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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Shakira Cancels Second Concert In Three Days Due To 'Tour Production Issue'
Following her recent cancellation of a concert in Boston, Shakira has pulled the plug on her scheduled performance Saturday in Washington DC. BBC News reports that the Columbian star had been billed to appear as part of large LGBTQ+ festival WorldPride, but an announcement by the host stadium confirmed the gig was off. More from Deadline Shakira's Medellín Concert Postponed Because Of Stage Safety Concerns: "Grateful For The Unconditional Support" Shakira Cancels Lima Concert After Being Hospitalized For Abdominal Issue 'The View's Ana Navarro Praises Shakira's Grammys Speech & Defending Latino Community: "More People Need To Lose The Fear" The statement said 'complications with the previous show in Boston' meant 'Shakira's full tour production cannot be transported to Washington, D.C' in time. Shakira added in her own statement: 'Because of the unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances that affected me and other artists in Boston, my full tour production is not able to be moved to Washington, DC in time for my scheduled performance on Saturday. 'I have been counting the days, excited to be reunited with my fans in both Washington and Boston,' she added. 'I promise that I will do everything in my power to be with you as soon I can.' Fans were issued immediate refunds for the cancelled concert, which was binned two days after Shakira's Boston concert was called off due to 'a safety issue.' Shakira is currently performing in stadiums across north America as part of her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran tour, in support of her 12th studio album. She is due to perform next in Atlanta on Monday June 2. The artist's year started on a high, with a win at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Taking the stage at the Arena in Los Angeles, the Colombian singer won in the Best Latin Pop Album category for Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran and took the opportunity to express her support to immigrants. 'I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country,' she said. 'You are loved. You are worth it, and I will always fight with you.' Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds 'Poker Face' Season 2 Guest Stars: From Katie Holmes To Simon Hellberg 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Disgraced sex offender Democrat's excuse for sexting underage girl as he attempts a comeback
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner says his conviction for sexting a minor is 'not a good enough reason' for voters to dismiss him as he mounts a political comeback. Weiner, 60, who is a registered sex offender after his sick sex scandal was exposed by almost a decade ago, faced The View panelists as they grilled him about his run for New York City Council. Panelist Ana Navarro confronted Weiner about his 'many' scandals, which also included sexting women under the pseudonym 'Carlos Danger', which the politician said he was not shying away from. 'With all that said, why should New Yorkers give you a shot at a political comeback?' Behar questioned. Weiner responded: 'Let me just say this - all of that happened. I accept responsibility for it. 'You won't hear me do what some other people like Donald Trump or Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams have done,' he said, adding that he does not brand himself as being 'persecuted or a victim.' The politician said he realizes now that he was suffering from 'an addiction' at the time of his scandal, but said he deserved forgiveness for accepting the public humiliation instead of playing victim. 'I didn't ask for a trial, I pled guilty, I served my time in prison, did probation and tried to do good work for the formerly incarcerated,' he said. 'I guess what I'm saying to people is, maybe don't vote for me in spite of what they know about me, but maybe consider that journey, that idea that we all go through things,' Weiner continued. Weiner noted that although he is Jewish, he likes a notion commonly found in Catholicism that people 'suffer for a reason so you can be of service on the other end.' 'So, I'm doing the opposite of what a lot of politicians do in my position... I'm saying, yes, I did these things, I got into recovery, I tried to make my life better, and now I can be of service,' he continued. 'And I'm a damn good politician.' When Weiner's underage sex scandal was exposed by the Daily Mail in 2016, the 15-year-old he was sexting with said he asked her to dress up in 'school-girl' outfits for him on a video messaging application and pressed her to engage in 'rape fantasies.' But he said on The View that this should be 'not a good enough reason' for New Yorkers to dismiss him, 'just because I have bad things in my past.' 'All I can ever be is who I am right now,' he continued. Panelist Alyssa Farah Griffin likened Weiner to politicians such as Donald Trump who have had brushes with the law, saying that figures like them are why Americans have such a low level of trust in their representatives. Weiner responded: 'I think what politicians sometimes don't realize, is that voters don't expect you to be some kind of paradigm of greatness. 'They want you to be an honest, authentic, full person.' His appeal to voters appeared to land poorly with panelist Joy Behar, who also lumped Weiner in with other male politicians who have had sex scandals such as former New York Governors Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo. 'I'm listening to you now and I'm thinking, what do these people have in common? Cuomo, Clinton, Trump, Wiener, Spitzer, they're all men, they are all men,' Behar said. 'We were talking about this before, about trying to appeal to these men out there. Why is it that two qualified women could not beat all of you guys? These women can never beat you. 'They're more qualified than almost anybody on that list, including you, I'm sorry.' Weiner agreed that women are often held to a higher standard than men, but countered Behar's point to say that he suffered consequences, including being booted from office and serving time behind bars. 'I mean, I hate to correct you. Bill Clinton was impeached, Eliot Spitzer was thrown out of office, I was thrown at of office, Andrew Cuomo was thrown out of office, so we do pay a price,' he said. 'The question is, if you are gonna say to those people, how do you judge their record in totality? I do believe that women get judged much more harshly than men do.'
