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Teen Mom star Amber Portwood denies rumors she was fired from the show

Teen Mom star Amber Portwood denies rumors she was fired from the show

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Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Former Teen Mom star Amber Portwood denied claims she was fired from the reality show’s spin-off series Teen Mom: The Next Chapter in a TikTok livestream over the weekend. According to the 34-year-old MTV regular, she quit the show last week. “Not only am I not being let go, I quit three days ago,” she said online on Saturday. “I told Larry, the producer, I quit. “My mental health was one of the things I said other than the yelling and crying from being so damn hurt from stuff,” she continued, clarifying that her exit from the show wasn’t “confirmed” yet. “I started to see that all they were pushing, all this crazy stuff, that tore my heart out.” Portwood went on to say: “If I’m gone, who’s gonna be the villain for them? Who’s gonna play that role? Who are they gonna keep lying about …

Yung Filly: British YouTuber and rapper denies sexual assault charges in Australia | UK News

Yung Filly: British YouTuber and rapper denies sexual assault charges in Australia | UK News

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British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly has pleaded not guilty to multiple sexual assault charges in Australia. The internet personality, whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos, appeared before Perth Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. According to court documents, he pleaded not guilty to three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, one of strangulation and four counts of sexual penetration without consent. He will appear before the higher district court on 13 June. The 29-year-old has been on bail since October last year after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in her 20s in his hotel room, following a performance at a venue in a Perth suburb. The attack is alleged to have taken place on 28 September, when Barrientos was on tour. Read more from Sky News:Man Utd unveil plans to build UK’s largest stadiumBritish backpacker being held in USBoohoo rebrands as Debenhams During a court hearing in October, Barrientos was granted bail with strict conditions and a personal undertaking of 100,000 Australian dollars (£52,000), alongside a surety of the same amount. According to …

Van Gogh Museum Denies Attribution for Long-Lost Portrait

Van Gogh Museum Denies Attribution for Long-Lost Portrait

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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said on Friday that a long-lost portrait was, in fact, not by Vincent van Gogh, contradicting a 458-page report by the New York–based firm LMI Group International that claimed it was by the famed painter. The painting in question, titled Elimar (1889), depicts a fisherman with a round hat on his head and a pipe in his mouth. The fisherman appears transfixed as he repairs his net near a shore. The word “Elimar,” presumed to be the man’s name, is scrawled in the lower righthand corner. LMI Group said that the portrait would have been created while van Gogh was at the Saint-Paul psychiatric sanitarium in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. Van Gogh had checked himself into the sanitarium; he remained there from May 1889 and May 1890. Related Articles To assess the painting, LMI Group assembled a team of roughly 20 experts from a variety of fields, including chemists, curators, and patent lawyers. In 2019, the firm paid an undisclosed sum for the work, purchasing it from an anonymous antiques collector who found it …

Meta denies ‘forcing’ people to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance on social media apps | Science, Climate & Tech News

Meta denies ‘forcing’ people to follow Donald Trump and JD Vance on social media apps | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Facebook owner Meta has denied claims from some users that they have been “forced” to follow social media accounts belonging to the Trump administration. Users on Facebook and Instagram have claimed they found they were “automatically” following the official accounts of Donald Trump and JD Vance following their inauguration on Monday. The claims come after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made a number of policy changes to its social media apps which better aligned them with the Trump administration. But Meta has denied it forced anyone to follow the accounts, and highlighted that the president and vice president’s accounts are linked to the US offices rather than the individual, meaning supporters who followed those accounts for the previous president and vice president still do so despite Mr Trump and Mr Vance taking them over from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Some users had made further claims that they were being forced to follow the accounts, and had been unable to unfollow them when trying to do so. Read more:Meta offers creators $5,000 to join Facebook and InstagramWho …

Natalia Grace denies physically abusing her adoptive parents in rare interview

Natalia Grace denies physically abusing her adoptive parents in rare interview

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Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Natalia Grace has denied physically abusing her adoptive parents, Kristine and Michael Barnett. The 21-year-old, who was born with dwarfism, spoke out about the downfall of her relationship with the Barnetts in a new interview published on Friday (January 3). In 2010, the then-six-year-old girl from Ukraine was adopted by Kristine and Michael, who were based in Indiana and already had three children. Grace’s family life quickly fell apart with questions about her true age from her adoptive parents, who successfully petitioned in 2012 to alter her birth date from 2003 to 1989, raising her age to 22. The change was seemingly based on evidence including the fact that she hadn’t grown in two years. One year later, Michael and Kristine moved to Canada …

