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Comedian Hannah Berner is speaking out after raising eyebrows at the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Berner, 33, cohosted the red carpet on Sunday, March 2, with her BFF and former Summer House costar Paige DeSorbo, interviewing celebs as they arrived for the annual awards show afterparty. Following the event, a clip of Berner speaking to Megan Thee Stallion went viral online, with some fans claiming the Bravo alum showed racial bias by telling the rapper, “When I want to fight someone, I listen to your music.” Berner addressed the controversy in a social media statement on Thursday, March 6, writing, “Interviewing Megan Thee Stallion was a dream of mine. I love her music and it’s my go to whenever I need to boost my confidence before a show. Looking back at the interview, I wish I used any other word except ‘fight’ to describe how her songs impact me.” Berner apologized to Megan directly for her “careless choice of words” and insisted her comment had “no ill intent.” Scroll below for more updates on Us Weekly’s top stories:
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Gabby Windey finished second on Dancing With the Stars season 31, but it’s not winner Charli D’Amelio whom she holds a grudge against. Instead, it’s week 6 guest judge Michael Bublé.
Bublé, 49, appeared on the Michael Bublé Night episode midway through the season, where Windey, 34, and partner Val Chmerkovskiy danced to his 2005 single “Home.”
Windey explained why the Canadian crooner left the wrong kind of impression during a game of Cheap Shots with Cosmopolitan. The prompt was to name one male celebrity that she has worked with whom she hates, and Windey didn’t hesitate at all to throw Bublé under the bus.
“Michael Bublé,” she immediately answered in the video posted Wednesday, March 5. “He didn’t give me a perfect score on Dancing With the Stars, but he did look me up and down in my outfit, so whose side are you on?”
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Bublé gave Windey and Chmerkovskiy a 9 for their rumba dance, matching the scores from judges Carrie Ann Inaba, the late Len Goodman and Derek Hough. Bruno Tonioli gave them a perfect 10.
Bublé isn’t the only celebrity to catch some heat from Windey. The former Bachelorette has made the reality TV rounds, starting as a contestant on season 26 of The Bachelor and most recently competing on season 3 of The Traitors.
Windey remains in the running for the grand prize ahead of the finale, airing Thursday, March 6, night. Part of the reason she has stayed in the game so long is that, as Windey admits, she lied to everybody in the cast.
“I told everyone that I liked them,” she said. “Dylan Efron? Dead to me.”
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Similarly, she was asked which of her Traitors castmates disappointed her the most when she met them in person.
“Obviously Tom Sandoval because he’s just a disappointing person,” she said, before repeating that Efron is “dead to me.”
Her fellow Bachelor Nation stars weren’t safe, either. When asked which alum was most thirsty, she thought for a minute before settling on Matt James.
“He’s not thirsty. He’s actually very dry, like a prune,” she admitted of the season 25 Bachelor. “He’s just rude and maybe a poor excuse for a man.”
Windey went on to clarify that her opinion was “coming on the heels of the Rachael Kirkconnell drama” and that she is “a girl’s girl.”
James, 33, abruptly announced his breakup from Kirkconnell, 28, via Instagram in January 2025. Their split came on a vacation to Tokyo after an alleged argument over where to go for dinner ballooned into a larger conversation.
“We know about him now,” Windey concluded before playfully tossing the card holding the question over her shoulder.
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Kathy Griffin is feeling lots of “gratitude” to be booked and busy after being “canceled for six-and-a-half years.”
“[I] could not get work, no matter what. And it was really, really difficult because I’ve been a happy workaholic my whole adult career and always either doing a comedy special or a reality show or a game show or a scripted show,” Griffin, 64, exclusively told Us Weekly. “And so, I’m just so grateful to be back on stage, back working every show I do as if it’s my last show. When I did my last tour seven years ago, it really was my last f—ing show and I didn’t know that.”
Back in 2017, Griffin sparked controversy after taking a photo with a fake decapitated head resembling President Donald Trump. She was subsequently investigated by the U.S. Justice Department for two months and lost several gigs and endorsements. In her personal life, she filed for divorce from Randy Bick in December 2023 after nearly four years of marriage (their split was finalized earlier this year) and battled lung cancer.
Now, she’s back on stage with her Kathy Griffin: My Life on the PTSD-List comedy tour.
