Trending breaks down the top viral headlines including Twitter banning Kathy Griffin after she impersonated Elon Musk and Jimmy Kimmel returning to host the next Academy Awards.


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Trending: Twitter Suspends Kathy Griffin, Celebs Pay Tribute to Aaron Carter, & Jimmy Kimmel Returning As Oscars Host

and it seems Elon musk is all for free speech unless you make fun of him and we need to talk about it comedian Kathy griffin's twitter account was permanently suspended over the weekend after she changed her handle, not her user name to Elon musk and proceeded to tweet a few less than flattering things soon after musk tweeted that accounts engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying their parody account will be permanently suspended basically it seems that if you decided to change your twitter handle to Elon musk at any point in the last few days you probably woke up to a suspended account. I already don't love the direction this is going in. I want to try it now, I was gonna say yes Shannon Lanier hashtag Elon musk guy over here. You know, it's clear we have a medical term for this is called a dumpster fire is basically what this is essentially at this point when Kathy griffin's or getting the donald trump treatment already at this particular point and she's been permanently banned. This kind of shows sort of this fine line that musk is walking when he wants free speech. But if you criticize him whatsoever, you're immediately pulled off of the platform, which by the way, leads to our next story, not everybody's happy that Elon musk has taken over twitter notable names like Shonda Rhimes and Sarah Burrell's left the site shortly after he acquired the social platform so it's time to play everybody's favorite game who's leading twitter today and today's winner gigi Hadid the supermodel calling the platform a quote cesspool of hate and bigotry, she said she deactivated her twitter account friday night to say she can't stay on a platform that will do more harm than good, What do you think of this sham? I'm so happy that they're standing up for what they believe in and saying, we're not gonna stand for this and this treatment and what's to come if this is only the beginning and it's already this messy they're out and I'm happy for them matter of days, I think they're just gonna be more celebs adding their names to this list. I think so too, when this gets to a larger conversation, is there another platform that maybe they go to? Are they all gonna be just instagram and Tiktok based now after this, where do celebrities go if they feel like they're not safe on a platform, socialism? Alright, where there is also some sad news that we're gonna have to talk about today unfortunately erin carter, the singer and younger brother of Backstreet boy, Nick carter died over the weekend and he was 34 years old carter first found fame with songs like I want candy and crush on you and was also known for his roles on tv shows like Seventh Heaven and Lizzie McGuire Hilary, Duff reacted to the loss of her one time boyfriend writing, I'm deeply sorry that life was so hard for you and that you had to struggle in front of the whole world, you had a charm that was absolutely effervescent boy did my teenage self love you deeply. Yeah, and his brother nick carter posting on instagram, my heart has been broken. God please take care of my baby brother carter went on to say sometimes we want to blame someone or something for a loss. But the truth is that addiction and mental illness, it's the real villain here. I will miss my brother more than anyone will ever know. The Backstreet boys paused their show in London sunday night to pay tribute to Aaron take a listen tonight we got because we lost one of our family members yesterday and we just wanted to find a moment in our show to recognize him and you've seen that carter, they're basically holding back tears in that situation. I mean that's awful. Just have to do that when something like this has happened in your family and and we know Aaron has struggled with mental with substance abuse and mental health problems in the past as well here. Yeah, I don't know how he was able to even perform at all going through all that they're going through but our thoughts and prayers definitely go out to the family Alright, moving on to this story. Next year's Oscars will have a familiar face, hosting jimmy Kimble is set to host the 95th annual Academy Awards and it will mark the late night host third time serving as emcee for Hollywood's biggest night Kimmel previously led the show in both 2017 and 2018 and by the way, the 2017 ceremony of course featured the famous La La Land and moonlight best picture mix up for moonlight actually won don't get in 2018. It was when they decided they were gonna stop having hosts after that. So at this point it's actually good news that he's now hosting. He actually said, which maybe there's some truth in this uh everybody else was asked and nobody wanted this. So that's why he got the position. But it makes sense because they have asked other people mainly like chris rock got there to host it and a lot of people have turned it down. I like Kimmel. I do, but this does not excite me at all. This is the problem that we have here is you're right. It's like they're going back to something we're familiar with. I don't know if this saves the issue that we talked about all the time, which is how do you save the Oscars and lower every, every year, I'll tell you how we save it. Jimmy Kimmel News got us decided thinking about the fact that maybe we should produce the Oscars put on our hats and find out who we want to host the Oscars. My pick would be the hosting Duro Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis. This blackish Oscars, I love this. I mean look, I mean like they are not doing blackish anymore. They got time. Chemistry. That's amazing chemistry and they're both so funny. So I've been listening to taylor swift all weekend guys obsessed with can't stop talking about my life is taylor swift right now. I can't get enough. Like she's been in films before. Not a lot. You have done well, but as long as she sings that, I'm cool. Okay, so if my pick with somebody other than jimmy, Kimmel my pick with somebody that apparently was asked to do it and it would be chris rock. He would be so good because all the all