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Christina Aguilera has come forward to voice her support for Britney Spears, amid her fellow pop stars’ battle in court to bring her conservatorship to an end. “These past few days I've been thinking about Britney and everything she is going through,” Aguilera wrote on Monday, in a multi-part Twitter thread. “It is…

On Monday, Jamie Lynn Spears made an emotional statement in support of sister Britney Spears. It came on the heels of the pop star’s own public comment at a conservatorship hearing last week. “Hey everybody, I just want to take a second to address a few things,” the younger Spears said, in the first of a series of…

UPDATED, with comments from the FTC and Facebook: A federal judge today tossed out the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, concluding that the government failed to establish that the tech platform had a monopoly on social media networks. The judge, James E. Boasberg, still left open the…

NBC’s Manifest ended on an abrupt note as the series came to an end with numerous unanswered questions surrounding Flight 828. Despite the cancellation, series creator Jeff Rake has plans to provide some closure to his “Manifesters.” “We’re trying to find a way to conclude the series. Could take a week, a month, a…

As bittwersweet as NBC’s cancellation of Good Girls may be, leading ladies Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman found some humor in the news by meme-ing their reactions to the news. Both of the actresses shared a similar post to their Twitter and Instagram pages just hours after learning of the cancellation. First…

A founding member of the English folk rock act Mumford & Sons said today in a Medium post that he’s leaving the band in order to avoid tainting them with his personal political opinions. Winston Marshall created a firestorm on social media in March when he tweeted support for journalist Andy Ngo’s book Unmasked: Inside…

John McAfee, whose McAfee antivirus software was a go-to standard in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but was later overshadowed by his globe-trotting wild activities, died in a Barcelona jail cell Wednesday. His death at age 75 was an apparent suicide, authorities claimed. McAfee was found dead just hours after a…

When Netflix decided it will not pick up the recently cancelled NBC drama Manifest, star Josh Dallas sent out a message to the “Manifesters,” the show’s passionate fan base. “Well, my #manifesters, I’m sorry to say that it’s the end of the line for now. We are so proud to have brought this story over 3 season,&#8221…

It's thrilling to watch Lionsgate make a run at the box office top spot with The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, a grown-up comedy. Not a kiddie fantasy, like Peter Rabbit 2 or Cruella. Not a Covid-era placeholder, like The War With Grandpa, or a streaming event, like Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. But a rough, raucous…

Bill Maher had some advice for Lin-Manuel Miranda on Friday. “Stop the apologizing,” said Maher about Miranda’s reaction to criticism that his new film, In the Heights, does not depict more darkly-colored Puerto Ricans onscreen. “You're the guy who made the founding fathers Black and Hispanic! I don't think you…

UPDATED at 5:40 p.m.: Chrissy Teigen had strong words for designer and former Project Runway contestant Michael Costello. Costello accused Teigen earlier this week of bullying him and trying to destroy his career. Teigen wrote on Instagram Friday that she was “surprised and disappointed” by Costello’s allegations and…

While the leaders of the world’s seven largest so-called “advanced economies” convened in the U.K. to discuss substantive issues like the pandemic, health care, climate change and corporate taxes, social media trolls were more interested in the odd “family photograph” the leaders took on a Cornish beach Friday…