Liza Minnelli’s longtime friend Michael Feinstein claims the Broadway icon was “sabotaged” at the Oscars 2022 by being “forced” to use a wheelchair that sparked concern about the state of her health. During the March 27 live broadcast, Minnelli, 76, took the stage with Lady Gaga to present the Best Picture award. Aside from sitting … Read more
Liza Minnelli’s friend Michael Feinstein has come to her defense after viewers worried that she looked frail and out of it when she presented Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards with Lady Gaga. During an appearance Monday on SirusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, Feinstein, 65, claimed that the 76-year-old acting and singing legend had … Read more
Fifty years after “Cabaret” made her a superstar, Liza Minnelli lives a quiet life in an apartment in West Hollywood. At 76, and with enough headlines behind her for three lifetimes, the singer and actress is rarely seen in public. But in what would prove to be the second most surprising moment at March’s Oscars, … Read more
Thandie Newton was reportedly fired from the new Magic Mike movie after getting into a heated argument on set with Channing Tatum about Will Smith’s infamous Oscar smackdown of Chris Rock. The feud between Newtown, 49, and Tatum, 41, occurred in early April, The Sun reported, and escalated to such “astonishing” and “unimaginably vicious” levels … Read more
Now that we’ve gotten our biggest celebrity tea of the year thanks to the infamous Oscars slap conducted by Will Smith onto the victim Chris Rock, everyone wants to know what comes next. Rock has been quite hushed about the situation despite everything else going on around him. And as fans wait to hear his … Read more
Will SmithPhoto: Neilson Barnard (Getty Images) When we talk about The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences—ie, the group that votes on and hands out the Oscars, and which runs the annual Oscars ceremony—we’re talking about a pretty massive group of people. Exact membership in AMPAS isn’t listed anywhere, but it’s estimated that the … Read more
Vivica A. Fox says she received praise for calling Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars “Black-on-Black crime.” “People were actually happy with me that I was honest,” the actress, 57, exclusively told Page Six at the American Heart Association’s Red Dress Collection Concert in Hollywood, Calif., on Thursday. “They were like, … Read more
She denies being a comedy crook. Will Smith’s viral slap wasn’t the only controversy to emerge during the Oscars: Comedian Amy Schumer recently refuted claims that she pilfered a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio during her speech at the 2022 Academy Awards. The 40-year-old “Trainwreck” star stated her case during an appearance on “Watch What Happens … Read more
Bosses at Will Smith’s talent agency, Creative Artists Agency (CAA), are divided over what to do with the Oscar-winner following his shocking on-stage slap of presenting Chris Rock at this year’s Academy Awards. Smith smacked the comedian in the face after he made a joke about his wife’s hair loss. Jada Pinkett Smith has been … Read more
Lost in the Will Smith-Chris Rock slap, now unofficially played ten billion times on television and social media, were the not-so-big big winners on Oscars night. Hey, who won Best Picture again? Go ask 10 people on the street. The bet here is that nine of them won’t be remotely close to answering correctly. That … Read more