I Regret to Inform You That Shaun King Is Back

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | October 22, 2023 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | October 22, 2023 |

After seemingly being buried beneath the rubble of his constant grifts, Shaun King emerged from his clout cocoon this week where he pulled what is easily his most attention-grabbing stunt yet: Claiming he helped secure the release of American hostages, Judith and Natalie Ranaan, who were taken by Hamas. In what became a delightful field day for social media, King’s boast immediately blew up in his face when the family of the returned hostages released a statement denying they were ever in contact with King. Whoops! Now, while I hate to give King any sort of fairness, it has been confirmed that Natalie’s brother Ben did reach out to the grifter unbeknownst to the family. However, Ben understandably cast a wide net and contacted anybody who might help with the situation. Most importantly, there is no proof that King played any part in the hostage release whatsoever and pretty much everyone who was involved has no clue who King even is. God, how I envy them. (The Daily Beast)

Napoleon looks weirdly horny. (Lainey Gossip)

You can only contact Dolly Parton by fax. Just FYI. (Celebitchy)

Free speech lover Sarah Huckabee Sanders will tell you what words you can use, okay? (Wonkette)

From Steven: Next year, there’s a multi-author anthology of short stories set in the world of The Stand. It has some real all-stars on the list like Paul Tremblay and Alma Katsu. (Brian Keene)

Like Matthew Vaughn, I also thought The Flash was surprisingly great. My expectations were in the toilet because of the whole Ezra Miller debacle, but it was better than a lot of what Marvel has farted out in the past few years. (Deadline)

Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro apparently spent most of Killer of the Flower Moon’s production rolling their eyes at Leonardo DiCaprio trying to ad-lib. (THR)

From Chris: Now that she’s flipped on him, Trump is claiming Sydney Powell was never his lawyer. (CNN)

The other day I linked a piece about how Taylor Swift might have left money on the table with her Eras Tour theatrical release. Well, here’s a counterpoint from Christopher Nolan who says f*ck all that. Taylor killed it. (Rolling Stone)

Hasan Minhaj reportedly had The Daily Show hosting gig locked up until the strike prompted everyone to chill for a minute before making the announcement. Unfortunately for Minhaj, that left an opening for The New Yorker to torpedo the whole thing. (Uproxx)

From Seth: These are perfect h/t Lord Castleton. (NFL Memes)

Cannonball Read’s Book Review Bingo Challenge has inspired a lot of discussion and reviews, and also stickers! Check out the set now available at RedBubble based on this year’s retro bingo board. (Cannonball Read 15)

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