A Sunday council meeting discussing the coronavirus in Italy was briefly interrupted by Lady Gaga's newly released song "Stupid Love," which accidentally started playing from an attendee's phone.
The mishap provided a brief moment of laughter during a serious time for committee members at the transparency room of the Liguria region, located in northwest Italy. At least 23 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Liguria as of Wednesday, according to local reports.
"A council in Italy held a meeting regarding the Coronavirus, and #StupidLove accidentally started playing from someone's phone," Gaga Media, described as the "ultimate news source" for the singer, tweeted on Sunday.
"@ladagaga lightens up the day!" one user tweeted in response to the post.
An ordinance was passed on Tuesday which suspended teaching activities for schools in the region until March 8, according to the Liguria region Facebook page. The city of Genoa is located in Liguria.
At least 400 new cases were recorded in Italy in the past 36 hours, including 27 additional deaths, according to Reuters. The country has been the hardest hit in Europe with a total of 2,502 infections, the third-highest total outside of China and South Korea. At least 79 people have died from the virus in Italy.
The first person to test positive for the coronavirus in New Hampshire was recorded in person who recently made a trip to Italy, according to state health officials on Monday.
Several schools in the state are now asking students to stay home after they returned from trips to Italy during their vacation week.
"Those students that we have that have been traveling overseas, out of an abundance of caution, we are asking them to self-quarantine," Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut said on Monday, according to New Hampshire's WMUR-TV.
The CDC recommends all travelers avoid nonessential travel to Italy, while the State Department has urged Americans to reconsider travel to the country due to the virus.
"Stupid Love" was leaked in January before it was officially released on Feb. 28. It's the lead single on Lady Gaga's sixth studio album, "Chromatica."
Self-care is a trend that has been taking the world by storm. Finding ways to infuse and enhance routines and processes surrounding health and beauty has been at the forefront of conversations everywhere. More often than not the public turns to popular celebrities for inspiration, new ideas, and tips and tricks.
Kate, Duchess of Cambridge is often in headlines and the public eye. But not too long ago she was receiving a lot of attention for one her beauty routines. The public was shocked to find out Kate’s facials include such a one-of-a-kind ingredient. Take a look at what everyone is talking about.
Kate Middleton’s unique facials that are all the buzz
Kate Middleton | Tim P. Whitby/Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images
Kate is no stranger when it comes to the public scrutinizing every aspect of her life, but many are shocked to learn that Middleton is an avid fan of bee venom facials. Most people, naturally so, are inclined to shy away from the insect that is known for its stinging qualities.
However, that doesn’t seem to be the case when it comes to the health and beauty industry. The Duchess of Cambridge seems to be one of the many famous celebrities participating in this trend.
How much do Kate Middleton’s facials cost her?
Bee venom is an elusive ingredient, and it is unlikely that customers would be able to find it at a local grocery store. Believe it or not, it costs around 70,000 dollars to extract just one ounce of bee venom. Sources report that Kate pays about $325 per session to enjoy her bee venom facials.
Though it may seem pricey, Kate’s skin speaks for itself. The well-known celebrity looks stunning anytime she is photographed.
Her skin looked flawless from the photographs she shared on Instagram from her recent experience as a guest speaker on the popular podcast Happy Mum, Happy Baby. The episode that featured the duchess was a wild success. It is obvious the public and her fans are eager to listen and learn to their adored idol.
What are the benefits of bee venom facials?
There are many reasons bee venom is popping up in the beauty industry. Rather recently a clinical study was performed evaluating the role of bee venom when it comes to aging.
The science and results behind the study have been able to promote the belief that bee venom actively decreases and eliminates the number of facial wrinkles as well as the depth of the wrinkles. When it comes to getting older, age is just a number, but, nonetheless, bee venom is allowing people to take preventive action to decrease facial wrinkles.
In addition, the facials provide an added element of relaxation since bee venom is anaphylactic and calms the facial muscles. Bee venom facials have also been associated with improved circulation and breaking down cell membranes.
All of these elements allow for facial skin to enhance complexion and tighten the appearance of the skin. Though bee venom seems like an unlikely ingredient people would want on their face it continues to become more popular in the beauty industry.
Many people love to joke that a face is the money maker. Celebrities often have a financial advantage when it comes to beauty trends and how to access them. Kate isn’t the only celebrity using bee venom: Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham also love to incorporate bee venom into their beauty routines.
The Duchess of Cambridge, Paltrow, and Beckham seem to be walking testimonies to the positive effects of using bee venom. Though it can seem daunting, it may just be worth a try.
