Super Bowl 2022 Halftime Performers Revealed: Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg - Variety

Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation have assembled a truly memorable lineup of performers for the Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show: Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will take the world’s biggest stage at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, airing on NBC.

The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show marks the first time these five multi-award-winning artists will perform together on stage, holding a special significance for the greater Los Angeles community: Not only are Dre, Snoop and Lamar native Angelenos, the city is hosting the Super Bowl for the first time in nearly 30 years. Collectively, the artists have been awarded 43 Grammys and between them have 22 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200.

As part of the collaboration around the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show, Pepsi and the NFL have also joined together to support the launch of Regional School #1, a magnet high school in South Los Angeles that is set to open for students next fall as part of the L.A. Unified School District. The high school is based on the USC Iovine and Young Academy, a program founded by Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Young that will offer a unique educational model focused on the theme of Integrated Design, Technology, and Entrepreneurship.

In addition to philanthropic support of the project, Pepsi and the NFL will collaborate with the school, its partners and the local community to develop and deliver community-inspired applied learning experiences and industry internships.

“This effort will help develop and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators,” Los Angeles Unified Interim Superintendent Megan K. Reilly said. “We are excited about the additional opportunities this partnership will bring to our students.”

Marking the third year of this collaboration, Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation are excited to bring these genre defining artists together for a larger-than-life performance of hits from their deep collective catalog. Previous artists featured in the collaboration were the Weeknd in 2021 and Jennifer Lopez and Shakira in 2020.

The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show telecast will be produced by DPS with Roc Nation and Jesse Collins serving as executive producers, and Hamish Hamilton serving as director. Roc Nation is also serving as the strategic entertainment advisors of the live performance.

“The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to do it in my own backyard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,” said Dr. Dre. “I’m grateful to Jay-Z, Roc Nation, the NFL, and Pepsi as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar for joining me in what will be an unforgettable cultural moment.”

“On February 13, 2022, at the Super Bowl LVI in Inglewood, CA, in the new SoFi Stadium, Dr. Dre, a musical visionary from Compton, Snoop Dogg, an icon from Long Beach and Kendrick Lamar, a young musical pioneer in his own right, also from Compton, will take center field for a performance of a lifetime, said Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter. “They will be joined by the lyrical genius, Eminem and the timeless Queen, Mary J. Blige. This is the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. This is history in the making.”

“This year we are blowing the roof off the concept of collaboration,” said Adam Harter, Senior Vice President of Media, Sports and Entertainment at PepsiCo. “Along with the NFL and Roc Nation, we continue to try and push the limits on what fans can expect during the most exciting 12 minutes in music; this year’s superstar line-up is sure to deliver a mind-blowing performance.”

“Artists like Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg were at the forefront of the West Coast hip hop revolution, so to be able to bring them back to LA, where it all began alongside Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will prove to be an epic, unforgettable celebration of the impact hip hop has today,” said Todd Kaplan, VP of Marketing, Pepsi. “The Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show has become a landmark cultural moment, bringing about some of the most iconic performances over the years – from JLo and Shakira to Lady Gaga to The Weeknd – and we are thrilled to bring together such an incredible array of talented, record-breaking musicians to put on a performance for the ages.”

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Shakira: Singer attacked by a pair of wild boars - BBC News

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Pop superstar Shakira says she was the victim of a random attack by a pair of wild boars while walking in a park in Barcelona with her eight-year-old son.

The Colombian singer said the animals attacked her, before seizing her bag and retreating with it into the woods.

She shared her bizarre tale in a series of Instagram stories on Wednesday.

Holding the now recovered but torn bag towards the camera, she said: "Look at how two wild boar which attacked me in the park have left my bag."

"They were taking my bag to the woods with my mobile phone in it," the singer continued. "They've destroyed everything."

She then turned to her son, whose father is the Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué, and said: "Milan tell the truth. Say how your mummy stood up to the wild boar."

Shakira is the latest victim of the increasingly aggressive hogs which have invaded the Catalan capital in recent years.

In 2016, Spanish police received 1,187 phone calls about wild hogs attacking dogs, plundering cat-feeders, holding up traffic and running into cars in the city.

In 2013, one city police officer attempted to take charge of the problem himself and shot at a boar with his service revolver, but missed and hit his partner instead.

Boars, which can carry a wide variety of diseases, are listed among the world's most invasive species and can survive in almost any environment. But increasingly the animals are drawn to cities, where they live off rubbish discarded by humans.

Their numbers have exploded across Europe, with the latest estimates now surpassing around 10 million across the continent.