the attention will be on him and will smith. What would he say to address the crowd because he hasn't been to the Oscars since the infamous slap moment. I feel like there's no better way to get people and eyeballs to watch this and have chris rock hosted. You could probably demand double and they would still say, I listen, if you're desperate like the Oscars to get, why not? Hey, blank check to chris rock and say whatever you want to watch. Let's turn now to the box office another weekend with basically no new releases meant another weekend with Black Adam at number one. These, these latest superhero film starring Dwayne johnson made 18.5 million. Its third weekend. The film has now ranked and raked in 319 million globally. Things will pick up this weekend as marvel's black panther Wakanda forever finally arrives expert, we are predicting an opening weekend between 175 million and 200 million. You've already seen it. Thanks to you. I'm gonna go see it tonight. You're gonna see this 100%. I'm gonna be seeing it. And again, that's the expectation is it's gonna go gangbusters. If anything, I've seen, some analysts say that 100 and 75 million might even be a low number for this weekend, which is gonna be interesting. And my only thing that upsets me is that avatar comes out in december because otherwise I think black panther would have just stayed until the new year at the top of the box office. So as we told you guys on friday black and it was the only film in a very bad month of october for the box office that broke $100 million. It costs $195 million to make. So we might actually be going out on a lost money here, which is just insane to think about. All right now, friends, time to head to the trailer park. This is where we give you the first look at some of the newest shows and movies out there. Glass onion and knives out mystery is now peeling back the layers on a new murder case and Edward Norton is gathering his friends in Greece for a game of his own Take a look, I've invited you all to my island because tonight a murder will be committed my murder. Once you're dead, will we still be able to talk to you? Yeah, I'm not playing dead the whole weekend dude, this is truly delightful. Ah and this sequel is star studded, daniel, craig, kate Hudson, Janelle Monet, just about everybody else in Hollywood and don't forget netflix now owns the rights to this franchise and they're doing something very different for netflix. They are having it in theaters for a one week only run before thing goes to the streamer. Netflix has never done that for one of their big movies. I wonder this will bring people to the theater. The first one did so good. I think it's a genius idea because now you get the box office money and you get streaming money, we'll see what happens. Well, the rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted its 2022 class over the weekend and inductees including Eminem who had a lot of people to think and made sure to mention everyone and we mean everyone as part of his speech. The rapper named over 100 rappers influence his career. Yeah, spending around 3.5 minutes just to name names. The list included Tupac, the Beastie Boys, The notorious B I. G chuck, D DJ, jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince of course, the latter of course being the rapper pseudonym for Will smith and the list goes on, you can see but I kinda commend him for doing this as a rapper and only a few rappers to be inducted, hey, I stand on the shoulders of all these other people that led the way he said, he was raised by a giant group of artists as he may mentioned all of them. It's just so funny because we're so wired with award shows, basically playing somebody off of the stage where it's like, okay, you've been talking for so long here at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Like no, you keep going, you can list 100 names, it doesn't matter and three minutes is not that bad. I did laugh when I saw DJ, jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince in there, but did you know that was the first hip hop duo to win a grammy. Did you know that? I did not know that buried somewhere back there in my head and you're all doing amazing, sweetie Kris, Jenner got for 67th birthday over the weekend. Her family dressed up as various versions of the Momager kim donned blue sequence gown with a bowtie. Khloe wore a platinum blonde wig, A spitting image of her mom looked at her mom sported in 2019 Kourtney wore a pink tracksuit resembling the one Chris Warren, Ariana grande, thank U next music video and Kylie dressed up as 1989 Kris Jenner, even Kris's granddaughter North got in the action here. I love all. They all look great. They all look beautiful. They look just like Chris just that was when I look at it was like wow these are all, I mean they're they're kids, obviously they're her kids but they were spitting images of for the Kim one was incredible. How close she, you know, she loves to play dress up and have all that makeup artists to make it happen. My favorite out of all those by the way, Courtney with the video camera like you're doing great, sweetie, you're doing great. So we know now we're all gonna be for Halloween next year. We're all Kris Jenner next year. Ho ho hold up by the way guys, Martha stort, she's got some words for Mariah, Carey A. K. A. The queen of christmas, here's what she said, Mariah, you know me, I am a traditionalist with a twist and you cannot give up thanksgiving just because you don't like Turkey. I love Turkey and many, many other people love Turkey. So do not think that we're going to give up thanksgiving just because you say so, I love Turkey to Yeah, all I want for christmas is you sing are responding by saying quote, never will I give up thanksgiving, Mariah then invited Martha to her holiday dinner but then she said as you see bound there at the bottom. I would rather be invited to your thanksgiving extravaganza with snoop Dogg if he is coming at that but you know that would be amazing. But look, we were talking about this all last week, at the stroke of midnight when Halloween was over. It's now Mariah Carey holiday season. And I feel like we have skipped over thanksgiving. She actually posted another video before Halloween and then they were like, no, no, no, you can't do that. Yeah. So if we if thanksgiving is ever killed, it's because of Mariah Carey guys.