Lil Baby fell backward into music and made the most of it. Before 2016, he’d never rapped a word, but after serving a two-year prison sentence, he decided to give it a try, thanks to the prodding of Quality Control executives Coach K and Pierre “Pee” Thomas and his former classmate Young Thug, who paid him to leave his hood and go to the studio. After releasing seven projects in two years, the Atlanta artist took a year off and returns on his new album My Turn as something approaching a marquee act. The album title’s message is obvious: He is stepping into his star moment, but while his songs are pleasantly steady and well-balanced, he still has yet to really command attention on his own.
Lil Baby is like the inverse of Young Thug. Where Thug is explosively unpredictable, Baby is reliably inert. His mellow, lilting raps have poise, but when they lock into a groove they lose all momentum. There are songs called “Solid” and “Consistent” here, and that tells you almost everything you need to know. The album is only saved by his minor improvement as a songwriter and lyricist. He is ready to embrace his notoriety, albeit cautiously. “I never call myself a G.O.A.T., I leave that love to the people,” he hedges on “Emotionally Scarred,” a claim that seems to contradict the album’s baby goat-covered artwork.
Much of My Turn concerns the familiar calls of street life and the uncertainty that comes with pursuing a rap dream at full tilt. “They want me catch a murder, I ain’t goin’ back,” he vows on “Commercial.” Baby keeps glimpsing the world he left behind in his periphery, and his most evocative writing finds him in between worlds; on “Same Thing,” he goes plain jane because the public associates bling with thugs, and on “Gang Signs” he returns home as a philanthropist and local legend. He’s trying to tell a story here, but he’s just not much of a storyteller—his bars keep the narrative going, but he doesn’t offer enough arresting imagery to make his scenes come to life.
His supporting cast doesn’t do him any favors. Exchanges with Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert, and Future can feel like adjusting from blurriness to the clarity of corrective lenses. Uzi is reading horoscopes on long flights and trying to spend enough money to bring Kobe Bryant back to life on “Commercial.” Baby loses a shop-off to the superior showman Future on “Live Off My Closet.” Even Baby’s best bar on “We Should” (“My Rolls Royce in the projects, they look at me like I’m God”) isn’t enough to outshine Thug’s Technicolor absurdity. It isn’t that Baby underperforms in any of these duets; on the contrary, he gives everything he has. But he doesn’t really have any charisma, or flavor, or personality.
Sonically, the album has the same architects as his last two solo projects: in-house QC producer Quay Global, Tay Keith, and Wheezy. There’s additional production from Murda Beatz, DJ Paul, and Buddah Bless, most up to their usual tricks. The primary new contributor is recent Quality Control signee Twysted Genius, but he doesn’t have anything fresh to offer. With nine beats between them, Quay and Twysted Genius build out the bulk of the album, and they often sound like they’re working the same sample packs of synths, keys, hi-hats, and 808. Outside of the always-surprising Tay Keith (“Same Thing, “Commercial”), the refreshing DJ Paul (“Gang Signs”), and a soundtrack holdover (Queen & Slim’s Hit-Boy-produced “Catch the Sun”), the producers usually encourage Baby to color inside the lines.
My Turn gets the most out of Lil Baby when he plays up the stakes, or as he puts it on “Sum 2 Prove”: “They don’t wan’ see us on TV unless it’s the news/I got somethin' to prove/Yeah, I’m young, but got somethin’ to lose.” “Hurtin” lingers in the losses he’s suffered but doesn’t succumb to them. “I’ve been bustin’ on that glizzy ever since I had got robbed/I done really beat the odds,” he realizes. On “Forgot That,” his song with his 4 Pockets Full signee Rylo Rodriguez, the raps come tumbling out of him, as he attempts to illustrate the work ethic he raps about through sheer exertion. It’s that same understated diligence that has fueled his star turn. But the album is all work and no inspiration.
Peter Weber’s journey to find love on The Bachelor is soon coming to a close. Season 24 has been quite the rollercoaster of emotion, and that includes the infamous “Women Tell All” episode. But this season’s contestant reunion wasn’t just about the petty drama between cast members. Former Bachelorette lead Rachel Lindsay joined the “WTA” episode to talk with Bachelor host Chris Harrison about a serious topic: online bullying. Lindsay and Pilot Pete’s contestants discussed how brutal it can be, especially for women of color.
Former contestant on ‘The Bachelor’ Rachel Lindsay appears before the season 24 finale to talk about online harassment and racism
Chris Harrison and Rachel Lindsay on the “Women Tell All” episode of The Bachelor | Kelsey McNeal via Getty Images
When Lindsay joined Harrison onstage at season 24’s “Women Tell All,” the vibe of the episode turned suddenly serious.
