Selena Gomez Reacts to 'The Good Fight' Organ Transplant Joke, Thanks Fans for Support

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterAmanda Seyfried doesn’t think she nailed the iconic deep voice of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes for Hulu’s upcoming limited series “The Dropout” — but she did her “best to try to capture the oddness of it.”“The shape of my mouth isn’t the same as hers, but I can make sounds somewhat or pretty close to what she did,” Seyfried, who plays the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire on the Hulu show, said during a virtual panel at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour Tuesday. “And that’s my job as an actor, mimicking and stuff like that.

Adele thanked her ex-husband Simon Konecki and their son Angelo in an emotional speech on Tuesday as she picked up Album of the Year and Artist of the Year at the 2022 BRIT Awards.MORE: Adele shows off Hollywood transformation in glamorous black dressThe singer made her first public appearance after canceling her Las Vegas residency, and wowed fans as she wore a gorgeous custom Giorgio Armani Privé dress with a tulle neckline and tail. She accessorized with neutral makeup, large diamond earrings and a pear-shaped sparkling ring on the all-important finger.WATCH: Adele thanks ex-husband in emotional speech"I want to thank everyone I work with but I want to dedicate this to my son, and to Simon, his dad, this album was all of our journey, not just mine," she shared as she picked up the Album of the Year award. "I am very proud of myself for sticking to my guns and putting out an album about something so personal, not many people do stuff like that anymore."MORE: Adele gives another very candid chat: TV habits, fake Instagram, family traits and moreShe added: "And my son has been so gracious and kind and patient with me over the last over years, so it's for him."Adele, who is one of the world's best-selling music artists of all time, married charity entrepreneur Simon Konecki in 2017.

Ed Sheeran married his childhood sweetheart Cherry Seabrook in 2019, but he often keeps his beloved out of the spotlight.INSIDE: Ed Sheeran's ultra-rare look inside £3.7million estate that resembles a mini villageBut on Tuesday after he scooped Best Songwriter of the Year at the BRIT awards, he couldn't help but mention his beau in his acceptance speech. Standing on stage, the hitmaker said: "Because it's a songwriting prize I really really wouldn't be here without the fantastic people I get to work with, so thank you to all of them." After naming his record companies he then moved onto praise his loving wife.WATCH: Ed Sheerman makes rare omment about wife CherryHe added: "But also my wife Cherry, who at the drop of the hat will come to the middle of nowhere to a really secluded studio and live in-house and be so supportive while we just make songs and songs and songs.

Naman Ramachandran Zhang Lu’s “Yanagawa” (China), Hong Sung-eun’s “Aloners” (South Korea) and Fujimoto Akio’s “Along the Sea” (Japan/Vietnam) were among the top award winners at France’s Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas. “Yanagawa,” which opened the 2021 Pingyao Film Festival, won the Golden Cyclo, the festival’s top honor awarded by the international jury.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe widow of Ol’ Dirty Bastard sued Wu-Tang Clan Productions on Tuesday, alleging that the late rapper’s estate is owed at least $1 million in unpaid royalties.ODB, whose legal name was Russell Tyrone Jones, was a founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, the rap group that catapulted to stardom in the early 1990s. He died of a drug overdose in 2004 at the age of 35.His widow, Icelene Jones, alleges in the lawsuit that Wu-Tang Clan Productions did not pay royalties to the estate from 2011 until July 2021, when it sent a check for $130,000.

Selome Hailu HBO has picked up “Doomsday Machine,” the series starring Claire Foy as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. The series adapted from Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang’s New York Times bestselling book “An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination.”“Doomsday Machine” is described as a “riveting human drama chronicling the political and social minefields Facebook has navigated on its relentless quest for growth.

Olivia Rodrigo is breathing easy after music industry powerhouses Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez welcomed her. The 18-year-old Filipino American singer told Variety in their Power of Young Hollywood issue that she is a “fangirl for life” of Swift.“It’s so nice to be welcomed into the music industry and so great to be supportive of other women,” the “Driver’s License” interpreter said.

Olivia Rodrigo rocks a colorful crochet cardigan on the cover of the newest issue of Variety.

Britney Spears is going to start posting on social media a “little less” due to the news and “mean lies” that follow. In a recent Instagram post, the singer shared a video of avocado toast with the caption, “Unfortunately the news has been pretty nasty saying horrible and mean lies about me so I’m gonna post a little less from now on.” She added, “In a system where I’ve felt completely hopeless for so long, at least I do have a platform to share.” Thankfully Spears has the inspiration of Selena Gomez to keep her going, she quoted her song “Kill Em With Kindness” off of her 2015 album Revival in the caption and wrote, “As Selena Gomez says it best - The world can be a nasty place ...

Selena Gomez stars in the upcoming Hulu series Only Murders in the Building alongside Martin Short and Steve Martin, and they both just totally praised her talent and professionalism in a new interview!

Britney Spears is taking a step back from posting amid her conservatorship battle. In a new post on Instagram, Spears shared that, after some nasty news about her, she’s going to be posting a little less from now on.

