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A wealthy Chinese investor financed her own short-form drama, cast herself as the female lead, and ordered more than 60 kissing scenes with a young actor she personally selected. The finished product barely survived its premiere. https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/2087939756541743449?s=20 In late 2025, an unnamed woman from Zhejiang fully funded a roughly 50-episode ancient-costume microdrama titled The Fallen Prince. She took the role of the princess consort and chose rising actor Zhong Yufei, then about 23, to play the disgraced prince opposite her. Director Meng Xing was hired to deliver the custom project. The original script called for only about a dozen kissing scenes....

Akon has recounted a private booking that paid $1 million but drew only three attendees, during which he was asked to perform his 2005 hit “Lonely” repeatedly for the full set. https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/2087979877572002197?s=20 The singer shared the story on the Flagrant podcast with hosts Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh. Akon, whose full name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam, declined to identify the family, saying only that the engagement took place in the Middle East. “It was funny because where it was in the Middle East,” he said. “I can’t say which family, but for the...

An X post by a viral account is going around the internet with a shocking revelation: soccer star Ronaldinho admitted that Messi gave him $5 million to help him leave Paraguayan prison after he lost all his money in a divorce. The post accompanies the quote with a 14-second video of Ronaldinho in different interview clips along with some clips showing him playing with Messi for Barcelona and others from his arrest in 2020. The post is getting shared a lot because it plays into the true friendship between two people at one of the worst times in Ronaldinho’s...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili traded punches, kicks, and takedowns on a floating barge in the middle of Lake Tahoe, with Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan kayaking past in the middle of it all. The tech billionaire posted the footage himself on Instagram on August 9, 2026, with the simple caption: “Back on the barge with @merab.dvalishvili. Round 2.” The roughly one-minute clip shows the two shirtless men working under a referee’s watch, both wearing MMA gloves, knee pads, and shin guards. They exchange strikes and clinch. At one point Dvalishvili, nicknamed “The Machine,” lifts Zuckerberg...