Influencer Oli London Under Fire for Getting 18 Surgeries to Look Like BTS’ Jimin

Social media personality Oli London claimed they now “identify” as Korean and as BTS singer Jimin, sparking accusations of cultural appropriation.

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Non-binary influencer Oli London said that they “feel Korean” in a June 28 video after getting a whopping 18 surgeries to make themselves look more like Park Jimin from K-Pop group BTS. 

“I identify with the Korean community,” they said. “Maybe they will accept me more now because I have ‘the look.’ Maybe people will think I’m actually Korean, which will make me really happy. They can see how much I love their culture. This is the extreme length that I have gone to because I love Korea so much.”

London even mentioned the “Butter” singer.

“I just want to make Jimin proud as well,” the influencer continued. “Jimin is my ultimate idol and I want him to be proud. I’m sure he’ll be proud that I look exactly like him now. I have his eyes. I finally have Jimin’s Korean eyes and they’re so, so beautiful. I’m so, so happy with my new look and I can’t wait to see the final results when all the swelling goes down.”

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London also posted a YouTube video on June 26 titled “Being Korean,” in which they described their recent plastic surgeries, which included a facelift, brow lift, temple lift, eye surgery and a teeth procedure. They also said that they are no longer “British,” but “Korean” and identify as “Jimin” as their “Korean name.”

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London recalled having identity issues for years, sharing, “I finally had the courage of undergoing my racial transition surgery.”

However, folks on the internet weren’t exactly over-the-moon for London’s “transformation.”

“The fact that they are acting like it’s genuine and that it’s part of a ‘journey’ due to […] ‘identity issues’ really irks me,” a non-binary Korean person said on Twitter. “It’s a mockery of trans people, it’s cultural appropriation.” 

“The fact that they took on the name Jimin, most likely without knowing any of the cultural significance behind the name, really makes me ill,” the user continued.

Replies to London’s tweet directly included comments such as: “You are not, nor will you ever be, Korean;” “I’d like to inform [you] Jimin does NOT (not) give a f*ck;” and “Sorry you have to change your body to feel loved and welcome but that doesn’t make you Korean.”

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During a 2019 appearance on E!’s Botched, London admitted to spending $250,000 on cosmetic surgery. Doctors Paul Nassif and Terry Dubrow ultimately declined London’s request for a rhinoplasty, citing concern for “extreme” danger. 

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz Buy a House Together 1 Year After Getting Engaged

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz are joint homeowners! Find out more about the gorgeous property the two just bought together as they celebrate the one-year anniversary of their engagement.

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Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz just took another major step in their relationship.

No, not that one. David Beckham and Victoria Beckham‘s eldest son, 22, is not a married man just yet. But he and his fiancée recently bought a house, as they celebrate the one-year anniversary of the day the two got engaged!

E! News has learned that the engaged couple jointly purchased a mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif. for more than $10 million. The more than 7,000 square-foot residence is located not far from where his family lived several years ago when David played for the Los Angeles Galaxy. According to real estate records, the property was built just last year and contains five bedrooms, a luxury kitchen, a pool, spa, a wine cellar and other amenities. It also boasts sweeping views of the Hollywood Hills and Los Angeles.

Compass real estate agency’s Carl Gambino and Alexander Santaniello were the listing agents. Alexa Kort of Rodeo Realty represented the buyers.

Brooklyn and Nicola, 26, have not commented about the purchase of their new home, which comes almost exactly one year since he proposed to the 26-year-old actress.

“This exact day 1 year ago I asked this gorgeous woman to marry me,” he wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, June 23. “She makes me a better person everyday and is my best friend. I can’t imagine my life without you because you continuously make me laugh and smile x happy 1 year baby.”

Nicola replied, “I love you so much baby.”

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See photos of Brooklyn and Nicola’s new home:

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Welcome Home!

In June 2021, as they celebrated the one-year anniversary of their engagement, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz bought a house together in Beverly Hills.

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Living Area

Relax by the bar.

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Bedroom

Plenty of natural light!

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Bath Time

Check out one of the luxury bathrooms.

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Kitchen and Dining Area

Hungry?

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Open Plan

The open plan structure gives the home an even roomier feel.

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Get plenty of fresh air while relaxing by the TV.

John Cena Admits Getting Into a Fistfight at His Brother's Wedding That Forced Everyone to Go Home

F9 star John Cena revealed he got into a drunken fistfight with a family member that shut down his own brother's wedding.

John Cena once gave a wedding gift that didn’t keep on giving. In fact, he found a way to deliver the nuptials’ “something black-and-blue.”

The 44-year-old star visited The Tonight Show on Wednesday, June 23 to promote his new film F9, hitting theaters on Friday, June 25. During the sit-down, the wrestler revealed he once paid for his brother’s wedding to have an open bar, but the gesture backfired when this liquid courage led him and another brother to come to blows and bring the reception to a swift end. 

