allegations, or seeing a film by Brett Ratner or Roman Polanski or Brian Singer or … well, there are way too many names. Ellen replied: “You know what I call that?? Ducking predators and chasing trophies…it’s WEAK AF.” Ellen went on to talk about how, too often, black women’s voices are ignored when they accuse a man of sexual predation. She cites the many accusations against Bill Cosby, the first of which were ignored for years and years and years before soem famous white women spoke out. And, in the mean time, famous actresses who should know better — actresses whom I admire, like Selena Gomez and Blake Lively — continue to work with Woody Allen. It takes people like Ellen Pompeo using their platforms to keep momentum going. Woody Allen has not had his Weinstein moment yet. While many people eagerly await the day that Woody Allen is no longer among the living, it’s their hope that he’ll die in prison rather in the comfort of his home. He’s 82-years-old and those who want to see him brought to justice and publicly disgraced know that the clock is ticking. Now is the perfect time to talk about this. Even the Golden Globes, with Oprah’s epic speech and Debra Messing taking a stand for pay equality , had its flaws. James Franco, accused of having an inappropriate interest in underage teen girls, won for The Disaster Artist last night. And accused wife-beater Gary Oldman won Best Actor. Society has a long, long way to go. But even among other controversial and despised figures who still roam free, Woody Allen continues to stick out like a sore thumb. View Slideshow: 21 Celebrities You Probably Want to Keep Away From Your Children
“To Rome For Love” Premieres Jan. 7 On Bravo One of the stars of a new reality show about black women seeking love internationally said she decided to go abroad after ending a toxic relationship with her pro footballer fiancee. “I wanted to be part of this experience because dating, it’s changed. It’s changed a lot,” Ashley Russell said of her new show “To Rome For Love.” “I’m from a small town, and I grew up in a single parent home. Everybody here knows everybody. I wanted to go outside the norm and experience something different.” Russell is among a group of black women on “To Rome For Love,” who have struck out in America’s dating culture and opted to spend six weeks in Rome to explore relationships with Italian men. The Covington, La. native said that after her nine-year relationship with her pro-football playing fiancee ended because of his infidelity, she didn’t have anything to lose. “I fell in love with a man who was very powerful,” Russell said. “So I was always in the back…I was second to his career. I was never secure about myself. It was hard coming from this relationship and trusting that I could find love again.” While Russell was coy on whether she’d found her own “Italian Stallion,” she did say that she had no shortage of admirers and said her time with the show’s relationship expert Diane Valentine, changed how she saw herself. Bravo Media/ Philippe Antonello/ Ernesto Ruscio “Diane made me realize that I was enough,” Russell said. “It’s all about the person that’s inside. It had nothing to do with what I looked like. For a long time, I thought it was about the outer appearance. I thought that would help me find a man. She helped me realize that I’m an amazing woman with a lot to offer.” Russell said that she hopes viewers – and especially black women – will take away from the show that all love starts from within. “I just want them to keep their minds open about the process,” Russell said. “And as black women, I want us to remember that whether it’s Rome, whether it’s Tennessee, or whether its Louisiana, you have to love yourself. For people to love you, you have to accept yourself.”
Eric Trump is totally on to Ellen DeGeneres. She may play all calm and cool and funny and happy and peaceful and loving on television, but the President’s son knows what’s really going on here. And he’s finally come out and revealing his truth to the world… … Ellen DeGeneres is a key member of The Deep State! This is a term often thrown around by Sean Hannity and other like-minded conservatives. It gained momentum during the 2016 Presidential campaign after being trumpeted by ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon and it refers to an alleged shadowy entity of civil servants. This shadowy entity of civil servants purportedly coordinates efforts and policies behind-the-scenes to delegitimize the Donald Trump administration. Many members of the mainstream press, someone like Eric Trump would argue, are working with The Deep State to bring down the commander-in-chief. How does Ellen fit in? What has she done to earn this reputation? It’s unclear. But consider the following Tweet by Eric Trump, which has gone viral for its hilarious accusation: “Shocking… once again, here are the @Twitter “suggestions” of who I should follow. #DeepState,” wrote Eric as a caption to the screen capture of who Twitter thinks he may want to follow. One person listed there is the previous President of the United States. Another person listed there is the candidate Donald Trump defeated to become President. (If either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are members of the supposed Deep State, well, they aren’t very deep undercover.) And the third person is beloved talk show host, comedian and former American Idol judge, Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen is very likely a Democrat, but she actually isn’t very outspoken when it comes to politics. Yes, she once sent a message to Donald Trump that was based around Finding Dory. But she mostly talks on her show about love and respect and hope , which… okay, nevermind. We get it now. These aren’t exactly Donald Trump-espoused values, are they? As you might expect, Eric Trump’s Tweet has become quite a source of ridicule on social media. Some folks are trying to teach him how Twitter works (“I know you’re not the smart one, but Twitter’s algorithm looks at who you searched for most recently when making suggestions. It looks like you might have recently searched for a Democrat, buddy.”) … … while others are just openly mocking him. To wit: Said another user, pretty much summing up Eric’s statement: This is the most unintentionally hilarious tweet of the very very new year! Fast forward 362 days and we have a feeling it may remain the most unintentionally hilarious Tweet of the year. Good luck, trying to top it, everyone else on the planet. This is gonna be a challenge.
