Quirky News / 19 October 2022
Ye in talks to buy Parler, BTS members bow out for military service, and 2 countries drop out of Eurovision…
Speaking of changed names… Rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is in talks to buy right-wing social media website Parler. Ye’s in the bad books with Instagram and Twitter and became interested in Parler after the mainstream platforms blocked him.
Fans of South Korean boy band BTS face a long wait for any new tunes – the members say they’ll bow out to serve their mandatory military service over the next couple of years. Talk about Dynamite…
Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will go ahead without Montenegro and North Macedonia – they’ve canned their entries due to the cost. With Russia’s ban, entrants have to pay more to go on stage and kill some cheesy pop songs to cover the shortfall…
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