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Yahoo
13 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Lana Del Rey and Addison Rae Duet ‘Diet Pepsi' in London
Lana Del Rey invited Addison Rae to the stage during her U.K. and Ireland stadium tour on Thursday. The pair sang Rae's nostalgic 'Diet Pepsi,' her first official release last year on Columbia Records. The duo also sang '57.5,' the Spotify-featuring and unreleased song Del Rey debuted at Stagecoach in April. Rae is also set to join the Honeymoon headliner during the second night of her stop at London's Wembley Stadium on Friday. More from Rolling Stone Addison Rae's 2025 Tour: Here's Where to Find Tickets for Sold-Out Dates Haim Put Their 'Headphones On' for Addison Rae, Janet Jackson Mashup in BBC Live Lounge Addison Rae Unveils 2025 World Tour Dates Trio London Grammar and Banks previously joined Del Rey earlier on her tour, with London Grammar helping the star launch the run on June 23 at Cardiff's Principality Stadium and Banks joining Del Rey in in Glasgow, Liverpool, and Dublin. Although the tour had been hinted as in support of previously-titled album, Lasso, Del Rey later announced that it would be renamed The Right Person Will Stay. After the singer said it would release May 21, she shared with fans earlier this year that the LP will not 'come on time' and would get another name change. Del Rey has since made her debut at the 2025 Stagecoach festival in Indio, California, (and made an appearance during Jelly Roll's headlining set for a rendition of 'Save Me') and released two songs, 'Henry, Come On' and 'Bluebird,' from her upcoming, untitled 10th album. Meanwhile, Rae is bringing her debut album on the road and announced in June that the Addison tour will make stops across North America, Europe, and Australia as the her first headlining run set to begin in Dublin on Aug. 26. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
UPI
4 days ago
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- UPI
Watch: Sombr releases '12 to 12' music video starring Addison Rae
July 25 (UPI) -- Sombr released the song "12 to 12" and an accompanying music video starring Addison Rae on Thursday. The "Diet Pepsi" singer dances beneath a disco ball before she joins Sombr on the dance floor in the music video. Sombr also performed his song "Undressed," which dropped March 21, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday. He appeared on the stage behind a mirror before singing to an apparent love who'd lost interest. "I'm looking at you and you're looking at me, but the glimmer in your eyes is saying you want to leave," he sang. His new music arrives ahead of the North American leg of his Late Nights & Young Romance Tour, which winds down in Los Angeles Oct. 28.
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
Music Icon, 54, Admits to ‘Problem' While Drinking 30-40 Pepsi's Daily
Music Icon, 54, Admits to 'Problem' While Drinking 30-40 Pepsi's Daily originally appeared on Parade. If Diet Pepsi only has one fan, it's Fat Joe because the rapper drinks '30 to 40' of the beverages daily. 'And I don't know how safe that is. I'm not a doctor. I don't give a f--k. I drink too many Diet Pepsi, a lot, you know what I'm saying?' Fat Joe, 54, confessed during the Tuesday, July 22, episode of the 'Joe and Jada' podcast. 'Very, very much – I got a problem. [I drink] 30, 40 a day.' The 'Lean Back' artist's confession visibly shocked his co-host, rapper Jadakiss. Nonetheless, Fat Joe stood ten toes down on his love for Diet Pepsi. 'If I went to the doctor, God forbid, and they told me, 'Yo, you have a problem due to Diet Pepsi.' I gotta take the shit on the chin,' he continued. 'I gotta just be like. I knew I was just doing too much with them Diet Pepsis, right? They're not stopping me.' Fat Joe served four months in prison on tax evasion charges in 2013. While incarcerated, his Diet Pepsi fix was not neglected. 'I was in jail with 11,000 Diet Pepsis. Imagine you in jail. You can't have nothing else, but Diet Pepsis are legal,' he said. 'Holy s--t, that's like you were cigarettes.' Complex shared a clip of the moment via Instagram the following day, sparking concern over the 'What's Luv' rapper's health. 'I love sodas but that's too many friend!' one fan wrote in the comments section of the post. A second person commented, 'I don't drink that much water a day let alone soda.' Fat Joe has lost over 250 pounds over the years while trying to live a healthier lifestyle. 'We just try to eat everything with the least carbs as possible … so we try to stay away from the bread, the pasta, the rice. That's the smartest way to eat,' the Grammy-nominated rapper told Us Weekly in October 2021, while admitting to taking Ozempic to help stay on track. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Music Icon, 54, Admits to 'Problem' While Drinking 30-40 Pepsi's Daily first appeared on Parade on Jul 23, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 23, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
