Pat Benatar will no longer perform ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ due to mass shootings

EJ Panaligan editorBuzzfeed announced that Paul Ricci will join the company to lead unscripted television for BuzzFeed Studios. In the role, Ricci will oversee all unscripted television programming for the company’s Hollywood arm and entire portfolio of brands including BuzzFeed, Complex, Tasty and HuffPost.

Whitney Friedlander While saltier reality shows including Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise and HBO Max’s “FBoy Island” are still very much a thing — and very popular — there has also been a bumper crop of “nice” reality programming infiltrating the arena.And, it turns out, Television Academy voters are fans. A look at the reality categories in this year’s Emmys race include Netflix’s A-for-effort baking competition series “Nailed It!,” the long-running, pride-focused VH1 series “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and both NBC’s mentorship musician series “The Voice” and its goofysweet crafts program “Making It.” Even the vibe of perennial Emmy nominee, Bravo’s “Top Chef,” comes with a message of respect for the artistry of cooking.

She’s not having any of that. Kim Kardashian confronted estranged husband Kanye West after he posted about her split with Pete Davidson.

Big Brother contestant Best told Hello! magazine: “I’m on a mission to make 70 the new 50 for women. Everything has changed. We girls don’t need to shrivel up and disappear into a corner just because we’re a certain age.

Olivia Newton-John‘s daughter Chloe Lattanzi shared some sweet snaps following the legendary actress’ death.

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Tom Waits has today (August 9) announced that his twin 2002 albums, ‘Alice’ and ‘Blood Money’, will be reissued on vinyl.The albums – which this year celebrate their 20-year-anniversary – will be pressed on translucent blue and red vinyl respectively, with the reissues expected to hit record stores and Waits’ merch website on October 7. Both reissues are currently available for pre-order via Waits’ webstore here.Coinciding with the announcement, Waits has also shared a pair of live recordings set to feature on each of the upcoming reissues: ‘All the World Is Green’ from ‘Blood Money’ and ‘Fish and Bird’ from ‘Alice’.Check out the live recordings below.Waits’ live version of ‘All the World is Green’ adds a flamenco flair to the original, and was recorded during the singer-songwriter’s Milan show as part of his 2008 Glitter and Doom concert tour.

Rick and Morty has dropped – watch it below.Though it’s only 30 seconds long, the “extended promo” (shared on August 6) packs in a lot of action and raises exciting questions for fans as to the adventures ahead.Opening with echoes of dialogue from previous seasons – “You can’t outrun your past, Rick”, “Someone’s trying to kill us”, “Someone’s always trying to kill us” – we see Rick say, “Say goodbye to the Citadel, fellas!” before pressing a large red button that reads “DISENGAGE”.Elsewhere in the trailer, Morty uses a yellow portal gun to enter a universe where he realises Rick isn’t the most intelligent being, as the voice-over declares: “The universe as we all know it, has ended – but don’t let that get you down.”Watch the Rick and Morty season six extended promo below:Yesterday (August 7), the official Rick and Morty Twitter shared a second teaser named ‘Wormaggedon: A Citadel Secret’, thought to be the name of episode one of the upcoming season.In the teaser, the shot moves in on a giant egg suspended in a tube, before the science lab in which it sits sparks with electricity, bursting into flames as the ominous refrain of ‘For The Damaged Coda’, a song by Blonde Redhead synonymous with foreboding events in Rick and Morty, begins to play.#Wormaggedonhttps://t.co/9Yu86kR1TT pic.twitter.com/xZMQf53Wi1— Rick and Morty (@RickandMorty) August 6, 2022Upon the announcement of its September 4 air date on Adult Swim, fans were also told of a “unique way to be part of the fun”, now revealed – thanks to the caption alongside yesterday’s tweet, #Wormaggedon and a link to the official website – to be “a countdown to Wormaggedon”, viewable on the show’s official website.The events of season six are set to follow-up those of season

Ozzy Osbourne made a surprise appearance at this year’s Commonwealth Games closing ceremony. Watch a clip of the performance below.The Black Sabbath frontman had previously shared his desire to attend this year’s event in his hometown of Birmingham.

stage 4 cancer, the singer and actress sold off most of her massive real estate portfolio in order to invest more into her foundation and wellness center, The Post has learned. “Olivia loved helping people.

Ashton Kutcher is clarifying the news about the health scare that he suffered years ago.

Scientists from China are looking at using the moon to learn more about the early, dark days of our universe.10 satellites are set to be sent into orbit around the moon by the Discovering the Sky at the Longest Wavelengths (DSL) mission, also known as Hongmeng.The aim is to pick up faint cosmic signals by using the moon to block electromagnetic interference from human activity on Earth. READ MORE: Man killed by snake bite while attending funeral of brother killed by snake biteMystery still shrouds the cosmic dark ages – an era before stars began to shine in the sky.But this new approach intends to collect faint, stretched-out, ultra-long wavelength light emitted by hydrogen atoms formed by the Big Bang.The faint signals from the deep universe will be collected by nine daughter satellites while orbiting on the far side of the moon, where the terrestrial interference will be blocked.

