Posted on Fri Jul 8th, 2016 7:00am PDT By X17 Staff
Buying something shiny and expensive for Kylie Jenner?
Tyga dropped by Polacheck's Jewelry in Calabasas on Thursday in Kylie's red Rolls Royce, and we're not sure what he picked up, but he left with a decent-sized bag. And after the total dog he's been, we imagine this could very well be an apology of sorts to his teenage lady love. Or maybe he was trying to cheer her up after her company drama?
After Kylie Cosmetics received an F rating from the Better Business Bureau earlier this week, Kylie issued a statement to her fans explaining the situation -- and what's been done to resolve it. "You guys are the reason I keep going and I'm motivated every day to make Kylie Cosmetics the best it can be," she wrote in a statement on Instagram. "I'm continuing to learn and I just want to make everyone happy. Because so many of you spoke out, I'm excited to tell you that the Better Business Bureau has looked at the facts and changed the rating."
Posted on Fri Jul 8th, 2016 6:30am PDT By X17 Staff
Beyonce posted a powerful message on her website on Thursday, linking to it on Instagram and her other social media accounts.
Beyonce wrote:
We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities.
It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they "stop killing us."
We don't need sympathy. We need everyone to respect our lives.
We're going to stand up as a community and fight against anyone who believes that murder or any violent action by those who are sworn to protect us should consistently go unpunished.
These robberies of lives make us feel helpless and hopeless but we have to believe that we are fighting for the rights of the next generation, for the next young men and women who believe in good.
This is a human fight. No matter your race, gender or sexual orientation. This is a fight for anyone who feels marginalized, who is struggling for freedom and human rights.
This is not a plea to all police officers but toward any human being who fails to value life. The war on people of color and all minorities needs to be over.
Fear is not an excuse. Hate will not win.
We all have the power to channel our anger and frustration into action. We must use our voices to contact the politicians and legislators in our districts and demand social and judicial changes.
While we pray for the families of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, we will also pray for an end to this plague of injustice in our communities.
Beyonce's post came in response to back-to-back fatal shootings this week. Alton Sterling was tackled and shot dead when he was selling homemade CDs outside of a store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Tuesday, and Philandro Castile was fatally shot point-blank by an officer after being pulled over for a traffic stop. Castile's girlfriend and their child were present during the shooting.
On Thursday night, four police officers were shot dead and seven were wounded by snipers targeting law enforcement officers in Dallas, who were on the scene supervising protests prompted by the shootings. Dallas Police Chief David Brown stated at a news conference the latest slayings appeared to be a coordinated attack.
Posted on Fri Jul 8th, 2016 6:00am PDT By X17 Staff
Caitlyn Jenner dropped by Starbucks in Malibu on Thursday, and the transgender starlet kept it super casual in a white top and jeans. So much for another skintight black number that shows off her curves!
Cait rolled up in her white Escalade, and the previous day she took her purple Porsche to the shop on a flatbed trailer hooked up to the massive SUV. As you may remember, just a year and a half ago, when Cait was still Bruce, she was involved in a fatal accident while towing her off-road vehicle down the PCH. Cait donned a pair of gloves and helped unload the $176,000 sports car herself, and we're guessing she's eager to get it back.
In other news, it's been reported that Kanye West spent a whopping $750,000 on wax figures in his video "Famous," and the rapper paid "special attention" to the one that represented Caitlyn. "Kanye became obsessed with the anatomy of Caitlyn Jenner's wax figure," a source told Life & Style. "He never consulted Caitlyn, though. He just took the liberty of using her image for the video." Interesting!
Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2016 12:45pm PDT By X17 Staff
You can say that again!
Iggy Azalea touched down at LAX this morning and was peppered with questions about ex-fiance Nick Young's cheating scandal. Not only did she flash the middle finger when asked if she had a message for the athlete and his pregnant baby mama, but she also commented on what she's looking for in a future boyfriend.
"Someone without kids!" she sniped, clearly in reference to Young impregnating his ex behind her back.
It's been a rough month for the "Fancy" songstress, but we have no doubt she will get back on her feet. Its gotta suck to think you're going to spend the rest of your life with someone, only to realize that they've been banging other chicks under your nose the whole time.
Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2016 11:50am PDT By X17 Staff
The nipples are out and people are noticing!
She may have just secured her place in the Wimbledon final, but Serena Williams' nipples (instead of her backstroke) seemed to be making headlines this morning!
The tennis champ caused a stir when she donned on tight white tank that appeared to show her nipples during her semi final match yesterday.
Sadly instead of noting that Serena is on her way to the finals (which if she wins would end up being her 22nd Grand Slam victory), many tennis fans took to social media to complain that they were "distracted" by Serena's nipples showing through her tennis whites.
While some trolls (who really need something better to do with their time), other fans came to her defense and told body-shamers to "grow up" and stop commenting on the sports star's appearance.
We agree with the people who came to Selena's defense -- we should be focusing on the 34-year-old's record breaking achievement, which was beating Russia's Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-0 in 49 minutes, making it the fastest ever defeat at a Wimbledon semi-final -- and not the fact that she just wore a shirt that maybe highlighted the outline of her nipples!
Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2016 11:45am PDT By X17 Staff
He beat her to the punch!
Calvin Harris is set to release his new track "Ole" on Friday, and it's glaringly obvious the lyrics were written about Taylor Swift's alleged infidelity with now-boyfriend Tom Hiddleston. The tune seems to be written from Hiddleston's perspective, and it certainly sounds like the Scottish DJ is one scorned dude!
"I see online that you begun to be a good girl and take trips with your boyfriend. Being attentive, continue to pretend..." one verse goes.
"You've hidden my name in your phone so you can call me to tell me you've been going through hell. Left him alone and you booked in a hotel," goes another.
The most telling part? When EDM superstar references the British actor's role as Loki with a clever play on words. "Low key, you won't tell none of your friends about me," singer John Newman croons.
T-Swizzle's camp is crying foul, saying that Calvin was working on this masterpiece well before their breakup and was not writing it with Tay Tay in mind. "She knew all about Ole because Calvin started writing it before Tom was in the picture. If Calvin claims he wasn't working on this before the Met Ball, he's lying," a source dished to TMZ.
Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2016 10:50am PDT By X17 Staff
This is beyond disturbing ...
Celebrities have taken to Twitter following a horrific video being live-streamed Facebook on Wednesday night, which showed moments after a black man had been shot by police during a routine traffic stop. Castile was fatally wounded, which makes it the second shooting death of a black man by police officers just this week. Police killed a black man named Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge earlier this week during an attempted arrest. Parts of both deadly encounters were caught on video, and the world has been watching -- and commenting. However, the shocking videos have transfixed a nation and caused outrage among many, including some notable names.
Last night's incident involved a disturbing video, which was live-streamed on Facebook, showing Philandro Castile after he had allegedly been shot four times by police. The clip, which was posted by his girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, who had been pulled over with Castile while they were driving through Minnesota's St. Paul suburb of Falcon Heights with her four-year-old daughter.
The grisly 10-minute video shows a woman in the passenger seat of a parked car as she sits next to a man in the driver's seat with a blood-soaked shirt, as she narrates what is happening. Reynolds says, "We got pulled over for a busted tail light in the back. And the police just — he's covered — they just killed my boyfriend."
The woman also explains that her boyfriend had a license to carry, but he'd informed the officer that he was armed, as he reached for his identification.
Of course, soon after the video emerged the Internet erupted with shock, dismay, anger and outrage. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, Minnesota's governor Mark Dayton had yet to make a statement on the Castile shooting, but finally emerged late in the morning to say that he was calling for a federal investigation into the incident.
Gov. Dayton may have been slow to respond -- but others were not so quick to hold their tongue on social media.
Justin Timberlake, Hillary Clinton and John Legend were just some of the famous faces commenting about the gruesome violence towards blacks.
Justin Timberlake tweeted this morning, "Couldn't even sleep last night... First, #AltonSterling and then this video of #PhilandoCastile being brutally killed. This. Must. Stop."
Hillary Clinton wrote, "America woke up to yet another tragedy of a life cut down too soon. Black Lives Matter. #PhilandoCastile -H"
Last night, John Legend shared, "So many people work so hard to find a reason why executing a human being during a routine traffic stop is ok. IT'S NOT OK."
Legend is right -- this is not okay.
Couldn't even sleep last night... First, #AltonSterling and then this video of #PhilandoCastile being brutally killed. This. Must. Stop.
Posted on Thu Jul 7th, 2016 9:40am PDT By X17 Staff
Scary!
Sarah Silverman took to her Facebook account Wednesday to reveal that she spent the last week hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai for what she thought was a sore throat, but what turned out to be potentially deadly disease!
"I am insanely lucky to be alive. Don't even know why I went to the doctor, it was just a sore throat. But I had a freak case of epiglottis," she wrote. Epiglottis is an inflammation of the flap at the bottom of the tongue that stops food from falling into the windpipe.
The 45-year-old lost her mother and two close friends this year, and her brush with death gave her pause for thought. "There's something that happens when three people you're so close to die within a year and then YOU almost die but don't. (That was me. I'm the one that didn't die.) It's a strange dichotomy between, 'Why me?' and the other, 'Why me?'" she continued.
The situation was so grave that she had to be intubated, and she woke up five days later totally baffled at what happened to her.
"They couldn't put me fully to sleep for the recovery process because my blood pressure's too low. I was drugged just enough to not feel the pain and have no idea what was happening or where I was. They had to have my hands restrained to keep me from pulling out my breathing tube. My friend Stephanie said I kept writing 'was I in an accident?'" she explained.
Ultimately, the brunette beauty's ordeal gave her a new outlook on life.
"When I woke up five days later I didn't remember anything. I thanked everyone at the ICU for my life, went home, and then slowly as the opiates faded away, remembered the trauma of the surgery & spent the first two days home kind of free-falling from the meds/lack of meds and the paralyzing realization that nothing matters. Luckily that was followed by the motivating revelation that nothing matters," she concluded.
