Frankie Valli's brother has announced the 92-year-old Four Seasons legend is retiring from music, ending a six-decade career after his farewell tour was scrapped over undisclosed health problems. Bobby Valli broke the news on Facebook, calling his brother "an icon, a living legend" and confirming what months of canceled shows had already suggested. Frankie Valli, […] The post Frankie Valli retires at 92 after farewell tour collapses over health concerns appeared first on American Almanac .
Frankie Valli's brother has announced the 92-year-old Four Seasons legend is retiring from music, ending a six-decade career after his farewell tour was scrapped over undisclosed health problems. Bobby Valli broke the news on Facebook, calling his brother "an icon, a living legend" and confirming what months of canceled shows had already suggested. Frankie Valli, the only original Four Seasons member still performing, will not return to the stage. The retirement caps a troubled stretch for the singer. His farewell tour, "The Last Encores," launched in October 2023 and was originally scheduled to run through April 2026. But Valli pulled the plug on all remaining dates earlier this year, citing health concerns. AP News reported that eight…Open
Actor Neil Patrick Harris is opening up about the pressure campaign that pushed him to publicly come out as gay nearly two decades ago, and the role celebrity gossip bloggers played in making the decision for him. Harris, now 53 and a father of two, told the "Great Company with Jamie Laing" podcast that his […] The post Neil Patrick Harris says gossip bloggers forced his hand on coming out in 2006 appeared first on American Almanac .
Actor Neil Patrick Harris is opening up about the pressure campaign that pushed him to publicly come out as gay nearly two decades ago, and the role celebrity gossip bloggers played in making the decision for him. Harris, now 53 and a father of two, told the "Great Company with Jamie Laing" podcast that his 2006 statement to People magazine was less a personal milestone than an act of damage control. Bloggers at the time were running blind-item guessing games about closeted actors, and Harris said he feared becoming the next name dragged into the open against his will. The interview, first reported by USA Today , offers a blunt look at how the celebrity media ecosystem of the mid-2000s treated private lives as public property, and how…Open
Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dismissed Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy's memoir allegation that she and her former co-host once planned to fabricate a sexual harassment claim, but offered no alternative account of what actually happened. Cooper, 31, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday and fielded questions about the explosive passage in Portnoy's […] The post Alex Cooper brushes off Dave Portnoy's claim that she threatened a fake harassment accusation to break her contract appeared first on American Almanac .
Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper dismissed Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy's memoir allegation that she and her former co-host once planned to fabricate a sexual harassment claim, but offered no alternative account of what actually happened. Cooper, 31, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box on Wednesday and fielded questions about the explosive passage in Portnoy's book Cancel Me If You Can, published earlier this year by Gallery Books. She acknowledged she had seen the claims circulating online but said she had not read the memoir itself. Her response amounted to a flat denial with no details attached. Portnoy, 49, wrote that during heated 2020 contract negotiations, Cooper told him she and co-host Sofia Franklyn had "a plan to say they…Open
DNC Chair Ken Martin responds to allegations that he threw a phone at a junior aide’s desk in a heated moment as the organization faces money and leadership struggles ahead of the midterms.
This week on “Clock It,” strategist and pollster Terrance Woodbury joins Symone and Eugene with a prediction that a revolution sparked by young voters is coming, and it will be radical in a way that will make President Trump, Congress and some Americans uncomfortable. “Young people, who feel like voting doesn't make the kind of changes that our parents made...are now being presented with an option that is offering a radical change, that is saying these entire systems can be remade and reformed,” Woodbury says. Visit ms.now/clockit to watch the full episodes of Clock It.
State of the Union: The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament said Israel was waging an “ongoing war of extermination” in his country’s south. The post Iran War Day 169: Trump Claims Hormuz Will Become U.S. Territory ‘Pretty Soon’ appeared first on The American Conservative .
President Donald Trump said Friday that “pretty soon” he “will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.” Responding to Trump, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister wrote on X Saturday that “the Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian; this strait will only be closed and opened under Iran’s command, and as long as you do not accept the reality of defeat and cease your fanciful delusions, Iran will continue to enforce the blockade.” Iran attacked a tanker owned by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, UAE news agency WAM reported. On Friday, Trump dismissed concerns about the USS Abraham Lincoln following press reports of serious morale…Open
New York GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman joined “Saturday Report” to discuss law enforcement, border security and crime policy across the state, including President Trump’s recent Nassau County visit, retail crime and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s order to stop county-level ICE cooperation agreements.
