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nancydrewwouldnever · 7 months
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Nancy, The Gene Kelly film just got added back to Chris' page a couple hours ago. It seems he was finally somehow able to get it up and running. But yet, he was just complaining about Hollywood and whining about working and wanting to get high and throw clay. And then went on to admit he knows he doesn't have a big name, no Oscar's like that, and will stay bat for this film. It's not going to to well in my opinion. Is this man alright? //
If you remember when it was first announced Jan 2022 Rian Johnson and academy award nominee writer John Logan were also involved so it’s not like it’s just him.
And in the interview he basically said he wants to do only one movie a year and let’s face it lots of actors even the big names one do that. He has worked pretty solidly since 2010- 2019 so I get the one movie a year thing.
Gene Kelly is his baby and if he wants to get it off the ground and has the likes of Rian and John involved I can see it happening. He’s not like he will the main character in the movie it’s about a boy.
And let's also remember that from that Deadline article released in January 2022 - they were looking for money to get the project going. Names were attached, but that does not mean any work was happening on it. None of the people attached at that time had put in any money for pre-production or development costs, from the way that article read. And well over a year later, no other production companies have expressed interest in the project, which means, still, money is missing for it. Until we hear news of a production company committing to produce it, then we need to be very cautious about the project. They're literally still looking for a bankroll for it, and not finding it.
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Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 2B
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Annette Bening (1958) “ANNETTE BENING (Kate Keller) New York: King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park), Spoils of War (Second Stage), Costal Disturbances (Tony nomination, Clarence Derwent Award). Los Angeles: Ruth Draper Monologues, The Female of the Species, Hedda Gabler (Geffen Playhouse), The Cherry Orchard (Mark Taper Forum). San Francisco ACT Repertory Company: Our Town Macbeth. Films: The Grifters, Bugsy. The American President, American Beauty, Being J, The Kids Are All Right, The Seagull, 20th Century Women, Captain Marvel, The Report (fall 2019), Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe awards, Emmy nominations and four Academy Award nominations. Graduate of San Francisco State University and A.C.T. Conservatory Training Program. Board member: The Actors Fund.” – Playbill bio from All My Sons, May, 2019.
Kelli O'Hara (1976) “KELLI O’HARA (Young Hattie/Ensemble). Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde after playing Emma in the national tour. Favorite credits: Christine in the Yeston/Kopit Phantom (Lucille Lortel Debut Award); Kitty in Where’s Charley?  At MTW; Lili in Carnival; and the title role in Naughty Marietta. She graduated from OCU and won the 1998 State Metropolitan Opera Auditions. Thanks to the family and Mrs. Birdwell. God is good.” – Playbill from Follies, June 2001. Playbill insert indicates she went on as Young Phyllis at this performance.
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"You know, looking at these production photos, I like Annette Bening as a brunette. Anyway, I sat a few rows behind her at this horrid little play reading a few weeks ago. She was there with Camryn Manheim, and frankly, I'd rather have watched them watching the show than watch the show myself."
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"I continue to be in awe of this woman's unending beauty. A few weeks ago, I stage-doored after the final performance of Days of Wine and Roses, and she wafted outside looking like a million dollars in this silky little cami, her freckled chest on full display. Even in heels, she was maybe a head taller than me (4'7"), and I had the pleasure of gazing up at her in awe. She is a stunning woman, and that voice... It's a sexual experience."
Fuck it: extra Kelli propaganda (with Audra bonus) because this duet could wake me from the dead.
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morebedsidebooks · 6 months
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Academic Books on JP Pop Culture and Beyond
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A list of nonfiction books I’ve enjoyed, largely around Japanese comics but also other literature, fandoms and even one book on a fashion I love.
Fanning the Flames: Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan edited by William W. Kelly
Exploring different Japanese fandoms such as music, baseball or rakugo this older book from 2004 has one particular essay I still find memorable despite its age. Girls and Women Getting Out of Hand: The Pleasure and Politics of Japan's Amateur Comics Community by translator Rachel Thorn, which she has also put up on her blog.
Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett
An overview of the history of modern Japanese comics this title was notably banned in libraries in a California county in 2006. All because it chose to not shy away from including a few pages on the genre of eromanga.
One Thousand Years of Manga Paperback by Brigitte Koyama-Richard
Originally published in French this broader look at the artistic development of Japanese sequential art has also been translated to English by Daniel Radzinowicz, and there’s a newer 2022 edition.
Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan edited by Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, James Welker
With a wide-raging collection of essays this 2015 book, nominated for an Eisner Award for best Academic/Scholarly work, is still an informative title available in English on the phenomenon of boys love.
Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia edited by James Welker
Edited by a professor who was also a contributor in the previously mentioned Boys Love Manga and Beyond, this 2022 essay collection looks at the expansion of boys love media across Asia.
Manga in America: Transnational Book Publishing and the Domestication of Japanese Comics by Casey Brienza
If one hasn’t been curious already, any reader of Japanese comics in English could use a look at this 2016 book on the processes and people that brings their favourite material across borders.
Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan by Deborah M. Shamoon
While shoujo manga is not just romance comics, this is still a lovely book from 2012 that looks at the 20th century development of various girls’ literature in Japan.
Age of Shojo by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
As well this 2019 book covers the creation of girls’ fiction in Japan, from the turn of the century over 80 years and the at times expression of transgressive ideas.
International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture edited by Masami Toku
Published in 2015 this not to be missed collection of essays, also with interviews of several Japanese comics artists (including as Takemiya Keiko and Hagio Moto) and their work in girls’ comics.
The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture edited by Mark McLelland
Academics from four continents of the Anglophone world, excepting an inclusion from China, begins to reveal just how convoluted and varied the legal, ethical and cultural questions around Japanese comics and animation are both within and outside Japan’s borders in this 2016 collection of writings.
So Pretty / Very Rotten: Comics and Essays on Lolita Fashion and Cute Culture by Jane Mai and An Nguyen
 This 2017 book on Lolita fashion is what I recommend on this sometimes misunderstood subculture still found in street fashion to depictions in media.
The History of Hentai Manga: An Expressionist Examination of EroManga by Kimi Rito
Translated to English by Molly Rabbit in 2021, this is a tenderly dense examination of expressions in a (in)famous genre by a Japanese media critic.
Manga in Libraries: A Guide for Teen Librarians by Jillian Rudes
With Japanese comics popularity only increasing a New York librarian has a 2023 book out to help better understand, value, include, advise, and use comics from Japan for readers, especially teens.
CBLDF Presents Manga: Introduction, Challenges, and Best Practices edited by Melinda Beasi
Along with popularity unfortunately comes book challenges and bans. Though this guide from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is from 2013, it still contains beneficial information for anyone involved with anti-censorship work.
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mim526 · 1 year
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Catherine's Statement Gown
Now that BAFTAs this year are over and the question many of us were waiting to see has been answered -- what will Catherine wear -- I want to comment on her white Jenny Packham evening gown which has shown up on two different BAFTA awards now.
h/t @the-empress-7 for this tweet pic
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BAFTA 2019:
This and the James Bond premiere gold dress are Catherine's top regal looks IMO. I remember thinking she looked like an Empress walking with William up the red carpet but especially down into the auditorium. The Duke/Duchess of Cambridge were announced, the curtain at top of steps opened and the BAFTA audience went silent as she glided down the steps, head high. Why? #Empress vibes. William walked slightly behind her most of the way and just let her shine. Princess Grace of Monaco is the only other royal I can recall with this level of beauty/presence, and on this occasion Catherine out-Graced even Grace Kelly. Have a look:
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I watched some of their other BAFTA arrival clips to refresh my memory, and 2019 was different. BAFTAs were in February 2019, and as we learned early March 2019, rumors had been circling in society alleging William was having an affair. Catherine reminded everyone she was the one and only royal Duchess of Cambridge, with her Duke smiling beside her and at her back all the way.
BAFTA 2023:
This time Catherine wore the re-worked Jenny Packham white gown as Princess of Wales. Social media accounts concerned Catherine was spending too much on new clothing hopefully welcomed her choice. (Shoutout to @honeytothebee and @the-empress-7 whose Tumblr posts always manage to comment on Catherine's wardrobe and the Wales family with wit and wisdom without sounding like either critics or sycophants. Ladies, you are a pleasure to read.)
Her ensemble has been analyzed in other threads, so I''ll just note that Catherine's 2023 look reflected an evolving chic personal style and was on trend.
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samandcolbypost · 3 months
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I’m not sure if I’ve ever posted this but sorry I promised a long time ago I would post all the interviews I could find, except I forgot about it.. Don’t kill me 🫣 (it definitely needs updated from 2022-current..) give me a week Ish and I edit it with more!
2014
Idk: KCTV: Video they did with the Kansas News channel. (Maybe this can help you find it if you ever need but I’ve only found parts of it.) I don’t have the video atm but I’ll try to look for it.
