Dolly Parton is itching to bust out the bunny ears and recreate her iconic 1978 Playboy cover in honour of her 75th birthday next year. The country music icon paid a visit to Australia's 60 Minutes this week, where she was asked what she'd like to do once she reaches that 3/4-century milestone. Her answer? “I plan to be on the cover of Playboy magazine again!” she exclaimed. “I thought it would be such a hoot. If they’ll go for it. I don’t know if they will.” Dolly became the first country singer to grace the cover of the legendary magazine 42 years ago, when she rocked some of the brand's signature bunny ears and a busty black corset on the October 1978 issue.
She'd even like to wear that same outfit, if she can help it. “I could probably use it," she admits. "Maybe. Boobs are still the same! I have my own look. I’m kind of cartoonish and cartoons don’t really age that much. When I’m 90, I’ll probably look about the same way. Just thicker makeup, bigger hair!” If Playboy does grant Dolly's wish, it would make her the oldest woman to be featured on the cover of the print publication, beating Jane Seymour, who appeared on the cover in 2018 at age 67, by 8 years. Watch Dolly's full interview below:
Texas Woman Receives Life In Prison For Beheading Daughter
A woman received a life sentence for stabbing and beheading her five-year-old daughter.
A woman in Texas was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison after being accused of stabbing and beheading her five-year-old daughter, back in 2017. 27-year-old, Krystle Villanueva, was officially sentenced by a Hays County judge and jury this past Thursday (March 5) in connection to the death of her daughter, Giovanna Hernandez. The adolescent girl was reportedly murdered by her mother at their home in Kyle, located approximately 20 miles southwest of Austin.
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In 2017, Villanueva was arrested after police were called to the home she shared with her daughter Giovanna, Giovanna’s father, and his parents. The prosecutors claim that the young mother told 911 operators that she killed and mutilated her daughter’s body after she “asked for cereal.” According to AP News, Villanueva was also found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the stabbing of the five-year-old’s grandfather.
Krystle Villanueva’s defense attorney attempted to claim that she was clinically insane which should have garnered her a not guilty verdict. Her lawyer, Carlos Garcia, released a statement to The Associated Press on Friday (March 6) declaring his client suffered from psychosis for a multitude of years. In court, Garcia stated that on the day of the attack and beheading, Villanueva believed that her family had been taken over by clones.
Prior to Villanueva’s official verdict, the Austin American-Statesmen revealed that the authorities had previously only told the media and general public that the child’s body had been ‘mutilated.’ But now, with Villanueva officially locked up behind bars for life without parole, they revealed her horrendous crime to the masses as one of the most brutal and unnecessary murders of this current generation.
Check out the clip from Texas’ NBC KXAN in the video provided below.
New York Declares State Of Emergency Following Spike In Coronavirus Cases
NY is under a state of emergency.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has declared an official state of emergency in the state of New York after new cases of the COVD-19 diseases caused by the coronavirus spiked in number.
The total number of new cases so far is 89 with 11 of the cases coming from New York City. The majority of cases, however, are in Westchester County and are linked to Midtown Manhattan lawyer. In Westchester, public school closings have been announced. However, such a decision has not been taken in NYC.
“We are seeing more community transmission between people who have no direct connection to travel to one of the affected countries,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a statement. “I urge New Yorkers to remain vigilant—not alarmed—and take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and their loved ones. As we continue to see more cases of COVID-19, we will be providing as much guidance to New Yorkers as possible to keep our city safe.”
The last time a state of emergency was declared in New York when in March 2017 for a blizzard. With the newly-issued status, $40 million will be allocated to local health departments to monitor thousands of potentially infected patients.
Cuomo added: "People say, ‘Oh, no, more people have it.’ We say that’s good news, that we know who the people are so now we can put them in an isolated situation and they won’t contaminate more people."
Halle Berry Disses Distant Relative Sarah Palin
Halle Berry dissed her distant relative, politician Sarah Palin, on a viral Twitter thread, clarifying that the former VP candidate "ain't invited to the cookout."
Halle Berry has a very surprising distant relative in her family tree, but let her be clear, former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is NOT invited to the cookout. Halle threw some shade Ms. Palin's way on Friday Twitter, after the Daily Blast Live tweeted the little known fact about her family tree as part of a thread on celebrities who are surprisingly related. Among the herd are Hillary Clinton and Madonna, best buddies Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning and the Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton, Kerry Washington and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and lookalikes Sen. Bernie Sanders and Larry David, who actually plays the Democratic presidential candidate on SNL.
The thread noted Halle and Sarah's relation in a tweet that reads, "This pair shares roots that may seem like they're from different trees, but @halleberry and former VP candidate @SarahPalinUSA are distant relatives -- though the actual connection is unclear." Halle saw the mention of her and the unwelcome member of her bloodline, and decided to respond in the most hilarious way possible.
