Jessica Kirson expressed “sincere regret” for participating in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Kirson admitted she was surprised to be invited to the festival and even requested “guarantee” that she could be “openly out as a lesbian on stage and perform gay material.” “I hoped that this could help LGBTQ+ people in Saudi Arabia feel seen and valued,” she continued. “I am grateful that I was able to do precisely that—to my knowledge, I am the first openly gay comic to talk about it on stage in Saudi Arabia. I received messages from attendees sharing how much it meant to them to participate in a gay-affirming event. At the same time, I deeply regret participating under the auspices of the Saudi government.” Kirson said performing at the festival, which features comics like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr and Louis C.K., has “weighed heavily on [her] heart.” Comedians such as David Cross and Marc Maron have spoken out against the festival. Atsuko Okatsuka, who turned down an offer to perform, posted the contract online, which barred comedians from saying anything that would “degrade” Saudi Arabia or its royal family. Maron’s critique came in the form of a joke regarding the murder of Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi, saying, “The same guy that’s gonna pay [the comedians] is the same guy that paid that guy to bonesaw Jamal Khashoggi.” Comedian Tim Dillon, who says the festival fired im after he joked about forced labor, said comics were paid huge sums of money to perform.
Mark Sanchez, former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports analyst, was stabbed in Indianapolis last night during an alleged fight with a food delivery driver over parking, according to FOX59. Sanchez, who Fox Sports said is stable after being taken to the hospital with critical injuries, was the aggressor in the altercation, according to the driver. In a statement to CNN, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the incident “involved two adult males, resulting in one man receiving lacerations and the other sustaining injuries consistent with stab wounds.” The attack was also categorized as “an isolated incident,” not a random act. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Mark, and we ask that everyone please respect his and his family’s privacy during this time,” Fox Sports said. Police received the call at 12:30 a.m. on Saturday that two people were injured in downtown Indianapolis. Sanchez was in Indiana’s capital city to commentate on the Sunday game between the Colts and the Las Vegas Raiders. The former quarterback played 10 seasons in the league and hosts the Fox Sports digital show Rearview.
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Taylor Swift admitted that she has no plans to tour for her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped on Friday. “I’m gonna be really honest with you,” Swift told BBC Radio 1. “Like, I am so tired when I think about doing it again because I would want to do it really, really well again.” The “Cruel Summer” singer said that she “had so much fun” on the Eras tour, which raked in a staggering $2.2 billion, making it the most profitable concert tour ever. The tour, which ran from March 2023 to December 2024, with 149 shows in 51 cities, was “the most exhausting challenge ever, physically,” Swift said. “I could only do the Eras Tour when I was on the Eras Tour and that’s two years of having no other hobbies. And now I have the hobbies again,” she added. Her new album has already earned $15 million in its first day of pre-sales, according to a Deadline report. The album has a film of the same name running in AMC theaters from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, which is forecasted to earn between $29 million and $31 million in its opening weekend.
Charlie Hunnam, 45, shed a whopping 30 pounds to portray infamous serial killer Ed Gein, who inspired the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. The new season of Monster has the Sons of Anarchy actor playing Gein, who went on a killing spree in the 1950s and dug up graves to make household items and clothing out of human remains. “He was a very skinny, malnourished type of guy. So I mean, first of all, basically the basic first step was losing 30 pounds so I could look like him,” Hunman said in an interview with People. He added earlier that the Wisconsin serial killer had “been abused, he was left in isolation, so he had no real social context to reflect back to him, normal behavior.” Hunnam noted that he delved into Gein’s relationship with his mother, which loosely inspired the Hitchcock horror. “[Gein’s mother] told him every day of his life that she hated him because he wasn’t born the girl, the daughter that she always wanted,” Hunnam said. Monster: The Ed Gein Story is streaming now on Netflix.
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Oasis guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs revealed he’s been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will have to miss upcoming shows as he receives treatment. “Early this year I was diagnosed with prostate cancer,” he wrote Friday in a statement on Instagram. “The good news is I’m responding really well to treatment, which meant I could be part of this incredible tour.” The “Wonderwall” musician said he’ll be “missing the gigs in Seoul, Tokyo, Melbourne and Sydney.” A replacement for the founding member has not been announced. The legendary English rock band, which includes brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, Arthurs, Gem Archer and Andy Bell, has been on a world tour since the beginning of July this year. The “Oasis Live ’25” tour marks the band’s first reunion since 2009, which is set to rake in at least $200 million, according to industry experts. The group is scheduled to have eight shows across Asia and Australia before heading to South America. “Wishing you all the best with your treatment,” the band wrote on Instagram in a response to Arthurs’ post. “We’ll see you back on stage in South America.”
