There have been so many wealthy donors to Donald Trump’s inaugural committee that the president-elect has run out of perks to offer them, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The committee’s haul of $170 million is a record, the publication notes, and includes money from those who have since been placed on wait lists or been told the V.I.P. access to Trump was unlikely. Trump meticulously pays attention to who financially supports him and who doesn’t—and many of the wealthy donors are keen to avoid any possible retribution once he takes office. In recent weeks, for instance, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has made a number of moves favorable to Trump, among them Meta’s donation of $1 million to the inaugural fund. Other donors include Amazon, Uber, Bank of America, Ford, General Motors, Open AI CEO Sam Altman, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Funds are on pace to reach $200 million, according to one person briefed on fundraising who spoke to the Times.

Ashton Kutcher took matters into his own hands and tried to protect his friend’s home from the massive wildfires blazing through the Los Angeles area. Paparazzi footage captured Kutcher holding a garden hose and watering plants and trees near a Pacific Palisades house that TMZ reported is owned by his friend. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, watering plants is a beneficial method to curtail fires—as well-watered plants tend to be less flammable. Kutcher is one of many celebrities bracing against the wildfires that have caused a trail of devastation in their wake and left at least five people dead, per the Los Angeles Times. A-listers like Jamie Lee Curtis have shared that they’ve been forced to evacuate their homes, while other celebrities, such as Anna Faris, Diane Warren, Cameron Mathison, Adam Brody, and Leighton Meester have had their multimillion dollar homes burn down in the blaze.

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Lisa Kudrow disclosed that she recently found a letter from her Friends co-star, the late Matthew Perry, hidden in a prop he gifted to her from the show. While appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show on Jan. 7, Kudrow reminisced on whether or not she ever stole something from the Friends set and disclosed that while there was a prop she did take, Perry also gifted her the iconic cookie time jar from the show. “Matthew gave that to me at the end of our last episode,” Kudrow told host Drew Barrymore. “I had recently found the note that he had in it for me,” she continued. “I hadn’t opened it up or looked inside of it, but yeah, he did. He had a note in there and I forgot about it.” Although the actress didn’t share what the note said, she previously told Jimmy Kimmel in a 2020 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live that the cookie time jar was an inside joke between her and Perry.

Donald Trump went after Joe Biden in an all-caps screed about the wildfires raging around Los Angeles. “NO WATER IN THE FIRE HYDRANTS, NO MONEY IN FEMA. THIS IS WHAT JOE BIDEN IS LEAVING ME. THANKS JOE!” Trump wrote in a Wednesday afternoon Truth Social post. The post referenced the fact that some fire hydrants in California have run dry during the wildfires, due to “tremendous demand,” officials told The Los Angeles Times. The president-elect has spent much of the day firing off posts blaming Democrats for the inferno that has killed at least two people, forced over 80,000 to evacuate, and destroyed more than 1,000 structures, according to NBC News. Earlier, he reignited a feud with California’s governor, Gavin Newsom (or “Newscum,” as Trump prefers). While campaigning in September, Trump had threatened to withhold wildfire aid from California unless Newsom channeled more water to farmers, the New York Times reported. “I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to FLOW INTO CALIFORNIA!” Trump added. “He is the blame for this.”

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Andy Cohen has admitted that he has a sex tape with his ex-boyfriend, former Broadway actor and producer John Hill. Cohen made the admission on Tuesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live as Hill listed off the “top five things” Cohen should do in 2025. Among the things on Hill’s list included seeing Cohen “get tits,” “learn how to read,” and release their tape “from 2003.” Cohen laughed at the thought while his guests, model Racquel Chevremont and housewife Erika Jayne, remained shocked. Yet thankfully, according to Cohen, it’s not easily accessible. “The format, it’s on some janky format,” he said, when asked where it can be seen. According to Hill, “It’s bad.” Cohen, 56, and Hill, 46, dated for nearly three years before they went their separate ways. According to Hill, he headed to Hollywood looking for a career change, and Cohen stayed behind, moving up the ranks at Bravo. “It was heartbreaking and super sad,” said Cohen about the split on the “Hot Takes and Deep Dives” podcast. “But like any breakup … it was time to break up.”

