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Britney Spears is clearly thankful to Elton John for launching her name to the top of the charts once again ... gifting him personalized rocket-inspired salt and pepper shakers!

Elton thanked Britney on Twitter, Friday, for the special gift. He wrote, "Thank you @britneyspears for the fabulous rocket salt and pepper shakers!! 🚀🚀David and I love them ❤️❤️ #HoldMeCloser🚀".

The rocket shakers seem to be symbolic in more ways than one. Their hit song "Hold Me Closer" is a reimagining of the Rocket Man's classic “Tiny Dancer” ... and the song has really taken off. It appears they're from Asprey London, and retail around $6,450.

As we told you, Britney and Elton teamed up to release Britney's first project since the termination of her conservatorship in 2021.

It skyrocketed on the streaming charts and hit #1 in more than 40 countries shortly after it dropped.

Elton John previously said, "I'm thrilled with the response to Hold Me Closer. I wanted to do a fun, happy summer track so was ecstatic when Britney Spears agreed to be a part of it! She truly is an icon, one of the all-time great pop stars & I love her dearly. I hope you all love it!"

And, the fans definitely do! Lots of folks on social media are already begging for more music and BS was invited to the MTV VMAs -- although she couldn't make it.

Timothee Chalamet is no stranger to making bold wardrobe choices ... and his latest outfit has done just that, sending social media into a frenzy.

Timothee stepped out Friday for The Venice Film Festival's red carpet premiere of his new romantic horror film, "Bones & All", directed by Luca Guadagnino ... but, it's not just the movie that has people talking, it's Chalamet's red get-up.

The design is a backless/halter top style ... and while some on social media are dragging him with sexist comments, most are eating it up.

One user wrote, "I love #TimotheeChalamet's bold fashion choices and how he's unafraid to go against the grain. Clothes have no gender. Soft fabrics and bright colors doesn't turn someone into the opposite gender. If someone identifies as a man and wears a dress, he's still man."

Another user playfully commented, "yassified mr. krabs".

In one of the dumbest moves we've seen made by a person freaking out as they were kicked off a plane, a chemical engineer has now been fired from his job after announcing where he works to the entire flight.

The incident, which happened Tuesday night on a flight scheduled from Philly to Dallas, included the man seen in the video going off on passengers and flight attendants.

Shockingly, and maybe sarcastically, the man exclaims he's racist because he's a white male with a black bag which he states is, "a better bag than most of y'all can afford." But, he wasn't done yet ... admitting he was a little intoxicated.

Then things take a turn, the man starts hurling homophobic slurs ... calling everyone on the flight "liberal f******."

However, just before exiting the plane -- the man let everyone know he was a chemical engineer with pharmaceutical and biotechnology company GlaxoSmithKline.

We reached out to GSK, who tell us, "We immediately conducted an investigation and as of Thursday, he is no longer employed at GSK. The person’s remarks were reprehensible and do not reflect our company culture."

GSK takes it a step further, saying, "At GSK, diversity, equity and inclusion is embraced and celebrated and we are committed in policy, principle and practice to maintaining an environment which prohibits discriminatory behavior and provides equal opportunity for all persons."

As for what caused the freakout, one person on social media claimed the now-former chemical engineer was bothering a woman sitting next to him. We don't yet know his name.

Suzanne Baum claims a pair of shorts ordered online not only came apparently used, but with a giant skid mark on them as well ... and now she's demanding answers from the seller.

Baum, a news personality and lifestyle editor, says her 21-year-old ordered a pair of shorts from online fashion hub ASOS ... but when opening the plastic wrap around the clothing, there was a foul odor of crap.

Suzanne says to her horror, and in a pic she posted, there wan't just a smell of poop -- but an apparent stain as well -- she says the whole thing left her fam, "utterly gobsmacked/retching/in shock!"

What's more, Baum says she tried for days to get in touch with someone over at the company, but has only gotten automated messages.

She felt the best way to get the company's attention was through posting on Instagram ... and the pic is now going viral.

Purdue Football player Chris Jefferson was the hero of the team's defense, but it didn't come without a nasty price ... as evidenced in the massive pile of puke he produced after scoring a pick six.

Check out the video, Jefferson intercepted a pass for the Boilermakers late in the game Thursday against Penn State. He takes it 72 yards for a score ... and it's clear to tell he gave it his all once he hits the sidelines.

