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The phone belonging to the boyfriend of Shani Louk -- the artist and festivalgoer who was kidnapped by Hamas -- sent chilling texts after Saturday's attack ... including ones about spitting on people.

30-year-old Orión Hernández Radoux was reportedly with 22-year-old Louk at the Supernova festival near the Gaza Strip over the weekend when Hamas terrorists opened fire with guns and rockets, kidnapping those at the event.

Louk was one of many taken hostage, and it's believed Radoux -- who is still missing -- was kidnapped along with her. According to The Sun, his phone has been used to send threatening messages to his contacts in the days following the festival massacre.

The texts, written in Arabic, reportedly say things like, "Liberate Palestine," "God damn you," and "I spit on you."

As we reported, video from just before the Hamas attacks showed Louk having fun at the festival ... before she was taken, stripped naked, and spat on while being paraded in the back of a pickup truck.

If you're tuning into the Chiefs game tonight for Taylor Swift, you might come away a bit disappointed ... 'cause Al Michaels says he's planning to keep the coverage of the pop star to a minimum.

The man who will be broadcasting the Kansas City vs. Denver game at Arrowhead Stadium revealed the plans during a chat with Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina earlier Thursday morning.

He said while he and his Amazon Prime Video team clearly want to show that Swift is in attendance watching Travis Kelce and his Kansas City squad play for the third time in the last four weeks ... he vowed to not "make a sideshow the show."

"What we’re gonna do tonight, everything in moderation," the 78-year-old play-by-play man said. "The vast majority of the audience are tuning in to watch a football game. There are people, I don’t know how many, it could be a sizable number, but it’s certainly not a majority, that if you trained the camera on her all night long, they’d be satisfied with that."

"This is not what we’re going to do."

Michaels' words will likely be music to a large portion of NFL fans' ears ... as there was a ton of backlash from football supporters following NBC's coverage of Swift's attendance at the Chiefs vs. Jets game last month.

In fact, it actually led to Kelce himself bashing the NFL for "overdoing it" all.

Michaels, though, did at least leave the door somewhat open for lengthy camera time for Swift ... saying, "If Kelce scores six touchdowns, who the hell knows what we’re going to do."

Rudolph Isley, el cantante conocido por ser uno de los fundadores de The Isley Brothers, ha muerto.

El icónico cantante falleció el miércoles en Illinois, según ha indagado TMZ. La causa de muerte aún no está clara, aunque una persona involucrada nos dice que se piensa que sufrió un ataque al corazón.

Rudolph comenzó a cantar desde muy joven en su iglesia local y creó The Isley Brothers junto a sus hermanos Ronald, O'Kelly y Vernon cuando era apenas un adolescente.

Después de que Vernon fuera trágicamente atropellado por un carro mientras andaba en bicicleta en 1995, con solo 13 años, los otros hermanos se trasladaron a Nueva York para grabar música. Firmaron con RCA Records unos años más tarde y debutaron con su primera canción, "Shout", posiblemente uno de sus temas más significativos.

Mientras el grupo aún estaba en pañales, Rudolph se casó con Elaine Jasper en 1958 y tuvieron una vida de casados mientras los hermanos seguían cosechando éxitos con temas como "Twist & Shout", "This Old Heart of Mine" y "It's Your Thing".

A pesar de que Ronnie solía llevar la voz cantante en el grupo, Rudolph también grabó algunas canciones.

Con el paso de los años, The Isley Brothers creció y en 1971 sumó a los hermanos Ernie y Marvin y al cuñado de Rudolph, Chris Jasper.

Rudolph dejó el grupo en 1989 para cumplir su objetivo de ser ministro cristiano, pero se reunió con ellos a lo largo de los años. Incluso fueron incluidos en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en 1992, y el premio se los dio su compañero y leyenda, Little Richard.

El grupo ha estado produciendo canciones durante más de medio siglo, algo a lo que muchos grupos no pueden acercarse. Sus canciones más recientes después de que Rudolph se fuera son "Busted" y "Contagious".

También estuvieron en algunos éxitos del rap. Fueron sampleados en "It Was a Good Day" de Ice Cube y "Big Poppa" de Notorious B.I.G.

Rudolph tenía 84 años.

Rudolph Isley, the singer known as one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers, has died.

The iconic singer passed away Wednesday in Illinois, TMZ has learned. The cause of Rudolph's death is currently unclear, though one person involved tells us it's believed he suffered a heart attack.

