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Jimmy Fallon cut straight to the chase when interviewing Ryan Reynolds on Monday’s Tonight Show, asking the question Swifties all over the world have been dying to know the answer to: Is Taylor Swift in Deadpool & Wolverine?
The actor’s response, however, might leave them disappointed (although, if you think about it, he didn’t actually deny it). “I wish,” he said, joking: “If I ever stop, she’d make a good Deadpool. She’s funny, funny, funny!”
Even if the pop star isn’t in the project, there will be other famous faces who make appearances. “We don’t really have cameos as much as surprises,” Reynolds confirmed on the talk show. “The folks that do show up in the movie — I have no idea how we’ve managed to keep it secret, given the Internet, somehow it hasn’t come out — they have beginnings, middles and ends. It’s not just like, ‘Hey, there’s that person!’ and we move on. They’re there for a reason.”
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The interview follows years of speculation that Swift is involved in the upcoming superhero film, which also stars Hugh Jackman and arrives in theaters Friday. The most recent bout of rumors surged earlier this month when Reynolds appeared to re-create the 14-time Grammy winner’s Evermore album cover in his Deadpool suit. Before that, a poster for the project featured Eras Tour-inspired friendship bracelets.
But why would Swift appear in a Deadpool film to begin with? Well, the singer has been close friends with Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, for years and at one point borrowed the Free Guy star’s actual suit to dress up as Deadpool for Halloween. Plus, his character sported a T-shirt with Swift’s cats, Meredith and Olivia, printed on the chest in Deadpool 2.
“Yes, I had a T-shirt made,” he said of the tee in a recent SiriusXM Town Hall, joking that Swift took legal action against him in response. “I was sued. I lost everything in that one. And getting sued by a friend is tough to swallow. Also, she has just a lot of very, very powerful lawyers. I found out later those are just the paralegals. The real lawyers didn’t even bother with it.”
Watch Reynolds’ Tonight Show interview above.
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Multiplatinum recording artist Dustin Lynch is known for his hit singles “Cowboys and Angels,” “Small Town Boy” and “Ridin’ Roads,” as well as his well-trimmed and stylish beard. So its fitting that the country music star has joined The Beard Club as the grooming company’s new equity partner.
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The partnership entails that Lynch will be involved in The Beard Club’s product development, campaigns and exclusive events for their grooming products such as balms, oils, trimmers and more, which can be found at retailers such as Target.
And if you’re a Target Circle member, you can order now and get Beard Club products delivered straight to your home in two days (with orders over $35).
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Not a member? Sign up for a free membership to take advantage of all that Target Circle has to offer, including access to “deal of the day” products, instant savings on select items, three months of Apple TV+ to watch hit originals, access to exclusive shopping events — such as Target’s Deal Days and early Black Friday deals — and other perks.
If you want to take it a step further, you can sign up for the Target Circle Card (with no annual fee), which offers an extra 5% discount on all purchases, two-day free shipping with no order minimums and more. Learn more about the Target Circle Card here.
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In addition, Beard Club products — such as the Beard Club Precision Beard Trimmer — is available at thebeardclub.com. Right now, you can save 25% off with promo code “LOYALTY” at checkout.
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“I’m excited to partner with Beard Club and join a community that celebrates individuality and confidence,” said Lynch in a press release. “Beard Club’s commitment to quality and innovative approach to grooming resonate with me. I’m looking forward to being a part of a brand I use every day: back home, in the studio, on tour, you name it. I’m hyped to join the club and make it official.”
Dustin Lynch joins the brand’s other partners, including NBA superstar James Harden of the Houston Rockets, recording artist Kid Cudi and MLB All-Star Justin Turner of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Shop Beard Club products — including trimmers, oils, moisturizers, beard balms and more — at Target and The Beard Club.
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Stanley’s first fashion collaboration is coming soon! Stanley and lifestyle brand LoveShackFancy’s collection will be released on Tuesday (August 6) at 9 a.m. PST/12 p.m. EST. The Stanley x LoveShackFancy collaboration features four of LoveShackFancy’s signature floral designs and vintage-inspired prints on Stanley’s popular tumblers.
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The new Stanley Cups showcase four prints: Happy Thoughts, Ribbon Rosa, Everblooming Rosettes, and Blooming Heirloom. Each tumbler also includes a custom LoveShackFancy bow topper, adding a final stylish detail to the straw. The straw topper is a great way to not only accessorize your Stanley Cup, but also prevent water from spilling.
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The collection will be available for purchase on August 6 at both Stanleyand LoveShackFancy‘s official websites, with each tumbler priced at $60. While you wait for the collection’s release, you can now sign up on the product page by clicking “Notify Me” to receive an alert as soon as it goes live.