Hollywood names to it.The late actress passed away on Monday (August 8), aged 73, at her home in southern California after battling breast cancer.The iconic movie was filmed in 1977 when Olivia was just building her career in the spotlight.READ MORE:Olivia Newton-John dies aged 73 after 30-year battle with breast cancerHowever, Randal Kleiser, the film's director, had several people in mind for the role of Sandy Olsson including Carrie Fisher, Susan Dey, Deborah Raffin, and Marie Osmond.According to reporters, Marie was the frontrunner until she objected to Sandy's mega "good girl to bad girl" transformation.However, there was also a point when Olivia was unsure whether to take the role herself.The success of the movie was to be determined and Olivia was sceptical about passing for a teenager when she was in her late twenties.She also didn’t want to risk her music career which was already taking off on its own.Olivia once told Vanity Fair, according to Marie Claire: “I was very anxious about making another film, because my music career was going well, and I did not want to mess it up by doing another movie that wasn’t good."This comes after the star's final Instagram post was revealed.For more of the latest showbiz news from Daily Star, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.On Monday her account posted a picture of her and her doting husband John Easterling and wrote: "#flashbackfriday"Fans of hers flocked to the comments, with one typing: "Think of you Olivia. Send you love and light from south of France."A second said: "Beautiful photo! I’m sending you wishes for continued good health.

Arsenal midfielder scores.People have noticed a spooky link between Aaron Ramsey, who switched to Juventus in 2019 and signed a loan for Scottish Premiership champions Rangers in 2022, and celebrity deaths.A frenzy unfolded on social media in 2018 when fans were convinced the Welsh midfielder's "curse" had struck again when he scored against CSKA Moscow.The then 28-year-old managed to net an impressive goal in Arsenal's victory, and shortly after, professional darts player Eric Bristow suffered a sudden heart attack.Fans were quick to point the finger at the curse, claiming a bizarre connection between celebrity deaths and his scoring record.One person on Twitter said: “20:14 – Aaron Ramsey scores…. 21:49 – Eric Bristow is pronounced dead.

The Pink Ladies are paying tribute to Olivia Newton-John, following the news of her passing this week.

Pat Benatar is taking a stand. The rock singer, 69, shared in a new interview that she will no longer be performing her hit song, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot," on her current tour with husband Neil Giraldo. "If we don’t play them, you’ll give us (a hard time)," she told USA Today.

USA Today. "And I'm like, I'm sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I'm not singing it."Although the song doesn't encourage gunplay, the 69-year-old said, "You have to draw the line."An unapologetic Pat said fans can "go home and listen to [the song]" if they really want to hear it. "I can't say those words out loud with a smile on my face, I just can't.

Pat Benatar is putting her most popular song to pasture.

If you’re seeing Pat Benatar in concert this year, don’t expect her to sing the hit song “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.”

Pat Benatar is taking stand against gun violence in the U.S., most notably mass shootings, by eliminating arguably her most famous song from her setlist.In a new interview with USA Today,the rocker revealed she won't be playing Hit Me With You Best Shot while on tour as a form of protest and respect to the victims and their families.'We're not doing Hit Me With Your Best Shot and fans are having a heart attack and I'm like, I'm sorry, in deference to the victims of the families of these mass shootings, I'm not singing it,' she told the publication, adding, 'I tell them, if you want to hear the song, go home and listen to it.' Taking a stand: Pat Benatar, 69, announced she's not singing her hit song Hit Me With You Best Shot while on tour this summer as a form of protest and respect to victims of mass shootings; the rocker is seen playing live in Indiana in June 2022Released as a single off of her second studio album, Crimes of Passion (1980), the song went on to become Benatar's first Top 10 hit in the U.S.While the lyrics talk about a man who is a heart-breaker and a potential love interest who challenges him to 'takeyour best shot', Benatar's protest seems to be mainly focused on the lines in the catchy chorus. 'Hit me with your best shot - Why don't you hit me with your best shot - Hit me with your best shot - Fire away,' she defiantly sings in three parts of the song.'[The title] is tongue in cheek, but you have to draw the line.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticOn her current tour, impending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Pat Benatar is singing what she calls “the holy 14 — songs that if we don’t play them,” the audience will rebel. But not among those 14, surprisingly, is one of her best-known hits, “Hit Me With Your Best Shot.” And Benatar allows that she has gotten some fan pushback on that, but she’s not giving in.Her reason for dropping it from the show? Any possible literal connotations of the metaphoric lyrics in the strictly-for-fun classic rock tune, which she feels are inappropriate to sing in public in a time of multiple mass shootings.“We’re not doing ‘Hit Me With Your Best shot,’ and fans are having a heart attack,” she said in a new interview with USA Today.