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The View's Sara Haines doles out brutal advice to Trump-hating viewers that they won't want to hear
The View co-host Sara Haines offered her colleagues and others who constantly bash President Donald Trump some sage advice on the show Wednesday. Haines suggested that Trump critics should 'pick your battles' during a discussion about the president's controversial pardon of reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley. The Chrisley Knows Best stars were found guilty of federal charges of tax evasion and conspiring to swindle community banks in 2022, and Todd was originally sentenced to 12 years in prison while Julie was sentenced to seven. Both terms have since been shortened. On Wednesday's show, Ana Navarro insisted that 'we have to not normalize this and allow it to continue to happen,' saying that it is 'not normal or honest or ethical' that 'there's a For Sale sign on the lawn of the White House.' She claimed that with the Chrisleys pardons, Trump is proving that 'if you are a supporter, if you are a donor, then you can buy pardons.' But Haines disagreed. 'Everyone reacts to everything saying "Don't normalize this" whenever Trump does something outrageous,' she noted, arguing: 'There's a strategy to picking your battles.' She went on to use what she described as 'proverbs' to prove her point, telling the audience: 'The man who chases two rabbits catches neither' and 'When you yell at everything, nobody hears anything.' 'There's a strategy to not jumping every time he does something,' Haines argued, claiming that Trump pardoning his supporters is 'not surprising.' Still, Haines said she did not want to insinuate that 'any of this is not bad' as she tried to direct the audience on where to direct their anger at the president. 'I'm more upset about the Qatari jet, the January 6th pardons - which were violent criminals, the deportations without due process, the attacks on federal institutions with no cause,' she said. 'Those, to me, are fundamentally way more problematic.' But when she was done, woke co-host Joy Behar noted: 'That's a lot of rabbits you listed.' It now appears that Haines may have been following the guidance of her bosses at ABC News and Disney, who have reportedly asked the notoriously liberal panel to dial back their constant complaining about the president. ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic suggested the women needed to broaden their conversations, highlighting episodes with celebrity guests that he said earned high ratings. Disney CEO Bob Iger reportedly made a similar request. But Navarro has argued that viewers tune in to hear the panel's perspective on politics and is said to have taken it upon herself to push back against the Disney boss. In doing so, however, Navarro may have made a dangerous error, as Fox News reports that her co-hosts actually 'agree' with Iger and are happy to change the direction of the show. The stars are also said to fear that 'ignoring Bob Iger seems like a terrible decision' as bosses on the talk show are famously brutal with dumping stars who do not play by the rules or who are disliked by the audience. 'The View is a daytime network talk show and needs to do more than just politics and Trump bashing. This was a welcome direction for many of us,' one source explained. Many audience members, though, were outraged by Haines' remarks Even so, Haines' comments on Wednesday appeared to have set off a firestorm among its liberal audience members - many of whom took to X to express their outrage at her remarks. 'So Sara is normalizing Trump pardoning criminals because Trump has too many other things for us to be mad about?!' one user wrote, as another added, 'the s*** can still be called out Sara.' A third asked what Haines was 'babbling about.' '"Not jumping every time Trump does something?!" Then maybe he shouldn't keep doing/getting away with so many egregious acts, you dingbat!?!' the X user wrote, while a fourth said they were 'sorry, not sorry' for their remarks toward Haines. 'Why shouldn't we be outraged at EVERY unethical or illegal act he does,' the X user wrote, rhetorically.
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The Independent
5 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
ABC bosses urged The View to tone down its Trump-bashing. But are Whoopi & Co. listening?