Rudolph started singing at a young age in his local church and created The Isley Brothers with his siblings Ronald, O'Kelly, and Vernon when he was just a teenager.

After Vernon was tragically hit by a car while riding his bike at just 13 years old in 1955, the brothers moved to New York to record music ... signing with RCA Records a few years later and debuting with their first song, "Shout" -- arguably one of their most significant tracks.

While the group was still in its infancy, Rudolph married Elaine Jasper in 1958 ... living the married life while the Brothers all went on to garner success with tracks like "Twist & Shout," "This Old Heart of Mine," and "It's Your Thing."

Despite Ronnie often taking the lead in the group, Rudolph got to record lead vocals for some of their songs, too.

As the years went on, The Isley Brothers grew -- adding younger brothers Ernie and Marvin and Rudolph's brother-in-law Chris Jasper into the mix in 1971.

Rudolph left the group in 1989 to carry out his goal of being a Christian minister, but he reunited with the group over the years. They were even inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 ... being given the award by fellow music legend Little Richard.

The group has been cranking out tracks for over half a century -- something many groups can't come close to -- with more recent songs like "Busted" and "Contagious" after Rudolph left.

They also made it into some popular rap hits ... being sampled in Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day" and Notorious B.I.G.'s "Big Poppa."

Rudolph was 84.

Boosie Badazz is feeling like Coach Prime these days ... or at least he'd love to slip on a pair of his shine-blockas to protect him from all the haters coming after him lately.

That's the theme Boosie's operating with for his new video "Deion Shades," which he released on Thursday ... taken from the deluxe edition of his latest album, "Goin' Thru Some Things."

On the track, Boosie calls out rats and snakes with a barrage of sports references ... "I want my son around the best/This that Brady talk/My mind in everyone mouth ... I need Deion's shades!!!"

The shades are indeed a hot commodity ... Deion recently gifted all his Colorado players their own pair ahead of a big game that went on to be etched in history.

The Louisiana rapper also pays homage to Ja Morant ahead of his NBA comeback ... posting up next to the signed #12 jersey the maligned All-Star sent him a couple of months ago.

Britney Spears is in The Big Apple, celebrating the upcoming release of her memoir with a couple of the hottest names in music ... J Balvin and Maluma.

Spears hit Zero Bond Wednesday night for some sushi and conversation with the two music hunks, posing with her tongue out and sunglasses on while the three sat together.

J Balvin and Maluma are certainly friends, and have been for a while ... but the Britney connection is interesting considering we've never seen her hanging with the musicians before. It's also possible they simply were in the same spot at the same time and decided to join forces ... Page Six reports the guys waved Britney and friends over to their table.

Britney's memoir, "The Woman in Me," is set for release October 24 so there's a good chance she's in NYC for promotional events and a small press tour.

TMZ broke the story, Britney will serve as the voice for a portion of the audiobook and a mystery celeb will handle the other duties. We don't yet know who the mystery celeb will be, but our sources say at one point Reese Witherspoon was asked ... she wasn't available.

Britney Spears está en la Gran Manzana celebrando el próximo lanzamiento de su libro de memorias con dos de los nombres más calientes de la música, J Balvin y Maluma.

Spears fue a Zero Bond el miércoles por la noche por un poco de sushi y conversación con dos estrellas de la música, posando con la lengua fuera y mostrando que los tres la pasaron en grande juntos.

J Balvin y Maluma sin duda son amigos, y lo han sido por un tiempo, pero la conexión con Britney es interesante teniendo en cuenta que nunca la hemos visto salir con los músicos antes. También es posible que simplemente estuvieran en el mismo lugar al mismo tiempo y decidieron unir fuerzas. Page Six informa que los chicos saludaron a Britney y amigos desde su mesa.

El libro de memorias de Britney, "The Woman in Me", saldrá a la venta el 24 de octubre así que es muy probable que pase tiempo en Nueva York para eventos promocionales y una pequeña gira de prensa.

TMZ publicó la historia, Britney servirá como la voz de una parte del audiolibro y una celebridad misteriosa se encargará de las otras tareas. Todavía no sabemos quién será la celebridad, pero nuestras fuentes dicen que en un momento se le preguntó a Reese Witherspoon y ella no estaba disponible.

Plies is adding his two cents on the Israel-Hamas war ... wondering out loud why Americans -- and all humans, in general -- simply don't have empathy for ethnic groups other than their own.