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“Every show is a gift and I’ve been so fortunate enough on this tour to play every place from Carnegie Hall in Manhattan to Boston Symphony Hall, all by myself, no opening act,” she told Us of hitting the road again. “I write all my own material. I love every minute of it. And the audiences, I think they know a lot of the crap I’ve been through. And so, every audience is like a big hug.”
In addition to her tour and her new Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin YouTube series, Griffin recently made her TV comeback on the TV show Unconventional, which premiered on REVRY, the world’s first LGTBQ+ streaming network, on February 11. The show follows two queer siblings as they form an unconventional family with their loved ones.
“I play an English professor, which is funny because I didn’t even go to college,” Griffin told Us of her role. “There were a couple of moments in Unconventional where I got to be a little bit dramatic, and I’m really grateful.”
Late last year, Griffin was also one of the thousands of California residents affected by the Franklin Fire in Malibu. The comedian confirmed she and her four dogs had to evacuate her home in a December 2024 Instagram video. Luckily, she found refuge with another famous face.
“When you’re evacuating with four dogs, it’s not so easy. Hotels might limit you to one dog or two,” she explained. “So, when I have to evacuate, guess whose house I go and stay at? Sia! And she even sings to me.”
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Griffin gushed that she’s “just in love” with the singer, 49, for being “such a good pal” in her time of need. “She’s magical. I just love her. And she has three dogs herself, and so she was like, ‘Come over with all four dogs.’ So, I did.”
Sia continued to support Griffin by attending her “very first show back at The Mirage after six-and-a-half years of being fully blacklisted,” Griffin told Us. “I put her on the spot because, as you know, she doesn’t want to be recognized and she doesn’t want to be famous. So there were no lights in the audience at all. It was total darkness. And then I put her on the spot and I made her sing ‘Chandelier’ a cappella.”
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Jason Tartick has found a fur-ever friend in his new pet dog.
“Not sure who rescued who, but we got each other,” Tartick, 36, wrote via social media on Wednesday, March 5. “Thank you @wagsandwalksnashville.”
In Tartick’s update, he greeted a golden retriever mix with a large hug after signing official adoption papers.
While the Bachelor Nation alum is clearly head over heels for his new canine companion, he’s still mulling over the perfect moniker.
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“My new best buddy needs a name! I have a few favorites for him, but before I decide, I’d love to hear your ideas,” Tartick wrote via Instagram later on Wednesday. “Ironically, the day I chose to volunteer at the rescue was the same day they picked him up from the local shelter. The connection was instant.”
He continued, “The rescue named him ‘Rango,’ which I like, but I’m considering something different. Let me know what names you think would work for him!”
In the Instagram comments section, several fellow members of Bachelor Nation suggested names like Waffles, Maverick, Bear, Nash, Chance and Cash, among others.
Tartick previously shared goldens Ramen and Pinot with his ex-fiancée, Kaitlyn Bristowe. After the pair called off their engagement in 2023, they planned to split custody of the pups, but the arrangement came to an end in September 2024.
“If you listen to this podcast or follow me at all, you know how important Ramen and Pinot are to me. They are legitimately the light of my life,” Bristowe, 39, said on her “Off the Vine” podcast at the time. “It kills me to leave them [whenever I travel]. They have the greatest dog sitter … [who] comes to my house, so they don’t have to leave.”
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She added, “What I realized in sharing custody with the dogs is that they get very scared and very uncomfortable and very anxious not knowing where they’re going and when they’re coming back. This is not personal to anybody [and] it happens when they’re in one house and when they’re in my house.”
According to Bristowe, the dogs would get “scared to leave” one house.
“It was breaking my whole heart and when I talked to Bunny’s Buddies, which is where I rescued them both from, they were like, ‘This is not allowed,’” she added. “[They said,] ‘We wouldn’t let somebody rescue these two angel dogs, who need security, to be bouncing around in joint custody. We would have never [let you adopt them].’”
Bristowe further stressed that she was “no longer willing to coparent” the dogs with Tartick, but still didn’t want to prevent him from seeing the animals altogether.
“I’m doing what’s best for the dogs,” Bristowe explained. “[Jason] is more than welcome to see them if he is in town for the weekend or wants to take them for a walk. I would never keep them from anyone.”