In the days since it was reported that the top executives at ABC News and its parent company Disney urged The View to tone down its politics, the largely Trump-bashing hosts of the daytime talk show have only grown more strident with their rhetoric. At times, it's even seemed like the show's panelists — specifically long-running moderator Whoopi Goldberg and outspoken Never Trumper Ana Navarro — have made a point of defying the corporate request to pull back on their politically charged commentary. 'You know, people always want us to be respectful and do the things and talk about the stuff we talk about. We can do all of that,' Goldberg exclaimed last Thursday, holding up a pocket Constitution while condemning the president for accepting a luxury jet from Qatar. 'But when you are blatantly giving the country the middle finger, that is blatant,' she added. 'You're not supposed to do that!' Navarro, who recently spoke to Disney chief Bob Iger about the show's political tone and coverage, wasted no time going after Trump this week after returning from the Memorial Day break. 'If Joe Biden said that, we'd be talking about his cognitive skills and cognitive decline for days,' she said after the show aired a clip of Trump flubbing the word 'cryptologic' during a recent speech. 'You know, he calls the way he speaks the weave, I call the thing on his head the weave.' That was just one small blip, meanwhile, in a lengthy opening segment on Tuesday that focused intently on Trump using his Memorial Day speech and soxcial media post to attack and slam his political rivals. And much as she did on a few days prior, Goldberg appeared to deliver a not-so-subtle message to the C-suite about the editorial direction of the show. 'Whatever it is, it's on us. We have work to do,' she proclaimed to applause from the in-studio audience. 'We have to get out and make sure we put the balance back into this country.' Meanwhile, Wednesday's broadcast represented the third straight episode in which The View kicked off with a lengthy segment tearing into Trump and his administration, this time over the president issuing a pardon to reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley. The MAGA-backing couple, whose daughter spoke at the Republican National Convention, were convicted of tax evasion and bank fraud in 2022 for defrauding community banks of $30 million in fraudulent loans. And at the end of the A-block on the show, Goldberg once again waved around her pocket Constitution while chastising the Trump White House, all while suggesting it is a moral imperative that the show call out the actions of this president. 'When you want to know 'does this pass the smell test,' all you've got to do is check it out here. See, because there are things you don't do in America that we — the Constitution says it. It's not us saying it. It's saying we don't do this in America,' she exclaimed. 'I get that your whole family has figured out a way to make money from the country. I get it. OK. That's what you do,' Goldberg continued. 'That's what you've always done. What I don't like is that you get pi**y with other people doing the same thing. Either it's not good for everybody, or it's good for everybody. Somebody make up their mind!' The Independent has reached out to ABC News for comment. The impassioned anti-Trump screeds, of course, are nothing new on this show. In fact, it has become a feature for the better part of a decade, even when Joe Biden occupied the White House for four years. Additionally, the past week's new shows have continued the basic format that has been in place in recent months. While the show typically leads off with a 'Hot Topic' centered on political news, the rest of the program tends to feature a variety of other issues that the panel tackles. For instance, on Wednesday's telecast, the Chrisley segment was followed by discussions centering on drama with a Real Housewives cast member and Gen Z taking 'adulting' classes, alongside interviews with Julianne Moore and Ashley Tisdale. However, with Trump back in the White House, and Disney welcoming him back into office by paying him $15 million to settle his lawsuit over Good Morning America host George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, the media landscape has suddenly shifted. Now, the massive conglomerates and mega-billionaires who control the legacy media have shown their willingness to cozy up and capitulate to a temperamental commander-in-chief who has made attacking the free press a hallmark of his new administration. It is within this current environment that ABC News chief Almin Karamehmedovic and Disney boss Bob Iger asked the outspoken hosts of The View, which Trump and his allies have long complained about, to tone down the political tenor of the show and lean more into general interest coverage and celebrity interviews. 'The move was not framed as an edict, one source said, but the suggestion alone rankled the hosts,' the Daily Beast reported about the meeting Karamehmedovic had with the show's stars and executive producer, which featured him pointing out the celebrity guest who drew high ratings. 'The group pushed back forcefully, with hosts like Navarro noting the show's audience routinely seeks out its perspective on politics, especially when the administration's radical attempts to upend the government can potentially affect their daily lives,' the Beast added. A source familiar with the matter told The Independent that the network 'constantly has conversations with talent based on viewer feedback, and this instance was no different,' adding that the meeting was merely 'about balance in the show on topics' and not necessarily 'talking about Trump.' While the meeting wasn't framed as an edict, and the hosts reportedly found Karamehmedovic's request to tamp down the politics 'silly' since it would 'look kind of bad' to their audience, the issue remained a sticking point for Navarro. She would eventually broach the subject with Iger, whom she ran into during Disney's recent upfront advertiser presentation. After Navarro thanked him for allowing the hosts to continue to do 'their job in a politically turbulent environment,' the Beast reported, Iger said that while he does support The View, he 'reaffirmed that the show needed to tone down its political rhetoric.' The conversation with Navarro revealed that the 'suggestion to tone down the politics went all the way to the top.' And though the corporate effort to tamp down the political coverage could very well be nothing more than an attempt to find the right balance for a talk show to broaden its viewership, it is impossible not to view it through the lens of the current administration's war against the media – which includes ABC. Despite Disney's settlement on the Stephanopulos interview, the president has continued to rail against the news network. Earlier this month, he fumed at an 'ABC fake news' reporter for grilling him on the luxury jet that the Qatari royal family gifted him. 'Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question,' he growled. Days later, he would threaten to sue ABC News over the way the network has reported on the $400 million jumbo jet from Qatar, wondering why Iger doesn't 'do something about ABC Fake News' while referencing his previous defamation suit against the network. Trump is also in talks to settle a $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, even though legal experts have called the complaint frivolous and the network itself says it is 'completely without merit.' However, because the network's corporate parent Paramount is looking to complete a mega-merger with Skydance that it needs the administration to approve, Paramount chair Shari Redstone has urged the board to settle with Trump to push the deal through. The potential payment to Trump has resulted in the resignations of CBS News chief Wendy McMahon and 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens, who made it clear they would not apologize as part of any settlement.
