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In the weeks after Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking engagement, virtually every major media figure felt compelled to comment on the situation.

One such figure was Jimmy Kimmel, whose joke about the politicization of the murder ruffled feathers within the Trump administration.

Kimmel was suspended by ABC after FCC Chair Brendan Carr publicly threatened the network’s parent company, Disney, with retribution.

The host was eventually reinstated, but the debate over his comment continues — and now, Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, has broken her silence on the subject.

Kimmel controversy continues as Erika Kirk rebuffs apology

On Monday, Kirk participated in her first sit-down interview since her husband’s death.

In a conversation with Jesse Watters of Fox News, she revealed that Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates numerous ABC stations across the country, asked her if she wanted to appear on Kimmel’s show and receive an apology.

“I told them thank you we received their note. This is not our issue. It’s not our mess,” Kirk told Watters.

“If you wanna say I’m sorry to someone who’s grieving, go right ahead. But if that’s not in your heart, then don’t do it. I don’t want it. I don’t need it.”

In his first post-suspension monologue, Kimmel did express remorse to anyone close to Charlie who might have been offended by his remarks.

But he also pointed out that his joke was about the political reaction to Kirk’s murder, not the murder itself.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said on the September 15 episode of his show.

Kimmel’s remarks ignited an unexpected firestorm of controversy, as many observers argued that the Trump administration had trampled on the comic’s First Amendment rights by pressuring his employers.

Even rightwing politicians like Ted Cruz criticized the Trump administration for violating Kimmel’s right to free speech.

Elsewhere in the interview, Kirk was asked if her daughter continues to ask where her father is.

“Yes. My daughter continues to ask. But it’s really sweet because I keep explaining to her a few things,” Erika said.

“And I said, ‘If ever you want to talk to daddy, you just look up to the sky and start talking to him. He can hear you,’” she continued, adding:

“I told her, I said, ‘You know, daddy, daddy is in heaven.’ She goes, ‘You think I could go sometime?’ I said, ‘Baby, we will all go one day. We will all go one day.’”

Erika previously made headlines when she spoke at Charlie Kirk’s memorial and revealed that she had forgiven her husband’s killer.

Eria Kirk Says She Rejected Jimmy Kimmel’s Apology was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Provocateur and Representative Lauren Boebert ignited a firestorm over the weekend.

She and her boyfriend, Kyle Pearcy, went in an appalling couple’s costume.

Boebert could have opted for something funny or harmless. Beeltejuice might have worked.

Instead, her boyfriend dressed as an ICE agent. And Boebert’s costume was nothing more than racism.

What racist costume did Lauren Boebert wear for Halloween?

On Friday, October 31, Rep. Lauren Boebert and boyfriend Kyle Pearcy attended a Loveland, Colorado Halloween party.

Holiday parties are an opportunity for government officials — even the worst of the worst — to show the world that they are, at the end of the day, human beings who want to live their lives and have fun.

Boebert opted for a different approach.

Her boyfriend wore military-style gear, including camouflage, with an ICE vest over the fatigues. Given that ICE agents are currently terrorizing American communities across the nation, that is abhorrent but grimly unsurprising.

Boebert wore an appallingly racist costume, portraying what appears to be a woman of Mexican descent residing in the United States.

Lauren Boebert’s Halloween costume was so offensive that even the conservatives at the party ghosted her. At this point, “poor judgment” is less a phase for Boebert and more her entire political platform. She’s definitely the bottom of the barrel.www.thedailybeast.com/maga-congres…

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As you can see, Boebert is wearing a traditional Mexican dress.

She is also wearing a sombrero.

On their own, this could be a racist caricature, but is not explicitly or brazenly racist. But then there is the most important detail.

She is wearing a board with the words: “Mexican Word of the day: JUICY. Tell me if Juicy Ice coming.”

That nonsensical sentence appears to be Boebert mocking anyone who might pronounce “you see” as “juicy.” (We would not personally associate that pronunciation with Mexican-Americans, but that is beside the point)

This goes beyond the erosion of political norms

Bold-faced racism like this would have been a major scandal from a member of Congress just a decade ago.

Make no mistake: there were and always have been proud racists within the United States government. But, in the decades prior before Trump first took office, most avoided “saying the quiet part out loud.”

Reports say that one of the reasons that Majorie Taylor Greene dislikes Lauren Boebert is that the latter is simply too racist for her.

That is saying a lot, coming from a Trump supporter who made headlines with her “Jewish space lasers” conspiracy theory.

But, looking at Boebert mock the terror afflicting millions of Americans at this very moment while simultaneously portraying a vicious caricature of the entire Latine community … this isn’t just a further eroding of norms. This is evil.

“Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., attended a Halloween party Friday dressed as a Mexican woman while her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy wore an ICE vest over military-style clothes.”

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Boebert (who, it turns out, is only 38 years old) was not entirely among friends at the party, according to reports.

Obviously, the others at the gathering were the sorts of people who would either invite someone like her to a party or not leave upon realizing that she’s there.

But even they shied away from Boebert’s racist Halloween costume, ABC News reports.

“It is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen. Even the conservatives [at the party] were in shock. People avoided them,” one attendee described.

To be blunt, it takes a lot to shock people in 2025. Most of us feel more surprised by rare good news than by once-unthinkable horrors or new, inventive displays of bigotry.

She did not apologize (of course)

As you might have guessed, Lauren Boebert has no interest in apologizing or working to become a decent person.

“It’s a Halloween costume,” her office argued in a statement.

“Tell our Senators to vote for the CR and open the government,” Boebert’s office claimed. “They are choosing to let millions of American families suffer.”

That is not really true, as Trump and his GOP cronies are attempting to hold SNAP recipients and remaining government workers hostage in order to snatch healthcare subsidies away from all Americans.

But that is an unsurprising deflection from a woman willing to sink to new, horrible depths of depravity at every turn.

Lauren Boebert Defends Blatantly Racist Halloween Costume was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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We have tragic news to report out of London today:

Ben Duncan, the UK reality star and longtime friend of Prince William and Kate Middleton, has passed away.

He was just 45 years old.

News of Duncan’s passing comes courtesy of a statement from the London police.

London police confirm Ben Duncan’s cause of death

According to a statement issued to the Daily Mail, Duncan “fell about 100 feet off a rooftop bar (on the seventh floor) at London’s Trafalgar St. James Hotel.”

A spokesperson says that “officers responded to concerns for a man on the roof of a building in Cockspur Street, Westminster.”

“The man sadly fell from height. Despite the best efforts from the London Ambulance service, he was sadly pronounced dead at the scene,” the statement added. “His death is unexpected but non-suspicious.”

In a separate statement, an insider at a London ambulance service spoke of the efforts to save Duncan’s life.

“’We sent resources to the scene, including an ambulance crew, an incident response officer, paramedics in fast response cars and paramedics from our hazardous area response team,” the insider told the Mail.

“We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance. Very sadly, despite the best efforts of our crews, a man was pronounced dead at the scene.”

An acquaintance of the future king and queen

Duncan competed on the UK version of Big Brother in 2010. He went on to appear on several more reality shows, including Come Dine With Me, Ladette to Lady, and Celebrity Coach Trip.

But he is perhaps best known for the fact that he attended the University of St Andrews at the same time as William and Kate.

“Because we’d had Will and Kate in our midst we had royal protection officers swarming the place,” he recalled in a 2010 interview (via Us Weekly). “We knew that they had hit it off and we knew that something was happening, but they were just left alone to get on with it.”

Duncan was also present at the famous student fashion show where Hate first caught William’s eye.

“It was the end of their first year. I was there, and in person there were a lot of attractive girls,” he recalled. “She was in a very daring dress, in a sheer stocking-like dress. He was sitting front row and his eyes were like stalks.”

Duncan added, “She brushed by him on the way to the catwalk and things were never the same again — the whole history of the monarchy had been altered.”

Neither William nor Kate has publicly commented on their former schoolmate’s passing.

Our thoughts go out to Ben Duncan’s loved ones during this enormously difficult time.

Ben Duncan Cause of Death; Friend of Prince William & Kate Middleton Was 45 was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Two months and roughly 4,000 social media discourses ago, Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign ignited a firestorm of controversy.

The situation got so out of control that even President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance felt the need to weigh in.

In fact, just about the only person who didn’t toss in her two cents was Sydney herself — but that changed today.

Sydney Sweeney says ‘great jeans’ drama was ‘surreal’

As you’re probably aware, Sydney is currently promoting her new movie Christy.

That’s why she’s been even more omnipresent than usual in recent weeks, appearing everywhere from late night shows to the World Series.

But while she’s been making the media rounds with the energy of a candidate for public office, Sydney skilfully dodged the American Eagle issue until a journalist for GQ asked her about it point-blank in an interview that came out Tuesday afternoon.

In case you forgot, critics said Sydney’s ad had racist undertones due to its central joke about the quality of her genes (the whole campaign was structured around a genes/jeans pun that was corny but probably not intended to offend anyone).

Speaking about the controversy for the first time, Sydney was mostly dismissive, but she adroitly steered clear of saying anything combative or overtly political.

“I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life,” she said.