“I’m never at a loss of words, or opinions as we know, but I’m really nervous right now,” Lindsay said. She explained that the issue at hand was something everyone on that stage has dealt with: online bullying, or as she called it, “hate.”
“It’s so unfortunate because people have become so comfortable being mean,” Lindsay lamented. “And meaner than ever on social media.” She also talked about why she wanted to bring it up within the context of a Bachelor episode.
“By not talking about it, I think people feel empowered that they can continue to say certain things to us,” Lindsay said. “If we’re ever going to fix this problem, we have to acknowledge the problem.” Many of the Bachelor contestants nodded along as the reality TV personality spoke.
Lindsay said that upon being offered The Bachelorette, she knew she would face criticism. But, she says: “I wanted to pave the way for women who look like me who hadn’t been represented in this role on the show.” The former bachelorette wasn’t too pleased with the results of her season.
“Sometimes I feel like my efforts are in vain because it seems to just be getting so much worse,” Lindsay explained.
Lindsay and ‘The Bachelor’ 2020 contestants opened up about hate on ‘Women Tell All’ in the age of internet trolls
“You have no idea what it is,” Lindsay told the audience about online harassment. “And the only way I can actually make you feel it is for you to see it.” She argued that best way to drive the point home was to read out actual messages.
Lindsay struggled to get through the vicious comments. Many of the contestants from Weber’s season started to cry as Lindsay read them aloud.
“I’m like, shaking as I’m reading this,” Lindsay said. She also acknowledged how painful it might be to go through these awful messages.
Peter Weber’s contestants from TheBachelor Season 24 on “The Women Tell All” episode | Kelsey McNeal via Getty Images
“I know it’s uncomfortable for you to see,” Lindsay told the audience. “Just imagine how uncomfortable it is to get this in your comments and your DMs every day, every week, every month.”
It’s especially cruel, she pointed out, to hate these contestants for things the women can’t control–like the color of their skin.
Afterwards, several of the women, especially the women of color in Pilot Pete’s season of The Bachelor, talked about their painful experiences online.
Tammy Kay Ly said on the episode that she got death threats to her work email. Alexa Caves explained how she got attacked for having natural hair on the show.
Sydney Hightower talked about having to be strong: “because if you don’t, you’re gonna fall apart.” Hightower spoke at length on Weber’s season about the racist bullying she faced growing up in Alabama.
“The wounds from your past are never fully closed,” she said.
Harrison defined these comments not as “criticism,” but as “true hate.”
The ‘Bachelorette’ star shared more about the momentous night on Instagram
Lindsay posted a picture of herself from the Bachelor’s “Women Tell All” episode to Instagram, along with a powerful, emoji-peppered caption.
“Tonight is Women Tell All but it’s also much more than that because we use our platforms for something bigger than us,” Lindsay wrote. “Tonight, we stop ignoring a problem and start acknowledging it.”
The former Bachelorette acknowledged that it was not easy to make this statement on the episode. She described the night as “hard,” “emotional,” and “necessary.”
Rachel Lindsay | Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
“Tonight, we challenge you to do and be better,” Lindsay wrote in the caption. “I was proud to be part of that conversation.”
Bachelor Nation responded with massive support for Rachel Lindsay’s message on ‘Women Tell All’
Demi Burnett, a contestant on Colton Underwood’s season and self-crowned queen of Paradisetweeted:
Rachel’s message about online bullying is something to take seriously. It’s one thing to joke around about contestant behavior, however, it is not okay to bully and harass people based off of the way they were born. Listen to her.
Another former star of The Bachelorette, Becca Kufrin, also lifted up Lindsay’s voice.
“Thank you for bringing this to the forefront again,” Kufrin wrote on her Instagram story. “Your voice (and all women’s) is strong and so valued.”
It’s unfortunate, but it would probably be better to be reminded every year of the messages contestants get on #TheBachelor I’ve personally been told to kill myself well over 100x and I can only imagine I’m on the smaller end of that list. None of that should ever happen.
Peth’s fellow Bachelor in Paradise contestant Chris Bukowski replied, “same and I agree.” He continued:
I’d love to share some of the death threats I’ve received on social media along with a death threat letter that was sent to my parents house a few years back. People need to see it to believe it.
While the episode included the usual drama we’re used to seeing this season, it also had a moment of seriousness when Peter Weber’s contestants took the time to share their experiences with online hate and bullying.
The Bachelor: The Women Tell All | Kelsey McNeal via Getty Images
While many fans applauded the women for opening up about this harsh reality, others called this segment hypocritical — claiming the women themselves are the real bullies.
Bachelor Nation wants to put an end to online hate
Many celebrities have been open about their experiences with hateful social media comments, but members of Bachelor Nation know first hand just how hurtful people’s words can be.
