There is something wholesome and delightful about the friendship between Selena Gomez and her Only Murders in the Building co-stars Steve Martin and Martin Short. But to hear Short tell it, that camaraderie was nearly shattered in September when the veteran comedian committed what might be the ultimate wedding faux pas at the nuptials of Gomez and music producer Benny Blanco.

During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night (Jan. 21), Martin, 75, said the couple’s wedding was “perfect, it was beautiful… Everything was perfect, except, the night of the reception. it was a big, big party, imagine a stage, dance floor, musicians.”

At the back of the tent Short was seated at a table with a group of 12 Only Murders cast and crew when he noticed a “small” wedding cake by their section. “I just assumed there was a wedding cake for each section in the back. So, after a few hours, they haven’t cut their wedding cake yet, Steve [Martin] said he’s gonna leave,” Short explained. “I was like, ‘Oh, wait.’ Maybe I’d had a cocktail, I don’t know. I had a fork in my hand. I said, ‘Steve, you can’t leave yet without a piece of wedding cake!’ and I cut the wedding cake one side, cut it the other, and then all the people in our group screamed, ‘Marty!’ It was the wedding cake. I tried to fix it with a fork.”

Kimmel then posted a photo of the prematurely cut cake, including the hack job Short did while trying to do some frosting surgery to cover up his misdeed.

Short said the premature cake cut left Martin, “stunned,” as he turned to fellow guest and former Murders co-star Paul Rudd and wondered, “‘So, do we just leave?’”

The good news is that the couple’s wedding coordinator and chef rushed over and “did surgery” on the cake, joking that they made the dessert a true “Hollywood wedding cake in that it was beautiful, but now it had a little work done.” And while Short and Martin agreed to not keep the cake catastrophe a secret to allow Gomez to enjoy her big night, she found out and gave as good as she gets from the rarely serious duo.

“I kept saying, ‘No, guys, we can’t let Selena know,’” Short said. “And Steve said, ‘Yeah, maybe we tell her in a month or something.’ And then as I was leaving, Selena came by [and said], ‘Hey Marty, I heard you tried to eat my cake.’”

Short had nothing but high praise for the couple, saying it is “such a great thing” to attend a wedding where you “just know that these people are perfect for each other. You know, Selena is like an extra child of mine. I adore her so much. And she found this guy, and he’s the greatest guy, and they have the greatest hang, and they’re wildly in love.”

Watch Short describe his cake mistake on Kimmel below.

There’s nothing funny about Donald Trump’s threats to forcibly acquire Greenland or the terrifying scenes of immigration agents detaining a five-year-old child in Minnesota this week as “bait” to draw members of his family out of their home.

But on Wednesday (Jan. 21), Jack White found time to lighten the mood (a bit) with a lengthy Instagram post in which he mocked the president’s 81-minute rambling press conference on Tuesday (Jan. 20), during which Trump weaved around more than usual as he touted what he considers to be his administration’s first-year achievements.

“Me do accomplishments! Trump smart. Good boy deserve Nobel Peace Prize! Dementia? What is? NO! Trump smart, pass brain test, name giraffe. Me President of Venezuela and Canada. Me want Greenland too for fun,” White wrote in a Hulk-channeling post alongside a picture of Trump holding up a thick sheaf of papers titled, “The White House: President Donald J. Trump ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS OF JANUARY 20, 2026.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer took satirical aim at a number of headline-worthy items, from Trumps repeated claims that he’s repeatedly “aced” the MoCA test aimed at assessing mild cognitive impairment from early demetia, his relentless lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize over his inflated claims of ending 8 wars, as well as the administration’s recent arrest of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and steady drumbeat of threats to take over both Canada and Greenland.

White had more jokes as well.

“Mom said Trump could have been great baseball player but also big building with bars on windows. Building for very sick people. Trump not sick. Trump smart. MAGA. Very smart people made Trump President,” White wrote in Hulk’s stilted syntax, adding in a jab at the bizarre scene last week of Trump accepting Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s 2025 Nobel Peace Prize medal in lieu of earning his own honor. “Very smart people keep Trump President. Take nap now. Use fake, I mean real Peace Prizes for pillows. Trump accomplishment. Nighty night.”

A few hours later, White was back at it, pre-butting any calls for him to “shut up and play” and leave the politics to politicians. “Anyone who comments ‘stick to music’ or words to that effect gets blocked,” White warned in a bit that ended with a mock repetition of Trump’s signature social media sign-off. “Anyone who likes said comment gets blocked too. i leave a couple up so everyone knows why they were blocked. This is my house, not town square. ted nugent and kid rock i’m sure are looking for more MAGA supporters so i suggest you head over to their houses. thank you for your attention to this matter!”

White got props from a number of fellow musicians for his missive, including producer Butch Walker (“I love you”), Garbage (fist pound emoji) and Margo Price (“Nailed it”).