“The president and the vice president spoke about the jeans ad. What was that like?” GQ‘s Katherine Stoeffel asked.

“It was surreal,” Sydney replied.

When the interviewer posited that Sydney must have felt “thankful” to be defended by “very powerful people,” the actress again demurred.

“I don’t think…. It’s not that I didn’t have that feeling, but I wasn’t thinking of it like that, of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day,” said Sydney.

“I’m filming Euphoria, so I’m working 16-hour days, and I don’t really bring my phone on set, so I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So I didn’t really see a lot of it.”

Sydney should probably write a book on how to comment on sensitive issues without rubbing anyone the wrong way.

This is probably what all celebrity interviews will sound like in a few years as both sides of the political spectrum continue to subject public figures to ideological purity tests.

We’re sure Sydney has her beliefs, but she’s also a 28-year-old woman who’s been rich and famous for like 10 minutes.

“I would like to continue being rich and famous” is probably chief among those beliefs.

Sydney Sweeney Finally Speaks Out About Trump’s Take on American Eagle Controversy was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Theresa Nist would like your attention.

Or, to be more accurate and specific, Theresa Nist would like the attention of her ex-husband.

For those unaware, Gerry Turned has written a memoir titled “Golden Years: What I’ve Learned from Love, Loss, and Reality TV.

In a previous interview with Us Weekly, the original Golden Bachelor — who proposed to Nist on his season’s finale, then married her months later on air and then announced their divorce in April 2024 — said his ex-wife “should be worried” about the contents of this book.

What a weird and rude thing to say, huh?

“I am normally such a calm person. And all I want is peace and joy and good things in my life,” Theresa said on the latest edition of the Dear Shandy podcast.

“I have been so upset. I have been extremely upset. Anytime I talk about anything that I read that he said about any interaction we had, I just go, ‘That’s not how it was.’”

Such as?

According to Theresa, there was “distance” between her and Turner that began on her overnight date.

It wasn’t until the pair were in the fantasy suite — when she began talking about her job — that she felt the dynamic “changed completely.

Is she implying here that Turner was in their relationship for their money?

“He started proclaiming his love for me. [He said], ‘I love you. I love you. I love you. And I’m going to ask you to marry me and whether or not you say yes, that’s up to you.’ I was shocked,” Theresa recalled, noting that she thought Gerry had a stronger connection with runner-up Leslie Fhima.

Elsewhere, Nist said Turner had quite a temper.

For example, she tried to go to sleep one night as early as her husband, only for Turner to reportedly lose it on her.

“I was up for like an hour and I was just about to go to sleep and all of a sudden he comes storming out of the bedroom calling me a liar,” Theresa said on air, claiming that Gerry said the comments in “such a bad temper.”

In his book, Turner said he felt “trapped” the night before the pair’s wedding.

This was news to Nist, however, who says the two never discussed these feelings.

“I have to say that I always said I like to live my life without regrets, but boy I made some mistakes here. I regret getting married so quickly. That shouldn’t have happened,” Theresa did confess on the podcast, emphasizing that Turner should have called off the ceremony if he was really thinking it was a bad idea.

Also in his memoir, Turner alleged that his now-ex was hesitant to sign a prenuptial agreement.

However, Nist now tells a different story about being confused by which documents to return to him.

“Gerry wanted the prenup and I told him, ‘No, I would never in a million years take your money.’ So he dropped it,” Theresa explained.

Turner, though, changed his mind and ultimately asked Theresa to sign the prenup. Sounds like a lot of miscommunication here.

It also sounds as if the former spouses didn’t have the best sex life, to put it bluntly.

When visiting Theresa at her home in New Jersey at one point, Gerry alleged that she “rebuffed” his attempts at physical intimacy and that she made him sleep on the sofa.

Theresa, for her part?

“I haven’t slept with anyone in nine years,” she now says.

“I didn’t sleep the entire night and I’m not a great sleeper. The next morning it came up, ‘How did you sleep?’ I said, ‘I didn’t sleep at all.’ We slept together the first night. He said, ‘Oh, I can sleep on the couch if you want me to.’ He offered to sleep on the couch. I did not ask him to sleep on the couch,” Theresa claimed.

About a year ago, Turner was diagnosed with cancer.

Nist said she absolutely would have stuck by Gerry’s side throughout this battle, and that the diagnosis had nothing to do with their divorce.

Fast forward these many months and Nist hasn’t given up on love.

“I really do want to get married. I do want love in my life. That’s what I wanted. That was the whole point of this,” she said on the podcast.

Theresa Nist BLASTS Gerry Turner, Fires Back Against Ex-Husband’s Book Claims was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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