As they have become more aggressive and more of a nuisance, many cities have employed a variety of strategies to cull their numbers. In Berlin, urban hunters have killed thousands of the animals but the problem persists.

Last year police officers in Rome sparked outrage after they they shot a family of wild boar that had wandered into a children's playground with tranquiliser darts and gave them lethal injections.

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Ellen Pompeo Says She Cussed Out Denzel Washington On 'Grey's Anatomy' Set - HuffPost

Ellen Pompeo said she harshly snapped back at Denzel Washington when he directed an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Washington, a two-time Oscar-winning actor, was helming 2016′s “The Sound of Silence” episode when Pompeo said she ad-libbed the line, “Look at me when you apologize. Look at me,” in an exchange with another actor. The off-script moment irritated Washington. 

“Denzel went ham on my ass,” she told former co-star Patrick Dempsey on her “Tell Me” podcast, posted Wednesday. “He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t you tell him what to do.’ And I was like, ’Listen, motherfucker, this is my show. This is my set. Who are you telling? Like you barely know where the bathroom is.’”

The two didn’t speak for a while. Pompeo said she told Washington’s wife, Pauletta Pearson, that Washington yelled at her and “I’m not OK with him.”

But the two eventually patched things up, and Pompeo said she has the “utmost respect” for Washington. The passion of performers, she added, creates the “magic.”

“That’s where you get the good stuff,” she said. 

Another juicy bit of behind-the-scenes “G.A.” intrigue emerged recently. A producer said in a tell-all book about the series that Dempsey gave castmates “PTSD” and was “terrorizing the set” during his acrimonious departure from the show in 2015.

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Surprise! Eminem serves fans at food window of Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant Detroit opening - MLive.com

DETROIT - Talk about a first trip to Detroit he’ll never forget. An Eminem fan from New York came to the Motor City for the rapper’s Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant opening only to be one of the few to actually meet the real “Slim Shady.”

Brendan Linden, who is from the Bronx, was one of the first people in the line which stretched for blocks along Woodward Avenue. Much to his surprise, Eminem showed up before the doors opened and handed spaghetti to the first 10 people.

“I came here in the hopes of meeting him. I didn’t think he was going to be here,” an excited Linden told MLive. “He shook my hand and I told him what he means to my life and how much his music has impacted me. He told me thank you so much and he gave me some food.”

Eminem serves spaghetti to Brendan Linden at the grand opening of the rapper's Mom's Spaghetti restaurant in Detroit on September 29, 2021. Linden is from New York and was visiting Detroit for the first time in his life for the restaurant's opening. (Selfie by Brendan Linden)

The walk-up window opened on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 5:00 p.m. It’s located inside the newly-opened Union Assembly restaurant at 2131 Woodward Ave., which is between The Fox Theatre and The Fillmore.

Linden wasn’t the only one still in shock when we got there before the eatery opened. Joel and Erin Farrer of Allen Park and Detroit also met the rapper and say it was one of the coolest moments of their lives.

“They told us they wanted 10 people. So we went around the corner and Eminem was giving out spaghetti,” Erin Farrer said with a huge smile on her face. “When I went up there, I was crying and he said, ‘It’s OK, it’s just spaghetti.’ I told him I had waited my whole life to meet you and he gave me a hug and signed my spaghetti container.”

Eminem's Mom's Spaghetti restaurant in Downtown Detroit on opening day on September 29, 2021. (Photo by Edward Pevos | MLive)

“Seeing her get all emotional made me want to cry for her,” Joel Farrer added. “I had him sign my bag and told him, ‘Thank you, that’s my cousin and all she ever wanted to do was meet you.’ It was a 10 or 15 second conversation, but it was great.”

Mom’s Spaghetti is a walk-up restaurant serving three things: Mom’s Spaghetti ($9), Mom’s Spaghetti with meatballs ($12) and a S’ghetti Sandwich ($11) along with water and pop. For a small additional charge, you can also get vegan meatballs.

The adjacent upstairs store, “The Trailer,” sells Mom’s Spaghetti merch, items from the Eminem retail collection (including limited editions and coveted dead stock) and memorabilia from the Eminem archives. We’re told you can also expect drops and rotating stock at “The Trailer,” which is limited to eight “Stans” at a time.