This story came up due to host Jimmy Fallon asking the Blockers performer if he’d ever been involved in a wedding fail, with John replying, “I think that’s something, kind of, we all have.”

John then proceeded to share an anecdote involving two of his younger brothers that perhaps not everyone can quite relate to. “Mine was my brother Matt‘s wedding,” he continued. “I thought it would be a nice gesture to open the bar. Drinks are on me, that’s my gift to the bride and groom. Nobody would have to pay for anything.”

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Alas, the present proved to be a problematic one as the night wore on, and he and a different brother, Dan, caused some serious trouble. 

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“So, I found out it was a mistake when my brother Dan and I got into a fistfight in the middle of the dance floor and closed the wedding down,” John recalled, leading to Jimmy’s stunned laughter.

The guest then explained why, despite this cutting the festivities short, his family members were not particularly fazed. “You could tell, right then and there, who were guests, and who were a member of the Cena family,” he quipped. “Because the guests were like, ‘What are you gonna do to stop it?’ and the Cena family’s like, ‘No, no, let ’em figure it out. Let ’em do it.'”

Check out the simultaneously hilarious yet terrifying story in the above video, and ask yourself why everyone can’t just do the “Chicken Dance.” 

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Logan Paul’s Unlikely Boxing Career and His Road to Getting in the Ring With Floyd Mayweather Jr.

YouTube star and proud provocateur Logan Paul has taken his talents (especially for attracting attention) to the ring and will face off in an exhibition bout with the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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first punch will crack his spirit
second punch will crack his ego
third punch will crack his jaw

fight’s over. kiss my girl. go home.

So Logan Paul could only hope!

The 26-year-old, best known for his online antics and controversies, trotted out that poetry on Aug. 14, 2018, less than two weeks before he was due to take on British rapper, gamer and fellow YouTube star KSI at Manchester Arena in the U.K., a bout promptly dubbed by promoters as the biggest amateur boxing match ever.

KSI (real name Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji) had one fight under his belt, a decision over YouTuber Joe Weller, directly after which he had set his sights on “Jake Paul, Logan Paul—any of the Pauls, I don’t care!”

Indeed, from the ring, seconds after being declared the victor over Joe, he called upon either brother to come and get it.

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Well, challenge accepted, after which much trash-talking ensued, to the delight of KSI and Logan’s tens of millions of YouTube subscribers. Doubling the shenanigans, Jake took on KSI’s younger brother, Deji Olatunji, in the chief undercard bout.

And in the course of it all, something surprising happened—at least it may sound surprising to those who mainly think of the Paul siblings as online rabble-rousers, sometimes funny but questionably talented and oft-thoughtless dudes who do things like go into a forest in Japan and film a dead body and post it to his YouTube channel (Logan on Dec. 31, 2017, after which he apologized) or call COVID-19 a hoax (Jake). 

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What happened was, they seemed to take boxing really seriously. 

“I didn’t choose boxing, boxing chose me,” Logan recently told Showtime, home of his pay-per-view June 6 exhibition match with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr., who is 50-0, including his 2017 post-retirement defeat of UFC champ Conor McGregor. “Seriously, I got challenged to box. I answered that challenge and then kind of fell perfectly into the sport.”

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Not that the sporting world took him all that seriously in the beginning, hand-to-hand combat having previously proved an efficient way for famous people to attract some eyeballs (or make some money). Celebrity Boxing, featuring the likes of Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones and Danny Bonaduce vs. Donny Osmond, was a real, albeit short-lived, show in 2002, and MTV made mad fun of the concept with its graphically violent claymation series Celebrity Deathmatch. 

That first fight with KSI drew a mix of attention from devoted Logan Paul believers, those who thought it would be fun to watch no matter what, celebs who know a scene when they see it, and others who weren’t shy to admit they wanted to see Logan get punched in the face. And sure, probably some regular boxing fans, too.

Three years later, not all that much has changed.

“My name can definitely make people feel both things,” he acknowledged in May on The Daily Show, referring to the love-him-or-hate-him reaction he tends to provoke. “But I think it’s because I’ve given them reasons to feel both positive and negative things about me. Either way, it’s my fault, and at the end of the day, I like the idea that I make people feel.”

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Leading up to Logan’s 2018 match with KSI, former world champion Ricky Hatton told the BBC, “Years ago if you would have mentioned it everyone would have laughed at you and would not have really taken it seriously,. But at the end of the day, as professional boxers, we’re in the entertainment business.”

UFC heavyweight Walt Harris said all that attention was good for the sport—”as long as they go in there and fight hard and don’t do the sport a disservice”—but while heavyweight boxer Nathan Gorman agreed that Logan Paul vs. KSI would probably get tons of clicks, he didn’t love that the pair were being offered such a huge stage to try boxing on for size, while fighters like him had to toil in the trenches for their big break.

