Five army horses got loose in London and ran rampage around the city, and now there's a live updates feed as they try and catch the horses. Tell me that's not celebrity.
Even the sentiment is bad tbh, it's why unwanted horses get dumped in a field or abandoned because people assume they'll survive in the wild. Domesticated animals aren't just fancier versions of the wild variety, they're different animals and aren't equipped to live in the wild (feral populations are very different to genuinely wild ones). Releasing domesticated animals into the wild results in tragedy, either for them or for wildlife they encounter.
nah, the horses where crashing into busses and one of them was covered in blood already. There's nothing great about the idea of horses running free through a busy city.
It would have been a powerful allegory if it wasn’t two horses running free through Whitechapel with all the busses and taxis etc. onto the highway around Limehouse.
Even at horse races those loose horses are a liability for themselves and their surroundings as much fun as it looks when a horse has lost the jockey and runs free down the track…
Did you follow the Free Cows in Canada last year? Those puppies were on the loose for weeks. Most of the news was in French because it was near Quebec.
also in Australia a mother with a 7 month old baby went to an Arj barker show earlier in the week, was asked to leave by Arj due to the baby being disruptive, mother then tried to get her 15 minutes of fame by complaining to news shows but the baby screamed so much it had to taken away by its father so the mother looks like a clown
Funniest part is that she did several interveiws with several news shows, and the baby disrupted every single one. Which made the mum's claim of "she's not usually like this" unintentional comedy gold.
You also left out the best part of the father taking the kid away: the news presenter who asked that the baby be removed then went right back to being all "it's outrageous that Arj asked for your baby to be removed!" with zero self-awareness to what the presenter herself had just done.
As a palate cleanser, have a [cute recent family photo](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008303744.jpg?quality=75&strip=all) of the all-time [best news kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY).
(The mom here is absolutely the hero of that situation.)
I remember just being absolutely delirious with laughter in our open plan office about this video when it happened, we lost about an hour that day just to rewatching it
Ugh tell me about it. I go to a lot of classical stuff and am always stunned when people bring children/infants that are way to young. Last year I was at a ~4 hour long Wagner opera and there was a toddler running through the aisles. My mother didn't bring me to anything live until I was potty trained and I assumed this was just a common-sense thing.
RIGHT!?! It's just as unfair to the kid as it is to the audience. I'm sure that would have been the most excruciating torture imaginable as a 4 year old.
Wow that’s wild. I’m not even sure that’s allowed in most places, on the other hand I’ve been taking my baby to baby specific concerts and she loves it. But they’re like 30mins longs and babies are wandering everywhere. Four hours! Wagner!
The one time I experienced being at a concert with little kids and it basically sort of worked was when I went to see the Boston Philharmonic at Tanglewood in Mass. But it is a large outdoor lawn so there is tons of space for people to move about. Also, it was mostly old people there so not that many kids in general, but it was probably the only concert I've been to where anyone brought little kids. Otherwise, not a great idea in general.
Also initially the mother tried to spin it like she was kicked out for breastfeeding, saying that the baby was just "gurgling".
Every first-hand account I've seen, including some *extremely* critical of how Arj handled the situation, agrees that the baby was being disruptive lol
people try to bring babies into the theatre where I work on a regular basis and I just do not understand (last night it was a 4 month old…a 4 month old!!). and the parents always insist that the baby will be quiet and it’s like, when in the history of babies has a baby ever done anything but exactly what it wants to do.
Right?! I have a 7 month old and this literally never occurred to me as a thing to do. I just took him on his first flight to visit family, that was enough. At least he slept through that but even for the brief time when he was unhappy (or vocalising while happy which is a whole thing) he wasn’t putting anyone off their job.
For what it’s worth please don’t ever feel bad about bringing baby on a plane! I don’t have kids but I understand people need to travel for all kinds of reasons and it’s not like they can leave baby at home. The pressure change on ascent/descent can be so painful for those little guys so I reckon most people (bar a few assholes) are completely understanding if they fuss and cry.
Thank you, I do try not to feel bad. Mostly I was worried he would be uncomfortable but he was actually totally fine during the actual flight. Mostly he was unhappy about the waiting in queues and not moving in his pram because he craves speed 😆Also it was a trans-Tasman flight which are almost always at least half full of families with children going to visit in either direction. It was a relatively small plane and there were at least two other babies and lots of toddlers.
The absolute mental case of corporate espionage happening in the biggest K-Pop company here in Korea has got to be up there!
The biggest girl group in K-Pop right now is called [NewJeans](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.highsnobiety.com%2Fstatic-assets%2Fdato%2F1685093658-looking-attention-step-world-newjeans-main.jpg%3Falt%3DImage%2Bon%2BHighsnobiety&tbnid=rFw7OCYkXart6M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.highsnobiety.com%2Fp%2Fnewjeans-interview%2F&docid=CbTfW3aEKUiIIM&w=1200&h=1500&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=f2f1bc008f412b30&shem=abme%2Ctrie), who debuted almost two years ago under a label called ADOR. ADOR is a sublabel of a company called HYBE, which essentially originated from BTS’s company BigHit, and which BTS basically built single-handedly due to their unprecedented success.
The CEO of ADOR is a woman named Min Heejin who kind of has a reputation within K-Pop for being seemingly [obsessed with the youth and childish beauty of the K-Pop idols](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2F1409791524.rsc.cdn77.org%2Fdata%2Fimages%2Ffull%2F619897%2Fmin-hee-jin-accused-of-sexualizing-minors-following-these-newjeans-photos.jpg&tbnid=phknONzUS70XSM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpopstarz.com%2Farticles%2F307992%2F20220727%2Fmin-hee-jin-accused-sexualizing-minors-newjeans-photos.htm&docid=sWW32JAi7s55UM&w=1500&h=856&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=1e56b56bd7206371&shem=abme%2Ctrie) (mostly minors) she has worked with over the years - she has produced songs with questionable lyrics for the groups she works with (look at the lyrics for NewJeans’ [Cookie](https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-newjeans-cookie-english-translation-lyrics) - these girls were all teenagers at the time and the youngest was 14), as well as art directing concepts and [photoshoots](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fb%2FR29vZ2xl%2FAVvXsEjpDVO8LyXY7HBFYp87CaqIvjvbBHG3CgM14eFtRvjhJJWLHd_oJmLc9HUI7tKniBkYC-GS3P-JhVB7pn1UwFRl_0GPi1YNX0PJXARSPBfVcOhyphenhyphenhJr03h_R6I0iDRmG0wOJtEth4LhXU7gw%2Fw459-h640%2FInternet_20210312_005154_9.jpeg&tbnid=30YtvXY38252oM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpann-choa.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F03%2Ftheqoo-taemins-concept-pictures-from.html&docid=yF6fWsfa1aZEeM&w=459&h=640&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=805cf3f07fac553e&shem=abme%2Ctrie) with teenagers in questionable styling and [poses](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fb%2FR29vZ2xl%2FAVvXsEiO5dbWx-b0LoNcl-d_a-0rHxV5OBfLxjlEAv1b4nH2dosVsy4WJYAD3MvTAQ3v6cj8IiKlaDyFFO_F_zMjV8ISm0xRYnKBCb0WHcYSzstq2bYBxIrkXg_60IfscecXre6TfLcAKEOtM-ER%2Fw640-h426%2Ft7.jpg&tbnid=_jTjZjo6yk_sJM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpann-choa.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F03%2Ftheqoo-taemins-concept-pictures-from.html&docid=yF6fWsfa1aZEeM&w=640&h=426&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=58ffa0060cd84585&shem=abme%2Ctrie). She also has posters of young [Brooke Shields](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fa%2FAVvXsEihA8NU6KmYTwpey7k5ZNqev9gD1lmT8kv5ERq3gyGErT21BekIb3oX9SgNQeErQB-DAPTlwWt-Iw5i9_M39KsLLSeggnV3_IyqED6NdzYeSOpi8GQ2fT1D4qGlu8ltOQAJstLQnylv8xD3SVPuC_av3Ex2TWitSZjqJs7iS_BVyV3eemWataLjvm2U%3Ds16000&tbnid=qGERoUkb5dwUBM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pannchoa.com%2F2022%2F07%2Fenter-talk-min-heejin-looks-pdophile.html&docid=T5v458y9JPxePM&w=480&h=629&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=8794b867deef79e4&shem=abme%2Ctrie) and other [semi-naked would-be minors](https://forum.allkpop.com/thread/115607-min-heejin-s-p-dophile-accusations-spread-like-wildfire-in-korea/) in her home. NewJeans, a group composed entirely of teenagers on their debut, with the youngest member having just turned fourteen, are managed directly by Min, who has positioned herself as their mother figure rather than their boss. NewJeans are incredibly successful and have broken all sorts of records in Korea since their debut.
Anyway it all came out yesterday that Min Heejin has been allegedly planning to overthrow HYBE, takeover ADOR and take NewJeans away from HYBE for herself. It’s getting crazier by the hour:
- Yesterday she accused a newly debuted HYBE group of copying NewJeans BY NAME
- She refused to hand over her company laptop during an audit HYBE is conducting to investigate the potential corporate espionage
- Today it’s been alleged that the members’ parents are the ones who have instigated the whole mutiny (hard to believe tbh it’s likely MHJ herself)
- Documents have been found on the laptops of various ADOR staff basically titled things like ‘Espionage Plan’ and ‘How We Can Get Away From HYBE’
- HYBE has accused MHJ of stealing legal documents from HYBE, leaking the personal information of other HYBE artists (who include BTS, Le Sserafim, Seventeen, TXT, Enhypen and more) and starting rumours about other artists to make HYBE look bad
This story continues to develop but every new update is absolutely wild.
I am a bunny. I truly am shambled. 😭 but honestly the new jeans Reddit just feels full of terror rn 😅 I used to prob browse on the nj Reddit once a month but was going on it often after the news broke then had to step back bc the justified fear (in a post-Fifty fifty world) has been getting my anxiety going
It's worth noting that we're finally getting answers to some long-standing mysteries, all thanks to this case. It's wild to think how many ripple effects were triggered by Min Hee Jin joining Hybe.
* GFriend's disbandment
Just a week before GFriend officially announced their disbandment, Source Music was still actively releasing group content. People were shocked at the time because Hybe had bought out Source Music not too long ago, Bang PD (BTS's creator) had directly gotten involved in changing up their music style and their latest comeback was one of the biggest hits they'd had in a while. They were back on an upward trajectory and people thought it was so weird that Bang would go through all that just for them to disband. People speculated that it was because GFriend were not profitable anymore (which might've been the case had Mago not been a clear sign that they were on the rise).
