Last December, a masked man gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York. The gunman used a silencer, and after he shot Thompson, the gunman fled the scene on a bike and disappeared in Central Park. The NYPD then published photos of random white men in different jackets, claiming that all of the men were the same person, the shooter. It was bizarre. Then, days later, Luigi Mangione was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s and the authorities swore up and down that Luigi was their guy, and they charged him with terrorism and perp-walked him through New York like they had just caught Hannibal Lector. In the past month or so, there was little news about Luigi. It felt like the powers that be finally understood that a lot of people were on Luigi’s side and all of their efforts to turn Luigi into a supervillain had fallen flat. Well, there’s a Luigi update: Luigi’s defense team has accepted almost $300K in donations from fans.

Luigi Mangione has accepted nearly $300,000 in donations from fans as he awaits trial for allegedly slaying Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, in December.

The December 4 Legal Committee, which is stewarding a fundraiser on GiveSendGo for Mangione’s legal defense, said in a post that it had made contact with Mangione’s legal team, which accepted the $297,000 raised by the campaign to pay the accused killer’s legal bills.

Mangione’s lead attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, told the December 4 Committee — so named for the date of Thompson’s murder — that Mangione “very much appreciates the outpouring of support” from what the committee says is more than 10,000 individual donors.

A source with knowledge of the situation confirmed that the post was genuine. Friedman Agnifilo declined to comment when reached by PEOPLE.

Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a prominent Maryland real estate family, is accused of gunning down Thompson outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel where he was heading to an investors’ conference.

Mangione faces federal murder charges that could land him the death penalty, as well as state murder charges that accuse him of committing an act of terrorism. He has pleaded not guilty to the state charges, and is currently being held pretrial at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

[From People]

You know what? I’m not surprised that “fans” are contributing to his legal defense. The only surprise is that they haven’t raised more – there was an outpouring of support for Luigi last December, but I guess it was “out of sight, out of mind” for some people. As I said, there was a real effort to turn Luigi into a supervillain and no one was buying it, so the powers that be just stopped talking about him entirely. It’s like the authorities were mad that there was an organic groundswell of support for a guy with a bad back who put the fear of god into healthcare executives.

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Invictus Games founder Prince Harry made a speech at at the Vancouver-Whistler Opening Ceremony on Saturday. He spoke to the diverse crowd of veterans and Invictus families, and he spoke about the competitors’ “courage, values and humanity.” He also said that those values deserved respect in a time “when there is no shortage of crises, no absence of uncertainty, no lack of weak moral character in the world.” All of this is true – there is a global crisis of moral character, a global leadership vacuum, and everything feels so uncertain and chaotic right now. Of course, if you think about Donald Trump 24-7, you’re going to think that Harry was referencing Trump. But think about everything else happening in the world – Harry could have been referencing dozens of other situations. Well, obviously, people are desperately trying to make this into “Harry attacked Donald Trump!” By “people,” I mean the rabid right-wing British tabloids. The Mail ran this exclusive:

Prince Harry’s apparent swipe at Donald Trump after he called his wife ‘terrible’ was an unwelcome ‘distraction’ from the good work of Invictus, one insider told MailOnline today. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been accused of choosing to ‘continuously insert themselves into the spotlight’ at the Games.

‘They have become a distraction, overshadowing the veterans who should be at the centre of it all’, one volunteer has said. ‘This event should be about the veterans, not royal spectacle’.

The Duke of Sussex used his speech to 40,000 people at the opening ceremony of the Invictus Games in Canada to bemoan ‘weak moral character in the world’ – before thanking veterans – in comments widely views as a dig at the new US President. It came after Mr Trump had batted away calls for Harry’s deportation amid controversy over his visa and his historical drug use. ‘I don’t want to do that. He’s got enough problems with his wife. She’s terrible’, the President said.

Harry founded Invictus with the support of his father King Charles and brother Prince William as well as other senior royals to support and encourage wounded military personnel.

A senior Invictus Games volunteer, involved in the organising of the event in Vancouver and Whistler since it was announced in 2022, has claimed Prince Harry’s speech was a ‘woke’ distraction that would not be welcomed by wounded, injured, and sick military personnel at opening ceremony at Vancouver’s BC Place stadium.