The "Bust It Baby" rapper approached the topic Thursday, but was admittedly walking on eggshells ... well aware saying anything about the current Middle East crisis could open him up to all sorts of criticism.

Plies says he sees the same patterns in Americans' reactions to the Israel-Hamas war as he did with the Russo-Ukrainian war -- people care just enough until they think the U.S. is providing too much aid.

He then asked why each ethnic group in America can't feel the pain of, or show concern for, another group -- whether that be Whites to Blacks, Blacks to Jews or Mexicans to Greeks.

Plies's point is everyone is lousy at caring about any group besides their own ... and it's glaring!!!

Celebrity responses to the latest war have been constant ... Kim Kardashian, LeBron James and Justin Bieber have all spoken out and received mixed reactions ... which Ja Rule told us is par for the course.

Unlike Plies, the "Pain Is Love" rapper thinks everyone does have empathy during these sorts of international conflicts -- but he says they might bite their tongues, publicly, until they're more informed.

Taylor Swift se subió al escenario del AMC Theater en The Grove el miércoles por la noche, en donde agradeció a sus fans por estar presentes en el estreno de su película y les dijo lo abrumada que se siente con el éxito fenomenal de su gira "Eras".

TMZ dio la noticia, 2.200 fans fueron invitados al estreno mundial de "The Eras Tour". Los 14 AMC estaban llenos hasta la bandera y las cosas se pusieron mucho mejores para ellos cuando Taylor subió al escenario.

La cantante dio un discurso de 3 minutos en los que agradeció a todos por asistir, saludó especialmente a su familia y a su banda, todos los cuales estaban presentes. También dijo que la banda se ha convertido en su familia, al igual que su mamá, papá y hermano.

Explicó además el proceso de selección de quienes obtuvieron entradas para el estreno mundial, diciendo que fueron "seleccionados y escogidos a mano", porque han mostrado algún tipo de apoyo adicional a esta gira.

Taylor dio varios discursos en los distintos teatros de The Grove, diciendo: "Siempre estoy buscando gente con elevados niveles de pasión, increíble sentido del humor en Internet y atención por los detalles. Estas cosas son muy importantes para mí".

El éxito de la película ha sido demencial. "Eras" ya batió todos los récords de venta anticipada de entradas en un solo día: 26 millones de dólares. Para cuando termine el fin de semana, se espera que la película recaude 115 millones de dólares.

Durante la proyección, Taylor estuvo cantando y bailando entre el público.

También estuvo allí con regalos, incluyendo palomitas de maíz, bebidas y dulces. Como era de esperar, los fans intercambiaron pulseras durante la velada.

Un montón de celebridades se presentaron, incluyendo a Adam Sandler, Beyoncé, Simu Liu, Mariska Hargitay, Flavor Flav, Maren Morris y Julia Garner.

Taylor Swift hopped onstage at the AMC Theater at The Grove Wednesday night, thanking her fans who showed up for the premiere of her movie, telling them how overwhelmed she is with the phenomenal success of her "Eras" tour.

TMZ broke the story ... 2,200 fans were invited to the world premiere of "The Eras Tour." All 14 AMCs were packed to the gills, and things got way better for them when Taylor took the stage.

She gave a 3-minute speech thanking folks for showing up, with a special shout-out to her family and her band, all of whom were present. She said the band has become family just like her mom, dad and brother.

She explained the process of selecting who got tickets for the world premiere ... saying they were "hand-selected and handpicked ... because you've shown some type of extra support for this tour."

She gave several speeches at the various theaters in The Grove, saying, "I’m always looking out for people with elevated levels of passion, incredible senses of humor on the internet, attention to detail. These things are very important to me."

The success of the flick is insane ... it's broken all records for single-day advance ticket sales -- $26 million. By the time the weekend is over, the film is expected to gross $115 million!

During the showing, Taylor was singing and dancing along in the audience.

Taylor was also there bearing gifts, including popcorn, free alcoholic drinks and candy. Fans predictably were furiously trading bracelets during the evening.

A bunch of celebs showed, including Adam Sandler, Beyoncé, Simu Liu, Mariska Hargitay, Flavor Flav, Maren Morris and Julia Garner.

El libro de Britney Spears va a salir pronto, pero solo una parte de la historia va a ser contada por ella misma, del resto estará a cargo una celebridad misteriosa.

