Sunday, May 31, 2026

Random Celebrity News

For the usual values of Random, Celebrity and News. From Insty, DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (RECENT) HISTORY:

From Althouse, "My reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended. Could have handled it better! Now I know what a Zaghrouta is! I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out."
Said Sabrina Carpenter, quoted in "Sabrina Carpenter Apologizes for Mistaking Arabic Celebration Call With Yodeling During Coachella Performance: 'Could Have Handled it Better'" (Variety). ADDED: Notice that she says "I don't like it" when she misreads it as yodeling. Why the hostility to yodeling? But showing disrespect to Arabic culture is another matter. From the NYT article:

Fans appeared divided over Carpenter’s response on social media. One user called it “insensitive and Islamaphobic.” Another wrote: “She’s not obligated to like anything, but after receiving the information that it was part of the person’s culture, the least that is expected is respect.”AND: Does yodeling seem... too country and somehow right wing?

Ada Lluch
As Driscoll at Insty observes in TO SERVE MAN: The Left’s Favorite Food Is Other Leftists. Leaf Arbuthnot at The Telegraph, The far-right has got a new weapon: glamorous young women.

Not so long ago, the stock image of someone from the far-Right was easily summoned: they’d be male, obviously, and very probably bald, with steel-toe boots and questionable tattoos. Times, however, have moved on: this week, it was reported that the Government had banned seven “far-Right agitators” from entering the country to attend a Tommy Robinson rally on Saturday. Three are strikingly telegenic young women.
Eva Vlaardingerbroek

Among the verboten ones is Ada Lluch, an impeccably coiffed 26-year-old Catalan activist who has defended the Franco regime and had told the most recent “Unite the Kingdom” rally last September that western democracies have been “completely invaded”. Valentina Gomez, an influencer from the US, has also been barred, having told last year’s rally that “rapist Muslims” were “taking over” the country (she’s said she’ll still try to come on Saturday, though – via small boat). And Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a Dutch political activist and commentator, has been forbidden too, having lamented “the rape, replacement and murder of our people” in London last autumn.

"Emily Hart"
From the NYPo, Top MAGA influencer revealed to be AI — created by a guy in India who made a mint off lonely men online

A comely MAGA influencer who racked up millions of followers with patriotic content of her posing in a bikini while ice fishing, drinking Coors Light and shooting guns has been unmasked — as an Indian man who put himself through med school on the proceeds of his trickery.

“Sam,” a 22-year-old orthopedic surgeon in training, told Wired that he got the idea to sell AI-generated images of a young woman in a bikini while scrounging for money in school — and trying to save up enough to emigrate to the US after graduation.

He turned to Google’s Gemini AI for advice and decided to create a “hot girl” crafted specifically for the “MAGA/conservative niche,” after the software told him that “the conservative audience (especially older men in the US) often has higher disposable income and is more loyal,” according to Wired.
From Da Mail, Nicki Minaj reveals how Gavin Newsom and Jay-Z turned her into MAGA Republican and Trump's 'number one fan'
Nicki Minaj revealed that it was Gavin Newsom and Beyonce's husband Jay-Z that spurred her recent support for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

The rapper, 43, said a major turning point in her shift away from the Democrats was the way California Governor Newsom ignored her pleas for a meeting, after her home was 'swatted' due to trolls several times.

'He just completely ignored me, with all the money I spent in taxes,' the Anaconda hitmaker - who previously called herself Trump's 'number one fan' - said in a new interview with Time.

After Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna offered to help Minaj in 2025, the star began considering going public with her conservative allegiance.

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