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Fox Unveils Sneak Peeks for ‘The Masked Singer’ Season 4 & New Game Show ‘I Can See Your Voice’
Fox announced on Wednesday (Aug. 26) that it is fast-tracking a new music guessing game show, I Can See Your Voice. The unscripted series, hosted by The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong will debut on September 23 on Fox following the season four premiere of The Masked Singer. A new teaser for the Emmy-nominated competition has given hints for the costumes viewers can expect this season, including the Giraffe, Broccoli, Popcorn, Seahorse, Jellyfish, Mushroom, Squiggly Monster, Dragon, Baby Alien, Sun and Whatcha Macallit. [embedded content] “Safely filming I Can See Your Voice this summer was a win in itself, but when we saw the pure magic of the show and felt the palpable suspense in the room before that first note hit, we knew we had to share it with audiences thi...
ICM Models, Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber & More to Return Fraction of $1.7M Fyre Fest Promo Fees
A dozen of the agency’s models appeared in a video promoting the disastrous event that defrauded attendees and investors. ICM Models and its clients Bella Hadid, Hailey Bieber, Alessandra Ambrosio, Chanel Iman, Elsa Hosk, Shanina Shaik, Nadine Leopold, Hannah Ferguson, Alyssah Ali, Rose Bertram, Daniela Lopez and Gizele Oliveira have reached a settlement over a combined $1.7 million fee they received for promoting the disastrous Fyre Festival in 2017. In total, they will have to repay $150,000 to a settlement account set up for the festival victims. Baldwin, Bieber, Iman and the other IMG models appeared in bathing suits in a promotional video that announced the festival, promising two “transformative” weekends that “would exceed all expectations.” While the models, along with social...
Diddy, Mark Ronson & More Stars Applaud the Milwaukee Bucks After Players Go on Strike to Protest Racial Injustice
The Milwaukee Bucks started a wave of protest in the NBA on Wednesday (Aug. 26), when they made the decision to go on strike and call off their playoff game against the Orlando Magic in solidarity with Jacob Blake. Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot multiple times in the back by police officers on Sunday (Aug. 23) in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as he entered the driver’s side door of an SUV. The devastating incident took place in front of Blake’s three young children, aged three, five and eight. “The past four months have shed light on the racial injustices facing our African American community,” the Bucks said in a team statement. “Citizens around the country have used their voices and platforms to speak out against these wrongdoings. Over the last few days in ...
Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding Reveals She’s ‘Fighting’ Breast Cancer
Girls Aloud singer Sarah Harding took to Instagram on Wednesday (Aug. 26) to share some heartbreaking news. Alongside a photo of herself in a hospital bed, she revealed her breast cancer diagnosis. “Earlier this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer and a couple of weeks ago I received the devastating news that the cancer has advanced to other parts of my body,” she revealed. “I’m currently undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions and I am fighting as hard as I possibly can.” “I understand this might be shocking to read on social media and that really isn’t my intention,” she continued. “But last week it was mentioned online that I had been seen in hospital, so I feel now is the time to let people know what’s going on and this is the best way I ca...
LA Clippers Coach Doc Rivers Powerfully Addresses Racial Injustice In America
Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty In a perfect world, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and his players should only be focused on their goal of bringing a championship home as they battle in the playoffs. Instead, Rivers, like many Black Americans, has to battle the ugliness of racial injustice despite all his achievements on and off the court and addressed the matter in a powerful postgame moment. After the Clippers blew out the Dallas Mavericks 154-111, the postgame conference with Rivers answering questions about the recent shooting in Kenosha, Wisc. that reportedly left Jacob Blake paralyzed from the waist down. With raw emotion, Rivers blasted President Donald Trump and speakers at the Republican National Convention for sowing seeds of fear. “It’s amazing to me why we keep loving this ...
HHW Gaming: ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’ Officially Unveiled, Arrives In November
Source: Treyarch / Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War It’s official, official, we are heading back to the 1980s in the newest Call of Duty game, and it looks like it’s going to be one hell of a ride. On Wednesday (Aug.26), after teasing fans and numerous leaks, Activision finally pulled the lid off the next Call of Duty game, Black Ops Cold War. The studio unveiled the Treyarch/Raven co-production to players inside Call of Duty: Warzone before officially dropping the trailer, which showed in-game PS5 footage, which looks fantastic across the web. When the game arrives, it will not only feature a brand new action-packed campaign, but it will also feature a new multiplayer experience. Call of Duty Zombies is also coming back, plus the game will continue to build on the popular free-to-play COD...
