Bad Bunny Runs the Room: Seven Emmys, Zero Speech Notes
" If the name Jonathan Todd Schwartz sounds familiar, it should — he is the same man who admitted in 2017 to embezzling more than seven million dollars from Morissette and other celebrity clients.
By Dua Mifsud | Rumour Has It
Bad Bunny walked into the Creative Arts Emmy Awards carrying seven trophies he hadn't technically asked for, and left with the kind of cultural moment that makes everyone who doubted a Super Bowl halftime show feel quietly foolish. "The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Starring Bad Bunny" didn't just win the outstanding variety special (live) category — it dominated Night One of the pre-Primetime ceremonies so completely that every other winner was essentially fighting for the silver medal. Seven wins. From a halftime show. The Television Academy, historically not an institution that rewards chaos, apparently decided that what Bad Bunny did at Super Bowl LX was too precise to call chaos at all.
Meanwhile, in a story that is less glittering and considerably more grim, Alanis Morissette is suing her former tour manager over what her legal team is calling a "calculated blackmail campaign." If the name Jonathan Todd Schwartz sounds familiar, it should — he is the same man who admitted in 2017 to embezzling more than seven million dollars from Morissette and other celebrity clients. The fact that this same individual allegedly followed that admitted theft with a blackmail campaign is the kind of detail that makes you wonder exactly what he thought the ceiling was. Morissette has been methodical about this for years. The lawsuit is the next move on a very long board.
Elsewhere, Richard Osman appears to have confirmed — accidentally, on stage, during a live podcast recording in London — that *The Celebrity Traitors* returns to the BBC this month. Osman mentioned the premiere date while speaking at a live episode of *The Rest Is Entertainment*, which is exactly the kind of casual oversharing that makes podcast culture both irreplaceable and slightly dangerous. Those who saw the recording are reporting that Season 2 was described as "intense" to film, which from anyone else would be marketing language, but from Osman reads as a genuine warning.
And then there is LeBron James, who has signed an individual partnership with Polymarket, making him the first NBA player to attach his name to a prediction markets platform. LeBron has always understood that the next business is the one nobody else has claimed yet. Whether prediction markets become the next frontier or the next cautionary tale is, appropriately, something you could probably place a bet on.
The week belongs to Bad Bunny, though. It always did.
