Category: Entertainment

Jimmy Kimmel’s AI Joke About Mitch McConnell’s Hospital Photo Ignites a Very 2026 Firestorm Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., issued a statement Sunday revealing he had fallen last month and was briefly unconscious, leading to his hospitalization since June 14 and a subsequent mild case of pneumonia; he said tests ruled out broken bones, a concussion,…

“Love Island USA” Crowns Its Winners — But Fans Say the Finale Got Robbed of Its Best Twist “Love Island USA” Season 8 crowned Trinity Tatum and Bryce Dettloff as its winners during Sunday’s finale, with the pair splitting the show’s $100,000 grand prize after being voted the season’s favorite couple. Host Ariana Madix announced…

Kathy Griffin’s Fake 22-Year-Old Boyfriend Was a “Social Experiment” — And the Internet Feels Used Kathy Griffin, 65, posted a photo with a 22-year-old man on July 9, captioning it “He’s 22. Have at it, internet,” prompting a wave of viral reactions across social media [2]. The following day, Griffin revealed the post was staged,…

Conor McGregor’s Five-Year Comeback Dies in 69 Seconds — Nobody Wins Conor McGregor’s long-awaited return to the octagon against Max Holloway headlined UFC 329 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night, marking his first fight since a leg injury against Dustin Poirier in July 2021. McGregor opened the bout with a jumping kick,…

Meta Killed Its AI Face-Remix Tool After Just 3 Days — And Nobody’s Happy Meta launched an AI image generation tool called Muse on Instagram this week, letting any user create AI-generated images by @-mentioning another public Instagram account and pulling from that account’s photos as reference material. The feature was opt-out by default, meaning…

Disney’s Live-Action ‘Moana’ Sinks at the Box Office With a $250M Bomb Warning Disney’s live-action remake of “Moana” opened in U.S. theaters Friday, July 10, 2026, pulling in $4.5 million from Thursday preview screenings and tracking for a three-day opening weekend between $40 million and $45 million, well short of the $60 million-plus industry had…

Banijay and All3Media Just Merged Into an $8 Billion TV Giant — And the Whole Industry Now Answers to It Banijay Entertainment and All3Media completed their previously announced merger on July 9, 2026, forming a combined production and distribution company valued at roughly $8 billion and headquartered in London. The new entity is jointly owned…

Meta’s New AI Tool Lets Strangers Put Your Face in Their Prompts — Hollywood Says Opting Out Isn’t Enough Meta this week rolled out Muse Image, an AI image-generation tool built into the Meta AI app, Instagram and WhatsApp that lets any user generate AI images using another person’s likeness simply by tagging that person’s…

Sacha Baron Cohen Secretly Filmed a New Ali G Movie, and No One Saw It Coming Sacha Baron Cohen has wrapped production on an untitled new film reviving his early-2000s character Ali G, shot entirely in secret using the same guerrilla method he used for “Borat” and “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Cohen was reportedly spotted filming…

AI “Actress” Tilly Norwood Lands Her First Movie Role, and Hollywood Is Not Okay Tilly Norwood, the AI-generated “performer” created by Eline van der Velden’s production company Particle6, has been announced as the star of “Misaligned,” a comedy-drama billed as her first feature-length film role. The project is described as a coming-of-age story set inside…