2015
Kelly Phillips: https://youtu.be/LTssFFnqlXU
Pop entertainment: https://youtu.be/lXIX_Re41M8
Stardom/S,C&J: https://youtu.be/n440gGaX5kA
Reality connect: https://youtu.be/LTssFFnqlXU
Teen hoot: https://youtu.be/KcjMekfGk0I
Vidconpop: https://youtu.be/6SPXOgzGitU
Nicole’s Celebrity News: https://youtu.be/cesMHQIPeAo
Gamers guide: https://youtu.be/n440gGaX5kA
BOS: https://youtu.be/BYqWW2WS-r
GG: https://youtu.be/Y850v1LQzPI
Velvet Ties: https://youtu.be/MERL355vrRw
CelebrityHauteSpot NJ: https://youtu.be/EGOLo2cCV0g
2016
(Sam)Be somebody premier: https://youtu.be/-7Q8-w0Gar4
Cali Interviews: https://youtu.be/CO1d0GOXkF4
2017
Celebsecretes https://youtu.be/j9Pejz0KAec
Movie review: https://youtu.be/NsLUHnV-WKc
2018
Zach sang: https://youtu.be/tJcOS7pa66A
2019
Fox 5 NY: https://youtu.be/wKJBPQTOIbg
Tom ward: https://youtu.be/DAZ3j8LEKOQ
Heard well (craziest fan experience): https://youtu.be/7gKWGyjOMNo
Heard well (Coachella): https://youtu.be/
oEzeUKd8Hao
Heard well (describe) https://youtu.be/VE-O-
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Heard We’ll (Q&A) https://youtu.be/0BmA5jcbl
Heard well (mansion): https://youtu.be/XzN-qglpEVo
VidCon Now (Reuploaded by snc reupload): https://youtu.be/5quEc4Glb_k?si=WjM_o
Vidcon: https:// youtu.be/Cn7Skv9PzPo?
Build series: https://youtu.be/gTfpkffdY14
Tfil Colby): https://youtu.be/8bO2ftCMzeQ
Corey S: https://youtu.be/VsvDIC-aadQ
E! News: https://youtu.be/GdG6xE6npSE
Awesomeness tv: https://youtu.be/pQ9CXlRR6No
Awesomeness Tv (Lie Detector): https://youtu.be/3Z6Zhu7ORVE?
Awesomeness Tv (Never Have I Ever): https://youtu.be/hUdT7bR2
2020
Access: https://youtu.be/1NOu3gBB_6A
Fanjoy (XPLR): https://youtu.be/wVkKDWG9H8A
Fanjoy (First Date) https://youtu.be/
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S&C Vs K&Jc Merch Wars: https://youtu.be/gOpdemfkt
Extratv: https://youtu.be/j8srsJgIuhQ
SUS Sept 13: https://youtu.be/UnJlWmvLZmA
HillierSmith: https://youtu.be/PBMvASh_Noo
Vandasive
Seventeen: https://youtu.be/3gfnpfR4SS4
Doctor Mike: https://youtu.be/TVhA93wG6FE
2021:
Daily Stoic May 13: https://youtu.be/os0ie3ASjJ0
Fanjoy 21 Q: https://youtu.be/fxXdOe9hz1E
2022:
Fanjoy (Send it): https://youtu.be/3fY0K3phETo
Good Boys podcast: https://youtu.be/Y-6JzoYwXJQ
Zane and Heath: https://youtu.be/KqMNTJCY0nc?si
2023
Doctor Mike: https://youtu.be/7UCh7RnWPew?
Tom Ward: https://youtu.be/zZ_mEhRxaj8?si
Kong Pham: https://youtu.be/8Ci4ACmj4JA?si
Kris Collins: https://youtu.be/JWTVwmGpll0?
JRE: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAqB1nkvQzl3FMawD
S&C Reacts Cody & Satori: https://youtu.be/gM28bqRuu3w
Not really interviews but wanted to include it
(awards, livestreams, ect)
2019
Streamys Premier Awards: https://youtu.be/7R_4jlz6U6s?
2020
Cosmopolitan: https://youtu.be/mc7F02i1geg?s
2022
Rating things w Fanjoy: https://youtu.be/lwXI5_M5PkA?
Behind Photoshoot w Fanjoy: https://youtu.be/T6UQfSehGt8?
2023
Jc Livestream Pt 1-2: https:youtu.berAVWwWs0CQg?
https://youtu.be/Uv2HPzA31nY?si=1fDd9yr
StreamyAward: https://youtu.be/-pDXbBMmXY
Nihachu: https://youtu.be/o7ITdR0jzPQ?si=S
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shefanispeculator · 4 months
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Seeing Stars! The 9 Most Successful 'Voice' Competitors of All Time
'The Voice' may never find its Carrie Underwood but that's okay.
One of the major complaints about The Voice is that it has yet to launch a major recording career like American Idol did in its early days. But host Carson Daly says that the days of discovering a Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson on a TV show are long gone.
“Your measuring stick is antiquated because of the way that technology has proliferated,” Daly exclusively tells Parade. “For instance, I could never do TRL [his Total Request Live show] again because this generation has the internet and doesn’t need MTV to get music. There are a lot of YouTubers, and my kids listen to music of people that you have never heard of, that I have never heard of. For some people, just getting to a place where they can support themselves making music, thanks to The Voice—that’s winning.”
And The Voice has several of those types of winners. Former contestants, including a couple of Grammy nominees, who are grateful to the show because their lives changed 100 percent, because as a result of appearing on The Voice, they now make their entire living making music, rather than having to have a day job to pay the bills.
Most Successful Voice Competitors
Koryn Hawthorne (Season 8)
was a member of Pharrell Williams’ team and finished fourth in her season. She has gone on to have a successful gospel career and was nominated twice for Grammys in the Gospel Performance/Song category: in 2019 for “Won’t He Do It” and in 2020 for “Speak the Name.” She has received several other nominations as well, including Billboard Awards and Soul Train Music Awards. She even broke the record for the longest chart-topping woman on the Hot Gospel Songs chart.
Nicolle Galyon (Season 2)
got just one coach to turn (Adam Levine) when she sang “You Save Me” during her Blind Audition. The country singer was eliminated during the Battle Rounds but made a discovery along the way: She didn’t want to sing, she wanted to write songs. While on the show, she met performers RaeLynn and Miranda Lambert (who was married to Blake Shelton at the time) and credits those friendships for launching her songwriting career. She earned her first No. 1 song with “We Were Us,” performed by Keith Urban and Lambert. She also has co-written songs for Lady A, Kenny Chesney, Florida Georgia Line and many others and co-wrote and co-produced RaeLynn’s first full-length album, WildHorse. Gaylon has two Grammy nominations for Best Country Song: in 2015 for Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic” and in 2019 for Dan + Shay’s “Tequila.”
Cassadee Pope (Season 3)
was the first female country singer to win The Voice. The former member of Blake Shelton's team has gone on to find success in country music, but a high point was when she and Chris Young received a Grammy nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Think of You” in 2017.  Her single "Tomorrow Night" was released in Sept. and was followed by her third album, Thrive, in October.
Christina Grimmie (Season 3)
finished in third place on The Voice, and went on to open for Selena Gomez and The Scene, and perform backup vocals for Allstar Weekend and the Jonas Brothers. Christina's career was on the upswing—she had 2 million YouTube subscribers—when she was shot to death during a post-concert meet-and-greet with fans on June 10, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. She was 22.
Danielle Bradbery (Season 4 winner)
was only 16 when she won The Voice, the youngest winner at that point in time but no longer the record. Since graduating from Team Blake Shelton, Bradbery has gone on to have a successful country music career with 15 songs on the Hot Country chart, including "Goodbye Summer" with Thomas Rhett which rose to No. 39 in 2018. Her 2020 single "Never Have I Ever" reached No. 58 on U.S. Country Airplay, and her most-streamed song, "Sway," has 50 million streams. In July 2021, she released her latest single, "Stop Draggin' Your Boots."
Morgan Wallen (Season 6)
who was initially on Team Usher, but later stolen by Adam Levine, was eliminated in the Playoffs but soon headed to Nashville to try his hand at country music, rather than the pop songs he sang on the show. He had almost instant success, dropping four No. 1 singles, winning the CMA award for New Artist of the Year and releasing the double album Dangerous. “He was being hailed as the next big thing, maybe the next big crossover artist from country,” executive producer Audrey Morrissey says. Today, Wallen is more famous for getting in trouble. He got booted off of Saturday Night Live for breaking COVID-19 protocols in late 2020 and was banned from country radio after he was caught on video hollering a racial slur in February 2021.
Jordan Smith (Season 9)
was a four-chair turn who chose Team Adam. He went on to write “Ashes” for the Deadpool 2 soundtrack, which was performed by Celine Dion. In addition, he's had three No. 1 songs on the Hot Christian Songs chart and three top 10s. Jordan represented the state of Kentucky for NBC’s American Song Contest in 2022, for which he wrote and performed “Sparrow.” He finished in third place.
Sawyer Fredericks (Season 8)
The winner from Team Pharrell had an original song, “Silent World,” featured on the Season 6 debut of the Netflix original series Longmire, which aired in 2017, and his song “This Fire” was covered by John Ondrasik for a 2018 episode of Code Black. His  latest album debuted in 2020 called Flowers for You.
