SAN JOSE, Calif. — Shaq is coming back.

And the first-tier Basketball Hall of Famer is going to help sports fans and other interested parties get ready for the Super Bowl happening on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.

Shaquille O’Neal — who is also a DJ/rapper who arguably gave the worst performance in the long and distinguished history of San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival — is hosting the eighth annual Shaq’s Fun House.

This Super Bowl pre-party event, which a news release describes as a “larger-than-life spectacle that’s part festival, carnival and circus,” takes place at Feb. 6 at the Cow Palace in Daly City.

“From day one, I wanted Shaq’s Fun House to be the party for the people,” O’Neal says. “A lot of Big Game events feel like they are only for VIPs. At my party, you buy a ticket and your night is taken care of. The music, the rides, the food, the open bar, the wild moments, it is all included, so you can just show up and have fun.

“San Francisco is one of the best sports towns in the world, and I cannot wait to turn Cow Palace into the most fun place to be outside of the Big Game.”

Shaq’s Fun House will feature “massive performances from T-Pain, Tiësto and Disco Lines, plus a full carnival midway packed with rides, games and immersive interactive attractions — all designed to deliver the most extravagant celebration yet,” according to the news release.

All-inclusive open bar tickets start at $249.99 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 12, www.ShaqsFunHouse.com.

Hip-hop star T-Pain will be a major draw, as fans turn out to see the Auto-Tune pioneer perform from a deep bag of hits that includes the 10-times-platinum single “Low” from Flo Rida.

Also taking the stage will be Tiësto, the global dance-music icon who ranks among the most popular DJs in history, as well as Disco Lines, a Colorado-raised DJ/musician/producer known for the single “Baby Girl” as well as his successful remix of Tinashe’s “No Broke Boys.”

Along with hosting the event, O’Neal will also be part of the entertainment lineup. He’ll be donning his DJ Diesel stage name to “take over the decks with his signature blend of hard-hitting electronic beats and Shaq-sized fun,” according to the news release. Myles O’Neal, the basketball legend’s son who is also a DJ, will be rocking the house as well.

Shaq’s party regularly attracts plenty of star power and celebs. Past attendees have included Adam Levine, Jack Harlow, Jamie Foxx, Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes, Bert Kreischer, Alix Earle, Lamar Jackson, Floyd Mayweather, Tim Tebow, Michael Phelps, LeSean McCoy, Chad Johnson, Russell Wilson, Jeremy Renner, David Dobrik, Daymond John, Nate Diaz, Allen Iverson, Tiffany Haddish and Guy Fieri.

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NEW YORK — Beyoncé will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala, marking a grand return to fashion’s biggest night after a decade away.

The 35-time Grammy winner, 44, will be joined by Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, per Vogue. “Costume Art,” spotlighting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute exhibition, will serve as the theme for Wintour’s first Met Ball since stepping down as the magazine’s editor-in-chief earlier this year.

Belgian designer Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the star-studded Host Committee, which also includes newly minted Vogue.com editor Chloe Malle. The members announced thus far hail from across the arts and athletics.

Among the musicians are Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Lisa, Sam Smith and Grammy nom Teyana Taylor, amid Oscar buzz for her work in Paul Thomas Anderson’s likely Best Picture nod, “One Battle After Another.”

Members also include ballerina Misty Copeland and the WNBA’s A’ja Wilson, as well as small-screen stars Gwendoline Christie, Elizabeth Debicki and Lena Dunham. Models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser, Lauren Wasser and Yseult, who’s also a singer-songwriter, as well as artist Anna Weyant are all on the committee.

“Proud ‘nepo baby'” Malle, the 40-year-old daughter of Oscar nominee Candice Bergen — who also played fictional Vogue editor Enid Frick on “Sex and the City” — took over the coveted Head of Editorial Content gig back in September.

But it’s Queen Bey’s return to the Manhattan event, for the first time since 2016’s “Manus x Machina”-themed night, that’s most highly anticipated.

Beyoncé, who last wore Givenchy Haute Couture to the Met Gala, is coming off a megawatt run. In February, her country album, “Cowboy Carter” — which channels the superstar’s Houston upbringing — finally won the Destiny’s Child alum, who already holds more Grammys than any other musician, the award for album of the year.

The “Cowboy Carter” tour made history as the biggest country tour in Billboard Boxscore history upon taking its final bow in late July.

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Jennifer Shah, a former star on “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” has been moved from a federal prison into a community confinement program after serving less than half her sentence for defrauding thousands of people.

A Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that Shah was transferred Wednesday morning from the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, to the program overseen by the Phoenix Residential Reentry Management Office. The transfer means that Shah is either being held in home confinement or in a halfway house. Her projected release date is Aug. 30, 2026.

“For privacy, safety and security reasons, we do not discuss the conditions of confinement for any individual, including reasons for transfers or release plans, nor do we specify an individual's specific location while in community confinement,” BOP spokesperson Emery Nelson wrote in an email to the Associated Press.

Shah, 52, was sentenced in 2023 to 6 1/2 years in prison for defrauding people in a telemarketing scam that stretched nearly a decade. At the time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Sobelman said she was the most culpable of more than 30 defendants accused of participating in the nationwide fraud targeting people who were often vulnerable, older or unsophisticated electronically. The fraud involved bogus services that were promoted as enabling people to make substantial amounts of money through online businesses.

Shah pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge in July 2022, and during her sentencing she apologized to the “innocent people” she said she’d hurt and pledged to pay $6.5 million in restitution and forfeiture once she is released from prison.

Prosecutors said she used profits from the fraud to live a life of luxury that included living in a nearly 10,000-square-foot mansion in Utah dubbed “Shah Ski Chalet,” an apartment in midtown Manhattan and leasing a Porsche Panamera. The government said she also seemed to mock the charges against her by claiming that the “only thing I’m guilty of is being Shah-mazing” and then she profited from it by marketing “Justice for Jen” merchandise after her arrest.

At the sentencing, Shah apologized and said the proceeds from the merchandise would go toward victims.

“I alone am responsible for my terrible decisions. It was all my fault and all my wrongdoing,” Shah said, later continuing, “I wish I could have stood outside myself and seen the harm I was causing and changed course. I am profoundly and deeply sorry.”

From combined wire services