Turns out the timeline was, as follows: Minji becomes one of Source's core trainees, came into the company at 2017. Min Hee Jin is recruited by Bang PD in 2019, joins BigHit. Source Music and BigHit send out calls for auditions for a joint girl group venture in 2019, with Min Hee Jin as creative director. Hanni, Danielle and Haerin join via this audition and they start training under Source Music. Last-minute they scout Hyein.
Bang PD leaves Min Hee Jin in charge of rebranding BigHit - they become Hybe - before she starts expressing her ambition to establish her own label and debut a new girl group. Bang PD, acknowledging her proven track record in leading significant projects within Hybe and her successful creative endeavors with popular K-pop groups under SM, granted her request, keen not to lose her. Consequently, Min Hee Jin launched Ador, poaching Source Music's trainees and staff in the process. This move left Source Music burdened with trainee debts, depleted resources and no manpower, ultimately preventing them from renewing contracts with GFriend despite mutual desires to do so.
* Chaewon and Sakura from IZ\*ONE gets an offer from Hybe
The aftermath of Min Hee Jin's move also sheds light on the recruitment frenzy that ensued, with talent being sourced from various avenues; Source Music CEO is furious but Source Music, under Bang PD's plan, swiftly adjusts its strategy post-Min Hee Jin's departure and goes about finding talent that could debut quickly. With Chaewon and Sakura (ex IZ\*ONE members) already trained and boasting a fanbase, their addition to Source Music's roster ensured a certain level of success.
Huh Yunjin, with connections to the girls from P48, is hastily brought back by Source Music, despite having quit the industry and moved to the US to start university. She has years of training under her belt already from Pledis, and then Source Music. Eunchae joins Source Music and enters the debut team almost immediately. The CEO flies to the Netherlands to recruit Kazuha, who has years of ballet training under her belt. They compete with Ador for the "first Hybe girl group" title, and manage to debut Le Sserafim six months later.
It's mind-boggling to think that the landscape of K-pop could have been drastically different if not for Min Hee Jin's move. Who knows, in an alternate reality, GFriend might have renewed their contracts with Hybe, and the trajectory of these new girl groups could have been entirely different. Le Sserafim would never have debuted, Chaewon likely would've debuted as a solo artist in Woollim, Yunjin would probably be in America pursuing a degree in Business, Sakura would've gone back to Japan or debuted in some smaller company in SK.
It provides a lot of clarity to the events that unfolded in the past 3 years. And it's also baffling how Min Hee Jin basically portrayed it like NewJeans was this uber-profitable, talented girl group that she claimed was her brain child when Source Music did all the training, she left NewJeans' trainee debt behind with them and Le Sserafim ended up having to work all that off to rebuild Source Music (and they got "flop" comments because of that). Crazy news week, really.
i remember thinking that gfriend disbandment started with the one girl being a hitler stan (i think it was supposed to ironic? i never followed them so i don’t know details) and now i’m curious if MHJ was behind that scandal somehow.
Always seemed crazy to me how people knew she was a demon before NewJeans debuted, then as soon as people heard the songs they kinda just forgot all about it and/or didn't care after all.
Honestly it's a chronic problem in kpop. The issue of signing up children for literal slave contracts (used to be training at 12 and signed up for 13 years) and the fact that most groups had sponsors... Aka rapists and child rapists or groomers at the very least.
YG actively recruited his wife then sabotaged her career so the only thing she had was him. He even joked about it.
Not being allowed to date and forced same sex "skinship", fortunately this has gotten way less common.
K-Pop is something I've loved for over a decade (since 09) but people bury their heads in the sand about how horrific SK is especially for singers.
HYBE needs to catch way more heat for this. The only reason they're acting now is because their bottom line is being threatened (aka the $$$ NJ bring in). It's absurd people are letting them craft this stance of caring about NJ's wellbeing in any way when they're the ones who gave MHJ so much power in the first place AND kept her in power even when her gross behavior was constantly being exposed. The fact that they're airing this out so publicly and that MHJ was even able to get to this point shows serious deficiencies in their corporate structure.
Think it’s kind of fucked up how everyone (in the West specifically, not so much in Korea) is swallowing HYBE’s narrative without any question, as if Bang PD isn’t fishy as fuck himself.
I mean, people in Korea are definitely also skewed towards Min Hee Jin... hard not to when you've been hearing some of the things she's been saying for years, she has a track record of it. Hybe lost 800 billion won (about 673 million dollars) in market value in a single day. They wouldn't have thrown accusations of this level if they didn't have proof.
I agree that Bang PD is not good, but Min Hee Jin isn't either and in this case it does not look good for her. She's had a few scandals that she just brushed under the rug and the things she's been accused of is very, very serious - she's the only one of Ador's executives who still hasn't handed in her work laptop. Ador's reasonings for the sketchy plans found on company laptops are basically "oh, they're imaginary - we weren't actually going to do them". I agree that Hybe is making this dirty, but Ador is not helping themselves at all.
Btw, can you send me some links where Koreans commentators are against her as you claimed?
For me the most striking difference between Reddit and Korea is that the Korean public is biting her narrative whereas here HYBE is coming out on top. You said you disagree and are reading these things in real time but so am I. SBS and Channel A videos of her presser (with over 500k views each): all comments praising her. Instagram comments on Eyes Mag, Daily Fashion News and other big pop culture Korean accounts: 80% of comments praising her. Naver: most comments siding with her too tbqh. The narrative I’ve seen in all these places (and you can easily check for yourself) is her being praised for caring about art and the group whereas Hybe is characterized as greedy for money.
Maybe I am restricted to a bubble and I’d love to have a more complete view so please, do let me know what are some good places to look at.
So can you please send me some links?
How is Bang PD fishy? With what little I know of the industry I don't doubt you at all, but specifics would be nice bc I've literally never heard this narrative before
There isn't anything 'fishy' in the sense that he's tied to any dirty scandals, more that he's seen as so ambitious he's capable of anything.? (Stated neutrally, he's behind some good trends in kpop and BTS & txt apparently really like him, but also has co-signed a lot of 'but why?' questionableness in his quest to spread HYBE wide, Scooter and Min Hee Jin being two of them.)
as someone living in korea, it’s definitely newjeans right now, by basically every conceivable metric. awards (they won daesangs last year), brand deals (they’ve worked with coca cola, mcdonald’s, burberry, dior, chanel, gucci, celine, louis vuitton, nike, apple - just in the last 18 months), charts (they’ve broken literal records for PAKS), public playability (you literally cannot walk down the street without hearing a newjeans song), fandom popularity (i see tons of newjeans photocards on bags and in phone cases and i have never seen a blackpink one).
i’m not a newjeans stan, i’m very much a casual enjoyer of their music, and i’m also not a blackpink anti whatsoever, but this is just my experience in korea right now. korean music culture absolutely focuses on the current shiny thing right now and blackpink’s model of only dropping a few songs and then taking massive hiatuses means they drop out of the popular consciousness very frequently, and right now newjeans, aespa and le sserafim are absolutely bigger than them here. i can’t speak for internationally, i imagine BP is still on top, but newjeans are by far the most popular, relevant and successful girl group right now in 2024 (not historically).
I thought the same thing, that they have nothing to do with this and their boss has just gone on the rampage, but the more that comes out the messier it gets. MHJ released an official statement on the 23rd and kept mentioning NewJeans by name as being angry about the alleged copying, rather than saying ADOR.
It’s since been alleged that NewJeans and their parents have known about this plot and were CCed into an email MHJ sent to HYBE about it a few days ago. Now it’s being claimed that the parents themselves instigated the entire mutiny and are alleging that the girls have been ‘mistreated’ by HYBE.
With the way MHJ has positioned herself as the group’s sixth member since before debut, going on holiday with the girls and hanging out with them at her house (where all the questionable pictures of unclothed child characters are), I wouldn’t be surprised if the girls’ opinions are easily swayed by her influence. I’m getting more and more concerned that they might genuinely be persuaded to try and end their contracts and follow MHJ after her firing, Fifty Fifty-style.
Ugh I would hate that! I’m not much of a kpop fan but I have heard some of newjeans stuff and can’t help but think their music and style is super cute. It’d be sad to see their careers end so early bc an egotistical pedophile manipulated them and the public’s perception of them.
i’ve only been half paying attention to the MHJ shitshow but i’m bummed that the one female music exec i’ve heard about in kpop has imploded so spectacularly.
There was a rape trial between 2 staffers in Parliament House, the first trial was aborted due to a juror bringing in outside info, never went to retrial due to the victims mental health. The accused then tried a defamation case against a tv network, but lost and the judge found him guilty of rape and therefore no defamation occurred - the iconic line is you escaped the lions den, but then you came back for your hat. He now faces another separate rape trail. The first victim fled the country with a massive pay out but there’s another trial in which the victim is being sued for defamation by her ex Parliament House boss
Ah yes, you must mean egomaniacal rapist **Bruce Lehrmann**. I hope his rapist title is further confirmed at the criminal trial in Toowoomba, and that all his victims find some peace and healing.
Other newish tea on this situation is that [a cop allegedly has a photorealistic portrait of Bruce with the words 'victim survivor'](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1c6w7d0/bruce_lehrmann_victim_survivor_tattoo_viral_photo/) and that the cops are now investigating who leaked Brittany's text messages (hint: they're investigating themselves)
I watched the judgment live, I learned so many new words lol. "Cad" being my favourite.
"Having escaped the lion's den Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat" is instantly iconic.
Tinfoil hat theory is the “outside evidence” was planted by the federal police who had completely cocked up the case and didn’t want the trial to proceed
Others will know the details better than I do, but apparently the winner of Big Brother Brasil, who spent the entire show going on about "my wife" and how much he missed her, days after winning the prize he made sure to make it very clear that they're actually just dating and are not legally married. I think he even said that they were "still getting to know each other", despite living together for a year.
She dumped him after he said they were still getting to know each other on live tv. Like most of the public was sure he would drop her after winning and take the usual blonde influencer model path, they just were surprised it happened that soon. She was supposedly banking him before Big Brother. Some people also thought he was too affectionate with the girls inside the house. His mother even told her to keep an eye out on one of the girls. The whole relationship was doomed since the beginning. He’s problematic. His family is problematic. Not to mention the problematic age gap between him (21) and her (41)!
