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As expected, a recent claim that spread across social media regarding a chain purported to have been taken from Ice Spice is indeed a hoax. That’s the latest regarding the mini-controversy, with TMZ sharing a report on the would-be incident early Thursday noting that the viral clip at the center of the claim was part of […]
Attorneys for former Empire actor Jussie Smollett are appealing the 150-day jail sentence he received after being found guilty in 2021 of staging a hate crime in January 2019. Per CNN, in a court document filed on Wednesday in the Illinois First Judicial District appellate court, attorneys for Smollett appealed the conviction and are requesting a new trial. […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A Texas man was sentenced to 15 months in prison for falsely claiming that he paid someone with COVID-19 to lick […]
Earlier this month, a woman in South Africa claimed to have broken a world record by giving birth to 10 babies at once. Now, the provincial government says the woman had not even been pregnant recently. BBC reports no hospitals in the Gauteng province have a record of decuplets being born. According to South Africa’s Eyewitness News, […]
Remember when Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy were going back and forth over the former’s support of Bernie Sanders? Well, it was all a hoax that was somehow inspired by Orson Welles’ 1938 “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. Oh, and Enemy Radio, which consists of Chuck D, DJ Lord, Jahi and the S1Ws, […]
A Kansas police officer resigned Monday after he admitted to fabricating a story about an anti-cop note he received at a McDonald’s, the New York Times reports. The incident made headlines over the weekend, after Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday shared a Facebook photo of a McDonald’s coffee cup inscribed with the phrase, “F**king pig.” In […]
Despite its obvious fakeness, an Instagram post including copied-and-pasted text stating “Instagram does not have my permission to share photos or messages” has gone viral, effectively ensuring the Facebook-ization of all we hold dear. Scooter Braun, Waka Flocka, Judd Apatow, Julia Roberts, Taraji P. Henson, Josh Brolin, Rob Lowe, El-P, T.I., and Rick Perry are among the […]
As we all suspected, Justin Bieber was “just playing” when he challenged Tom Cruise to a UFC fight on Twitter. When TMZ caught up with him on Wednesday as he was leaving the L.A. offices of his wife Hailey Baldwin, Bieber admitted that he only sent that tweet about getting into the Octagon with Cruise after seeing him in an interview. I wanna challenge Tom […]
Police were sent to R. Kelly‘s Chicago home after someone called in and falsely reported that women at the address were planning a mass suicide. According to TMZ, a caller reported that “Azriel Clary and 4 other women who were alleged victims had a suicide pact” and were about to carry it out in Kelly’s […]
Like teens eating Tide pods, and random clowns popping up all over the U.S. before it, the Momo Challenge is a hoax preying upon the bored and gullible. But that doesn’t mean it won’t/hasn’t induced some hysteria before it will disappear and quickly be forgotten. For those unaware (or, who just have lives) the challenge […]
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