Ari Lennox Freaks Out When Lakeith Stanfield Asks Her Out
Lakeith Stanfield asked Ari Lenox out on Instagram Live and her reaction was priceless.
Ari Lennox hops on Instagram Live on a damn-near daily basis and, these days, it’s probably the best method of feeling like you’re hanging out with friends. With the social distancing movement in full effect, celebrities (and everybody else) are confined to their own homes as we navigate this global pandemic together. Ari was on a live-stream this week when, of all people, actor Lakeith Standfield joined in. The Dreamville songstress realized who was tuning in before she commented on how she saw his most recent film The Photograph in theaters all by herself. Whenever the theater re-opens though, she has an opportunity to go see it again with the star himself.
“Can you be my date? Let’s go,” asked Stanfield in the comments, effectively shooting his shot.
Ari was perplexed by his forward ask, going bonkers and attempting to change the subject, but her freaked-out tone did all the necessary talking for her.
“Lakeith, I don’t have time for this. You’re joking. Wait… let’s change the subject. Because I heard some things,” exclaimed the singer before giving a lively tour of her new purchases at Guitar Center, which included a keyboard, new microphone, stands, and a guitar. The entire time she was showing off the equipment though, she seemed stoked that Lakeith Stanfield was even showing an interest in her.
Do you think they’ll get a chance to date?
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Chase Bank forgives all credit card debt for Canadian customers
Canadians who had credit cards with Chase Bank can breathe a sigh of relief as the company says it will “forgive” all outstanding debt.
Chase Bank, part of the New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., closed all credit card accounts in the country in March 2018, the company said.
Originally, customers were told to continue paying their debt, Reuters reported, but the company confirmed Friday to USA TODAY that the debt was now cancelled.
“Chase made the decision to exit the Canadian credit card market. As part of that exit, all credit card accounts were closed on or before March 2018. A further business decision has been made to forgive all outstanding balances in order to complete the exit,” Maria Martinez, vice president of communications for Chase Card Services, said in a statement.
Chase declined to say how much debt was forgiven or how many customers were affected. It wasn’t immediately clear when the decision was made, but the CBC spoke with some Canadians who said they received a letter from Chase this week.
The bank had offered two rewards cards – with Amazon and Marriott – in Canada, the CBC reported.
“It’s crazy,” Turner added. “This stuff doesn’t happen with credit cards. Credit cards are horror stories.” The 55-year-old trucker also told the CBC that his most recent payment on the account would also be reimbursed.
While the company could have sold the debt to a third party, Martinez said, “Ultimately, we felt it was a better decision for all parties, particularly our customer, to forgive the debt.”
Paul Adamson, of Dundalk, Ontario, told the CBC that he called his bank when he saw the account was closed last week because he didn’t want to miss a payment.
“I’m honestly still so … flabbergasted about it,” he said. “It’s surprise fees, extra complications – things like that, definitely, but not loan forgiveness.”
Christine Langlois, of Montreal, told the CBC that she stopped making payments on her card five years ago.
A 24-year-old university student, she said: “It’s kind of like I’m being rewarded for my irresponsibility.”
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Cheating husband catches coronavirus on trip to Italy with mistress
A cheating UK hubby is “in a blind panic” over his extramarital affair — now that he has contracted the coronavirus on a secret trip to Italy with his mistress, according to a new report.
The unnamed patient, in his late 30s — described as “well-heeled and with a high-flying job” — told his wife he was away on a business trip within the UK, the Sun reported.
When the man returned home, he began showing symptoms of the deadly bug, and tests confirmed that he was in fact infected, according to the report.
“This patient is the talk of public health officials,” a source with knowledge of the situation told the outlet. “His case would be funny if it wasn’t quite so serious.”
“The man confessed [to doctors] what he’d been up to in Italy, and that his wife has no idea,” the source added. “She thinks he just picked up the disease on his business trip away.”
The man is expected to survive the infection — “unlike his extramarital relationship,” the source told the outlet.
The man’s wife — only aware that he has COVID-19 — has isolated herself in the couple’s lavish home in northern England.
“He thought he had the perfect alibi to carry out his affair, but hadn’t reckoned on the coronavirus meltdown,” the insider told the outlet. “The patient is just relieved he got home before flights were canceled — that would have taken some explaining. He’s in a blind panic, but more about his adultery being exposed rather than his health.”
He admitted to doctors that his affair is with a woman, but he refused to identify her, according to the report.
