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The Rolling Stones' 82-year-old frontman just crashed a Jimmy Fallon sketch with mannequin arms and Stones lyrics, while a Riverdale actor claims a viral TikTok doppelgänger literally cost him a job.
Mick Jagger walked onto The Tonight Show on Wednesday night, strapped on a pair of mannequin arms, and played Tony — a shopkeeper at a place called Hackney Diamonds who communicates exclusively in Stones lyrics. His opening line: "Pleased to meet you, I hope you guess my name." He was wearing a nametag. The joke wrote itself. He delivered it anyway.
The bit landed because the absurdity is inseparable from the timing: Jagger, 82, is also prepping the Rolling Stones' 25th studio album, Foreign Tongues, due July 10. According to Billboard, the record brings together the core trio of Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood, alongside guests including Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood, The Cure's Robert Smith, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. The whole thing was recorded in under a month at Metropolis Studios in West London — which, based on the guest list, is either extremely efficient or extremely chaotic.
Foreign Tongues follows 2023's Hackney Diamonds, the band's first album in nearly 20 years, which hit No. 3 on the Billboard 200, topped the UK Albums Chart for two weeks, and won a Grammy for Best Rock Album. The bar is set. The mannequin arms are just warming up.
Gobble's Take: If Mick Jagger is making "next album" feel like an event at 82, your "too old to try" excuse has officially expired.
Source: Billboard
Gwen Stefani walked No Doubt into Las Vegas' Sphere on Wednesday night and essentially said: we came here to play Tragic Kingdom, and we meant it. The band opened their 18-show residency with the title track from that 1995 album and didn't let up — cramming 10 of its 14 tracks into a 21-song set, including "Just a Girl," "Don't Speak," "Spiderwebs," "Sunday Morning," and "Excuse Me Mr."
The rest of the setlist reached across the catalog, pulling four songs each from 2000's Return of Saturn and 2001's Rock Steady, plus one apiece from their 1992 self-titled debut and the independently released The Beacon Street Collection. The only era left out entirely: 2012's Push and Shove, the comeback record that followed a decade of Stefani going solo. Make of that what you will.
The residency runs through June 13, with more shows already scheduled this week. If you came of age with Don't Speak as your emotional support anthem and you're anywhere near Las Vegas, the window is open — but it won't stay that way long.
Gobble's Take: This is your sign that the songs you swore were "just a phase" now come with a ticket price and a Sphere-sized light show.
Source: Billboard
"Stay" almost ended up on someone else's album. In a new interview for The Set List with Carter Gregory, The Kid LAROI explained how the song came together: Bieber sent LAROI the track for his own album, and LAROI felt the pressure to send something back. But self-doubt crept in. "I was very in my head about like, 'oh is this too pop of a song?'" LAROI recalled. He ended up asking Bieber directly: "Do you want to put this on your project or something?"
Bieber didn't hesitate. "He was like 'bro, are you out of your mind? You have to release this, you keep this for you,'" LAROI said. "'Bro this is a smash, you gotta put this out.'" That push paid off. After its 2021 release, "Stay" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and held it for seven weeks, won ARIA and APRA Awards, and currently sits at No. 10 on Spotify's all-time most-streamed leaderboard with more than 3.9 billion plays.
LAROI also credits Bieber's value beyond the advice. "He just listens really well," LAROI said. "He's really good at just being like 'man, I'm sorry. That sucks, let's talk about it.'" Sometimes the most useful thing isn't a pep talk — it's someone who actually pays attention.
Gobble's Take: If your collaborator has to talk you out of giving away your own smash hit, that's a mentor worth keeping close.
Source: Billboard
KJ Apa is done staying quiet. On Wednesday, the Riverdale actor posted a lengthy video to Instagram publicly calling out Mr. Fantasy — the viral TikTok figure with a signature black bob who fans have been comparing to Apa since September 2025, largely because the two share the exact same tattoos.
Apa didn't name Mr. Fantasy directly, but the target was obvious: Mr. Fantasy had just released a music video for his new song "Do Me Right" featuring a string of celebrities — including Apa's Riverdale co-stars Camila Mendes, Lili Reinhart, and Madelaine Petsch, along with Alex Warren, Dave Franco, Rob Lowe, Nick Jonas, Neal McDonough, Hough Kiernan, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sombr, and Zoey Deutch, among others. "I just lost on a huge job," Apa said in the video. "And can no longer go in for serious work because people think that I'm a joke because of this guy." He also called the singer a "fucking liar and a thief."
Mr. Fantasy had already amassed more than 1.2 million TikTok followers and performed at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade before Apa went public. When THR previously spoke with Mr. Fantasy, he said he wasn't bothered by the comparisons — and cited James Franco as a positive influence in his life. What started as a quirky internet mystery has apparently become a genuine professional problem for the actor, and Apa's patience has run out.
Gobble's Take: When your doppelgänger is booking the Macy's Parade and your Riverdale co-stars are in his music video, "not worth addressing" stops being a strategy.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Sky is renewing Saturday Night Live U.K. for a second season, per multiple sources who spoke to Variety — even though the show's ratings dropped from a series-high 226,000 viewers for its Tina Fey-hosted premiere down to 119,540 for Episode 4, hosted by Jack Whitehall. The numbers have since started climbing back, with Nicola Coughlan's Episode 5 pulling 130,000 and Aimee Lou Wood's Episode 6 reaching 143,700.
Sky CEO Dana Strong has been openly championing the show since before it launched — she was in the studio audience for Episode 5 alongside guests including J.J. Abrams — and the network reportedly remains thrilled with its reception despite the rollercoaster numbers. That enthusiasm shows up in the budget too: each episode costs approximately £2 million (around $2.6 million), a figure Variety calls "almost unheard of" for a British comedy sketch series.
The ratings look thin against BBC and ITV, which routinely pull seven-figure audiences in the same Saturday slot. But SNL UK isn't free-to-air — it's a subscriber channel — and the sketches are traveling far beyond the broadcast: the Prince Andrew cold open from Episode 2 has 2.4 million YouTube views, and last week's King Charles and Queen Camilla cold open already has 1.7 million. Season 2 is still happening, whether UK viewers are watching live or not.
Gobble's Take: When your TV ratings tank but your YouTube clips go viral, Sky's math says you've still got a show — and they're probably right.
Source: Variety
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