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Couple kicked off Ivanka Trump's flight for shouting at her.

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In a story that is still developing, a married couple were removed from their JetBlue flight before taking off at New York City's JFK International Airport after an incident with Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Hunter College professor Matthew Lasner tweeted the following message at 9:29 on Thursday morning.

Obviously there are a lot of unanswered questions about this tweet. But that's nothing compared to what Lasner tweeted two hours later (and deleted shortly afterward).

Heavy.com reports that Lasner's husband is Brooklyn attorney Daniel Goldstein. Lasner is a professor of architecture and urban planning, and the author of several books on urban housing.

According to The Wrap, Lasner's husband confronted Ms. Trump, who was flying with her three children, on the plane and began shouting, "Your father is ruining the country!" JetBlue staff quickly removed him, later issuing this statement:

The decision to remove a customer from a flight is not taken lightly. If the crew determines that a customer is causing conflict on the aircraft, the customer will be asked to deplane, especially if the crew feels the situation runs the risk of escalation during flight. In this instance, our team worked to re-accommodate the party on the next available flight.

Update: another passenger has given a thorough and reasoned account of the incident.

Well my son and I made the news today. That's us in the photo. I am sitting in the next row up from Ivanka and...

Posted by Marc Scheff on Thursday, December 22, 2016

The passenger, Marc Scheff, writes:

Well my son and I made the news today. That's us in the photo. I am sitting in the next row up from Ivanka and surrounded by her family. The whole incident happened literally 15 inches from me. The article is sensationalizing this a little. Here is what happened.

He didn't accost her directly.

When he got on and saw her, sitting behind me, he said "oh my god. This is a nightmare" and was visibly shaking. He said "they ruin the country now they ruin our flight!" (Context: Boarding and therefore the flight was delayed because they needed to get on first through some other way)

He did not yell. He was also not what I would describe as calm. Agitated maybe. His husband behind him was very calm. His son is adorable and sharply dressed.

When the JetBlue staff went back to speak to the man I overheard Ivanka say to them "I don't want to make this a thing." My assessment is that she was happy to let the man take his seat. Security made a different call

And for good reason. The man's calm husband had tweeted earlier that his husband was "chasing them down to harass them."

I did not witness his actual removal some rows back. If he screamed, I didn't hear it.

My politics aside...

Honestly, if I was her security I would have made the same call. I don't _think_ the man was capable of violence, sure. But I would worry that he would leave his seat or cause a scene in some way. And his husband had tweeted that he planned on doing that. So, again you know my politics, but I would have made the same call here.


Argentina hasn't forgotten that time Justin Bieber allegedly assaulted a photographer there.

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Bad news for Bieber and Beliebers alike—a judge in Argentina has indicted Justin Bieber for a 2013 incident in which it is being alleged that he paid someone to beat up a photographer and then steal the guy's gear.

The incident was, unsurprisingly, heavily reported upon at the time. In November 2013, a Buenos Aires photographer named Diego Pesoa claimed that he was chased and assaulted by Justin Bieber's bodyguards after snapping photos of Bieber. The pop star was emerging into daylight from a club where he'd spent the previous night partying when Pesoa tried to photograph him; Bieber was ready for this and covered himself with a black sheet.

Here's a video of the alleged incident.

According to TMZ, Justin Bieber's version of the incident is that it didn't happen, and the judge has a vendetta against him. ("...[T]he judge is a lone wolf who has been out to get him​" are their exact words. If so, Judge Lone Wolf needs his own crime show.)

Justin Bieber's lawyers will appeal the indictment, but as it stands, this means the Biebs can't go to Argentina without getting arrested. That's a problem, because he's starting the South American leg of his Purpose World Tour and his biggest fan base is in Argentina. Not ideal.

Going the distance.

Trump turned down John Bolton for a Cabinet position because of that thing on his face.

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Given Donald Trump's background in beauty pageants (owning them, not being in them), it makes sense to learn that America's new President-elect is considering physical appearance when picking his Cabinet members. It also makes sense, then, that John Bolton was supposedly being considered for a position, but ultimately rejected because of his famous mustache.

John Bolton, who was widely speculated to become Donald Trump's secretary of state, is well-known for sporting a brushy, white mustache. "Donald was not going to like that mustache. I can’t think of anyone that’s really close to Donald that has a beard that he likes," an anonymous source told the Washington Post.

According to another of their anonymous sources, “That’s the language he speaks. He’s very aesthetic. You can come with somebody who is very much qualified for the job, but if they don’t look the part, they’re not going anywhere.”