Loren Allred (Season 3)
was eliminated in the Playoffs but went on to make her Billboard Hot 100 debut with the Platinum-selling "Never Enough" from the musical soundtrack to The Greatest Showman. This past January, she was the featured singer on the original song “Start a Wave” when “World of Color – One” for Disney 100 debuted at Disneyland. Strangely, though, she made a return to reality TV, auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent’s 15th season in 2022, finishing in ninth place. In addition, she performs on Michael Bublé's Love album for a duet of "Help Me Make It Through the Night," and alongside David Foster, as part of his An Intimate Evening PBS concert special and album.
The 9 Most Successful 'Voice' Contestants of All Time - Parade
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jess-moloney-malarkey · 5 months
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There is a claim that Jess Moloney doesn't actually do anything for work, that she is a fraud and simply mooches off Jamie. That she showed up in LA and weaseled her way into Jamie's sphere for clout. This is demonstrably false. Jess Moloney has been a talent and creative manager since 2017, starting in New York. Below the cut, I will outline how she has worked to get to where she is now with Ice Studios and what she does.
Jess began her talent management as Jess Moloney MGMT in 2017 while living in New York, with her first clients: Machine Gun Kelly and Justine Skye. This was announced on June 5th, 2017. She also soon took on photographer Renell Madrano as a client, who shot many campaigns for various brands as well as held at least two exhibitions while under Jess's management. These can all be found publicly, as well as on both their Instagrams. Renell is a widely successful photographer.
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Jess also curated the prestigious front row (FROW) of several fashion weeks, as part of Jess Moloney MGMT in collaboration with Vivienne Westwood. These FROWS are a big deal in the fashion world. They're the photo op for the event. Fashion Monitor described the coveted spot: "A designer will be judged not only on their collection, but who was there with the best view of the show." So Jess curating the front row demonstrates her credibility not only in PR, but also in fashion.
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Not only did she curate these front rows for various fashion shows in Europe and NY, she also had a hand in creating the red carpet look of Bring Me the Horizon at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
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I'm unsure of the trajectory she took towards her next venture, Ice Studios in the following couple years. I'm also unsure if she is still in talent management directly, but in any case, Ice Studios was co-founded with her former client Renell. Renell is listed as a Photographer and Director, along with her other good friend, Quil Lemons.
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Ice Studios is essentially a creative agency. The team, listed above, work on campaigns directly. Jess, being a co-founder, likely handles the logistics of these shoots. She likely decides the who, what, when, where, and why and gives approval over the projects. For example, here is a NYT photo editor thanking her for her part in this front page photo of Jay-Z in the NYT in 2020.
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While one could, and has, argued that there is a lack of engagement from those she tags when posting about the work that Ice Studios does, that doesn't discredit the fact that she and her company are responsible for the work. Again, it is Jess's agency, along with Renell, that takes on these clients for their campaign. Jess role likely does not require her to always be on set. Have you ever met a CEO or president of a company? They are never in the office. Seeing Jess out and about does not mean she is not handling business. Business that it is clear she has worked for.
I would also like to add that she has been in the fashion world for many years. She interned with Vivienne Westwood early on in life after school, has been attending/working for fashion events for years, and she was even asked to walk in a Dolce and Gabbana show in 2018.
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Jess Moloney is a woman who has worked to build up her career in managing creative projects, and it is clear she has been successful in her own right.
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mishkakagehishka · 1 year
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You have been Torified 😰 (That honestly kinda sounds like a pun..Get it? Terrified? Torified? I’m sorry I’ll get out now)
What happened to our beloved Mika??!
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.[6][7] (born 18 August 1983), known professionally as Mika (/ˈmiːkə/ MEE-kə, stylised as MIKA), is a singer-songwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon, and raised in Paris and London.
After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.[8] Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007, which has sold more than 8.3 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit Award—Best British Breakthrough act—and receive a Grammy Award nomination.[9] He topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2007 with "Grace Kelly" and has since gone on to record four more platinum-selling studio albums (most recently My Name is Michael Holbrook released in October 2019), as well as serve as judge/mentor on both the French version of The Voice and the Italian version of X Factor.
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sapphicomics · 6 months
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(ongoing) list of sapphic comic characters !
includes real and codenames (sorted by surnames, if applicable, alphabetically), sexuality (if specifically confirmed), link to tag (if i have one), and some further information if i know of any i want to include
if anything is incorrect, or you just know of something to be added, please let me know! preferably by asks, anon is on
DC Comics
Miscellaneous
Eva | Radiant Pink
from the massive-verse comics released by image comics
Jennika (Bisexual)
originated from the ongoing teenage mutant ninja turtles comics released by idw publishing
Velma Dinkley (Lesbian)
official scooby-doo comics are currently being released by dc comics
Kelly Pandit
from the massive-verse comics released by image comics
Roxie Richter
from scott pilgrim, released by oni press
Marvel Comics
Aneka
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her and ayo appear in black panther: world of wakanda, a comic that won the 2018 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Doctor Aphra
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marvel publishes the official star wars comics
Ayo
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her and aneka appear in black panther: world of wakanda, a comic that won the 2018 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Loki (Bisexual)
also canonically nonbinary
Rūna | Valkyrie
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appears in avengers unlimited infinity comic — full (earth-616) appearance list here
Sera
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also canonically a trans woman
an important character in angela: queen of hel, which was nominated for the 2016 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Xavin
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Irene Adler | Destiny
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appears in immortal x-men (2022) — full (earth-616) appearance list here
in a relationship with raven darkhölme
a main character in immortal x-men alongside mystique, which was nominated for the 2023 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Rikki Barnes
Betsy Braddock | Psylocke | Captain Britain
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America Chavez (Lesbian)
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a main character in young avengers (2013), which won the 2014 glaad media award for outstanding comic book, four years before her solo was nominated in 2018
Raven Darkhölme | Mystique
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appears in immortal x-men (2022) — full (earth-616) appearance list here
in a relationship with irene adler
a main character in immortal x-men alongside destiny, which was nominated for the 2023 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Karolina Dean (Lesbian)
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appears in marvel's voices: pride (2021) — full (earth-616) appearance list here
in a relationship with nico minoru
a main character in runaways (2017) alongside nico minoru, which was nominated for the 2019 and 2020 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Gabrielle Diwa | Galura (Lesbian)
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appears in love unlimited infinity comic, new mutants: lethal legion — full (earth-616) appearance list here
in a relationship with xuân cao manh
a supporting character in vita ayla's run of new mutants (2019), nominated for the glaad media award for outstanding comic book in 2023
Heather Douglas | Moondragon
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appears in guardians of the galaxy (2020) — full (earth-616) appearance list here + here
in a relationship with phyla-vell
a part of the team with phyla-vell in guardians of the galaxy (2020), which was nominated in 2021 and 2022 for the glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Felicia Hardy | Black Cat (Bisexual)
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Martha Johansson
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appears in new mutants: lethal legion — full (earth-616) appearance list here
Cessily Kincaid | Mercury
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Xuân Cao Manh | Karma (Lesbian)
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appears in love unlimited infinity comic, new mutants: lethal legion — full (earth-616) appearance list here
in a relationship with gabrielle diwa
a main character in marjorie liu's run of astonishing x-men (2004) which was nominated for the 2013 glaad media award for outstanding comic book as well as being a main character in vita ayla's run of new mutants (2019), nominated in 2023
Nico Minoru (Bisexual)
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in a relationship with karolina dean
a main character in runaways (2017) alongside karolina dean, which was nominated for the 2019 and 2020 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Aldrif Odinsdottir | Angela
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Ellie Phimister | Negasonic Teenage Warhead
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Julie Power
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Shela Sexton | Escapade
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appears in new mutants: lethal legion — full (earth-616) appearance list here
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the main character of her co-creator charlie jane ander's ending run of new mutants (2019), which was nominated for the 2023 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Rachel Summers | Phoenix | Askani
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a team member in x-factor (2020), which was nominated for the 2021 glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Heather Tucker | Tempo (Lesbian)
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Phyla-Vell (Lesbian)
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appears in guardians of the galaxy (2020) — full (earth-18897) appearance list here
in a relationship with heather douglas
a part of the team with heather douglas in guardians of the galaxy (2020), which was nominated in 2021 and 2022 for the glaad media award for outstanding comic book
Viv Vision (Lesbian)
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Roxanne Washington | Bling!
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Ramone Watts
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5 Seconds of Summer are learning how to be happy: ‘There’s parts of our career that I don’t remember’
The Guardian, 20 September 2022
The Australian pop band are all still in their 20s, but have spent a decade touring and recording ‘in an endless loop’. Now they’ve swapped parties for feeling at peace
Eleven years since four Australian schoolboys were spotted covering Bruno Mars and Justin Bieber songs on YouTube, plucked from obscurity and planted on some of the world’s biggest stages, 5 Seconds of Summer are starting fresh. A few months before they are set to perform two sold-out homecoming shows on the Sydney Opera House forecourt, they’re celebrating the release of 5SOS5, their (fittingly titled) fifth studio record – and their first to be released independently. They’re seizing control, in more ways than one.
