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Josh Gad, who’s currently starring as Bud Davenport in Broadway’s Gutenberg! The Musical!, had to bow out of a weekend performance due to a medical situation that his doctors said “needed to be addressed immediately.”

“Not the news I’d like to share, but life happens. Unfortunately, I will not be at this afternoon’s performance of Gutenberg. I’m dealing with a medical emergency that despite telling my doctors I wanted to wait till Monday to address, they thought needed to be addressed immediately,” he wrote Saturday (Oct. 7) on Instagram, where he also shared a video.

He announced that Russell Daniels would fill in for the role of Bud Saturday afternoon at the musical, which is playing at James Earl Jones Theatre in New York City.

“Off to hospital for (hopefully) quick treatment and then with any luck will be back by this evening,” Gad wrote. “In the meantime, please help me wish @russelljdaniels the best of luck as he makes his Broadway debut as Bud! I know he is going to give you all the show of your lives!”

In the video clip Gad posted, he apologized for missing the show and added, “I would rather be spending my afternoon with all of you than at a hospital. I hope that this gets resolved pretty quickly and I’ll be back on stage with my buddy [Gutenberg! co-star Andrew] Rannells as soon as possible.”

Later on Saturday, he provided an update confirming that he would be back for Saturday night’s performance.

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“Thanks to the phenomenal team at Lenox Hill, I was able to be diagnosed and treated in record time for some lower abdominal issues I’ve been having,” Gad wrote in a “good news” message. “With their blessing, I will be back in the show this evening.”

Gutenberg! The Musical! is described as “the story of two best pals named Bud and Doug who put on a show together because they just love each other so damn much. It’s art imitating life imitating art! And it’s the funniest thing to come to Broadway since 1448! (Which is the year the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, who is the subject of the musical that Bud and Doug write, but that’s not important right now.)”

Gad is known for a long list of film and television credits, including voicing Olaf in Disney’s Frozen franchise, and his work on the stage: He received a Grammy Award in 2012 for best musical theater album for his work in The Book of Mormon, and he was nominated for best actor in a music at the Tony Awards in 2011.

Doja Cat is catching heat once again for her online antics.

On Friday (Oct. 6), the 27-year-old rapper posted and then deleted a photo of herself on Instagram wearing a shirt with an image of alt-right comic Sam Hyde, who reportedly has ties to the neo-Nazi movement.

Doja’s black tee featured a pic of Hyde holding a rifle, an image often used as a meme on social media in the aftermath of mass shootings.

Hyde previously served as a co-writer on Adult Swim’s Million Dollar Extreme Presents: World Peace, which was canceled after one reason following complaints of racist and sexist themes, according to Buzzfeed. In 2017, the comedian also pledged $5,000 to neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer after its editor Andrew Anglin faced a legal battle with the Southern Poverty Law Center over his alleged “trolling” against a Jewish woman, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Doja Cat deleted the original Instagram photo featuring Hyde, but later replaced it with a cropped version with his face removed. The second post featured a caption with numerous rolling eyes emojis. The comments section included many onlookers expressing their disapproval of the “Paint the Town Red” singer’s choice to post the controversial image.

“why are you hiding your shirt? embarrassed that you’re wearing something with a nazi on it ?” one user wrote. Another added, “girl get it together. this isn’t cute or funny.”

Many fans also took to X (formerly Twitter) to vent their frustrations with the rapper. “imagine being a pick me for incels… like doja cat is really trying her best to be cancelled and un-famous again just so she can get back to those racial chat rooms full time,” one person wrote.

Doja Cat is no stranger to online controversy. Earlier this year, she claimed that her last two albums — 2021’s Planet Her and 2019’s Hot Pink — were “cash grabs” and teased her fanbase for falling for it. She also lost nearly 300,000 social media followers after blasting her fans for calling themselves “Kittenz.” In recent years, Doja came under fire for tweeting homophobic slurs to describe rappers Earl Sweatshirt and Tyler, the Creator, and was accused of participating in alt-right chat rooms.

Doja recently dropped her fourth album, Scarlet, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The new set marks her highly anticipated return following Planet Her, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and delivered plenty of Billboard Hot 100 chart hits.

She’ll be heading out on a 24-date trek in support of the album with The Scarlet Tour, which launches on Halloween in San Francisco and wraps Dec. 13 in Chicago. Opening acts include Ice Spice and Doechii.

What’s that song in the new Survivor commercial? Swifties will recognize it from the first note.

Taylor Swift‘s “Mastermind,” from her 2022 Midnights album, plays in a new promo for the 45th season of the CBS reality competition series Survivor. The Swift song placement comes soon after she had 1989‘s “Welcome to New York” featured on NBC in an NFL commercial starring Travis Kelce ahead of last weekend’s Chiefs vs. Jets game, which Swift attended. Coverage of her cheering on Kelce resulted in a major boost in female viewership.

As the opening of “Mastermind” kicks in on the new Survivor ad, voices of contestants boast about their scheming to win: “I am as big of a fan as they come.” “I’ve watched every season of Survivor.” “This is some strategic excellence on display.”

“What if I told you none if it was accidental?/ And the first night that you saw me/ Nothing was gonna stop me/ I laid the groundwork, and then/ Just like clockwork/ The dominoes cascaded in a line/ What if I told you I’m a mastermind?” Swift sings in the chorus of Mastermind.