5 days ago
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Fat Joe Reveals Staggering Number of Diet Sodas He Drinks in a Day: ‘I Got a Problem'
If Addison Rae is the queen of 'Diet Pepsi,' Fat Joe is looking to be the king. The Terror Squad honcho estimates that he drinks between 30 to 40 cans of Diet Pepsi per day. Tuesday's (July 22) episode of Joe and Jada found Fat Joe expressing genuine concern for N.O.R.E.'s health before delving into his own battles, which led to him opening up about the staggering number of canned sodas he's downing every day. More from Billboard Black Sabbath Members Pay Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne: 'Goodbye Dear Friend' Talks Reportedly 'Failed' in Efforts to Bring ABBA Voyage to Australia The Damned Cancel North American Concert Dates Following 'Catastrophic Event' 'I'm not a doctor, I don't give a f—k. I drink too many Diet Pepsis,' Joey Crack said. 'Very, very much I got a problem. Thirty to 40 a day. He continued: 'Let me tell you something: If I went to the doctor, God forbid, and they told me, 'Yo, you have a problem due to Diet Pepsi.' I gotta take the s—t on the chin. I gotta be like, 'I knew I was doing too much with them Diet Pepsis.' Even if a doctor advised him to kick his diet soda habit, Joe wouldn't let it stop him. 'They're not stopping me,' he said. 'I was in jail with a thousand Diet Pepsis.' Fans on social media couldn't believe Joe's soda intake numbers. 'Fat Joe said he drinks 30-40 Diet Pepsi a day. I call bulls–t cause ain't no way man,' one person wrote to X. Another added, 'Fat joe said he drink 30-40 diet pepsi's a day wallahi that brother gotta change his life!' Joe has also spoken about his soda addiction in the past. 'I used to be really addicted to diet soda, especially Diet Pepsi,' he said in 2023's What Can't Fat Joe Live Without. 'I'd drink maybe 20 a day.' Following his performance over the weekend at Sea World in San Diego, Joe's heading up to the North Dakota State Fair for a show with Bow Wow on Thursday night (July 24). Watch the clip of Fat Joe talking about his love for Diet Pepsi around the 55-minute mark below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
Toronto Sun
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
In ‘Happy Gilmore 2,' Christopher McDonald will still eat you for breakfast
Published Jul 21, 2025 • 8 minute read Old rivals come face to face in "Happy Gilmore 2." Photo by Netflix / Scott Yamano/Netflix Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Christopher McDonald does not deliver threats in rhymes. He does not tell fans to go back to their shanties. He would never say he eats 'pieces of s— like you for breakfast.' (He'd prefer to have a green smoothie with protein powder, spinach and fruit.) He is not, in other words, Shooter McGavin. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account But also, kind of, isn't he? Almost 30 years after he first played the role, McDonald is picking out his beige Polo and getting his 9-iron ready for his return as the rival to Adam Sandler's failed hockey player turned links champion in 'Happy Gilmore 2,' which arrives on Netflix on July 25. The warmly remembered, thoroughly silly 1996 sports comedy helped lay the groundwork for Sandler's stratospheric career – and made McDonald's face synonymous with his character, the kind of guy who'll let someone know he's a jerk by asking for a Diet Pepsi. (In the words of McGavin: 'Choke on that, bay-bay!') It almost didn't happen. By the time he was 40, McDonald was already considered one of Hollywood's most dependable heels – the strikingly handsome dude with the mug you wanted to repeatedly punch who was churning out scene-stealing performances in films like 'Thelma and Louise.' But he turned down the part in 'Happy Gilmore' not once but twice in 1995. It's not that he didn't believe in the script or Sandler, then a recent SNL alum. But after more than three months filming the science fiction thriller 'Unforgettable,' McDonald was burned out and didn't want to be an absentee dad to wife Lupe and their kids. