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Ozzy Osbourne is here to remind you he’s “[Effing] not dying.” He said after he announced he can no longer tour, the media drove him nuts by exaggerating the news with headlines like, quote, “Ozzy’s on his last legs.” Ozzy clarified that as of right now he doesn’t think he could pull off a tour because of his health.  But he’d still want to go if he got permission from his doctor and his condition improved. He said, quote, “The only thing I’ve got that keeps me going is making records. But I can’t do that forever.  I gotta get out there.” HERE HE IS (He said all this on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard.  Listen here.) (Consequence)

Mod Sun is breaking his silence after his break up with Avril Lavigne. Last week, Avril ended their engagement after being together for 10 months. On Tuesday, Mod Sun took to Instagram to share a series of pics, including selfies and in-concert shots. “In 1 week, my entire life completely changed…” he wrote in the caption, seemingly confirming that he and Lavigne had split. “I just know there’s a plan for it all. I’ll keep my head up + always listen to my heart, even when it feels broken 💔 ,” he continued, implying it was not his decision to break up. “Being surrounded by love every night on tour has been an absolute blessing. I have the best friends in the entire world, thanks for always having my back. See you on stage,” he concluded.

Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda say it’s “a misconception” that late vocalist Chester Bennington hated the band’s biggest hit “In The End”. Explaining how he wrote the song during an overnight session in an LA rehearsal room, with “junkies and prostitutes” outside, Shinoda explained “Some people think that [Chester] hated the song. He liked the song, he just loved really heavy stuff, and so when people were like, ‘This should be a single’, ‘Ah, whatever!’ It’s not the one that he would have chosen.” Shinoda also admitted that he was initially “angry” after Bennington took his own life in 2017, saying “I’m sure for other people, it was the same. Even fans, too, by the way. And that’s natural, that’s normal, that’s, like, one of the stages of grief, right? Anger’s in there.”

WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? You’ll be able to see the Super Mario Bros. Movie a few days earlier.  Universal will release the film on Wednesday, April 5th, two days before the original date of April 7th. The movie had already been pushed back from the 2022 holiday season.

Doctors believe there is no hope for actor Tom Sizemore after a brain aneurysm and have recommended that his family make an end-of-life decision. The ‘Saving Private Ryan’ actor was rushed to a hospital ICU the morning of February 18th. Sizemore’s manager said Monday “The family is now deciding end of life matters and a further statement will be issued on Wednesday.” Sizemore has also starred in ‘Natural Born Killers,’ ‘Pearl Harbor’ and ‘Black Hawk Down’.  He was recently on Netflix’s ‘Cobra Kai’.

Ricou Browning, who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon, passed away at the age of 93.  He was the last remaining Universal Monster.  He also worked behind the camera, and reportedly directed the infamous “Baby Ruth in the pool” scene in “Caddyshack”.  (Full Story)

A hacker using deepfake AI tech to emulate the voice of Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows falsely announced the cancellation of the band’s upcoming shows. A new bogus episode of the band’s ‘Trax’ podcast was uploaded, with the voice saying the band was canceling their sets at Welcome To Rockville and Sonic Temple. Once the band heard what was happening they posted on social media “Yikes! This is NOT TRUE. We are still playing. Getting to the bottom of this.” “Literally walking in the streets of Mexico and listening to this,” Shadows later posted. “What the actual f***… NOT ME!” The band then addressed the deepfake, writing “Our accounts were compromised over the weekend and have now been recovered. Our festival appearances have not been cancelled. For the time being, please go to our Discord for all future communications. Thank you for your patience.”

Madonna’s older brother Anthony died over the weekend . . . and even though their relationship wasn’t great, sources say Madonna was paying for his care until the end. Anthony struggled with addiction for most of his life, and his relationship with his family was complicated.  But in addition to footing the bill for his stay at a rehab facility in Michigan, she also visited him there earlier this month. According to TMZ, Anthony removed his own feeding and breathing tubes just two days before he died. Madonna posted a tribute to Anthony, thanking him for planting “many important seeds” by introducing her to things like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, and Jack Kerouac. (People, TMZ)

Brendan Fraser got accidentally choked out while shooting the cinematic masterpiece that is 1999’s “The Mummy”. On yesterday’s episode of “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, he said it was the scene at the beginning of the movie where his character is hung at an Egyptian prison. Brendan was standing on his toes with a rope around his neck.  But the guy holding the rope pulled it a little TOO high. He said, quote, “The next thing I knew, my elbow was in my ear, the world was sideways, there was gravel in my teeth and everyone was really quiet . . . “And there was a stunt coordinator who said, ‘Congratulations, you’re in the club . . . the same thing happened to Mel Gibson on ‘Braveheart’ . . . Thanks, I think?  I wanna go home!”  (People) (Watch Brendan describe what happened here.) 