Given Bolton's hawkish nature, Americans are very lucky for that muchache. Donald Trump's aesthetics are still highly questionable, though. No facial hair, yes to gilding anything that stands still too long. Got it.

Hero Ivanka Trump intervened to get Tiffany access to daddy's credit card.

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Vanity Fair, the publication that President-elect Trump deemed "Way down, big trouble, dead!" after they dared to publish a negative review of the Trump Tower Grill, came out with a juicy profile on the sisters Trump: Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump, the favorite child and the forgotten child, respectively.

We had a lovely time in GA! #GeorgiaPeaches 🍑🍑

A photo posted by Tiffany Ariana Trump (@tiffanytrump) on

Tiff, as she is known to her friends, is said to idolize Ivanka, much like her father does. Vanity Fair's Sarah Ellison that says that she is working to emulate Ivanka, the paragron of Trumpiness, with “a brand and a personality and consistency in her Instagram."

🐶🎀

A photo posted by Tiffany Ariana Trump (@tiffanytrump) on

While Tiffany grew up with her mom, Marla Maples, in California, and the OG Trumps lived in Manhattan. Thus, she wasn't given the same privileges as the big three.

Ellison writes:

[Tiffany] sheepishly approached Ivanka, the only daughter from his first marriage, about a delicate matter. Because Tiffany and her mother, Marla Maples, lived in California, Tiffany grew up a continent away from her father. She didn’t have access to him the way Ivanka and Ivanka’s two brothers did—the three of them lived with their mother only an elevator ride away from Donald Trump in Trump Tower, in Manhattan. The 15-year-old Tiffany wanted to talk to Ivanka, 12 years her senior, about how to approach their father about something sensitive. Tiffany had some “relatively simple money needs” to address, Ivanka recalled. She did not have access to a parental credit card, though many of her friends did.

Ivanka Trump writes in her first book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, that she so generously intervened on Tiff's behalf.

“Big Sis did an end-around to save Tiffany the trouble. I didn’t tell her, of course”—well, except in the book—“but I went to our father and suggested he think about surprising Tiffany with a credit card for Christmas, with a small monthly allowance on it. Sure enough, he did just that. Tiffany was thrilled and relieved. And so appreciative.”​

Stunning and brave.

And sad, that Tiffany had to go through Ivanka in order to get what she needed from her dad.

“In this way, we are all Tiffany Trump, reliant on Ivanka to get her father to do the right thing,” Ellison writes. But where's my family credit card?

Here are some other juicy Trump tidbits from Vanity Fair profile:

  • Once Tiffany got a family credit card, she was "only" afforded $500 a month. “When she split restaurant bills, she calculated down to the penny how much she owed,” a friend told Ellison.
  • "Maples said she wanted a small, traditional ceremony. The couple wed in December 1993 in the Grand Ballroom of Trump’s Plaza hotel before a thousand of their friends, including Rosie O’Donnell, Howard Stern, and O. J. Simpson."
  • When Tiffany was a freshman at Penn, she was cut in the first round of rushing for the all-female Tabard Society, a "secret" group that feared a Trump would scare off more "presentable and connected" young women.

Read the whole piece and cry for Tiffany over at Vanity Fair.

Valerie Fairman, former star of '16 and Pregnant,' passes away at 23.

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News broke early Thursday morning of the tragic passing of Valerie Fairman, a 23-year-old who once starred on the MTV reality show16 and Pregnant.

TMZ learned that Valerie Fairman was at a friend's house on Wednesday. After calling to her in the bathroom, her friend eventually "broke down the door and found her unresponsive."

Fairman's death appears to be due to overdose.

According to US Weekly, Fairman has a troubled history with substance abuse. They also point to two incidents with police, one in 2015 when she was arrested on prostitution charges, and one just a week before she died for "resisting arrest and giving false identification to police." Fairman only appeared on one season of 16 & Pregnant, in 2009.

Teen Mom 2 star Chelsea Houska gave condolences on Twitter.

Fairman is survived by her seven-year-old daughter, currently in the care of her grandmother.

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Mall vows retribution for JC Penney shopper who went on racist rant in viral video.

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The Jefferson Mall in Louisville, Kentucky has made it clear they won't tolerate hate speech, by promising to find and ban a woman whose racist tirade at one of their stores went viral this week.

