Category: 5. Entertainment

Mumbai: Several Pakistani celebrities’ Instagram accounts, including those of Mawra Hocane, Saba Qamar, Ahad Raza Mir, Yumna Zaidi, and Danish Taimoor, are now accessible in India, according to social media users.

However, profiles of other prominent Pakistani personalities such as Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Hania Aamir, and Atif Aslam remain “unavailable” for Indian users.

Ban followed after Pahalgam attack

To refresh public memory, access to the Instagram accounts of Pakistani celebrities was restricted in India following the Pahalgam terror attack on 22 April, which tragically claimed the lives of at least 26 civilians, primarily Hindu tourists.

The responsibility for the attack was claimed by The Resistance Front (TRF), a known affiliate of the Pakistan-based, UN-designated terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

India responded with Operation Sindoor

In response to the Pahalgam attack, the Indian Armed Forces launched Operation Sindoor, targeting nine terrorist infrastructure locations across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK). The operation escalated tensions across the Line of Control (LoC), creating a near war-like situation.

Mawra Hocane’s Bollywood debut and fallout

Mawra Hocane, who made her Bollywood debut in 2016 with the film ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ opposite Harshvardhan Rane, was later removed from the proposed sequel of the film.

Reacting to this, actor Harshvardhan Rane issued a statement on his official Instagram account, clarifying that he would not associate with the project if the previous cast was retained.

“While I am grateful for the experience, however, as things stand, and after reading the direct comments made about my country, I have made a decision to respectfully decline to be a part of ‘Sanam Teri Kasam’ part 2 if there is any possibility of the previous cast being repeated,” Rane stated.

Diljit Dosanjh also faces backlash

Meanwhile, Punjabi actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh has come under public criticism for collaborating with Pakistani actress Hania Aamir in the film ‘Sardaar Ji 3’. The film has not been released in India amidst the ongoing diplomatic and cultural row.

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If you’ve picked up a guitar for the first time in the last, say, three decades, odds are you’ve tried to learn Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” It’s a veritable alternative nation classic, as well as a guitar 101 standard. And so it’s no surprise that Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has started using the song as a chance to invite fans on stage to play it with him. 

That’s what happened last night, June 30, when Green Day performed in Luxembourg. Well, at least that’s what was supposed to happen.

The young man enlisted for this very special honor used this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to do an extremely bold and — we have to admit — good bit. Instead of playing “Good Riddance,” he started performing the other alternative nation classic that’s also a guitar 101 standard: Oasis’ “Wonderwall.” 

Based on one video, it appears the young guitarist got Armstrong to do about half of the first verse over a chord progression that sounds a bit like “Wonderwall,” but definitely isn’t “Good Riddance.” Thinking that maybe his guest had just started playing it in the wrong key, Armstrong gave the guy some quick instructions, and even remarked with a laugh, “You told me you could play this one!”

At that moment, the guitarist launched into an unmistakable rendition of “Wonderwall,” getting through the lead progression once before Armstrong clocked what was going on. “Oh, fuck!” the frontman exclaimed, grabbing his guitar back, before the guest was promptly ushered off the stage. 

“Nice try, nice try,” Armstrong said before playing “Good Riddance” himself.

Green Day’s summer European run has not been without a few minor hiccups. Just last week, during the band’s show at the Hurricane Festival in Germany, Armstrong had to pause the set to yell at a fan who appeared to be shooting Armstrong with a water gun. The band has a handful of gigs left in Europe, with additional shows in North and South America scheduled through September.

Scooter Braun is transitioning his role at HYBE, the South Korean entertainment giant, moving from CEO of HYBE America to an advisory position which will have him joining the HYBE Board of Directors as a director and a senior advisor to chairman and CEO Bang Si-Hyuk. The move marks the end of a five-year run at HYBE, which is home to such K-pop acts as BTS and Katseye.

The news was announced to HYBE staffers on Monday when Braun, dialing in from David Geffen’s yacht where he is vacationing, notified employees that the move was “in the works for quite some time,” according to a source who adds that the five-year plan was initiated with the sale of Braun’s Ithaca Holdings to HYBE in 2021. Braun will remain active in current HYBE projects, like the just-launched girl group Katseye. Braun intimated that he “isn’t going anywhere” and will “still help guide” the artists on the HYBE roster. During the call, Braun shared with the staff that, when he set out for a career in music 25 years ago, it was after reading the Geffen biography The Operator. Today, as he closes this chapter of his career, he reminded his colleagues of what he’s learned from Geffen: “Follow your dreams and anything can happen.”