The new season of Survivor premiered on Sept. 27 on CBS. New episodes air weekly on Wednesdays.

The Survivor commercial soundtracked by Swift’s “Mastermind” premieres during the Alabama vs. Texas A&M college football game airing Saturday (Oct. 7) on CBS. It will also air during the NFL double-header Sunday (Oct. 8), Deadline reports.

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Travis Kelce has long prided himself on his ability to compartmentalize his personal life and his professional life. That ability has been put to the test the past few weeks.

Ever since the All-Pro tight end’s budding relationship with pop superstar Taylor Swift surfaced shortly before the Kansas City Chiefs’ game against the Chicago Bears last month, Kelce has become an A-list headline-maker in his own right. He learned that when paparazzi staked out Swift’s apartment in New York last week, capturing the moment he walked out the morning before the Chiefs played the Jets, while other photographers have been scoping out his own residence in the Kansas City area.

“We’re learning with the paparazzi taking photos from all over the place,” Kelce admitted during a press conference Friday (Oct. 6), “but at the same time, you know, it comes with it. You’ve got a lot of people that care about Taylor, and for good reason. You’ve just got to keep living and learning and enjoying the moments.”

Neither of the parties have divulged much about their rumored relationship, and Kelce didn’t go into details Friday when he spoke to the media for the first time in weeks. But given that Swift has twice appeared in a suite to watch Kelce play, including alongside his mother Donna Kelce, it is easy to see why there has been such an intense focus on the duo.

The timing couldn’t be much better for either of them.

Kelce turned 34 on Thursday and is much closer to the end of his career than the beginning, and the elevation of his profile will no doubt help his post-football career. His podcast with his brother and Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, called New Heights, has soared in popularity, and Kelce’s mustachioed mug is suddenly popping up in advertisements and commercials for everything from State Farm and Hy-Vee to Pfizer and Experian.

Swift is on a break from her Era Tour, but a film about it is due to begin playing in at least 8,500 theaters across 100 countries next week. The movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings, which happens to be based in suburban Kansas City, said it had sold more than $100 million in advance tickets, and produced the highest single-day ticket revenue in its history.

Meanwhile, the NFL and its broadcast partners are keen to take advantage of the pop culture moment.

Asked whether Kelce was surprised by the sudden interest in him, and his relationship with Swift, he replied: “It’s worldwide, man — worldwide. It’s been magnified for sure.”

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All the while, Kelce has been trying to help the Chiefs defend their Super Bowl title. They’ve won three straight after losing their opener to Detroit, and they are favored heading to Minnesota on Sunday. (No word on whether Swift will attend.)

“It felt like I was on top of the world after the Super Bowl and right now even more on top of the world,” Kelce said after Friday afternoon’s practice. “At the end of the day, I have always been pretty good about compartmentalizing and being able to stay focused in this building, so I’ll just keep rolling with that.”

Indeed, Kelce always has juggled a life away from football.

In 2016, he starred in his own reality dating show, coincidentally, called Catching Kelce. He’s pitched plenty of products and services. And he’s played in numerous high-profile golf tournaments, such as a made-for-TV match alongside Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes against the NBA’s Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry just before the start of this season.

Yet none of it has ever affected his performance. Kelce had never missed a game to injury since his rookie season before a hyperextended knee kept him out against the Lions; he has played every game since. And he is riding a streak of at least 1,000 yards receiving in seven straight seasons, resulting in eight trips to the Pro Bowl and four first-team All-Pro nods.

His success is a big reason for the Chiefs’ success. They’ve won the last seven AFC West titles, hosted the last five conference championship games and won two of the three Super Bowls they have appeared in over the past four seasons.

Kelce’s profile has never been higher, though, thanks to the aura that Swift has cast upon him.

“I know I brought this on myself,” he said. “I’ve been fortunate to have fun with it. That’s all that really matters, that it’s not pissing anybody off [within the Chiefs)at least. Like I said earlier, I’ve been pretty good at compartmentalizing and making sure my focus is on winning the game, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.”

Bruno Mars‘ concert in Tel Aviv on Saturday (Oct. 7) has been canceled following a deadly attack by Palestinian militants.

Mars, who performed his first concert in Israel on Wednesday (Oct. 4) at Tel Aviv’s Park HaYarkon, was scheduled to return to the venue on Saturday. The show was put on halt after Hamas launched a surprise assault earlier in the day, firing thousands of rockets and sending fighters into Israeli towns, killing dozens and wounding nearly 800 people, according to CNN.

“Bruno Mars concert scheduled to take place tonight is cancelled,” Live Nation Israel wrote Saturday on Instagram. “All ticket purchases to the show will receive an automatic refund to the credit card through which the purchase was made. We stand with the residents of Israel, IDF fighters and the security forces in these difficult moments.”

After Saturday’s attack, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that his country is “at war” with Hamas and launched airstrikes in Gaza, the Associated Press reports.

“We are at war,” Netanyahu said in a televised address. “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he continued, noting that Israel would “return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known.”

The deadly assault arrived on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza reported that at least 198 Palestinians were killed and 1,610 had been injured in air strikes on Saturday, according to CNN.

See Live Nation Israel’s statement on Instagram below.

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