Jefferson's stomach unleashes a fury of liquid. Joking about the incident after the game, Jefferson wrote, "I been tryna eat too healthy all week."

The good news ... the score gave Purdue a 31-28 lead over Penn State, but the team would go on to lose 35-31 after a late touchdown from PS.

While Serena Williams continued to shock the world with her incredible play at the U.S. Open, TV announcers showed celebs who came out to support the G.O.A.T., including Dionne Warwick -- the only problem -- broadcasters mistook her for Gladys Knight.

And, it was just as cringe as it sounds.

Mary Carillo and Chanda Rubin were behind the mic for ESPN ... when during the third game of the first set, two women appeared on screen between points.

Chanda: Got some more stars ...
Mary: Gladys Knight ...
Chanda: Gladys Knight ...
Mary: Hello!

The problem ... it wasn't Knight, but 5-time Grammy Award winner and fellow legend, Dionne Warwick. In fairness, Gladys was in the building, too.

Shortly after the match, Chanda went to social media to explain what happened during the flub.

"Too bad I was initially looking at the court (where Auntie Gladys was in the stands) and not our program monitor that showed Ms. Dionne... mistake was immediately corrected.🤦🏽‍♀️," the former player-turned-broadcaster clarified.

It wasn't the first time a star has been mistaken for another celeb during this year's U.S. Open. During Serena's first-round match, a short video posted online went viral after the poster confused actress and advocate Laverne Cox for Beyonce.

On Wednesday, there were a ton of other stars in the building, too ... including Tiger Woods, Gigi & Bella Hadid, Spike Lee, Anna Wintour, Seal, La La Anthony and many more.

They were all in the building to watch Serena ... who after winning on Monday, went on to defeat #2 seed Anett Kontaveit. Williams now advances to the third round, where she'll face Ajla Tomljanović.

As for the flub, neither Dionne nor Gladys have addressed it.

Viral sensation Daddy Long Neck is dealing with some scary family drama ... his baby boy is in the hospital and his baby mama's new boyfriend has been arrested for allegedly beating the child.

Daddy Long Neck, who went viral back in 2019, and his mother tell TMZ ... the rapper's 9-month-old son, David Alfredo Samuelson Lopez, is in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering skull fractures and brain bleeding.

DLN says he flew from Michigan to L.A. over the weekend when his baby mama informed him their son had been hospitalized, and he claims a social worker told him his ex's new lover had been arrested for allegedly abusing the child.

The Montebello Police Department says officers responded to a local hospital Aug. 26 to comb through medical reports showing severe injuries sustained by an infant, and detectives eventually arrested Daemien Obeso and booked him for child abuse causing great bodily injury.

Daddy Long Neck says his kid is finally off life support and is now able to breathe on his own ... but we're told the child is still in critical condition.

Olivia Rodrigo is not too cool for school ... because she was apparently in class today at USC.

Ya gotta see this photo making the rounds online, showing the "good 4 u" singer seated in class at USC's Thornton School of Music.

Olivia's peers seem surprised at taking in a lecture with a celeb ... and it looks like she's listening intently to whatever the professor had to say.

We reached out to USC and Olivia's camp to learn more about the classes she's apparently taking on campus ... so far no word back.

Olivia does have a documented relationship with USC and the Thornton School of Music ... alumni from the school's studio guitar and popular music programs were featured in a live performance of Olivia's song, "favorite crime."

The USC marching band also performed Olivia's smash hit "good 4 u" at football games last season.

Olivia's only 19 years old, so she would fit right in on a college campus.

NYPD is getting dragged on social media due to a viral video of a cop slugging a woman square in the face, leaving her down for the count.

The brutal incident reportedly went down Aug. 12 in Harlem, but the video's just now circulating online -- and it shows a group of officers in the middle of a crowd. NYPD says they were attempting to arrest a man in connection with an attempted murder.

The scene is total chaos, and you see one officer push the woman away from the crowd, and she seems to shove him back.

That's when the cop simply hauls back and throws one crushing punch to her face. She immediately falls backward on the pavement.

Citizens on the scene were absolutely shocked, and at least one man is heard yelling at the cop, "Why would you do that?!"

It's unclear if she fell unconscious, but moments later the cops had her up on her feet and put her in handcuffs.

NYPD seems to be describing the incident as self-defense -- it says, “While police were effecting the arrest, multiple individuals on scene interfered by physically assaulting numerous officers. One officer sustained a minor injury to the head.”