But first, Luke Hemmings (vocals/guitar), Ashton Irwin (vocals/drums), Michael Clifford (vocals/guitar) and Calum Hood (vocals/bass) are confronting another monumental creative task: an album release show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. It is not just a venue of global significance but also personal significance: they once busked outside the concert hall while on a trip to London in their formative years. This time, they’ll be inside, and accompanied by an orchestra.
“I think when [the shows] come about, I’m gonna be very stressed out and I’m gonna try to enjoy it and not just focus on how stressed I am,” Hemmings says, sitting with Irwin in a studio in Eagle Rock, California. “I want to enjoy it and be able to fully remember it, because there’s parts of our career that I don’t remember, just from sheer volume and not being present.”
To fully comprehend the band’s meteoric rise over the past 11 years would be an incredible feat for anyone, let alone a teenager. Barely a year after 5SOS’s first show in 2011, to a dozen people in Sydney’s Annandale hotel, they embarked on an almost 100-date world tour as the support act for One Direction. By then, they were playing to more than 80,000 people over four nights at Sydney’s Allphones Arena.
In those days, as the popularity of boybands such as One Direction and BTS were rising to a level that threatened the sound barrier, 5SOS were forging a different kind of path. They had a fresh, dynamic quality, drawing as they did on the pop-punk they grew up with. All four were born in the shadow of Green Day’s 1994 breakthrough Dookie (Irwin, now 28, is the oldest member of 5SOS), and they repackaged that chart-topping punk for a new generation. Within a few years, 5SOS became the only band in history to land at No 1 on the Billboard 200 with each of their first three studio albums.
It’s almost like we were coming back to the basics of the band.
They’ve since collected five Aria awards at home, along with plenty of hardware overseas, and outlasted the band that gave them that early leg-up (One Direction has been on hiatus since 2015). Their 2018 song Youngblood became the biggest-selling single in Australia that year, then the country’s 11th bestselling single of all time, ranking 5SOS among AC/DC, Vance Joy and the Kid Laroi. Worldwide, they’ve sold more than 12m albums.
As one of the most successful musical acts in Australian history, it would’ve been easy for 5SOS to simply stick with what worked. They had perfected a formula and were enjoying the spoils. But as pop began shifting towards something similarly emo-influenced – the likes of Olivia Rodrigo and Machine Gun Kelly have been credited with “saving” pop-punk – 5SOS stepped back and shifted gears.
What does it look like for this band to have to pause in a way they haven’t in a decade?
“You suddenly stop and you realise … uh, I’m now sick, and I want to move all the time, no matter what,” Irwin says. “And I don’t know how to not move.”
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5 Seconds of Summer perform in Dublin, Ireland. Photograph: Ryan Fleming
The pace of life on the road manifested in physical and emotional illness. In June, Irwin was hospitalised for extreme heat exhaustion during a show in Texas. He’s been sober since 2019 and has experienced body dysmorphia – something he wrote about on his song Skinny Skinny, from his debut solo album. Spending a decade under the glare of cameras and fame contribute their own kind of spiritual illness, too.
The pandemic was a “forced stop” for the whole band, and one that created a relieving kind of freedom. They decamped to Joshua Tree to think and write together, without the same cycle of promotion and touring they had come to associate with making music. When a producer’s planned visit to their makeshift studio was derailed by a flat tire, Clifford stepped into the role and drove the sonic direction for 5SOS5, producing much of the record himself.
“We had a bit more time to reflect on everything that had happened to us – as opposed to in years previous, where we just were writing an album, going on tour, writing an album, going on tour,” Irwin says. “It was, in ways, an endless loop.”
They reflected on how their rapid rise had, Irwin says, “affected us personally, mentally, physically and philosophically. So we just dove into that feeling, and rode off into the sunset with it.”
In one of the early singles from the new album, Me, Myself and I, Hemmings sings of being a pit of need; getting what he wants, but still not feeling satisfied. “A lot of [the new album] is about romantic relationships and friendships,” he says. “But it’s more about realising that maybe you don’t have as many emotional tools in the tool belt to figure out why they affect you.”
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‘You suddenly stop [touring] and you realise … uh, I’m now sick, and I want to move all the time, no matter what’ … 5 Seconds of Summer. Photograph: Andy DeLuca
Only a few albums into their career, the cheeky upstarts from Sydney had barely hit their 20s when they started to experience the downside of their overnight success. On More, they sang about “a house that’s full of everything we wanted/but it’s an empty home”. “A band is often a trauma bond because you’ve been through so much together,” Irwin told NME in 2020.
Just a few years earlier, a Rolling Stone cover story painted 5SOS out to be debaucherous kids making the most of a good thing: partying hard and burning bright, but destined to be snuffed out. The people in that story couldn’t appear more different to the ones in front of me now. Hemmings seems intent on interrogating the emotional root of his songwriting; like Irwin, he released a solo record last year. And Irwin is pursuing creativity of all kinds, in the open-hearted way countless new arrivals to LA have done before him. They’re still young adults – but adults all the same, confronting what it means to be “on the other side of 24”, seeing scenes change and people fade out of view.
In the press biography for the new album, Irwin speaks of how he and his bandmates have made a conscious and active choice to show up, to be in the band for another day. Nothing about the band, or their new album or where they end up will be by default.
“When we decided to write together [in 2020], we had started to heal ourselves from moving so much and at such a high pace,” Irwin says. “And that, in turn, began to heal our creative relationship together.”
“Healthy” is a word that comes up often during our conversation; Hemmings and Irwin speak of having healthy goals and patterns, ensuring their health is a priority, having their own lives outside the band – “in a healthy way,” Hemmings clarifies. Getting out of each other’s pockets enabled them to find a new way forward, together.
“It’s almost like we were coming back to the basics of the band,” Hemmings says. And after an era defined by feeling heavy and weighed down, he says that these days, “we’re trying to get that light across.” X
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He hasn’t had a good career year since 2019. Not enough people had (have) Apple TV to make DJ relevant, it got lukewarm reviews from critics and no awards. LY was such a massive bomb it’s still being referenced. TGM was denounced as another over-financed middling action movie and Ghosted, yikes. Plus the reaction to his Gene Kelly idea was brutal and his SMA was overshadowed by his relationship. I’d take a break from any comment on my life too, if I were him.
I'll respectfully disagree with you about 2020. Defending Jacob did get a good response with fans and viewers, and did do viewing numbers that made Apple TV+ very, very happy. The critic reviews had enough positive notes to keep it from being seen as totally bad. And it made people see him as someone who could do a prestige drama. Also, his SM in 2020 did really help him draw in more fans and followers while pandemic messed around with filming.
Now, I will not argue seeing 2022 as a letdown. Especially LY.
TGM, at least, did do huge viewing numbers for Netflix. Worth the huge pricetag? Who knows, only Netflix can answer that one.
