Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Feb 22, 2022

Britney Spears has reached a book deal with publishing house Simon & Schuster said to be worth as much as $15 million. The book would have her telling about her career, her “Toxic” life and her family. Britney has been looking for a book deal since her sister, Jamie Lynn, published her own book, called “Things I Should Have Said,” this past January. Britney has claimed that Jamie made up potions of the book to sell more copies, and wants to set things straight with her own book.

Justin Bieber has tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, he bagged his Las Vegas show scheduled for Sunday, and he may have to cancel the two shows scheduled for this week --Tuesday (tonight) in Arizona and Thursday in California. Justin's rep has told the press he's "feeling OK," so we'll see.

Lots of comments about Daniel Radcliffe's new role --playing "Weird Al" Yankovic, in an upcoming film biography about the comedian. The problem --many people are saying that he doesn't look like Weird Al. Doesn't matter to Al, who's said that he was "absolutely thrilled" that Radcliffe would be playing him.

More problems for online daters. The NY Times reports people using dating services to meet the opposite sex have been taken advantage by the prospective daters. One woman forked over $300-thousand dollars worth of Bitcoin, nearly her entire life savings, to an address that her online guy told her was connected to an account on the Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange OSL. Yeah --not so much. Although the website looked legitimate, and was updated to show she'd deposited her money, her big bucks went right into the scammer’s digital wallet, and he vanished.

www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/technology/crypto-scammers-new-target-dating-apps

Fans of former President Donald Trump can now pick up his brand-new social media platform, called "Truth Social" at Apple's app store. There was a wait list for the app, but Trump is already posting. His first message read “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!”

Find it here: apps.apple.com/us/app/truth-social/id1586018825

Congrats to "Dancing with the Stars" pro Sharna Burgess, who's pregnant with a baby boy. She announced that she was expecting back on February 2nd, but yesterday tweeted "Baby Boy July 4th (ish) 2022. @brianaustingreen I love our family, I love that it's growing and I love you. How did we get so lucky?" Brian already has three sons with his ex-wife, Megan Fox, and an older son with Vanessa Marcil.