We’re tracking the conservative culture clash with woke Hollywood hypocrites to keep you up to date on who’s winning and who we hate.
Here’s what happened today:
#1
Despite being canceled by every music industry awards show, banned from the radio, and suspended by his label, Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous” is the highest selling album of 2021.
It looked like the country singer’s career was over after he was caught on camera referring to one of his friends as a “p—y a– n—-r” earlier this year.
“I was around some of my friends, and we just, we say dumb stuff together,” he explained about the incident. “In our minds it’s playful. I don’t know if it sounds ignorant, but that’s really where it came from.”
“I was wrong. It’s on me to take ownership of this and I fully accept any penalties I’m facing.” Wallen later apologized on Instagram. Wallen explained that he was on a 72-hour bender and checked into a 30-day rehab program after the incident.
His fans clearly have forgiven him, as “Dangerous: The Double Album” sold more than 3 million copies this year.
Not Canceled
The “Harry Potter” fans that tried to cancel series author J.K. Rowling from her own fandom have apparently not been successful, as a new trailer for the “Return to Hogwarts” 20th year reunion special features the embattled writer.
“One of the many reasons I admire J.K. so much is that millions now read books who would never have lifted a book up in their lives, and you suddenly realize the power of writing,” Hagrid actor Robbie Coltrane said in the latest clip.
“I think it’s very easy to forget that at the time, people were talking about ‘the death of reading,’” Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe concurred.
Rowling was rumored to be excluded from the special when prior cuts of the trailer did not feature, or mention her name at all. Fans have been calling for her cancellation after she wrote an essay that was critical of the transgender movement in 2020.
Gay May
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” actress Marisa Tomei revealed that she pushed for Peter Parker’s aunt May to be in a lesbian relationship in the new film.
“There was a moment, where I felt that May – maybe she should just be with a woman because Ben is gone,” she said in an interview.
“And who should she be with?” The Oscar winner went on to share that she thought producer Amy Pascal could play May’s romantic interest. “And we were kind of talking about it. And so I actually really wanted Amy Pascal from Sony to be my girlfriend.”
“I was like, ‘No one even has to know, Amy. I’ll just be in a scene and you’ll be over there. And I’ll just be like ‘Hey!’ It’ll just be a subtle thing,” she continued, but noted that the film’s producers didn’t go “for it at the time.”
Woke
Lesbian “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon side-swiped at the series that made her famous for lacking diversity.
“I’m very proud of the original series — despite it being occasionally tone deaf on race and gender — and being Miranda has opened up so many amazing roles for me over the years,” she commented. “But the further I get away from Miranda, the better they get, because people have stopped thinking of me as just that one character.”
Nixon said she only agreed to the show’s reboot, “…And Just Like That,” because the producers agreed to make the show more woke.
“It was a very hard decision. I really didn’t think I was going to do it — I was very reluctant,” she explained. “But the more I talked to Sarah Jessica, [writer-creator] Michael Patrick King, and Kristin [Davis], about the things that I couldn’t go back without — a real sea change in terms of the lack of diversity in the original series, they were on board.”
Jeopardy
“Jeopardy!” contestant Amy Schneider was congratulated for becoming the highest earning woman in the show’s history with over $768,000 in earnings, but Schneider, who identifies as a transgender woman, is actually a biological man.
“Well, it was fun to hold a Jeopardy record for a few years…but it’s been even more fun to watch @Jeopardamy set new standards for excellence, on the show and off. Congratulations to Amy on becoming the woman with the highest overall earnings in the show’s history!” Tweeted former record holder Larrisa Kelly.
“Thanks so much, I’m honored to be in your company, and I look forward to some day watching the woman who beats us both!” Schneider replied.
“I hope there will be a long line of such women, but you are certainly setting the bar extremely high for them! (And holy hell, that’s *before* any tournaments…can’t wait to see the fireworks to come!)” Kelly wrote back.
Divorced
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 74, and Maria Shriver, 66, are finally divorced nearly ten years after she filed over “irreconcilable differences” in July 2011, following the news that he had covertly fathered a child, Joseph Baena, with their housekeeper in 1996.
The decade-long hold up has reportedly been over a property settlement, though the former couple has remained amicable during their separation.
“This was without a doubt the biggest setback and the biggest failure [in my life],”Schwarzenegger admitted to Howard Stern in 2015. “Not only failure, but you really feel like, ‘I’m to blame for it. It was me that screwed up,’ and you can’t point the finger at anyone else.”
Settled
Rapper and Beats entrepreneur, Dr. Dre, settled his divorce with ex-wife Nicole Young for a costly $100 million. He agreed to pay her $50 million up front and another $50 million in one year.
Regardless of their longtime marriage, Young did not get half of his estimated $820 million fortune due to a prenuptial agreement that she has previously contested in court.
The agreement stipulates that he gets to keep seven of their properties, including a $100 million estate in Brentwood, CA, all of his master recordings, trademarks, and Apple stocks, which include the sale of Beats by Dre to the tech company.
She gets to retain all the jewelry, cash and bank accounts she had during the marriage and will not be paid spousal support per the settlement.
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