Braun built his business managing music artists like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, J Balvin, Demi Lovato and The Kid LAROI under the SB Projects banner. In 2024, he stepped away from the management business, announcing his decision on social media, where he noted, “I have been blessed to have had a ‘Forrest Gump’-like life while witnessing and taking part in the journeys of some of the most extraordinarily talented people the world has ever seen. I’m constantly pinching myself and asking ‘how did I get here?’”

The exit from management coincided with a split from Bieber which turned contemptuous, as THR reported in April, due to financial consequences triggered by the cancelation of Bieber’s Justice tour in 2022. In not fulfilling his contractual obligation to AEG (the tour’s promoter) and completing the concert dates, for which he received a $40 million advance, Bieber was left owing more than $20 million to AEG. Then-manager Braun, through his company, covered what was owed in the form of a loan at a highly favorable (to Bieber) rate. In addition, the two were partnered in a number of other businesses including a record label and film projects. Braun also helped secure a $200 million catalog deal for Bieber’s songwriting interests, possibly the largest nest egg in music history for an artist under 30. (Worth noting: Hailey Bieber, who married Justin in 2018, recently sold her Rhode Beauty skincare brand to e.l.f. Beauty for $1 billion; Braun was a seed investor.)

THR has learned that a settlement between Braun and Bieber is now completed. “Scooter and Justin squashed their issues and are in a good place,” says a source who adds that Braun’s last act at HYBE was to close the book on the squabble and “leave the company, and Justin, in a good position.”

Reps for Bieber declined to comment on the settlement.

Stepping into the CEO position in Braun’s place and leading all day-to-day duties is Isaac Lee, who has been chairman of HYBE Latin America since November of 2023. Lee’s new title is chairman and CEO of HYBE Americas. In addition to running HYBE’s operations in Mexico, Miami, and Medellin, Lee will also have oversight of Nashville-based Big Machine Label Group (BMLG) and Quality Control Media Holdings, headquartered in Atlanta.

While Braun’s next move is unclear, HYBE chief Bang Si-Hyuk commented, “Scooter has been an extraordinary partner, a visionary executive, and a true catalyst for cultural exchange. His contributions have been vital in establishing our ambitious presence in the U.S. market. I am deeply grateful for his leadership, his astute instincts and his unwavering passion for artists. We wish him immense success in his exciting next chapter and look forward to continuing our partnership in executing HYBE’s global vision.”

Braun also remains one of HYBE’s largest individual shareholders. In announcing his new role, Braun said: “Being a part of HYBE and witnessing its remarkable growth has been one of the most inspiring chapters of my professional journey. Chairman Bang is a true visionary and a musical genius. What he has built with HYBE is unparalleled. I am incredibly proud of our collective accomplishments and look forward to supporting Chairman Bang and CEO Jason Jaesang Lee in their continued success as I step into what’s next.”

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Jennifer Aniston has lined up another series at Apple TV+.

The star and executive producer of The Morning Show will lead a series inspired by Jennette McCurdy’s memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died at the streamer. McCurdy is adapting her book alongside Ari Katcher (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show), and the two will serve as co-showrunners. Aniston is also an executive producer.

Former iCarly star McCurdy’s book, details the relationship she had with her abusive mother and the road to recovery she took following her mother’s death in 2013. I’m Glad My Mom Died became an instant bestseller after it was published in 2022.

“I’ve been so touched by how much the emotional thrust of the story has connected with people, which I see as being my relationship with my mom,” McCurdy told The Hollywood Reporter soon after the book was released. “That’s an important and complicated relational dynamic to explore, and to see that people are responding to it has been amazing. And to see people responding to the humor of it and the aspect of exploring eating disorders and complicated grief, it’s really been incredible.”

The series is described as a dramedy that will center on “the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kids’ show, and her narcissistic mom who relishes in her identity as a starlet’s mother,” the show’s logline reads. Aniston will play the mother.

Aniston also has the fourth season of The Morning Show on deck at Apple TV+. The series is set to return Sept. 17, with a two-year time jump following the events of season three in 2023.

Apple Studios is producing the series based on I’m Glad My Mom Died. McCurdy and Katcher are co-showrunners and will executive produce with Aniston (via her Echo Films); Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg of Merman Productions; Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara of LuckyChap; and Jerrod Carmichael and Erica Kay.

Aniston is repped by CAA, Lighthouse Management & Media and Hansen Jacobson; McCurdy,by CAA, Jill Fritzo PR and Hansen Jacobson; Horgan, by United Agents in the U.K. WME in the U.S. and Nelson Davis; LuckyChap, by Entertainment 360, CAA, Narrative and attorney Jeff Bernstein; Katcher, by WME, Entertainment 360, and Ziffren Brittenham; and Carmichael, by WME, Entertainment 360 and Johnson Shapiro.