‘While we remain committed to supporting the veterans and their families, there is growing frustration over how Harry and Meghan have dominated the narrative’, the insider said. ‘Public sentiment, especially among veterans, reflects this frustration—most do not respect how they continuously insert themselves into the spotlight. Unlike them, veterans and their families do not see themselves as victims. Their “woke” agenda dies with veterans’.

Another insider said: ‘While you can understand it, he must be upset, it is a shame that Harry chose to say what he did, when he did’.
MailOnline asked Harry’s spokesman to comment on the Duke’s speech and whether it was a reference to Donald Trump.

[From The Daily Mail]

Just to be clear, these are random people (probably rota journalists) hearing “uncertainty” and “weak moral character” and screaming that Harry is obviously talking about Trump. If it’s not about you, why does it bother you, you know? It’s the royal reporters insisting that this was a flat reference to Trump and trying to get other people worked up about Harry being “woke.” Incidentally, I remember a time when Republicans were the ones to weaponize “moral character” for their own political purposes. Now their god is an orange, makeup-wearing rapist and Nazi and they cry when someone suggests that he might have a weak moral character. As for the quotes about Harry and Meghan “centering themselves” within Invictus… that’s how I know the Mail was just quoting some other tabloid reporter. They’re twisting themselves in knots to justify why it’s “bad” that the founder of Invictus is on the ground, supporting the games. Also: they actually understand that the games are a good thing, or else they wouldn’t be desperately trying to give William and Charles credit for Invictus.

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This past Sunday’s Super Bowl was the most-watched Super Bowl in history. According to Variety, 126 million tuned into the game on average, and the biggest spike in viewership happened during the second quarter, with 135.7 million tuning in. You know, when most people were checking out how much time was left until the Kendrick Lamar concert. I’ve also heard – although it’s not in this report – that the Super Bowl lost millions of viewers after the Halftime show. Which is actually pretty common, but it was even more notable this year.

The NFL never pays their Halftime performers, although I believe the NFL picks up the costs of all of the staging and the dancers and everything. Artists choose to do the Halftime show because they know they’ll get a crazy amount of exposure and a huge bump in sales. That’s exactly what’s happening with Kendrick:

After Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show, Kendrick Lamar’s music saw a significant jump in streams on Spotify. On Monday, the streaming service announced that the rapper’s music saw a 175 percent spike in the U.S. in the three immediate hours after the game wrapped.

After the performance, Lamar’s streaming numbers saw significant jumps for individual songs from the set list, led by his Grammy-winning Drake diss track “Not Like Us,” which saw a whopping 430 percent jump in streams. Damn‘s “Humble.” went up 300 percent, Black Panther soundtrack’s “All the Stars” with SZA jumped by 290 percent, and “Man at the Garden” from GNX increased 260 percent in streams.

Lamar’s “Euphoria” jumped by 260 percent, “Squabble Up” went up by 230 percent, and “Peekaboo” featuring Azchike went up by 230 percent. Spotify described Lamar’s streaming increases as “The Halftime Effect,” which also trickled its way to SZA’s streaming numbers. The R&B star, who joined Lamar for “All the Stars” and “Luther” during the halftime set, saw her own music go up by 80 percent in the United States.

“Thank you for lifting me up. Thank you for encouraging me and being so willing to bend to whatever I may need,” SZA wrote to Lamar on Instagram after the performance. “You’re a prophet. But you knew that. I wasn’t nervous today. I was ready to rep for u. For US.”

[From Rolling Stone]

I’m really glad that so many people are curious about Kendrick or they liked what they heard and wanted to hear more. This was seen by many as the final nail in Drake’s coffin – Kendrick has been dog-walking Drake since April and May of last year. Kendrick really stood on THAT stage, looked into the camera with that magnificent smile and said “Hey Drake, I hear you like ‘em young.”

Additionally, there are a lot of white music critics with a lot of thoughts about Kendrick’s Halftime performance and how it was “bad” or “not enough” or whatever. I wonder if people genuinely thought it was going to be like The Pop Out? That man performed on FOX at the Super Bowl, he’s not going to perform “Not Like Us” uncensored six times, you know? I also think the OVHoes are trying desperately to pour scorn all over this.