Daily Mail
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The View host 'out in the cold after she had nerve to scold ABC boss who warned them to stop anti-Trump rants'
Ana Navarro faces being given a very cold shoulder by her co-stars on The View after she had the nerve to scold her uber-powerful boss for warning that the afternoon show's constant moaning about Donald Trump is boring. Bob Iger - CEO of ABC parent company Disney - asked the afternoon show to tone down the politics in recent weeks after finding viewers responded better to frothier showbusiness segments, the Daily Beast reported. Navarro is then said to have taken it upon herself to push back against Iger - one of the most powerful figures in media - by insisting that viewers enjoy being served an afternoon dose of resistance-style rants. But the anti-Trump Republican may have made a very dangerous error. Fox News is now reporting that Navarro's co-hosts actually 'agree' with Iger and that they're happy to change the direction of the show. The stars are also said to fear that 'ignoring Bob Iger seems like a terrible decision.' ''The View' is a daytime network talk show and needs to do more than just politics and Trump bashing. This was a welcome direction for many of us,' the source added. The internal clashes over the show's direction come as it has become increasingly focused on fighting Donald Trump's actions in the White House, which led to a hostile on-air spat between the hosts weeks ago. The View hosts have gone to war with Anna Navarro after she reportedly scolded top executives for telling the hosts their uber-woke political takes are driving away viewers - which the other hosts allegedly 'agree with' When The View hosts were confronted by top brass, Navarro in particular argued against the pushback and felt that viewers enjoy hearing the panel's political segments, sources said Iger is a self-made CEO who worked his way to the top from his first job as a laborer on TV sets and has a strong television background. His apparent discomfort over The View's predictable political content was reportedly echoed by ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic, who separately told the hosts that they should tone down their bias. Karamehmedovic, who was named ABC News president in August, had suggested the women needed to broaden their conversations, highlighting episodes with celebrity guests that he said earned high ratings. Hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar and Sara Haines are all proud Democrats. Navarro is a never-Trump Republican, while Alyssa Farrah Griffin is a former Trump White House aide who has since shunned the MAGA faction of the GOP. Insiders told Fox that such conversations are routine in the company, and the executives were focused on bringing 'balance' to the show rather than thinking of axing it. ABC News did not immediately respond to a request for comment on sources saying the hosts disagreed with Navarro, however a source previously told that the hosts' meeting with Karamehmedovic was merely business as usual. 'We constantly have conversations with talent based on viewer feedback and this instance was no different,' the source told The Daily Beast previously reported that after facing a grilling from the top brass, the hosts insisted on keeping 'doing their thing', and worried it would 'look kinda bad' if they abruptly stopped talking about politics. It comes as The View has hardly shied away from politics in recent episodes, including a car-crash interview with former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden earlier this month. The liberal-leaning hosts offered softball questions to Biden until lone conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin stepped up to confront the former president on his 'cognitive decline.' Biden fumbled for an answer before interrupting himself with 'I've spoken enough', before Jill, who was sat beside her husband, picked up the answer without a beat, sparking theories she may have nudged him or kicked him under the table to shut him up. The request to step back from politics comes as media companies continue to look for ways to avoid Trump's wrath. The president filed a $20billion lawsuit against CBS News over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris last year that he claims was deceptively edited. Shari Redstone, the heiress of CBS parent company Paramount Global, has sought to settle the suit while pursuing a media merger with Skydance. The Trump administration must approve the deal, which won't happen until a settlement between CBS News and Trump is reached. ABC settled a defamation suit filed by Trump in December of last year, agreeing to a $16 million settlement over George Stephanopoulos saying on-air that the president was found 'liable for rape.' He had actually been found liable of the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll. Ratings for The View remain relatively impressive. The show was the No. 1 among daytime network talk shows and news programs during the first quarter of 2025, beating rival broadcasts on Fox, NBC, and CBS.
