Celebrity Idiots

Cardi B faced comparisons to Milli Vanilli in the wake of her set at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas on Saturday, as her music continued to play after she was involved in a confrontation with an audience member who threw liquid at her while she was performing.

Another angle: Don’t complain when you get what you ask for in life. pic.twitter.com/HPYKBmgL0Q

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 30, 2023

I’m of an age when it is expected to lament the lack of talent in ‘young people’s music’ but today’s dreck is beyond redemption.

h/t M

Bruce Springsteen has been criticised for going ahead with a concert in Italy near where floods have killed nine people, submerged 35 towns and caused 250 landslides this week.

The American singer’s gig for 50,000 fans on Thursday in Ferrara, about 30 miles from the epicentre of the flooding, was described by a local councillor as an insult to the “pain, desperation and difficulty” of thousands of flood evacuees.

Cnn, you may have heard, abruptly fired longtime host Don Lemon last week. He announced his departure in a hastily composed note on social media.

“I was informed this morning by my agent that I have been terminated by CNN,” Lemon said in a statement shared on Twitter. “I am stunned.”

Don Lemon’s firing from CNN was in part due to his highly combative interview last week with Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, according to reports – with insiders saying Lemon was removed to enable a rethink of the struggling morning show, and warning that Lemon appears ready to sue.

Lemon, 57, has spent the last 17 years at CNN and was one of their most recognizable stars, believed to earn $4 million a year.

He was moved from his primetime slot to co-host a new show, CNN This Morning, which launched on November 1, but has failed to find its footing.

Bette Midler is furious Twitter has taken away her blue-check verification badge and has chosen to express her fury… on Twitter.

Back in 2008, Don Lemon was co-anchoring CNN’s “Live From” weekday show with Kyra Phillips, a gig that he landed after he arrived at the network two years prior from local news in Chicago. For months, tensions between the pair kept mounting. On more than one occasion, a “Live From” producer and a newsroom supervisor had to pull Lemon off the air during a commercial break because of the anchor’s provocative antics, not unlike his recent declaration that the 51-year-old Nikki Haley isn’t a viable presidential candidate because she “isn’t in her prime.” Amid the charged atmosphere, sources say Lemon disrespected colleague Nancy Grace on the air and Soledad O’Brien during an editorial meeting attended by roughly 30 staffers.

Not a surprise.

Far-left extremist Jane Fonda said the quiet part out loud during her Friday appearance on ABC’s The View while hawking her new movie. When asked by co-host Joy Behar for a solution to the proliferation of pro-life laws around the country, the communist, anti-American activist declared that “it does involve murder” of Republican politicians. Fonda even shot a dirty look when Behar tried to claim she was “just joking.”

Having spent a lot of time around academics and media types I learned years ago that people can be smart, talented, and complete dunces at the same time.

Orwell captured that reality with his typical genius, explaining: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Embattled CNN anchor Don Lemon has “zero defenders” left at the network source said, as it remains unclear whether he’ll be back on air Tuesday, sources told Page Six.

Lemon, 56, who has co-hosted “CNN This Morning” since its debut last November, is embroiled in a sexist scandal that’s threatening his future at the network.

“The big question is, is CNN going to keep Don off air on a day-to-day basis?” said one well-placed industry insider. “If they wanted to keep him, they would suspend him for two weeks and call it a day.”

That’s one public figure I hope to see less of. As in never again if possible.