On March 2, former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay led an emotional segment during the Women Tell All episode where she opened about this issue with the contestants from Weber’s season.
During the emotional sit-down, Lindsay read some comments she called “graphic, explicit, and shocking” that have been sent to a few of the women.
Since the messages were extremely upsetting, we’re not going to rewrite them, but they did include name-calling, trolls telling the women to kill themselves, threats, even racial slurs.
After Lindsay read through the comments, the women broke down in tears as they shared how much these remarks have affected them and pleaded with trolls to stop spreading negativity.
Even the women who didn’t open up about online bullying offered support to those who did while onstage.
Though the conversation was hard to watch, it was something that needed to happen — not only to raise awareness but to stand in solidarity with those who’ve dealt with online hate.
Since this was an unconventional WTA episode, of course, fans were quick to share their reactions to this emotional segment on Twitter.
While many fans loved that the show took time to address the hate, others were quick to point out that online trolls aren’t the only ones guilty of bullying.
Fans are calling the women hypocritical
Although this segment pulled at many people’s heartstrings, it didn’t have the same effect on some Twitter users.
During the emotional moment, many fans took to Twitter to call out the women for wanted to put a stop to bullying even though they weren’t the nicest to each other throughout the season.
Since the contestants were always arguing and putting each other down, fans felt that it was hypocritical of the women — who spent the beginning of the special arguing over past drama with each other — to all of a sudden be against the spreading of negativity.
“Kind of hypocritical for Sydney and Tammy to cry about being bullied online when they’ve legit bullied other women on the show,” one fan tweeted.
“These girls crying about the bullying they are receiving online when 70% of them have been the biggest bullies and meanest group of girls I’ve ever seen on this show has left me baffled” another fan wrote.
“They’re really having an anti-bullying PSA on a show that thrives on girls bullying each other??,” someone else mentioned.
Some even feel as though the women should have been put on the spot for verbally attacking each other multiple times this season.
“Obviously not advocating for internet bullying, but why isn’t anyone calling out these girls for the abhorrent behavior and bullying they showed to one another? Sydney crying about being a role model while attacking multiple girls with her clique, so hypocritical,” one person questioned.
Although some people considered this segment to be hypocritical, it still shed light on the disturbing reality many people live in.
Online bullying continues to be a problem, but now that Bachelor Nation has brought attention to this issue, hopefully, this behavior will finally start to subside.
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One of America's most famous news anchors has abruptly quit days after a female guest on his show alleged he made inappropriate remarks.
Chris Matthews, a veteran host at liberal cable channel MSNBC, said Monday's Hardball show was his last.
Last month he apologised after likening a Democratic presidential contender's victory to the Nazi invasion of Europe.
Once a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, Mr Matthews launched his political talk show in 1997.
The 74-year-old said on Monday that "compliments on a woman's appearance that some men, including me, might have incorrectly thought were OK were never OK.
"Not then, and certainly not today, and for making such comments in the past, I'm sorry."
Mr Matthews, who underwent prostate surgery last year, said he came to his decision after talks with MSNBC.
Last Friday a journalist, Laura Bassett, wrote a first-person cover story for GQ magazine in which she alleged Chris Matthews had made remarks that made her uncomfortable when she was a guest on his show back in 2016.
She wrote that in the make-up room before the show, Mr Matthews looked at her and said: "Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?"
Ms Bassett wrote: "When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the make-up artist. 'Keep putting makeup on her, I'll fall in love with her.'
"Another time, he stood between me and the mirror and complimented the red dress I was wearing for the segment. 'You going out tonight?' he asked."
It was not the first time Mr Matthews had been accused of making inappropriate comments about women.
In 2016, a hot mic picked up his remarks about Melania Trump as she took to the stage at a rally for her husband in Indiana.
The MSNBC host was heard saying of the former model: "Did you see her walk? Runway walk. My God, is that good!"
In 2011, Mr Matthews raised eyebrows for saying that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin "could not be hotter as a candidate".
Last month, Mr Matthews was hosting the cable network's coverage of left-wing Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders' victory in the Nevada caucuses when he said: "I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940.
"And the general calls up Churchill and says, 'It's over,' and Churchill says, 'How can it be? You got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?' He said, 'It's over.'"
Supporters of Mr Sanders, a Jewish candidate whose family members were murdered in the Holocaust, said the analogy was deeply offensive.
Mr Matthews went on his show two days later to apologise to Mr Sanders and promised he would "strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion".
But last Friday, the TV host caused further embarrassment when he confused the identities of two black men, Senator Tim Scott and a South Carolina Senate candidate, Jaime Harrison.
