Overview

• Snoop Dogg’s representatives told The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline that an Instagram comment attributed to him saying “my bad” was fake, despite it appearing under his verified account.
• On the It’s Giving podcast on August 20, he described feeling unprepared to answer his grandson’s questions about a brief scene featuring a lesbian couple in the 2022 film.
• The podcast’s main episode was edited to remove the segment before the clip was later uploaded separately, with producers calling the earlier edit a mistake.
• Calls for the Australian Football League to drop Snoop Dogg from the September 27 Grand Final show continued, while CEO Andrew Dillon said the performance will proceed.
• Lightyear writer Lauren Gunderson publicly defended including the queer couple, as reporting revisited the film’s 2022 bans in some countries and the reinstatement of the kiss after internal pushback at Disney/Pixar.