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Back in 2020, Pete Davidson announced that he had begun the long process of removing almost all of his tattoos. He had over 100 of them and it would take more than three hours in the makeup chair to cover them all up. At one point, he even had a tattoo artist as a part of his entourage and you can tell he took advantage of that. While there were definitely some sweet, meaningful ones, like tributes to his late father, who passed away on 9/11, and already-removed nods to former girlfriends like Kim Kardashian (ugh, that shoulder brand) and Ariana Grande, there were definitely a lot of seemingly super random ones, like the Mars Attacks alien and a giant shark.

Pete is currently promoting his latest movie, the animated Dogman, which is based on the popular graphic novel series. He plays Petey the Cat. He’s also going to be part of the SNL 50 three hour special that airs on February 16th. Pete recently stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers. Seth brought up his tattoo removal and Pete explained how it was done. He then shared that he wouldn’t miss them at all, especially because a lot of them were dumb and made before he got sober. And speaking of, according to Pete, his “dumbest” tattoos include a “collection of cartoons smoking blunts.”

Pete Davidson is happy to be saying goodbye to his “dumbest” tattoos. During a Thursday, Feb. 6 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Dog Man actor, 31, admitted that most of the designs on his body will not be missed as he works to have his tattoos removed.

“You also have sort of famously said that you’re gonna get rid of your tattoos, which is not an easy thing to do” the television show host, 51, said to his guest.

Davidson agreed, saying all his ink should be gone by the time he’s 40. In a 2021 interview with PEOPLE, the comedian said he hoped his tattoos would be gone before he hit 30.

“When I’m 40, it’ll all be gone,” the Saturday Night Live star said. “Like the chest and back.”

Meyers asked for more details on the removal process, noting that laser technicians “burn it off” over “seven visits” for each design.

“It’s at least seven visits,” Davidson clarified. “And if it’s black and white it’s a little easier. But if it’s a color tattoo, it takes forever.”

Next, Meyers asked if there were any tattoos that the Bodies Bodies Bodies actor was “happiest to not have to look at again.”

For Davidson, that was “all of them.”

“Well, I made a lot of those decisions before rehab,” he joked. “So I got the dumbest tattoos.”

If there had to be one in particular, Davidson said his “collection of cartoons smoking blunts” would have to take the cake.

His collection included “a Muppet smoking a blunt” and “the Tootsie Pop owl smoking a blunt.”

“Which is weird ‘cause I wasn’t even old enough to be around for that cartoon, that commercial,” Davidson told Meyers. “Yeah, it’s not great.”

[From People]

Oh goodness, he had tattoos of both a Muppet and the Tootsie Pop owl smoking blunts? That is so funny. I could see how a stoned Pete would find cartoon characters with blunts to be a good idea, and it’s easy to indulge those impulses when you’re regularly rolling with a tattoo artist. That said, so many people get ink that they regret. Only, his regretful body art reportedly cost him around $200,000.

I love that Pete’s able to talk about his difficulties in a relatable way and also poke fun at himself for the sillier things, like unfortunate tattoo choices. It really is so nice to see Pete doing so well and hopefully living his best life. I’m rooting for him.

Photo note by CB: Pete was at the Super Bowl with… Kevin Costner? It’s unclear why he was seated next to Costner, but the were seen at a pregame party together on February 8th. Pete explained to Seth Meyers that he’s friends with The Philadelphia Eagles’ security head, Dom, and that he was definitely rooting for the Eagles. Good.

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They came, they saw, they cavorted. And unlike that other bowl that happened on Sunday, the 142 ready-to-be-adopted players of Puppy Bowl XXI made the game a real nail biter for the entire three hours! But in the end it came down to the intrepid work of labrador retriever mix Paws Allen, who led Team Fluff to victory over longtime competitors Team Ruff, with a final score of 68-66. I can only imagine revenge was sweet for Team Fluff, who narrowly missed out on the Lombarky Trophy last year after Team Ruff pulled a cheeky last minute move to run out the clock. Not that dogs are particularly known for their sense of time… or that any of last year’s athletes were back on the field this year… but still!

