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who died June 1 at his Michigan home, has been confirmed.In an email to The Post, a representative for the Washtenaw County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed that the 52-year-old performer died by “asphyxia hanging.”No further details were released by the office.His family had previously told The Post that Batayeh died in his sleep of a heart attack and that his passing was very sudden, with relatives adding that he did not have a history of heart issues.“He will be greatly missed by those who loved him and his great ability to bring laughter and joy to so many,” his family previously said in a statement to TMZ, and a celebration of life service is set for June 16 in Plymouth, Michigan, his manager told The Post.The Post has reached out to Batayeh’s manager and family for comment.In his memorable role, Batayeh played Markowski — the manager of Lavandería Brillante industrial laundromat, run by drug kingpin Gus Fring — in three episodes of AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” from 2011 to 2012.

tweeted Monday that the upcoming season of the beloved NBC show will be his last. “Well, the time has come. I’ve decided that our 41st season, which begins in September, will be my last.”“It’s been a wonderful ride, and I’ll have more to say in the coming months.

his $500 million Koru superyacht Monday in Portofino, Italy. In pictures obtained by The Post, Sanchez, 53, posed at the ship’s mast in a black thong bikini while the Amazon CEO, 59, snapped the shots wearing a black T-shirt and orange swim shorts.Before the photo shoot, the couple landed on Koru’s $75 million support vessel in a helicopter.

on Max (formerly HBO Max), the show is a docuseries that calls itself a “rom doc” (for “romantic documentary”).It focuses on lesbian entrepreneur Ashleigh Warren, 31; hairstylist Reagan Baker, 38, realtor Kesun Lee, 36; and gay data scientist Krishnanand “Kris” Kelkar, 30. “I wouldn’t say I was tired of the New York dating scene, but it did feel like a lot,” Baker told The Post. “It was nice to remove myself from that, in order to reset.”The eight-episode series sends the four singles to eight cities: Asheville, North Carolina; New Orleans, Louisiana; Miami, Florida; Austin, Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Boulder, Colorado; Seattle, Washington; and Honolulu, Hawaii. There, they use dating apps to select potential new partners, and go on dates – all on camera. “There would be cameras around, and I’d be like ‘So…what’s your favorite color?’ I would lose my mojo, at times,” said Baker. “There were a couple of dates that were more awkward than others. But, that’s part of dating.” Not all of the singles agreed on which cities offered the best dates.“I was surprised by Asheville,” said Baker. “That was one of my favorite cities for dating.

Netflix hit “Beef,” for a Variety interview. The series, which follows a feud stemming from a road rage incident, prompted Pascal to share his own story.“It was my fault. I’ve had three incidents, and they’ve all been my fault,” Pascal confessed.

after years of controversy.DCP announced Monday that it and asset management company Eldridge have acquired all the assets, rights and properties of the Golden Globes from the HFPA. The HFPA was founded in 1943 by a group of LA-based entertainment journalists.

podcast with computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg, 39, declared that beginners have to be willing “to get beaten up a lot” if they want to master the grappling art — in which participants try to best each other using various joint locks and submission holds.“Part of learning is failing,” the social network mogul elaborated. “People who train jiu-jitsu — you need to not have pride.” He claims that part of the problem is that people are less willing to be embarrassed as they grow older.

tweeted on Sunday, calling Huerta, 42, a “sexual predator” and alleging that he abused her.“It is very difficult to talk about the emotional abuse and abuse of power of a sexual predator who is loved in the world for playing a character in a movie like @TenochHuerta.”“Charming in appearance, the great hallmark of a narcissist + a good helping of victimization,” Ríos claimed, translated from Spanish. On Monday, Huerta posted a statement to his Instagram Story — which was also provided to The Post — claiming that he and Ríos had a consensual relationship nearly a year ago.

