Country singer Toby Keith has passed away at the age of 62. [Hollywood Life]
Zendaya & Timothee Chalamet looked amazing for their Dune 2 promo. [JustJared]
Jacob Elordi is under investigation for assault in Australia. [Pajiba]
Joe Alwyn & Paul Mescal have a group text called the Tortured Man Club, so… you know, is Taylor Swift’s new album a reference to that? [LaineyGossip]
Which artists have called out the Grammys? [Buzzfeed]
Behind-the-scenes photos from the Grammys. [GFY]
Usher looks good in these SKIMS ads. [Socialite Life]
Simon Cowell explains why he wears sunglasses on television. [Seriously OMG]
This Alberta Ferretti suit on Florence Pugh is fire. [RCFA]
Wendy Williams is back! [OMG Blog]
Finally. I was hoping to see CB post about Toby Keith.
R.I.P. to a man who had a very successful career for decades, he was devoted to his family, wrote and sang some fun songs, did a good amount of charity work.
He fought cancer for 3 years. Under went brutal treatments. F cancer. Look at photos of him in his prime, before he was ill. A big, strong, well built man. Then the photos of him currently. Cancer took him hard. And he had the money for the best care, treatment, etc.
Prayers for his family and everyone who is dealing with cancer and their loved ones.
No political statements from me or snark about him.
My father died of esophageal-gastric cancer. It is brutal on the patient and the family. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues
Same here, JaneS. I feel for his family and loved ones.. His music touched me and my family, and even though our politics didn’t align, I mourn his loss. I hope he’s resting in peace with his red solo cup.
And much love to our fellow CB’ers fighting their own battles with cancer.
Same here, JaneS. I feel for his family and loved ones. His music touched me and my family, and even though our politics didn’t align, I mourn his loss. I hope he’s resting in peace with his red solo cup.
And much love to our fellow CB’ers fighting cancer.
Such a loss. Sending my prayers to the family.
I hope Dixie Chicks cracked a bottle of champagne to mark the occasion. As they should.
OMG Zendaya looks so incredible. Timotheeeeeeeeeeee looks good too! Is that silk?
Zendaya always brings the fashion inspo–I swear she is incapable of looking bad.
Very sad about Mr. Keith. Cancer is just so awful.
I don’t know but that outfit on Zendaya looks like bedsheets. I am just glad her and Timothee are finally stepping out
Listening to Dixie Chicks all day today. RIP to Laura Lynch, who passed in a car wreck in December.
The very first thing I thought was the Dixie Chicks. I’m going to turn them on also.
I’m here for all the chicks love.
I’m not ready to act nice either. What they went through was horrific.
We aren’t absolved of the pain & torment we inflict on others just because we die. The pain we leave behind is still very much alive.
Same and I hope they are having a good day!
Thank you! If I’m remembering anything today, it’s the abuse the Chicks suffered, and their honesty and strength throughout that ordeal.
He was terrible back then true, but he did later express his regrets for it and that it wasn’t right. So not a perfect apology but he did walk it back.
Toby started and funded a Foundation for kids and their families fighting cancer.
Did yearly events and fundraisers for decades for it.
Along with lots of other charity work he did.
He also did 11-14 USO tours at the height of his popularity. (Can’t recall exact #)
He spoke openly of his Father being a Veteran, he supported the troops and their families.
I’ll be watching “Red solo cup”, “I wanna talk about me” , “Ain’t as good as I once was” “Whiskey for my men, Beer for my horses” later today. His best songs/videos to me.
If whiskey ain’t the most country song title ever, I’d say it is in the top 5. LOL Right up there with “Save a horse, ride a cowboy”
That’s some PR-Blitz you are entertaining here, Jane. Hope it’s well paid.
Did he deserve to die? Probably not. Should his horrible misogynistic pseudo-patriotic MAGA be whitewashed just because he died? not with me, but thanks.
I’m surprised Toby Keith’s death is getting such sympathetic responses here. I mean, very few people deserve to die a horrible death from cancer, and I’m very much not saying he did. But man, what a terrible person. Have people forgotten how hard he went after the Chicks and posted Natalie Maines’ picture next to Saddam Hussein at his concerts? And he was MAGA all the way.
I am heartened to see our divided political world is not taking all of our humanity away and we can express things we appreciate and will miss about people we disagree with.
I didn’t like his politics but I did appreciate many aspects of him
What a strange orthodoxy many of us lefties have turned into where we not only excommunicate, polarize amongst ourselves but also grudgingly mourn people we have differences with
I doubt anyone isn’t affected by losing a family member to cancer. And if you are count your blessings. So having sympathy for a person that died of cancer doesn’t endorse any distasteful thing he did in life.
