Donald Trump skipped Easter services.
But Mariah Carey and Jermaine Dupri didn’t. They went to church in Atlanta at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
You can see the video below. It’s very sweet. Mariah has her kids with her, and her long time manager Michael Richardson.
Too bad we can’t see her bonnet!
Mariah Carey attended Easter Sunday service at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta pic.twitter.com/5ViAwLRc0m
— Block Topickz (formerly Glock Topickz) (@BlockTopickz) April 6, 2026
The UK Home Secretary has written a letter to Parliament urging that Kanye West not be allowed into the country.
MP Chris Philp has written to the MP Shabana Mahmood, citing West’s history of antisemitism. See below.
The Wireless Festival has little choice now than to cancel and rethink what it’s done. That would be Melvin Benn, Managing Director of Festival Republic, the firm that owns the Festival.
Budweiser is now the lone major sponsor left for this summer’s Wireless Festival in London.
Rockstar energy drink has joined Pepsi, Diageo (Johnnie Walker, Captain Morgan), and PayPal in exiting over the planned three days of shows by Kanye West.
The festival has not acknowledged any of this, keeping the names of the brands on the site. But they are gone.
I first cited the brands on March 31st, especially Pepsi. It took them a few days to acknowledge their mistake — not because of us, but because the UK government said forget it. They didn’t want the Nazi spewing antisemite to perform in their country.
Kanye was dropped by all his own major sponsors and business affiliates including The Gap, Adidas, and Balenciaga two years ago or more over the same reasoning.
Nevertheless, the rapper doubled down, selling t shirts with swastikas.
Somehow, Kanye — who calls himself Ye — convinced SoFi Stadium to stage two shows there last week. He thought he’d scored his Renaissance. But the first show was a bust, held on the first night of Passover — so much for being apologetic about antisemitism.
The second show did fill up — but attracted skinheads.
Kanye’s album, “Bully,” sold 145,000 copies last week and came in at number 2.
“Bully” comes from Gamma Records, which is owned in large part by Eldridge Industies’ Todd Boehly — who also owns The Hollywood Reporter, Dick Clark Productions, and the LA Dodgers.
Gamma has had several failures already with Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Usher and other acts. This debacle could put an end to the company’s president, Larry Jackson. I’m hearing others in the record business are very angry with him.
Now we wait for word from Budweiser, and also from the Festival which must remove Pepsi’s name from their website — and all the other sponsors.
This is outrageous.
“60 Minutes” turned over its last minute tonight to Franklin Graham.
A devout Trump supporter, Graham gave a sermon about Jesus and Christian Faith, saying the latter is what formed this country.
This means that Bari Weiss, the conservative Jew who is now running CBS News, capitulated to Trump as usual — despite her own religious beliefs and those of CBS’s owners, the Ellisons
I’m embarrassed for Bill Whittaker, who went along with this egregious decision. Also, executive producer Tanya Simon, who apparently Weiss is trying to oust.
Franklin is the son of the late Rev. Billy Graham, who was respected around the world despite hiccups like being caught on tape with Richard Nixon expressing antisemitism. (He later apologized.) Franklin is another story. His views are extremely right wing, anti-anything that involves human rights. He’s anti-Muslim, anti-gay, and so on.
So CBS not only gave Trump a sop here but also gave Graham a free commercial within the show.
But here’s a note to Bari Weiss and her cabal: America is not founded on Christian values. It’s founded on freedom, for all religions. This was offensive tonight.
Newsmax isn’t known for its journalism, certainly.
It’s a channel for people who think Fox News isn’t crazy enough with fictional right wing reporting.
Their latest hire is a soap opera actor, which seems appropriate.
Kyle Lowder comes from the NBC soap, “Days of our Lives,” where he’s played a couple of different roles over the years.
Lowder will anchor Newsmax’s weekend “Wake Up America,” which has about two viewers. His previous experience is anchoring the news in Reno, Nevada. Otherwise, don’t worry. He’s not a journalist.
The soap actor will be joining such stars as completely off the wall Trump supporter Greg Kelly, former Foxer Greta van Susteren, and Robs Finnerty and Schmidt.
Lowder should fit in pretty well. His ex-wife and former co-star, Ariane Zucker, was the actress Donald Trump was talking about with Billy Bush during infamous “grab ’em by the p*ssy” incident from “Access Hollywood.” Zucker was not offended, and later indicated that she supported Trump.
So, see? We’ve been complaining about Tony Dokoupil.
On Instagram, by the way, Lowder tells his fans he can’t reveal his new job. He’s forgotten that he’s listed it on LinkedIn already. The news is in good hands.
His first story at Newsmax will be reporting on the start of tariffs.
And these are the days of our lives.
MONDAY AM UPDATE: PAYPAL DROPS WIRELESS FEST TOO!
The company that distributes Johnnie Walker and Captain Morgan is out of the Wireless Festival.
Diageo has pulled its sponsorship of a three day event in London in July featuring Kanye West.
They join Pepsi, which exited this morning.
These defections are happening so fast that Wireless hasn’t even changed its website.
