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Idris Elba To Interview Music Legend Paul McCartney In BBC One Holiday Special
IDRIS ELBA AND PAUL MCCARTNEY
Jeremih’s Mother Opens Up About His Battle With COVID-19
Idris Elba is set to inter- view former Beatle Paul Mc- Cartney for a BBC One holiday special.
The 60-minute programed titled Idris Elba Meets Paul McCartney will see the actor interview the music legend about his career and impact on pop music history.
Paul will talk about his writing process which has pro- duced some of the best loved
and most performed songs ever. Idris will seek to find out what inspires Paul to continue to innovate creatively, on the eve of the release of his 26th post-Beatles album McCart- ney III, the third album in a trilogy of classics featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song. Paul launched his solo career in 1970 with the re- lease of McCartney.
Three weeks into his battle with COVID-19, Jeremih has been removed from the ICU and transferred to a regular room at the Chicago medical center where he is receiving treatment. The 33-year-old singer was at his mother, Gwenda Starling’s, home when he started feeling ill ear- lier in the month.
Within a couple of hours, he couldn't walk properly and de- cided to go to the hospital, where he has been since Nov. 5. “A couple hours later he was calling me saying, ‘Mom, I need to go to the hospital. All of a sudden he couldn’t walk,”
JEREMIH
Starling told ABC Chicago. “He was barely walking. He was holding his stomach.”
worse from there. He was in critical condition and placed on a ventilator. Starling de- scribed the experience as a “tremendous nightmare.”
“The whole family was just so saddened and just shocked, first of all. After we gout out of that whole shock thing, it was like ‘OK, we’ve go to pray.’”
Jeremih’s condition has slowly improved over the last several days. His mother noted that she knew he was healing when he started asking her for real food. “I got so teary-eyed, but I get so joyful at the same time because he’s pulling through,” she said.
Doctor Dre: Former ‘Yo! MTV Raps’ Host Loses Leg To Diabetes
Wesley Snipes, who starred in the Blade franchise consisting of three movies, won’t be attached to the lead role of “Blade 4.”
Instead, he announced re- cently a big-screen action-film project that he is spearhead- ing titled, “Indigo.” He de- scribed “Indigo” as “Foxy Brown meets Mission Impos- sible.”
“Foxy Brown” is a 1974 movie that featured Pam Grier. In the action-packed film, Grier, as Foxy Brown, was the kick-ass, one-woman wrecking crew that couldn’t be
stopped by the bad guys. Grier is considered to be the first and greatest female action film star of all time. Grier, who combined beauty with physicality in “Foxy Brown” and numerous other movies, won’t be easy to duplicate. Yet, Snipes is on the hunt.
“We are looking for new tal- ent and want to discover a new female action star, a woman of color, and a bunch of her girlfriends who do their La Femme Nikita thing,” Snipes said recently on the podcast broadcast, “Life is...with Damien King Lee.
The other “Doctor Dre,” Andre Brown, of “Yo! MTV Raps” fame, has been hit with another setback to his health.
Brown, 56, who’s been bat- tling diabetes for years recently announced that he had a leg amputated and his family started a GoFundMe account to help with the medical costs.
Via Rolling Stone, Dre said on Memorial Day that he slipped and fell down a flight of stairs at his sister’s house. He suffered an injury to his right ankle, and later developed a life- threatening infection.
“The infection that was in my feet had started eating away at my bones,” he told the publica- tion. “If I had waited another day, I’d have been septic, and I could’ve died.”
The bottom line is that doc-
WESLEY SNIPES AS BLADE
Jeremih’s condition got
Wesley Snipes Searches For
All-Female Action Talent
DOCTOR DRE
tors amputated his leg below the calf. He was fitted with a pros- thetic and underwent physical therapy.
As was previously reported, Dre developed diabetes around a decade ago and last year he had lost his sight.
Beyoncé Being Subpoenaed In ‘Black Is King’ Legal Battle
Beyoncé is being subpoe- naed by a Shelter Island resi- dent in a fight over her acclaimed Disney visual album “Black Is King.”
Mike Gaynor, who owns a horse farm on the island, launched legal action against the local town council for al- legedly allowing the superstar to shoot a video at a historical site in return for what he al- leges was a “substantial fee” — and allegedly without having to obtain the proper permits.
Gaynor claims in court pa- pers that neither Beyoncé nor Disney got permits for the
BEYONCÉ IN "BLACK IS KING"
shoot at Sylvester Manor, the former home of slave trader Nathaniel Sylvester. Gaynor owns a neighboring property.
Gaynor said, “I’m a very wealthy person, and I’m able to defend myself when I’m treated unfairly in my commu- nity. What we find so beautiful about Shelter Island is its his- torical nature, it’s a very sim- ple place, untouched, but increasingly the fact is that if you’re wealthy on the island you’ll be treated one way, and it’s different for everyone else.”
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