The posts were just the latest salvos in White’s recent string of public statements against the Trump administration. Back in August, the former upholsterer and design nerd trashed Trump’s gold-plated White House makeover, calling it “vulgar, gold-leafed and gaudy,” comparing it to a “professional wrestler’s dressing room.” Following a typically snarky response from White House communications director Steven Cheung, who called White a “washed-up, has-been loser,” White doubled-down and dubbed Trump a “danger to not just America but the entire world,” calling the former reality TV star a “low-life fascist” and “orange grifter.”

Then, in December, White slammed Trump as a “disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser, child” for the president’s insulting post marking the killing of beloved director Rob Reiner and his wife producer Michele Singer Reiner. “Neither he nor any one of his followers can defend this vile, horrible insult to a beautiful artist who gave the world so much,” White added of the director of such classic films as Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride. “To use someone’s tragic death to promote your own vanity and fascist authoritarian agenda is a corrupt and narcissistic sin. Shame on you trump and anyone who defends this.”

Men at Work’s “Down Under” is Australia’s unofficial anthem, a classic tune played at sporting events, pubs, and celebrations around the world whenever Aussies gather. It’s not, however, a siren’s call for the far right.

That’s the word according to Colin Hay, the Scotland-born frontman and songwriter with Men at Work, which had a global hit with “Down Under” in the early ‘80s.

Hay has drawn a virtual line in the sand, telling “March For Australia” organizers to find another song to play at their rallies.

“Let me say that I most strenuously disapprove of any unauthorized, unlicensed use of Down Under, for any ‘March For Australia’ events,” he writes. “’Down Under,’ a song I co-wrote, does not belong to those who attempt to sow xenophobia within the fabric of our great land, our great people,” he continues.

“’Down Under’ is ultimately a song of celebration. It’s for pluralism and inclusion; unity, not division. Go write your own song, leave mine alone.”

He signs off his message, “Colin Hay (immigrant).”

Men at Work enjoyed a dream breakthrough with their debut album Business As Usual, and its standout single “Down Under,” which reigned for four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, and has sold more than two million copies in the United States.

With Business As Usual and “Down Under,” the band had the unusual distinction of simultaneously topping the singles and albums charts in the United States and the United Kingdom.

It’s not the first time Hay has had to fight for his signature song. Hay and his Men at Work co-songwriter Ron Strykert were involved in a bruising court battle, which began in 2009 and centered on the flute riff and whether it was lifted from the children’s campfire song “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.” To settle the case, a court ordered Men at Work to pay just 5% of royalties in the song.

Hay told Billboard in 2023 that “Down Under” is “very dear to me. When I wrote the song, I had a lot of fear and trepidation about Australia becoming overdeveloped, like you know, Florida or something, and on the other side of the coin, there was this beautiful uniqueness and incredible — a kind of awesomeness — of the country which I thought, ‘we don’t want to lose that’. We have to nurture, it’s a precious thing we have.”

“Down Under” has passed more than one billion streams across all platforms, and enjoyed a second life when it was reworked as a drum ‘n’ bass cut by Australian producer Luude, over Hay’s vocals. The new version crashed the top 10 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, peaking at No. 5 in 2021.

Men at Work was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1994, and Hay received the Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music at the 2023 APRA Music Awards.

MELBOURNE, Australia — The year 2025 was a record-breaking one for Untitled Group, which posted more than 800,000 tickets sold, a new high on its 10^th anniversary.

That’s up from a then-record 630,000 tickets shifted across its events and tours in 2024, and 500,000 tickets sold in 2023.

The independent Melbourne-based concerts, festivals and events promoter delivered 180 live events last year, and hosted upwards of 70 artist tours across Australia.

Its “milestone year” including a sold-out Beyond The Valley, which gathered a record 40,000 attendees; a sold-out RÜFÜS DU SOL national tour; Wildlands festival, and Dom Dolla’s Dec. 20 performance at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium, the first-ever stadium show in these parts by a homegrown DJ.

That’s after Untitled landed for the first time in the top 20 (at No. 12) on Billboard’s 2025 Mid-Year Top Promoters, with US$51.5 million gross, on 542,000 attendance across 87 shows during the six-month reporting period.

RDS’s arena tour of Australia and New Zealand was a blockbuster, and is now recognized as the highest-selling electronic tour of all time in these parts.

As previously reported, the Australasian leg of RDS’s run sold more than 180,000 tickets across dates in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Auckland, according to Untitled, setting new attendance marks at Sydney Qudos Bank Arena and Outer Fields at Auckland’s Western Springs.

The new year has started with an ace. Untitled Group curates and programs AO Live, which returns to Melbourne for the Australian Open with performances from The Kid LAROI, Reneé Rapp, The Veronicas, Spacey Jane, Peggy Gou, Sofi Tukker and more,

AO Live is the only music festival in the world staged at a Grand Slam tennis tournament, set for five days from Jan. 28. Upcoming tours include Good Charlotte and Wu-Tang Clan, plus the four-day Pitch Music & Arts fest, which returns for its 9th edition in March 2026.