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Stanley x LoveShackFancy: Limited-Edition H2.0 Flowstate Tumbler
Whether you’re running errands, hitting the gym, or staying cool in the summer heat, this 40-ounce Quencher will help your drink stay cold for hours with Stanley’s double-wall vacuum insulation. According to the brand, the FlowState lid rotates to three positions: a straw opening, one for sipping and a full-cover top.
If that’s not enough, it also features an “ergonomic handle,” meaning it’s designed to fit comfortably in your hand and reduce strain during use. This also gives you a nice grip making it easy to hold and carry around with you everywhere you go.
For more product recommendations, check out this Stanley x Olivia Rodrigo H2.0 Flowstate Tumbler, alternative floral Stanley Cup’s, and additional TikTok-viralStanley Cups to add to your collection.
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Are you a cat person who loves everything Lego? If so, you might want to get your hands on the Lego Tuxedo Cat. This set features a black-and-white tuxedo cat with a fun and creative build using Lego bricks. For cat lovers and Lego enthusiasts alike, this cat is a great collectible.
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Whether you’re looking for a thoughtful gift for a cat lover or wanting to expand your Lego collection, you can’t go wrong with this one. This adorable set also offers the option to customize your Lego feline friend with either yellow or blue eyes.
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You can find this Lego Tuxedo Cat on Amazon, Walmart and Target (currently sold out).
If you’re shopping on Amazon, consider taking advantage of all Amazon Prime has to offer, and sign up for a 30-day free trial, which also comes with access to Prime Video, Prime Gaming and Amazon Music. And to help make sure you get your purchases quickly, being a Prime member means you get fast, free shipping in two days or less with Prime Delivery. Want free shipping on Walmart items? Join Walmart+ for free for the first 30 days. The membership includes free shipping and free delivery from your local store, free Paramount+ and so much more!
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Lego Tuxedo Cat (Home Décor, Cat Gift Idea for Animal-Lovers, Cat Lover Gifts, Collectible Model, Creative Activity, Building Set for Adults)
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If you’re still on the fence about whether or not to add this one to your cart, check out the reviews. One Walmart customer said, “I purchased this cat because it looks just like my tuxedo cat. The build was easy to follow.”
Another Walmart customer said, “The build was so fun and satisfying! I love all the moving parts.”
While the Lego cat may be fun to build and adorable as decor, experienced servants of real-life felines know that investing in a quality kitty litter is essential for keeping a clean and odor-free home. Good litter makes cleaning easy by clumping, resulting in waste that is simple to scoop out of the litterbox.
PrettyLitter offers a great solution at competitive prices: $24/month for one cat, $44/month for two cats (discounted from $48), and $66/month for three cats (discounted from $72). You can take advantage of these reduced prices now at PrettyLitter.com.
For more product recommendations, you can check out ShopBillboard‘s roundups of the best Lego sets, board games for friends and family and music trivia games.
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Major League Soccer is more popular than ever with superstar players — such as Lionel Messi, Riqui Puig, Cucho Hernández, Luciano Acosta and others — dazzling fans all season long. And at the midway point of the season, MLS takes on Liga MX in inter-league play.
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The MLS All-Star Game 2024 — which will see the MLS all-star players go up against Liga MX all-stars — takes place at Lower.com Field in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, July 24.
What Time Is the MLS All-Star Game 2024?
The MLS All-Star Game broadcasts live on Saturday, July 20, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. The MLS vs. Liga MX match livestreams on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
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How to Watch MLS Season Pass, Pricing
MLS Season Pass is a standalone service within the Apple TV app. It gives fans exclusive access to livestream every regular and post-season match — and no local blackouts. In addition, all broadcasts are in English or Spanish.
How much does MLS Season Pass cost? It’s $14.99 per month or $49 for the rest of the season (regularly $99). However, Apple TV+ subscribers can sign up at a discount of $12.99 per month or $39 for the rest of the season (regularly $79).
MLS Season Pass on Apple TV is available in over 100 countries around the world. If you’re not an Apple TV+ subscriber, you can join for free!
Apple TV+ is $9.99 per month after a seven-day free trail. The streaming platform features live sports, movies, TV series, live concerts and other binge-worthy originals.
How to Get MLS Season Pass for Free
Want to stream MLS Season Pass matches, including MLS All-Star Game 2024? T-Mobile offers qualifying customers a free subscription to MLS Season Pass via Apple TV+. Also, customers who subscribe to T-Mobile’s Go5G Plus Plan can enjoy Apple TV+ for free. Learn more about T-Mobile’s free perks here.
Meanwhile, Apple TV+ and MLS Season Pass are streamable on Apple devices, like the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV 4K, smart TVs and other streaming devices such as Fire TV Stick, Roku and Google Chromecast, as well as on the web.
Who Is Playing During the MLS All-Star Game?
