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Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Law & Order: SVU's Ice-T Says He Was ‘Blindsided' by Kelli Giddish's Departure, Credits Fans With Bringing Her Back Full-Time in Season 27
Law & Order: SVU's Rollins and Tutuola were partners on the police force, and their portrayers are pals off-screen. So count series vet Ice-T among those eagerly awaiting Kelli Giddish's full-time return to the procedural this fall. 'Kelli is dope. Me and her were teammates and partners,' Ice-T told TVLine Tuesday at Raising Cane's in New York City's Times Square. The rapper/actor was there to celebrate National Iced Tea Day (get it?!) in collaboration with the restaurant chain. More from TVLine Who's Your Law & Orderverse Dream Team? Choose Your Perfect Squad And Just Like That EPs Tell All About the Hot New Gardener in Carrie's Life: 'That's Like an Aphrodisiac' Criminal Minds Video: As JJ Seeks Help, Aimee Garcia Previews 'Intimate' Scenes With a 'Magical' A.J. Cook He recalled that when Giddish started the show in Season 13, just after original cast member Chris Meloni departed as Det. Stabler, 'I fell in love with Kelli as a person. She's just a sweetheart.' Giddish's exit as a series regular in December 2022, after her character and Peter Scanavino's Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr. got hitched in a courthouse wedding, was a surprise, he added. 'No one really expected her to leave the show. We got blindsided by that. But the fans said they wanted to see Kelli back, so she's coming back.' Giddish has recurred on the show in the past few seasons, which is how we know Rollins is now a sergeant working with the New York Police Department's Intelligence Unit. The character most recently showed up in Season 26 to assist SVU on a kidnapping case. Giddish's reinstatement as a regular made series star Mariska Hargitay 'ecstatic,' she recently said. 'She is a formidable actress and an incredibly creative partner and has been such a joy and huge part of the fabric of SVU,' Hargitay added. 'I love her, and I love acting with her and co-creating with her, and it feels like home with her.' NBC renewed SVU for Season 27 in May. The upcoming season will find the procedural under the supervision of a new showrunner, Michele Fazekas (Gen V) and down two squad members: Octavio Pisano and Juliana Aidén Martinez won't return as Det. Joe Velasco and Det. Kate Silva, respectively. Press PLAY on the video above to hear Ice-T get excited about Giddish's increased presence in the new season, then hit the comments with your thoughts! Best of TVLine Yellowjackets' Tawny Cypress Talks Episode 4's Tai/Van Reunion: 'We're All Worried About Taissa' Vampire Diaries Turns 10: How Real-Life Plot Twists Shaped Everything From the Love Triangle to the Final Death Vampire Diaries' Biggest Twists Revisited (and Explained)
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Served the wrong iced tea? Lipton Ice Tea and rapper Ice-T now ensure the original
New campaign addresses iced tea mix-ups, with Ice-T stepping in to defend the original AMSTERDAM, June 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Many consumers have experienced ordering an iced tea at a café, expecting the familiar taste of Lipton Ice Tea, only to be served something entirely different. To address this common mix-up, the brand has partnered with iconic rapper and actor Ice-T to introduce 'Ice Tea Insurance' in the Netherlands and Belgium. The lighthearted initiative is designed to ensure iced tea drinkers receive the original they expect. The initiative stems from a revealing consumer insight. According to a recent YouGov study conducted in the Netherlands, 44 percent of consumers say they have been served a different beverage than expected when ordering out. The numbers are even more striking when it comes to iced tea: 81 percent of frequent iced tea drinkers say they automatically associate the term 'ice tea' with Lipton Ice Tea. Despite Lipton Ice Tea's status as a category leader in Europe and a household name in the U.S., the brand recognized that mistaken drink orders were leaving some consumers disappointed. The 'Ice Tea Insurance' campaign aims to change that by allowing customers who receive the wrong brand of iced tea to submit a claim for a free Lipton Ice Tea. The campaign is fronted by Ice-T, and it's not just because his name echoes the drink. He rose to fame as the 'Original Gangster' with his 1991 album and became a cultural icon across both music and film. With a legacy rooted in originality, Ice-T is now teaming up with Lipton Ice Tea, the brand that introduced iced tea to millions, to remind people that there is only one original. "Ordering iced tea doesn't always mean you'll get the original. With Lipton Ice Tea Insurance, we're backing fans who expect the best, because the original always matters," said Manon Lanckneus, Senior Brand Manager of Lipton Ice Tea Benelux. The message of defending the original is one that resonates far beyond Europe, including in the U.S. The Ice Tea Insurance initiative runs throughout the summer of 2025 in the Netherlands and Belgium. Consumers who receive a different iced tea can visit to submit a claim and receive a complimentary Lipton Ice Tea. Video: Photo: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Lipton Ice Tea