Union Assembly is open Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to midnight (the kitchen is open until 10 p.m.), Friday and Saturday from 4 p.m. - 2 a.m. (kitchen until 11 p.m.) and Sunday from 3 p.m. to midnight (kitchen till 9 p.m.). It’s closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

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'Big Brother': [Spoiler] Is First Black Winner — Season 23 Finale - TVLine

Big Brother added a new name to its history books on Wednesday night, crowning its first-ever Black winner after a whopping 23 seasons.

Azah Awasum, Derek Frazier and Xavier Prather were the last three houseguests standing at the top of Wednesday’s two-hour finale — and the way TVLine readers saw it, at least, Xavier was poised to win that $750,000 prize when all was said and done. Ahead of the finale, 78 percent of you said Xavier would win Season 23, while 76 percent said he should triumph over Azah and Derek.

But did Xavier reach the Final Two on Finale Night? And how did the jury votes shake out? Read on for the highlights of the Season 23 closer:

* After Xavier emerged victorious from Part 1 of the final Head of Household competition, it’s down to Azah and Derek in the pivotal second part, which involves correctly answering questions about the events of this season in the fastest time… but those answers appear on an oversized slot machine, which Azah and Derek must move with their bodies in order to find the right houseguests’ faces. It’s a physically grueling game for both players, but Azah ultimately bests Derek with a time of 13 minutes (compared to Derek’s 20 minutes).

But the potential choice that Azah will have to make next — whether to take Xavier or Derek to the Final Two with her — is weighing on her, and she starts to consider taking Xavier after Derek continues to disrespect her gameplay and remind her of his own Final Two deal with Xavier. Eventually, Azah is so fed up with Derek’s condescending behavior that she tells Xavier she’ll take him to the end instead of Derek; later, she breaks the news to Derek that she’s now considering evicting him, which he receives poorly.

* Over at the jury house, Kyland joins the party, where he and the others discuss whether Xavier, Azah or Derek most deserves the win. “The only good thing I can say about Derek is that we have the same name,” Derek X. observes, cutting through everyone else’s efforts to make even a weak case for Derek F. Also, the bad vibes continue to radiate off Kyland, who stuns his fellow jurors when he suggests that Hannah and Derek F. played comparable games. Um…? It sure wasn’t Hannah’s naps that got their own segment earlier this season, sir.

* As it typically does, the third and final part of the HOH competition requires the players to correctly identify false statements about the members of the jury. And in an exact repeat of last season’s final competition, in which Nicole Franzel lost to Cody Calafiore after answering the first question incorrectly, Azah gets the first question wrong in this game, and even her seven subsequent correct answers aren’t enough to catch up: By a score of 8-7, Xavier becomes the final Head of Household. We can just skip to the end of the episode now, right? No need to pretend someone other than Xavier’s winning this whole thing? Well, there’s still an hour left, so let’s recap it for fun!

* Xavier evicts Azah, taking Derek with him to the Final Two. In her post-game interview with Julie Chen Moonves, Azah confesses that she would have taken Xavier with her to the end, had she won that last competition.

* Azah joins the jury, the jurors grill Derek and Xavier, and those nine crucial votes are finally cast. After a quick Q&A with the season’s first five evictees — Travis, Frenchie, Brent, Whitney and Christian — some secrets are revealed, including the actual professions of Claire, Hannah, Sarah Beth and Xavier, as well as Derek F.’s fun fact that he’s the son of heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, and Britini’s moving announcement that she was diagnosed with autism when she was young. On the not-so-moving side of things, Julie invites Kyland and Xavier to clear the air after last Thursday’s argument, and Kyland pulls a groan-inducing, “I’m sorry if you felt offended” on Xavier. Blech.

* Then, it’s at last time to reveal the names on those keys in the jury voting box. The history-making winner of Season 23 is… Xavier! He clinches the win in a unanimous vote, which only Dan Gheesling (Season 10), Cody Calafiore (Season 22) and Tamar Braxton (Celebrity Big Brother Season 2) have achieved in the past.

* But really, we all just want to know who won America’s Favorite Houseguest. It came down to Derek X. and Tiffany this season, and the winner is Tiffany! She gets $50,000, and there’s really no better way to end the season than that. Until February, folks!

Big Brother fans, how do you feel about Xavier’s victory? And did Tiffany get your vote for America’s Favorite Houseguest? Drop all of your thoughts in a comment below!

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The Problem With Jon Stewart’s new talk show might be his own tremendous shadow - The A.V. Club

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If you were to ask any major talk show host during the mid-1990s who their single biggest influence was, they would likely say one name: Johnny Carson. A decade later, it was probably David Letterman. However, today that name is very likely Jon Stewart, whose 16-year run on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show took the superficial format of Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” and elevated it beyond simple fake news and pop culture references.

