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Grammy-winning singer Michael Bublé, 46, revealed that he and his wife, actress Luisana Lopilato, 34, are expecting their fourth child. The announcement was made via the release of a music video for his latest song, “I’ll Never Not Love You,” from his new album Higher, and later confirmed in an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest.

In the video, Bublé and Lopilato reenact iconic romantic scenes from classic films including Casablanca, The Notebook, The Princess Bride, and Titanic. The video ends with Bublé being brought back to “reality” by his wife in a grocery store, where Lopilato reveals her pregnant belly as she walks out with Bublé and their three other children, Noah, 8, Elias, 6, and Vida, 3.

In Tuesday’s Seacrest appearance, Bublé admitted that the video dropped before they had informed even their relatives, meaning that his family found out the same time as the general public: “I haven’t answered one – not a cousin. So this will be the first time that I actually say these words, but yes, my wife and I are grateful to be expecting.” And in case you thought he might be done having kids, Bublé continued, “I would love to have as many as she would let me have.”

Bublé began dating Lopilato after his relationship with British actress Emily Blunt ended in 2008. The couple was engaged the next year and married in Argentina in 2011. This is the second time his wife has appeared in one of his music videos, having also co-starred in the video for “Haven’t Met You Yet,” which became the first song to debut at number one on Billboard’s Canadian Adult Contemporary chart.

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One of TikTok‘s latest filters is absolutely blowing up online, thanks to its weird ability to perfectly encompass Gen Z humor.

The Shrek in the Sky filter is strange, hilarious, and utterly mystifying. It wastes absolutely no energy attempting to be anything other than its weirdest self, which is precisely why it’s taking off on the app.

If you’re hoping to add a hulking — but surprisingly slim — Shrek into your next TikTok creation dancing to Lady Gaga’s “Love Game,” here’s what you’ll need to do.

How to use the ‘Shrek in the Sky’ filter

Good news, Shrek fans. The Shrek in the Sky filter is no different from any of TikTok’s other filter offerings, which means it is exceedingly easy to incorporate into your own TikToks. The filter is pretty much exactly what it sounds like, but with a skin-tight twist. Using the filter will add a latex-clad, twerking Shrek into any TikTok creation you’re brave enough to share with the internet.

Ogre Boys — yes, that’s the official name for Shrek fans, there was a poll and everything — looking to add some sultry Shrek action into their next upload need to start by simply opening up the app, signing in, and typing “Shrek in the sky” into their search bars.

This should yield a number of hysterical offerings. Feel free to browse to your heart’s content, and to get a good feel for how the Shrek in the Sky filter is best utilized. There are a lot of options.

You can go the easy route and simply allow the filter to bleed some green-skinned sex appeal into your local skyline.

Or you can work some more creativity into your approach. Some creators are even joining the towering Shrek for a quick dance sesh.

Created by popular TikTok filter connoisseur Maxim Kuzlin, according to Dexerto, the filter has already been used in millions of videos. In total, the hashtag for the filter — #shrekinthesky — has more than 25 million views. It’s being incorporated into videos from users all over the globe.

The filter is even inspiring videos of a different sort, all inspired by the internet’s new favorite effect.

Once you’ve determined how you’d like to approach your Shrek in the Sky upload, you’ll want to open a video and click on the filter. This should give you a prompt, inviting you to “try this effect.” Once you’ve clicked on this option, the TikTok app should automatically add the effect to your next video. You can then record your perfect Shrek in the Sky video and upload it to the app.

The effect is immensely popular at the moment, so you’ll want to jump on it while interest is high.

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Popular British TikTok star Mahek Bukhari, known on the platform as ‘MAY B VLOGS‘, has been arrested and charged with murder after a high-speed chase that left her two cousins dead.

Bukhari, who was known for her reaction videos and fashion content, appeared at Leicester Magistrates Court via video link alongside her mother Ansreen Bukhari and Natasha Akthar, where the trio were charged with the murders of Mohammed Hashim Ijazuddin and Saqib Hussain.