Game day stats: The Underdog Award went to Mercury, while Foxtrot won the Most Valuable Puppy Award. … This year, the show had 142 rescue dogs from 80 shelters across 40 states and two countries competing on both teams — more than ever before. Eleven special needs dogs also entered the field. Throughout the broadcast, the four-legged players scored touchdowns on a gridiron carpet when they crossed any goal line with a toy in their mouth. The bark of the town is a fun way to raise money and awareness for shelters across America, while showcasing adoptable dogs and other pets.

A wee by any other name: “There’s many different euphemisms we can use like pooch puddle or fertilizing the field, tinkle on the 20, turd and long,” [referee Dan] Schachner explained. “There’s a lot of ways that we can describe it in a funny way. But at the end of the day, we have a game to play. … How we deal with it — because again, we’re trying to show all sides of dogs — is we scoop it up, clean it up as quickly as possible,” continued Schachner. “We have a team that’s almost like a NASCAR pit crew that comes in and just quickly scoops it up. You wouldn’t know it was there after a minute, and we resume play as quickly as possible.”

The Bowl is in NY, but the pups come from all over: “Of course, we have some New York rescues, but you name it. Florida, Texas, Phoenix, California, Midwest. This year we have a pup from Nicaragua because we want to showcase some of the overpopulation issues in Central America,” Schachner exclaimed. “We cast as wide a net as possible, and the beautiful thing is these shelters will bring themselves to Puppy Bowl,” the ref noted. “They have no problem transporting these puppies — which is not easy. But they have no problem doing it because the reality is once this dog is on national TV, it will, of course, get adopted right away. … But, more importantly, the shelter will receive a lot of attention it might not otherwise have. And all the shelters we work with report a huge increase in adoption inquiries after they are featured on Puppy Bowl. So it’s a win-win.”

[From NY Post]

It really is a win-win, that’s the beauty of the Puppy Bowl! Shelters and pets get valuable exposure that (overwhelmingly) leads to pups finding their forever homes — and all the floofs have to do is spend a few hours ruff-housing with each other over toys galore. It’s brilliant! But this game was more than just fun, it was history-making: with 15 seconds to go before the Kitty Halftime Show started, Team Fluff player Charlotte, a cocker spaniel, scored a touchdown AND a field goal at the same time. I mean, if that’s not sportsmanship I don’t know what is!! Spiritually I have to say I’m totally aligned with MVP Mercury, the great pyrenees–maremma sheepdog mix who just wanted to lie down, for pete’s sake. But honorable mention must go to cairn terrier Demure, for playing a very mindful game.

PS — I cannot walk away without acknowledging this comment from Ref Dan: “Of course, we have some New York rescues, but you name it. Florida, Texas, Phoenix, California, Midwest.” First of all, to any kids out there: these are not all states! And second, did this remind anyone else of John Cazale in Dog Day Afternoon, when Al Pacino asks what country John would like to run off to, and Cazale says, “Wyoming.” ?

Mercury, the chillest dog on the field, is presented the coveted Underdog Award! #PuppyBowl pic.twitter.com/CdNyGyJBlp

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The Mandalorian and Grogu movie doesn’t come out until May 2026, but many Star Wars fans are already looking forward to it. The casting that we know so far is kinda random. Sigourney Weaver (not random) and Jeremy Allen White (very random) join Internet daddy Pedro Pascal (Din Djarin) as the latest new-era Star Wars cast members. Because I am now on record for being wrong about Jude Law’s turn in Skeleton Crew, I am still (for now) maintaining my vow to remain nonpartisan about casting. I mean it! Adam Driver/Kylo Ren who?! (FWIW, Driver was robbed by the Internet’s worst fanbois. I will never forgive them for throwing a tantrum after The Last Jedi and ruining The Rise of Skywalker.)

Anyway, SciFi darling Sigourney Weaver is now going to be a part of the Star Wars Universe! There’s still no word on the character that she’s playing, but we know that she interacts with “Baby Yoda” himself, Grogu. While promoting Apple TV+’s new slasher/romance movie, The Gorge (co-starring Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy), Sigourney talked to Games Radar about what it was like to film The Mandalorian and get heavily-industry-coveted scenes with Grogu.