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'It's exceptionally difficult to do that and to leave your partner with that kind of responsibility,' McDonald, now 70, says in a video conversation in early July. 'So, I just said no to Adam.' Then, McDonald played a hell of a round of golf and immediately wondered if Sandler and the producers still needed him on the green. 'I was feeling my oats,' he says. He agreed to do the film when he and his family got housing near the set in Vancouver for the summer. 'They paid me to play golf,' he says, 'and I'm still pinching myself.' For years, McDonald hoped the industry's opinion of him would shift from supporting actor to leading-man material, saying in 2000, 'I've been one away from something huge for the longest time.' But in a career in film and television that's included more than 100 projects over nearly a half-century, McDonald has had something huge all along in McGavin, the finger-gun-blasting, sweater-draped, privileged doofus who has earned his place among the greatest sports villains in cinematic history. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'That was my one away, probably, because I can't walk down the street without getting, 'Shooter! Shooter! Shooter!'' McDonald says. Once, a guy recognized McDonald as Shooter as he was relieving himself at a urinal at a Buffalo Bills game. 'Shooter is the gift that keeps on giving.' – – – Being a compelling jerk on screen – and McDonald has played more than a few of them – is an art. Just ask Sandler. 'Chris was the real deal – more than us comedians – and he took it serious. We were kind of like, 'Here comes the real actor,'' Sandler says of McDonald's original performance as McGavin. 'He took every costume serious, every scene meant a lot to him, and he thought through everything.' The news of the 'Happy Gilmore' sequel follows McDonald's standout role as casino CEO Marty Ghilain in the HBO Max comedy 'Hacks,' which earned him an Emmy nomination in 2022. Together, the projects have brought about a period of appreciation for the performer, from peers and fans of a character actor whom everyone loves to hate. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'He understands how to elevate something that isn't overdone, but it lets the audience know that it's a comedy and he's playing a despicable villain,' says John Slattery, who performed alongside McDonald in the Broadway revival of 'The Front Page' in 2016. 'He's in on the joke – and he's everything you want in an actor like that.' Julie Bowen agrees, noting how McDonald could have played McGavin as a cartoon character who 'could just be nothing but smarm and a big smear of gross.' 'But there's something about the way Chris plays it that's right behind the eyes. When he says, 'I eat pieces of s— like you for breakfast,' he doesn't just scowl. There's a drop in his face and this look of, 'Oh no, I didn't mean that,'' says Bowen, who is reprising her role as Virginia Venit in the sequel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It's a few days after the July Fourth holiday, and McDonald is hiding out in his colorful man cave while some friends are watching Wimbledon in the other room. He remembers the days before Shooter McGavin well, even if some people don't. Raised as one of seven children in Romulus, New York, by his father, James, a high school principal, and his mother, Patricia, a real estate agent, McDonald was premed at Hobart College before deciding to give acting a try his senior year and continuing his drama studies in London. After some early unforgettable films, including as T-Bird member Goose McKenzie in 'Grease 2,' McDonald unleashed his inner blowhard in 'Thelma and Louise' as Darryl Dickinson, the patronizing, chauvinistic husband who desperately struggled for any sense of control. While he maintains he never tried to be a career villain, audiences and studios saw him as the actor who could find humanity in the bad guy. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'You can never judge your character, and you can never say, 'Well, this guy's a major a-hole.' You just say, 'This is how he thinks, and we're going to push that to the limit and see how far we can get,'' McDonald says. 'I guess I get typecasted a bit because people love the way I play the jerks and the bad guys.' When Tim Herlihy co-wrote the 'Happy Gilmore' script with Sandler, he says, they didn't have a specific inspiration in mind for McGavin, other than someone who was handsome and preppy and would grow increasingly deranged over Gilmore's success. But by the time McDonald came on board, Herlihy emphasized, the actor's ability to 'make the straight lines funny' is what made McGavin such a great, pompous fool, in the lineage of Ted Knight's Elihu Smails in 'Caddyshack.