Blake Lively signaled her support for Taylor Swift’s new album amid rumors of their friendship going on ice due to the ongoing legal drama between Lively and her It Ends With Us director/co-star Justin Baldoni. The actress on Friday liked Swift’s Instagram post announcing the release of The Life of A Showgirl, her 12th studio album. Earlier this year, Baldoni’s lawyers subpoenaed Swift, alleging that she had pressured him to agree to Lively’s changes to the It Ends With Us script. A representative for Swift said after the subpoena was dropped that it had been “designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.” An insider told People then that Swift and Likely were “taking some space from each other.” The two have been friends since 2014, and Swift is a godparent to Lively’s four children with Ryan Reynolds. Some fans of Swift have interpreted one song on her new album to be a defense of Lively amid the lawsuit.
Teddi Mellencamp is sharing some good news in her ongoing cancer battle. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 44, revealed in a Friday episode of her podcast that her stage 4 melanoma was undetectable in her most recent scan. “When they told me, I was in such shock. I was like, numb,” Mellencamp told her guest co-host, Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania. However, the star clarified that she’s “not considered in remission or anything like that” and will still undergo her scheduled course of immunotherapy for another year. “I’m still fighting,” she added. The mom of three, whose father is singer John Mellencamp, went public with her diagnosis in 2022 after doctors discovered stage 2 melanoma on her back. In April, she revealed that her cancer had since been upgraded to stage 4 after metastasizing to her brain and lungs, and said her doctor had given her a 50 percent chance of recovery. In August, the star said her cancer was “payback” for cheating on her husband of 14 years, Edwin Arroyave, with her horse trainer. The couple, who share daughters Slate, 12, and Dove, 5, and son Cruz, 11, separated in 2024, but put their divorce proceedings on pause when Mellencamp’s cancer metastasized.
A woman, 83, whose identity has yet to be released, was found dead inside a car in a long-term parking lot at John F. Kennedy International Airport Thursday afternoon. Around 2:10 p.m., a report was sent to Port Authority police about an unresponsive woman who was located in her car in parking lot 9. Sources told the New York Post that the report was filed after somebody noticed her in the same position in her car she’d been in that morning. Police broke the woman’s car window and emergency medical services arrived on the scene, where she was pronounced dead. The last time her car was spotted running was on Sept. 30, two days before her body was discovered, sources told the New York Post. Her cause of death has not been released yet. Photos from the scene showed a sheet covering a body on the ground of the parking lot beside a white car with an open door.
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Climber ​​Balin Miller has died on El Capitan while 500 people watched in a live stream. The 23-year-old was near the top of Sea of Dreams, a notoriously treacherous route up the 3,000-foot granite monolith in Yosemite National Park. Miller rose to fame within the climbing community this summer following a solo ascent of the 9,000-foot Slovak Direct in his home state, Alaska. Photographer Tom Evans was documenting Miller’s Yosemite climb and was watching as the tragedy unfolded. He noted that a bag got stuck. “His rope didn’t reach the bag’s location by many feet, but he seemed unaware of the fact,” he said. “On the way down, he rappelled off the end of the rope.” Authorities have launched an investigation into the fall, which is the third death in the park this year, Associated Press reported. His mother Jeanine Girard-Moorman said, “His heart and soul was truly to just climb. He loved to climb, and it was never about money and fame.” The incident was livestreamed through a telescope by an enthusiast whose name is being reported only as Eric. Five hundred people were watching when he fell, News.com.au reports.
A Virginia family have gone viral for naming their six children very similar names. Carolyn Cousin, 31, and her fiancé, Cameron Butts Sr., 32, gave each of their children names that look similar on paper but are actually pronounced very differently. Their children are Camarion (cuh-MAR-ee-on), 7 months, Cam’Ron, 2, Carmyn, 4, Camreon (cam-REE-on), 6, Cameron Jr., 7, and Camryn, 9, Cousins said in an interview with People. In a video posted to TikTok in July, where she shared her children’s names, some people posted negative comments. “This should be illegal,” one person wrote. “This pmo [pisses me off] to infinity and beyond,” another added. She said, despite the negative reactions online, that her children “love” the tradition. And she hopes that they give their own children “unique names” when they’re old enough. The parents of six decided to make it a tradition after their third child, she said. “Honestly my fiancé and I both agreed on our first child’s name. He always wanted to name his daughter Camryn, [which is] the girl version of his name Cameron,” she told People. “Then we had a boy a year later and named him Cameron Jr. and honestly it really started a thing naming two kids the same name.”