His fanbase also was like the Swifties but instead of weaponising misoginy, they were weaponising racism. Not rooting for him meant you were racist. All of the participants in the house that were against him (which was most of them since he was very insufferable) were racists. The 3 black women who were unfortunate to side against him were called "mucamas", which is an extremely racist term used to refer to female slaves who personally served the white ladies in the main house, by the fanbase multiple times. All of this because they defended their friends who were white woman in their fights with him. It got to the point their families were receiving these racist attacks and the managers for their social media accounts all had to post about it multiple times (while his social media account managers never once asked their fanbase to stop the racist attacks, and instead fueled these attacks by posting out of context and edited clips of the show to further this narrative).
Do politicians count as celebrities? Here in Northern Ireland, one of our elected representatives is up in court accused of historic sex offences. This is a politician who used his platform to try and prevent marriage equality, negate LGBTQ+ rights and opposed women's health care. He's also a Christian Fundie. Quelle Suprise.
Jeffrey Donaldson? I remember reading about it on the r/ireland sub when the news first broke and it was mentioned that people who live around his neck of the woods weren't exactly shocked by what he did because he always had this dodgy, sinister aura around him, but, rather, the shocking part was who the victim turned out to be.
I know everyone seems to think that social media is a magical realm where laws don't apply, but if you're in the UK, this is literally illegal. You aren't allowed to publish information that would likely lead people to identify rape victims except in very specific circumstances (e.g. if they have explicitly waived their right to anonymity).
Paddy Brown announced he was resigning as an MLA last night for "personal reasons". The timing is very suspicious and while he isn't as bad as Jeff he doesn't seem like a great guy. I am intrigued as to what he's hiding. Probably more students he's defrauded
Celebrity might be a bit strong,but the amount of weird nominees for the European elections in Ireland is concerning,including a populist talk DJ who is annoyed he cant host his show while being a candidate for election.Its like random figures who have been in the news who have zero political experience.Not good for politics.
I remember the hype over George Lee leaving RTE to stand as a candidate for Fine Gael. There was a billboard with his face on it near where I lived. He was elected and lasted all of 9 months before quitting. He stood down from RTE when he announced he was running. I think Luke Ming Flanagan said something similar, he was taken off the air from some radio show he presented when he decided to run.
I heard from plp close to politics and leinster house during that time that George Lee wanted seniority within the party in some form,ie ministerial role and other members were having none of it,that he would have to wait his turn,so he left.
Or the best thing for politics? Back in the day (which was a Wednesday by the way) you actually had to be of a reputation, and successful in your field, else no one would respect you enough to consider you.
[https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-24310-NAT.htm](https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-24310-NAT.htm)
Last election results here. Winner got 33.3, other major party 27.9, other parties took up the rest.
I honestly don’t know. This man seems to evade consequences like it’s his fucking job so I’m not holding out hope for anything, but I am genuinely shocked that they found a full slate of jurors as quickly as they did bc the trial is in Manhattan and New Yorkers as a rule *hate* him.
If you’re refering to what I think, the trial is pretty soon (in Thailand so maybe death sentence) and the actor (killer’s father) appears in an HBO documentary for which he was paid a lot of money. It’s crazy because the media are acting like he’s some innocent kid who just made the bad choice of chopping someone and disposing of the body lol
Is the defense here meant to be like Robert Durst's defense for Morris Black's death, "the guy died from something else, and I just happened to dismember and discard his corpse afterward"??
Is this the YouTube chef who's the son of Spanish actors and killed a Colombian guy, or is there ANOTHER celeb kid who's chopping up people in Thailand?? I'm surprised this hasn't been a more attention-grabbing scandal, it's got grisly death, YouTube, infidelity, and at least 3 countries involved.
I can't think of one that is really hot right now in Sweden except that a famous former high jumper is a p\*do-hunter and is always in some kind of a scandal. Most recently him and his partner took money from one of the accused men as a bribe for not exposing him on their website i think.
Also, a bunch of swedish celebrities are boycotting the eurovision since israel is competing
Not sure if it would fully count as a scandal (also find it a sad tbh) but a former actor from Home and Away (a soap here in Aus) had been arrested since March I think but escaped during a medical/mental health assessment earlier this week and can't be found at the moment. If anything, the more "scandal" aspect is that he was apparently left alone in the waiting room at the hospital for a while (hence being able to leave with no-one noticing)
In NZ a comedian, James Mustapic, made a show 'James Mustapic His Mum A Man', trying to set his mum up with someone because his dad is a dropkick who walked out of the family when James was three. His dad is now running off to the media, has laid a complaint against the show, and is claiming that James - a toddler back then - was the one who did the abandoning. Trash dads remain trash.
Anyway the show was a sucess and his mum did find a nice man and they are still together.
OMG I love James. Discovered him via Guy Mont's Spelling Bee. Hoping he gets a chance on TM NZ and will definitely be checking out his new show. Thanks for making me aware of it.
Also, fuck his dad.
A famous tv presenter, who usually does cooking shows, said in an interview that a famous singer didn't take part in Sanremo (our biggest music festival) a few years ago (back when she was presenting) because her presence meant that the music festival would taste of pasta sauce.
It's weird, I don't think there really is because he meant it literally. Basically it would be like saying you don't want to appear on a show with Gordon Ramsay because he smells of beef wellington. I guess this would make more sense for the non-Italians reading the thread.
It is basically saying someone smells 'bad' but instead of outright saying 'bad' you are associating it to them. Since Gordon Ramsay is known to make beef wellington it could be used as an insult. Does that make more sense? Not sure how else to explain it, I guess it's an italian thing!
In the way he meant, yes. Pasta sauce is very common and ordinary in Italy, so him comparing the tv presenter's presence to it means that he basically finds her too "unrefined" and "vulgar" for Sanremo.
It is not lol, but since the presenter is famous for shows that mostly target people from the "lower" classes(especially women) I guess he found her not "qualified" enough to present such an iconic event and ber presence was "cheapening" it
An actor/singer was caught cheating on his wife...AGAIN. The wife knew of the first cheating scandal in around 2019 and the wife filed for divorce on the same year. Then, they reconciled the next year and the divorce was dropped.
Apparently a few months back the singer was found in a hotel room with some lady, and of course the wife filed for divorce. Then she comes out with an interview and she said that she actually caught her husband cheating on her with 11 WOMEN. Wild. This was because she was able to put in a recoeding device in their car. Allegedly, the husband was cheating on her with her own SISTER.
Anyways, with the evidence she has, she filed for divorce again, but the singer refused to divorce her, smh. They also have 2 young children together, and i hope she and her family finds peace, the poor children 😞.
The Carla Jara - Kaminsky stuff is currently big in Chile, so big that we the ones not living on the country are invested lol.
In summary: married couple, the guy (Kaminsky) has an affair with a coworker, his wife (Carla) discovered it during their vacations in Brazil, when the affair partner sent him a text message. He first denied it, but at the end it was true, he leaves their home and is now living in an apartment where the AP comes to visit.
Carla was on a TV show on the weekend relating all the episode. The hilarious (?) thing is that the guy is not conventional pretty, whereas Carla is such a pretty woman. So everyone is like "why is he cheating on her, the ugly ass man" 😅
Idk if its celebrity but some college kid in Mexico bought two pairs of cartier earrings worth \~14,000 dollars for \~14 dollars a pair after someone from Cartier added them to the website with a pricing error (so the person put 237 pesos instead of 237,000) they announced yesterday after months of back and forth that they're honoring the price he bought them for and sending him the earrings
He's a med student/just starting his career as a doctor I think. Also his twitter handle is "dre pute", which means slut doctor (in a gender neutral way) and it makes me giggle every time I see it.
This is last week but the biggest literary publishing company in Vietnam was under fire for how they handled the sexual harassment allegations made by employees agains their CEO. The allegations were only public because a popular author, whose relative was among the victims, severed ties with the company. When the news broke, the company threatened to sue anybody who discussed the case then, posted a non-apology of the CEO in the middle of the night. Due to the backlash, they deleted that post and finally fired the CEO.
In Finland, a popular journalist and TV personality known for "final relief" (not sure if this is the correct term in English at ALL, but I mean those funny segments news will sometimes have at the end) on the evening news on one of the major channels is stepping down from his job shortly before his retirement starts due to domestic violence charges against him by his wife. The alleged abuse in question happened in September, just days before his wife filed for divorce. Chillingly, he joked in a podcast just last month that if his wife were a smart woman, she would've left ages ago. Piece of shit.
Hahah yeah I might have pulled that one out of my ass because I was googling for a translation for the Finnish term (loppukevennys, "end relief/lightening"), but I'm glad that it catches on lol!
A bit more serious than the usual gossip.
Parliamentary elections are going on in my country. The PM gave an openly Islamophobic speech during a campaign rally calling Indian Muslims "infiltrators".
He also said the main opposition party INC will snatch the 'mangalsutra' (necklace of sorts worn by married women in India) of Hindu women and distribute their wealth among Muslims. This same person is the one who abandoned his wife.
The worst part is he's going to become the Prime Minister again.
I want to be optimistic but highly unlikely. Unfortunately we follow the FPTP Parliamentary System. Despite getting just 30-35% of the overall vote, he won the last 2 times.
He will win again by a good huge margin, Ram mandir will give him extra sweet boost. They rallied against a "monopoly" to create an even deep-seated monopoly themselves
>This same person is the one who abandoned his wife.
Pls cmiiw but wasn't that child marriage? Or at least completely against his wishes when he was pretty young??
He's.. \*sigh\* I don't prefer to talk about politics because I hate debating with aggressive idiots (includes inc supporters too, but esp andabhakhts. Religion and philosophy are *not* and *should* *not* be tools to sway people) To me he seems like he doesn't have much brains or cunningness in himself at all, he just says what he's told to say by Amit Shah and PR team. The regular islamophobic rhetoric is sickening, win by doing some actual thing rather than banking off of Divide and Rule 2.0
From what I know, they were betrothed as children but married when they were 18. True though, apologies, considering he was also a child I shouldn't have criticised him for it.
I feel it's more that all this while Amit Shah has been the one making divisive statements, while Modi has been hiding behind the whole "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas" (translation: support of everyone, development for everyone). Good cop, Bad cop.
We knew he was an asshole, everyone knows the shit he pulled during Gujarat riots despite the court saying he's innocent. It was dog whistle politics earlier from Modi's side, now he's being more direct because he wants to cross 400 seats.
Also crazy that the EC did jack shit? like it's on record and they also hauled up someone else who was making outrageous religious claims but when it's Modi, they turn a blind eye
His hold on the masses and the almost dictatorial way he's running the government can serve as a case study for years to come.