“I think they’re both a pair of [bleeped with a punching sound]!” offered two-time world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, one of a dwindling number of household names who practice the sweet science. “And me and Walt could kill ’em—we’ll kick their ass!”

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KSI and Logan fought to a draw on Aug. 25, 2018 in what was indeed the biggest non-professional boxing match ever, racking up 1.3 million pay-per-view buys, after which KSI said, “I guess we have to have a rematch.”

“The rematch is going to be f–king crazy!” Logan agreed. (Meanwhile, Jake TKO’d Deji in the fifth round.)

The rematch took place Nov. 9, 2019, at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, as if they were both really big-deal fighters, and KSI scored a majority decision, two judges calling it for him and a third for Logan. It marked Logan and KSI’s professional boxing debuts (meaning bare-faced, with no head guards), and was shown exclusively on the live-event streaming service DAZN. Justin Bieber, Wiz Khalifa and Post Malone were among the 12,000 in attendance.

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But though Logan lost, the hype had attracted all the attention he could have wished for, including from Mayweather.

Their teams hustling behind the scenes to get it done, their exhibition bout, dubbed “Bragging Rights,” was announced on Dec. 6, 2020. Originally scheduled for Feb. 20, 2021, it was postponed until June 6, and they’re now getting ready to rumble at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. The match will consist of eight three-minute rounds, no headgear, no judges—and no official winner, hence the moniker. Showtime is selling the fight for $49.99 and, according to Gametime, the last-minute ticket app, the highest-price seats were going for $1,984. 

“When I started making f–king videos on YouTube, that was the cusp, the precipice for all this. This is it. This is endgame,” Logan told Showtime. “This is what I signed up for. This is what I wanted. This is me in my element. I love this s–t. All of it’s exciting for me.”

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Meanwhile, the Logan vs. Floyd weigh-in a month ago was largely memorable thanks to Jake Paul, who grabbed Floyd’s hat off his head, prompting chaos to ensue.

“I didn’t expect Floyd Mayweather to try and kill my brother with all of his security guards,” Logan, who said he had told his little brother not to take his opponent’s hat, quipped afterward.

“The event was obviously bizarre because we have never seen anything like this,” reporter Danny Segura, who covers combat sports for USA Today, told CBS Sports as part of an oral history on the swiping of Floyd’s hat (true story). “We have seen Floyd Mayweather fight Conor McGregor but that was still within the combat sports realm. This is the first time that Floyd has sort of stepped that far into this promotion or celebrity fights. I did not know what to expect.”

Logan insisted he wasn’t intimidated, telling CBS, “He wins fights but no one is terrified of Floyd Mayweather. He barely scrapes away with boring-ass fights.” (All that verbal pugilism on YouTube definitely prepared him for the required trash-talk portion of these proceedings.)

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Danny compared Jake’s prank to “something that you maybe do in elementary or middle school to your friends, but this is a 44-year-old man.” Milton Lacroix, Logan’s trainer, called it “funny as hell.”

Jake said he “knew it would be a hilarious troll moment and I knew it would piss him off like crazy.” He alleged that Floyd punched him during the melee. (“I got asked in an interview if we were planning on pursing legal action. Because, you know, it’s assault,” Logan said. “I mean, but also, that was theft with Jake and ‘Gotcha Hat.’ I don’t know, do they cancel out?”) 

“To be honest, and I told my brother this, ‘the guy doesn’t hit hard,'” Jake said. “I think that’s a known thing in his career. His last knockout is like 2011 and he has boring fights. I stole his hat because he steals people’s money with boring fights.”

Logan claimed Floyd said “he was going to kill Jake, and I don’t take that s–t lightly. It has become super personal.”

Which seems to be where the difference between YouTube star turned aspiring boxer and veteran professional athlete comes in.

“This is easy. It’s what I do. I’m a fighter. I don’t worry about anything,” Floyd told reporters at a June 3 press conference, when asked if the dust-up with Jake had added extra fuel to his fire. “I’ve been pro for years, seen every style, and came out on top.”

At the end of the day, he said, “I’m not upset at all. My thing is this…There’s a difference between respect and disrespect. There was untying my shoe. My children’s mother passed away last year, [and he was] talking about her. Touching my hat. So, it’s all about reciprocation. Treat people how they want to be treated…Jake Paul has nothing to do with this event.”

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And why is Mayweather doing this, again? 

“Why not?” he replied when asked that very question during a press conference. “I told you I was an entertainer. I’m not just a fighter, I’m an entertainer.”