ICYMI: on Tuesday, a human stocking full of hot coals told Hispanic shoppers at a JC Penney to "go back to wherever the fuck you come from," and "speak English," among other slurs and insults. Fellow shopper Renee Buckner recorded the rant on her phone and shared it on Facebook, where it's been viewed over 7 million times and received over 50,000 comments.

Watch here, if you can stomach it:

I had to get back on FB, to expose this racism in America/Louisville. If we ignore it, it will never go away....smh this is what America has come to, openly and proud to be a racist. Storyline: This Hispanic lady was purchasing items and the transaction was almost complete, then her friend brings up some shirts to be added to her purchase instead of getting in line. And this lady went off!!! Warning explicit language FYI...this wasn't the entire scene, people tried to let her know it was out of order, but she wasn't hearing that. #exposingTheRacism #louisvilleKy #prayForAmerica

Posted by Renee Buckner on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

"They can't act like the hero, they come here to live and act like everybody else," says the woman in the video. "Get in the back of the line like everybody else does and be somebody. That's the way I look at it. You're nobodies, just because you come from another country, it don't make you nobody."

This is horrific, un-Christmas-like behavior on every level. I'm not a Christian, but I'm pretty sure Jesus wasn't down with hate speech and wouldn't want it anywhere near his birthday celebrations.

The Jefferson Mall, where the incident took place, responded yesterday in a Facebook post, promising to ban the woman in the video:

We are aware of the video posted online today from one of the department stores. Jefferson Mall strives to create a...

Posted by Jefferson Mall on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

"We will work to identify this woman, and once identified, she will be permanently banned from Jefferson Mall, per our Behavioral Code of Conduct," they wrote.

JC Penney has also issued a statement of apology. The company said they are "deeply disturbed" by the incident and are asking for the public's help in identifying the two Hispanic women who were targeted in the video, so they could "offer a sincere apology for their experience" and also reimburse them for their purchases.

A JCPenney spokeswoman wrote on Facebook:

We regret that innocent bystanders – both other customers and a JCPenney associate – were subjected to such discriminatory remarks. We absolutely do not tolerate this behavior in our stores, and are working with our associates to ensure any future incidents of this nature will be addressed quickly and appropriately.

I'd wish this woman a very miserable Christmas. But based on first impressions, that's basically a guarantee.


What the hell is in this guy's bag of chips?

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33-year-old Richard Noon of Yorkshire, UK, recently found something very disturbing in a bag of Burts Potato Chips. In fact, it basically took up the whole bag. The most disturbing part? Nobody knows what it is.

Their guess is as good as ours.

Is that a lump of coal dusted with cornmeal?
A fossilized octopus?
Whatever it is, he shouldn't be touching it.

Noon told Mashable,

We found it in a sealed bag in my local pub. It is large, so took up most of the packet — it was pretty much just sat there! … suspect it may be a clump of something that has fallen off a machine during cooking. Maybe a lump of seasoning or something, it is quite heavy and curved on the inside. I'm surprised their QA (Quality Assurance) processes didn't spot it (i.e. weight control, etc.).

Even the best QA systems don't catch everything, but this is pretty big. And gross. I mean, it looks like poop. I can't be the only one thinking that.

According to Noon, Burts Chips has been in contact with him, and are sending him an envelope so he can return the offending object to them for analysis. After the tweet went viral, the company reached out to Mashable with this statement:

We take food safety and quality very seriously and are sorry for any upset caused. The lump is likely a cluster of overcooked potato chips which have unfortunately slipped through our quality checks, as a direct result of this we will be increasing the frequency of checks made by our team of fryers so this does not happen again … We have been consulting with Mr Noon since this issue came to light.

Mystery solved? Or is this another Area 51-style coverup? We may never know.

Meet Carrie Dragshaw, the 'Sex and the City' star's drag alter ego.

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Meet Carrie Dragshaw, your new fashion icon and go-to person when it comes to seeking inspiration in the ways of love, life, and cute shoes. Dragshaw, a.k.a. strategy and innovation consultant Dan Clay, is recreating some of Carrie Bradshaw's most iconic Sex and the Citymoments on his Instagram, because this is what the internet is all about. Honestly, his account is more entertaining than Sex and the City 2 (you know that movie sucked, don't fight me on this).

According toCosmopolitan, it has been Clay's dream since college to dress as Bradshaw, but he never got up the nerve to step into the SatC inspired drag until now because he "didn't want to give himself away." Now that Clay is an out and proud homosexual man, he feels much more comfortable donning Carrie's tutu and heels, calling the day he dressed as Bradshaw "the happiest day of my life."