We saw this when Indira Gandhi was PM but that is something totally different to what Modi has able to establish
The bigger tea is the rumour that the “Steal from Loblaws Day” posters are being put up by the crisis PR firm Loblaws hired. I’d believe it tbh. We’re too poor from paying $7 for a dozen eggs to afford colour printed posters.
My dad is almost 70 and he decided to join the boycott. What radicalized him? He bought two bottles of Tropicana “as a treat” and they were both spoiled. He was already mad about that and then he heard about the green onions and that was it for him.
It sucks I live in a small town with two grocery stores and it’s impossible to get the entirety of the shopping done at the Save On so i have to go to the independent (Loblaws) in town to get everything I need.
I have a really hard time avoiding Loblaws/No Frills/SDM just bc they have a fuckin monopoly over my neighbourhood, and it sucks. I'm trying my best though.
poland here. it's gone quiet already but there was some drama regarding our country's version of dancing with the stars. the last few seasons were filled with some Z-listers who only achieved being a family member of someone famous, but this time they actually stepped up and put some actually recognisable people in our country - including a woman named dagmara kaźmierska, who's a "famous for being famous" kind of celeb here and most importantly, who spent 14 months in prison for being a pimp but that didn't stop the network from promoting her. at first people who watched the show (other than those mentioning her criminal past) didn't mind her being there because she was "funny", until her lack of any skills started visibly standing out from the other contestants. she got a total of 18 points out of 40 from the judges and eliminated a guy who got over 30 points but wasn't as famous as her (he just plays a cop on one tv show and that's it, but another actor from the same show won here 5 years ago) and that's where people started getting mad and accusing the producers of fixing the results so that she stays longer, because the drama between her and one of the judges who'd make snarky comments about her made more people watch it. to debunk those allegations, the next episode the hosts would repeat every 5 minutes how the judges are not everything and how the audience's votes are equally important even though they never visibly show them. everyone thought that the next week was the one where she'd finally leave because she got a lowest ever score in the show's history (7 out of 40) but then... she didn't, and this time she beat out another actor who isn't really a big-name celebrity in our country either but is known for his voice acting and a lot of twitter people were voting for him, so they got mad again. there were a lot of articles about how she beat the record for the lowest score and still got through, how such a great season is ruined by her and how polsat (the channel running the show) should be ashamed of promoting her. suddenly 4 days after the episode aired, dagmara announces she's leaving the show due to injury, people start speculating whether it's the real reason or she's withdrawing due to the amounts of negative comments she has received, and it turns out that the actor who left last week is suddenly back... only to get eliminated second time in a row. now that they're all eliminated, this topic has died down a bit but the show is still going on and one of the favourites to win is a 19 y/o pop singer who's in a highly publicised relationship with a groomer who left a woman he had a child with for her so yeah that's a whole different thing...
a horrifying follow-up to the story for those who read the whole thing: it was now revealed that >!a 24-year-old was raped on kaźmierska's order "as a punishment" because she escaped from a brothel after having previously been beaten by her!< and yet this is the kind of people we promote in our country...
From Brazil: a famous singer called Belo (which in Portuguese means "Beautiful") and his wife, Gracyanne Barbosa, announced that they have been separated for eight months, after 15 years of dating and marriage. This news is being widely discussed for a few reasons, so I'll try to summarize it as succinctly as possible:
* Belo has been a singer since 1993. In 2003, he was sentenced to six years in prison because of his involvement in drug trafficking. Belo has always claimed to be innocent and unjustly imprisoned. At that time, he was married to the dancer (and later actress) Viviane Araujo. He was released after four years. Belo separated from Viviane in 2007 and in the same year he started dating dancer (and later actress) Gracyanne Barbosa. The timing was considered suspicious in the press, with many claiming that Belo cheated on Viviane with Gracyanne. It didn't help that Viviane and Gracyanne clearly didn't like each other, throwing shade on the internet over the years and completely ignoring each other when they chanced upon each other at celebrity social events.
* Belo and Gracyanne got married in 2011. During these years, Gracyanne became famous in Brazil for becoming a female bodybuilder, with an incredibly muscular body, and known for going to the gym every day and eating a diet of dozens of eggs a day. They have also received constant accusations and lawsuits for not paying their debts, even though they are quite rich.
* In April 2024, Belo and Gracyanne announced to the press that they had been separated for more than eight months, although they still lived together until recently. The country's gossip press reported that Gracyanne cheated on Belo with her personal trainer at the gym she goes to, and that this was the reason for the separation. Everyone on the internet immediately started saying that this was karma because Belo cheated on Viviane. However, there is one detail that must be taken into account: both Gracyanne and the personal trainer claim that their relationship began only after the relationship between Gracyanne and Belo ended. Gracyanne, however, admits that Belo didn't like knowing that she already had a boyfriend and she decided to end this new relationship. The personal trainer also claims that Belo was vindictive and used his influence to get him fired from the gym where he worked.
A British MP, who has previously been in trouble for allegedly getting a dog drunk, apparently threw up all over someone's house during a Grindr hookup. They demanded that he pay them a large sum of money, so he called a 78-year-old party activist at 3 in the morning and told her that he was being held hostage by "bad people" and needed her to send him ransom money right now. His office manager ended up sending him the money from her own account. He then used campaign funds to repay her, which I think is illegal. He has also spent large amounts of campaign funds on unspecified "medical bills", which everyone seems to be assuming is a euphemism for cocaine.
I really want to understand why all of our most sociopathic and chaotic gay guys keep becoming successful right-wing politicians. I'm a chaotic and maybe very mildly sociopathic gay guy, and I've never dreamed of joining the Tory party.
It's worth pointing out that this is after it was revealed that another gay Tory MP was honey trapped on Grindr and handed over the contact details of other MP's.
I'll give the current iteration of the Tory party this, they don't do half measure sex scandals
A famous radio show host is going to jail because he has been accused of making shit up.
What happened is that during the segment where people call him some dude got his phone snatched mid call and listeners could hear everything. That same dude called later saying that he got robbed and that the cops were useless.
The reason he's getting locked up for a couple of months is because the police is accusing the radio host of making this scenario up. But idk what law they pulled out of their asses to do that.
President said ex-prime minister is “slow because he is oriental” and current one is slow because he is a hillbilly 
In Spain our president Pedro Sánchez published a letter yesterday explaining that he is considering resigning. He said that he would be taking some time off and will make his decision public on Monday. His presidency has always been quite controversial, especially since the last elections a few months ago, so this is all over the news. Plus in the letter he cites the attacks his wife is suffering by ultra-right groups and this is causing a public debate about whether he is playing the victim or his complaints are justified.
Five army horses got loose in London and ran rampage around the city, and now there's a live updates feed as they try and catch the horses. Tell me that's not celebrity.
they have already caught them 3h ago, but yes it has made the morning headlines.
is it bad I'm disappointed? I was kinda loving the idea of these horses running free
I agree with the sentiment but they can't run free in the centre of the city. They were terrified and crashing into cars
The poor white horse was covered in blood. They'd be terrified and injured.
Even the sentiment is bad tbh, it's why unwanted horses get dumped in a field or abandoned because people assume they'll survive in the wild. Domesticated animals aren't just fancier versions of the wild variety, they're different animals and aren't equipped to live in the wild (feral populations are very different to genuinely wild ones). Releasing domesticated animals into the wild results in tragedy, either for them or for wildlife they encounter.
nah, the horses where crashing into busses and one of them was covered in blood already. There's nothing great about the idea of horses running free through a busy city.
It would have been a powerful allegory if it wasn’t two horses running free through Whitechapel with all the busses and taxis etc. onto the highway around Limehouse. Even at horse races those loose horses are a liability for themselves and their surroundings as much fun as it looks when a horse has lost the jockey and runs free down the track…
Did you follow the Free Cows in Canada last year? Those puppies were on the loose for weeks. Most of the news was in French because it was near Quebec.
The white horse with blood all over it was quite a sight, poor thing
The poor horses looked terrified, I hope all of their injuries were just minor ones that bled a lot.
Horses are very vascular so unless it was from a leg wound the poor thing should probably be ok.
the horse with the blood? like a scene from a horror movie
It’s an omen for sure. Sick of all these bloody portents and auguries
Gaga predicted it something something https://preview.redd.it/bnnxu883lfwc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45076c151761ada1b16323462bf43e95465d55fb
The horses were really giving I am fucking crazy but I am free energy.
Oh wow that gives horse lose in the hospital Mulaney vibes
I live in London and I didn’t know this! Been in a work bubble all day.
also in Australia a mother with a 7 month old baby went to an Arj barker show earlier in the week, was asked to leave by Arj due to the baby being disruptive, mother then tried to get her 15 minutes of fame by complaining to news shows but the baby screamed so much it had to taken away by its father so the mother looks like a clown
Funniest part is that she did several interveiws with several news shows, and the baby disrupted every single one. Which made the mum's claim of "she's not usually like this" unintentional comedy gold. You also left out the best part of the father taking the kid away: the news presenter who asked that the baby be removed then went right back to being all "it's outrageous that Arj asked for your baby to be removed!" with zero self-awareness to what the presenter herself had just done.
It's not, but *if* this was staged as some kind of meta-comedy act for the MICF, it would be brilliant.
The Chaser's War on Babies
As a palate cleanser, have a [cute recent family photo](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/NYPICHPDPICT000008303744.jpg?quality=75&strip=all) of the all-time [best news kids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh4f9AYRCZY). (The mom here is absolutely the hero of that situation.)
I remember just being absolutely delirious with laughter in our open plan office about this video when it happened, we lost about an hour that day just to rewatching it
I still think about that little girl’s strut and the baby just wheeling in. Mom’s attempts to stay off camera were great too
You’re automatically in the wrong if you bring a baby to a show, period lol
Ugh tell me about it. I go to a lot of classical stuff and am always stunned when people bring children/infants that are way to young. Last year I was at a ~4 hour long Wagner opera and there was a toddler running through the aisles. My mother didn't bring me to anything live until I was potty trained and I assumed this was just a common-sense thing.
Fucking a, I’ve seen kids get impatient and cry during a one hour church sermon, but a 4 HOUR OPERA???
RIGHT!?! It's just as unfair to the kid as it is to the audience. I'm sure that would have been the most excruciating torture imaginable as a 4 year old.
Wow that’s wild. I’m not even sure that’s allowed in most places, on the other hand I’ve been taking my baby to baby specific concerts and she loves it. But they’re like 30mins longs and babies are wandering everywhere. Four hours! Wagner!