Fuentes relacionadas con la editorial de "La mujer en mí" —que llega a las estanterías el 24 de octubre— le dice a TMZ que Britney ya ha grabado la voz en off que la gente va a escuchar cuando compren el audiolibro, pero que solo se grabó a sí misma narrando una parte.

No sabemos cuánto grabó, pero lo que nos han dicho es que ella no narró ningún capítulo referente a su familia y suponemos que gran parte del libro cubrirá ese tema. La razón por la que no grabó audio para esas secciones, según nuestras fuentes, es porque le resultaba demasiado doloroso contarlas con sus propias palabras.

Así que, como solución, nos han dicho que otra estrella ha sido contratada para grabar el resto, aunque no está claro de quién se trata exactamente. Nuestras fuentes nos dicen que el editor estaba presionando a Reese Witherspoon para el trabajo, pero ella no estaba disponible.

Nos han dicho que solo se contactó con estrellas femeninas y que finalmente llegaron a la persona adecuada. Una vez más, no sabemos quién es, pero nuestras fuentes dicen que el audiolibro completo ya se ha grabado y está listo para las masas.

Esta es una buena noticia, si tenemos en cuenta que Britney estaba dudando sobre hacer una versión de audio.

Dicho esto, no es de extrañar que haya accedido a narrar al menos algunos de los capitulos, ya que los audiolibros están muy de moda y es una de las formas más populares en las que la gente consume literatura hoy en día.

Britney Spears' memoir is coming out soon, but only a part of the story is going to be told in her voice when it comes to the audio version -- the rest will be handled by a surprise celeb guest ... TMZ has learned.

Sources connected to the publisher of "The Woman in Me" tell TMZ ... Britney has already recorded the voice-over folks will hear when they buy the audiobook, but we're hearing she only recorded herself narrating a portion.

We don't know how much she recorded, but we've been told she did not narrate any chapters having to do with her family -- and, presumably, much of the book will cover that topic. Our sources say she didn't record audio for those sections because she found them too painful to retell in her own words.

So, as a remedy ... another celeb was tapped to record the rest of 'TWIM' -- which comes out on Oct. 24 -- although it's unclear who was on the mic. Our sources tell us the publisher was really pushing for Reese Witherspoon to pick up the baton, but she wasn't available to do it.

We're told only female celebs were approached, and they eventually landed on someone suitable who's completed the recording ... and the whole audiobook is ready for the masses.

Remember, Britney was on the fence about doing an audio version of the book at all -- something she was unsure of dating back to July.

With that said, it's perhaps not surprising they got her to agree to narrate at least some of it -- audiobooks are a huge part of any new book rollout these days because they're big-time sellers.

Seeing how Britney got paid a fortune for this memoir -- it makes sense Simon & Schuster wanted to get its money's worth by producing the audiobook.

Beyoncé is letting all the world know ... she's a "Swifty," too!!

Queen Bey made a surprise, unannounced appearance at Taylor Swift's now legendary premiere for her "Eras" tour concert film at The Grove in L.A. Wednesday night.

Taylor looked stunning in a $12,000 blue dress created by none other than Oscar de la Renta. And Beyoncé was the epitome of cool in her all-black bodysuit, chrome bustier and dark sunglasses.

Both superstars gave thousands of "Swifty" fans an even bigger treat -- posing together for photos on the red carpet in front of a wall of throwback images of Taylor and a huge ad for her movie.

Everyone then piled into the theater to watch the movie -- of course, Beyoncé and Taylor had a front-row seat and they proved it by posting an Instagram video of themselves sitting next to each other. Beyoncé playfully tossed popcorn on the ground as Taylor stuffed a kernel into her mouth.

In the caption, Taylor partly wrote, "I'm so glad I'll never know what my life would've been like without @beyone's influence. The way she's taught me and every artist out here to break rules and defy industry norms."

TMZ first reported ... Taylor was planning to pop up at the premiere after questions swirled about whether she would attend. The music icon took selfies with 2,200 of her excited "Swifties," who were lucky enough to be handpicked to watch the movie with her.

What's more .. the security was totally insane at The Grove, which shut down for the first time in 2 decades for the event.

Hundreds of guards were posted outside the shopping center to keep an eye on things. Barricades were also set up all around the perimeter.

And everything went according to plan.

Don't forget ... Taylor moved the release date for the film from Friday to today. Get your tickets now, Swifties!!!

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Beyoncé está dejando que todo el mundo se entere de que ella también es una "Swifty".