Two women reportedly ended up charged with assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and obstructing governmental administration -- one of them was additionally charged with menacing and harassment, and a third woman was accused of spitting at an officer.

We've heard of blood diamonds before, but this is nutty ... a woman is hawking custom-made jewelry created with traces of human sperm -- and her business is going swimmingly!

The gal's name is Amanda Booth, and she's been cooking up a solid clientele on TikTok -- where folks are apparently hitting her up and requesting she make them handcrafted trinkets and ornaments they can wear that are infused with bodily fluid ... male ejaculate, specifically.

According to Vice -- which detailed her process and what's behind this new fad -- Booth was already dabbling with this idea even before semen was intro'd. Her videos were popular for working in dead people's ashes, breast milk and even hair into her custom pieces.

Eventually, someone asked if she could get some spunk in the mix -- and the challenge intrigued her. She started out with a sample from her husband ... which she then completely dried via a dehydration process, grinded up and massaged into her clay creations.

In the end ... a lot of what she makes, when it comes to the so-called "jizz jewelry," looks a lot like pearls -- and she'll turn them into necklaces, bracelets and rings, which she models.

Get the nudes off the runway ... so demanded one pilot who threatened to return to the gate after some NSFW pictures were being sent to passengers.

A recent Southwest flight was getting ready to take off to Cabo San Lucas ... when a passenger used Apple's AirDrop feature to pass along some nude pics to their fellow travelers -- it apparently got so out of control, the pilot had to intervene.

You hear the "I'll turn this plane around" energy in his voice ... while they hadn't taken to the skies yet, the pilot claimed he would have to get security involved if it continued, which would mean heading back to the gate.

He ended with something you'd probably never expect to hear over the intercom ... "Quit sending naked pictures and let's get yourself to Cabo."

After the incident went viral, Southwest told The Post, “The safety, security and wellbeing of Customers and Employees is the Southwest Team’s highest priority at all times. When made aware of a potential problem, our employees address issues to support the comfort of those traveling with us.”

Baseball is continuing to make spectators outrageously horny -- 'cause ANOTHER couple has been busted for engaging in an alleged sex act inside a stadium ... this time, at a Toronto Blue Jays game.

As we previously reported, one fan was allegedly caught giving what appeared to be oral sex to a fan at an Oakland A's game last week ... which resulted in a police investigation.

The action seemingly made its way up North at the Rogers Centre for the Jays' matchup against the Chicago Cubs on Monday ... when two fans decided to say "screw the game -- let's (allegedly) screw instead!!"

Censored vid posted by Blog TO shows a woman straddling a man in the top row of the 500s level ... and the outlet claims everything is on display in the unedited version.

Another clip shows the couple being escorted away from the area ... and they were most likely escorted out of the stadium.

We reached out to law enforcement earlier Tuesday ... and were told there was no information about it. We've reached back out now that the video of the alleged act has made its way to social media.

Sorry to kill all the fun, but Cleveland Browns player Martin Emerson, Jr. was NOT walking around with a bunch of weed during Saturday's preseason game ... as it turns out, it was a bag of sunflower seeds.

Shocker, right?!

Of course, some folks and/or trolls on Twitter tried to take a grainy picture of the Browns vs. Chicago Bears broadcast ... and play it off like Emerson was holding a bag of weed on the bench.

The pic quickly made rounds on social media ... with users cracking their "typical Browns" jokes for retweets and favorites, and playing it off like the players were getting ready to toke.

But, one intrepid account decided to find a much clearer image of the alleged weed ... and yeah, it's definitely a bag of seeds.

If you don't believe your eyes, our sources confirm it's not marijuana and there were several players clearly chewing in the same clip that made its rounds online.

FWIW, the NFL has softened its stance on weed recently ... but sunflower seeds, however, are not banned.

NASA's groundbreaking rocket launch was scrubbed Monday after a slew of mechanical and weather-related issues.

So much is riding on the massive Artemis 1 mission ... it's the first launch of the massive, most powerful rocket ever ... it's an unmanned flight that will circle the moon and forge a path for astronauts to revisit the astronomical body in 2024 or 2025.

The flight was postponed due to an offshore thunderstorm, but then a fuel leak and other problems dogged mission control at the Kennedy Space Center.