You mourn for the loss of human life and the families affected by it. And your own personal story with it.
I don’t agree with whatever political views he had. But I can sympathize the death.
seriously! I dont wish him death but “our politics dont align” is super mild
I didn’t say it wasn’t mild Lisa- I don’t get where the exasperation is coming from if it is for me. I just am responding to the comment KN who was is surprised there is so much sympathy for him. I found such surprise very sad. And said I’m heartened by the fact there is so much concern.
It is also weird to me that everyone has to qualify and couch their statements lest we show too much support
I am able to befriend people I disagree with and I am over all the BS and anger. I found Keith’s actions wrong at his worst but he was also a lot of other things at his best, which I will miss
sorry not sorry that’s bananas,
inciting violence against women should be a crime. a political difference that is morality neutral is do we build a new highway.
Lisa, I stated that because I didn’t think that offering sympathy for his death was the proper time, in my mind, for delving into how my politics differ from his.
Right? As a human I sympathize with him and his family, cancer is awful. He was also part of the wave of jingoistic music after 911 and running the Dixie Chicks out of the music business. I remember his big patriotic release that includes a boot up their asses. Three songs from 20 years ago is not enough to make me have fond memories of a Trump guy. When I was dating, I knew if someone was into his music we weren’t a good fit, and that was before Trump.
Maybe the thought is just…there’s no need to say anything if you didn’t like the guy? Although, I also don’t understand with the idea that people should only be remembered positively after their death if their actions don’t warrant it. I always think of that obituary a few kids wrote absolutely excoriating their abusive father and how the response was effectively to let the dead rest in peace. But those kids didn’t have peace while their father was alive and certainly didn’t seem to have peace after his death, so why shouldn’t they be allowed to talk truthfully about him.
In these cases where it’s a public person, maybe it’s less about cleansing the deceased person’s actions and more about respecting the family and their grief. It’s a hard enough thing to lose a loved one to cancer without also seeing the public decide to take this time to talk poorly about them. I don’t know.
I kind of figure after the man died, is his legacy really down to the bad things you remember? I mean like it is ever going to matter to anyone other than some person that liked him, or a family member. What is the point of spreading ill after someone has passed? I hate that the left and right are so far apart that you cant put it away even when someone passes. Its so sad and so against everything good in this world.
Interesting take on remembering the deceased. Wonder how it will play out when Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Elon Musk, Bill Cosby, et al. pass on. Or can only ‘political views’ be expunged?
Pomski- Toby Keith’s actions are in no way remotely comparable to those of Polanski and Allen etc
People really are out here dancing on this dude’s grave.
Flan. I was responding to Jeanette who wrote: I kind of figure after the man died, is his legacy really down to the bad things you remember?
I watched a recent interview on youtube and he did not look good. But he was in good spirits. I was hoping a miracle would happen and his cancer would be in remission. But he fought long and hard against it.
I honestly don’t know much about his or his views. Country music isn’t my thing.
But cancer is a monster, and F cancer!
Toby Keith’s prime career was just a few years before things got so terribly polarized. Yes, many of his songs are cliched macho patriotism. Yes, he was a brute to the Dixie Chicks. But he was a Democrat until 2008, when he registered as an Independent. And yes, I am well aware of who was on the top of the Dem ticket that year. But he performed at Obama’s Nobel ceremony, and had a lot of good things to say about him. And yes, he performed for Trump more recently – but never at campaign events. I’m a very old Canadian, and we used to have a political hybrid who called themselves Red Tories. I think that worldwide we have lost that nuance, where people can be two things at once without compartmentalism. And I think Toby Keith, who publicly was as delicate as a brick, was privately a little more subtle than one would think. And yes, I am surprised at how on the fence I am about him today , since I never particularly cared for his music, but maybe I am holding out a ridiculous hope that things don’t have to be as boxed as they are now. And yes, cancer sucks.
I want to talk about the Jacob Elordi thing, because I keep seeing headlines about it. And what actually happened is an Australian shock jock radio host (from the same station that pranked that poor nurse when Prince George was born and then ended herself) went up to him and tried to get a reaction out of him and didn’t leave him alone. Pajiba has more details about the host, they’re too awful to repeat. I’ve never watched anything with Elordi in it that I know of, but it’s sounding like he was taunted into a reaction while at lunch which is awful.
Not sure that some mild (and it was mild) “taunting” should mean it’s okay to try and strangle someone.
I was HORRIFIED to read about some of the “pranks” that radio show pulled, and apparently is still the most popular in that part of Australia. So gross. The Pajiba comments are definitely worth reading.