Sigourney Weaver says she never really thought about joining the Star Wars franchise, but when she was offered a role in the upcoming movie The Mandalorian & Grogu, there was one teeny tiny thing that made her sign on: Baby Yoda.

“I get to have scenes with a little Grogu which is probably why I did the movie,” Weaver tells GamesRadar+. “And he’s a little badass too. It’s going to be wonderful for people to see what Grogu is up to now because he’s grown up a little bit and is capable of much more than maybe we think just watching the series.”

As Weaver did not appear in The Mandalorian series, we still don’t know for sure who her character is, although it has been reported that Weaver is playing a New Republic Colonel Bishop in the film. When asked for more on her mysterious role, Weaver replies, “I play a wonderful character who is, you know, in a position of authority. And I have to send the Mandalorian out on a mission on the Outer Rim where all the bad stuff happens.”

With so much experience working on big sci-fi franchises like Alien and Avatar, it is surprising that Weaver didn’t join the galaxy far, far away sooner. “I admire [Star Wars], but I don’t sit around wishing I was in another franchise, because I’ve been so lucky to be in some wonderful ones,” Weaver adds. “But at the time, when I was offered it, I was delighted. I’m a great fan of John Favreau. I was already a great fan of The Mandalorian.”

Directed and written by Jon Favreau, the movie welcomes back Pedro Pascal as bounty hunter Din Djarin who embarks on an exciting new adventure with his apprentice Grogu. The Mandalorian & Grogu hits theatres on May 2026.

[From Games Radar]

Well, I can’t blame Sigourney here. If someone gave me the opportunity to be in a Star Wars, I would do it too, hands down. Massive bonus points if I get to interact with new era Star Wars’ most popular character, Grogu. You might even get an action figure in your likeness! But in all seriousness, Sigourneyy getting cast in The Mandalorian and Grogu makes perfect sense and gives someone another box checked off of their Bingo card. It’s somewhat like how Harrison Ford has finally made himself a part of yet another big franchise (Marvel). I can see her playing a diplomat or someone in the post-Galactic government that’s on Mando and Grogu’s side. In the meantime, I am looking forward to Andor‘s second and final season coming out in April. Viva le résistance. Fight the Empire.

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Kanye West has been ranting about Hitler on Twitter, and now David Schwimmer is publicly asking Elon Musk to ban Kanye from the platform. [Socialite Life]
Kanye West already deleted his Twitter after his crazy Nazi rants! [Deadline]
It’s hilarious that Timothee Chalamet got to interview Kendrick Lamar. [LaineyGossip]
The best & worst Super Bowl commercials. [Pajiba]
Photos from the Costume Designers Guild Awards. [Go Fug Yourself]
There’s a new documentary about Rudolf Nureyev. [OMG Blog]
Celebrities were out in full force at the Super Bowl. [Just Jared]
Andrew Scott looked attractive at the Critics Choice Awards. [RCFA]
People are removing their nose rings because of the Final Destination Bloodlines trailer. Yeah, I would too if I had a nose ring. [Seriously OMG]
Reality star went on a MAGA rant. [Starcasm]
The CMT Awards have been canceled? [Hollywood Life]
Forget bridezillas, here are horror stories about bridesmaids. [Buzzfeed]

Karla Sofia Gascon really shook up what was turning out to be a dull and forgettable awards season. Last month, Gascon became the first transgender woman to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. What could have been a groundbreaking moment for trans actors quickly twisted into something else entirely. First off, people really hate Emilia Perez and no one really understands why it got so many Oscar nominations. Then Gascon quickly showed that she was nowhere near ready for the spotlight or the awards season heat – she publicly blamed Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres for the “bad press” EP was receiving. That’s when people really turned on Gascon, and a Canadian journalist highlighted Gascon’s long history of bigotry, racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism and just plain bitchiness towards many celebrities. All of this was made worse by Gascon refusing to shut up and refusing to accept responsibility for her own bullsh-t – she kept issuing self-pitying statements full of lies.