PS- Clay bought that skirt directly from the Patricia Field website, so you know it's the real deal.

PPS- Those skirts range from $140-$180 bucks, so whatever a "creative and innovative consult" is must be a pretty good gig.

Among Carrie Dragshaw's 14,000 followers (and growing) is Carrie Bradshaw herself, Sarah Jessica Parker. She has even commented on one of Clay's pictures, saying "Oh my L_ord! Words cannot convey. A triumph. Xxx." I don't know why Parker put an underscore between the "L" and the "O" in Lord, but just because she plays a writer on TV doesn't mean that she actually is one in real life.

Clay, who lives only a few minutes away from Carrie's native West Village, often uses the neighborhood for the backdrop for his pictures. Not only are Clay's outfits and settings on point, but he also accompanies each image with a Carrie Bradshaw-esq blurb talking about, you know, whatever.

"In old westerns, the cowboy always saves the damsel in distress. But what if the cowboy is the reason she’s distressed in the first place? Who will save the damsel when her hero is her downfall? As I was face-to-face with yet another failure on the wild frontier of love, I couldn’t help but wonder: Maybe this was the story of the damsel who learned to save herself. After all, this is not the Old West—this is New York. And there’s plenty of giddy up left in my honky tonk. Maybe some girls aren’t meant to ride into the sunset. Maybe they're meant to grab their other damsels and dance under the moonlight. #CarrieDragshaw"

So are you a Miranda, Carrie, Samantha or Charlotte? Because I am totally a Carrie Dragshaw.

Mariah Carey and her son dance to 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' in the cutest video of the holiday so far.

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These days, Christmastime is filled with as much Mariah Carey as it is Santa and Jesus, and Carey's house is no exception.

The icon who is especially iconic around the holidays, her range in "All I Want For Christmas Is You" the ultimate goal for screaming kids everywhere, posted a video of her and her son Moroccan dancing to the inescapable hit.

Moroccan and his adorable head of hair were dancing to the infectious song, really excited for the holiday.

Or maybe he was just excited for mom Mariah's favorite sauce.

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Brad Pitt claims that Angelina Jolie is missing a 'self-regulating mechanism.'

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Any hopes there may have been for a civil divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are long since gone, what with Jolie's initial surprise announcement and the child abuse allegations against Pitt. Now Brad Pitt has filed documents asking a judge to officially seal their file, saying that all the attention focused on the intimate details of their family life is damaging to their six kids.

Angelina Jolie had previously filed unsealed documents claiming that Brad Pitt had parenting issues and shouldn't be allowed to be alone with their children. Pitt, however, alleges that Jolie has actually humiliated the children by allowing their privacy to be invaded, due to how much public interest there is in their messy divorce and custody battle.

According to documents obtained by Us Weekly, Pitt's lawyer claimed:

"[Angelina] apparently has no self-regulating mechanism to preclude sensitive information from being placed in the public record, or she has other motives."

That's sort of interesting considering Brad Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer "I Heart Beige" Aniston was claimed he was missing a sensitivity chip. Side note: these celebs have absolutely no idea how human bodies work, do they?

The documents also slam Jolie for seeming “to be determined to ignore even agreed-upon standards relating to the children's best interest [while] attempting to clear the way to put in the public eye any allegations she can, without regard to the impact on the minor children," and for “expos[ing] the children by making public the names of their therapists and other mental health professionals.”

In the meantime, there's a temporary custody agreement in which Pitt only gets to see the kids when a therapist determines he can, while allegedly undergoing drug and alcohol testing four times a month.

Pitt had previously filed an emergency request to have custody files closed, which was denied.

Hopefully, the publicity isn't hurting the Jolie-Pitt kids too much, but all this attention on their personal lives can't be good for them. Either way, it's probably not going to be the happiest of holidays for the former Brangelina clan.

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Sofia Vergara's son Manolo has made his modeling debut because he's as hot as his mom.

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Sofia Vergara's super hot DNA is going strong in the next generation, as her 24-year-old son Manolo Gonzalez Vergara is now following in her fashion model footsteps. Manolo has just appeared in his first spread, an editorial in Paper magazine. His proud mother shared an image from the feature on her own Instagram—it features Manolo posing with model Stevie DeFelice and a couple of nice Bloody Marys.

http://bit.ly/2hI420D @papermagazine @manologonzalezvergara 👏👏

A photo posted by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara) on

Good-looking kid! And at age 44, his mom isn't doing too shabby either.