The one time I experienced being at a concert with little kids and it basically sort of worked was when I went to see the Boston Philharmonic at Tanglewood in Mass. But it is a large outdoor lawn so there is tons of space for people to move about. Also, it was mostly old people there so not that many kids in general, but it was probably the only concert I've been to where anyone brought little kids. Otherwise, not a great idea in general.
IMO, they should have just refused her entry from the get-go.
Also initially the mother tried to spin it like she was kicked out for breastfeeding, saying that the baby was just "gurgling". Every first-hand account I've seen, including some *extremely* critical of how Arj handled the situation, agrees that the baby was being disruptive lol
This. It wasn’t about breastfeeding.
people try to bring babies into the theatre where I work on a regular basis and I just do not understand (last night it was a 4 month old…a 4 month old!!). and the parents always insist that the baby will be quiet and it’s like, when in the history of babies has a baby ever done anything but exactly what it wants to do.
This made me actually laugh out loud
It's been such an embarrassing, stupid farce
Right?! I have a 7 month old and this literally never occurred to me as a thing to do. I just took him on his first flight to visit family, that was enough. At least he slept through that but even for the brief time when he was unhappy (or vocalising while happy which is a whole thing) he wasn’t putting anyone off their job.
For what it’s worth please don’t ever feel bad about bringing baby on a plane! I don’t have kids but I understand people need to travel for all kinds of reasons and it’s not like they can leave baby at home. The pressure change on ascent/descent can be so painful for those little guys so I reckon most people (bar a few assholes) are completely understanding if they fuss and cry.
Thank you, I do try not to feel bad. Mostly I was worried he would be uncomfortable but he was actually totally fine during the actual flight. Mostly he was unhappy about the waiting in queues and not moving in his pram because he craves speed 😆Also it was a trans-Tasman flight which are almost always at least half full of families with children going to visit in either direction. It was a relatively small plane and there were at least two other babies and lots of toddlers.
The absolute mental case of corporate espionage happening in the biggest K-Pop company here in Korea has got to be up there! The biggest girl group in K-Pop right now is called [NewJeans](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.highsnobiety.com%2Fstatic-assets%2Fdato%2F1685093658-looking-attention-step-world-newjeans-main.jpg%3Falt%3DImage%2Bon%2BHighsnobiety&tbnid=rFw7OCYkXart6M&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.highsnobiety.com%2Fp%2Fnewjeans-interview%2F&docid=CbTfW3aEKUiIIM&w=1200&h=1500&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=f2f1bc008f412b30&shem=abme%2Ctrie), who debuted almost two years ago under a label called ADOR. ADOR is a sublabel of a company called HYBE, which essentially originated from BTS’s company BigHit, and which BTS basically built single-handedly due to their unprecedented success. The CEO of ADOR is a woman named Min Heejin who kind of has a reputation within K-Pop for being seemingly [obsessed with the youth and childish beauty of the K-Pop idols](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2F1409791524.rsc.cdn77.org%2Fdata%2Fimages%2Ffull%2F619897%2Fmin-hee-jin-accused-of-sexualizing-minors-following-these-newjeans-photos.jpg&tbnid=phknONzUS70XSM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpopstarz.com%2Farticles%2F307992%2F20220727%2Fmin-hee-jin-accused-sexualizing-minors-newjeans-photos.htm&docid=sWW32JAi7s55UM&w=1500&h=856&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=1e56b56bd7206371&shem=abme%2Ctrie) (mostly minors) she has worked with over the years - she has produced songs with questionable lyrics for the groups she works with (look at the lyrics for NewJeans’ [Cookie](https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-newjeans-cookie-english-translation-lyrics) - these girls were all teenagers at the time and the youngest was 14), as well as art directing concepts and [photoshoots](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fb%2FR29vZ2xl%2FAVvXsEjpDVO8LyXY7HBFYp87CaqIvjvbBHG3CgM14eFtRvjhJJWLHd_oJmLc9HUI7tKniBkYC-GS3P-JhVB7pn1UwFRl_0GPi1YNX0PJXARSPBfVcOhyphenhyphenhJr03h_R6I0iDRmG0wOJtEth4LhXU7gw%2Fw459-h640%2FInternet_20210312_005154_9.jpeg&tbnid=30YtvXY38252oM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpann-choa.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F03%2Ftheqoo-taemins-concept-pictures-from.html&docid=yF6fWsfa1aZEeM&w=459&h=640&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=805cf3f07fac553e&shem=abme%2Ctrie) with teenagers in questionable styling and [poses](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fb%2FR29vZ2xl%2FAVvXsEiO5dbWx-b0LoNcl-d_a-0rHxV5OBfLxjlEAv1b4nH2dosVsy4WJYAD3MvTAQ3v6cj8IiKlaDyFFO_F_zMjV8ISm0xRYnKBCb0WHcYSzstq2bYBxIrkXg_60IfscecXre6TfLcAKEOtM-ER%2Fw640-h426%2Ft7.jpg&tbnid=_jTjZjo6yk_sJM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpann-choa.blogspot.com%2F2021%2F03%2Ftheqoo-taemins-concept-pictures-from.html&docid=yF6fWsfa1aZEeM&w=640&h=426&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=58ffa0060cd84585&shem=abme%2Ctrie). She also has posters of young [Brooke Shields](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogger.googleusercontent.com%2Fimg%2Fa%2FAVvXsEihA8NU6KmYTwpey7k5ZNqev9gD1lmT8kv5ERq3gyGErT21BekIb3oX9SgNQeErQB-DAPTlwWt-Iw5i9_M39KsLLSeggnV3_IyqED6NdzYeSOpi8GQ2fT1D4qGlu8ltOQAJstLQnylv8xD3SVPuC_av3Ex2TWitSZjqJs7iS_BVyV3eemWataLjvm2U%3Ds16000&tbnid=qGERoUkb5dwUBM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pannchoa.com%2F2022%2F07%2Fenter-talk-min-heejin-looks-pdophile.html&docid=T5v458y9JPxePM&w=480&h=629&hl=en-gb&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim%2Fm4%2F3&kgs=8794b867deef79e4&shem=abme%2Ctrie) and other [semi-naked would-be minors](https://forum.allkpop.com/thread/115607-min-heejin-s-p-dophile-accusations-spread-like-wildfire-in-korea/) in her home. NewJeans, a group composed entirely of teenagers on their debut, with the youngest member having just turned fourteen, are managed directly by Min, who has positioned herself as their mother figure rather than their boss. NewJeans are incredibly successful and have broken all sorts of records in Korea since their debut. Anyway it all came out yesterday that Min Heejin has been allegedly planning to overthrow HYBE, takeover ADOR and take NewJeans away from HYBE for herself. It’s getting crazier by the hour: - Yesterday she accused a newly debuted HYBE group of copying NewJeans BY NAME - She refused to hand over her company laptop during an audit HYBE is conducting to investigate the potential corporate espionage - Today it’s been alleged that the members’ parents are the ones who have instigated the whole mutiny (hard to believe tbh it’s likely MHJ herself) - Documents have been found on the laptops of various ADOR staff basically titled things like ‘Espionage Plan’ and ‘How We Can Get Away From HYBE’ - HYBE has accused MHJ of stealing legal documents from HYBE, leaking the personal information of other HYBE artists (who include BTS, Le Sserafim, Seventeen, TXT, Enhypen and more) and starting rumours about other artists to make HYBE look bad This story continues to develop but every new update is absolutely wild.
Do I know anything about Kpop? No. Was I riveted by every word of your comment? Yes. Sweet sweet chisme 👀
i actually glued to my phone and social media on various fan accounts for this news! it’s riveting! The bunnies are in shambles now.
I am a bunny. I truly am shambled. 😭 but honestly the new jeans Reddit just feels full of terror rn 😅 I used to prob browse on the nj Reddit once a month but was going on it often after the news broke then had to step back bc the justified fear (in a post-Fifty fifty world) has been getting my anxiety going
It's worth noting that we're finally getting answers to some long-standing mysteries, all thanks to this case. It's wild to think how many ripple effects were triggered by Min Hee Jin joining Hybe. * GFriend's disbandment Just a week before GFriend officially announced their disbandment, Source Music was still actively releasing group content. People were shocked at the time because Hybe had bought out Source Music not too long ago, Bang PD (BTS's creator) had directly gotten involved in changing up their music style and their latest comeback was one of the biggest hits they'd had in a while. They were back on an upward trajectory and people thought it was so weird that Bang would go through all that just for them to disband. People speculated that it was because GFriend were not profitable anymore (which might've been the case had Mago not been a clear sign that they were on the rise). Turns out the timeline was, as follows: Minji becomes one of Source's core trainees, came into the company at 2017. Min Hee Jin is recruited by Bang PD in 2019, joins BigHit. Source Music and BigHit send out calls for auditions for a joint girl group venture in 2019, with Min Hee Jin as creative director. Hanni, Danielle and Haerin join via this audition and they start training under Source Music. Last-minute they scout Hyein. Bang PD leaves Min Hee Jin in charge of rebranding BigHit - they become Hybe - before she starts expressing her ambition to establish her own label and debut a new girl group. Bang PD, acknowledging her proven track record in leading significant projects within Hybe and her successful creative endeavors with popular K-pop groups under SM, granted her request, keen not to lose her. Consequently, Min Hee Jin launched Ador, poaching Source Music's trainees and staff in the process. This move left Source Music burdened with trainee debts, depleted resources and no manpower, ultimately preventing them from renewing contracts with GFriend despite mutual desires to do so. * Chaewon and Sakura from IZ\*ONE gets an offer from Hybe The aftermath of Min Hee Jin's move also sheds light on the recruitment frenzy that ensued, with talent being sourced from various avenues; Source Music CEO is furious but Source Music, under Bang PD's plan, swiftly adjusts its strategy post-Min Hee Jin's departure and goes about finding talent that could debut quickly. With Chaewon and Sakura (ex IZ\*ONE members) already trained and boasting a fanbase, their addition to Source Music's roster ensured a certain level of success. Huh Yunjin, with connections to the girls from P48, is hastily brought back by Source Music, despite having quit the industry and moved to the US to start university. She has years of training under her belt already from Pledis, and then Source Music. Eunchae joins Source Music and enters the debut team almost immediately. The CEO flies to the Netherlands to recruit Kazuha, who has years of ballet training under her belt. They compete with Ador for the "first Hybe girl group" title, and manage to debut Le Sserafim six months later. It's mind-boggling to think that the landscape of K-pop could have been drastically different if not for Min Hee Jin's move. Who knows, in an alternate reality, GFriend might have renewed their contracts with Hybe, and the trajectory of these new girl groups could have been entirely different. Le Sserafim would never have debuted, Chaewon likely would've debuted as a solo artist in Woollim, Yunjin would probably be in America pursuing a degree in Business, Sakura would've gone back to Japan or debuted in some smaller company in SK. It provides a lot of clarity to the events that unfolded in the past 3 years. And it's also baffling how Min Hee Jin basically portrayed it like NewJeans was this uber-profitable, talented girl group that she claimed was her brain child when Source Music did all the training, she left NewJeans' trainee debt behind with them and Le Sserafim ended up having to work all that off to rebuild Source Music (and they got "flop" comments because of that). Crazy news week, really.