The day that Louisa Jacobson and I are scheduled to chat over Zoom is a big one, for both New York and Jacobson herself. We’re meeting on the second day of a record-breaking heatwave, the culminating week of Pride Month, and, as it happens, the one-year anniversary of Jacobson publicly coming out. The third season of HBO’s The Gilded Age, in which Jacobson plays Marian Brook, a doe-eyed newcomer to late-1800s Manhattan high society, premiered a few days prior. And the night before, Zohran Mamdani clinched a historic victory over former governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral primary.

“I ranked Zohran as number one,” says Jacobson. “So, yay…I’m really excited. It’s a very cool breakthrough moment in New York politics.”

Mamdani’s win also coincided with the American premiere of Trophy Boys—a play written by Emmanuelle Mattana and directed by Danya Taymor—off-Broadway, at MCC Theatre. In it, Jacobson and the rest of the AFAB cast don drag to play an all-boys senior debate team as they prepare to face their sister school in the final battle of their high school careers. The task? Arguing the affirmative for the prompt that “feminism has failed women.”

“The opportunity during Pride Month to be doing drag and doing a show like this is so cool,” says Jacobson. “And to investigate gender as performance and dive-deep into exploring the more masculine parts of myself, as well.” She also notes that this kind of drag is the reverse of what is usually represented in popular culture. “We don’t see it as often as we see queens, you know? I think it’s less digestible. I think people don’t always understand how to receive it…So I think we were batting up a little bit with that, but it’s been really fun.”

Even as it navigates themes of privilege, toxic masculinity, and the nuances of sexual assault allegations, the play still manages to feel boisterous and campy. It even has one horny dance break, in which all the boys gyrate to Pretty Ricky’s 2005 hit “Grind With Me”—making literal the already effectively masturbatory nature of their debate. As the quartet humps chairs, doms desks, and spanks the air, it’s clear their intellectualizing is merely a coping mechanism for that specific, liminal teen space of extreme lust exacerbated by a maddening lack of experience.

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Key Facts

What Is The Scene Like In The Courtroom?

Combs arrived in the courtroom late Tuesday morning, CNN reported. His mother, Janice Combs, who has been present for much of the trial, is also in attendance.

Why Did The Jury Raise Concerns Over Juror No. 25?

Quickly after deliberations began Monday, the jury gave Subramanian a note that said: “We have a juror, No. 25, who we are concerned cannot follow your honor’s instructions.” Subramanian returned a note to the jury reminding “every juror of their duty to deliberate and their obligation to follow my instruction on the law,” urging them to continue deliberating. Mark Zauderer, a veteran trial and appellate lawyer, told Forbes jury questions are not uncommon and that the problem may blow over if the jury moves on and does not request any more intervention from the judge.

When Could The Jury Return A Verdict—and Will Diddy Be Convicted?

It’s unclear, as the jury will deliberate as long as it needs to reach a verdict. Subramanian has previously said he wanted to wrap up the trial, which began in May, by the July 4 weekend. Legal analysts previously told Forbes the prosecution presented a strong case against Combs, but it is impossible to know what a jury will decide. Zauderer said he believes Combs is more likely to be convicted than acquitted, but noted such a verdict may depend on whether the jury believes prosecutors sufficiently proved Combs ran a “criminal enterprise,” which would satisfy the racketeering charge. Former federal prosecutor Mark Chutkow also said the prosecution made a “very compelling case,” noting the prosecution’s emphasis on surveillance video depicting Combs attacking his ex-girlfriend and a key witness in the case, Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel. Chutkow said, however, a jury may feel the video depicts domestic violence, which he is not charged with, instead of sex trafficking or racketeering. Chutkow also said it is possible the trial could end with a hung jury, meaning not all jurors agree on a verdict.

What Is Combs Charged With?

Combs faces five federal charges: two counts of sex trafficking, two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and one count of racketeering conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty to all charges. Throughout the trial, the government has called high-profile victims to testify, including Ventura, considered a key witness for both the racketeering and sex trafficking charges. She testified Combs coerced her into “freak-off” sex performances throughout their decade-long relationship, which she said his employees assisted in producing, which some legal experts said could be evidence of Combs operating a criminal enterprise. Rapper Kid Cudi also testified Combs broke into his home and said he believed Combs was involved with setting his car on fire after he discovered Kid Cudi and Ventura were dating. Other alleged sex trafficking victims central to the prosecution’s case testified under the pseudonyms “Jane” and “Mia.”

Further Reading

Judge Orders Diddy Jury To ‘Continue Deliberating’ After Concerns Over Juror No. 25 (Forbes)

Jury Begins Deliberating Criminal Case Against Diddy: Here’s Why A Verdict Is So Unpredictable (Forbes)