@manologonzalezvergara #emmys2016🎉🎉 #modernfamily

A photo posted by Sofia Vergara (@sofiavergara) on

Now that's a modern family!


Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt snuck out of an interview after a very awkward sex question.

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America's sweethearts Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are not here for your nosy, naughty questions. The two are still on their remarkably charming Passengers press tour, which is said to be way more entertaining than the movie itself (31% on Rotten Tomatoes! Eek!)

But an interview got as bad as the movie (hot take!) when KIIS's Sophie Monk started asking questions that go beyond the normal "How fun was it to work together?" and "Who are you wearing?

Monk asked the duo if they've ever punched anybody in the face, and while Pratt confessed that he did, Lawrence seemed like she was about to punch her. She got defensive, saying:

You’re like drinking bourbon or something… you’re getting really aggressive. ‘DID YOU GUYS GET IN A FIGHT? YEAH? YEAH?’

Okay.

And then, not reading the room, Monk asked Katniss and Star Lord:

Your characters have sex on the kitchen table. What’s the most adventurous place you’ve had sex?

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Pratt awkwardly laughed and said, "airplane," while Lawrence skipped the question and said how she likes "being safe...That's what really turns me on."

The co-host Matt Alton called out the weirdness as said, "You’ve made this so awkward, Sophie. What kind of question is that? What are you doing?"

While they were chatting, the two stars (sorry, Matt and Sophie) sneakily hung up.

Monk insisted the interview didn't end because she was naughty, they just simply ran out of time.

Listen to the awkwardness unfold. Pratt and Lawrence join the conversation 42 minutes in.

Emma Stone’s jokes are too good to be wasted on a girl, according to her directors.

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Being both famous and a woman seems like fun. As long as you don't mind having your privacy infringed upon, your looks constantly scrutinized, and your jokes stolen.

Just ask Emma Stone. The La La Land star, who is featured on the cover of this month's Rolling Stone, opened up to the magazine about some of her past struggles dealing with men in Hollywood. “There are times in the past, making a movie, when I’ve been told that I’m hindering the process by bringing up an opinion or an idea,” she said.

Stone, who has proved herself to be hilarious as well as a talented actress, added that sometimes directors would take her one-liners and then use them in the movie, but give them to a male character instead.

She was hesitant to call it sexism. But that sure seems like what it is.

“I hesitate to make it about being a woman, but there have been times when I’ve improvised, they’ve laughed at my joke and then given it to my male co-star. Given my joke away,” she said. “Or it’s been me saying, ‘I really don’t think this line is gonna work,’ and being told, ‘Just say it, just say it, if it doesn’t work we’ll cut it out’ — and they didn’t cut it out, and it really didn’t work!’”

This sounds infuriating. Are women often brilliant and hilarious? Of course! But that doesn't mean men are licensed to steal our jokes, when they could make their own.

I've heard men can be funny, too, sometimes.

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Dr. Pimple Popper's top 10 blackheads, whiteheads, and dilated pores of 2016 are amazing.

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If you've been following Dr. Sandra Lee's lists of her best pops of 2016, this is the one you've been waiting for. After dropping part one of her top blackheads, whiteheads, and dilated pores of Winer in late November, she made us wait a full month to see the dramatic conclusion. But it's here, and it was worth it.

Here's part one.

And at long last, here's part two.

At least in the world of popping, 2016 was the best year ever.

This 10-year-old girl with autism singing 'Hallelujah' will give you chills.

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If you think a children's choir singing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a recipe for tears, just wait for the back story. And then bring on the waterworks.

A video has gone viral of a choir from Killard House Special School, a school in Northern Ireland for children with learning disabilities. And the lead singer, whose voice will give you full-on chills, is a ten-year-old girl with autism and ADHD. When she started at the school two years ago, she could barely talk, according to her principal.

Just look at (and listen to) her now:

Blake singing with his school choir. What an amazing lead singer 😍

Posted by Nichola Martin on Sunday, December 18, 2016

Kaylee's voice is INCREDIBLE. A mom of a fellow student shared a video of the amazing performance on Facebook, and it's no surprise it has been viewed over a million times.

“For a child who came in P4 and wouldn't really talk, wouldn’t really read out in class, to stand and perform in front of an audience is amazing,” the principal, Colin Millar, told ITV.“It takes a lot of effort on Kaylee’s part.”

This inspiring story reminds me of the words of another great diva:

And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

If Kaylee's choir is taking requests for next year, I have a song in mind.

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