Leicestershire police have also confirmed that two men, Raees Jamal and Raken Karwan, have also been charged with murder following the collision

Details are still emerging, though police have confirmed the high-speed chase took place on Friday, Feb. 11, and that the two victims’ vehicles “left the carriageway and smashed through a central reservation.” The car was “ripped into two pieces” and killed the men instantly.

At the court appearance, Judge Timothy Spencer QC said: “You face the most serious charge known to criminal law … Do you know that?”. The defendants replied “Yes”. They will enter a plea to the charges at the next hearing on March 18.

There’s another strange twist to this tale. Similarly named TikToker Mehek Bukhari has been inundated with hate mail since the arrest, taking to her own channel to confirm that she hasn’t been arrested for murder and pleading to be left alone. She said:

“Today I woke up to messages telling me to rot in jail. … May I clarify that she also spells Mehek differently, which is why a lot of people realized that it wasn’t me. … Perhaps a rebrand is in order.”

There is still a lot about the incident that remains unknown. We don’t know who was behind the wheel of the vehicles, we don’t know the motives of the three women, and exactly what happened during the chase is still very unclear.

Detective Chief Inspector Tony Yarwood has said:

“The investigation is in the very early stages and work is being carried out to ascertain the circumstances of the collision and what happened in the minutes before. Detectives want to hear from anyone who saw three cars traveling in the area of Troon Way or Abbey Lane at around 1:25 a.m., and on the A46 between the Thurmaston Shopping Center and the Hobby Horse Island.”

More as the case develops.

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TikTok comedian and media influencer Huey HaHa, aka Hieu Minh Ngoc Ha, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a report issued by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. The 22-year-old was found dead in his Stockton, California, home in October of last year.

A post made to Ha’s Instagram account shortly following his passing read, in part, “He loved and appreciated every single one of his supporters.” The post also provided a link to a GoFundme page set up by Ha’s longtime friend, Cody Jdn. The post went on to read that all proceeds from the fundraising effort “will go towards funeral costs and his daughter.”

Ha first came to prominence on TikTok after he began using the app in 2019. His short-form video comedy sketches gathered the attention of hundreds of thousands of followers, earning over 4.5 million collective views. Ha had over 200 thousand followers on Instagram and a YouTube following of 450 thousand.

Jdn penned his own farewell message on his Instagram, writing, “Used to saying RIP but this hurt the most💔we always hated comedy cuz all people see is laughs, not what we hadda do or go through. They already took the fun out the comedy but now its not gon be the same without you. We love you brother see you in the future.”

In addition to his two-year-old daughter, Princess, Ha is also survived by his longtime partner, Heather Saizon.

Ibn updated Ha’s GoFundme page in November, stating, “Please continue to share the link to this GoFundMe page with your loved ones on your social media and anywhere you can. Huey touched so many lives through his humor and big heart – now is our time to help his family in their time of need.”

So far, Ha’s memorial fund has raised over $46 thousand. His fans continue to make donations.

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One of TikTok‘s favorite felines has passed from this world, leaving a trail of broken hearts in her wake.

Videos of Pot Roast, one of the web’s most beloved cats, delighted viewers for more than a year preceding her death. A TikTok page dedicated to Pot Roast is populated with hundreds of videos of the adorable white and black cat, dating back to December 2020.

News of Pot Roast’s passing spread quickly among TikTok users, devastating longtime followers and urging thousands of fresh users to discover the simple pleasure of Pot Roast content. In the aftermath of her passing, users around the web are flooding to @potroastsmom’s TikTok page to share their condolences.

Who was Pot Roast?

Pot Roast’s TikTok started the way most pet-centric social media pages do. Following a single video of actual humans, the @potroastsmom TikTok page became entirely dedicated to the fuzzy feline, with only occasional cameos from her owner. Videos on the page are simple and sweet, allowing viewers to watch as Pot Roast enjoys her day-to-day life.