Sky News AU
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
The Project host Waleed Aly left stunned after Ice-T roasts him live on-air: 'Real life square'
Waleed Aly copped a brutal on-air roasting from none other than American rap icon Ice-T during Tuesday night's episode of The Project. The 46-year-old Melbourne-based broadcaster interviewed the Grammy Award-winning artist about his new film Zombie Plane, which is currently being filmed on the Gold Coast. "Wonderful to have you on the show Mr T, and congratulations on this film," Waleed said, as Ice-T joined the program via video link. "I have to ask- we watched a little bit of, I don't know what it was, frankly, because it looked bonkers. Did you know what you were signing up for?" Ice-T laughed, replying: "Uh, not really, I mean, I got the offer, they called me and said 'Would you like to come down to Australia to do a zombie movie?', I'm like, 'Nah, I'm good'. "And then my daughter was like, 'C'mon daddy, zombies, zombies, we love zombie movies'," he said, adding that his wife, TV personality and model Coco Austin, also encouraged him to take the role. "So I'm on a plane, next thing I know I'm on my way Down Under. So here I am." Waleed tried to keep things light with a cheeky question: "What is it with rappers and ice? Like, what, there's T, Cube (referencing Ice Cube), Vanilla, why?" The 67-year-old rapper, whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow, bluntly responded: "Everybody wants to be cool. You know what I'm saying? "Being ice is the epitome of cool. "I'm Ice-T and I'm not iced tea to drink, I'm Ice capital T. My name starts with a T, my real name is Tracy." He added: "So, you know, I was like considered Cool T. I was named after Iceberg Slim. My friends call me Iceberg. They call me Berg." Then cohost Sam Taunton chimed in, asking if people who have to ask that kind of question might actually not be that cool. Without missing a beat, Ice-T replied: "Yeah. I would say that. "That's kind of a question you get from a real life square." The brutal but hilarious comeback left panellists Georgie Tunny and Kate Langbroek in fits of laughter, while Taunton admitted he was "dying" from the deadpan takedown of Aly. In the film, which also stars Chuck Norris, Vanilla Ice, and Australia's own Sophie Monk, Ice-T said he plays a no-nonsense "general" who is called in to handle chaos in the skies. "I'm the guy they call about this plane, and I'm on a yacht on vacation with my wife when I get this call about the zombies from Chuck Norris," he explained, though he kept the rest of the plot under wraps. "I let them know that they better handle these zombies in the plane or I'm going to blow that plane right out of the sky." Zombie Plane is set to hit Aussie cinemas later this year.
Black America Web
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Ice-T Shares Tale Of Being Robbed By Friend
Ice-T has lived a colorful life as a founding voice in the so-called 'Gangsta Rap' space as an artist ahead of a long and still-ongoing career as an actor. In a recent interview, Ice-T shared a tale of how a person he considered a good friend set him up and robbed him. As spotted on Complex , Ice-T sat down with the Get Up & Tighten Up podcast hosted by Norman Seabrook, and he shared his early beginnings in Los Angeles, his foray into Hip-Hop music, and his journey as an actor. Harkening back to his rapping roots, Ice shared how his alignment with individuals involved in street activity who were both protective of him and standoffish against other rappers, but also turned their backs on him while using his fame as an inside track to his riches. 'So when you're from this environment…you just never know,' Ice-T said of running the streets. 'I got set up by one of my best friends. It was funny, after it happened, I talked to somebody. They said, 'That was somebody you fed, that was somebody who's actually sat down to dinner with you that set you up.'' To check out that portion of the interview, check out the 50-minute mark of the Get Up & Tighten Up podcast, posted below. — Photo: John Atashian / Getty SEE ALSO Ice-T Shares Tale Of Being Robbed By Friend was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Listen closely to the Kneecap furore. You'll hear hypocrisy from all sides