Four nights a week, Stewart delivered incisive satirical commentary about the very real political issues impacting the world. Four former Daily Show correspondents now host their own talk shows that each bear Stewart’s mark in some way: Stephen Colbert (The Late Show), John Oliver (Last Week Tonight), Samantha Bee (Full Frontal), and his eventual Daily Show successor Trevor Noah. Former Daily Show correspondent Wyatt Cenac hosted Problem Areas in 2018 (Stewart has acknowledged the similarity in titles).

That’s a tremendous legacy on its own, but it doesn’t end there: Seth Meyers (Late Night) might’ve hosted Weekend Update for years, but his regular “Closer Look” segments are more like The Daily Show than Letterman’s old Viewer Mail bits.

Stewart left The Daily Show in 2015 at the top of his game. Now, he’s returned with a new Apple TV+ series, which premieres September 30. The open credits cycle through several potential titles (The Money Grab With Jon Stewart, The Monthly Show With Jon Stewart, The Trouble With Jon Stewart) before settling on The Problem With Jon Stewart, but the cold open makes it clear there’s no actual confusion about the show Stewart wants to create.

Seated at a table during a producers meeting, Stewart explicitly lays out the format—monologue that introduces this week’s “problem,” then an interview segment devoted to those the problem directly impacts, followed by an interview with someone important who could possibly help.

The intro also reveals the faces of the people working with Stewart, and it’s a sharp contrast to his notoriously white male staff on The Daily Show, which he said he regretted in an interview last year on The Breakfast Club. Stewart has made good on what he described as an obligation to “actively dismantle” a discriminatory system. The show’s head writer, Chelsea Devantez, is a woman, and the executive producer, Brinda Adhikari, is a woman of color. And she’s not alone! This is a refreshing change.

In his last episode on The Daily Show, Stewart declared the world “demonstrably worse than when I started this!” This wasn’t entirely hyperbole or (in my case) Gen-X nostalgia speaking. Stewart took over from original host Craig Kilborn in 1999. Bill Clinton was still in office, and the Supreme Court hadn’t yet installed George W. Bush in the White House. Then came 9/11 and the Iraq War. Donald Trump wasn’t yet president when Stewart quit, but he was no longer the obvious punchline Stewart had assumed when he’d walked down that escalator in June 2015.

Stewart told Charlie Rose in 1997 that the key to his comedy was recognizing life’s absurdities. But the Trump era, arguably still ongoing, wasn’t simply absurd. It was devastatingly real. Stewart admirably doesn’t try to return to a simpler milieu. He seems focused on making the change he wants to see in the world.

That said, the first “problem” Stewart tackles is familiar terrain—the country’s shoddy treatment of its military veterans. Stewart has advocated on behalf of 9/11 first responders, who suffered from the long-term effects of a terrorist attack, but these Iraq War veterans are victims of not-so-friendly fire. They were exposed to toxic fumes from what’s known as “burn pits,” where U.S. military contractors dumped trash and set it aflame with jet fuel. “Trash” is too benign a word. The pits contained piles of human feces and random body parts. There are veterans still dying from cancer, but the government would prefer to bury them as well, claiming that there’s no proven link between otherwise healthy young men who now struggle to breathe or have been driven to attempted suicide from their chronic pain.

This isn’t funny material, obviously, but Stewart is too personally invested to make the first segment’s few jokes land. Here, the show does not quite meet the standard set by John Oliver’s deep dives on a topic that are informative yet never less than hilarious. Amber Ruffin is also able to deliver “Schoolhouse Rock”-style studies on racism that still manage to leave you laughing. Stewart struggles with this balance to the extent he actually tries (the few overt efforts fall flat).

The Problem With Jon Stewart is ultimately more advocacy than activism, and while that’s consistent with Stewart’s past work, it lacks bite. Our current political climate is so absurd that even actual news anchors, such as MSNBC’s Brian Williams and CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper, frequently have satirical segments where they perform more like Stewart than the stiff, buttoned-up Walter Cronkite wannabes parodied on “Weekend Update” and the original Daily Show with Craig Kilborn. They exist in a post-Stewart reality. The challenge for Stewart is whether he can truly thrive in the world he’s created.

