Celebrity Gossip for Tuesday
LOGAN PAUL RETURNS TO YOUTUBE: Logan Paul is back after taking a break from YouTube following the severe backlash he received for posting a video that included the body of a suicide victim. (He later deleted the video, apologized and created a suicide PSA). His first post-controversy post shows him dressed as a bearded man who has washed up on shore. “The maverick Logan Paul, showing his face for the first time after the disgraced YouTuber has been spotted across the country – hiding his face from paparazzi and seen swallowing his tears on social media like a little baby,” a narrator intones. “Yo, hold up – disgrace? What you mean disgrace, boy? I took a break,” Paul breaks in. “Besides, I’m still lit as f-. What other YouTuber can take a three-week break and still get a million subscribers?” He went on to say that he was not “going to try to ignore” the scandal. Besides, he said: “Crucify me, vilify me, and I can promise you one thing, guys – I’m not going anywhere.”
VINCENT CIRRINCIONE SHUTTERS COMPANY: In the wake of sexual harassment allegations made by nine women against him, veteran Hollywood talent manager Vincent Cirrincione is closing his titular company. “In the best interests of his clients Vincent Cirrincione has closed down his management company,” a rep for the company told Deadline in a statement. His biggest clients, including Taraji P. Henson and Julie Benz, already dropped him as a client.
HUGH GRANT SETTLES HACKING CASE: Hugh Grant has reportedly been awarded a six-figure settlement in his phone-hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers in London. Grant will donate the money to Hacked Off, an advocacy group. In a statement after the verdict, Grant said: “A number of its senior employees, including executives, editors and journalists, condoned, encouraged or actively turned a blind eye to the widespread culture of unlawful information-gathering activities at all three of its newspapers for many years and actively sought to conceal its wrongdoing from its many victims of intrusion.” Grant’s lawyers argued that his voicemails were hacked between 1998 and 2009.
SARAH SILVERMAN AND MICHAEL SHEEN ARE DONE: After nearly four years of dating, Sarah Silverman and Michael Sheen are going their separate ways. The Grammy-nominated Silverman told her Twitter followers: “The great @michaelsheen & I consciously uncoupled over Christmas. I mean, not ‘over Christmas’ – like that wasn’t the fight that ended it. No fight. We just live in different countries & it got hard. Felt we should just tell y’all so u stop askin, ‘How’s Michael/How’s Sarah?’”