Iggy Azalea performs onstage during Y100's Jingle Ball 2014 at BB&T Center on Dec. 21, 2014, in Miami.Larry Marano
FIGHTING WORDS
'Tis the season for threats from hackers: A branch of the online group known as Anonymous has threatened to release graphic "sex tape" images of Iggy Azalea following her online altercation with fellow rapper Azealia Banks.
As reported in The Guardian, the popular Twitter account @TheAnonMessage went online Saturday to direct the public threat toward Azalea.
The faceless group's original tweet: "F–k you, @IGGYAZALEA. We have so much s–t on you, your scandal would be bigger than Bill Cosby's… You are guilty of misappropriating black culture, insulting peaceful protestors and making light of Eric Garner's death… You have exactly 48 hours…to release a statement apologizing to @AzealiaBanks and the protestors in NYC."
In a separate tweet, the group also claimed to possess a sex tape of Azalea – a claim she has steadifastly denied in recent months – and threatened to release images to prove their point.
"No sex tape of any kind will be released," said @TheAnonMessage. "However we will release various snapshots of her face to confirm."
Not surprisingly, within hours of the tweets, Twitter suspended the account for @TheAnonMessage.
The group has since gone onto their backup account, @TheAnonMessage2, to inform followers with a tweet stating, "It's okay everyone, we'll be back. We just have some stuff to take care of."
Although the bad blood between the Australian-born Azalea and New York-based Banks dates back more than two years, the feud stepped up in recent weeks in the wake of the recent deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Banks reignited the feud earlier this month during a TV interview in which she decried Azalea's silence regarding a New York court's decision not to indict the officers responsible for Garner's death by chokehold last summer.
Azalea responded via her Twitter account with a tweet in which she suggested "people shouldn't judge another's support or 'lack thereof' if they have ranted on twitter about it."
And in a subsequent tweet, Iggy spoke directly to her tormentor when she denied race was a problem in today's music scene.
"Special msg for [Azealia] Banks. There are many black artists succeeding in all genres. The reason you haven't is because of your piss poor attitude… [You are] a bigot and don't have the mental capacity to realize it… You are a MISERABLE angry human being."
So far, neither Azalea or Banks has weighed in on the Anonymous threat, but in the spirit of the holiday season, can't we all just get along?
NO TIGHTS
Nobody should hold their breath waiting for Peter Jackson to make a superhero movie. In a recent interview with Moviefone, the man behind The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film franchises seemed firm in his insistence that he'll never venture into the costumed-hero genre. "The industry and the advent of all the technology – has kind of lost its way," said Jackson. "It's become very franchise-driven and superhero-driven." In the same interview, Jackson admitted that he's never partaken of the source material behind such Hollywood blockbusters as The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man. "I've never read a comic book in my life," he said. "So I'm immediately at a disadvantage and I have no interest in that."
Source: Hypable
MISSING IN ACTION
Where in the world is Richard Simmons? According to a recent TMZ report, the formerly high-profile workout advocate has not been seen by friends and family since last January. TMZ also points out that Simmons' home in the Hollywood Hills is not decorated with Christmas decorations as in years past and that a housekeeper is currently standing guard against anyone trying to enter. A representative recently told TMZ that the 66-year-old fitness guru was depressed due to a knee injury and has elected to keep out of the public eye.
Source: TMZ
BRAIN FOOD
Young students plus fast food equals low math scores, apparently. New research from Ohio State University suggests that diets high in fat and added sugar have a decidedly negative impact on the education process. The study focused on data of 8,500 schoolchildren under the age of 10. When compared to academic testing results from a three-year period, it was determined that those children who consumed the highest volume of fast food had the lowest scores in tests to measure mathematics, science and reading. The study also suggested that a lack of iron is responsible for slowing down certain brain processes in children.
Source: Daily Mail
BLENDING IN
Average-looking people are ahead of the game when it comes to being trusted by others. A new study co-conducted by Princeton University and Radboud University Nijmegenin the Netherlands conducted a series of experiments to determine how strongly a person's face may affect their trustworthiness stature among friends and co-workers. On average, researchers concluded that participants rated the most average-looking faces as also being the most trustworthy. "Although face typicality did not matter for attractiveness judgments, it mattered a great deal for trustworthiness judgments," said study author Carmel Sofer.
Source: Medical News Today
WAKING UP TIRED
Why is everyone complaining about not getting enough sleep these days? Put the blame on work schedules and commuting, claims a new study. To reach that conclusion, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania monitored the sleep patterns of more than 125,000 Americans over an eight-year period. The study revealed that those study participants who were getting less than seven hours of sleep nightly were forced to because of their daily commute to work. Study author Mathias Basner also pointed out that the commutes not only affected the evening awake hours of participants. "The evidence that time spent working was the prominent sleep thief was overwhelming," said Basner.
Source: Design and Trend