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Stray observations

• The interview segments were never my favorite part of Stewart’s Daily Show. This episode’s interview with Denis R. McDonough is awkward, and unfortunately, McDonough, who seems well-meaning, comes off like Martin Short’s shady businessman in a 60 Minutes spoof on Saturday Night Live. That was funny, of course. This isn’t.
• It seems even more impressive now that John Oliver can keep my attention on a single subject for 30 minutes.
• I know it seems like an odd criticism given The Daily Show format, but Stewart could really use someone to banter with on the show.

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Serkis Talks Eddie & "Venom" Love Affair - Dark Horizons

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Though the first “Venom” was critically derided, there was praise kept not just for Tom Hardy’s performance but the moments the film embraced the wackier buddy comedy and even romantic comedy aspects of its setup.

From the lobster tank restaurant scene to the arguments between Hardy and Venom, the film worked best when it left behind the more conventional superhero genre aspects and went for old school Cronenberg-style body horror (albeit in a PG-13 context) meets Stooges-esque physical comedy.

With the sequel, inevitable after the first grossed $856 million worldwide, both director Andy Serkis and the Sony marketing department seem to be embracing the odd couple pairing.

Speaking with Uproxx recently, Serkis talked about how this unusual relationship had evolved into something co-dependent and even intimate:

“Absolutely they do love each other and that’s the kind of the center of the movie is that love affair, that central love affair… I inherited it [the film] at a really interesting moment – which is this The Seven Year Itch, The Odd Couple phase of Eddie and Venom’s relationship.”

Serkis took it further, saying how one key sequence in the film, where Venom goes to a rave, leans into queer elements of the character:

“Tom and [co-writer] Kelly [Marcel] were always about Venom coming out and going to a party that was a very sort of an LGBTQIA kind of festival, really, I’d call it, and so this is his coming out party basically. This is Venom’s coming-out party.”

A new featurette for the film also goes further into the pair’s relationship and how it evolves becomes more of the central focus this time out. “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” is set to hit cinemas on October 1st.

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Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga Will Star in 'Macbeth' on Broadway - The New York Times

Ruth Negga will co-star as Lady Macbeth in a production directed by Sam Gold and scheduled to open next April.

Daniel Craig is veering from James Bond to Shakespeare.

The 53-year-old actor, who has said that his tenure as Bond will come to an end with the release of “No Time to Die,” on Oct. 8, plans to return to Broadway next spring to star in the title role of “Macbeth.”

Famous for his film career, especially as the rakish spy, Craig is also an accomplished stage actor.

He has starred in two previous Broadway plays, the 2009 production of “A Steady Rain” and a 2013 revival of “Betrayal.” And he played the villainous Iago in a 2016 Off Broadway production of Shakespeare’s “Othello” at New York Theater Workshop, opposite David Oyelowo in the title role. (“Gritty brilliance,” the New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote of Craig’s performance.)

In the “Macbeth” production, Ruth Negga will play his wife, Lady Macbeth. Negga, known for the TV show “Preacher” and the film “Loving,” last year played the title role in “Hamlet” (yes, a woman played Hamlet; Negga had also previously played Ophelia) in an Off Broadway production at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

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The lead producer for the Broadway production will be Barbara Broccoli, who has a long collaboration with Craig: She and her brother produce the Bond films, and they also co-produced “A Steady Rain” and supported the nonprofit “Othello” production.

Broccoli said she had been talking with Craig about Macbeth for several years, ever since he expressed an interest in playing the role.

“I’m thrilled that it’s coming after Bond, because, obviously, after 16 years of working with this man, the thought of it all coming to an end has been really difficult to take,” she said. “And so it’s really heartwarming for me that we’re going to be working on something else so soon after the wrapping up of his James Bond cycle.”

Broccoli said that she and Craig also thought it was important to stage the play this season, as Broadway seeks to recover after a long shutdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s been a horrendous 18 months for everyone, and live theater has been damaged tremendously,” she said. “He really wants to come back and be on the stage and encourage people to come back to Broadway — it’s important to all of us from a cultural point of view and from a social point of view.”

“Macbeth” is scheduled to run for 15 weeks, beginning previews March 29 and opening April 28 at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. The production is to be directed by Sam Gold, who also directed the Off Broadway “Othello” in which Craig appeared, and who in 2019 directed a Broadway revival of “King Lear.” The production will feature original music by Gaelynn Lea.

There have been 47 previous Broadway productions of “Macbeth,” according to the Internet Broadway Database; the most recent was in 2013, starring Ethan Hawke and Anne-Marie Duff.

Broccoli is also the lead producer of “Sing Street,” a musical that was scheduled to begin performances on Broadway in March 2020, but never did because of the pandemic. She said she still plans to bring the show to Broadway, but was not ready to say when. “We love the show,” she said, “and we’re trying to figure out the best way to bring it back.”