The ‘taunting’ is being labeled as sexual harassment from comments I’ve read on other sites. And it has happened to him multiple times from different media people. Also, the only description we have of what happened is this shock Jock reporter. So we don’t know if he actually ‘strangled’ anyone. Interesting how the headlines are so obviously spinning this story in one direction.
I was reading about the situation leading up to the alleged assault, at least the part that was recorded, and…that radio host sounded like an absolute jerk in that situation. It seems likely that Elordi’s reaction was exaggerated, but even if it wasn’t…dude can’t go around acting like that and be surprised when he gets a nasty reaction.
I am so torn on Wendy Williams I want her well but anytime she works her ex will get paid as part of their divorce settlement.
I was really hoping she would have enough money to retire comfortably, and her ex can get a J.O.B. like everyone else that needs a paycheck.
My dad just died from liver cancer. It’s a terrible way to go, and it’s devastating to experience for the patient and their family or loved ones.
Toby Keith was a racist, jingoistic, misogynist who got wealthy by putting people’s lives at risk and making a game out of it.
I’ll be listening to The Chicks today, too.
So sorry to hear about your loss.
My sympathies for your loss, I’m so sorry.
And thank you for demonstrating that we can hold those two truths at once – losing a loved one to cancer is devastating, AND Toby Keith was a terrible person who actively caused a lot of harm to many people in many ways – and not necessarily be a woke leftist devoid of humanity, as some have hinted at above.
We need more of these kinds of looks from Florence – she looks amazing in that suit! Zendaya looked amazing at the Dune photo call.
To me, Florence Pugh never looks quite right in her outfits, and I’ve grumbled about her need to get a better stylist. Seeing the picture of her in the gray suit makes me realize that her head is disproportionately big for her body, and I’m not sure a stylist can fix that.
I think she’s also short. She reminds me of Hilary Duff and Hayden Panetiere’s body types. Hollywood struggles to dress shorter women.
Yeah she’s not only short in height but she’s short waisted as well so her proportions are never going to look great compared to someone with the more ‘slimming and lengthening’ body ratios.
As she ages she will find any extra pounds will make her look twice as plump too – ask me how I know – because I had the same body type and am now a true ‘apple’ body in my mid 50’s.
I dont believe inciting violence against women is politics though. YMMV.
This. 👆🏻
See also: his anthem for incels, How Do You Like Me Now, in which a boy harasses a girl who rejects him and years later he harasses her again.
I see another commenter hijacked my name, pretending I would be supportive to a MAGA and his family.
This is unfortunate. I also see demands to be neutral and apolitical about MAGAs as dogwhistles.
that’s a good point
this tsk tsk tsk agree to disagree with violence against women is alarming
I would not wish Cancer on anyone. I can disagree with his political views, and I wish he didn’t have Cancer.
We can agree to disagree. No-one deserves the horror of Cancer.
@JK really no one? Not even hitler deserved cancer?
I am going to say white supremacists like hitler deserve cancer because they actively wish to harm or kill POC, Jewish people, and other minorities. Privileged white people have the luxury to say racism is political or just politics. Not the case for minorities their lives depend on how much society ignores these ills #NotSorry
I wouldn’t have wished cancer on Hitler simply for the reason that it could have shortened his lifespan. I also didn’t want him to kill himself. Rather, I wanted him to live a long life to face trial and then endure punishment for the rest of along and awful life for his atrocities.
Shortening his life span with Cancer would have been useful before he completed the plans that led to the holocaust. Maybe as he took leadership of the Nazi Party? Try to be creative this is a thought experiment. Lol at people caping for white supremacists.
RIP Toby Keith
He was one of my favorite artists when I was growing up and I have good memories of going to his concerts. Suffice it to say, my feelings toward him are more complicated now and I’m not into country music in general anymore outside of the oldies. It’s sad for a part of my early life to be gone but being older and wiser maybe it’s a good day to listen to The Chicks 😀
Another great just passed: Carl Weathers aka Apollo Creed. Tributes from Stallone and Schwarzenegger were very touching.
Nobody deserves cancer. Toby Keith was an asshole.
I have a hard time feeling sorry about Keith’s death. I don’t actively wish for strangers to die, but I’m not broken up about it either. People die, it’s just part of nature. If people didn’t die — or, let’s say they live hundreds of years — the earth would be even more effed than it is. Any there are people dying right this second who never got to experience the “good life” that a wealthy celebrity did. When I hear about rich @ssholes getting sick and dying, all I can do is shrug and know that’s inevitable for all of humanity, everyone’s time comes.