Instead of East vs. West, this is this the third year that MLS All-Star Game features MLS All-Stars vs. Liga MX All-Stars in inter-league play. Moreover, the all-star break is extended because the 2024 Olympics take place in Paris later in July.
Below, check out a complete roster list of MLS All-Stars and Liga MX All-Stars.
MLS All-Stars:
Cristian Arango — Real Salt Lake
Christian Benteke — D.C. United
Federico Bernardeschi — Toronto FC
Denis Bouanga — Los Angeles Football Club
Cucho — Columbus Crew
Lionel Messi — Inter Miami CF
Diego Rossi — Columbus Crew
Luis Suárez — Inter Miami CF
Luciano Acosta — FC Cincinnati
Sergio Busquets — Inter Miami CF
Mathieu Choinière — CF Montréal
Evander — Portland Timbers
Ryan Gauld — Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Héctor Herrera — Houston Dynam FC
Robin Lod — Minnesota United
Hany Mukhtar — Nashville SC
Darlington Nagbe — Columbus Crew
Riqui Puig — LA Galaxy
Jordi Alba — Inter Miami CF
Rudy Camacho — Columbus Crew
Justen Glad — Real Salt Lake
Aaron Herrera — D.C. United
Thiago Martins — New York City FC
Steven Moreira — Columbus Crew
Luca Orellano — FC Cincinnati
Miles Robinson — FC Cincinnati
Keegan Rosenberry — Colorado Rapids
Roman Bürki — St. Louis City SC
Hugo Lloris — Los Angeles Football Club
Maarten Paes — FC Dallas
Liga MX All-Stars:
Ángel Malagón — Club America
Kevin Mier — Cruz Azul
Fernando Tapia — Tigres UANL
Jesús Angulo — Tigres UANL
Unai Bilbao — Club Tijuana
Gustavo Ferrareis — Puebla
Brian García — Toluca
Bryan González — CF Pachuca
Alan Mozo — Guadalajara
Alexis Peña — Club Necaxa
Gonzalo Piovi — Cruz Azul
Guido Pizarro — Tigres UANL
Alán Bautista — CF Pachuca
Germán Berterame — CF Monterrey
Juan Brunetta — Tigres UANL
Nelson Deossa — CF Pachuca
Javairô Dilrosun — Club América
Jonathan Dos Santos — Club América
Rodrigo Dourado — Atlético San Luis
Álvaro Fidalgo — Club América
Andrés Guardado — Club León
César Huerta — Pumas UNAM
Oussama Idrissi — CF Pachuca
Maximiliano Meza — CF Monterrey
Carlos Rodríguez — Cruz Azul
Andre-Pierre Gignac — Tigres UANL
Guillermo Martínez — Pumas UNAM
Salomón Rondón — CF Pachuca
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Additionally, Apple TV+ offers some of the best originals in streaming, including For All Mankind, Severance, Long Way Up, Palm Royale, Masters of the Air, Lessons in Chemistry, Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Killers of the Flower Moon and more.
How to Buy MLS All-Star Game Tickets Online
Want to attend MLS All-Star Game in person? There are last-minute tickets available with Vivid Seat, SeatGeek, StubHub and Ticketmaster. Prices vary depending on seats available at Lower.com Field in Columbus.
MLS All-Star Game 2024 livestream on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV on Wednesday, July 24, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.
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With the U.S. presidential election coming up in November, Vice President Kamala Harris is making sure that voters hit the polls like rom-pom-pom-pom. In one of the Harris campaign’s latest TikTok videos, the vice president pitched herself as the best alternative to former president Donald Trump with a little help from rising pop star Chappell […]
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix live for the applause in Warner Bros’ first full-length Joker: Folie À Deux trailer, which arrived Tuesday (July 23).
In the nearly three-minute teaser, viewers find Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck institutionalized as he awaits trial for crimes he committed as the Joker. While there, he meets Quinn, and the pair embark on a whimsical and darkly chaotic musical journey that leaves viewers wondering what’s real and what’s imagined.
“When I first saw Joker — when I saw you — for once in my life, I didn’t feel so alone anymore,” Gaga says in a voice-over as she breaks through the glass of a store’s display window to steal a TV airing footage of Fleck in a jail cell.
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The video then cuts to clips of mobs swarming a courthouse to protest the Joker’s imprisonment, and Fleck, fueled by the public’s support, defending himself in court. All the while, he and Quinn waltz to Frank Sinatra’s eerily cheerful “When You’re Smiling” in both glamorous outfits and tattered clothes. The end culminates in the two characters hosting a 1960s-esque variety show, both wearing their signature clown face paint.
“I got the sneaking suspicion we’re not giving the people what they want,” Joker says into an old-fashioned microphone, to which Quinn replies, “It’s OK, baby — let’s give the people what they want.”