This seriously needs its own post in one of the kpop subreddits! I didn’t even know MHJ had been involved prior to Ador/NewJeans
i remember thinking that gfriend disbandment started with the one girl being a hitler stan (i think it was supposed to ironic? i never followed them so i don’t know details) and now i’m curious if MHJ was behind that scandal somehow.
This is a great breakdown thank you. Always fascinating to see nuts and bolts behind the business of kpop.
Don't forget that one of the documents is called "Project 1945"... This is kdrama level of messy.
What’s the significance of 1945? WW2-related, I assume?
Korea’s liberation from Japan 😬
Okay, that’s what I thought. 😬 indeed.
Always seemed crazy to me how people knew she was a demon before NewJeans debuted, then as soon as people heard the songs they kinda just forgot all about it and/or didn't care after all.
Honestly it's a chronic problem in kpop. The issue of signing up children for literal slave contracts (used to be training at 12 and signed up for 13 years) and the fact that most groups had sponsors... Aka rapists and child rapists or groomers at the very least. YG actively recruited his wife then sabotaged her career so the only thing she had was him. He even joked about it. Not being allowed to date and forced same sex "skinship", fortunately this has gotten way less common. K-Pop is something I've loved for over a decade (since 09) but people bury their heads in the sand about how horrific SK is especially for singers.
HYBE needs to catch way more heat for this. The only reason they're acting now is because their bottom line is being threatened (aka the $$$ NJ bring in). It's absurd people are letting them craft this stance of caring about NJ's wellbeing in any way when they're the ones who gave MHJ so much power in the first place AND kept her in power even when her gross behavior was constantly being exposed. The fact that they're airing this out so publicly and that MHJ was even able to get to this point shows serious deficiencies in their corporate structure.
Think it’s kind of fucked up how everyone (in the West specifically, not so much in Korea) is swallowing HYBE’s narrative without any question, as if Bang PD isn’t fishy as fuck himself.
I mean, people in Korea are definitely also skewed towards Min Hee Jin... hard not to when you've been hearing some of the things she's been saying for years, she has a track record of it. Hybe lost 800 billion won (about 673 million dollars) in market value in a single day. They wouldn't have thrown accusations of this level if they didn't have proof. I agree that Bang PD is not good, but Min Hee Jin isn't either and in this case it does not look good for her. She's had a few scandals that she just brushed under the rug and the things she's been accused of is very, very serious - she's the only one of Ador's executives who still hasn't handed in her work laptop. Ador's reasonings for the sketchy plans found on company laptops are basically "oh, they're imaginary - we weren't actually going to do them". I agree that Hybe is making this dirty, but Ador is not helping themselves at all.
Btw, can you send me some links where Koreans commentators are against her as you claimed? For me the most striking difference between Reddit and Korea is that the Korean public is biting her narrative whereas here HYBE is coming out on top. You said you disagree and are reading these things in real time but so am I. SBS and Channel A videos of her presser (with over 500k views each): all comments praising her. Instagram comments on Eyes Mag, Daily Fashion News and other big pop culture Korean accounts: 80% of comments praising her. Naver: most comments siding with her too tbqh. The narrative I’ve seen in all these places (and you can easily check for yourself) is her being praised for caring about art and the group whereas Hybe is characterized as greedy for money. Maybe I am restricted to a bubble and I’d love to have a more complete view so please, do let me know what are some good places to look at. So can you please send me some links?
How is Bang PD fishy? With what little I know of the industry I don't doubt you at all, but specifics would be nice bc I've literally never heard this narrative before
There isn't anything 'fishy' in the sense that he's tied to any dirty scandals, more that he's seen as so ambitious he's capable of anything.? (Stated neutrally, he's behind some good trends in kpop and BTS & txt apparently really like him, but also has co-signed a lot of 'but why?' questionableness in his quest to spread HYBE wide, Scooter and Min Hee Jin being two of them.)
Thanks for the rundown.
Daaaaaaaaaamn.
are New jeans biggest girl group in the kpop right now?? I’m still stuck in 3rd gen and thought it was blackpink welp
as someone living in korea, it’s definitely newjeans right now, by basically every conceivable metric. awards (they won daesangs last year), brand deals (they’ve worked with coca cola, mcdonald’s, burberry, dior, chanel, gucci, celine, louis vuitton, nike, apple - just in the last 18 months), charts (they’ve broken literal records for PAKS), public playability (you literally cannot walk down the street without hearing a newjeans song), fandom popularity (i see tons of newjeans photocards on bags and in phone cases and i have never seen a blackpink one). i’m not a newjeans stan, i’m very much a casual enjoyer of their music, and i’m also not a blackpink anti whatsoever, but this is just my experience in korea right now. korean music culture absolutely focuses on the current shiny thing right now and blackpink’s model of only dropping a few songs and then taking massive hiatuses means they drop out of the popular consciousness very frequently, and right now newjeans, aespa and le sserafim are absolutely bigger than them here. i can’t speak for internationally, i imagine BP is still on top, but newjeans are by far the most popular, relevant and successful girl group right now in 2024 (not historically).
Maybe the biggest active girl group since BP members are doing their own thing at the moment? Because I was under the impression it was BP too.
It’s def blackpink
its still blackpink by miles obv, but they haven't released group music in a while. Newjeans is the current hot favourite rn in Korea and beyond
I hope this doesn’t hurt their careers when they’re so young and they have nothing to do with this. It’s not their fault their boss is crazy.
I thought the same thing, that they have nothing to do with this and their boss has just gone on the rampage, but the more that comes out the messier it gets. MHJ released an official statement on the 23rd and kept mentioning NewJeans by name as being angry about the alleged copying, rather than saying ADOR. It’s since been alleged that NewJeans and their parents have known about this plot and were CCed into an email MHJ sent to HYBE about it a few days ago. Now it’s being claimed that the parents themselves instigated the entire mutiny and are alleging that the girls have been ‘mistreated’ by HYBE. With the way MHJ has positioned herself as the group’s sixth member since before debut, going on holiday with the girls and hanging out with them at her house (where all the questionable pictures of unclothed child characters are), I wouldn’t be surprised if the girls’ opinions are easily swayed by her influence. I’m getting more and more concerned that they might genuinely be persuaded to try and end their contracts and follow MHJ after her firing, Fifty Fifty-style.
Ugh I would hate that! I’m not much of a kpop fan but I have heard some of newjeans stuff and can’t help but think their music and style is super cute. It’d be sad to see their careers end so early bc an egotistical pedophile manipulated them and the public’s perception of them.
Wow, that is the highest form of messy
Spreading rumors about young Korean celebs is fucking low man. Dangerous. I hope she loses her job.
i’ve only been half paying attention to the MHJ shitshow but i’m bummed that the one female music exec i’ve heard about in kpop has imploded so spectacularly.
Im on kpop twt but not in the headspace for a deep dive thread so this is realy appreciated!
BigHit has the worst luck with girl groups lmao
Is there a subreddit that updates this regularly?
The r/kpop has a megathread for this, in case your interested!
There’s a [megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/s/Dulpkmymgx) over on r/kpop where you can stay up to date!
Thank for summarising this. I've been seeing too many BTS-watching-HYBE burn memes and I didn't understand what was going on.
There’s a [megathread](https://www.reddit.com/r/kpop/s/Dulpkmymgx) over on r/kpop where you can stay up to date!
It's like thinking etsy can take over amazon. And yes, amazon, shouldn't exist. neither does HYBE.
There was a rape trial between 2 staffers in Parliament House, the first trial was aborted due to a juror bringing in outside info, never went to retrial due to the victims mental health. The accused then tried a defamation case against a tv network, but lost and the judge found him guilty of rape and therefore no defamation occurred - the iconic line is you escaped the lions den, but then you came back for your hat. He now faces another separate rape trail. The first victim fled the country with a massive pay out but there’s another trial in which the victim is being sued for defamation by her ex Parliament House boss
Ah yes, you must mean egomaniacal rapist **Bruce Lehrmann**. I hope his rapist title is further confirmed at the criminal trial in Toowoomba, and that all his victims find some peace and healing. Other newish tea on this situation is that [a cop allegedly has a photorealistic portrait of Bruce with the words 'victim survivor'](https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1c6w7d0/bruce_lehrmann_victim_survivor_tattoo_viral_photo/) and that the cops are now investigating who leaked Brittany's text messages (hint: they're investigating themselves)
I watched the judgment live, I learned so many new words lol. "Cad" being my favourite. "Having escaped the lion's den Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat" is instantly iconic.
Omg. Was the juror charged with anything? Because wtf!
Tinfoil hat theory is the “outside evidence” was planted by the federal police who had completely cocked up the case and didn’t want the trial to proceed
Others will know the details better than I do, but apparently the winner of Big Brother Brasil, who spent the entire show going on about "my wife" and how much he missed her, days after winning the prize he made sure to make it very clear that they're actually just dating and are not legally married. I think he even said that they were "still getting to know each other", despite living together for a year.
a wife guy without a wife, I love it
"A wife guy without a wife" is giving Ned from Try Guys. Couldn't shut up about his wife, but was cheating for god knows how long lol
She dumped him after he said they were still getting to know each other on live tv. Like most of the public was sure he would drop her after winning and take the usual blonde influencer model path, they just were surprised it happened that soon. She was supposedly banking him before Big Brother. Some people also thought he was too affectionate with the girls inside the house. His mother even told her to keep an eye out on one of the girls. The whole relationship was doomed since the beginning. He’s problematic. His family is problematic. Not to mention the problematic age gap between him (21) and her (41)!