“We all know that Floyd is one of the smartest entertainers in the sport of boxing,” Logan’s adviser Guadalupe Valencia told ESPN this past week. “There’s a reason he’s fighting Logan.” He wouldn’t say how much Logan was going to make from those eight three-minute rounds (presuming they go the distance), but he said it was more than some world-champion boxers. 

So you can guess that Floyd scored himself a pretty sweet deal. (First Take co-host Stephen A. Smith speculated on air that he could be pulling in around $100 million.)

And though Logan told ESPN that he would have fought Mayweather for free, given what an “iconic opportunity” it was, he most certainly is not.

“I have no interest in being cruiserweight champ of the world,” he said. “I don’t care. My goal is to be the biggest entertainer on the planet. And putting on big fights and big shows as a freelance fighter is a good way to do that.”

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He also has said he wants to do at least one MMA fight in his lifetime, but admitted that boxing is easier on him, physically, at the moment. 

“MMA’s f–king hard,” the 26-year-old told Showtime. “I got bad knees. I’m old now. I’m aging. My upper body’s strong. My upper body always has been strong. I got dense-ass bones. I’m in like the top half-percentile in bone density. My strength is all here. MMA is tough. The lower body knows.”

When not in the same room with Jake, Logan—who spent two months training in Puerto Rico to prepare for June 6—sounds more intent on showing that respect for the task at hand and for Floyd Mayweather’s place in the boxing pantheon.

His plan for Sunday? “Fight my heart out. Fight my f–king heart out,” Logan told Showtime. “Fight my heart out. That’s the beautiful thing about this sport. Experience, it’s fantastic. In almost any industry, experience is going to trump everything else. But at the end of the day, this is a fight and anything can happen.”

But don’t worry, he hasn’t gone all humble or anything.

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“If I win, it’s the greatest upset in the history of combat sports,” Logan said on his YouTube channel, still the premiere place for his most unfiltered, off-the-cuff content. “Time stands still. The Earth stops revolving on its axis. It’s the genesis. If Floyd Mayweather wins, nothing happens. No one cares. Congrats, bro, you beat a YouTuber. You want a cookie? Move on.”

And whatever the result, the twentysomething entertainer with the creaky bones is just getting started.

“I can understand how now, when we’re first getting into the sport, people will be upset about the moves we’re making,” he told ESPN. “But what happens in two years or in three years or in four years? When we’re actually good at this sport, when we’re actually beating good guys and selling out stadiums. The hate and the ill will has to stop eventually.

“Eventually, we’ll be significant enough in this vertical that people will have to put respect on our names. And those people will feel silly that they felt the opposite at first. I believe it takes an evolved person to put their bias aside and see what Jake and I are doing. Unfortunately, not a lot of people are living in that high-frequency, evolved state. And that’s not my f–king problem.”

Inside Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez's First Public Date Night Since Getting Married

E! News has exclusive details on Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez's recent outing as a married couple. As our insider put it, "They definitely looked to be in the honeymoon phase and so in love."

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Newlywed bliss!

Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez, who tied the knot in May after being engaged for five months, recently stepped out for their first public appearance since getting hitched. A source exclusively tells E! News that the married couple enjoyed a date night with a few friends this past weekend at Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant inside the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, Calif.

“They were with other friends and had a long dinner and spent the entire evening at the hotel,” the insider shares of their get-together on Saturday, June 5.

According to the source, the newlyweds weren’t afraid to put their love on display during their outing.

“Ari and Dalton were very giddy throughout the dinner and were cuddling close the entire time,” the insider describes. “You could tell they were in love and she was very happy. Ari mentioned that she was excited to be celebrating finally being married.”

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The 27-year-old pop star wasn’t the only one to look head over heels. As the source put it, “Dalton had a huge smile on his face throughout the night and they definitely looked to be in the honeymoon phase and so in love.”

Romance aside, the insider notes, “Everyone at the table was super excited to meet Wolfgang Puck and were all talking about the food experience.”

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Just last month, Ariana surprised fans when she announced that she was officially off the market. At the time, the “7 Rings” singer shared behind-the-scenes moments on Instagram that captured everything from her chic Vera Wang bridal gown to her and Dalton sharing a passionate kiss.

The pair said “I Do” in a private ceremony held at the star’s home in Montecito, Calif. A source previously told E! News that they had a “tiny and intimate” gathering with close friends and family in attendance.

“There was a lot of love and everyone is really happy,” a separate insider shared, with another source adding, “It was a beautiful day and very romantic. Everyone is happy for them. It was perfect and just what Ari wanted.”

A third source explained, “Ari wanted it to be simplistic and tasteful. All they cared about was having family there and to be able to enjoy the special moment together.”

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The couple first sparked romance rumors in March 2020, and by May, they went public with their relationship during Ariana and Justin Bieber‘s “Stuck With U” music video.

And, as the saying goes, the rest is history!

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