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Whoopi Goldberg Defends ‘Barbie’ Movie, Claps Back at Criticism

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Whoopi Goldberg raised up her armor to defend the Barbie movie on The View against harsh criticism from several conservatives.

“It’s a movie!” Goldberg, 67, said during the Tuesday, July 25, episode of the talk show. “It’s a movie about a doll!”

The View cohost fired back against both columnist Ben Shapiro and Senator Ted Cruz’s negative takes on the 2023 release. “I thought y’all would be happy,” Goldberg continued. “[Barbie] has no genitalia, so there’s

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Chris Whitty defends ‘morbid’ SAGE worst-case models

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Sir Chris Whitty today defended the worst-case scenarios advisors give Government, like the terrifying models pumped out during the pandemic.

Doomsday forecasts are vital for planning purposes, the chief medical officer told the Covid Inquiry.

Although Sir Chris accepted assumptions can be morbid, he insisted high potential death tolls, like those cited during the darkest days of the crisis, allowed officials to prepare in case they came to fruition.

It gave ministers chance to work out where they were ‘going

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Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel DEFENDS Meghan Markle ‘bimbo’ comment, ‘felt like nothing’ on show

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Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel has defended Meghan Markle’s controversial ‘bimbo’ comments, admitting that he ‘gets it’ because he also ‘felt like nothing’ and a ‘piece of meat’ while starring on the hit game show – days after the Duchess’ remarks were slammed by her fellow ‘briefcase girls.’

Mendel, 66, who hosted the show from 2005 to 2009, and again from 2018 to 2019 during its revival, said he was made to feel like ‘a piece of meat’

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‘Celebrity Big Brother’ Winner Miesha Tate Defends Todrick Hall

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Mixed emotions. Miesha Tate is still trying to process things after being crowned the winner of Celebrity Big Brother season 3 on Wednesday, February 23.

The mixed martial artist, 35, won in a 7-1 vote against her closest ally, Todrick Hall, who rubbed a lot of fellow houseguests the wrong way – so much so that some even threw shade at him while voting in the finale. Miesha was caught off guard by their remarks as she and Todrick,

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Teenage TikTok star’s retired cop father defends killing her stalker

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TikTok star Ava Majury and her parents have defended selling her selfies to the stalker who tried to kill her and was shot dead by her father last July, and revealed she will stay on the site where she makes $1,700-a-video despite safety risks

Ava Majury, her retired cop father Rob and her mother Kimberly appeared on Good Morning America on Friday to share more details about the shooting at their home in Naples, Florida, last July, after telling their

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Hugh Hefner’s son Cooper defends the late Playboy mogul against ex-girlfriends’ ‘salacious’ claims

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Playboy has tried to distance itself from Hugh Hefner after his former girlfriends came forward to accuse him of grooming and drugging them, secretly filming girls and celebrity guests, and running a ‘cult-like atmosphere at his mansion. 

Secrets of Playboy, a new documentary series which aired its first episode on Monday, features interviews with former Playboy Bunnies and staff who paint Hefner as a predator who preyed on young women.

On Monday, ahead of the first episode, Playboy released a

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Minister defends Government cancer record despite treatment delays and spiralling diagnostic waits

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A health minister has defended the Government’s record on treating cancer, despite data showing more Britons are waiting longer for urgent treatment than ever before. 

Minister for patient safety and primary care, Maria Caulfield, insisted No10 had prioritised cancer patients during the Covid pandemic when she was quizzed by MPs from the Health and Social Care Committee today.  

She said: ‘Since the start of pandemic in March 2020, there have been over 4million urgent referrals for cancer and over 960,000

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Jackie ‘O’ Henderson defends Lisa Wilkinson following Mark Latham’s parliament spray

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Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has defended Lisa Wilkinson after Mark Latham slammed her during a parliamentary address over claims she’s ‘always been about the money’ amid the release of her bombshell memoir, It Wasn’t Meant To Be Like This.

New South Wales One Nation leader Mr Latham blasted the 61-year-old for ‘reinventing herself as a victim of the gender pay gap at Channel Nine’ on Wednesday under parliamentary privilege in the state’s Upper House.

He also said an old classmate alleged

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