Oscar nomination voting has been pushed back two days due to the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, multiple Hollywood trade publications reported, as the Academy Awards become the latest award show to adjust during the ongoing disaster. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that voting on nominees would extend until Jan. 14, two days after the original deadline on Jan. 16. The nominations will also be announced two days later than scheduled, on Jan. 19. The ceremony itself will not take place until March 2. “We want to offer our deepest condolences to those who have been impacted by the devastating fires across Southern California,” Academy CEO Bill Kramer wrote in an email to members published by Deadline. “So many of our members and industry colleagues live and work in the Los Angeles area, and we are thinking of you.” The Oscars are not the only Hollywood awards show impacted by the crisis. The Critics Choice Awards ceremony was supposed to take place on Sunday in Santa Monica, but has now been postponed until Jan. 26. The SAG Award nominations announcement originally scheduled for Wednesday morning was canceled, but nominees were still posted online.

The CEO of the Panama Canal Authority rejected the demands of President-elect Donald Trump, who escalated a conflict over the vital trade passage at a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday. Trump has repeatedly claimed that Panama charges American vessels “exorbitant prices” to travel through the waterway, and that China was controlling the canal. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Panama Canal Authority CEO Ricaurte Vásquez Morales called Trump’s claims about China “unfounded” and said that both nations had to follow the same rules. “We cannot discriminate for the Chinese, or the Americans, or anyone else,” Vásquez Morales told the Journal. “This will violate the neutrality treaty, international law and it will lead to chaos.” Vásquez Morales also said that he was unclear where Trump was getting the claim that Panama requested $3 billion for repairs to the canal—as the Canal Authority funds its own repairs. The CEO is only the latest Panamanian official to push back against Trump’s demands. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino previously rejected any notion that the US could take the canal back after Trump’s initial remarks in December, insisting that “every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjoining zone is Panama’s and will remain so.” Panama’s foreign minister, Javier Martinez-Acha, repeated the nation’s stance on Tuesday, telling The New York Times “let it be clear: The canal belongs to the Panamanians and it will continue to be that way.”

Jessica Alba is reportedly heading for divorce from Cash Warren, her husband of 16 years. TMZ reports that sources with direct knowledge of the relationship said that Alba, 43, and Warren, 45, recently separated. It is unclear why the Hollywood couple has decided to end their marriage, however both have been spotted recently without their wedding rings. The duo spent Thanksgiving together with their children in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Last week, she and Warren also celebrated their youngest child’s New Year’s Eve birthday together at Universal Studios. The pair first met when Alba starred in the Fantastic Four in 2004, a movie in which Warren worked as a director’s assistant. They got engaged in 2007, and married the following year. Together, they have three children, Honor, 16, Haven, 13, and Hayes, 7. Besides acting, Alba launched The Honest Company in 2012, which soon became a $1 billion company and put her on Forbes’ list of “Richest Self-Made Women in the U.S.” in 2016. She stepped down as chief creative officer in April 2024 but remains on the board. Neither Alba nor Warren have responded to TMZ’s claim. The Daily Beast has reached out for comment.

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Facebook’s algorithm angered founder Mark Zuckerberg when he shared a November 2023 post about his knee surgery and it received little engagement, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was this experience that led to the Meta CEO’s Jan. 7 announcement that the platform will divest from a centralized fact-checking process, according to the newspaper. “We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,” Zuckerberg said. At the time of Zuckerberg’s surgery post, all health-related content on the platform was being throttled to prevent the spread of incorrect information. Now Meta joins Elon Musk’s X in leaving the fact-checking process up to the platform’s users, which has increased fears that Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will be weaponized to sow discontent. Meta unveiled a reinforced fact-checking system during President-elect Donald Trump’s first presidency. Now, as the Zuckerberg joins other Silicon Valley billionaires in cozying up to Trump, the change of policy appears to further cement Zuckerberg’s desire to build stronger ties with his incoming administration.

Airbnb is getting heat for refusing to cancel a woman’s Los Angeles reservation, despite the raging fire that has displaced tens of thousands of residents. Ana Mostarac shared on X that she contacted Airbnb to rebook her stay to a location farther away from the danger zone, but the company denied her help. “As always, their policies failed to account for context,” Mostarac said. “The fires keep getting worse, and unfortunately, many others are probably stuck explaining bushfires to someone in another country right about now.” She posted a photo of her conversation with an Airbnb representative who said her booking didn’t fall under their disruptive events policy—which allows for cancellations during uncommon severe weather events. A spokesperson for Airbnb told the Daily Beast that Mostarac made her reservation on Tuesday evening, after the wildfires had already begun. The spokesperson added that bookings made during the disruptive event normally don’t qualify for cancellations, but the company did offer her a refund. The wildfire has burned through nearly 3,000 acres in the upscale West L.A. neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, and 30,000 people have been evacuated. “Anticipating a sleepless night! The winds alone are insane,” Mostarac wrote on X. “It’s inhumane.”