This leaves Budweiser, PayPal, and Rockstar Energy Drink as the sole sponsors of shows featuring the racist, antisemitic, Hitler embracing rapper.
Will Wireless replace these lead sponsors? Will they cancel Kanye and invite new unobjectionable performers?
Maybe Kanye will just pay for the shows himself.
Thanks to criticism from the UK government, from media like this site, and others, sponsors are waking up to the so called Kanye Revival, in which a man who was singing “Heil Hitler” last year is trying to normalize himself. It ain’t happenin’.
It was another club date in West Hollywood last night for Justin Bieber.
A few days before his Coachella show, Bieber put on a private show at the Troubadour in West Hollywood.
A week ago, he did the same thing up on Sunset Blvd. at the Roxy.
Like last week’s show, this one was composed entirely of songs from his “Swag” album. There were no hits like “Sorry” or “Peaches” or any of the tracks that made him famous.
Bieber is eschewing those titles that are now part of the catalog he sold in 2022 for $200 million to Hipgnosis Songs. It’s unclear if this is a statement about his career, or one about the sale.
Either way, fans who schlep out to Coachella probably shouldn’t expect to hear Bieber’s old hits unless, of course, he’s been rehearsing them at home.
Fans at the tiny Troubadour didn’t seem to care, at least from the videos Bieber’s posted to Instagram — which are interspersed with pictures of slippers.
Will he announce an actual tour next? Or just one off shows like these? Will he sing the songs people want to hear?
It’s a cliffhanger!
All this Justin Bieber and Kanye West action in Los Angeles makes me think — how can take this much culture? So glad these people don’t come to New York. We only have Lady Gaga at MSG and Sting at the Metropolitan Opera. How will we survive?
iTunes was really bamboozled on April Fools Day.
Dallas Little, content creator, unleashed four more songs by his AI creation, Eddie Dalton.
Now Little has ELEVEN spots on the iTunes top 100.
He also has the number three album on iTunes!
All by a singer named “Eddie Dalton,” who does not exist. He’s Little’s Artificial Intelligence creation. Little is writing songs, recording them with AI. He’s invented Eddie’s look and sound and videos.
read all of today’s headlines here!
Is Little gaming iTunes? And YouTube? Are people really buying Eddie Dalton’s music? Do they understand the situation?
Eddie Dalton is currently perched at numbers 3, 8, 15, 22, 42, 44, 51, 58, 60, 68, and 79 on the iTunes top 100.
At least three more songs have been released since then, all of which are aiming to hit the top 100 in a day or so.
Of course, Little can just keep churning them out now. There’s no recording time or musical process involved. He’s typing prompts and pushing buttons.
One of the songs, “Another Day Old,” has 1.2 million views on YouTube.
But the numbers don’t add up. So far there’s no airplay on radio, and no streaming. Luminate says “Eddie Dalton” has sold just 6,900 tracks since he was invented.
At the same time, iTunes is offering an album by Eddie Dalton with all these songs. It’s number 3!
If anyone can explain this. email me at showbiz411@gmail.com
Here’s the link to Eddie’s YouTube page.
I’m not showing anymore of his videos. He’s an insult to real musicians.
LBJ cursed a lot in private. For better or worse.
But not in public. Discourse between the president of the United States and its citizens has always been conducted on the highest level of respect and propriety.
That’s what Made America Great.
Not Donald Trump. He’s cursing at Iran on social media, dropping the F word, and calling them “crazy bastards.” He’s threatening to blow up the country and kill everyone.
Republicans just tolerate all of this as if it’s normal. Trump is like a big shrieking baby. Waa Waa Waa. He’s an embarrassment on the world stage. He’s deeply offensive on every level.
25th Amendment is just the beginning. He needs to be impeached and removed from office.
Trump has no Easter message. He’s AWOL, people think he’s in the hospital. (We should be so lucky!) He actually wrote today:
” Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
SPOILERS AHEAD, BE WARNED******
The weekend box office was about three movies: “The Super Mario Galaxy,” “Project Hail Mary,” and “The Drama.”
Good news first: “Super Mario” hit $190 million in its first weekend, which was really five days beginning last Wednesday. It’s a stunning amount of money for a movie about a video game. Hats off to Nintendo, still around after all these years!
“Project Hail Mary” hit $217 million and still has plenty of life left in it. This weekend was down only 43% from last weekend, amazing! “Mary” has legs! A sequel next? Somehow, I suppose. And you know there will be a prequel. We’re not done with Rocky and Grace so fast.
Now– “The Drama.” $14.3 million weekend. Declines each day as audiences discovered the film is not a comedy. It does begin that way. But then Zendaya’s character reveals to her fiancee– played by Robert Pattinson — that once considered shooting up her high school.
Whoops! This is a daring idea, but executed improperly. You can tell from social media that kids who love the actors don’t know how to react. Word is spreading, too. Both the critics and audience meters at Rotten Tomatoes are going down. Maybe once the theatrical run is over and the idea settles in, “The Drama” will take on new significance. But it’s not going to happen over popcorn.