Italy is battling the largest coronavirus outbreak outside Asia — with 31,506 total cases and 2,503 deaths reported by Tuesday, officials announced.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/03/18/cheating-husband-catches-coronavirus-on-trip-to-italy-with-mistress/
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Coronavirus patient tests positive despite ‘overusing hand sanitizer’
A young, fit South Korean coronavirus patient said he contracted the deadly illness despite “overusing hand sanitizer” and taking several health precautions — as he warns others not to be “stupidly overconfident.”
Hyun Park, a 48-year-old university professor, wrote in a Facebook post that he wanted to share his experience as a lesson to help “friends and loved ones to ward off the highly contagious virus.”
Park said that he lived a healthy lifestyle so he was “stupidly overconfident” about his chances of getting infected.
“I was a healthy guy going to gym 5 times a week, washing hands all the time, and overusing hand sanitizer, and staying in Coronavirus-free area,” he said. “So, I was naive and stupid to think that it is not my problem.”
But last month, on Feb. 21, he began to experience a “very mild” sore throat as well as a dry cough, which quickly progressed into discomfort in his chest.
Within days, Park said he began to have trouble breathing so he decided to get tested for COVID-19 on Feb. 24.
The next day — four days after he displayed initial mild symptoms — the test came back positive and he was hospitalized due to the severity of his condition.
“Since then, my condition were [sic] up and down several times a day,” Park wrote.
But following eight days of hospitalization, he finally tested negative for COVID-19, placing him on the path to recovery, he said.
After the reality check, Park is now cautioning others to take the virus that has infected more than 196,000 people worldwide seriously.
“We need to stay healthy and positive to keep our condition well and immune system high,” he wrote. “Fear and panic do not help us at all. And also, we should not take this [lightly].”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-patient-tests-positive-despite-overusing-hand-sanitizer/
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Oprah Winfrey has denied reports she was arrested and her home raided by law enforcement and arrested for sex trafficking
The 66-year-old talk show host and media mogul became one of Twitter’s top trending topics on Tuesday night after rumors began circulating on social media that she, along with other celebrities, had been arrested for sex trafficking.
After being made aware of the rumors, Winfrey took to Twitter Wednesday to dispel them.
Addressing the tweets, she told her 42.8 million followers: “Just got a phone call that my name is trending. And being trolled for some awful FAKE thing.”
“It’s NOT TRUE,” she added, “Haven’t been raided or arrested.”
She signed off the post by reminding her followers that she was doing her part to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus by practicing social distancing.
“Just sanitizing and self-distancing with the rest of the world. Stay safe everybody,” she said.
CNN has reached out to Winfrey’s representatives for further comment.
Oprah appears to be the latest celebrity victim of QAnon, a group made up of a number of individuals operating independently online, who espouse outrageous conspiracy theories that they post on every single social media platform.
Followers post fake stories of a large-scale conspiracy that pits US President Donald Trump against a global elite seeking to murder him.
One Facebook post that is still active on the social media platform — it has more than 1,000 shares — claims that a house in Boca Raton, Florida, which they say is Oprah’s house, was seized, roped off with red tape.
A YouTube livestream video, with more than 48,000 views, further perpetuates that conspiracy, saying the entire house is roped off with police banners.
And Oprah is not the only victim of QAnon’s latest false conspiracy theory.
One post on Twitter — with more than 2,100 retweets or shares — falsely claims that Tom Hanks, who tested positive for coronavirus in Australia, was actually arrested for pedophilia. It goes on to say that other A-list celebrities will soon be arrested.
The group has also pushed the untrue conspiracy theory known as “Pizzagate.”
That theory has had some dangerous consequences. In 2017, a North Carolina man, armed with an assault rifle, opened fire in a Washington pizzeria.
He claimed he was attempting to find and rescue child sex slaves whom he believed were being held at the restaurant — a belief allegedly based on his reading of a false story circulating online that connected Hillary Clinton’s campaign adviser to the pizzeria through coded messages in his leaked emails.
The man eventually surrendered and no one was hurt. He was convicted on gun charges and is now serving a four-year prison sentence.
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Florida man stole $3,000 from woman he met on dating app, then demanded nude photos
A Florida ex-con swindled $3,000 from a woman he met on a dating app – and then coaxed her into sending nude snaps of herself in order to be repaid, police said.
Michael William McDougal, 35, posed as a man named Michael Reynolds on Plenty of Fish while getting acquainted with his victim, who lives in Orlando, police said.