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Britney Spears' father criticizes potential replacement and pushes to end conservatorship - CBS News

Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, is claiming the man nominated to replace him is not qualified to serve as a conservator of the pop star's estate, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Monday.

Spears and her attorney recently nominated John Zabel, a certified public accountant, to replace her father should Jamie Spears step down or be removed from the arrangement. Her father vowed to step down when the "time is right" and said the conservatorship should be terminated soon — something his legal team repeated on Monday.

"There is no need for a temporary conservator because there is no vacancy in the position of conservator," Jamie Spears' attorneys wrote. "Mr. Spears continues to serve faithfully as Conservator of the Estate, as he has done for the past thirteen years. Mr. Spears has not and should not be suspended, especially since the Conservatorship should soon be terminated."

Jamie Spears' attorney said Zabel is not a "licensed professional fiduciary" and does not have the background or experience it takes to manage a $60 million conservatorship. The attorney also claimed Zabel was "scammed" out of $1 million of his own funds in a real estate scheme in 2008.

"This is not a situation where a layperson could step in and learn on the job, as it appears Mr. Zabel would have to do," the filing reads. "Therefore, it would not be in the best interests of the Conservatee for the Court."

Zabel and Britney's attorney did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment. Both parties will be back in court on Wednesday afternoon.

In a separate petition, Jamie Spears' attorney requested the judge presiding over the case, LA Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny, immediately focus on the request to end the conservatorship and have both sides attend a mandatory settlement or private mediation where all of Spears' pending petitions could be settled.

"The last thing this Court or this Conservatee needs or wants would be extended and expensive litigation over pending or final accounts and fee petitions," the filing reads. "There may be some issues to resolve, but despite the unfounded arguments of Conservatee's new counsel, Mr. Spears does not believe that they are numerous or complicated. If the parties were directed to attend a Mandatory Settlement Conference, or in the alternative a private mediation, and everyone would act in good faith, Mr. Spears believes that all pending issues could be resolved."

Jamie Spears in 2012 and Britney Spears in 2019. AP

Spears has spent several years trying to oust her father from his role as conservator. In an explosive June testimony, she called the conservatorship "abusive," saying she felt minimized and her father controlled everything she did. 

Recent allegations from the New York Times claim that Jamie Spears was responsible for illegally bugging his daughter's home and personal cellphones to record and monitor her private conversations, including those about the conservatorship. Spears' counsel asked the court to investigate the claims, calling the alleged surveillance "unfathomable" and saying it showed Jamie Spears should be removed from his role as soon as possible. 

Jamie Spears' attorneys maintain there is no reason to replace him, saying all the evidence against him is flawed and inadmissible. They also claimed probate investigators have not discovered wrongdoing over the 13 years he served as a conservator.

"It is worth noting that for thirteen years, during the entire course of this conservatorship, probate investigators have conducted regular and recurring investigations based on interviews with numerous individuals, including medical professionals," Monday's filing reads.

"In all that time, to the best of Mr. Spears' knowledge and belief, not a single medical professional nor the report of a single probate investigator has recommended that Mr. Spears' presence as Conservator was harming Ms. Spears or that he should be replaced as Conservator of the Estate."

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Jesse Palmer Named New Host of ‘The Bachelor’ - Variety

Jesse Palmer will step into Chris Harrison’s shoes to hand out roses on ABC’s “The Bachelor,” as Variety has learned that Palmer has been named the new host of the hit dating show.

Palmer, a television broadcaster and former NFL quarterback, starred as “The Bachelor” himself in Season 5, which aired in 2004.

Palmer has a longstanding relationship with The Walt Disney Company, as a sports commentator on ESPN, and former special contributor on “Good Morning America” and across ABC News. He is currently hosting ABC’s summer series “The Ultimate Surfer,” and he previously hosted the network’s reality series “The Proposal” in 2018, which was created by “The Bachelor” boss Mike Fleiss. He has also hosted ABC’s Disney Parks’ holiday specials and ABC’s presentation of the NFL Draft.

“For more than 20 years, ‘The Bachelor’ has brought the world dozens of unforgettable love stories, including at one time, my own,” Palmer said in a statement. “Falling in love is one of life’s greatest gifts, and I am humbled by the opportunity to return to the show as host this season to offer the newest Bachelor advice gained from firsthand experience and I am grateful to play a small part in his journey.”