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Mercedes varnado X tori kelly love story smut warning ⚠️
Title: I'm not the only one
Chapter 1
Tori kelly is wearing a black and white hoodie with jeans and white shoes and mercedes is doing an interview with the WWE Germany prosieben Maxx
"It is too bright, can you see me good says mercedes "we can see you, we can hear you ,it's great to have you sasha banks, reigning Smackdown women's champion, thank you for your time says the German interviewer "thank you says mercedes "it's great to have you here in Germany, well um I have to start with a special thing because you have been voted the female superstar of 2020 on posey max and WWE Germany, congratulations from Germany says the interviewer "oh thank you Germany, thank you so much, I appreciate that ,um what do I get says mercedes "um yeah iii say uh ask my boss ,ask my boss, I'm Greek I don't have any money says the interviewer "then that award doesn't matter, send it to me come on ,can't work this hard for nothing says mercedes
"I'll send it via western union, that was the first plug of the show, um we're a couple of hours away from Smackdown which is in Germany exclusively on max 10 pm and it is gonna be in the new thunderdome and we're a little bit curious, tell us your impressions says the interviewer "well you know honestly I just rolled up to the building, I'm a little bit late, I haven't even seen what's around yet so I am super excited, you know just going from Orlando, you know that's where I live ,it's so nice , just wake up and go but I used to live in Tampa, we used to have nxt ,fcw in Tampa so this brings me back a lot of memories and I'm just so excited for something a little new so I can't wait says mercedes
"And we're looking forward, we're really looking forward, I can see the fans and we have to wait a day longer ,um hey guys if sasha banks is here, please, please the chat has to be filled with bluehost says the interviewer "oh my God says mercedes "blue heart, blue hearts show, I like that ,um it was a very let's say awkward year 2020, I think uh thats a nice way to say ,nevertheless you're perhaps one of your best perhaps the best professional life in your career, you've been wwe women's tag team champion, raw women's champion, Smackdown women's champion ,reigning Smackdown women's champion, how did that year go for you ,what are your impressions says the interviewer
"Um this year has been so wild just like everybody else, I've had my ups and my downs and the year Is just not Over ,I try to make this year the best I could because why not live at the best I could right if things are going so negative why not pick myself up and bring the positivity, kind of stole a little thing from the new day, just bringing the positivity to myself and let myself know every single day that I am great , I came into the wwe for a reason to be the very best so wether its 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 ,2021 , every single year for me professionally, personally everything is going to be great cause I make it so make sure you guys do that for yourself as well says mercedes
"That's a great statement, really great statement, um next weekend, you will be at tlc and you will face Carmella, I guess you haven't faced her in a pay per view match ever or at least for a very very long time and on Smackdown which you can see exclusively on prosi max ,I'm not done with my playoffs says the interviewer "as long as you get paid honey says mercedes "um at Smackdown you will make that match official and contract signings are always a special occasion, are you prepared says the interviewer "I am always prepared, I got my stamp ready , I got my seat warmed up ,I got my heels clicking and I'm about to show up because thats what I always do, you know I can't even tell you how many contract signings I've had in the wwe
But that alone tells you that I always have something, look at me up my sleeve so Carmella better get ready for me because this is my show and I run wwe says mercedes "as the Smackdown women's champion ,you started in wwe in 2012 , 8 years ,8 years ,you had a different style back then , a lot has changed obviously with presentation of women with your own presentation, you had a huge development, you have a great Instagram story its called my evolution and I really recommend everyone to check that out because it's really good ,your development and perhaps, you can tell us um , we could see that development from the outside, perhaps you can fill us in to that development from the inside because you were front end planner says the interviewer
"I think in anything in life, you always have to grow and understand everything that you go through is a journey as an experience and you have to take it and just go with it and let it love you, let it just fill you up, the good ,the bad, the negativity, the everything and that's what I did, I took everything in, I made everything better, I just wanted to make everything better for myself so everybody can do that for themselves, everybody can have a dream and go out there and chase it and if you look at my evolution, you can see me from the very moment I said that I wanted to be a wwe superstar, I planted the seed ,I kept on watering it, you see my evolution and here I am today as your Smackdown woman's champion and I am taking over Friday nights
Uh you can watch me on the mandalorion on Disney plus , go back and watch Mt episode I mean i am just taking over this world and I cannot wait for my future so I can't just go in to tomorrow being like oh my god ,I'm afraid no no no no, I am so ready for every single day says mercedes "that's interesting what you Said, you were on the mandalorion so you're part of the star wars universe , tell us about that came to happen, is it true that the director or when you get casted didn't know that you were a wwe superstar, I read something says the interviewer "well you read a lot of things didn't you, um he watched me on hot one so if you watched hot ones, I said I'm a wwe superstar so he must've known a little bit but he really said that he loved my personality and he wanted to write a role for me
And I was honestly just in such shock that I'm kind of still to this day still pinching that I was even in a star wars episode says mercedes as she talks about other things with the interviewer "while we're at it ,what was the last video game you played says the interviewer "it's been so long , the last video game I played was with um Xavier woods for upupdowndown as mercedes talks about the last video game she played and talking about the wrestling ring "I do it for the fans like you so that's what I try to do throughout my day, sometimes I get really nervous depending on if I want to be somebody's behind or if I just wanna settle things and talk it out it just depends on the day but right now when I get off this live, I'm about to eat because I'm hungry says mercedes
"So I don't want you to keep you off um your meal right now, I want to thank you again from everybody here in Germany and thank you for your time says the interviewer and after mercedes ends the Instagram livestream then tori kelly suprises her best friend mercedes as she brings the takeout food of salad and tori kelly spends some time with her best friend mercedes before Friday Night SmackDown in mercedes dressing room and they talk about tori Kelly's Christmas album as they eat their salads and tori kelly is wearing an all black outfit with unbuttoned blue shirt and black shoes "I have something to tell you says tori kelly " what do you want to tell me tori says mercedes "I'm Going to be Carmellas assistant on Friday Night SmackDown
Mercedes is concerned about that "are you sure you want to be Carmellas assistant on the show says mercedes "I'm sure mercedes says tori "if you think it's a good idea then ok says mercedes "you're my best friend and I know you're protective about your best friend mercedes "you are right about that tori says mercedes as they continue to talk "have you ever kissed a girl before tori says mercedes as she watches her friend eating the salad as tori kelly licks and bites her own bottom lip and tori kelly reacts to the question "I don't think I've kissed a girl before says tori as she asks her best friend the same question as she is worried "have you kissed a girl before says tori and mercedes reacts to the question as well "no, I have never kissed a girl before but why do you ask says mercedes as they have their little moment
Both tori and mercedes lean in to kiss "do you mind if I kiss you tori says mercedes "I don't mind if you kiss me mercedes says tori as they are about to kiss but they get interuppted by toris new boss Carmella as she walks in the room "did I interuppt something says Carmella "you didn't interuppt says tori kelly "you work for me as an assistant and I came in here to find you talking to mercedes says Carmella as she is rude to tori "mercedes is my friend says tori "I don't care if she is your friend and I don't want to find you talking to mercedes again, do you understand says Carmella as she gives tori the attitude "yes boss says tori "oh and if I interuppted something that you were doing with mercedes, good says Carmella as she is even more rude to her assistant tori kelly
then both Carmella and mercedes are in the ring as they do the contract signing for tlc "sasha last week after what for me like a very personal war of words between you and Carmella, you issued a very confident challenge to fave her at the tlc pay per view for that Smackdowns women's championship, this contract signing tonight will make thar match official says Adam pierce as he sets down the contract "ladies and gentlemen her opponent at tlc says pierce "what the hell Is this ,Adam are you kidding me, is this a setup ,is this your doing, where is Carmella and where is this contract huh says mercedes "looking for this honey says Carmella as she waves the contract
"Sasha don't you know by know that I make the rules and you follow them ,don't worry though I did sign the contract and I'll have it hand delivered to you by my assistant who doubles as my messenger girl ,can you take this to miss little pretty pants out there and have her sign it says Carmella as she hands the contract to tori "I should've known that you were up to your dirty little tricks , aren't you embarrassed being you Carmella says mercedes "but you didn't, I'm not embarrassed at all, I'm proud of who I am , that's why I don't gander with internet mouth breathers watching at home ,did you seriously think I would get in the ring with you tonight when you basically tried to maul me like a wild animal a few weeks ago, it's the queens gambit
I'm the hot chick playing a game of chess of your life and I'm always four moves ahead says Carmella "you wanna play games, well at tlc ,we'll play a little game ,how about this game, how far can I bend Carmella back and make her touch her spine ,you like that game, how about this one, how fast can I make Carmella cry , oo I have a better game fir you Carmella says mercedes "and you winder why I'm not in the ring with you making threats like that , Adam you better get her under control before she seriously hurts somebody says Carmella as tori hands the contract to pierce "she is so jealous of me and it's getting to her head but I know why she's acting like this , she knows as soon as she signs that contract ,her days as the Smackdown women's champion are almost over says Carmella
Mercedes signs the contract "you know what let's flip the script, how about if you want this title, come out here and I'll give it to you tonight, what do you say blondie says mercedes "you don't make the rules around here, I'm the boss for a reason says mercedes "alright let's do it tonight says Carmella "that match for tonight is now officiall says pierce "oh and Carmella let me give you a little preview of how wild tonight's going to get says mercedes as she slaps tori in the ring