The pair moved the conversation to Facebook, where McDougal said he needed to borrow $1,000 after losing his bank card, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
The woman lent McDougal $3,000 over the course of several days.
He promised to pay her back, but notifications she received from PayPal were bogus, according to a police affidavit obtained by the newspaper.
Investigators said McDougal, of Winter Garden, later messaged the woman using his real name in an attempt to “clear up” any of the victim’s “confusion” about his alter ego, which she assumed was a real person, according to police.
McDougal even bragged he could cover the victim’s losses out of sheer “generosity,” and then offered to pay her $5,000 if she sent nude photos to his cousin, police said.
The victim agreed, and then he asked for even more dough, threatening to report to police that she sent nudes to an underage teen – McDougal’s 16-year-old cousin, police said.
The woman ultimately went to cops in early February.
McDougal, who was convicted of fraud in 2015, initially insisted she was lying, but failed to show up to a meeting to show a detective proof of his claims, police said.
He also downplayed a “Mike McDougal Victims United” Facebook page created by people who say he schemed them out of money, police said.
“Again, McDougal stated it’s all a big misunderstanding,” Orlando police Det. Annemarie Esan wrote.
The Facebook group, created in 2013, had 75 members as of Tuesday.
McDougal, who was arrested Thursday on charges of extortion and scheme to defraud, has been released from custody after posting $4,500 bond. If convicted, he face up to 20 years in prison.
Dr. Oz says couples should have sex while quarantining
TV medical expert Dr. Mehmet Oz says that people stuck inside should be having lots of sex to combat the effects of social distancing for the coronavirus.
“The best solution if you’re holed up with your significant other, quarantined, is have sex,” advises the doc in a TMZ video Tuesday. “You’ll live longer, get rid of the tension.”
“Maybe you’ll make some babies,” he adds. “It’s certainly better staring at each other than getting on each other’s nerves.”
Oz is one of few in the medical community recommending close physical contact at the moment. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging people to practice social distancing to curb the spread of COVID-19 by staying six feet away from others as much as possible.
Dr. Frederick Davis, an emergency room doctor at Northwell Health on Long Island, recently told The Post that having sex during this outbreak is “a gray area.”
“If you aren’t showing any symptoms right now, yes,” Davis said. “While I expect a baby boom in nine-or-so months, it’s one of those things people can transmit without having symptoms or knowing. In reality, you could be carrying it now.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/03/17/dr-oz-says-couples-should-have-sex-while-quarantining/
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A customer left a $2,500 tip to support an Ohio bar that had to close because of coronavirus
(CNN) — On any other Sunday, Coaches Bar and Grill in Columbus, Ohio, would be rumbling with customers. But this Sunday, the staff of the popular sports bar gathered around the TV, standing aghast as Gov. Mike DeWine ordered all restaurants and bars in the state to close to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
As thoughts of “How will I make next month’s rent?” or “How will I provide for my family?” ruminated in the minds of the waitstaff, they served a customer who would be one of their last for the foreseeable future.
After ordering a beer and some food, the customer’s check came out to be just under $30. But after he left, the spirits of owner Patrick “Benny” Leonard and his staff were uplifted immediately after seeing the tip he had left.
The amount? A whopping $2,500.
“Please split this tab equally between Tara, Nicky, Jim, Liz and Arrun,” the check read.
“There were tears of joy among everyone here,” Leonard told CNN. “On a day when I’ve never seen a shutdown like that, I’ve never seen a tip like that either.”
Leonard said the customer wanted to remain anonymous, but noted that he was a regular who visited the bar every Wednesday to play trivia.
As the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing in the US, the pandemic has induced a panic that is bringing out the worst in people.
“You go to the store and we have people fighting over toilet paper,” Leonard said. But in this case, the customer showed that it’s not the “every man for himself” mentality that will get us through this time, but offering a hand to those who are struggling.
“To have a person sitting here and do that, it’s amazing,” Leonard said. “This is where we should all be. The more we have of this, the better the country will roll through these unprecedented times.”
The bar will try its best to stay afloat by preparing food for takeout, Leonard said. But still, he said, everyone at the bar understands this will be a difficult time. So instead of dividing the check among the five of them, the staff named on the tab decided to split the $2,500 with all 12 employees.
Ohio joins a growing list of states that have ordered all restaurants and bars to close. For those who have the privilege of working from home, the coronavirus might not affect your livelihood greatly, but for small businesses like Coaches, social distancing will be devastating.
Here’s how you can support your favorite small businesses survive the coronavirus crisis.
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