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“Stranger Things” star Noah Schnapp has denied using the N-word while singing along to the tune “Freaky Friday” in a resurfaced video from last year. The 15-year-old actor said on his Instagram story Tuesday that he actually said the word “neighbor,” insisting that he has never used the racial slur. “Hi guys. recently a video …

ViacomCBS has opened the door to working again with Nick Cannon, more than a month after the company severed ties with him over anti-Semitic comments the multi-hyphenate made on his podcast. Speaking at a town hall with employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, president of entertainment and youth brands at ViacomCBS, praised work that Cannon claims to …

Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t know where the no-eye-contact rule came from on the set of her eponymous daytime talk show. Sources told Page Six exclusively that during DeGeneres’ Zoom call with her staff on Monday afternoon, she addressed the unspoken rule that prevented anyone from looking at her. “I don’t know where it started,” said DeGeneres, …

Zoe Saldana has tearfully apologized for portraying Nina Simone in a widely criticized 2016 biopic. “I should have never played Nina,” Saldana — who wore a prosthetic nose and darkened her skin for the role — admitted during an interview with “Pose” creator Steven Canals on Instagram Live on Tuesday. “I should have done everything …

Maddie Ziegler issued an apology after “racially insensitive” videos from her childhood resurfaced online. “There are a few videos some of you have seen from when I was about 9 years old where I thought it was funny to mock people and accents,” the former “Dance Moms” star wrote in a statement posted to social …

Ryan Reynolds says he and Blake Lively are “deeply and unreservedly sorry” for getting married on a slavery-era plantation. “It’s impossible to reconcile. What we saw at the time was a wedding venue on Pinterest,” he told Fast Company. “What we saw after was a place built upon devastating tragedy.” The pair wed in 2012 …

Ellen DeGeneres’ apology had poor timing. Fans and media waited to see if and when DeGeneres, 62, would address the alleged “toxic” work environment that is her eponymous daytime talk show, and they finally received it on Thursday. Unfortunately, it arrived only hours before 36 former employees accused “Ellen Show” executives of sexual misconduct. In …

50 Cent is apologizing for trolling Megan Thee Stallion on social media after the “Savage” singer revealed she was shot in her feet. On Monday, the “In Da Club” rapper, 45, reposted a video from an Instagram Live Megan, 25, shared, in which she confirmed the incident and addressed the “fake ass narratives” that were …

Kanye West visited a Wyoming hospital for anxiety over the weekend after publicly apologizing to his wife Kim Kardashian for spiraling out of control on Twitter, according to a report. The 43-year-old rapper — who is running for president — took himself to the hospital near his ranch in Cody on Saturday, a source told …

Kanye West has apologized to wife Kim Kardashian for several public outburst against the reality star and her mother, Kris Jenner. “I would like to apologize to my wife Kim for going public with something that was a private matter,” the YZY founder, 43, tweeted Saturday afternoon. “I did not cover her like she has …