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Showtime confirmed to Deadline this evening that it had made a deal with YouTube star and nascent professional boxer Jake Paul. Details of the agreement were not available, but Paul advisor Nakisa Bidarian told ESPN Wednesday that talks about the potential opponent, date and location are at an advanced stage. Paul is…

Hot on the heels of Mike Tyson lacing them up vs. Roy Jones last September, 11-time world champion Oscar De La Hoya on Friday announced his return to the ring. De La Hoya strode onto the stage as Snoop Dogg was talking up his Triller Fight Club 2021 event on April 17. Talking about De La Hoya’s successful career as a…

Controversial YouTube star Jake Paul had his Calabasas, Calif. home searched Wednesday by the FBI, with reports indicating it may be connected to his presence at an Arizona mall riot in June. A SWAT team stood by as the warrant was served today, but there were no arrests or resistance. The federal search warrant and…

YouTube personality Jake Paul is receiving tons of backlash after video footage of him among a group of people in an Arizona mall while it was being looted after a protest surfaced. Even so, Paul claims that he was not looting or vandalizing. Paul sent out a statement on his social media platforms in an attempt to…

Dom Hofmann, a co-founder of Vine, has revealed the name and launch timing for his next video-looping app: Byte, launching in the spring of 2019. Details are scant, but Hofmann has indicated that the new app will be similar to Vine, which featured six-second video sequences in repeating loops. Twitter bought Vine for…

Former Bizvaardvark star Jake Paul is moving on quickly following his exit from the Disney Channel series. Paul has joined Loton Corp’s LiveXLive Studios as a contributing social editor, joining Andrew B. Bachelor, aka "King Bach," and inaugural contributor Amanda Cerny. “Individually, and as a team, the trio will…

UPDATED: Jake Paul, one of the stars of Bizaardvark, is leaving the Disney Channel series, which is currently airing its second season. His exit is effective immediately. Paul won’t be back when production on Season 2 resumes tomorrow. Filming is slated to continue through the summer and wrap in the fall. “We’ve…