Earlier this year, the Northern Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap appeared to be entering their respectable phase. Their self-titled film, a raucous semi-fictionalised biopic directed by Rich Peppiatt, won a Bafta for outstanding British debut, while Kemi Badenoch's attempt to block a grant awarded by the British Phonographic Industry was overturned in court. As the film illustrates, Kneecap were accustomed to being denounced by unionist MPs but both sides reaped useful publicity. 'We have a very dysfunctional, symbiotic relationship,' admitted rapper Naoise Ó Cairealláin. This process was dramatically derailed last week when Kneecap touched the third rail of Gaza and accused Israel of genocide on stage at Coachella festival in California. Cue fury from Fox News, calls for their visas to be revoked and, according to their manager, death threats. The British press combed through old videos and found clips that appear to show two explosive onstage pronouncements from Kneecap's November 2023 UK tour: 'Up Hamas, up Hezbollah' and 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.' Denunciations came thick and fast: Keir Starmer's spokesperson, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and relatives of the murdered MPs Jo Cox and David Amess all denounced the apparent remarks. The shadow home secretary, Chris Philp, accused Kneecap of representing nothing less than 'despicable evil'. Their concert at Cornwall's Eden Project has been cancelled, as have several shows in Germany. Glastonbury, among other festivals, is facing immense pressure to drop them, too. The Met's counter-terrorism command has launched an investigation. Badenoch, bearing a grudge, says they should be prosecuted for incitement and have been 'avoiding justice for far too long'. Some artists seek controversy while others have it thrust upon them. The Sex Pistols released God Save the Queen during the silver jubilee as a calculated provocation, leading to a BBC ban but massive sales. Pulp, however, never expected the playfully druggy packaging of their 1995 single Sorted for E's and Wizz to land on the front page of the Daily Mirror with the timeless headline 'Ban This Sick Stunt'. Kneecap seem to be in the Sex Pistols tradition. When I interviewed them last year, Ó Cairealláin admitted: 'We're very calculated in our PR stuff. We know things are going to get a reaction.' But sometimes the scale of a backlash far exceeds expectations. Cop Killer, a 1992 single by Ice-T's rock band Body Count, inspired condemnation from the then US president, George HW Bush, and a police-led boycott of the whole of Time Warner until Ice-T buckled and removed the song from the album. Off-the-cuff remarks should carry less weight than recorded lyrics, but tell that to the previously obscure rapper Sister Souljah, whose comments on the LA riots that same year were used by Bill Clinton to distance himself from his Black rival Jesse Jackson during his presidential campaign, thus spawning the phrase 'Sister Souljah moment' to describe strategic scapegoating. Loose talk is even more dangerous in the online era. While writing a history of protest songs I came across more than one artist fantasising about a politician's assassination in the 1980s, but their quotes never travelled beyond the music press. Yet the Dixie Chicks' – now the Chicks – fairly mild criticism of then president George W Bush at a London show in 2003 (they told a crowd that they were 'ashamed' that Bush was also from Texas) went viral and killed their country music career. Nothing can be safely forgotten now. Kneecap's 2023 remarks are hard to defend on their merits, even in the context of their activist reputation. Their republicanism is unapologetic: they largely rap in Irish and call their homeland 'the north of Ireland'. (Their name refers to the IRA's punishment for drug dealers, identifying the band with the latter.) Their solidarity with the Palestinian people is equally sincere, but celebrating proscribed terrorist groups is something else. Perhaps it's the kind of careless radical chic that briefly led the Clash's Joe Strummer to valorise Italy's Red Brigade in the late 1970s. Perhaps not. The band's recent statement, while apologising to the families of Cox and Amess and identifying the outrage as part of a broader effort to delegitimise support for Palestine, did not clear things up. They claimed 'We do not, and have never, supported Hamas or Hezbollah' and would never 'seek to incite violence against any MP'. So, did they say those words? If so, what did they mean by them? If they have been taken out of context, then what was the context? The Cop Killer example is clarifying. Ice-T was clearly singing about killing cops but wasn't actually encouraging murder. Likewise, Kneecap are not an active security threat. Within music, there is ample room for such ambiguity, provocation and free expression of outlaw thoughts. But in the harsher light of the tabloids, social media, parliament and policing, tossed-off slogans appear savagely literal and have real consequences. This controversy has inspired hypocrisy on both sides. While Kneecap's rightwing critics are suddenly enthusiastic about 'cancel culture' and 'offence archaeology', their defenders have transformed into free-speech absolutists. One thing invariably holds true though: politicians who attack musicians come off as opportunistic, authoritarian and often foolish in their thirst for soft targets. Ban this sick stunt. Dorian Lynskey is a writer, podcaster and author of 33 Revolutions Per Minute and The Ministry of Truth Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.