The 13-time Grammy winner was first confirmed to star in Folie À Deux — which serves as a sequel to 2019’s Joker — in August 2022. The following April, photos surfaced of Gaga in her creepy costume filming musical scenes in New York City.
The trailer arrives one day after Gaga was spotted in Paris, fueling rumors that she’s performing at the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony. She’s also in the process of working on new music, having recently shared photos from the studio captioned, “Happy as ever making music … feel so grateful, heart is peaceful. It’s like meditation. I can’t wait for you to hear what I’m working on.”
Watch the new Joker: Folie À Deux, arriving in theaters Oct. 4, above.
First Madonna personally dropped by to show Ryan Reynolds and Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy how to use her 1989 hit “Like a Prayer” in their film. Then, on Monday night (July 22) in New York, the pop superstar made a surprise appearance at the movie’s premiere, walking the red carpet in her inimitable high-fashion style alongside twin eleven-year-old daughters Estere and Stella.
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Madonna wore a short black blazer dress with matching ankle boots and sunglasses while her daughters both rocked oversized white jerseys, with Estere accessorizing her look with maroon pants, white sneakers and a matching headband, while Stella went for dark wash bell-bottom jeans and a white scarf tied around a robin’s egg blue baseball hat. Check out a picture of the singer with Reynolds, co-star Hugh Jackman and director Levy here.
The drop-in was not a total surprise, as Madonna’s 1989 hit “Like a Prayer” is featured in a remixed form in the film after director Levy got her personal permission to use the song in the threequel. In a recent interview with Jess Cagle on SiriusXM, Reynolds described how he, Levy and Jackman convinced Madonna to let them use the song.
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“It did involve a personal visit to Madonna, where we showed Madonna the sequence where ‘Like a Prayer’ would be used,” Levy explained. “Also, let’s preface it with the fact that they don’t license — that Madonna doesn’t just license the song, particularly that song,” Reynolds added. “It was a big deal to ask for it and certainly a bigger deal to use it. We went over and met with her and and sort of showed her how it was being used, and where, and why.”
Not only did Madonna agree to let them use the song that spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1989, but Reynolds revealed she gave some helpful notes as well. “She watched it, and I’m not kidding, [she said], ‘You need to do this.’ And damn it, if she wasn’t like spot on,” Reynolds said. “We literally went into a new recording session within 48 hours to do this note,” Levy said. “It made the sequence better.”
Deadpool & Wolverine opens in theaters on Friday (July 26).
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Planning your next trip just got slightly less expensive, thanks to the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.
The annual sale is offering discounts on footwear, fashion, accessories and travel gear such as duffle bags, tote bags, suitcases and other luggage to take on your next summer getaway.
If you missed the Béis warehouse sale earlier in the year, Nordstrom is giving you another shot at scoring a deal on bestsellers like the Commuter Duffle Bag.
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The Commuter Duffle retails for $138, but you can snag it for 25% off during the Anniversary Sale.
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Available in atlas pink and black, the viral duffle bag has a roomy interior (11 1/2 inches x 21 inches x 8 1/2 inches), adjustable straps, interior wall pockets, zip pockets, a mesh pocket and metal feet.
Based on the reviews, shoppers like the Commuter Duffle because it’s versatile (and cute). It’s packed with pockets to hold travel-sized toiletries, beauty product minis and other necessities that you might need on the go such as your ID, passport, headphones and disinfectant wipes.
Shopping for a bag under $100? Béis’ North to South Recycled Polyester Tote is on sale for $72.99 (reg. $99) at Nordstrom.
This year’s Anniversary Sale has over 50 new additions to the sale list including Dr. Martens, JW PEI, Lizzie Fortunato, Osprey, SALT & STONE, and Varley.
In the beauty aisle, shoppers will find deals on Bobbi Brown, Charlotte Tilbury, La Mer, MAC Cosmetics, Lancôme, Sisley Paris, Armani Beauty, Augustinus Bader, Trish McEvoy, Westman Atelier, Yves Saint Laurent, Clinique, Supergoop!, Jack Black, Living Proof, Olaplex, OSEA and more.
Free People, Lafayette 148, St. John, Theory, Veronica Beard, Vince, AllSaints, Madewell, Kut from the Kloth, Levi’s, MOTHER, PAIGE, Pistola, Hunter, rag & bone and Topshop are some of the fashion brands featured in the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale.
Other beloved brands on sale include Coach, Kate Spade, ASICS, New Balance, Cole Haan, Dolce Vita, Hunter, New Balance, rag & bone, Sam Edelman, SOREL, Steve Madden, Stuart Weitzman and Vince Camuto.
The Nordstrom Anniversary Sale ends on Aug. 4.