The daily gossip: July 2, 2020

Vanilla Ice finally agrees that a mid-pandemic concert is a bad idea, Kim Kardashian probably isn't a billionaire, and more

Vanilla Ice.
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1. Vanilla Ice cancels controversial mid-pandemic concert

Vanilla Ice's concert is now … on ice. The rapper said Thursday that he's postponing the show he was set to play Friday in Austin, Texas, following a surge in local COVID-19 cases. "Basically, I'm not going," he said in a video. "I listened to my fans." News that the concert was set to go forward drew backlash, with the Travis County Health Department telling TMZ, "This is not wise regardless of who is performing at any gathering right now." In his video, Vanilla Ice said he'd hoped the pandemic "would be a lot better by Fourth of July." While no new date was provided for his make-up concert, Ice held out hope that "this corona crap will have a cure" by New Year's. Hear, hear.

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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.