There have been problems with the rollup to the launch all weekend ... 5 lightning bolts struck towers near the rocket, although the rocket was never hit or affected.

The endgame is to build and send up a space station near the moon, where astronauts can live and regularly visit the satellite planet. Eventually, the space station will be a stopping off point for missions to Mars.

The first set of astronauts to visit space will include the first woman ever to step foot on the moon.

Monday's mission had 2 mannequins in the Orion capsule -- Helga and Zohar -- which contained fake female organs ... designed to test the effects of space radiation on women.

Air Canada is the worst airline in North America ... according to 'Harry Potter' star Matthew Lewis, who says the airline ripped up his first class ticket in his face.

Matthew, best known as Neville Longbottom in the 'Potter' films, vented on Twitter, accusing the airline of putting him through the wringer -- forcing him to fly economy from Orlando to Toronto.

The actor says he was booted from his initial flight -- in first class -- because it was full, and when he was rebooked the airline sent him back to coach. The switch set Matthew off, and he ranted, "Confirmed. @AirCanada is the worst airline in North America. And that's saying something."

He continued, "I've been bumped before. I think it's a ludicrous policy that we've inexplicably normalised but it is what it is. That said, that's not my issue. I wasn't told til boarding, no apology, no ask if like to rebook, and if want a refund I have to call them."

Despite his frustrations he did stop to acknowledge how big the problem was in the grand scheme of things ... he tweeted, "Lol. Privileged problems, sure. But still wild."

Britney Spears' story is worth a lot of dough -- but she's forgoing a payday to sit down and speak her truth ... and instead, doing an impromptu YouTube dump that's 20 minutes long.

The singer posted a 22-minute clip on the video platform Sunday out of nowhere, and if you watch it -- you'll see she's spilling her guts about everything ... with specific focus on how exactly the conservatorship started and what she remembers during those many years.

BS starts out by saying that she's got a lot on her mind, and noting that while she's been offered lucrative deals for exclusive interviews -- like with Oprah, for example -- she says she finds that notion "irrelevant' and apparently thinks selling your story like that is tacky.

Instead, she's giving it straight to the people ... diving into how things started when she was spiraling in the mid-2000s. She says when the conservatorship began, she didn't understand why ... but all of a sudden, her dad was running the show and was very controlling. Britney claims he told her, "I'm Britney Spears and I'm calling the shots."

She also says a woman introduced the idea to Jamie, and that her mom helped him follow through. Britney calls it "pure abuse" and recounts being held down on a gurney as paparazzi and helicopters swarmed her pad the day she was put in a psychiatric hold.

Speaking of paps, Britney says this of her infamous episode ... "The extent of my madness was playing chase with paparazzi, which is still to this day one of the most fun things I ever did about being famous." She says she doesn't know what was so harmful about that.

She goes on to describe what it was like working under the conservatorship, and it sounds miserable. Britney says she felt like a robot who was under the direct control of her father.

Britney says that after her Vegas residency ended in 2017, a new show was in the works ... and she says that when she was rehearsing for it, she stood up for herself about a certain dance move -- saying she simply voiced her preference. After that, she says she was shipped away to a facility, under the guise of seeking treatment and worrying for her dad's health.

While there, Britney says she was heavily medicated ... this after she claims her father threatened her with a major legal battle that he thought she's apparently lose.

This was a particularly dark chapter for her, Britney says, and it's clear Britney resents her family for putting her through that -- especially her mom, whom she says turned a blind eye. Remember, photos from that specific period showed Britney appearing very out of sorts, when her then-boyfriend Sam Asghari took her out for a bit around Easter time.

Britney describes more conditions placed on her during the conservatorship ... including absolute control of what she ate, where she could be, her schedule, her company, everything.

It was around this time -- 2019/2020, when the #FreeBritney movement was in full swing -- that Britney says she finally felt confident enough to take control of her life and attempt to get out of the conservatorship. She even shouts out #FreeBritny protesters who backed her.

Britney says she believes Jamie and co. thought she'd come crawling back and get into the cycle she'd been in for years, but instead ... BS says she got a lawyer and held her ground, refusing to fall back into their clutches and actually try to retake the reins of her life.

It's a lengthy confessional, but Britney's getting into all of it here ... more than we can write to in this post. As we all know, Britney did break free from the conservatorship in the end -- and now, she's telling her story on her own terms. And we're sure it's far from over too.