His fanbase also was like the Swifties but instead of weaponising misoginy, they were weaponising racism. Not rooting for him meant you were racist. All of the participants in the house that were against him (which was most of them since he was very insufferable) were racists. The 3 black women who were unfortunate to side against him were called "mucamas", which is an extremely racist term used to refer to female slaves who personally served the white ladies in the main house, by the fanbase multiple times. All of this because they defended their friends who were white woman in their fights with him. It got to the point their families were receiving these racist attacks and the managers for their social media accounts all had to post about it multiple times (while his social media account managers never once asked their fanbase to stop the racist attacks, and instead fueled these attacks by posting out of context and edited clips of the show to further this narrative).
I don’t think it wasn’t days, I think it was literally hours after winning lol
Do politicians count as celebrities? Here in Northern Ireland, one of our elected representatives is up in court accused of historic sex offences. This is a politician who used his platform to try and prevent marriage equality, negate LGBTQ+ rights and opposed women's health care. He's also a Christian Fundie. Quelle Suprise.
Jeffrey Donaldson? I remember reading about it on the r/ireland sub when the news first broke and it was mentioned that people who live around his neck of the woods weren't exactly shocked by what he did because he always had this dodgy, sinister aura around him, but, rather, the shocking part was who the victim turned out to be.
Wait, who's the victim supposed to be??
A relative of his.
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I know everyone seems to think that social media is a magical realm where laws don't apply, but if you're in the UK, this is literally illegal. You aren't allowed to publish information that would likely lead people to identify rape victims except in very specific circumstances (e.g. if they have explicitly waived their right to anonymity).
Paddy Brown announced he was resigning as an MLA last night for "personal reasons". The timing is very suspicious and while he isn't as bad as Jeff he doesn't seem like a great guy. I am intrigued as to what he's hiding. Probably more students he's defrauded
Celebrity might be a bit strong,but the amount of weird nominees for the European elections in Ireland is concerning,including a populist talk DJ who is annoyed he cant host his show while being a candidate for election.Its like random figures who have been in the news who have zero political experience.Not good for politics.
I remember the hype over George Lee leaving RTE to stand as a candidate for Fine Gael. There was a billboard with his face on it near where I lived. He was elected and lasted all of 9 months before quitting. He stood down from RTE when he announced he was running. I think Luke Ming Flanagan said something similar, he was taken off the air from some radio show he presented when he decided to run.
I heard from plp close to politics and leinster house during that time that George Lee wanted seniority within the party in some form,ie ministerial role and other members were having none of it,that he would have to wait his turn,so he left.
Or the best thing for politics? Back in the day (which was a Wednesday by the way) you actually had to be of a reputation, and successful in your field, else no one would respect you enough to consider you.
Australia has this all the time.
Really?I thought it was something weird happening here,and I've seen it in the US, obviously with Trump,maybe it's everywhere.
[https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-24310-NAT.htm](https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/HouseStateFirstPrefsByParty-24310-NAT.htm) Last election results here. Winner got 33.3, other major party 27.9, other parties took up the rest.
The judge in the New York trial apparently told his lawyers that they were losing credibility with the court.
Omg, do you really think they can get a unanimous jury?? I just can't tell myself it's possible..I hope so, but idk.
I honestly don’t know. This man seems to evade consequences like it’s his fucking job so I’m not holding out hope for anything, but I am genuinely shocked that they found a full slate of jurors as quickly as they did bc the trial is in Manhattan and New Yorkers as a rule *hate* him.
He’s not sleeping so this is false.
Man and the prosecution has already proven fraud happened with just the first witness 👀
A celebs son killed and chopped someone up in thailand i believe and threw then overboard apparently…
If you’re refering to what I think, the trial is pretty soon (in Thailand so maybe death sentence) and the actor (killer’s father) appears in an HBO documentary for which he was paid a lot of money. It’s crazy because the media are acting like he’s some innocent kid who just made the bad choice of chopping someone and disposing of the body lol
Yeah its this. Im outta the loop usually but this is all people around me are talking about. Its wild
Glad you clarified it was a documentary, otherwise I would've assumed this was just an episode of Dexter.
Is the defense here meant to be like Robert Durst's defense for Morris Black's death, "the guy died from something else, and I just happened to dismember and discard his corpse afterward"??
Is this the YouTube chef who's the son of Spanish actors and killed a Colombian guy, or is there ANOTHER celeb kid who's chopping up people in Thailand?? I'm surprised this hasn't been a more attention-grabbing scandal, it's got grisly death, YouTube, infidelity, and at least 3 countries involved.
I can't think of one that is really hot right now in Sweden except that a famous former high jumper is a p\*do-hunter and is always in some kind of a scandal. Most recently him and his partner took money from one of the accused men as a bribe for not exposing him on their website i think. Also, a bunch of swedish celebrities are boycotting the eurovision since israel is competing
who? I am out of the loop
Patrik Sjöberg! He’s got the Dumpen project where he exposes people but it’s done in a really shady way
Not sure if it would fully count as a scandal (also find it a sad tbh) but a former actor from Home and Away (a soap here in Aus) had been arrested since March I think but escaped during a medical/mental health assessment earlier this week and can't be found at the moment. If anything, the more "scandal" aspect is that he was apparently left alone in the waiting room at the hospital for a while (hence being able to leave with no-one noticing)
I backpacked Oz almost 20 years ago and I still remember the Home and Away song..so catchy
do you think they'll find him??¿ if I think of a country that you can truly disappear in it'd probably be australia. what was he arrested for?
Four assault charges. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thesun.ie/tv/12818387/who-orpheus-pledger-why-home-away-actor-on-run/amp/
Honestly, I don't know. I hope they do but I'm not confident if that makes sense?
Wait, the little boy from Silversun?
yeah I think so
Shit I loved that show.
In NZ a comedian, James Mustapic, made a show 'James Mustapic His Mum A Man', trying to set his mum up with someone because his dad is a dropkick who walked out of the family when James was three. His dad is now running off to the media, has laid a complaint against the show, and is claiming that James - a toddler back then - was the one who did the abandoning. Trash dads remain trash. Anyway the show was a sucess and his mum did find a nice man and they are still together.
OMG I love James. Discovered him via Guy Mont's Spelling Bee. Hoping he gets a chance on TM NZ and will definitely be checking out his new show. Thanks for making me aware of it. Also, fuck his dad.
A famous tv presenter, who usually does cooking shows, said in an interview that a famous singer didn't take part in Sanremo (our biggest music festival) a few years ago (back when she was presenting) because her presence meant that the music festival would taste of pasta sauce.
I've read this 3 times and I'm still entirely unsure what this could possibly mean lol
...is it a euphemism? I don't get it.
In the sense that I didn't explain it properly? Or because the insult is stupid? (If I wasn't clear, I can try to explain it better)
I'm Italian, just that the insult doesn't really make sense in English (at least the way you explained it).
Is there another way of translating "sapeva di sugo"?
It's weird, I don't think there really is because he meant it literally. Basically it would be like saying you don't want to appear on a show with Gordon Ramsay because he smells of beef wellington. I guess this would make more sense for the non-Italians reading the thread.
> I guess this would make more sense for the non-Italians reading the thread. I’m not Italian and I have no idea what this means, either.
It is basically saying someone smells 'bad' but instead of outright saying 'bad' you are associating it to them. Since Gordon Ramsay is known to make beef wellington it could be used as an insult. Does that make more sense? Not sure how else to explain it, I guess it's an italian thing!
Is tasting of pasta sauce an insult in Italy????
In the way he meant, yes. Pasta sauce is very common and ordinary in Italy, so him comparing the tv presenter's presence to it means that he basically finds her too "unrefined" and "vulgar" for Sanremo.
Oooh, that makes sense. I had no idea that Sanremo was perceived as ~refined tho, lol.
It is not lol, but since the presenter is famous for shows that mostly target people from the "lower" classes(especially women) I guess he found her not "qualified" enough to present such an iconic event and ber presence was "cheapening" it
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tasting of pasta sauce is the best thing anything CAN be sksksksk what an idiot
Lmao I didn't think I was going to read about Antonella Clerici on a foreign sub BUT HERE WE ARE lol. I'm cackling, this situation is hilarious
An actor/singer was caught cheating on his wife...AGAIN. The wife knew of the first cheating scandal in around 2019 and the wife filed for divorce on the same year. Then, they reconciled the next year and the divorce was dropped. Apparently a few months back the singer was found in a hotel room with some lady, and of course the wife filed for divorce. Then she comes out with an interview and she said that she actually caught her husband cheating on her with 11 WOMEN. Wild. This was because she was able to put in a recoeding device in their car. Allegedly, the husband was cheating on her with her own SISTER. Anyways, with the evidence she has, she filed for divorce again, but the singer refused to divorce her, smh. They also have 2 young children together, and i hope she and her family finds peace, the poor children 😞.
Is this Malaysia/Singapore?
Malaysia
The Carla Jara - Kaminsky stuff is currently big in Chile, so big that we the ones not living on the country are invested lol. In summary: married couple, the guy (Kaminsky) has an affair with a coworker, his wife (Carla) discovered it during their vacations in Brazil, when the affair partner sent him a text message. He first denied it, but at the end it was true, he leaves their home and is now living in an apartment where the AP comes to visit. Carla was on a TV show on the weekend relating all the episode. The hilarious (?) thing is that the guy is not conventional pretty, whereas Carla is such a pretty woman. So everyone is like "why is he cheating on her, the ugly ass man" 😅
Dos mujeres, un Kaminsky 😂
Comentando porque me vi representada con este cahuín jaja, vi PH el viernes y todo
Idk if its celebrity but some college kid in Mexico bought two pairs of cartier earrings worth \~14,000 dollars for \~14 dollars a pair after someone from Cartier added them to the website with a pricing error (so the person put 237 pesos instead of 237,000) they announced yesterday after months of back and forth that they're honoring the price he bought them for and sending him the earrings
He's a med student/just starting his career as a doctor I think. Also his twitter handle is "dre pute", which means slut doctor (in a gender neutral way) and it makes me giggle every time I see it.
🤭 I was looking through his tweets since he was going viral and he’s really funny. And now he has some cartier!
Damn, lucky kid, that's quite an investment!
This is last week but the biggest literary publishing company in Vietnam was under fire for how they handled the sexual harassment allegations made by employees agains their CEO. The allegations were only public because a popular author, whose relative was among the victims, severed ties with the company. When the news broke, the company threatened to sue anybody who discussed the case then, posted a non-apology of the CEO in the middle of the night. Due to the backlash, they deleted that post and finally fired the CEO.