Queen Bey hizo una aparición sorpresa y sin previo aviso en el ya legendario estreno de Taylor Swift de su película "Eras" en The Grove el miércoles por la noche en Los Ángeles.

Taylor estaba impresionante con un vestido azul de 12.000 dólares, creado nada más ni nada menos que por Oscar de la Renta y Beyoncé fue la representante de la frescura en su body negro, corpiño cromado y gafas de sol oscuras.

Ambas superestrellas le dieron a los miles de fans de "Swifty" un regalo aún más grande, posando juntas para las fotos en la alfombra roja delante de una pared de imágenes de Taylor y un enorme anuncio de su película.

Todo el mundo se amontonó en el cine para ver la película. Por supuesto, Beyoncé y Taylor tenían asientos en la primera fila y lo demostraron mediante la publicación de un video en Instagram de ellas sentadas una al lado de la otra. Beyoncé tiraba palomitas al suelo mientras Taylor se metía una en la boca.

En el pie de foto, Taylor escribió: "Estoy tan contenta de que nunca sabré cómo habría sido mi vida sin la influencia de @beyone. La forma en que me ha enseñado a mí y a todos los artistas a romper las reglas y desafiar las normas de la industria".

TMZ fue el primero en informar que Taylor estaba planeando aparecer en el estreno. El icono de la música se tomó selfies con 2.200 de sus emocionados "Swifties", quienes tuvieron la suerte de ser elegidos para ver la película con ella.

Como saben, Taylor adelantó la fecha de estreno del viernes al jueves, pero eso no afectó la seguridad de The Grove, que cerró por primera vez en dos décadas para el evento.

Cientos de guardias estuvieron apostados fuera del centro comercial para vigilar todo. También se colocaron barricadas en todo el perímetro.

Kanye West is reportedly pissing off the people of Italy again ... and this time it's local war veterans angry over his past remarks celebrating Hitler and the Nazis.

Here's the rub ... the rapper is supposedly in secret talks to hold a concert to build a huge event stage at the RCF Arena in the city of Reggio Emilia, according to the Daily Mail.

While no plans have been set in stone, word got around town that 80,000 fans are planning to show up at Kanye's possible gig, infuriating some of the Italian war veterans who fought against Nazis during World War 2, sources told The Mail.

The vets are bitter about Kanye's comments last year, lavishing praise on Hitler and the Nazis. You might recall ... Kanye sat for an interview with conspiracy nut Alex Jones on his show, "Infowars," and made some jaw-dropping remarks.

Kanye said, "I see good things about Hitler ... Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler."

When Jones argued the other way, Kanye replied, "They did good things too, we are gonna stop dissing the Nazis." At another point, Kanye stated, "I like Hitler.

In a separate interview with Piers Morgan, Kanye doubled down on his antisemitism, blaming Jews in the music industry for his ugly feelings toward them.

Al parecer, Kanye West está cabreando nuevamente a los italianos, y esta vez, se trata de los veteranos de guerra locales, quienes están enojados por sus antiguos comentarios en los que celebró a Hitler y los nazis.

Este es el problema... Supuestamente, el rapero está en conversaciones secretas para celebrar un concierto con un enorme escenario en el RCF Arena en la ciudad de Reggio Emilia, según reporta el Daily Mail.

Aunque no hay planes en piedra, se corrió la voz de que 80.000 fans estarían planeando aparecer en el posible concierto de Kanye, lo que ha enfurecido a algunos de los veteranos de guerra italianos que lucharon contra los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, según le dijeron fuentes a The Mail.

Los veteranos están amargados por los comentarios que hizo Kanye el año pasado, prodigando elogios a Hitler y los nazis. Puede que se acuerden, Kanye estuvo en una entrevista con el loco de la conspiración Alex Jones en su programa, "Infowars", e hizo algunos comentarios asombrosos.

Dijo, por ejemplo: "Veo cosas buenas en Hitler ... Cada ser humano tiene algo de valor, que aportó, especialmente Hitler".

Cuando Jones argumentó lo contrario, Kanye replicó: "Ellos también hicieron cosas buenas, vamos a dejar de menospreciar a los nazis". En otro momento, afirmó: "Me gusta Hitler".

En una entrevista posterior con Piers Morgan, Kanye redobló su antisemitismo, culpando a los judíos de la industria musical de sus desagradables sentimientos hacia ellos.