"She may be on the tree but she ‘AINT invited to the cookout," Halle responded, making her feelings toward the conservative politician very clear. The actress has never denied their relation, however, and even addressed their ties back in 2012 during a promotional tour for Cloud Atlas. "You want to know who I'm related to?" she asked in an interview. "Sarah Palin."
"No!" interviewer Jerry Penacoli, exclaimed. "That's what I said! 'NOOOOO!'" Berry shouted while laughing. When her co-star, Tom Hanks, asks, "is it a DNA thing?" she replies, "some twisted way...somebody sent me this information that she was my distant [relative]."
Cardi B Gets Warning From FTC About Sponsored Detox Tea Ad
Cardi B and other Instagram users were warned by the Federal Trade Commission after failing to disclose their paid endorsements in sponsored detox tea ads.
Cardi B is among the many celebrities and influencers who received a warning from the Federal Trade Commission regarding their failure to disclose their paid endorsements from tea company, Teami, in their sponsored Instagram advertisements for Teami products. The FTC has declared that Teami, a company that sells “detox tea” products claiming to help with weight loss and even treat diseases, is guilty of misleading consumers with their advertisements. Teami has been accused of violating the FTC’s Endorsement Guides by paying influencers and celebrities to advertise their products on social media without requiring that these accounts disclose that these ads were sponsored.
“Today, there are more than 1 million Instagram posts that bear hashtags associated with detox teas on Instagram,” said Laura Smith, legal director of Truth in Advertising. “This means that on any given day, a countless number of young consumers are exposed to this egregious and widespread deceptive marketing issue.” The FTC has ordered the company to halt all misleading advertisements and return $1,000,000 to “consumers who were harmed.”
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Further, the FTC has issued warnings to these celebrities and influencers like Cardi B who failed to disclose their sponsorship, including Jordin Sparks, Adrienne Bailon, Alexa PenaVega, Brittany Renner, and more. While stars like Kylie Jenner and Demi Lovato have previously been paid by Teami to advertise their products over social media, they did not receive warning letters from the commission.
Pornhub Releases First-Ever Non Adult Film
Pornhub goes live with an hour-long documentary about the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles called "Shakedown."
Pornhub doesn't want to be known just as your go-to website when you're looking for some me-time. They also want to expand their content offering to include informative documentaries and other non-pornographic films, and that all begins with the official launch of Shakedown, an hour-long movie that debuted on the adult entertainment platform this week.
Leilah Weinraub, the director of Shakedown, has been working on this film for over fifteen years, beginning the process in 2002. Weinraub has collected an extensive amount of footage related to the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles during the early 2000s, which guides the premise of the documentary.
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According to Variety, Shakedown looks at the men and women who visited lesbian strip clubs in the early aughts, offering a "humorous, sensual and informative" look at the subculture. It will be streaming for free on Pornhub for the entire month of March, earning its very own stylized page on the platform.
This is a big move for Pornhub, who hosted a reported 42 billion separate visits on the site last year. Expanding into the documentary realm will only help to further their goal of informing the general public about sexual health and sex work, beginning with Shakedown.
Olive Garden Manager Fired For Complying With Customer’s Racist Request
A manager at an Olive Garden in Indiana was fired after granting a racist customer’s demand for a non-blacker server at her table.
An Olive Garden restaurant in Indiana fired one of their managers for complying with a racist customer’s demand for a server who wasn’t black, after a customer at a different table exposed the manager’s actions on Facebook. The incident took place last Saturday night, after 16-year-old Amira Donahue, a hostess at the Evansville restaurant in southwestern Indiana, says that the racist customer had already made a complaint about her and another black hostess. The customer in question, a white woman, “made comments” about Amira to her manager, claiming that she “should work at a strip club instead” of the Italian restaurant. “She asked if I’m even black and if I am from here,” Amira recalled. She also noted that the woman was with a whole group of people, including two children.
When the party was then seated at a table with a black server, the racist woman exploded with rage. She demanded to one of the managers that her table have a non-black server instead, and the manager complied. Maxwell Robbins, another customer that was present at the restaurant at the time, was appalled by what he witnessed. He submitted multiple complaints to Olive Garden and even took to Facebook to document the whole ordeal. In the post, he explained how “disgusting” it was that the manager honoured the request “without hesitation.”
Maxwell told NBC News that he was motivated to call out the manager’s inexcusable actions after he saw how upset Amira was about it. “The young lady was in tears and had no one to support her,” Maxwell noted. “So I felt if I didn’t write this post, nothing would have happened and she would continue to go to work for a place that she feels uncomfortable at and unwanted at.” Amira said she felt that the manager had made the decision that the customer was more important than two of his employees. Thankfully, the company took action. A spokeswoman for Olive Garden, Meagan Bernstein, has confirmed that, after completing an investigation into the situation, the company “made the decision to separate with the manager involved.”
