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A Mississippi TV news anchor hasn’t been on the air since quoting a popular Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month.

Barbie Bassett has not returned to NBC affiliate WLBT since the March 8 broadcast and is no longer listed as a member of the news team on the station’s website, the Clarion Ledger reports.

“As I am sure you can understand, WLBT is unable to comment on personnel matters,” Ted Fortenberry, the station’s regional vice president and general manager, said in a social media post.

Bassett was discussing the Snoop Dogg ’s addition to his wine line.

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Bassett used a phrase – which includes slang for the n-word – when the idea of a Snoop collaboration with a newsroom journalist was raised.

The station’s chief meteorologist as well as anchor, Bassett has previously caused controversy with a comment, referring to a black reporter’s “grandmammy” on air. She later apologised.

“Though not intentional, I now understand how my comment was both insensitive and hurtful. I have apologised to Carmen Poe,” Bassett said at the time.

“Now, I would like to apologise to you. That is not the heart of who I am. And for that, I humbly ask for your forgiveness and I apologise to everyone I have offended.”

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A woman has revealed she went by the wrong name for 15 years of her life due to an error her mom made on her birth certificate.

Gabrielle Mayor , 25, from New York, left social media users dying with laughter after she hysterically shared that she her mother made a mistake at the time of her birth, making her real name ‘Babrielle.’

While applying for her learner’s driving license, the then-15-year-old recalls feeling confused as they informed her that there was no one registered in the system with her name.

Suddenly, a ‘Babrielle Mayor’ popped up and Gabrielle connected the dots, realizing she had been going by the wrong name.

‘It was a total accident on the birth certificate, as my mom was meant to name me Gabrielle,’ she said.

‘I was just in shock, especially as I’m very close with my family and I couldn’t understand how this never came up in conversation in 15 years.

‘I was so upset that I couldn’t get my permit that day.’

But, now that her name has since officially been changed to the correct spelling, and she has been granted her license, Gabrielle is able to laugh about the bizarre ordeal.

She even shared the hilarious situation on her TikTok account in a viral video that amassed over 4.9 million views.

In the clip, she looks downcast as writing onscreen reads: ‘Thinking about how my parents made a typo on my birth certificate and I didn’t find out until age 15 that my real name is actually Babrielle.’

Users flocked to the comments to share their reactions, with many poking fun at the mishap and others sharing their own similar experiences.

‘Sorry about it Babs,’ one person joked.

Another person wrote: ‘Babrielle goes hard tho.’ [sic]

‘My name was Aslhey instead of Ashley for 20 years,’ another user revealed.

Valorie Lawhorn commented: ‘At 16 I found out birth certificate had “Tracy.” My name is Valorie.’

‘Babs era,’ someone else said.

Bella added: ‘Could have at least been Barbrielle so you can be Barbie haha.’

Luckily, she can now see the funny side.

Gabrielle added: ‘My mom sent me a photo of my original birth certificate [recently] and it’s kind of funny seeing the real thing.

‘Although I wonder what my life would’ve been like if I had kept it as Babrielle.’

ROLLING FORK, Miss. — James Anderson was in bed when he heard the tornado’s roar. Startled, Anderson, 61, rolled onto the floor just as his home’s windows exploded under the pressure of the storm.

It “sounded like someone had a machine gun,” he said.

Through the chaos, he shouted for his sister, Barbie Anderson, to grab her grandchildren — an infant and a 7-year-old — and run. Barbie pulled them into a hallway, shielded their bodies with hers and prayed.

“Lord,” she pleaded, “please take care of us.”

The Andersons’ lives were spared, and their small brick home was left standing. But in a small Delta town of about 2,000 people, hardly anyone escaped the storm without losing someone they knew or loved. As rescue and recovery crews poured into town, James Anderson learned that his fiancée’s adult daughter, April Johnson, was one of at least 26 people killed in the storm. She’d been working at the local Family Dollar when the roof collapsed, Anderson said.