Last week, we learned that Netflix was basically cutting ties with Gascon in an attempt to salvage EP’s awards season – Netflix is no longer paying for Gascon’s travel, hotels, glam squad or fashion. They encouraged her to just stay home in Spain, and they aren’t even directly in contact with her. Neither is her director, Jacques Audiard. He told Deadline last week that he hasn’t spoken to her “and I don’t want to. She is in a self-destructive approach that I can’t interfere in, and I really don’t understand why she’s continuing. Why is she harming herself? Why? I don’t understand it, and what I don’t understand about this, too, is why she’s harming people who were very close to her.” That finally got through to Gascon, and she finally released a public statement saying that she would stay silent from here on out. Now sources are saying Gascon might not even go to the Oscars?

Netflix may have scored a whopping 13 Oscar nominations for “Emilia Pérez” — including Best Picture — but, following a scandal with the movie’s Best Actress nominee, Karla Sofía Gascón, even the streamer’s CEO has appeared to distance himself. Power player Ted Sarandos sat with Erin Foster, the creator of Netflix’s hit series “Nobody Wants This” at the American Film Institute’s annual lunch on Thursday — and away from the “Pérez” team, which included writer/director Jacques Audiard and co-star Zoe Saldaña. The seating arrangement was the talk of the event, Page Six is told, as it comes after Gascón, 52, has drawn fire with newly resurfaced racist and anti-Muslim tweets.

“In 40 years in this business, I’ve never seen a debacle like ‘Emilia Pérez,’” said one longtime Hollywood insider who has worked on many Academy Awards campaigns.

Oscar battles are infamously an expensive — and often dirty — business. Studios and streamers can spend up to $30 million to get their nominees up on the podium. And Netflix is said to really, really want the Best Picture award which has, so far, eluded its efforts.

“‘Emilia Pérez’ is over for Best Picture … it imploded,” the insider said. “It still has a shot for Best Foreign Film, it depends on whether Academy voters want to punish the entire cast for one woman’s mistake. It’s so sad and horrible for all the people that made that wonderful film.”

Although Gascón continues to be repped by mega talent agency UTA, Page Six has confirmed that she is now looking for crisis management.

Netflix did not pay for Gascón to fly to the US from Spain for crucial days of campaigning, and multiple sources said that she may not attend the SAG awards on February 23 in Los Angeles. Indeed, she may not even attend the Oscars on March 2 — although she was in a New York Times ad last weekend and is in billboards along Sunset Boulevard, paid for by Netflix.

“Do you think [the Screen Actors Guild] is going to let her through the door on the red carpet?” said the insider, “They are not admitting her to their temple. “If she was smart she wouldn’t go to the Oscars, which is really, really so woke.”

A source close to the film said: “At this point we really don’t know if Karla is going to the Oscars. Netflix is still actively campaigning for all 13 nominations, the only thing that is different is that Karla is not doing anything.”

[From Page Six]

If you’re anything like me, you were confused by “Netflix has never won Best Picture” – I was like, didn’t Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma win BP? But no, it did not. That year, Green Book won BP. So yeah, a Netflix film has never won BP. It’s not going to win this year either – what Netflix is attempting to do is cauterize the PR bleed and just blank Gascon entirely. Netflix is no longer putting any money or effort into the Best Actress race, but they’re putting money in Best Picture, Director and Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldana. They want to pretend like Gascon isn’t even around, and it will be easier for them to do that if she agrees to stay home for the rest of the awards season. While I thought Gascon’s tweets were despicable, I also sort of think… she should still go to the Oscars. Skip the red carpet, for sure, but go to the Oscar ceremony and have that moment of being an Oscar nominee. Because let me tell you, it won’t be happening again for Gascon.

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There was a shocking amount of schadenfreude going around the Super Bowl. People were really paying attention to Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes both saying that it would be “awesome” and “a great honor” to play in front of Donald Trump. It was a real “the North Remembers” moment – that was continuously brought up last night, that the Chiefs are playing footsie with Nazis. Add to all of that, Travis has a brand new hairstyle and everyone had jokes about how he was wearing a toupee or he went to Turkey for a hair transplant. I don’t think it was a toupee or plugs – I think he just dyed his hair? He was applying Just For Men to his beard when he should have been practicing. Anyway, after the Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes was asked about Travis and whether Trav will play one more year.