Netflix documentary “Arnold,” in which he admitted that the Austrian-American actor is the better action star between the one-time rivals.“The ’80s was a very interesting time because the definitive ‘action guy’ had not really been formed yet,” Stallone explained.“Up until that time, action was a car chase like ‘Bullitt’ or ‘The French Connection,’ and a film all about intellect and innuendo and verbal this and verbal that,” he recalled.Stallone then admitted that Schwarzenegger, 75, was a pioneer of the fist-pumping genre, noting that “dialogue was not necessary” in order to tell a story. “You actually relied upon your body to tell the story,” the “First Blood” actor said, before calling him the higher-caliber artist of the two.

video to TikTok showing her process of going into a plunge pool filled with ice-cold water.Bieber wrote that she stays in the water for 30 seconds minimum, and she’s seen in the video shoulder-deep in the water taking deep breaths as she adjusts to the temperature.At the end, she holds her nose and dunks her head underwater before she gets out and finishes the plunge.The Rhode Beauty founder wrote in the caption of the video that “cold plunging has helped me a lot with anxiety and overall mood.”Bieber isn’t the only celeb that loves an ice-cold plunge.Actor Josh Brolin, 55, and his wife Kathryn Boyd are into cold plunging, as is Zac Efron, 35. Lady Gaga, 37, has shared that she takes 5-10 minute ice baths as part of her post-show routine.Cold plunging in an ice bath is also a common practice as a post-game treatment for athletes, but is the tactic really helpful for all?back with another cold plunge series.

2014 disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has stoked outrage in Malaysia and Singapore — but the US comedian who told it isn’t saying sorry.Jocelyn Chia, a Boston-born, American-Singaporean stand-up comedian, performed the bit at Manhattan’s Comedy Cellar back in April. This week, social media users were incensed after the club posted a clip of the joke in which Chia made light of the historical tensions between Malaysia and Singapore.The now-viral joke dives into the historical separation of the two nations, noting that Singapore has become a “first world country” while Malaysia has remained a “developing” one.She then likened the split to a romantic breakup and imagined Malaysia trying to woo Singapore back, saying that it hadn’t visited because “my airplanes cannot fly,” she said in the video clip, adding: “What? Malaysia Airlines going missing not funny?”She then quipped, “Some jokes don’t land.” Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, China, in March 2019 when it disappeared with 239 passengers aboard.

Eurovision Song Contest in 2021, has also revealed he recently split from his long-term girlfriend, Italian model Giorgia Soleri, after the clip emerged on TikTok.“I am very sorry this video came out, it was not how I wanted to handle the situation and it was my mistake,” David, 24, wrote on his Instagram stories, according to People.David added “no betrayals of any kind” occurred, and that he and Soleri split “several days ago”.“I hope this doesn’t affect Giorgia’s image and that you can respect the delicacy of this moment,” he finished.Soleri, 27, has yet to make a statement. She last shared a post with her boyfriend on Instagram in May.The sweet photo showed the former couple kissing, with Soleri’s caption reading, “more and more every day.”David, for his part, shared a photo with Soleri to celebrate her 27th birthday in January, saying it “never felt so good to be a toy boy.”It’s not the first time David has courted controversy.Following his Eurovision win in March 2021, alongside bandmates Thomas Raggi, Ethan Torchio and Victoria De Angelis, David was forced to undergo a drug test after he was caught on camera appearing to snort something off a table as they were celebrating after their performance.

so freakin’ pissed.Comedian and “White Chicks” star Marlon Wayans took to Instagram on Saturday, claiming he was “mistreated” and “targeted” Friday by a United Airlines flight attendant, which resulted in him being removed from a flight and cited by police for disturbing the peace. “I don’t know what kind of corporate culture there is: your customers are always right,” Wayans said in a video in which he claimed he received a call from United customer service defending the attendant, whom Wayans called “rude and wrong.” In several previous Instagram posts, the 50-year-old claimed that an attendant asked him to consolidate his three carry-on bags into two, per the airline’s policy.Wayans claimed he complied — but was still asked to check one of his bags.

Christy Carlson Romano is changing her relationship with being a celebrity.“I don’t identify as a celebrity at all, by the way,” Romano said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I think ‘public person’ probably makes more sense, or now content creator.