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Bill Murray has revealed that he “wept three times” during Saturday Night Live‘s 50th anniversary special in February.
“It was surprisingly emotional,” Murray, 74, told SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning on Friday, February 28.
Murray appeared during the SNL 50 celebration to rank his favorite “Weekend Update” anchors in a sendup of the comedic Best Of lists he presented during his own tenure at the “Update” desk.
The Ghostbusters star, who joined SNL in its second season, shared with Sway what it was like to be back in the hallowed halls of Studio 8H for one of the most star-studded nights in TV history.
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“[The show] really got to me,” Murray confessed. Asked what made him weep, Murray joked: “There were sketches that were dying. No, I’m just kidding.”
More seriously, he explained: “Obviously, there’s a lot of video and history that they were showing, and I didn’t see it coming, but [when they showed] Gilda [Radner] up there dancing with Steve Martin, I remember being there watching them rehearse that dance number for days and days and days.”
The 1978 sketch “Dancing in the Dark” has frequently served as a tribute to original cast member Radner, who died in 1989 from ovarian cancer, during SNL‘s anniversary specials. Murray famously dated Radner during their time on the NBC series.
“I loved Gilda, I was crazy about Gilda,” he recalled on Sway in the Morning. “I just sort of came apart. I was sitting there in a dressing room with a bunch of people and I couldn’t stop [crying].”
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Later in the night, original Not Ready for Prime Time Player Garrett Morris introduced director Tom Schiller‘s 1978 short film Don’t Look Back in Anger, which depicted Murray’s costar John Belushi in old-age makeup as he visited the graves of his SNL cast mates. The film now has added poignancy because Belushi was the first SNL cast member to die, at age 32 in March 1982.
“To see that, and to see [John], I could [cry] now just thinking about it,” he told Sway. “To see that sort of foreshadowing… and to miss him, John was a guy who really made a lot of careers possible. He dragged all of us out from Chicago… A lot of people slept on John Belushi’s couch until they got on their feet.”
Murray made his first appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1976 as a replacement for original cast member Chevy Chase, who quit the show after just one season as its leading star.
While Murray became a mainstay on SNL throughout the late 1970s, his first few episodes were critically panned. The comedian eventually managed to turn around public opinion with an on-air statement apologizing for his subpar performances.
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“I don’t think I’m making it on the show,” he memorably told viewers.
During a recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Murray remembered feeling genuine anxiety in the run up to his sarcastic public apology.
“I thought, ‘God, I’ve got to do something’ because if I were watching this show, I’d say, ‘That guy’s gotta go. They gotta get rid of him soon,’” he admitted to host Seth Meyers. “I felt like I had to cut that [reaction] off. Before I even said it, [producer] Lorne Michaels said, ‘I’ve got an idea for you’… I said, ‘Great minds [think alike], Lorne, great minds!’”
SNL 50 was a rare chance to reunite the show’s 1970s cast, with Murray, Morris, Chase, Jane Curtin and Laraine Newman together again. The only living original SNL cast member missing was Dan Aykroyd, who later explained via X: “Advantage of not attending – got to see every second of concert and show on TV.”
Saturday Night Live airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
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Could the cover-up be bigger than the crime?
So it’s of little surprise that few people even realized that Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, appeared in the well of the House chamber and was formally admonished by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., with a resolution of censure Thursday morning.
The House voted 224-198 with two members voting present to censure Green for his antics during President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday night.
Per the resolution, Green had to present himself in the well as Johnson read the resolution before the House for his infractions and officially castigated him, with a rap of the gavel.
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But you wouldn’t be alone if you missed it.
That’s because a host of Democrats joined Green near the dais. Johnson banged the gavel, imploring Green’s colleagues to stop. They sang "We Shall Overcome," drowning out Johnson.
But the deed was done. Green was censured – even if few really saw it. That’s because there’s a trend in Congress for colleagues to join the censured individual in the well of the House and make a ruckus, almost diluting the discipline.
This is why Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., argued that the House should now try to expel Green. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., is prepping a resolution to strip the dozens of Democrats who joined Green in the well from their committees. There’s also a move to relieve Green of his committee assignments.
It didn’t used to be this way. There’s an issue of debate about "who fired first." But discipline in the House over censure has disintegrated markedly in recent years. And so has bipartisan comportment of lawmakers when the president of the other party speaks to a joint session of Congress.