Then after the segment ends and tori kelly is backstage as mercedes catches up to tori kelly "why did you have to slap me like that says tori "I'm sorry for slapping you but I had to stay In character tori and i feel bad about slapping you says mercedes "well you didn't need to slap me says tori "I said I was sorry tori says mercedes as both mercedes and tori continue to argue about the slap then the argument gets interrupted as Carmella calls tori "why don't you just leave me alone mercedes says tori as she walks away from mercedes and as tori walks away from mercedes as tori tears up and mercedes starts to cry as she watches her friend walk away
"Tori please says mercedes as she shouts at tori who is still walking away but continues to ignore her friend as she goes to see what Carmella wants as mercedes continues shouting at her friend tori as tori enters Carmellas dressing room "you called boss says tori "I did tori says Carmella "is there anything that you need me for boss says tori as Carmella notices that tori is crying "why are you crying tori says Carmella " I walked away from my friend who slapped me says tori "I didn't expect your friend to slap you in the ring although she couldn't break character and does she feel bad for slapping you says Carmella "I think so but I didn't believe even though I wanted to says tori as Carmella tells tori what she wants
And later that night before the main event as tori is in her locker room as she changes into a flannel shirt with black pants and shoes and tori freshens up and then she gets a call from mercedes and tori answers the call "what do you want mercedes says tori "can you please stop ignoring me for what I did to you in the ring and I am sorry for slapping you tori says mercedes "look mercedes I know you didn't mean to slap me and you feel bad about it but I want to know why you slapped me says tori "me and Carmella are rivals and I did it to get in her head but I don't want our friendship to end tori says mercedes "is that what you're worried about mercedes says tori "yes Tori says mercedes "I'm not ending our friendship, I'm just mad at you for the slap says tori as tori and mercedes talk for a bit on the phone call
"Good luck in your match tonight mercedes says tori "thanks tori says mercedes "you're welcome mercedes, bye says tori "bye says mercedes and the phone call ends
And both mercedes and Carmella are the in ring as the match for the Smackdown women's championship starts as Carmella takes mercedes down by her hair and Carmella Irish whips mercedes into the ring post and Carmella trash talks mercedes and then Carmella dropkicks mercedes and mercedes tries to go for the backstabber on Carmella and Carmella reverses as Carmella does a few elbow attack on mercedes in the ring corner and Carmella tosses mercedes into the other ring corner then mercedes does a knee attack on Carmella and mercedes does a meteora attack to Carmella
And 4 minutes into the match as tori comes out to try and help her boss Carmella and mercedes does a backstabber and the bank statement to tori and the match is already over due to a disqualification Carmella continues attacking mercedes
Then Carmella smashes a champagne glass on mercedes back and mercedes is still the Smackdown women's champion as Carmella embarrasses mercedes by spraying the champagne bottle at mercedes and Carmella trash talks mercedes then Smackdown goes off air as mercedes is in the medics locker room and tori checks on her friend "are you okay mercedes says tori "I'll be okay and your not mad at me for attacking you out there in the ring says mercedes "no and it's your job to stay in character but are you sure you're okay because Carmella smashed a champagne glass on your back says tori "that did hurt but I'm sure that I'm fine tori says mercedes
"But do you mind checking on my back for me tori says mercedes "I'll check your back mercedes says tori "medic, can you hand me an ice pack says tori and the wwe medic hands tori an ice pack and tori puts the ice pack on mercedes back "you do want me to carry you and you have a few cuts on your back from what Carmella did says tori "I don't mind if you carry me and can we go to your hotel room tori says mercedes as she asks tori "we can go to my hotel room says tori as she carries mercedes to her hotel room and then they arrive at toris hotel room and they enter the hotel room as tori carries mercedes inside the hotel room "where do you want me to set you down mercedes says tori "how about the couch or the bed says mercedes
"I'll just set you on the couch says tori as she goes towards the couch and sets mercedes down on the couch "thank you tori says mercedes "you're welcome mercedes says tori "do you want anything to drink mercedes says tori "can I have a drink of water says mercedes "I'll get you some water and what do you want to do while I get you some water says tori "can you sit on the couch with me while you get me so.e water says mercedes and a couple seconds later as tori comes back with water and she hands the water to mercedes as she sits next to mercedes on the couch "thanks for the water tori says mercedes "you're welcome mercedes says tori "can we watch a movie on Netflix says mercedes
"We can watch a movie on Netflix says tori then halfway through the movie as mercedes leans in towards toris ear as she whispers something seductively in toris ear as mercedes teases and seduces Tori "have you ever made love or kissed a girl says mercedes seductively as she continues to tease and seduce tori "we can't do that because I am married says tori as she rejects mercedes "I don't care if you're married or not and I'm going to have some fun with you wether you like it or not says mercedes seductively as she continues teasing and seducing tori then mercedes kisses tori for the first time and mercedes continue to kiss tori as tori grabs the back of mercedes neck to deepen the kiss as tori takes off mercedes clothes without breaking the kiss as mercedes does the same thing
Then they head to the bedroom to have sex as they get on the bed still not breaking the kiss as mercedes gets on top of tori as she kisses toris jaw to her neck amd sucks the sweet spot on toris neck as tori moans in pleasure then mercedes drags her tounge to toris chest and she gropes toris boobs as tori moans and mercedes sucks on toris left breast as tori moans as mercedes licks toris nipple as tori moans in pleasure and getting a little wet on her pussy as mercedes does the same thing with toris other breast as she slides her hand down to toris wet pussy and mercedes rubs toris pussy as tori moans loud and mercedes kisses and bites her way down leaving a few hickeys and then mercedes gently bites the sensitive spot as she licks toris pussy as tori moans at the sensation
Mercedes licks toris clit as she sticks one finger in toris pussy and fingers toris pussy as tori moans as she grinds against mercedes finger then mercedes sticks two more fingers in toris pussy and starts thrusting her fingers inside of toris pussy as tori continues moaning as she grips the bedsheets as mercedes continues thrusting her fingers in toris pussy as tori moans real loud "sit on my face says mercedes as they get in position as tori sits her pussy on mercedes mouth as mercedes starts sucking on toris pussy as tori moans very loud as mercedes continues sucking on toris pussy then a few minutes later as tori cums partly In mercedes mouth as the rest is on mercedes face
Then tori cleans the mess from mercedes face as tori flips them over as she is on top of mercedes as tori does the same things with mercedes breasts making mercedes wet as she moans and also leaves a few hickeys on the way down to mercedes pussy and tori starts sucking on mercedes pussy as mercedes grips the bedsheets and 15 minutes later as tori still continues to suck on mercedes pussy as mercedes moans so very loud and another few minutes later as mercedes orgasm hits and she cums and tori swallows every bit of mercedes cum and they lay down next to each other as they finished having sex and 4 days later on December 14 of 2020 at canyon lake California as it is toris 28th birthday
And then tori arrives at the restaurant and she parks the car in the parking spot and she turns the car off and she takes off her seatbelt and she picks up her phone from the dashboard and she sends a text message to her girlfriend mercedes
Tori: I'm here outside of the restaurant baby
Mercedes: are you in the car outside of the restaurant baby
Tori: I am and I'll head inside the restaurant when I get out of the car baby
They both text a bit
Mercedes: happy birthday baby
Tori: thanks for saying happy birthday to me honey
Mercedes: does your husband know about us dating baby
Tori: my husband does not know that you and I are dating baby
Mercedes: let's keep our relationship a secret from your husband and my husband baby
Tori: we'll keep relationship a secret from my husband and your husband baby
Mercedes: I love you babe
Tori: I love you too baby
Mercedes: our husband's will never know about us dating baby
Tori: you got that right honey
And then tori ends the text with her girlfriend and she puts her phone back in her purse and she grabs her purse from the passenger seat and she gets out of the car with her purse in her hand and she locks the car door and she heads towards the entrance of the restaurant and Tori enters the restaurant and then she hears her girlfriend call her name and tori walks towards the table and tori husband gets up from his seat and he gives his wife tori a hug amd tori looks up to see her girlfriend mercedes getting a little jealous and then tori pulls away from the hug " happy birthday baby says toris husband " thanks honey says tori as she walks past her husband and she sits down next to her husband as her husband sits back down and then halfway through the birthday dinner as they have a conversation
And they eat from their plates and then mercedes passes the envelope to tori and tori puts the fork down on her plate and she grabs the envelope " what's in the envelope mercedes says tori " open it and see tori says mercedes as she fakes a smile " also happy birthday says mercedes " thanks again says tori as she opens the envelope and she takes a look inside the envelope and she sees an extra hotel room key and a note and she pulls out the note and she hides it under the table and she looks down at the note and reads it as it says " this is your room key for when you come by my hotel room and we'll have lots of fun in my hotel room honey" then tori puts the note back in the envelope
and closes the envelope and she puts the envelope on the table and she grabs her purse that is hanging from the chair and she opens her purse and she puts the envelope in the purse and she closes the purse and she puts the purse back on the chair and she places her phone next to her and she continues eating her food " what was in the envelope baby says toris husband as he asks " just a small birthday card In the envelope honey says tori as she lies to her husband and Tori is wearing a shirt, unzipped hoodie and jeans and shoes and then a few minutes later as they are finishing eating their food as tori takes the last few bites of her food and then she looks up and sees her friend mercedes giving her make love eyes to tori without her husband looking and tori feels her bulge slowly getting hard and she puts the fork back down on the plate
And she sends a text to her girlfriend
Tori: are you giving me the let's make love look in your eyes baby
Mercedes: I am and are you getting hard honey
Tori: from the look that you gave me, I am slowly getting very hard in my jeans honey
Mercedes: after this, we'll make lots of love
