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Vivica A. Fox recalled meeting former President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, while on Celebrity Apprentice, and says that she made a racist comment towards her. Fox discussed the incident with Andy Cohen in his series For Real: The Story of Reality TV.

“I’ll never forget that when I did Celebrity Apprentice and Ivanka Trump, she said, ‘Wow, you speak very well,’” the Empire star recalled.

“No, Andy. I hate to say it,” Fox continued. “I don’t think she knew at the time that she was insulting us. I really think that she thought she was complimenting us. That it was like, ‘Oh, wow, you guys are intelligent.’”

“I don’t think she knows now,” responded Cohen.

He added: “Think of the layers and layers of white people that saw a cut of that show and aired it and they said, ‘Oh, this is great.’”

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Fox’s appearance on Celebrity Apprentice came in 2015, one year prior to Trump’s Presidential election.

Earlier this week, Fox made headlines when she criticized Khloé Kardashian for being a doormat for Tristan Thompson.

“It’s time for Khloé to stop being a damn doormat for Tristan,” said Vivica. “First of all, you are a Kardashian, girl. I’m sure it’s plenty of brothas lining up. They all just wanna take a trip, you know what I mean… At this point, do you really want this kind of man to be a parental father figure to your children? The fact that he can’t even respect mama?”

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Experts expect a large Chinese rocket to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere, at some point this weekend, as it is spiraling out of control towards the planet. The Long March 5B rocket measures 100 feet tall and weighs 22 tons; however, much of the debris will likely burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

“The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small — not negligible, it could happen — but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis,” Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN this week.

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China’s rocket is a part of a growing trend towards more and more space debris becoming a concern. There are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris orbiting Earth, most of which burn up in the atmosphere.

“We expect it to reenter sometime between the eighth and 10th of May. And in that two-day period, it goes around the world 30 times,” McDowell continued. “The thing is traveling at like 18,000 miles an hour. And so if you’re an hour out at guessing when it comes down, you’re 18,000 miles out in saying where.”

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Dave Bautista says that Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 will most likely be his last appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the character, Drax. Bautista appeared in numerous Marvel films as Drax including Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, on top of the previous Guardians films.

“I don’t know what the script of the third film is, to be honest with you,” Bautista told Digital Spy in a recent interview. “There was a script years ago that obviously is going to have to change because the whole direction of the Marvel universe has changed.”

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The former wrestler added that there were talks of a spinoff film with Drax, but it’s gone silent for some time:

There were talks for a while about a Drax and Mantis film … It was really because it was James Gunn’s idea. He really wanted to do a Drax and Mantis film. He laid it out to me. I thought it was such a brilliant idea, but I haven’t heard any follow-up from the studio. I don’t think they’re very interested, or it doesn’t fit into the way they have things mapped out. But other than that, no. I mean, as far as my obligations, I’ve got Guardians 3, and that’s probably going to be the end of Drax.

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is scheduled to release on May 23, 2023.

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Mariah Carey clapped back at RNB Radar CEO Tommy Banks on Twitter, Friday, after Banks shared a snippet of Baltimore rapper YTK’s new track “Let It Off,” which samples Carey’s 2005 song “Shake It Off.” 

“Mariah Carey has 24 hours to respond,” Banks captioned the one-minute video.

“How about y’all have 24 hours to respond to my lawyers,” Carey tweeted in response.

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After the post went viral, Banks clarified that Carey was just joking and shared a screenshot of a DM with Questlove about clearing the sample.

“Hey I want to reiterate that Mariah was joking, please stop saying rude s— to her,” Banks captioned the screenshot. “She told that same joke to Quest Love hours before she responded to the tweet and put us in contact with the people who can help us clear it! so it’s not a problem on her end.”

Questlove tweeted about the incident saying that it reminded him of a situation with Erykah Badu and her song “Gone Baby, Don’t Be Long.”

“I’m DYIN,” Questlove wrote. “I helped w the Mariah sample cause 11 years ago we were in the same situation in which Erykah has 24 hours to clear ‘Gone Baby Don’t Be Long’ w Paul McCartney & Lenny Kravitz saw the tweet & hit up Stella to hit her pops & the song was saved!”

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Grimes says that she will be appearing in tonight’s polarizing episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by her partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

“Tune into SNL tonight to watch me try acting!” the Miss Anthropocene singer wrote on Instagram, Saturday.

She added that her phone thought she was referencing the cryptocurrency Ethereum while writing the post: “Wow my auto dictation was on while I was talking to friend trying to write this post, so this is what my phone thinks I said ‘SNL but I think the toilet and Ethereum are not jumping to buy its not a long-term thing like it might be a couple like a year or something before they get bigger butt I would do it I don’t know which one yeah I think a pretty good bet.'”

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As for what to expect on tonight’s episode, Musk posed some sketch ideas on Twitter, last week. Among them included “Woke James Bond,” “Baby Shark Tank,” and more.

Ahead of Musk’s appearance, Dogecoin, the cryptocurrency he has promoted in recent months, has rocketed up to $0.75. He also teased on Twitter that he could reference Dogecoin on the show, which many have speculated will affect the price.

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Golden State Warriors guard Damion Lee says he tested positive for COVID-19, despite being fully vaccinated since March. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that approximately 6,000 have also tested positive after receiving the vaccine.

Lee was administered his single shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on March 22nd and hasn’t played for the Warriors since April 19.

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“I did test positive for COVID about two weeks ago,” Lee told reporters before Thursday night’s 118-97 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder, according to ESPN. “I did get the vaccine the middle, end of March, but essentially this was just a rare breakthrough case. … Right now, there’s no timeline in the immediate future for me coming back and playing.”

Lee also described his symptoms by reading off a list of notes he had compiled over the last two weeks: “I had headache, chills, sneezing, congestion, soreness, body aches. It felt like I was hit by a car. Like hit by two cars at once every step I took. It hurt, it was pain, soreness. It felt like there was a weight on my chest for a couple of days, like it was just hard to breathe.”

Lee says he is still experiencing some symptoms but is on the mend.

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The Obamas’ beloved family dog, Bo, has died after a battle with cancer, the family announced on social media, Saturday.

“This afternoon was a difficult one for our family. We said goodbye to our best friend —our dog, Bo — after a battle with cancer,” former first lady Michelle Obama said in a statement posted on her Twitter page.

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Bo was introduced to the world shortly after the Obamas moved into the White House in 2008 after former President Barack Obama’s first successful campaign. Bo was a male Portuguese Water Dog and a gift from Sen. Ted Kennedy and his wife, Victoria.

The former President reflected on the passing of the family dog on Twitter, Saturday:

He tolerated all the fuss that came with being in the White House, had a big bark but no bite, loved to jump in the pool in the summer, was unflappable with children, lived for scraps around the dinner table, and had great hair. He was exactly what we needed and more than we ever expected. We will miss him dearly.

The Obama family owns another Portuguese Water Dog, a female named Sunny. Michelle Obama first introduced her to the public in 2013.

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