Green became the 29th member of the House censured in the institution’s history. But he’s the fourth Democrat censured by the House since 2023. The fifth overall member to be censured if you include the censure of Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., in 2021.
You have to go back to 2010 with former Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., to find a member who was censured. Before that? Try 1983.
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The Rangel censure over abuse of office is significant. Rangel was a towering figure in Congress. A Korean War hero who was left to die on the battlefield. Rangel rose from humble roots in Harlem to become Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The House voted to censure Rangel in late 2010 after a lengthy investigation. After the vote, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asked the New York Democrat to "present himself in the well." With the entire House present, Rangel, ambled to the front of the chamber, his head hung low, hands folded in front as though he were about to pray.
No one said a word. Members from both sides sat in rapt silence as Pelosi read the text of the censure resolution in an uncharacteristically meek tone. Pelosi herself seemed stricken, having to censure her friend and such a vaunted colleague. Pelosi tapped the gavel so lightly at the conclusion of the censure exercise that it almost seemed accidental.
The deed was done.
That’s not how censures roll in the House anymore.
Contrast the censure of Rangel to the 2023 censures of former Rep. and now Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., and you’ll find raucous affairs. Yelling. Shouting. Anything to cover up what the Speaker is reading from the dais.
In the case of the 2023 censure of Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the resolution just declared her to be censured but did not require her to appear in the well of the chamber before the full House and the Speaker.
The rate of censures is increasing dramatically. Republicans will argue that Democrats "started it." The House censured Gosar in 2021 for posting an anime video which showed him using a sword to kill Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and harming former President Biden. The measure also stripped Gosar of his committee assignments. In 2021, Democrats and 11 Republicans voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from her committees. They argued she trafficked in conspiracy theories and racism which encouraged violence.
But in the case of Al Green, his conduct on the floor reflects a trend of hectoring the president in the House chamber. Taylor Greene and Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., certainly jeered and taunted former President Biden during his speeches to Congress. The former president even briefly engaged them on one occasion. This unfolded under three House Speakers: Pelosi, Johnson and former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Yet there was never any effort by the Speaker to have anyone removed on those occasions.
That changed when Johnson ordered Green removed on Tuesday.
But when did this all start?
It goes back to September 2009.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shouted "you lie" at President Barack Obama as he delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress about health care reform. Wilson specifically accused the president of lying when he declared it was "false" that persons in the country illegally would qualify for health benefits.
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Bipartisan lawmakers condemned the outburst immediately. Wilson apologized to then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. In a statement, Wilson said he "let my emotions get the best of me." He characterized the episode as a "town hall moment." By the weekend, Wilson was fundraising off the incident.
Pelosi didn’t want to go any further with a punishment. But her members pushed against the Speaker – and prevailed.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., who at the time served as the House Majority Whip, thought Wilson’s off-stage apology wasn’t enough. Clyburn, and fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus, believed the House needed to do something to assert its rules of decorum. They believed the verbal assault was tinged with race – directed at the first Black president.
Appearing on CNN, CBC member and Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., argued that if the House didn’t stand up to Wilson, "people with white hoods (would be) running through the countryside again."
Democrats wanted Wilson to apologize to the entire House. After he refused, Democrats forged ahead with a vote on a "resolution of disapproval" of Wilson’s actions.
A reprimand, censure and expulsion are the three formal modes of discipline in the House. A "resolution of disapproval" is kind of like receiving a Congressional parking ticket.
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Then-House Minority Leader and future Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the effort a "political stunt." Boehner asserted there was "behavior in this chamber that’s more serious than this."
Former Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., chaired the CBC at the time.
"Today’s resolution is an opportunity for us to come together and reject incivility," said Lee. "Let’s turn the page."
They’ve done anything but that.
The House is now involved in low-grade guerrilla warfare with periodic flare-ups. There’s routine sniping at the president – regardless of who occupies the office - when he comes to speak to a joint session of Congress. The parties battle over tit-for-tat resolutions of censure and committees.
They’re a long way from turning the page, as Barbara Lee suggested 16 years ago.
And that’s why Mike Johnson must decide next week if he wants to wage another skirmish in this partisan fracas. He must decide whether to mete out more discipline to Green and those who stood by him in the well.
Or turn the page.
