Paul McCartney's Lennon Bombshell, Jack White's Swiftie Backlash, Liza Minnelli's Gene Hackman Takedown & More
Plus the shocking death, legal drama & viral moments that sent Hollywood into overdrive.
Headlines may scream – but the real drama is getting stranger by the second.
Paul McCartney drops a jaw-dropping claim about Yoko Ono and John Lennon, Jack White gets dragged by Swifties, and Liza Minnelli blasts Gene Hackman as “downright rude.” Add in Boy George scolding Chappell Roan, surprise deaths, and viral chaos – and the gossip cycle is in overdrive.
From rock legend bombshells to pop star clapbacks and Hollywood throwdowns, nothing is off-limits. This is HOLLYWOOD 411 by KEEPING TABS – let’s dive in.
YOKO FEARED BEATLES JOHN WAS GAY!
BEATLES legend PAUL MCCARTNEY has dropped a new shocking bombshell - YOKO ONO thought his bandmate and her hubby of 11 years, JOHN LENNON, might be gay!
The Yesterday singer, now 83, reveals that after John’s Dec. 8, 1980, murder by a deranged fan, Yoko called him and said: “You know, I think John might have been gay.” Stunned Paul recalls: “I went, ‘I’m not sure.’ I said, ‘I don’t think so. Certainly not when I knew him.’ Because we’d been in the ‘60s. We’d been around with loads and loads of girls. And I bumped into seeing him jacking ... a lot of girl action.”
As further proof denying her statement, he said: “I’d slept with John very often, but there was never anything. There was never a gesture, never an expression.”
In addition to the oodles of groupies that Paul mentioned, John, who was 40 when he died, fathered son JULIAN, 62, with first wife CYNTHIA and son SEAN, 50, with Yoko. Shockingly, before Yoko, now 93, buzz flew that John might have had a relationship with gay manager BRIAN EPSTEIN. Paul says he didn’t believe those rumors.
ROCKER SLAMMED BY SWIFTIES
Musician JACK WHITE is trying to explain himself after getting clobbered by TAYLOR SWIFT’s rabid Swiftie fans for suggesting her music was “boring” because her songs are about herself. The White Stripes singer sputters:
“I didn’t say that I think Taylor Swift’s music was ‘boring’ ... What I was trying to say ... was that I don’t find it interesting at all for me to write about myself ... because I think that it could be repetitive... and it could be uninteresting for people who listen to my music.”
However, Jack, 50, previously noted that “it’s become very popular in the Taylor Swift way of pop singers writing about all of their publicly aired breakups, which I don’t find interesting at all.” Meanwhile, he adds: “I think it’s a little bit boring for me to write about myself.”
LIZA RIPS GENE AS 'DOWNRIGHT RUDE'
The late GENE HACKMAN often flashed a goofy smile in his flicks, but LIZA MINNELLI recalls in her new memoir, Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!, that he was an unfunny, “rude” son of a gun when they costarred with BURT REYNOLDS in the 1975 caper-love-triangle movie Lucky Lady.
A terrific hoofer and singer like her legendary mom, JUDY GARLAND, Liza says: “I don’t like to whine, but [director STANLEY DONEN] shared publicly that Gene was very dismissive of me during the film. It’s hard to go to work when the chemistry is absent. I think it’s fair to say that Gene was downright rude.” And despite the star-filled cast, the flick flopped miserably at the box office!
A New York Times reviewer slammed the movie as “ridiculous without the compensation of being funny or fun.”
BOY TELLS CHAPPELL TO CHILL
My Kink Is Karma songbird CHAPPELL ROAN got spanked – verbally – by old-time pop star BOY GEORGE for complaining about being pestered by fans and photographers. The 28-year-old recently whined about being followed during a Paris visit, saying: “I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me.”
Her complaint got the 64-year-old Karma Chameleon singer’s knickers in a twist. He noted, “I have been doing this fame thing for a while and you learn slowly and painfully that you don’t get a free pass once you turn yourself into a bird of paradise. Yes, it’s annoying ... but so is being ignored and told you’re a ‘has-been.’ The world is at your feet, stop kicking it!”
DEATHS, LEGAL WOES ... AND MORE!
Ghostbusters actress JENNIFER RUNYON died on March 6 at 65 following a long health battle. The perky blonde got her big break at age 24 in 1984 playing the nervous student in an ESP experiment in Ghostbusters. She immediately followed that with a role as Gwendolyn Pierce on the sitcom Charles in Charge, starring SCOTT BAIO. On social media, her loved ones wrote: “Our beloved Jennifer passed away. It was a long and arduous journey that ended with her surrounded by her family.”
PAT MAHOMES SR., the booze-troubled dad of Kansas City Chiefs QB PATRICK MAHOMES, caught a break. The 55-year-old former MLB pitcher reportedly violated his five-year probation on a DWI case in Texas when his alcohol ankle monitor registered he’d had booze on Jan. 1 (he denied drinking). Instead of tossing him in the slammer, the judge added two years to his probation and ordered him to enter an outpatient treatment program.
Goody-goody CANDACE CAMERON BURE says she and hubby VALERI BURE accidentally walked in on an S&M sex party. “My eyeballs were popping out of my head because I saw stuff l’ve never seen before,” the Full House alum says. “I’m looking at Val, going like, ‘How are we here? What is happening? We made a hard U-turn and walked right out of there!”