They both text a bit and tori finishes eating her food as she watch her girlfriend mercedes lean towards her husband amd whispers in his ear " yes honey says mercedes husband as tori hears mercedes tell her husband that she has to use the restroom " if you gotta go then use the restroom says mercedes husband and Tori watches mercedes get up from the seat and she takes a few sips of her wine glass and he sets down the wine glass and mercedes wals to tori as tori continues to finish her food and mercedes leans towards toris ear " why don't you meet me in the bathroom honey says mercedes as she whispered seductively in her slutty voice without toris husband looking " I'll met you in the bathroom mercedes says tori " I gotta use the bathroom honey says tori " go use the bathroom honey says toris husband
And she sets the fork down on the plate and she gets up from her chair and she covers her bulge with her hand " we'll be back in a bit guys says tori " okay says the guys and tori walks to the bathroom and she enters the bathroom and she closes and locks the door and then she puts pushed against the wall by her girlfriend and mercedes removes her girlfriends hand from her very hard bulge amd tori kisses her girlfriend passionately as they aggressively French kiss and tounge kiss and then tori flips them around and she pushes her girlfriend mercedes up against the wall and she lifts up her girlfriends dress as mercedes wraps her legs around her girlfriends waist and she wraps her arms around her girlfriends neck with breaking the kiss
" let's make love for a bit in the bathroom papi and call me baby girl says mercedes seductively in her slutty voice " sure thing baby girl says tori as she Slightly pulls away from the kiss as she takes off her girlfriends dress and she tosses the dress to the floor revealing her girlfriends sexy boobs " suck my boobs papi says mercedes seductively " with pleasure baby girl says tori as she leans towards her girlfriends boobs " also, let's not moan as loud or scream during sex in this bathroom honey says tori " I'll try not to moan as loud papi says mercedes as tori goes towards her girlfriends left breast and nipple and she suck on her girlfriends left breast as she flicks her tounge on her girlfriends nipple as mercedes moans slightly loud in pleasure
And about 20 minutes later as tori did the same with mercedes other breast and nipple and mercedes panties is now very wet " eat me out papi says mercedes " I'll eat you out baby girl says tori seductively as she unwraps her girlfriends legs from her waist and mercedes unwraps her arms around her girlfriends neck and tori gets on her knees and she pulls her girlfriends wet panties all the way off and she tosses the panties towards the dress and Tori sees how wet her girlfriend is between her legs " I love how wet you are between your legs baby girl says tori " thinking about having sex with you in this bathroom made me very wet for you papi says mercedes seductively and tori spreads her girlfriends legs apart and she leans towards her girlfriends very wet pussy
" how long should we have sex in the bathroom papi says mercedes as tori starts eating out her girlfriends pussy as mercedes leans against the wall for support as she throws her head back as she moans in pleasure " about 4 hours before our husband's figure what we are doing in here baby girl says tori " 4 hours is good enough for me papi and 7 hours is how long it takes for our husband's to figure out what we are doing and I love keeping our relationship a secret from them baby girl says tori as she aggressively eats out her girlfriends pussy very hard as mercedes covers her very loud moan with her mouth and about 12 minutes of tori aggressively eating out her girlfriends pussy and mercedes reaches her climax and she cums hard on her girlfriends face while she covers her very loud moans with her mouth
And mercedes cleans the mess off her girlfriends face " take off your clothes and I'll give you a real good blowjob papi says mercedes " sure thing slut says tori as she gets up and she takes off her clothes and her very hard 20 inch slightly huge dick springs up and mercedes bites her lip as she sees how slightly huge her girlfriends very hard 20 inch dick Is and then mercedes stands in front of her girlfriend and she gets to her knees and toris dick is an inch away from her face and then mercedes kisses the tip of her girlfriends dick making Tori moan slightly loud in pleasure " once I suck on your dick, I'll motion for you to deepthroat me papi says mercedes seductively " with pleasure slut and who do you belong to says tori " I belong to you papi says mercedes as she sucks on her girlfriends dick at a very fast pace making tori moan so much in pleasure
And mercedes continues to suck on her girlfriends dick at an even much faster pace as tori covers her mouth as she moans loud with her hand covering her mouth and then mercedes motions for her girlfriend to deepthroat her and tori grabs her girlfriends head and she starts deepthroating her girlfriend mouth and throat and about 40 minutes of tori deepthroating her girlfriend so hard and tori continues to her girlfriend even faster and harder and about 12 seconds later as tori pulls her now very hard 20 inch wet dick out of her girlfriends mouth " when I lay down on the clean bathroom floor " I want you to bounce on my dick and don't moan loud cause I don't want our husband's to hear us having sex in here slut says tori
" I promise you I won't moan that loud ,just slightly moan loud papi says mercedes as she watches her girlfriend lay down on the floor and then mercedes gets in position as she hovers her pussy over her girlfriends very hard 20 inch dick and then mercedes slides her girlfriends entire dick all the way in her pussy as the tip odlf toris dick hits her g spot and mercedes covers her mouth as mumbles a very loud high pitch scream and moan and then mercedes starts bouncing on her girlfriends dick at a very fast bouncing pace making Tori moan not as loud in pleasure " did you take a birth control pill before we started having sex in here baby girl says tori as she moans
" I took one before you came in here and after you locked the door, I immediately started making love with you as we are having sex papi says mercedes as she moans as she continues bouncing on her girlfriends dick even faster and rougher as they both keep their moans real low and not as loud " make me cum so hard in your pussy slut says tori as she moans " I'll make you shoot loads of cum inside of me papi says mercedes as she bounces even more faster and harder on her girlfriends dick and about 30 minutes later as tori reaches her orgasm and she shoots loads of her cum inside of her girlfriends pussy as tori covers her loud moans " get on all fours and I'll fuck your ass so very hard slut says tori
" yes papi but not as hard cause I won't be able to cover my mouth and inside I'll bite my lip to keep myself from screaming and moaning during the doggy style sex position papi says mercedes as she gets on all fours as tori gets in position and she gives her girlfriends ass a few slaps as mercedes moans in sensation " smack my ass some more papi says mercedes " with pleasure slut says tori as she slaps her girlfriends ass some more and then she aggressively slides her entire dick all the way inside of her girlfriends ass making mercedes bite her lip as she tries not to moan as loud and 3 hours later as they did lots of different sex positions as they kept themselves from moans in and screaming at the top if her lungs and they do a couple more sex positions in the bathroom before they get exhausted
And they do the pushing tush sex position as tori gets on top of her girlfriend as she aggressively thrusts her entire dick inside of her girlfriends pussy as she hits her girlfriends g spot and tori smashes her lips onto her girlfriends lips as mercedes moans almost loud through the aggressively French kiss and tounge kiss as tori thrusts even harder and faster inside of her girlfriends pussy as mercedes continues moaning and then tori pulls away from the kiss as she gets in the butterfly sex position as she still has her dick in her girlfriends pussy and tori puts her girlfriends legs on her shoulder making mercedes moan in pleasure and then tori starts thrusting her dick In her girlfriends pussy once more " be slightly aggressive with me papi says mercedes as she moans
" sure thing slut says tori as she Slightly becomes aggressive with her girlfriend during the last hour of sex as she thrusts so hard and fast in her girlfriends pussy as she hits her girlfriends g spot a couple more times making mercedes cover her loud high pitch moans and then about 30 minutes later as mercedes cums on her girlfriends dick and then they get on their side and tori lifts up her girlfriends leg and she lays her girlfriends leg on her waist and she once again slides her entire dick all the way in her girlfriends sore pussy and then tori starts thrusting so very fast in her girlfriends pussy and mercedes moans kind of loud in pleasure but not as loud
and then lots of thrusting later as tori once again shoots loads of her cum inside of her girlfriends pussy and then tori takes her dick out of her girlfriends pussy as juices leak out of mercedes pussy as they stop sex for now before they get very sweaty and very exhausted " are you satisfied for now baby girl says tori as she gives her girlfriend a kiss and Mercedes kisses back " I'm satisfied for now and ended sex early before our husband's figure out what we are doing baby says mercedes " I really wanted to make love a bit longer with you but I don't want our husband's to find out baby girl says tori " if we go back to our husband's, we'll tell them a lie baby says mercedes " what lie would we tell them baby says tori " how about this, we talked for a few hours in here and lost track of time baby says mercedes " that lie is perfect baby says tori
And they both get up and they clean themselves off and the put their clothes back on " I love you babe says tori " I love you too baby says mercedes as they kiss one more time
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UDON's Showdown: Hsien-Ko, Special Anniversaries, And Street Fighter 6 Evolution
In Ep. 581, Matt Moylan and I cover Hsien-Ko's showdown on October 25th, UDON's 20th-anniversary special on October 18th, and the Street Fighter 6 Evolution Special #1 on November 25th, with updates on UDON projects and the comic book industry! Chapters: 0:00:14 Introducing the Reasons I'm Broke podcast 0:04:34 Darkstalkers One Shot: Building the Plot 0:08:17 The Possibility of Expanding Street Fighter Omega into a Series 0:13:31 Comic collaboration with Capcom for Evo event 0:23:23 Exciting updates on upcoming volumes and series in Japan 0:28:53 Udon's Criteria for Choosing Projects 0:36:32 Collecting Prints: Storage and Format Preferences 0:39:30 Udon's Cover Variations and Pricing Strategy 0:45:21 The impact of adding characters from other mediums to comics 0:48:03 The disconnect between movie fans and comic book readers 0:51:07 The importance of fun and love for characters in storytelling 0:54:19 The Benefits of Self-Curation in the Publishing Industry FOLLOW/SUPPORT MATT MOYLAN AND UDON ENTERTAINMENT: @LilFormers (Matt's X) @mattmoylanlf (Matt's Insta) Matt Moylan's Site @UDONent (Udon's X) Udon's Official Store As always, we appreciate your constructive Feedback, Suggestions, and Questions. You can also leave us an audio question on SpeakPipe. Thank you for the continued love and support! Enjoy the show. Daniel and Kelli Podcast Awards 2019 || Games & Hobbies (Winner) Podcast Awards 2017 - 2018, 2020 - 2022 || Games & Hobbies (Nominated) Official Site SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Google Podcasts / iHeartRadio / TuneIn / Overcast FOLLOW US: - X | @ReasonsImBroke, @PalpaKelli, and @TRIBPod - Instagram - Pinterest - Tumblr - Discord Lounge - YouTube Channel SUPPORT THE POD: Getting $1's worth of entertainment and information each month? Support us on Patreon or visit our TeePublic storefront! SPREAD THE WORD: If you're enjoying the show, please head over to iTunes and leave us a rating and a review! Each one helps new Brokettes discover the podcast. Donate to Hero Initiative to help comic creators in need. CREDITS: Opening/Closing Jingles - Alex Scott Show Logo By - Opanaldiova
The latest episode of The Reasons I'm Broke Podcast!
