Pro-vaccination ad leaves NFL's Kelce in misinformation crosshairs
Vaccine skeptics are attacking Travis Kelce for participating in a Pfizer advertisement, recycling conspiracy theories about Covid-19 shots as the NFL star is getting attention for his rumored...
2023-09-30 10:28
How tall is Brooke Shields? 'The Blue Lagoon' actress is obsessed with high heels
Brooke Shields once revealed that she opts to wear high heels to maximize her height
2023-09-19 19:23
'AGT' Season 18: Who is Lachune Boyd? Contestant and vocal coach found love for music in pews of African American church
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2023-06-28 07:20
A law that launched 2,500 sex abuse suits is expiring. It’s left a trail of claims vs. celebs, jails
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2023-11-19 15:17
Andrew Tate reveals why Black people don't use Siri while slamming White boys for using voice assistant
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2023-09-02 19:51
The Rock buys a house for UFC fighter who was sleeping in a gym
A wholesome video of Dwayne Johnson buying a UFC fighter a house has gone viral online and has left people in tears. The clip shared to Johnson's Instagram shows the actor surprising a man he has never met with the ultimate gift. Themba T L Gorimbo (@thembagorimbo_mma) recently won his first fight with $7 (£5) in his bank account. He was also said to be sleeping on the couch in the gym he trains at. In the caption, Johnson explained: "After the fight, he sold his fight gear (trunks & gloves) online and made $7,000. Instead of using the money to find a place to live, he built a bush pump so his village back in Zimbabwe can have clean water." The footage shows Johnson sneaking up on Gorimbo in the Miami gym, who gets emotional when he realises the surprise. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Johnson, famously known as The Rock, shared the heartwarming gesture in full in a YouTube video, where he took the UFC fighter to a house. He notices that his family photos are displayed around the house, saying: "It's my family? Oh my god." "So Themba, I don't know anybody who lives here," Johnson said. "I wanted to come here, I wanted to bring you here, I wanted to look you in the eye and I wanted to tell you, welcome home." Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Surprises UFC Fighter Themba Gorimbo With New House www.youtube.com Inevitably, the comments were flooded with viewers who were left in tears. "Whether he wins the title or not, this guy is already a champion, he deserves this, respect to Dwayne for seeing that," one person said. Another added: "This made me cry like a baby. Being a Zimbabwean myself I know what kind of change you have just brought to this man’s life and to lives of the people he wants to take care of. Great stuff DJ! Welcome home Themba." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-08-04 23:29
You Can Donate Your Leftover Halloween Candy to American Troops and First Responders
Remove the risk to your waistline and do some good at the same time by donating your leftover Halloween candy.
2023-09-10 23:29
What is Whoopi Goldberg afraid of? 'The View' host develops PTSD after witnessing tragic mid-air collision
Whoopi Goldberg's fear of flying has an emotional backstory involving a mid-air collision
2023-08-03 13:45
Larry David is slammed for laying into Elon Musk, Internet says 'remember FTX'
David is said to have confronted Musk at the star-studded wedding of Ari Emanuel and Sarah Staudinger in St Tropez last year
2023-09-20 16:59
'Silo' Episode 4 Review: Get a glimpse into Juliette Nichols’ childhood as she starts her job as sheriff
Juliette Nichols is ready to find some answers and there’s no stopping her!
2023-05-19 15:25
Liverpool gets by with a little help from The Beatles
It was once a thriving maritime hub, including for the transatlantic slave trade, but after years of industrial decline, Liverpool's economy is getting a boost...
2023-06-22 11:54
Taylor Swift appears to slam 'bisexual' rumours on 1989 re-release
Taylor Swift's re-recorded 2014 album 1989 has dropped just in time for diehard fans to enjoy a weekend filled with nostalgia. The album marks an era when the star transitioned from country to pop muic, and saw her bag a Grammy for Album of the Year. Alongside her impressive spanning career in the limelight, comes trash talk. More specifically, years of misogynistic "slut shaming" surrounding Swift's dating history. Subsequently, Swift took a break from dating for two and a half years – which meant she naturally spent more time with her female friends. From doing so, baseless online rumours were birthed about her sexuality. Now, in a letter written for the re-release of the album, Swift shared her inspiration behind writing 1989, and in doing so, thanked fans for not leaning into claims online. "The voices that had begun to shame me in new ways for dating like a normal young woman? I wanted to silence them," the star wrote. "You see – in the years preceding this, I had become the target of slut shaming – the intensity and relentlessness of which would be criticized and called out if it happened today. The jokes about my amount of boyfriends. The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of boy-crazy psychopath. The media co-signing of this narrative. I had to make it stop because it was starting to really hurt." Swift continued: "It became clear to me that for me there was no such thing as casual dating, or even having a male friend who you platonically hang out with. If I was seen with him, it was assumed I was sleeping with him. And so I swore off hanging out with guys, dating, flirting, or anything that could be weaponized against me by a culture that claimed to believe in liberating women but consistently treated me with the harsh moral codes of the Victorian era." She went on to say that she assumed she "could fix this" by changing her behaviour. "I swore off dating and decided to focus only on myself, my music, my growth, and my female friendships," she explained. "If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize that – right? I would learn later on that people could and people would." Swift went on to thank fans who didn't buy into spiralling rumours online and who "knew that maybe a girl who surrounds herself with female friends in adulthood is making up for a lack of them in childhood." How to join the indy100's free WhatsApp channel Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-10-27 23:53
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