Uploads to the page detail everything from Pot Roast’s eating habits to her favorite locations to be scratched. Viewers got to watch as the middle-aged cat gradually lost her teeth, interacted with her owner, and generally lived her best cat life. Pot Roast clearly had a close bond with her owner, who features in a number of her videos snuggling, petting, and playing with her beloved cat.

Pot Roast’s account grew immensely in popularity between its inception and her death. The earliest videos on the page typically earned view counts in the low thousands, while more recent videos reached hundreds of thousands of users, without fail. The page has nearly 950,000 followers and 65,000 likes. The most recent uploads to the page, which detail Pot Roast’s declining health and eventual death, each received a minimum of 1.5 million views. The most popular video, which has 8.8 million views, shows Pot Roast’s owner treating her dying feline with all of her favorite snacks.

Pot Roast ultimately died following ongoing health complications. She was diagnosed with feline immunodeficiency virus in the weeks before her death, an infection that eventually progressed to her bone marrow.

News of Pot Roast’s death took the internet by storm, devastating users and leading to a flood of new comments on @potroastsmom’s videos. People flocked to the page to share their condolences and say goodbye to the popular cat.

The most recent video on @potroastsmom’s page, posted on Feb. 16, informs viewers that “my little bird flew away at 11:47am this morning.” The text overlay goes on to explain that, when Pot Roast’s owner saw her, “I could feel that she was done fighting.” Her owner wrote that, while she wasn’t done fighting for Pot Roast yet, she “let her go.”

“She went to sleep in my arms,” the text overlay concludes. “In the end, it was just her and me. I am grateful for every moment we had together.”

The comment section for the video is absolutely flooded with words of support and sorrow. Even the official TikTok account showed up to say goodbye, writing that Pot Roast was “a kitty deeply loved.” In a previous video, the same account noted that, as an app, it was “better having had a little bit of Pot Roast.”

While many of the comments on the video share goodbyes with the cherished cat, the majority offer words of comfort to her mourning owner. People flooded the comment section with words of love, letting Pot Roast’s owner know that “she passed knowing you loved her,” and telling her that she was “an amazing cat mother.”

The Pot Roast love spread to Twitter, as well, where people shared their sorrow over the cat’s untimely death.

People have also taken to sharing some of their favorite pictures and clips of Pot Roast, spreading her influence even further.

Pot Roast was so popular, in fact, that her passing prompted the cat’s name to trend on Twitter in the hours after her death.

The internet continues to mourn Pot Roast, sharing sweet sentiments and looking back at her old videos in fondness. Her death has been met with legitimate sadness from a huge swathe of people, all of whom were connected in their shared love of an internet cat.

Rest in peace, Pot Roast. You will be missed.

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Ava Majury first downloaded the TikTok app when she was only thirteen years old. There was no way to predict that she would one day become one of the platform’s breakout stars, nor was there any way for her to know that, just two years later, father would shoot and kill the 18-year-old stalker that had become obsessed with her on the lawn of their Naples, Florida, home according to the New York Times.

Majury, who is now 15, downloaded TikTok only two years ago in the beginning days of the pandemic. Her content was a fairly typical blend for the site. A mixture of dancing, lip-synching, and the requisite challenges that regularly arise throughout the apps shared videos soon amassed the teenager slightly over one million followers and amassed 57.5 million collective likes spread out amongst her posts. As is the case with many of the platforms’ young stars, Majury soon began to field endorsement offers from a variety of brands seeking to leverage her popularity. Unfortunately, she was also developing a more sinister type of attention from one user.

Majury had certainly received unwanted attention from other users before, accepting as part of the price she exchanged for her influence and success on TikTok. In 2020 however, she noticed that one of her “fans” who went by the user handle EricJustin111 was becoming unusually persistent, attempting to message and contact her across several different social media channels. She had initially engaged with the user, whose real name was Eric Rohan Justin, just as she had many other fans.