Judge Denies Jay-Z’s Efforts to Dismiss Rape Accuser’s Lawsuit

Judge Denies Jay-Z’s Efforts to Dismiss Rape Accuser’s Lawsuit

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A judge has denied Jay-Z’s efforts to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl more than two decades ago. In the lawsuit, originally filed in October, a woman identified only as “Jane Doe” sued Combs for allegedly raping her at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. The complaint was amended on Dec. 8 to include the allegation that Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, was also present and participated in the assault. Jay-Z has denied all allegations, and his attorney Alex Spiro sought to dismiss the case after the Alabama woman acknowledged inconsistencies in her allegations in an NBC News report published earlier this month. Spiro doubled down last week, speaking outside Roc Nation’s New York headquarters, saying the rap mogul is upset about the suit and that “Mr. Carter has nothing to do with Mr. Combs’ case.” On Thursday, in her written order, Judge Analisa Torres denied Combs’ hopes to have the suit tossed out. Torres also ruled the woman accusing the two artists that …

Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons

Mariah Carey Denies That Her Holiday Video Is AI Slop, But We’re Not Convinced, for Obvious Reasons

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“She has officially been uploaded to the cloud.” Wrap It Up Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks an awful lot like it was made with AI. As part of Spotify’s annual “Wrapped” campaign, which calculates users’ top songs, the “All I Want For Christmas” singer provided a video to her top fans that appeared to show the star perching in front of a holiday tree while rocking some Santa-style red and white threads. The video, however, immediately felt off: the diva’s lips didn’t match up with her words, she was swaying strangely, and her perfectly-coiffed blonde hair was moving in peculiar ways. “I think [it’s] AI,” one commenter on the r/popculturechat subreddit said of the video. “The tone/inflection she is speaking in just really doesn’t match anything else on screen. It sounds like a prerecorded message, especially when she says ‘thank you soo much.’” Over on X-formerly-Twitter, where the video was posted by a fan account, folks had similar — if not more vulgar — takes. “No f*cking …

Jay Blades: BBC presenter denies coercive behaviour towards wife | UK News

Jay Blades: BBC presenter denies coercive behaviour towards wife | UK News

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BBC presenter Jay Blades has denied engaging in controlling or coercive behaviour towards his wife. The 54-year-old, who fronts primetime show The Repair Shop, entered a not guilty plea at Worcester Crown Court on Friday. Wearing a dark suit and tie, Blades, of Claverley in Shropshire, spoke only to confirm his identity to the court clerk and to enter his plea. The charge alleges the controlling and coercive behaviour took place between 1 January 2023 and 12 September this year. It alleges his behaviour had a “serious effect” on his partner Lisa-Marie Zbozen, “namely that it caused her to fear on at least two occasions that violence would be used against her”. Ms Zbozen announced in an Instagram post on 2 May that the pair’s relationship was over. Blades appeared before the Recorder of Worcester, Judge James Burbidge KC, who rejected an application for part of the proceedings to be heard in private. A “short-form” copy of the indictment was read to Blades before he entered his plea. A more detailed version of the charge …

Educating Greater Manchester: Head Povey denies off-rolling

Educating Greater Manchester: Head Povey denies off-rolling

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A school featured in the hit TV series Educating Greater Manchester was like a “zoo” with “dangerous” behaviour worsened by the head’s refusal to exclude pupils, a misconduct panel has heard. Drew Povey, the former executive head of Harrop Fold School, Worsley, is accused of off-rolling three pupils before the January 2018 census to boost performance data. But he denied “massaging results” as his Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) case opened this week. It was one of the first off-rolling cases to emerge. It is alleged Povey caused or failed to stop data being amended to record that two of the pupils had attended when they hadn’t. Pupils regularly sent home before the end of the school day were also not logged properly, according to claims put to the TRA panel in Coventry. His then deputies, Ross Povey and Jennifer Benigno, face the same allegations, which relate to the 2017-18 academic year. Benigno denies wrongdoing. Ross Povey is not attending and is not represented. Jonathan Storey, representing Benigno, said proceedings had been “hanging over” them for …

ABC denies Trumpworld conspiracy theory that Harris had early access to questions

ABC denies Trumpworld conspiracy theory that Harris had early access to questions

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ABC News shut down a conspiracy theory peddled by MAGA surrogates to explain former President Donald Trump’s widely panned debate performance earlier this week. Unable to accept the potential that Kamala Harris had won the debate, Trump surrogates and allies concocted a deluge of conspiracy theories, suggesting that the Vice President had received early access to debate questions and accusing her of wearing “Bluetooth earrings.” However, a spokesperson for the network categorically denied the allegations that questions had been fed to the Harris campaign in a statement to the The Daily Beast on Friday. “Absolutely not,” the spokesperson said. “Harris was not given any questions before the debate.” The conspiracy, pushed by right-wing social media social media users, seems to be an attempt to re-litigate the 2016 debate, where some potential questions were passed along to the Hilary Clinton campaign ahead of a CNN debate. Trump  himself vented to Fox & Friends after the debate that Harris seemed “awfully familiar with the questions.” Trump has spent the days since his lackluster performance attacking debate moderators Linsey Davis and …