You know those shows where people go around saving bars and restaurants, or restoring houses, or fixing marriages, or curing people’s addictions? Well, the changes don’t always stick once the camera crew bolts. Clive Jackson used to own a restaurant called The Brownstone Bistro in L.A., but it was failing. So in 2018, Gordon Ramsey swooped in to rescue it on the first season of his show “24 Hours to Hell and Back”. A few months later, Jackson LOST the place, which caused him to lose his home . . . and he ended up on the streets. Luckily, someone set up a GoFundMe for Jackson, and as of last night, it had raised over $41,000 on a $50,000 goal. (People) (You can watch a video about Clive’s life story, and the murder of his son, here.)

Lil Wayne has revealed that he hasn’t eaten fast food in decades, and that it’s been so long since he’s had a McDonald’s meal that he doesn’t know what it smells like. The rapper recently sat down to discuss his upcoming album ‘Tha Carter VI’, at one point sharing more about his diet. “When I was 19 I moved to Miami and my mom is a chef and she was very happy for the move because New Orleans is crazy,” he said, per Complex. “One thing she really wanted me to do was get a personal chef.” “So from the age of 19 to now, I’ve always had a personal chef. I haven’t eaten any fast food forever. I don’t know what McDonald’s smell like,” he said. Wayne, who is 40, added that he doesn’t adhere to a workout routine or go to the gym, saying: “Only gyms I know is Jim Jones. I can’t lift a weight. I don’t do no workout.”

CELEBRITIES CELEBRATING A BIRTHDAY

 Justin Bieber is 29.

Kesha is 36.

Lupita Nyong’o is 40.  Nakia in “Black Panther”.  She’s also Maz Kanata in the “Star Wars” movies, and she won an Oscar as Patsey in “12 Years a Slave”.

Mark-Paul Gosselaar is 49.  Zack on “Saved by the Bell”.

One of the Michigan Fab Five. NBA Rookie of the Year in 1994. Chris Webber is 50.

Javier Bardem is 54.

Zack Snyder is 57.  “Justice League” director.  After the death of his daughter, he stepped down from the movie to be with his family.  Post-production on “Justice League” was finished by “Avengers” director Josh Whedon.

Zack also directed “Batman vs Superman”, “Man of Steel”, “Watchmen”, and “300”, plus the “Dawn of the Dead” remake and its follow-up “Army of the Dead”.

Booker T is 58.  WWE Hall of Famer.

Ron Howard is 69.  Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show”, Richie Cunningham on “Happy Days”, and the director of “Solo: A Star Wars Story”.

The first movie he directed was “Grand Theft Auto”in 1977.  Since then, he’s directed “Splash”, “Cocoon”, “Willow”, “Parenthood”, “Backdraft”, “Apollo 13”, “Ransom”, “A Beautiful Mind”, and “The DaVinci Code”, to name a few.

Catherine Bach is 69.  The original Daisy Duke on “The Dukes of Hazzard”.

Roger Daltrey of The Who is 79.

Harry Belafonte is 96.  Calypso king who brought us the “Banana Boat Song (Day-O)” . . . the song everybody knows from “Beetlejuice”

Melanie Moore

Today’s birthday girl has been in 392 fine films, including:

– The Assford Wives

– Battlestar Orgasmica

– Black in the Saddle Again

– The Butt Sisters Do Detroit

– Frat Girls Of Double Double D

– Girls Just Wanna Have Toys

– Lethal Lolita

– Lez Be Friends

– My Cousin Ginny

– White Chicks Can’t Hump

– Willie Wankers And The Fun Factory

– And who can forget her role in 1992’s This Butt Lite is For Yo

Melanie Moore is 61 years old