Celebrity Scoop - NFL Defends Bad Bunny Choice

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place. It's
the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven. Well,
for some people, there's been critique of the Super Bowl
halftime show being Bad Bunny, but NFL Commissioner Roger Cadell
standing by the decision, saying the star understands the platform
he is performing on and there are absolutely no plans

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for a replacement. When asked at the Fall League meeting
yesterday by reporters, why bad Bunny.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's one of the leading and most popular entertainers in
the world. That's what we try to achieve. It's an
important stage for us. It's an important element to the
entertainment value. It's carefully thought through. I would say that
I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we
didn't have some blowback or criticisms. It's pretty hard to

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do it when you have literally hundreds of millions of
people that are watching. But we're confidence it's going to
be a great show. He understands the platform that he's on,
and I think it's going to be exciting in a
united moment.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Very interesting, Gadell did add, the show evolves from this moment.
I'm not saying there won't be additional talent, but that's
always the way it works.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
This can be very interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Prince Andrew, who was just recently stripped of most of
his royal titles, is now on the verge of being
asked to testify before Congress here in the United States.
As you know, Prince Andrew was linked to Jeffrey Epstein
after that infamous two thousand and one photo surfaced showing
him standing with his arm around a teenager at the time,

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Virginia and Jeffrey, one of Epstein's prominent victims.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
In the picture.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Epstein's girlfriend and confidante, Galeen Maxwell, who's already serving that
prison sentence excuse me, is standing right behind him.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
According to lots of different representatives, including Stephen Lynch, a
Massachusetts Democratic rep on the House Oversight Committee, they are
planning to invite Andrew to Congress to talk about his
purported involvement in the Epstein scandal. He's positive and invitation
is going to be extended. But the Prince will not
receive a subpoena, being as he's a UK citizen by law,

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US subpoenas have no legal effect in the United Kingdom,
so we'll see if he says yes to this. Finally,
Oh boy, it's back. It is back. Billy McFarland has
decided that a Fire Festival two documentary is what's needed
to give his side of the story. He's filming a
new doc attempting to launch PHNX.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
I think Phoenix is what he's calling it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
This is a festival build for December as his big comeback.
Billy says he's rented at Island and he is letting
cameras follow his every move, hoping that this is a
redemption story.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think there's basically two paths. Once you go to jail,
you are radioactive. One is too quietly to delive. My
remorses is starting to high with my freedom at this point,
now retold and twisted by journalists from all over the world.
But the alternative path is to help those I heard,
and I can't promise or guarantee success, and I we'll
do it to the best of my.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Ability, all right.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
The project is expected to drop either late December of
this year or early January of next year, and filmmakers
are currently in discussion with multiple streaming platforms.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Grab the popcorm my friends

Speaker 1 (03:26):
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