Justin Bieber turns the camera on swarming paparazzi: ‘This has to stop’
Justin Bieber clashed with paparazzi again in Los Angeles, this time turning the camera on the shutterbugs to show his followers what he’s dealing with.
The 31-year-old pop star posted video of a gaggle of photographers swarming. He repeatedly said “look at these guys” while filming the chaos.
“This has to stop,” Bieber wrote on Instagram, where he posted footage showing the confrontation from his point of view Friday morning.
That nighttime encounter comes a couple weeks after Bieber had a daytime run-in with with shutterbugs outside a coffee shop near the Coachella Valley.
“You don’t care about people, only money,” he said during that videotaped rendezvous.
Bieber spelled out his feelings after his most recent brush with media madness.
“Everyone telling me move from LA,” he wrote on Instagram. “U think I’m going to get bullied to leave where my influence is most needed?”
In his post, Bieber says he can’t make changes by “running from the darkness” and admits earlier in his career he may have invited attention.
“I want nothing to do with that as a grown adult with a wife and son,” he said.
According to the “Stay” singer, he now wants to live and learn and “be a proponent and advocate for LOVE and EQUALITY.”
Bieber’s fans on Instagram were sympathetic.
“Crazy how it looks like from his perspective,” said one follower expressing a common sentiment.
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Roseanne Barr glad to see ‘The Connors’ succeed without her
Roseanne Barr is said to be happy for her former “Roseanne” collaborators, who just wrapped up their spinoff “The Connors” seven years after she was unceremoniously given the boot.
The comedian’s son Jake Pentland told TMZ that even though his mom feels she wasn’t treated fairly after a bigoted tweet got her canned from the popular ABC sitcom in 2018, Barr and her family were glad to see the rebranded idea she brought to life thrive after her character was killed off by a drug overdose.
“The Connors,” which starred John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf, aired its final episode Wednesday. That show included a family visit to the late matriarch’s grave.
Pentland reportedly said his family hasn’t watched “The Connors” and didn’t know the series was ending its run.
“Roseanne” ran from 1988 to 1997 before launching a successful reboot in March 2018. Despite solid ratings, Barr was dropped after making claiming on social media that former Barack Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett looked like a cross between “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.”
She later apologized for her comment, but the damage was done. Several of her “Roseanne” castmates quickly condemned her remarks before beginning a new show without her several months later.
Barr responded to some of her former colleagues on social media in disbelief after her firing. She singled out Gilbert in a 2023 interview with right-wing pundit Megyn Kelly for having “stabbed me in the back” with disparaging statements in the period that followed.
Barr didn’t immediately address TMZ’s report based on Pentland’s comments.
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Jessica Alba, Cash Warren list $19M estate amid divorce
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren aren’t just closing the chapter on their marriage, but their $19 million Beverly Hills home.
The Honest Company co-founder, 43, and producer, 46, listed the 9,000-square-foot 7-bed, 8.5-bath estate for $18,995,000, TMZ reports.
Alba and Warren purchased the sprawling digs for $10 million in 2017 and oversaw an 18-month remodel. The property currently boasts a gym, theater, cabana, pool, hot tub and outdoor BBQ.
Alba announced in January that she and Warren — who married in spring 2008 and share three children — were splitting up and would be “moving forward with love and kindness and respect for each other and will forever be family.”
The exes, who did not have a prenup and are seeking joint physical and legal custody, filed for divorce on the same day in early February.
The news came not long after Alba stepped down as The Honest Company’s Chief Creative Officer in April 2024.
At the time, she announced she had“a grateful heart” as she left her “true labor of love,” which she would continue advising as a member of its board of directors.
From combined wire services