archiveAugust 2024

Parker McCollum is now a proud father after he and his wife, Hallie Ray, welcomed their first child, a baby boy, on Thursday (Aug. 8)."Major Yancey Tyler McCollum 8/8/24," the couple write in a joint announcement on social media.Their post contains a carousel of photos: The new parents holding their son while in the...

Juliet returns with long-time Ringer colleague and friend Jodi Walker to discuss the first two episodes of the first-ever Love Is Blind UK season! The ladies discuss hosts Matt and Emma Willis (4:24), the stand-out cast members (10:41), the dynamics of the cast members, and who is coupled up with...

Comedian Joe Lycett has effortlessly trolled Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. (Getty) Queer comedian Joe Lycett is up to his old tricks, having posted a brilliant list of satirical questions for right-wing MP Nigel Farage. The Late Night Lycett host has become known in recent years for his hilarious takedowns...

Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Before we get into the news, Book Riot is hiring an ad operations...

Most of us have a love-hate relationship with social media. Yes, our phones provide hours of entertainment and allow us to connect with the larger world, but the proliferation of social media also fosters harmful comparisons and can leave us feeling inferior to bare acquaintances and outright strangers. And that’s...

Bad Boys: Ride or Die represents not only one of the 2024 movie schedule’s summer successes, it’s also the continuation of the legacy to one of the best action movies ever. Legacy-quels such as this need a deft touch, especially when bringing back classic characters that have previously been slain...

The pair dispose of some unsavory figures in the sexy, sinister clip for their viral hit Megan Thee Stallion and Yuki Chiba have dropped a sexy and sinister new video for their viral hit, “Mamushi.”  The video was filmed in Japan and also stars the actor, Shô Kasamatsu, who’s appeared...

Jodi and Chelsea check in with all the happenings at the Olympics, including Snoop Dogg finally touching a horse and the bulge that lost a man a medal (:30). Then they get online to talk about how Tim Walz is a Midwest princess and renewed Ben Affleck and J.Lo divorce...

Now why why why is Shawn Mendes saying this? The 26-year-old released two singles “Why Why Why” and “Isn’t That Enough?” off of his upcoming album Shawn on Aug. 8—and in the former, he hints at a pregnancy scare.  “I thought I was about to be a father,” Shawn sings...

Michael Thomas Long has joined Grey’s Anatomy (Getty Images) Long-running medical drama Grey’s Anatomy has cast the actor who will play the show’s gay hospital chaplain. The show first aired in 2005, and the list of characters entering Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital has just got a little gayer, with Michael...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor. She spends her...

With QuakeCon 2024 now underway, Bethesda and id Software have once again given fans a treat. Only this time, instead of a another remaster of a Quake game, we’re going old school with newly enhanced versions of the original Doom and Doom II. Best of all, if you already own...

So much Black talent has made unforgettable movie breakthrough performances with a positive impact on TV, music, sports, television creation, and more. Outside of the roles you know them for, many Black celebrities created businesses to make things better for the masses with a sharp focus on people of color....