posting updates throughout the show.While at the show at Ford Field, the 64-year-old MC was gifted handmade friendship bracelets from Swifties in the crowd.Exchanging and gifting friendship bracelets has become a fun new tradition for the Swift tour thanks to a lyric in her song “You’re On Your Own Kid”: “So make the friendship bracelets/ Take the moment and taste it.”Flavor Flav received a full wrist of bracelets and was “makin new friends” at the concert, prompting him to ask fans of Swift, 33, to help him make custom bracelets before the next Eras tour show he goes to.“Swifties,,, I wanna hire one of y’all to make me some custom Flavor Flav bracelets to trade for the next Eras Tour stop ya boy hits up,,,, Who can help,??” he tweeted alongside a picture of all his new bracelets.He continued, “Ya boy wants hundreds of bracelets,,, maybe thousands,,, so maybe we hire several of y’all,,, looking for: •ITS•A•CLOCK• + •FLAVOR•FLAV In Navy with Silver.”Swifties,,, I wanna hire one of y’all to make me some custom Flavor Flav bracelets to trade for the next Eras Tour stop ya boy hits up,,,, Who can help,??#TaylorSwift #ItsAClock pic.twitter.com/CsbjiGvOVmSwifties quickly responded with offers to help, showing Flav their talents with pictures of bracelets they’ve already made, and he was extremely impressed.“WOWWWWWW!!! These just keep getting better,!!!” he responded to one fan who posted a video of a Flavor Flav bracelet they made for him.Flav was so impressed with the response, he’s hiring hundreds of fans to help him out.THANKX to all my new friends,,, luv my fellow Swifties #TaylorSwift #ErasTour #FriendsForever pic.twitter.com/BY6ELIkFmQIn my RED (Taylor’s Version) Era and makin new friends at #TaylorSwift @taylorswift13

creepin‘” out several viewers during the already controversial show’s second episode on Sunday.Fans of musician The Weeknd — born Abel Makkonen Tesfaye — claimed they will never be able to look at the superstar again after a “nasty” sex scene featuring the pop singer aired on the new HBO drama.The eye-popping scene saw the singer, who plays club owner and cult leader Tedros, and Jocelyn (played by Lily-Rose Depp) getting intimate with each other — in a way that rubbed viewers wrong.One Twitter user, who recorded and posted the scene online, claimed that she would “never see The Weeknd the same after this.” At one point during the steamy scene, a deadpanned Tesfaye, 33, says that he wants to “f–kin stretch that tiny, little p—y” while 24-year-old Depp’s character pleasures herself. Several other social media users also agreed with the sentiment.

A post shared by NICK CANNON (@nickcannon)Some thought he may have been a bit envious of the rapper, suggesting he was mad because the rapper roasted him in 2019 over a diss track Cannon wrote aimed at Eminem.In 2019, 50 Cent called Cannon’s diss track “trash” in a now-deleted Instagram post, saying he couldn’t understand why Cannon would pick a fight with Eminem, who he described as a “different kinda animal.”“I haven’t seen a motherf–ker come close to beating him man,” 50 Cent wrote in the post, according to Revolt.

told the Sun that fans show up to their house “every day” — and some even climb their fence and knock on the door.“You open the curtains in the morning. You don’t get used to it. It’s really weird,” they said.

arena concert on Sunday night, just five songs into the show.In footage filmed by a fan, Blackpink member Jennie Kim could be seen singing the night’s fifth number – Lovesick Girls – before suddenly leaving the stage at Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena:Her mid-song departure left her bandmates Lisa, Jisoo and Rose to perform the rest of the two-hour concert as a trio.“It seems that we will be proceeding with the rest of the show without Jennie,” Rose later told the crowd. “However, we will try our best to fill the stage up for you guys and give you the best night.

Plex and conducted by OnePoll, the survey uncovered 67% believe that the best cure for a bad day is watching a comfort show or movie. Seventy percent of respondents can name movies and shows that turned their day from bad to good, including “Forrest Gump”, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and “Gilmore Girls”.Meanwhile, 39% were also able to name movies and shows that had the opposite effect — turning their day from good to bad — including “13 Reasons Why”, “Black Mirror” and “Titanic.”Over a third (37%) recalled movies and shows so impactful, they changed their life, including “My Sister’s Keeper,” “Parenthood,” “Pay It Forward,” “Remember the Titans,” “Roots” and “Trainspotting.”“The impact movies and shows have on our mood is unique and powerful,” said Jason Williams, Product Director at Plex.

high-profile celebrity phone-hacking case. But on the plane ride back to his current home in Montecito, Calif., Harry reportedly gifted a cabin crew member, who goes by the alias “Holden Pattern” online, a present fit for the skies.Harry gave Pattern a free edition of his bombshell memoir, “Spare.”Pattern had reportedly shared his encounter with Harry on board their American Airlines flight on social media yesterday.The steward found the book “in my luggage that a passenger gave to me.”Harry was just in England for three days to participate in the trial, then jetted back to the Golden State on Thursday.He allegedly stayed at his former home at Frogmore Cottage during the short vacation but didn’t meet with any members of the royal family — not his father King Charles nor his brother Prince William.Harry and his wife Meghan Markle resided at Frogmore after they got married in 2018.