Doja Cat Rejected By Dickies Brand For Being "Too Sexy"
Doja Cat’s request to Dickies clothing brand for logo clearance was rejected due to her “sexy” image, but her stylist came up with a clever solution.
It looks like Doja Cat is just too fine for her own good, considering Dickies clothing brand allegedly retracted their initial logo clearance for a custom outfit in her “Bottom B*tch” music video due to her overtly “sexy” image. Doja and her stylist, Brett Alan Nelson, recently sat down with Billboard to discuss some of her most iconic fashion moments, and the discussion led to a pretty hilarious story about one of Doja’s “millennial ‘Sk8r Boi'” looks in the visuals for her song, “Bottom B*tch,” off her Hot Pink album. Brett had initially planned for Doja to wear a custom Dickies outfit in the music video, but they ran into some trouble with the brand.
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“Dickies originally gave me logo clearance and they’re a very church-going, Trump-supporting, Texas-based company,” Brett revealed. “They thought Doja was too sexy for their brand. I said, ‘You literally approved your logo with me. I made a custom outfit.'” Thankfully, Brett came up with a creative, last minute solution that allowed them to still use to Dickies pieces without getting sued. The stylist confessed that he “wanted to take a jab at them” after they blocked him from using their logo, so he decided to “colour[] out the ‘-IES’ and color[] in where the horseshoe is.” The result was even more for Doja’s image. “Her whole entire outfit just said ‘dick,'” Brett pointed out. “You can’t see it, but I asked legal what we can get away with. They said if we changed the logo at least 50 percent, then it’s fine.”
“Doja makes so many sexual innuendos here and there in her music,” he continued. “There’s a quirkiness that’s very intelligent behind what she does, so it’s nice to do little tricks… dicks.” However, Dickies responded to Brett’s claims that they had taken back their permission to use the logo, noting that the company “did initially speak to Brett when he reached out to use the logo, but Brett’s team never provided a clear letter of intent to use the logo, as requested.”
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“There were no further conversations after that,” they added. “Dickies respects Doja Cat’s artistry, and is happy she is also a fan of the brand and wishes her much success.” Watch the full music video for “Bottom B*tch” below and see if you can catch the genius logo change:
Las Vegas Strip Club Releases Coronavirus PSA
A Las Vegas strip club released a random yet entertaining PSA on the coronavirus.
A Las Vegas strip club by the name of Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club released their very own coronavirus public service announcement. What originally began as a minimal outbreak in Wuhan, China has officially turned into a pandemic affecting people and countries across the globe. Italy and Iran were the first two countries outside of Asia to be massively affected by the disease and now, the life-threatening coronavirus has made its way to the United States. This past week, six new cases of the virus were confirmed in Los Angeles County in less than 24 hours causing officials to declare a state of emergency within the city. Now, one Las Vegas strip club is doing everything in their power to try and inform the masses about the disease. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
While strip clubs aren’t particularly known for their cleanliness, Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club has stepped up their game to ensure that their dancers and guests will be provided with a coronavirus-free strip club experience. According to TMZ, the Las Vegas-based gentlemen’s club is taking extra precautions as they’ve hired a professional custodian company to sanitize the venue daily and hired additional janitors to clean the club on the spot throughout the night.
As for the video, the Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club staff and its team of dancers put on a dancing display mimicking the act of thoroughly washing their hands. Not a single word was said until the end of the PSA as a dancer seductively says “wash your hands,” into the camera.
While the dancing and face mask bikini are genuinely entertaining, this public service announcement isn’t exactly educational. With that said, check out Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club coronavirus PSA in the video provided below and continue to wash your hands for the sake of everyone’s health.
R. Kelly Allegedly Forced Azriel Clary To Eat Her Own Feces
R. Kelly allegedly forced Azriel Clary to defecate in a cup and eat it afterwards, and he filmed the entire thing.
Nothing can surprise us anymore in the outrageous case surrounding R. Kelly. Earlier today, it was revealed that his Chicago trial would be postponed until October 2020 after over one-hundred electronic devices were seized from a secret storage unit. It seemed as though the entire world was against the disgraced singer, save for his two girlfriends Joycelyn Savage and Azriel Clary but, several months ago, Clary decided to sever ties with the criminal and she is now speaking out about her own history of abuse from him. According to The Blast, things were even worse than previously detailed.
In a yet-to-be-released documentary about R. Kelly, Azriel Clary can be seen and heard speaking about the things she was forced to do while living with the singer.
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“He has a video of me, um, he made me do this video of me doing a number 2 in a cup, and then eating it out of the cup,” she tells federal authorities about some of the evidence presented in his case.
In addition to the nasty confession, a prison phone call between Azriel Clary and R. Kelly is featured in the trailer, where we hear the singer sobbing and telling his ex-girlfriend that he loves her.
Clary has been telling her story in sections since December when she left R. Kelly’s Chicago apartment. Watch the teaser clip below.