As of now, Palmer is officially signed on for Season 26 of “The Bachelor,’ which will air in 2022. However, insiders explain that the idea is for Palmer to continue with the franchise in the future, both on the flagship “Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” but nothing is set in stone — and the network has not renewed either series beyond their next upcoming seasons. Sources say that hosting format for future seasons of “Bachelor In Paradise,” which used to be led by Harrison, is still in flux. (The current season of the summer series is being hosted by a rotating slate of celebrity guest hosts, like David Spade and Lil Jon, which has received warm reviews both from critics and fans.)

Next season of “The Bachelorette,” which premieres next month, will be hosted by fan-favorites Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe, the former stars of “The Bachelorette,” who co-hosted the most recent season of the female-fronted spinoff this past spring.

Palmer has been an ESPN analyst since 2007. Along with the news that he’ll be hosting “The Bachelor” Season 26, he has also signed an extension to will continue his studio role with the network during the 2021-2022 college football season.

Bringing Palmer back into Bachelor Nation creates synergy between one of Disney’s big money-makers — ESPN — and one of the company’s most lucrative franchises — “The Bachelor” — with the potential to bring the college football audience into Bachelor Nation’s mega-fandom.

“The Bachelor” bid farewell to Harrison earlier this year after a highly-publicized controversy over racist photos of winning contestant Rachael Kirkconnell, which Harrison defended in a now-infamous interview on “Extra” with former “Bachelorette” Rachel Lindsey. Harrison’s commentary garnered widespread criticism, causing him to apologize for causing “harm by wrongly speaking in a manner that perpetuates racism.” He later stepped aside, stating, “I invoked the term ‘woke police,’ which is unacceptable. I am ashamed over how uninformed I was. I was so wrong.”

Despite his apology statements, the Harrison scandal continued to escalate for months, before he departed the franchise that he had hosted from its launch in 2002. Variety reported that Harrison received a $9 million payout — a relatively low figure for the longstanding host, considering he had launched the show and made around $9 million for two years of work on the franchise.

Amid the Harrison drama, “The Bachelor” franchise played a game of temporary musical chairs with hosts. Emmanuel Acho lead the “After the Final Rose” episode at the end of Matt James’ season. Then, Adams and Bristowe co-hosted Katie Thurston’s season of “The Bachelorette” and are gearing up again for the premiere of Michelle Young’s hotly anticipated season, which premieres Oct. 19.

Palmer’s first season hosting heads into production this week, and will air in the new year, as every season of “The Bachelor” typically does. A source tells Variety that cameras start to roll tonight.

As Variety first reported, the next season of “The Bachelor,” hosted by Palmer, will star Clayton Echard, though ABC and Warner Bros. declined to comment and have not officially confirmed his casting. Insiders told Variety that producers fell in love with Echard — also a former football player, like Palmer -– when he was a contestant on Young’s season of “The Bachelorette,” and opted to give him another chance at love as the Season 26 lead.

When Palmer starred as “The Bachelor,” he was the first non-American star of the franchise as a Canadian, and was the youngest “Bachelor” suitor at 25 years old. His season ended with a winner in contestant Jessica Bowlin, but there was no proposal or engagement, and the couple split shortly after the finale aired, which drew in more than 13 million viewers.

Palmer played for the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the early 2000s. He also played in the Canadian Football League. After his time in professional sports and starring as “The Bachelor,” Palmer parlayed his athletic knowledge and television presence into a career as a sports commentator and TV personality. Aside from his work with ESPN and ABC, Palmer has also hosted for The Food Network and most recently was host of the nationally-syndicated entertainment newsmagazine “DailyMailTV.”

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Zac Brown Band cancels Syracuse concert; singer tests positive for Covid - syracuse.com

Zac Brown Band has canceled its concert at the St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview after singer Zac Brown tested positive for Covid-19.

Brown said he was pushing “pause” on the tour, but officially canceled four shows, including at the St. Joe’s Amp in Syracuse this Saturday, Oct. 2, and at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) in Saratoga Springs on Sunday, Oct. 3. Refunds will be issued at the point of purchase.

“Despite taking precautions, I’ve tested positive for Covid-19,” Brown wrote in a note to fans Tuesday. “I am deeply disappointed this has happened, as touring is our life and performing live for our fans is the best part of our job. The bottom line is that I want to take every precaution to put the health and safety of our fans and crew first. We will resume the tour as soon as I have finished the CDC-mandated quarantine and it is safe for our band members and crew to do so.”

Brown’s “pause” announcement suggested the show was being postponed, but he did not announce any rescheduled dates.