Patrick Mahomes isn’t sure if Travis Kelce will return to the Chiefs next season. Following a disappointing defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2025 Super Bowl, Mahomes, 29, was asked if he has spoken to Kelce, 35, about whether he will retire from football or return to play another season in the NFL.

Speaking to reporters after the 40-22 loss, Mahomes said he’s going to “let Travis make that decision on his own” after he deserves some well-deserved rest following a long season.

“He’s given so much to this team and to the NFL,” Mahomes said of the superstar tight end. “And he’s been such a joy, not only for me to work with, but for people to watch.”

The quarterback continued, “And he knows he still has a lot of football left in him,” citing that fans “can see it” because Kelce “always makes plays in the biggest moments.”

But whether or not Kelce returns to the NFL will depend on “if he wants to put in that grind” again to dedicate the time and energy it takes to play pro football, Mahomes explained.

If Kelce were to hang up his cleats, Mahomes said his friend and teammate is already a lock to be a “gold jacket guy” and a “first ballot Hall of Famer” with his three Super Bowl wins. “But I know he still has a love for the game,” Mahomes continued, “and he’ll get to spend some time with his family and make that decision on his own.”

Kelce and Mahomes looked defeated at several moments during the game as the Eagles continued to score, pushing their lead to double digits.

[From People]

I don’t have any feeling about this either way – I know Kelce is under contract for another year, but if he wants to go, he’ll go and the Chiefs will just have to deal with it. I think Mahomes is correct in this case, that Kelce won’t make a decision right now, right after the loss. He’ll think about it for a few months and talk it over with his family. And maybe Taylor Swift as well. It’s also true that Kelce is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He has, what? Three rings.

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This is embarrassing if this is the only thing they’ve got planned for the Invictus Games. The Telegraph dropped this brand new “poll” just as the games were starting: the British public no longer considers Prince Harry to be “royal” or a member of the Windsor clan. What an own-goal by the Windsors and by the British public who took the poll, honestly. At the same time as the Invictus Games – Prince Harry’s signature achievement and an event which sees him praised globally – they’re making a point to say that Harry is persona non grata to the Windsors and to the UK. Sure.

The Duke of Sussex is no longer considered “royal” by a majority of the public, a poll has found. The research by Ipsos found just 21 per cent of Britons think the Duke is more a member of the Royal family than a celebrity. By contrast, 40 per cent of respondents said the Duke was more of a celebrity and 20 per cent said he was both a royal and a celebrity. Out of a sample size of 1,091, 16 per cent said the Duke was neither a royal nor a celebrity, with the remainder saying they did not know.

It comes ahead of the latest iteration of Prince Harry’s Invictus Games, the sports competition for wounded service members and veterans, which is taking place in Vancouver, Canada, this week.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex left Britain for North America in 2020 when they quit as working members of the Royal family. They have retained the dukedom but no longer use His and Her Royal Highness and the Duke no longer holds any military titles. The couple, who live in Montecito, California, have rarely visited Britain since they left and have only met with other members of the Royal family on rare occasions.

The Duke has returned for private visits and for his legal battle with the publisher of The Sun, which he settled last month. He is thought to have not seen his brother, the Prince of Wales, since the King’s coronation in May 2023, and before that when they met mourners together with their wives after the late Queen’s death in September 2022. Prince Harry is also believed to have not met the King since February last year, soon after his father was diagnosed with cancer.

The poll also found that almost three times as many members of the public viewed the Duke negatively than the Prince of Wales. Just 15 per cent had an unfavourable view of Prince William, compared to 43 per cent who were unfavourable towards Prince Harry. Over half of the respondents viewed Meghan unfavourably at 54 per cent, whereas just 12 per cent saw the Princess of Wales in the same way.

[From The Telegraph]

This reads like something being done specifically to placate Prince William, right? “Yes, sir, people think your brother is just a celebrity. Yes, sir, like Kim Kardashian. Sir, you are more popular than your brother, we promise, and Earthshot is so much bigger and keener than Invictus!” And the repetitive details about the last time Harry spoke to William and Charles… I guess they think it reflects badly on Harry, but it doesn’t. It makes Charles and William look cruel, childish, jealous and racist, that they cut off contact with Harry because he chose his wife over them.

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