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“The greatest lesson I learned from Catherine both personally and professionally was to always say ‘yes’. Say yes to her instincts… she is miles ahead of you and you will learn to catch up… Always say yes to any opportunity to revel in the presence of greatness.”
Dan Levy paid tribute to the late Catherine O’Hara at the Emmys, joined by his Schitt’s Creek co-star Annie Murphy and Macaulay Culkin, who worked with O’Hara on Home Alone.

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The number of performers in Emmys history to win two lead acting awards in the same year. Matthew Rhys managed it this week with lead actor in a limited series for The Beast in Me, and lead actor in a comedy for Widow's Bay. He’s now also the first man to win in all three lead acting categories, having taken the drama prize in 2018 for The Americans (one of the greatest shows ever made, stream it free on SBS On Demand).

Megan Stalter up to her usual iconic hijinks, flanked by her Hacks partner in crime Paul W. Downs.

A sports betting ad featuring U.S. actor Sydney Sweeney has drawn global backlash from female athletes, including Australian Olympians Ariarne Titmus and Tilly Kearns.

The ad, for sports prediction market Novig, shows Sweeney posing almost nude with different pieces of sporting equipment.

Novig allows users to bet against each other, and describes itself as “America's #1 sports prediction market”. In February, it was valued at $US500 million ($AU750 million).

Novig CEO Jacob Fortinsky told news organisation Front Office Sports that Sweeney approached him about a stake in the company, and is now a shareholder alongside her role in the advertising campaign.

U.S. gymnast Gracie Kramer was one of the first high-profile female athletes to respond, posting a clip with a caption saying: “idk what Sydney Sweeney was doing, but this is what a woman in sport looks like”.

The trend has since spread among elite female athletes worldwide, all sharing footage of themselves competing.

Four-time Olympic swimming champion Ariarne Titmus posted on her Instagram story: “How do we live in a world where monetising a woman's body and sexualising women's sport is still a thing?”

Aussie Olympic water polo player Tilly Kearns posted a montage of her sporting career with the caption: “Here’s some real women sports content.”

Kearns later told TDA she’s spent her career “trying to push back against” the image perpetuated by Sweeney’s ad. “On my platforms I try to very much steer away from the sexualisation. I know it exists, but I think it’s part of my duty to just make what I do about the sport and all the great things that come with the sport,” she said.

In an apparent reply to the widespread criticism, Sweeney posted images to her Instagram stories from ESPN's Body Issue, a feature that runs nude photos of elite athletes.

She shared images of tennis champion Serena Williams, former UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, and NFL player Myles Garrett, ending the post with a photo of herself from the campaign.

In other news, Sweeney is reportedly engaged to Scooter Braun (who you may know as Taylor Swift’s no.1 enemy, but that’s for another day).

Reporting by George Finlayson, except for the bit about Scooter Braun. That was Emma. George doesn’t care for such gossip.

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This week, 43-year-old rapper Macklemore announced he’d been dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour over pro-Palestinian comments made onstage.

Every other opening act on the bill has since pulled out in solidarity. The singer Pink was also in the mix at some point.

If you're confused or need a refresher, here's where things stand.

Macklemore rose to fame in 2012 as one half of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, with hits like Thrift Shop and Can't Hold Us.

Their single Same Love became a marriage equality anthem, and they performed it at the 2014 Grammys with Madonna while Queen Latifah officiated a live mass wedding of 33 couples, gay and straight, on stage.

Months later, Macklemore was accused of antisemitism after performing in a costume with a prosthetic nose, wig and beard. He apologised, acknowledging it “could be ascribed to a Jewish caricature,” but said the stereotype was never his intention.

In 2017, he stepped away from Ryan Lewis for a solo career, and has since remained a vocal political activist, including as a critic of U.S. President Donald Trump.

In 2024, Macklemore released Hind's Hall, a song written in the wake of Pro-Palestinian university campus protests. The track was named for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces who fired on her family's car in Gaza.

This year, Macklemore was booked to open ten U.S. dates on Sheeran's Loop Tour. During his first two shows in New Jersey, he told the crowd that he’d joined the tour to say "two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine."

Clips of the set went viral, and the Israeli-American Council launched a petition calling for Macklemore to be pulled from the remaining dates of Sheeran’s tour.

U.S. pop star Pink then reshared a post from a separate account that accused Macklemore of ambushing fans with “anti-Israel propaganda”. Almost a week later, Pink posted a statement clarifying her belief that Palestinians deserve “a future that honours their humanity and their aspirations”, but that she doesn’t want Jewish families "to be scared or targeted at a concert”.

“I have never asked for another artist to be silenced and I’m not asking now. I don’t need anyone fired” she said.

On Monday, Robert Kraft, who owns one of the venues on the Loop schedule (Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts) said Macklemore would not be allowed to perform there later this month. Kraft pointed to the 2014 costume controversy, which he said amounted to “a broader history of antisemitic rhetoric and imagery”.

The same day, Macklemore revealed Sheeran's team had removed him from the rest of the tour. He also alleged that Kraft had rallied other venue owners into giving Sheeran an ultimatum: drop Macklemore, or lose the shows.

Sheeran responded on Tuesday, saying the call had been the promoter's, not his, and that “there is a reason I do not use my professional platform for politics.”

Hours later, all of Sheeran’s remaining opening acts, Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe and backing band Beoga, announced they were withdrawing from the tour in solidarity with Macklemore. Finneas (Billie Eilish’s older brother and collaborator) wrote, “artists must not be silenced when they speak up for the oppressed.”

On Wednesday, Macklemore posted again, saying he wanted to “bring the conversation back” to Palestinians rather than the controversy itself. He pledged $1 million of his earnings from the Loop Tour to six organisations, including the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and publicly challenged Kraft to match it.

Shortly after, Kraft revealed that Sheeran had actually called him earlier that same day and also asked him to commit $2 million to humanitarian aid in the region, which they both agreed to do.

Sheeran has 10 dates left on his North American leg before the Loop tour heads to South America in November. At the time of publishing no replacement opening acts have been announced.

Reporting by Elliot Lawry.