The Grammy-winning country group had performed at the St. Joe’s Amp every year since the former Lakeview Amphitheater’s debut season in 2016, with sellout crowds in 2017 and 2018. ZBB was previously scheduled to perform at the Amp in 2020, but was one of the first artists to call off shows due to the Covid-19 pandemic last year. When “Comeback Tour” dates were announced in May, they included stops at Darien Lake (Sept. 4), Bethel Woods (Aug. 6) and SPAC — but initially left out Syracuse.

A surge in Covid cases fueled by the Delta variant has affected multiple tours, including two earlier shows at the St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview. KoRn canceled an August appearance at St. Joe’s Amp after singer Jonathan Davis tested positive for Covid, and Florida Georgia Line axed an Oct. 9 show “out of an abundance of caution.”

Only two more shows remain on the calendar for the Syracuse amphitheater this season: Slipknot’s Knotfest Roadshow on Oct. 5 and Chris Stapleton on Oct. 7.

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Blake Shelton Says Ariana Grande "Stabbed Me in the Back" on The Voice - Cosmopolitan

Looks like Blake Shelton and Ariana Grande's rivalry is continuing over on The Voice. During Monday's episode, both Blake and Kelly Clarkson wanted singer Jeremy Rosado on their team—and Blake asked for Ariana's support. Buuut she went ahead and chose Team Kelly, telling Jeremy "You have so many really special parts of your voice. And I think Kelly might be able to help you." She added, "I do think Kelly might be the right fit in this case," saying to Blake, "I'm sorry."

Blake was clearly not thrilled, telling Ari "it's on now" and saying to cameras "I can't believe Ariana just did that. That's a slap in the face. The friendship is over." He then interrupted Ariana's on-camera interview, saying "You stabbed me in the back. I was right there on the edge of the cliff, and you pushed me off."

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As a reminder, Ariana is killing it on The Voice, and there are even (false) reports that producers want to replace Blake with someone younger because of Ari's popularity. Turns out Blake straight-up sent Ariana an article about these rumors headlined "Producers at 'The Voice' May Replace Blake Shelton After Ariana Grande Brings a 'Fresh' Energy," and added "Thanks a lot Ari... Thanks a fuckin' lot."

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Doubt Blake Shelton is going anywhere anytime soon considering a) his whole good-natured rivalry with Ariana is a ratings goldmine, and b) he's been on The Voice since day one, soooo!

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'Squid Game' May Become Netflix's Most Popular | HYPEBEAST - HYPEBEAST

Squid Game was the first Korean drama to hit No.1 on Netflix and did it in just four days after its release. According to Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO and Head of Content, “Squid Game will definitely be our biggest non-English language show in the world, for sure,” and has “a very good chance it’s going to be our biggest show ever.”

Netflix typically measures the popularity of its shows based on how many people watch a title for at least two minutes in the first 28 days following its debut. As the series was released on September 17, it only has 11 days of viewership so far. Currently, the most popular series is Bridgerton, followed by Lupin at number 2. The full list of shows can be found here.

In an interview with Variety, Dong-Hyuk Hwang says he may return to produce feature movies before making the sequel to Squid Game. “If I were to do it, I would certainly not do it alone. I’d consider using a writers’ room and would want multiple experienced directors,” said Hwang. The director is currently working on drafting a film titled KO Club,  short for “Killing Old Men Club,” a film depicting an inter-generational war of sorts.

Squid Game might become the most popular show on Netflix?!?! That is kind of insane?!!

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Bam Margera Taken to Florida Rehab in Police Car - TMZ

Bam Margera got a ride to a Florida rehab facility ... in the back of a police car.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... deputies took the "Jackass" star to rehab after responding to a Sunday morning call about an emotionally distressed person at the Don CeSar Resort Hotel in St. Pete Beach.

When cops arrived, we're told deputies were given the heads up about a court order directing Bam to go to rehab, so police assisted. We're told Bam was NOT arrested and he doesn't have any pending charges.

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Bam's unfortunately no stranger to rehab ... as we've reported, his life has been pretty turbulent lately, with his wife recently asking for custody of their 3-year-old son, Phoenix Wolf.

What's more, BM's also been booted from the fourth installment of the "Jackass" franchise and beefed with Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine.

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TMZ broke the story ... Bam says one of his earlier rehab stints made him feel like he was going to die from suicide or an overdose, and then he claimed he was getting help from a woman in Florida who's worked with famous folks like AC/DC's Brian Johnson and Steven Tyler.

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