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Taylor Swift's got some practice shaking off the haters ... and now, she's got a simple response for critics who want her to "go away."

Check out her Wednesday appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" -- she claps back at naysayers who plead with her to exit the spotlight, bluntly arguing ... "I don't want to!" Case closed.

Nearly in the same breath, the "Opalite" hitmaker shouts out her fiancé Travis Kelce as being one of her 3 favorite people to turn to for life and career advice, enthusiastically noting ... "I can talk to him about any of this."

Pauline Potter -- who starred in Season 3 of "My 600-lb Life" -- has died.

Pauline's son Dillon confirmed his mom's passing in a moving YouTube video, saying she died Thanksgiving Day.

Her death comes just months after she and Dillon were involved in a car accident, which totaled their vehicle. According to Dillon, the incident occurred in January and left his mom with broken ribs and other injuries ... she was still suffering those injuries during her last moments.

Kim Kardashian is hitting “start” on her gaming era ... becoming a playable character in the wildly popular video game "Fortnite."

Kim’s "Fortnite" skin -- which lets players change their in-game appearance -- will drop on December 13.

Epic Games -- the studio behind "Fortnite" -- released a surprise trailer featuring KK herself … hyping her as a mom, entrepreneur, fashion icon, and TV star who’s now ready take on "Fortnite," and she seems totally unfazed.

Here’s the catch ... her outfit in the game -- a full bodysuit with matching gloves -- is actually a collab with her clothing brand, SKIMS, and players will have more than 25 variations to choose from. Another outfit shows her sporting a crop top and fur coat.

Jeff Garcia -- the beloved voice actor who appeared on many popular 2000s shows -- has died ... TMZ has learned.

Multiple family members tell TMZ ... the comedian and actor was pronounced dead early Wednesday morning after he was taken off life support Tuesday night at a Southern California hospital while surrounded by family and friends.

We're told Jeff was dealing with multiple medical complications in the months before his death ... suffering a brain aneurysm back in the spring, during which he fell and hit his head. He recovered from the aneurysm, but our sources say he suffered a stroke several weeks ago.

Our sources say Jeff canceled multiple shows recently because he wasn't feeling well ... which wasn't like him at all, but he didn't go to the hospital, believing he'd be fine without treatment.

Tragedy in the TV world ... Wenne Alton Davis -- an actress who appeared in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" -- was struck and killed by a car in New York.

The 60-year-old -- whose real name was Wendy Davis -- suffered a head injury when she was hit by a Cadillac while crossing the street near Manhattan’s Broadway on Monday ... and she was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died later that night.

The 61-year-old man driving the SUV stayed at the scene after striking the actress and hasn’t been charged. Cops say he hit Davis while making a left onto West 53rd Street -- and she had the right of way.

Wendy was best known for her role in Amazon Prime’s hit series "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," where she played a police officer opposite Rachel Brosnahan in 2023 -- and she also appeared on NBC’s "Blindspot" and "New Amsterdam."

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Khloé Kardashian’s getting real about faith ... saying she was just reunited with a major keepsake -- after Kim swooped in and bought their late dad’s Bible the second TMZ reported it was hitting the auction block.

The reality star spilled it all on her "Khloé In Wonder Land" podcast Wednesday ... claiming Ellen Pierson married her dad on his deathbed and cleaned house -- so when the Bible popped up at auction, they knew they had to snatch it back.

Turns out it was the Bible Robert once passed to O.J. Simpson back in the day -- and just last month on "The Kardashians," Kim revealed she secretly dropped $80K on it at auction ... all to gift it back to Khloé.

Gene Simmons pulled back the curtain on his pickup method in a recent interview ... because he used a line on the TV news anchor who was asking him questions!!!

Ya gotta see this interaction between the rock legend and Scripps News anchor Maritsa Georgiou ... as their 10-minute interview is winding down, Gene starts hitting on her.

Nick Fuentes is making news outside of his usual Nazi-loving, misogynist ramblings ... for the first time, he's revealed that he's still a virgin at 27!

The white nationalist podcaster sat down Monday with Piers Morgan for a wide-ranging interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" — and things got tense when the convo turned to Fuentes' sexuality.

At one point, Morgan asked Fuentes if he's attracted to women, and Fuentes confirmed that he is ... but he finds it "very difficult" to be around them.

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On the latest episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian accused Howard Stern of mocking her Paris heist attack as a made-up joke ... but Howard denies her claims, and he's clapping back with receipts.

According to clips Howard dug up from when the horrific event first made headlines in 2016, what he actually said was, "If this woman was robbed at gunpoint by a bunch of dudes and they threw her in a bathtub and tied her up -- or whatever they did -- I mean, that is frightening. If it is a farce, then really they should go to jail for that."

In the clip, Howard's co-host Robin Quivers interjects, "I don't think it is," and Howard agrees, "I don't either."

President Trump makes no secret of the fact he wants Jimmy Kimmel fired ... well, ABC just extended Jimmy's TV deal another year.

Jimmy and ABC signed a contract extension that will keep "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on the air through the end of the 2026-2027 TV season ... according to Bloomberg.

The late-night host's current contract was set to expire in May ... but his future with ABC is no longer in doubt.

Literally everything is content nowadays ... "The Originals" star Candice King turned her pregnancy announcement into an ad for Clearblue pregnancy tests in a post shared Monday.

The 38-year-old actress announced she's expecting a baby with her former costar Steven Kreuger, writing, "#ClearbluePartner We’re having a baby! Baby Krueger coming May 2026!"

Seeing as how the post leads with a sponsored hashtag, you might wonder which thing she's happier about -- the new addition, or that sweet, sweet pregnancy test money. But then she added ...

Marciano Brunette is sending a message loud and clear after filing a lawsuit against Demi Engemann and it's all about "getting even."

Just one day after suing Engemann over her sexual assault allegations, the "Vanderpump Villa" star dropped an Instagram Reel Saturday featuring a trending sound about payback. In the clip, the voiceover says, "Somebody do something to me, I'll do something to them, this is common sense," followed by, "So you believe in getting even? Hell to the yeah."

We broke the story ... according to court docs, obtained by TMZ, he accuses "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives" star of falsely portraying him as a "sexual predator," claiming the allegations have wrecked his reputation and cost him job opportunities.

“Saturday Night Live" dipped its toe into the Jeffrey Epstein Island scandal that blew up last week, and one of the jokes took a direct swing at the late pedophile ... roasting him for having "girlfriends" young enough to still be wearing braces.

As you know, the House Oversight Committee dropped a trove of never-before-seen photos and videos from Epstein's private island in the Virgin Islands, and the footage is as creepy as you'd expect. A camera operator walks through the property, showing off the mansion, the bedroom, the bathroom ... the whole unsettling tour.

But there's one photo everyone's talking about ... a giant room that looks straight out of a dentist's office, complete with a dental chair and bizarre old man masks lining the walls.

Brandi Glanville says she finally has a diagnosis for why her face was suddenly disfigured ... and it sounds like a huge relief.

We got the former 'RHOBH' star in Sherman Oaks on Friday at the grand opening for goGLOW DJ'd by Klypso and our photog asked her about the face parasite that's been bothering her for a couple years.

Brandi says she finally got a medical diagnosis just yesterday, and when she called her mom to tell her the news, her mother started bawling.