His fiancée will be left to care for Johnson’s five children.

“The grandmother now has to be the mother all over again,” he said.

Friends of Amy Winehouse are furious with the makers of an upcoming biopic for failing to consult them about the star’s life.

They claim that executives working on Back To Black have not been in touch to ask about their memories of the late singer, raising fears that the film will be inaccurate.

One told The Mail on Sunday that they are also unhappy at the casting of Marisa Abela – star of the BBC ’s risqué drama Industry – because, despite the near perfect wig she wears and the identical tattoos, they do not think she looks like the Rehab singer.

They also contrast Roedean-educated Ms Abela’s social background with London-born Ms Winehouse, who was known for her streetwise persona.

‘Nobody consulted us about Amy,’ said the friend. ‘How can it be authentic and accurate if they don’t know the real Amy or the truth about what happened in her final years? We are against this and we are upset. Amy was absolutely striking.’

Despite it being almost 12 years since Ms Winehouse was found unresponsive at her townhouse in Camden, North London, in July 2011, her grief-stricken friends still believe it is early for such a film to be made. However, movies about late stars have been released sooner. I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a film telling the life story of pop star Whitney Houston, who died a year later, in 2012, is currently in cinemas.

Sources on the set of Back To Black – directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and named after Ms Winehouse’s hit 2006 album – say that filming is only due to last eight weeks, which industry insiders believe is not very long for such a production.

One insider said: ‘It all feels very fast, almost a bit smash and grab.’

They also questioned how the paparazzi were presented during scenes filmed last week.

Onlookers say photographers were depicted as being aggressive towards Ms Winehouse, while in reality the pop star, who was 27 when she died, had a respectful relationship with them and grew to be friendly with some.

Eddie Marsan will star in the film as the singer’s father Mitch and Jack O’Connell as her husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

Miss Abela, 26, who is also set to appear in Greta Gerwig’s new Barbie movie, due to be released in July, had originally planned to go to university to become a human rights lawyer.

However, she changed her mind at the last minute, instead deciding to attend drama school Rada to follow in the footsteps of her mother, the actress Caroline Gruber. Both mother and daughter have raised eyebrows in their acting careers – Miss Abela in her risqué sex and drugs scenes in Industry, where she plays City worker Yasmin Kara-Hanani, and Ms Gruber in comedy show Heil Honey I’m Home!, in which Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun move next door to a Jewish couple.

The series – described as ‘the world’s most tasteless situation comedy’ – was cancelled in 1990 after just one episode.

Although Miss Abela attended the £20,000-a-year Roedean school in Brighton, East Sussex, she grew up in a modest semi-detached bungalow with her mother.

TASHA Ghouri looked stunning in a sparkly dress that revealed her intimate tattoo as she posed next to traffic in Paris.

The Love Island star wowed as she stood next to the Eiffel Tower at night.

Tasha ‘s beaded dress featured a plunging neckline and scooped back, making the most of her remarkable curves.

The reeality TV beauty captioned her posts on Instagram: “With love from Paris xo”

One fan replied: “I mean how the hell did you not cause a crash looking that hot..”

Another said beneath her post: “Can we get you on the front of vogue yet plz & thanks”

Tasha , 24, left Love Island last summer with boyfriend Andrew , 27.

Though they found love on the ITV2 dating show, they admitted it wasn’t all plain sailing.

The pair were close to breaking point when Andrew got intimate with bombshell Coco Lodge during Casa Amor .

But luckily the former estate agent found his way back to model Tasha and the pair gone from strength to strength ever since.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Tasha said: “Casa Amor is the big test that everyone waits for in the villa.

“It’s about deciding whether you want to stick or twist with your couple.

Andrew said: “Hardest part of Casa Amor is not knowing how our partner is doing and whether they’re getting to know someone else.

“It’s a really hard situation and you have to throw yourselves at it – It will be interesting to see who will recouple.”