Majury noticed that Justin had purchased images of her from friends in her native New Jersey and that she had recently made upon her family’s move to Naples, Florida. She obtained permission from her parents to sell images of herself from her Snapchat account to Justin personally. “I wasn’t sending anything of my body,” she told The New York Times. “It was just pictures of my face, which is what I assume that he was paying for. My whole thing is my pretty smile — that’s my content.”

Justin then added her on Venmo and began pleading for more intimate content, after which Majury blocked him, believing that would be the end of it. Justin persisted in attempting to contact her, sending her a series of disturbing and threatening messages to the teenager even after her father, a 51-year-old retired police officer, personally contacted Justin telling him to desist. Justin then sent another series of messages describing his plans to assault Majury to one of her classmates.

On July 10, 2020, 18-year-old Justin arrived at the Majury home carrying a shotgun which he used to shoot open the front door. Majury’s father chased Justin away, after which he retrieved a handgun and waited in the doorway, awaiting the arrival of police. Justin returned before the police, still carrying the weapon, and Mr. Majury warned him that he would shoot if Justin did not put the shotgun down. When Justin pointed the weapon, Majury opened fire, shooting and killing him. The elder Majury was not charged with any crime as it was determined he had acted under Florida’s current “Stand Your Ground” law.

Despite the tragedy, Ava Majury has not abandoned her social media presence. According to the New York Times, the teenager has reflected upon the situation and decided that the benefits are worth it for her. At night, she stated, “I’d think, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’” But by morning, “I thought of all the benefits.” According to Majury, those benefits aren’t necessarily what some people might think. “It’s the experience. I got to go to L.A., the people that I met,” she told the Times. “Just being able to make other people smile is what I like, the enjoyment of seeing the impact I made on some people’s lives.”

As for her parents, they are fully supporting her decision. “Her creations, her contacts, her videos became such a big part of her that to take it away would have been hard,” Mr. Majury told The New York Times. Ava’s mother added that “we chose what’s best for our family. We know there are going to be two sides, and some people won’t understand.” In the end, she said, “Why should we allow them to stop her? Maybe she’s meant to bring awareness to all this.”

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A new sound is going viral on TikTok, creating works of art out of the simplest of deeds.

The “Picasso” TikTok sound has been all the rage on the platform of late, soundtracking hundreds of videos in the last few weeks alone. The simplicity of the sound is a big draw behind it, as people find ways to make it apply to pretty much every situation imaginable.

What is the Picasso sound?

Most everyone on TikTok has likely stumbled across at least one video asking “what’s this” before proclaiming, “Okay, I like it. Picasso.” The nature of these videos varies widely, however, as people find pretty much any excuse imaginable to use to the audio.

The sound originates from a mid-January video, in which TikToker @itsreefa happens upon an art project being constructed in the street. As he wanders past a pair of people covering a car in tin foil, he wonders aloud after what they’re working on. Their answer prompts his now-viral Picasso comparison. The original video has 37.2 million views and counting, along with millions of likes and comments.

As noted above, videos utilizing the Picasso sound alter significantly in tone. They are almost exclusively comedic, but the way the sound is being utilized is never the same twice.

There’s really no way to pin the Picasso trend down. It’s all over the place, but each new entry leans into the clear compliment that is delivered each time @itsreefa labels something “Picasso.”

A few of the uploads taking part in the Picasso trend actually lean into the art aspect of it all, detailing as creators delve into projects and showcase their final products.

Clever or weird workarounds to unexpected issues also feature prominently among the Picasso trend’s offerings.

As do fitness tips and tricks.

The man behind the viral sound, @itsreefa, is capitalizing on the unexpected popularity of his audio. He’s already launched a line of Picasso merchandise, which consists of t-shirts, stickers, water bottles, and tanks featuring the creator’s unique design. The majority of the products cost less than $30, so if you can’t get enough of the Picasso trend, you can rep it IRL.