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Cam Newton has responded to the viral video that surfaced on social media over the weekend, which shows a teenager at his youth camp troll him. In the video, the free-agent quarterback asks to speak with the player’s father, an action Newton defended in his response on Instagram, Sunday. 

Newton writes in the caption:

I see there are ALOT of things festering out there that I see have took place over the weekend…. TO THE NATURAL EYE, you see me asking the young man “WHERE IS YOUR DAD AT?” but to me, talking to a “child” with everyone looking does me NO good!! So instead of speaking or going back and forth with a CHILD, I wanted to have a man to man conversation with his father!!

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The former MVP goes on to explain that he’s been running the camp for 11 years and has had a positive impact on countless players’ lives and careers throughout the last decade.

Newton, who played with the New England Patriots last season, has not been resigned by the team, but there are plenty of other organizations in need of a quarterback if the Pats decide to move on this offseason.

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Ne-Yo has revealed that he and his wife, Crystal Smith, are expecting a new child, just one day after their anniversary. The couple married in 2016 and currently share two children.

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“Overjoyed to announce… the family is expanding,” Ne-Yo wrote on Instagram on Sunday (Feb. 21). “You ready baby? Let’s go!” The caption included a short video of the couple embracing in front of a mirror.

“This is why I love you,” Smith wrote on her account.

Saturday, Ne-Yo and Smith celebrated their anniversary.

“Today marks 6 years of marriage,” Ne-Yo said on Instagram. “It has been a bumpy beautiful, tragically terrific ride full of twists n’ turns, up’s n’ down’s…and I wouldn’t have it any other way. We’ve grown so much. With the understanding that we’ve still got some growing to do of course, I have to acknowledge how far we’ve come. I think once we both realized that marriage isn’t ownership…but partnership, we found our tempo, our melody. And now we’ve become a beautiful harmony. I pray we sing this song forever.

“You fell in love with a songwriter, so the words come easy and can be mistaken for pacification. But I love you like lungs love oxygen. So I’m gonna SHOW YOU as often as humanly possible.”

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DaBaby has come under fire in the public eye for apparently dissing YouTuber Jojo Siwa in a new remix to “Beat Box,” which he previewed on Instagram Live. Fellow YouTubers Nikita Dragun and James Charles came to Siwa’s defense on Twitter, Sunday night.

“Turn me up, n***as gon’ see why/N***a, you a bitch, JoJo Siwa (Bitch),” DaBaby raps on the track, which is drawing criticism.

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Dragun responded on Twitter: “DaBaby don’t play with my girl Jojo Siwa. Put some respect on her name little boy.”

DaBaby debuted the new bars on Friday, with a music video, in which he holds up a photo of Siwa as he raps the lyric.

“Can someone please explain why da baby [sic] is dissing Jojo Siwa when she’s 12 years younger, 10 times richer, and 2 inches taller than him,” James Charles tweeted.

From there, Charles was involved in a back and forth in the tweet’s replies.

“Stay out black ppl business love we got this one,” one user wrote.

“A grown ass man is dissing a teenage girl for literally no reason this has nothing to do with race,” Charles responded.

Check out the music video for DaBaby’s “Beat Box” remix below.

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Margaret Qualley, who dated Shia LaBeouf for a short period, has thanked FKA Twigs for speaking out about the actor’s allegedly abusive behavior. Speaking with Elle for a new cover story, Twigs further detailed her time dating LaBeouf and admitted she was “lucky” to have survived her relationship.

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“Thank you,” Qualley captioned a picture of the magazine cover on Instagram.

LaBeouf has denied the allegations that have been leveled against him by Twigs, Sia, and other exes who have spoken out against him. It has recently been reported that the actor is in an inpatient program.

Twigs, reflecting on her time with LaBeouf, told Elle she is taking her life back: “I think it’s luck. I honestly wish I could say that I found some strength and I saw this light. I wish I could say, ‘[It is] a testament to my strong character,’ or ‘It’s the way my mother raised me.’ It’s none of that. It’s pure luck that I’m not in that situation anymore. It’s very fresh, for me, obviously. I know [this journey] is not going to be perfect. But I hope if I can make little steps, and people can see me taking my life back, it will inspire them.”

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Gina Carano of The Mandalorian fame, says that despite her tumultuous exit from the show, she does not have an issue with everyone at Disney. Carano recalls Pedro Pascal as being a friend who she adored.  Disney parted ways with Carano after she compared modern-day conservatives with the Jewish people during the Holocaust, as well as numerous other controversial posts on social media.

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“I adore Pedro. I adore him. I know he’s said and done some hurtful things. I don’t think posting anybody’s number on social media is okay, ” she told Ben Shapiro of The Daily Wire, in reference to Pascal posting Senator Ted Cruz’s office phone number on Twitter in early January.

She continued: “But we had an agreement after we realized we were a little bit politically different. We had an agreement that, first and foremost, you’re a human being. And you’re my friend first.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Carano claims that Disney is guilty of “bullying” other conservatives: “I’ve been through so much, and I’ve seen so much now, clearly, of the bullying that’s been taking place, and I saw it before. I’m not the only one that’s ever been bullied by this company, and I know that so deeply. I could share a story which would turn things around in the media but I can’t because it would sell out a friend…Everyone is afraid of losing their job.”

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Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr says Draymond Green “crossed the line,” following his ejection in the final moments of the team’s 102-100 loss to the Charlotte Hornets. Green reportedly shouted profanity at an official and was assessed his second technical foul of the game, resulting in an automatic ejection.

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“He crossed the line,” Kerr said of Green, after the game. “That’s the main thing. We love his passion and his energy. We would not be the team we are without him, but that doesn’t give him license to cross that line, and he knows that.”

With the Warriors up 100-98, and just over nine seconds remaining in the game, Gordon Hayward and Green both fought for control of the ball and were tied up, but rather than resulting in a jump ball, officials awarded the Hornets a timeout.

“His first technical was assessed when he directed profanity at his opponent,” crew chief Marc Davis said, explaining Green’s ejection. “He was assessed his first technical foul for verbally taunting an opponent. He then proceeded to direct screaming profanity at a game official and received his [second] technical foul and was ejected as per rule.”

The Warriors are now 16-15 and in 8th place in the Western Conference standings.

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