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Host James Corden just took his “carpool karaoke” concept a step further. This time, Tom Cruise was his guest. He took the opportunity to promote the release of his movie Top Gun: Maverick on board a fighter plane.

For the occasion, the presenter of the Late Late Show made a loop in a two-seater jet with the actor who acted as a singing pilot. The concept of “cockpit karaoke” was born!

James Corden‘s adventurewith Tom Cruise begins shortly before 5am. The actor arrives in a private jet. He picks up the Englishman and the two men head to an airport where they would have a “Top Gun Day”.

The duo would start their day aboard a 75 year old Mustang plane. James Corden does not seem particularly confident when the actor shows him his parachute …

After a first flight with a chase in the air (!), the host and the actor make a second “Top Gun” type flight. This time, the couple flies in a supersonic jet flying over a desert at hundreds of kilometers per hour.

“It’s completely crazy,” saysJames Corden as the jet skims the mountains and Tom Cruise clearly enjoys scaring his friend.

This isn’t the first time the two men have met for acarpool karaokesegment.Four years ago, the couple did a skydiving jump together.

JamesCorden will end his tenure at Late Late Show in April of next year.

Tom Cruise is the star of the movieTop Gun: Maverickwhich opens in theaters in the next few hours.

Kanye West ‘s 2020 presidential run was a bust. Well, now hispresidential campaign committeeclaims to have been defrauded out ofthousands of dollars.

According to what TMZ has learned,the Federal Election Commission (FEC) conducted an investigation and discovered that someone accessedKanye West’spresidentialcampaign committee‘s bankaccountthree times between December and February 2021. Money was allegedly stolen fromFirst Bank of Wyoming.

It appears the investigation also revealed that the stolen money, totaling $3,999, was used to pay off the credit card of an unidentified individual.

No arrests have been made to date andKanye West’s former committeeis working with the FEC to gather more information.

Rapper and businessmanKanye West has announced that he is running for president in July 2020under the banner of the newly formed “Birthday Party.”

After multiple public appearances in which the celebrity seemed to suffer from mental health issues,Kanye West abdicated in November 2020 . The election was eventually won by Democrat Joe Biden who was elected the 46th President of the United States.

What was supposed to be a great publicity and profit-making stunt turned into a disaster. The auction of Madonna ‘s daring NFTs did not attract the expected revenues.

A couple of weeks ago, Madonna unveiled a collection of daring non-fungible tokens (NTF). It showed the singer in 3D giving birth toa tree, a millipede or butterflies. The star had to defend her artistic choices in front of the comments received on social networks.

But now the market has spoken and the prices obtained for the works are disappointing, with revenues of$135,000, $346,000 and $146,000.

The once thriving NFT market has become a spectacular fiasco. More and more high-profile auctions are failing, and investors who paid millions are now struggling to sell them for a fraction of the price paid.

Case in point? Last March, Bridge Oracle CEO Sina Estavi bought an NFT of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9 million, calling it the “Mona Lisa of the digital world.” Last month, he dropped out of an auction to resell it after the highest bid fell below $14,000.

According to NonFungible, aresearch firm specializing in NFTs, the number ofnon-fungible tokensalesis hovering around 24,000 per day this week, down from 225,000 per day in September. Money spent on NFTs has also dropped, with last week’s sales totaling $205 million, down nearly 90 percent from the August peak of nearly $1.9 billion.

Despite the difficulty that NFTs have been experiencing in recent weeks, other artists are not hesitating to launch their works. This is the case of the former Beatles Ringo Starr who made his known yesterday. An auction of the Beatles’ drummer is planned for June.

Ringo Starr is the first Beatle to auction off a collection of digital art from NFT.

The Beatles drummer, now 81, is auctioning five works grouped under the collectionThe Creative Mind of a Beatle. These non-fungible tokens (NFT)include short animated videosfeaturinghis drumming.

The starting bid is $1,000 for the five works titledGalaxy One, Galaxy Two, Bandana Man, Starr Art and Crash. The musician emphasized in a statement that his goal is to “spread peace and love in the metaverse.”

“This new technology is so advanced that it inspired me and I loved creating these NFTs by combining my art and music,” the former Beatles explained.

EachRingo Starr NFT comes witha signed 25″ x 25″ canvas print and exclusive virtual access to Starr’s gallery, RingoLand, created by Spatial.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale ofRingo Starr’s artwork will bedonated to the Lotus Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting social welfare in areas such as drug addiction, cerebral palsy, brain tumors, cancer, battered women and their children, the homeless and animals in need.

The sale The Ringo Starr NFT Collection – The Creative Mind of a Beatle will start on June 13 on the specialized website Julien’s Auctions.

The popularity of theNFTs has continued for several months. In addition to Ringo Starr, Madonna has recently released some very bold NFTs. Other stars such asBryson DeChambeau has already launched his, filmmakerQuentin Tarantino has used this technology to revive his mythical filmPulp Fictionwhile the former first lady of the United States,Melania Trump, has launched a company specializing in the creation of these products.