Britney Spears is taking a step back from posting amid her conservatorship battle.

Britney Spears is cooking with Selena in her latest Instagram subliminal. On Monday, the 39-year-old singer took to the social media platform where she commands the interest of some 33 million followers and shouted out "Selena + Chef" star and actress Selena Gomez, 29, while re-sharing a cooking video from author Chef Jake Cohen.

Selena Gomez is opening up about working for Disney in the past and has admitted that she signed her life away when she was a child star for the network.

With eight top 10 singles over the past decade, including a no. 1 smash just two years ago, it’s hard to imagine why Selena Gomez would want to return to television.

. “The concept of the show is that when I would alter my image and I would put on a wig and I would put on sparkly things that I held a new value. That I was valuable,” she said, per .

A long-awaited return. Selena Gomez stars in Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building, her first leading role on TV since her Disney Channel days. However, the 29-year-old says she can’t compare the experiences.

Selena Gomez is opening up about the now famous photo of her covered in blood on the set of Only Murders In The Building.

(laughs),” Gomez said — referring to the picture of her in-character, covered in fake blood and being perp-walked — during a virtual panel for the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Friday. “You know what? I actually was worried for a second, but because there was so much going on, I knew that what people were going to see isn’t exactly the ending of anything, per se.

Selena Gomez is about to embark on her journey as an adult television actress for the first time since her days as an adolescent on Disney Channel’s "Wizards of Waverly Place." The 29-year-old performer starred in the series from 2007 to 2012 and the world will see Gomez as they’ve never seen her before – acting as a character in her real-life age range in the limited Hulu series "Only Murders in the Building." The comedic ensemble with a murder-mystery podcast set as the show’s backdrop will see Gomez playing alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short – each of whom also serve as executive producers, as a ragtag crew who attempt to solve a murder within the apartment building in which they live.

As one of the leads of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short, Selena Gomez is starring in her first TV series since “Wizards of Waverly Place” ended in 2012. And it’s very much a departure from the Disney Channel fantasy sitcom.

Hulu’s alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short, Selena Gomez is starring in her first TV series since ended in 2012. And it’s very much a departure from the Disney Channel fantasy sitcom. When asked how her experience making the upcoming murder mystery show compares to her past work during the TCA Summer 2021 Tour, she told reporters, “I signed my life away to Disney at a very young age and I didn’t know what I was doing.”“What I’d say is the level of sophistication of the material is the first reason why I wanted to do this,” Gomez said of, noting that when she was a kid, “I didn’t know what I was doing.

Selena Gomez‘s 2017 kidney transplant was made light of on two separate television shows in the past, the most recent being on The Good Fight with another coming from the Saved By the Bell reboot.

Actress and singer Selena Gomez, who underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 as a result of her battle with lupus, doesn’t think a joke on The Good Fight about her operation was funny at all.

outcry from her fans, Selena Gomez has spoken out against a “tasteless” reference to her kidney transplant on “The Good Fight.”The controversial reference was made during the fourth episode of the fifth season now airing on Paramount+. A comedy television executive (Wayne Brady) asks Liz (Audra McDonald) to compile a “sensitivity read” for one of his comedian clients.

The Good Fight made a reference to her  For context: In the episode, a group of people are debating what they can and cannot joke about. When one person says, “,” another responds with, “Put one in just to throw everyone off.

Selena Gomez has criticised a joke on The Good Fight about her kidney transplant.Hitting back at a scene in the CBS legal drama, in which several characters discuss jokes they think might be too controversial, including one taking aim at Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant, the actor and singer called it “tasteless”.“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” Gomez said on Twitter about the episode.“I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.”I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently.

Selena Gomez is speaking out.

Selena Gomez, 29, takes her health seriously. The Disney alum took to Twitter after a joke about her 2017 kidney transplant was made on an episode of The Good Fight, calling the move “tasteless” on August 3. “I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” the Rare singer penned via the social media platform after fans reacted to the joke negatively on social media.

took to Twitter to call out an episode of   The Good Fight , which referenced her health battle, specifically her kidney transplant. According to reports from E! News, however, in defense of the series, a source close to the show says, “If you watch the episode in full, the reference to Gomez is part of a discussion the characters are having about topics that are not okay to make fun of and the idea of cancel culture and being cancelled for telling a bad joke.

Not laughing. Selena Gomez reacted to The Good Fight poking fun at her kidney transplant after the show received backlash from the singer’s fans.

references to her health battles. In Season 5, Episode 4, a conversation between characters Marissa (Sarah Steele), Jay (Nyambi Nyambi) and Jim (Ifádansi Rashad) about comedy and cancel culture arises.

Here we go again…

Don’t mess with Selenators. Selena Gomez fans are unhappy with writers for The Good Fight because of a joke referencing the singer’s 2017 kidney transplant.

Selena Gomez‘s fans are tired of hearing jokes at their favorite artist’s expense.