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HERE’S WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (11.16-11.22.22):
NEW MUSIC:
- You Me at Six released a short film to go along with their new song “Mixed Emotions.” The band also recently announced their new album Truth Decay, releasing on January 27, 2023. - Weathers announced their signing to Sumerian Records and dropped a new appropriately-named song titled “Where Do I Sign?”. The band is currently on tour with Set It Off. - The Sound of Animals Fighting released their first new song in 14 years titled “Apesh*t.” The song was revealed to be the title track of a new EP releasing on December 8 via Born Loser Records. - YouTuber and musician Alex Melton released a cover of Four Year Strong’s song “Seventeen.” The singer will be releasing his debut country album Southern Charm on January 23, 2023 via Pure Noise Records. - One OK Rock released a music video to go along with their newest track “Vandalize.” The song is featured on the soundtrack of the new video game Sonic Frontiers, which also features Sleeping with Sirens’ Kellin Quinn. - City and Colour released a new song titled “Meant to Be,” which was written in tribute to his late friend and producer Karl Bareham. It’s the first new music from the project since 2019’s full-length A Pill for Loneliness. - The Dirty Nil released a new song titled “Bye Bye Big Bear.” The band released their last full-length album F*ck Art back in early 2021. - Palaye Royale released a music video for their new song “Oblivion.” The band’s newest album Fever Dream is out now via Sumerian Records. - Waterparks revealed the track listing for their upcoming studio album, which is yet to be titled. The album will feature their songs “Funeral Grey” and “Self-Sabotage,” as well as their collaboration with Blackbear titled “F*ck About It.” - Phem released a new song titled “Never Goes Down Like That” featuring Ezekiel. The song follows on from her previous singles “Watery” and “Brkdwn.”
TOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS:
- Slam Dunk Festival announced they are expanding into Europe next summer with two new events taking place in France and Italy. The Offspring, Billy Talent and Simple Plan were announced as headliners for both events. - Against the Current announced they will be livestreaming the footage from their recent tour stop at Cologne’s Carlwerk Victoria back in the spring. The event will be taking place this Saturday, November 25, via Maestro and there will be two showings. - 2000trees Festival shared the lineup of bands who will be attending next year. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes will be headlining and will be joined by The Wonder Years, Cancer Bats, Joyce Manor, Dream State, Microwave, Koyo and others.
OTHER NEWS:
- The nominees for next year’s Grammy Awards were announced, with Turnstile up for three different categories. Joining them are Ghost for Best Metal Performance and Machine Gun Kelly for Best Rock Album. - Simple Plan’s classic track “I’m Just a Kid” is now certified Silver in the United Kingdom. It appears on the band’s debut album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls, which is also certified Silver. ___
Check in next Tuesday for more “Posi Talk with Sage Haley”!
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Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.[6][7][8] (born 18 August 1983), known by his stage name Mika (/ˈmiːkə/ MEE-kə, stylised as MIKA), is a Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter.
After recording his first extended play, Dodgy Holiday, Mika was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2007 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2007.[9] Mika released his first full-length studio album, Life in Cartoon Motion, on Island Records in 2007, which sold more than 5.6 million copies worldwide and helped Mika win a Brit Award—winning Best British Breakthrough act—and receive a Grammy Award nomination.[10] He topped the UK Singles Chart in January 2007 with "Grace Kelly". He has since gone on to record four more studio albums (most recently My Name is Michael Holbrook released in October 2019), as well as serve as judge/mentor on both the French version of The Voice and the Italian version of X Factor. Mika has also starred in his own television variety show in Italy, Stasera Casa Mika [it], which won the 2017 Rose d'Or Award for Entertainment, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
Contents
1Life and career
1.11983–2006: Childhood and early career
1.22007–2008: Life in Cartoon Motion
1.32009–2010: The Boy Who Knew Too Much
1.42010–2014: The Origin of Love, X Factor Italy and Songbook Vol.1
1.52015–2018: No Place in Heaven
1.62019–2020: My Name Is Michael Holbrook
1.72021–present
2Personal life
3Discography
4Filmography
5Tours
6Awards and nominations
7References
8External links
Life and career
1983–2006: Childhood and early career
Mika was born in Beirut, the third of five children (three sisters Yasmine, Paloma and Zuleika and one brother Fortuné), to an American-born Lebanese mother and an Israeli-born American father, Mary Joan "Joannie" (née Mouakad, daughter of John Mouakad and Odette Farah) and Michael Holbrook Penniman (son of William Frederick Penniman III and Dorothy Dyar). His father was a banker[7][11] and was born in Jerusalem, where his own father – Mika's paternal grandfather William Frederick Penniman III – was a diplomat.[11][12] Mika's maternal grandfather John Mouakad was Syrian (from Damascus).[13][14]
When Mika was a year old, his family was forced to leave war-torn Lebanon and moved to Paris, France.[12][15] The first piano piece he learned to play was "Les Champs-Élysées", by Joe Dassin.[12] At the age of 7, he wrote his first song, a piano instrumental called "Angry", which he describes as "awful".[7] The family moved to London when he was 9 years old. There, he attended the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, where he experienced severe bullying. He also had problems with dyslexia. In response to these experiences Mika was home-schooled by his mother at the age of 12, for six to eight months.[7] He then attended St Philip's School in Kensington, where he was the head of the Schola Cantorum (the St. Philip's Choir). Later he attended Westminster School and the Royal College of Music, which he left to record his first album at Casablanca Records.[16] As a child Mika was trained by Alla Ardakov (Ablaberdyeva), a Russian opera professional.
Mika's first single was a limited 7"/download release called "Relax, Take It Easy" (2006). It was play-listed by UK's BBC Radio 1 and was made Record of the Week by DJ Scott Mills. The Dodgy Holiday EP also became available for download. The song "Billy Brown" was available for free download for a week from the iTunes Store. A song titled 'Over-rated', which was recorded in 2004, was "unofficially" released online. His debut radio appearance was on Dermot O'Leary's BBC Radio 2 show in September 2006.
2007–2008: Life in Cartoon Motion
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Happy 40th Birthday, the popular STV weather man Seán Batty.
Born in Paisley in 1982, he spent some of his early childhood, here in Falkirk and attended Carron primary school in the town before moving back to Paisley where he went to  Castlehead High School and studied Meteorology at Reading University.
His interest in meteorology began when he was only seven years old, after receiving a BBC weather kit for his birthday. Batty became the weather forecaster for the School newspaper as well as the regional newspaper, The Paisley Daily Express for a few months during the summer of 1996.
Batty joined the Met Office as a weather observer at the school of Army Training at Middle Wallop airbase near Andover, Hampshire. He later worked with the ITV Weather team preparing TV weather graphics and maps for S4C, UTV and ITV.
In 2004 he joined the BBC as a broadcast assistant. Seán has been working in Scotland for STV Weather since August 2007.
Batty was nominated for the BAFTA Scotland Lloyds TSB Scotland Award for Most Popular Scottish Presenter in November 2008, losing out to Lorraine Kelly.
Seán learnt Gaelic in preparation for the National Mòd in his home town of Paisley in 2013. He has been a supporter and Judge for part of the Breast Way Round Charity event since 2008. He is also an ambassador for the TV charity, The STV Children’s Appeal and haa raised money by cycling, running, walking and hiking his way around the country since it started in 2011.
In 2019 he was given his own show ‘Sean’s Scotland’, taking viewers on a journey around our beautiful country over the course of 7 weeks. The programme covered weather, environment, the people and wildlife. He is often seen with his wee dug, Harris, in 2021 he also brought us his  Don't Waste Scotland show, where he  he met people making Scotland greener.
If you are on twitter Batty is a must to follow, you will get the best pics of the Scottish weather and some great banter.  He is a trainee pilot for his Private Pilots License learning to fly at Glasgow Airport.
During the lockdown Seán presented the forecasts from his home, mostly in his garden, but he has also got an abundance of helpers he calls his “mini me’s” who have been sending him their forecasts every day.
In 2012 Seán suffered homophobic abuse on twitter.  The teen  admitted he posted the offensive remark and insists he felt 'awful' about it the next day. He was prosecuted and handed an 18-month Community Payback Order.
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