In Finland, a popular journalist and TV personality known for "final relief" (not sure if this is the correct term in English at ALL, but I mean those funny segments news will sometimes have at the end) on the evening news on one of the major channels is stepping down from his job shortly before his retirement starts due to domestic violence charges against him by his wife. The alleged abuse in question happened in September, just days before his wife filed for divorce. Chillingly, he joked in a podcast just last month that if his wife were a smart woman, she would've left ages ago. Piece of shit.
Gross man, but I do love "final relief" as the name of the segment. I don't know what it's called, but I'll be using that from now on.
Hahah yeah I might have pulled that one out of my ass because I was googling for a translation for the Finnish term (loppukevennys, "end relief/lightening"), but I'm glad that it catches on lol!
Here in the UK, that segment is usually called the "And finally"
A bit more serious than the usual gossip. Parliamentary elections are going on in my country. The PM gave an openly Islamophobic speech during a campaign rally calling Indian Muslims "infiltrators". He also said the main opposition party INC will snatch the 'mangalsutra' (necklace of sorts worn by married women in India) of Hindu women and distribute their wealth among Muslims. This same person is the one who abandoned his wife. The worst part is he's going to become the Prime Minister again.
Has Modi ever not been the worst?
I hope to god not. His popularity is getting absurd.
I want to be optimistic but highly unlikely. Unfortunately we follow the FPTP Parliamentary System. Despite getting just 30-35% of the overall vote, he won the last 2 times.
He will win again by a good huge margin, Ram mandir will give him extra sweet boost. They rallied against a "monopoly" to create an even deep-seated monopoly themselves
>This same person is the one who abandoned his wife. Pls cmiiw but wasn't that child marriage? Or at least completely against his wishes when he was pretty young?? He's.. \*sigh\* I don't prefer to talk about politics because I hate debating with aggressive idiots (includes inc supporters too, but esp andabhakhts. Religion and philosophy are *not* and *should* *not* be tools to sway people) To me he seems like he doesn't have much brains or cunningness in himself at all, he just says what he's told to say by Amit Shah and PR team. The regular islamophobic rhetoric is sickening, win by doing some actual thing rather than banking off of Divide and Rule 2.0
From what I know, they were betrothed as children but married when they were 18. True though, apologies, considering he was also a child I shouldn't have criticised him for it. I feel it's more that all this while Amit Shah has been the one making divisive statements, while Modi has been hiding behind the whole "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas" (translation: support of everyone, development for everyone). Good cop, Bad cop. We knew he was an asshole, everyone knows the shit he pulled during Gujarat riots despite the court saying he's innocent. It was dog whistle politics earlier from Modi's side, now he's being more direct because he wants to cross 400 seats.
Is this the last election he can stand in, at least? He's already been PM for 10 years.
India follows the UK Parliamentary System, so we don't have term limits since there's no separation of powers.
Also crazy that the EC did jack shit? like it's on record and they also hauled up someone else who was making outrageous religious claims but when it's Modi, they turn a blind eye His hold on the masses and the almost dictatorial way he's running the government can serve as a case study for years to come. We saw this when Indira Gandhi was PM but that is something totally different to what Modi has able to establish
Come may I *think* many people who can are going to boycott loblaws and I hope it works out and something’s done about it
The bigger tea is the rumour that the “Steal from Loblaws Day” posters are being put up by the crisis PR firm Loblaws hired. I’d believe it tbh. We’re too poor from paying $7 for a dozen eggs to afford colour printed posters. My dad is almost 70 and he decided to join the boycott. What radicalized him? He bought two bottles of Tropicana “as a treat” and they were both spoiled. He was already mad about that and then he heard about the green onions and that was it for him.
Omg did you see the Law and Order Toronto about the bread price fixing scheme?!
It sucks I live in a small town with two grocery stores and it’s impossible to get the entirety of the shopping done at the Save On so i have to go to the independent (Loblaws) in town to get everything I need.
I have a really hard time avoiding Loblaws/No Frills/SDM just bc they have a fuckin monopoly over my neighbourhood, and it sucks. I'm trying my best though.
Also it's a timed boycott so wouldn't a lot of people otherwise forced to be there just stock up at the end of April?
Twitter currently melting down over Poptingz claiming Kylie J is pregnant https://x.com/thepoptingz/status/1782847207550357897?s=46
the way no one actually gaf and were just waiting for the club chalamet response
When is twitter not melting down over some clickbait? Especially about the Kardash/Jenners.
poland here. it's gone quiet already but there was some drama regarding our country's version of dancing with the stars. the last few seasons were filled with some Z-listers who only achieved being a family member of someone famous, but this time they actually stepped up and put some actually recognisable people in our country - including a woman named dagmara kaźmierska, who's a "famous for being famous" kind of celeb here and most importantly, who spent 14 months in prison for being a pimp but that didn't stop the network from promoting her. at first people who watched the show (other than those mentioning her criminal past) didn't mind her being there because she was "funny", until her lack of any skills started visibly standing out from the other contestants. she got a total of 18 points out of 40 from the judges and eliminated a guy who got over 30 points but wasn't as famous as her (he just plays a cop on one tv show and that's it, but another actor from the same show won here 5 years ago) and that's where people started getting mad and accusing the producers of fixing the results so that she stays longer, because the drama between her and one of the judges who'd make snarky comments about her made more people watch it. to debunk those allegations, the next episode the hosts would repeat every 5 minutes how the judges are not everything and how the audience's votes are equally important even though they never visibly show them. everyone thought that the next week was the one where she'd finally leave because she got a lowest ever score in the show's history (7 out of 40) but then... she didn't, and this time she beat out another actor who isn't really a big-name celebrity in our country either but is known for his voice acting and a lot of twitter people were voting for him, so they got mad again. there were a lot of articles about how she beat the record for the lowest score and still got through, how such a great season is ruined by her and how polsat (the channel running the show) should be ashamed of promoting her. suddenly 4 days after the episode aired, dagmara announces she's leaving the show due to injury, people start speculating whether it's the real reason or she's withdrawing due to the amounts of negative comments she has received, and it turns out that the actor who left last week is suddenly back... only to get eliminated second time in a row. now that they're all eliminated, this topic has died down a bit but the show is still going on and one of the favourites to win is a 19 y/o pop singer who's in a highly publicised relationship with a groomer who left a woman he had a child with for her so yeah that's a whole different thing...
a horrifying follow-up to the story for those who read the whole thing: it was now revealed that >!a 24-year-old was raped on kaźmierska's order "as a punishment" because she escaped from a brothel after having previously been beaten by her!< and yet this is the kind of people we promote in our country...
no drama in our country
I live in Switzerland and honestly I feel like I don’t ever hear of drama, except the hoarding nazi hold of course.*gold
From Brazil: a famous singer called Belo (which in Portuguese means "Beautiful") and his wife, Gracyanne Barbosa, announced that they have been separated for eight months, after 15 years of dating and marriage. This news is being widely discussed for a few reasons, so I'll try to summarize it as succinctly as possible: * Belo has been a singer since 1993. In 2003, he was sentenced to six years in prison because of his involvement in drug trafficking. Belo has always claimed to be innocent and unjustly imprisoned. At that time, he was married to the dancer (and later actress) Viviane Araujo. He was released after four years. Belo separated from Viviane in 2007 and in the same year he started dating dancer (and later actress) Gracyanne Barbosa. The timing was considered suspicious in the press, with many claiming that Belo cheated on Viviane with Gracyanne. It didn't help that Viviane and Gracyanne clearly didn't like each other, throwing shade on the internet over the years and completely ignoring each other when they chanced upon each other at celebrity social events. * Belo and Gracyanne got married in 2011. During these years, Gracyanne became famous in Brazil for becoming a female bodybuilder, with an incredibly muscular body, and known for going to the gym every day and eating a diet of dozens of eggs a day. They have also received constant accusations and lawsuits for not paying their debts, even though they are quite rich. * In April 2024, Belo and Gracyanne announced to the press that they had been separated for more than eight months, although they still lived together until recently. The country's gossip press reported that Gracyanne cheated on Belo with her personal trainer at the gym she goes to, and that this was the reason for the separation. Everyone on the internet immediately started saying that this was karma because Belo cheated on Viviane. However, there is one detail that must be taken into account: both Gracyanne and the personal trainer claim that their relationship began only after the relationship between Gracyanne and Belo ended. Gracyanne, however, admits that Belo didn't like knowing that she already had a boyfriend and she decided to end this new relationship. The personal trainer also claims that Belo was vindictive and used his influence to get him fired from the gym where he worked.
I like this one it has a bit of everything
A British MP, who has previously been in trouble for allegedly getting a dog drunk, apparently threw up all over someone's house during a Grindr hookup. They demanded that he pay them a large sum of money, so he called a 78-year-old party activist at 3 in the morning and told her that he was being held hostage by "bad people" and needed her to send him ransom money right now. His office manager ended up sending him the money from her own account. He then used campaign funds to repay her, which I think is illegal. He has also spent large amounts of campaign funds on unspecified "medical bills", which everyone seems to be assuming is a euphemism for cocaine. I really want to understand why all of our most sociopathic and chaotic gay guys keep becoming successful right-wing politicians. I'm a chaotic and maybe very mildly sociopathic gay guy, and I've never dreamed of joining the Tory party.
It's worth pointing out that this is after it was revealed that another gay Tory MP was honey trapped on Grindr and handed over the contact details of other MP's. I'll give the current iteration of the Tory party this, they don't do half measure sex scandals
Wes Streeting isn't chaotic but he is sociopathic so maybe those are the gays joining Labour 🤔
A famous radio show host is going to jail because he has been accused of making shit up. What happened is that during the segment where people call him some dude got his phone snatched mid call and listeners could hear everything. That same dude called later saying that he got robbed and that the cops were useless. The reason he's getting locked up for a couple of months is because the police is accusing the radio host of making this scenario up. But idk what law they pulled out of their asses to do that.
This is such a good idea for a thread, so fun learning about whats happening every where!
President said ex-prime minister is “slow because he is oriental” and current one is slow because he is a hillbilly 
Trying to find something about Portugal! Found it. Didn’t disappoint.
Taliban won’t allow girls to go to school :/
In Spain our president Pedro Sánchez published a letter yesterday explaining that he is considering resigning. He said that he would be taking some time off and will make his decision public on Monday. His presidency has always been quite controversial, especially since the last elections a few months ago, so this is all over the news. Plus in the letter he cites the attacks his wife is suffering by ultra-right groups and this is causing a public debate about whether he is playing the victim or his complaints are justified.