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I don't want to overstate this, but coming from SNL, me and Adam sometimes viewed actors as people to work around, almost like, don't screw this up,' says Herlihy, who also co-wrote 'Happy Gilmore 2' with Sandler. 'Chris was one of the first times we got more than what we imagined in our heads, and we imagined it pretty good.' Bowen initially thought of McDonald as Hollywood in the best way: charming, funny, smooth. Their takes from the 'Not Happy Place' – where Venit, Gilmore's love interest in lingerie, and McGavin, both dressed in all black, aggressively make out in a nightmare daydream – turned McDonald from co-worker to friend, she says. Years later, Bowen remembers going down an escalator after one of her Emmy wins for 'Modern Family' and seeing McDonald come up another escalator next to her. Without missing a beat, they knew what to do. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Immediately, we leaned over the two escalators, and I'm with my husband at the time and I'm holding an Emmy, and I lean over, and we just go [disgusting make-out noise with her tongue]. And we never mentioned it again,' she says, through laughter. 'I turned to my husband and I was like, 'You're cool with that, right?' He was like, 'Trust me, yeah, but you guys are weirdos.'' There's a scene in the new movie where McGavin and Gilmore come face to face in a graveyard, before a fistfight nearly 30 years in the making. At the cemetery, there are headstones honouring the characters from the first film who have died. In a film full of nostalgia and cameos, mortality is front and centre for these characters. The topic comes up a couple of times, unprompted, in our chat. A few days earlier, McDonald's longtime friend, actor Michael Madsen, died of cardiac arrest at the age of 67. He lists the names of other actor friends who've died too young in recent years, like Ray Liotta and Bill Paxton. 'It's just crazy,' he says, admitting he's still overwhelmed by Madsen's passing. 'That's what hits me at a certain age. We're only here for a short time.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The deaths of his friends and peers have, in some ways, served as another reminder of how being largely recognized as McGavin has been a blessing. The character's popularity surged into the 21st century once the film hit Blockbuster and cable channels like Comedy Central, where a modest box-office success morphed into a rewatchable cult classic for '90s kids. McDonald's popularity as McGavin soared even higher in the social-media age, where he's been frequently GIFified for memes. McDonald even set up a Cameo account where people can still pay to have him send a personalized message as McGavin. 'I've embraced this character,' he says. 'It's been a godsend in a lot of ways.' – – – It was McDonald's last day of shooting, and McGavin had just thrown a cup of scalding-hot coffee in the face of Frank Manatee (played by Benny Safdie), the owner of rival golf league Maxi Golf. When they got the scene done in one take, the crew applauded McDonald for bringing McGavin back to life. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Then McDonald looked over and saw Sandler, holding the elusive gold jacket. The last time we saw McGavin with the gold jacket, he had stolen it from Gilmore and was running away from an angry golf mob. But now, finally, it was Shooter's turn. 'He said, 'Alright, Shooter. I know you've wanted this. This is for you,'' McDonald recalls. Sandler had the gold jacket made up for McDonald, hoping they could find a way in the script to give McGavin what he's always wanted. When that didn't pan out, Sandler thought, Well, we made the coat, so we might as well give to the man. The crew howled as if McGavin had actually won the Tour Championship. McDonald welled up, overcome by the act of kindness. Wearing the gold jacket, McDonald channeled his inner McGavin and started strutting, saying, 'That's right, baby!' 'He stayed in character and acted like it was the greatest moment of his life,' Sandler remembers. 'It was a well-deserved moment for Chris and Shooter.' This is what it might have looked like if McGavin had won the gold jacket all those years ago. What's better than that? 'There were tears welling up, not just because it's a gold jacket, but the fact that they saved one for me,' McDonald says. 'You don't forget that.' Read More Toronto & GTA Uncategorized Editorial Cartoons Canada Football
