Travis Scott arrested in Paris after fight with hotel security guard
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Travis Scott was arrested Friday while in Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed he was arrested at the Georges V hotel following an altercation with security, who tried to break up a fight between him and his bodyguard. An investigation is now underway.
Travis’ Paris arrest comes as footage of his arrest in Miami Beach has been released. The body-camera footage obtained by TMZ shows his exchange with police back in June, in which he tells the officers he’s scared and outnumbered.
The cops had run into Travis, born Jacques Bermon Webster, while responding to a call about a fight at Miami Beach Marina. He’d been arguing with someone on a boat when they approached him, smelled alcohol and asked if he’d been drinking, to which Travis replied, “It’s Miami.”
He was arrested for disorderly intoxication and trespassing; the former charge was dropped.
Celebrities from across the entertainment spectrum are reacting to President Joe Biden announcing that he is exiting the 2024 presidential race, ending his campaign to defeat former President Donald Trump, and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee in his place.
Celebrity reaction to President Biden’s faulty debate performance in June and his uneven public appearances in the weeks that followed made headlines. Notably, George Clooney, who recently co-hosted a fundraiser for Biden, penned an op-ed in which he declared that Biden should step down.
Now, after Biden said in a statement posted Sunday that he will “stand down,” big names in entertainment are sharing their immediate reactions to Biden’s decision.
Talk show host and comedian Jon Stewartreacted to the news with a one-word post on X shortly after President Biden’s announcement.
“Legend,” wrote Stewart, seemingly reacting to Biden’s decision to leave the race, as well as his decades of public service.
Actor Mark Hamill, who publicly backed Biden, also took to X, writing that Biden “restored honesty, dignity & integrity” to the presidency “after 4 years of lies, crime, scandal & chaos.”
“Thank you for your service, Mr. President. It’s now our duty as patriotic Americans to elect the Democrat who will honor& further your legacy,” he wrote.
Singer Cheralso commented on Biden’s decision to leave the race, saying in part, “DEM PARTY MUST ‘REALLY,’ ‘REALLY’ THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. ‘WINNING IS ALL’, DONT WIN CANT CHANGE ANYTHING& THE TIMES THEY MUST BE A CHANGIN.”
Abbott Elementary Emmy winner Sheryl Lee Ralphtook to X, posting several times in the aftermath of Biden’s decision, including a photo of her and the vice president. “President Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris !” she added.
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman and director Shawn Levy have teased the “heart” hiding within the spectacle of the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine, and the just-released final trailer for the July 26 release gives a glimpse of that.
In the first two Deadpool movies the character’s fanboying of Wolverine was played off as something of a joke — he even wore Hugh Jackman‘s “Sexiest Man Alive” photo under his mask in the 2016 original to cover his own scars.
The final trailer, however, has Reynolds’ Wade Wilson getting serious with Jackman’s Wolvie. “I know I turn everything into a joke, but I care,” he confesses sincerely. “I waited a long time for this team up. In my world you’re well regarded. You were an X-Man … you were THE X-Man. The Wolverine was a hero in my world.”
“Whoever you think I am, you got the wrong guy,” Jackman’s Wolvie replies, until the trailer drops the return of Dafne Keen — seen as a child in 2016’s Logan — as Wolverine’s now-grown daughter.
This, despite that the Acolyte star recently denied to an entertainment outlet that she’s in the film.
“You were always the wrong guy,” she tells her father, “till you weren’t.”
Evidently that does the trick, and Wolvie joins the fight.
Keen’s character was central to the redemption of Jackman’s character before. In James Mangold‘s acclaimed The Wolverine, a clairvoyant mutant predicts Logan would die “holding your heart in your hand” — something shown literally during a bloody self-surgery scene.
But Mangold confirmed the actual payoff to that line was the end of the director’s Logan, as Wolvie dies holding Laura after sacrificing himself to save her and her young mutant friends.
We’re all guilty of misunderstanding the lyrics to popular songs — there are many website postings dedicated to it, in fact, but here’s one you may not have thought about and could have trouble hearing it any other way.
Haliey Welch, better known as the “Hawk Tuah” girl for her viral, onomatopoetic take on an oral sex practice, sat down with Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast and the topic turned to music.
While the 22-year-old said she prefers “old rap” to newer stuff, she’s certainly “heard of older” rappers like Tupac and Jay-Z, though she confesses she “doesn’t listen to them that often.”
Except that one song from Hova, she says, singing, “‘Concrete jungle-wet dream-tomato,’ you know, about New York.” For the record, the actual lyrics are “Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,” as sung by Alicia Keys in the hit.
“‘Wet dream tomato’?” Maher asked.
Her interpretation may just be her second viral moment, with one Facebook user clipping it and interspersing it with the real song. “Now I can’t unhear it,” the user said with “crying laughing” emoji.
Maher said he wanted to “mentor” Welch on how best to use her “chip” — that is her “sudden” fame — to “move past” her “origin story.”
He likened her to the Kardashians, who have become household names “from a sex tape.”
“That’s why it’s important to figure out your next step,” Maher warned. “America gets tired of s*** quick.”
