Skip Bayless, Stephen A Smith, and LeBron James (Photos via Getty Images & Imagn Images)
Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless have linked up again, with the timing coming across as suspect.
The ‘First Take’ star has been through a whirlwind lately, having finally ended contract negotiations with ESPN and securing a reported $100 million contract. He’s also had to deal with the embarrassment of being dressed down by LeBron James while courtside at the Knicks-Lakers game on Thursday night.
According to Front Office Sports, Smith and Bayless reunited for a podcast episode this Friday following his confrontation with LBJ. A source told the outlet the former co-hosts recorded an episode of ‘The Skip Bayless Show,’ which is set to drop early next week.
It marked the first time they did something like this since Bayless left ESPN in 2019.
Stephen A Smith And Skip Bayless Ironed Their Issues Out A Few Years Ago
Stephen A Smith and Skip Bayless (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Paley Center for Media)
Smith and Bayless worked together on ‘First Take’ for four years and had certain gripes with each other. However, they worked things out in a face-to-face discussion back in 2022.
While Stephen A. is staying at ESPN, Skip is now focusing on his own podcast, after leaving FS1 last year..
He has since been named in a lawsuit filed by former FOX hairstylist Noushin Faraji, who claims the veteran journalist sexually harassed her and offered her a whopping $1.5 million to sleep with him.
Smith defended his old partner in crime after the suit dropped, claiming it’s highly unlikely Skip would be willing to part ways with that amount of money as he’s the cheapest man he knows.
Everyone Is Falling In Love With Grand Theft Auto VI’s New Female Character Who Looks Stunningly Real
GTA Lucia (Photo via Twitter)
Social media might be down incredibly bad as Lucia from Grand Theft Auto is going insanely viral.
GTA 6’s trailer 2 officially broke a record after the upcoming second look at the game, which has continued to take forever to come out.
GTA 6 broke the record for the longest wait between a first and second trailer for a Rockstar Games title ever.
Rockstar has built a rich world of criminals, lunatics, and thieves spanning from Liberty City to San Andreas and beyond. With GTA 6 on the horizon, fans have become ecstatic after seeing a picture of Lucia.
For those unaware, she is a female criminal in the game. Grand Theft Auto states that she did her time at a prison complex in the State of Leonida in the mid-2020s for an unknown crime.
As anticipation builds for the release of Grand Theft Auto 6, a picture shows Lucia stripped down to a two-piece bikini.
#GTA6 #GTAVI #GTA
GTA 6 Lucia pic.twitter.com/Is6BuMEi9b— Watchman (@DarkChannel_) December 26, 2024
Here is how fans reacted to Lucia’s apparent new look in Grand Theft Auto:
“Everything is woke if you’ve never seen a woman’s body irl,” one fan said.
Everything is woke if you’ve never seen a woman’s body irl
— Truffle (@Lynndor_Truffle) December 28, 2024
“They better have some awesome clothing to choose from. Gotta look cute while doing missions,” a second fan added.
A third fan knew they were no match for her: “If I was in a beauty contest against her, she’d get first place, and I’d get disqualified.”
“She’s beautiful, my sapphic heart can’t take it 🤧,” another X user added.
“not leaving my house anytime soon,” a fan stated about the impending release of the game.
“No arsenal, but ima be a gooner for sure, a sixth fan added.
One final fan added: “Anybody upset about a video game character needs to seriously reevaluate their life.”
Fans Have Waited A Long Time For Grand Theft Auto To Release New Game
After more than a decade of waiting, Grand Theft Auto VI is supposedly finally set to come out in 2025.
Despite their hopes for a release this year fading, the community remains engaged in hopes that a second trailer will be released in early 2025 and a release date of the actual game will come out.
With each passing day, the desire for more news grows stronger.
Hopefully, 2025 will give the fans what they so desperately want.