The NBA Postpones Playoff Games In Protest Of Jacob Blake Shooting
Source: Pool / Getty The NBA is down with us. In solidarity with the family of Jacob Blake, the Black shot in the back multiple times by Wisconsin police, the NBA has postponed its playoffs games. It started with the Milwaukee Bucks, who announced today (August 26) they would be boycotting their Game 5 playoff match which was supposed to go down this evening against the Orland Magic. Soon after, the NBA and the NBA Players Associated announced that the rest of tonight’s playoffs games—the Houston Rockets vs the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers vs the Portland Trailblazers were also getting put on the shelf. Since Blake’s egregious shooting, NBA players and coaches including LeBron James and Doc Rivers, respectively, have been expressing their exasperation at the treatment o...
HHW Gaming: EA & NFL Taking Over Tuesdays With New ‘Madden NFL 21’ Championship Series
Source: EA Sports / Madden NFL 21 EA and the National Football League (NFL) is looking to take advantage of the newfound interest in eSports thanks folks being home due to COVID-19. The two entities announced a new format for the EA SPORTS Madden NFL 21 Championship Series that will feature a weekly sports entertainment programming, revamped tournament offerings, and an exciting mix of celebrity, athlete, and elite Madden NFL player involvement. The announcement comes following record-breaking months of engagement and viewership as well as including the most successful Madden NFL in history with a 30 percent year-over-year increase in unique players. The announcement further supports EA Competitive Gaming Entertainment from a world-class tournament provider to...
Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld Pays Tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale
In the 24 hours since the news of his death was announced, a number of tributes from friends, other bands and colleagues have paid tribute to Power Trip singer Riley Gale. Few, if any, would have expected that the 34-year-old would have been the subject of another tribute on Fox News. Today (Aug. 26), Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld, who struck up a friendship with Gale over Twitter despite their differing political views, started The Five with an on-air tribute to him. It turns out that the two were fairly close friends. Wearing a Power Trip t-shirt that he said the singer gave him, Gutfeld said Gale was “an all-around brilliant dude” and that he “died in his sleep,” which wasn’t previously reported. He went on to describe the band’s negative reaction to him playing songs from 2017’...
Organizer of Controversial “ReUnite” Desert Festival Shares GoFundMe After Reports of a Fatality at the Event
One of the organizers of “ReUnite,” an illicit desert festival in Mojave, California that allegedly masqueraded as a protest, has shared a GoFundMe page following reports of a fatality at the event. Following the conclusion of the festival, which has been excoriated by a litany of news outlets and social media users due its purported disregard for the state’s social distancing ordinances, Rick Silver took to Facebook to call for donations to cover funeral costs for a deceased man. Facebook via Rick Silver It’s important to note that Silver does not unequivocally attribute the death in question to ReUnite. Silver revealed himself to be one of the organizers of the event in a June 16th Facebook post in which he also shared a dedicated fundraising p...
Tekashi 6ix9ine to Release New Album Tattle Tales
Tekashi 6ix9ine has been very, very active on social media and beyond since he was released from prison four months early due to COVID-19 concerns. And now he’s got an album on the way. The rapper announced on Instagram that he’s releasing the strangely titled, but apropos Tattle Tales on Sept. 4. In the same post, Tekashi also shared that he was currently in Chicago. https://www.instagram.com/p/CEXWzL5pFUs/ “GOOBA,” the first song he recorded since being released from prison, came out in May, and Tekashi collaborated with Nicki Minaj on “Trollz” in June. His most recent single “Punani,” came out in August. Prior to his release, the rapper was four months short of serving his full two-year prison sentence. Now, he’ll be finishing out his term at home due to the pandemic and conce...
99 Metal Musicians Join Forces to Cover ’99 Bottles of Beer’
If 99 metal musicians teamed up to sing “99 Bottles of Beer,” you’d think it was a joke, right? Well, it’s 2020, so nothing is not insane, and that’s exactly what happened. The project was put together by Scour’s Derek Engemann and Nest’s John Jarvis. All proceeds from the song will benefit the Old Dog Haven, a charity that helps old dogs find homes. Assembling the track literally took years. “This has been an epically fun project involving the entire Metal scene, and even a few Ska bands! This project originally began back in 2013, but was brought back to life once we discovered Old Dog Haven,” Engemann said on a GoFundMe page for the charity. “The ’99 Bottles’ has truly shown the good side of humanity during these wild times that we are in. I was amazed at all of the peopl...