Source: Newscast / Getty The internet is no stranger to seeing some of it’s most beloved Youtubers–or at least people with huge followings–make incredibly mindless decisions despite how many people they will be affecting. Today, the internet is aimed at Logan Paul , a vlogger who documents his life every single day to more than 15 million subscribers–raking in nearly 5 million views a day. Him and his brother Jake Paul have both garnered huge followings on Youtube, and most of their audience consists of younger, pre-teen children who watch for videos of pranks, music videos, and different viral challenges. The younger demographic in Logan’s palm is especially alarming when it comes to what he’s under fire for. The Youtuber visited Japan’s ‘suicide forest’ and posted footage of a dead body, which was followed by him and his friends laughing at the body hanging from a tree. Though the head of the body was blurred out, the rest of the person was shown in full focus as Paul and his whole clan chuckled over discovering someone who committed suicide in ‘suicide forest.’ He’s since deleted the video, but not before it got over a million views. Obviously people are outraged by his decision to upload something like this, especially when he’s treating an extremely serious topic like a joke. He issued an apology, which for many is only putting him in even hotter water. So sorry. pic.twitter.com/JkYXzYsrLX — Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 2, 2018 Check out some of the reactions to the whole situation on the next few pages. Dear @LoganPaul , How dare you! You disgust me. I can't believe that so many young people look up to you. So sad. Hopefully this latest video woke them up. You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell. Ap — Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) January 2, 2018 that logan paul video where he films the body of a person who committed suicide that same day is deadass the worst most un-self aware shit i ever seen in my life — nathan zed (@NathanZed) January 2, 2018
Source: Newscast / Getty The internet is no stranger to seeing some of it’s most beloved Youtubers–or at least people with huge followings–make incredibly mindless decisions despite how many people they will be affecting. Today, the internet is aimed at Logan Paul , a vlogger who documents his life every single day to more than 15 million subscribers–raking in nearly 5 million views a day. Him and his brother Jake Paul have both garnered huge followings on Youtube, and most of their audience consists of younger, pre-teen children who watch for videos of pranks, music videos, and different viral challenges. The younger demographic in Logan’s palm is especially alarming when it comes to what he’s under fire for. The Youtuber visited Japan’s ‘suicide forest’ and posted footage of a dead body, which was followed by him and his friends laughing at the body hanging from a tree. Though the head of the body was blurred out, the rest of the person was shown in full focus as Paul and his whole clan chuckled over discovering someone who committed suicide in ‘suicide forest.’ He’s since deleted the video, but not before it got over a million views. Obviously people are outraged by his decision to upload something like this, especially when he’s treating an extremely serious topic like a joke. He issued an apology, which for many is only putting him in even hotter water. So sorry. pic.twitter.com/JkYXzYsrLX — Logan Paul (@LoganPaul) January 2, 2018 Check out some of the reactions to the whole situation on the next few pages. Dear @LoganPaul , How dare you! You disgust me. I can't believe that so many young people look up to you. So sad. Hopefully this latest video woke them up. You are pure trash. Plain and simple. Suicide is not a joke. Go rot in hell. Ap — Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) January 2, 2018 that logan paul video where he films the body of a person who committed suicide that same day is deadass the worst most un-self aware shit i ever seen in my life — nathan zed (@NathanZed) January 2, 2018
It's that time of the year again. Namely, the end. With 2017 just about over, editors at The Hollywood Gossip are finally prepared to reveal our 10th annual Celebrity of the Year. But not without a lot of build-up and drama first. Let's do this down below! 1. A Tradition Unlike Any Other Forget The Masters. THG running down our top stars of a certain calendar year has been a long-anticipated and much-balleyhooed tradition since we started doing it in 2007. 2. And Who Was the Winner Way Back Then? It was an easy call, considering Britney Spears started the year by shaving her head and ended it by being at the center of one pregnancy rumors after another. 3. Who Else Has Taken Home the Honor? To name a few: Kim Kardashian, the entire cast of New Moon, Justin Bieber and Kristen Stewart. 4. Who Won It Last Year? Taylor Swift. Hard to believe, right? Considering how quiet she’s been in 2017? But the singer had to take a long break after all that went down a year ago. 5. Who are the Contenders This Year? Many think 2017 was the worst year in the history of mankind, largely because of the person sitting in the White House. So we need to start there… 6. But This Ain’t Happening Granted, Donald Trump likely had a bigger impact on 2017 than anyone else out there, but we refuse to give him any sort of distinction. We won’t reward the President with our top honor. View Slideshow
Getty Images Fan Exposes Comedian Michael Blackson After They Allegedly Smashed Welp, we guess this answers any initial questions about Michael Blackson’s alleged creeping with a fan … ICYMI, we previously reported on comedian Michael Blackson’s ex-fiancee Georgia Reign getting into some IG beef with one of his “friendly” fans. The alleged woman (who is rocking a full beard in some of her photos) trolled Gerogia’s IG with claims that she was smashing Blackson while they were together. Michael Blackson jumped on his own IG to debunk to rumors, saying the person trolling Georgia was just a fan. Now it seems like Blackson was telling a bold face lie. Does this look like Mike to you? Ahh welp. Blackson is officially a single muddasucka, but we guess these photos were supposed to entice his ex? Hit to flip to see what Georgia thinks of all of this.
