The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its official Class of 2022 inductees, and it includes artists like Eminem, Duran Duran, and more.
On Wednesday, the legendary Rock Hall revealed this year&#8217;s incoming members in a video posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/rockhall/status/1521824460894048258?s=20&amp;t=OwgT6z9uwUuEWFK0JNx-mw">Twitter</a>. And yes, Dolly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dolly-partons-dollywood-to-pay-100-tuition-fees-and-books-for-any-employee-pursuing-higher-education">Parton</a> made the cut, despite the country music legend making a public plea to have her name taken off the ballot for fear that she didn&#8217;t meet the qualifications of a rock star. The singer said she was &#8220;flattered and grateful to be nominated&#8221; but did not feel she &#8220;earned that right,&#8221; as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/country-legend-dolly-parton-respectfully-bows-out-of-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-consideration">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Parton&#8217;s fellow inductees include rocker Pat Benetar, Carly Simon, Eminem, Duran Duran, Lionel Richie, and the Eurythmics.
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The video announcement also shared that songwriters Jimmy Jam &amp; Terry Lewis and heavy metal group Judas Priest would join the Rock Hall with the &#8220;award for musical excellence.&#8221;
&#8220;Wow, this is so exciting — at last. At last, you know?&#8221; Judas Priest&#8217;s Rob Halford told <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/rock-roll-hall-of-fame-class-2022-dolly-parton-eminem-1235066490/">Billboard</a> after receiving the news. &#8220;And, glory hallelujah, there’s another metal band in the hall of fame! That&#8217;s the blessing we&#8217;ve all been waiting for.&#8221;
Richie called being selected &#8220;an incredible honor.&#8221;
&#8220;I would like to say THANK YOU to all of the voters, to all of my wonderful fans and to everyone at the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame,&#8221; the R&amp;B hitmaker said in a statement provided to the outlet. &#8220;Congratulations to all of my fellow 2022 inductees!&#8221;
Parton has yet to comment on being elected, but just days before the big announcement, she did come out and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/29/1095444447/dolly-parton-james-patterson-novel">said she&#8217;d</a> &#8220;gracefully&#8221; accept it after previously turning down the nomination.
&#8220;I would just say thanks and I&#8217;ll accept it because the fans vote,&#8221; the &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; star shared. &#8220;But when I said that, it was always my belief that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was for the people in rock music, and I have found out lately that it&#8217;s not necessarily that.&#8221;
&#8220;But if they can&#8217;t go there to be recognized, where do they go?&#8221; she added. &#8220;So I just felt like I would be taking away from someone that maybe deserved it, certainly more than me, because I never considered myself a rock artist. But obviously, there&#8217;s more to it than that.&#8221;
The ceremony is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles, California, on November 5.

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Simon Cowell has canceled his appearance as a member of the judging panel for the upcoming season of “X Factor Israel.”
The iconic reality TV personality signed a deal last year to be one of the judges for the Israeli version of &#8220;X Factor&#8221; but is now canceling “for his own reasons,” a spokesperson for Reshet, the show’s network, <a href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/global/simon-cowell-cancels-x-factor-israel-judge-1234984812/">told</a> Variety on Sunday.
Last week as rumors swirled of Cowell&#8217;s potential cancellation, a Reshet representative told Variety that members of Cowell’s staff had expressed “legitimate concerns” about Cowell&#8217;s involvement in the show, citing the recent violence between Israel and militant Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.
A source close to Cowell, who is currently a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, <a href="https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/exclusive-simon-cowell-pulls-out-of-x-factor-israel/">told</a> Jewish News last week that the veteran TV presenter is &#8220;bitterly disappointed&#8221; that he will not be traveling to Israel to film the show.
“Simon won’t be going to Israel after all,&#8221; the source said. &#8220;I know it has already been announced that he was one of the judges, but for a number of reasons he just can’t be there in Israel to film the show now. Of course he is bitterly disappointed – but it was a decision he had to take.”
The fourth season of “X Factor Israel” is scheduled to begin filming this summer. Cowell&#8217;s appearance on the show would have been the first time he served as a judge on an &#8220;X Factor&#8221; show outside of the U.K. and U.S.
“Over the years The X Factor format discovered amazing talents from all over the world, I can’t wait to see what Israel has to offer,” Cowell said in December when it was announced he would be serving as a judge for the show.
Cowell spent the latter half of 2020 recovering from complex back surgery after he broke his back in an electric bike accident.
More than 250 people were killed over 11 days of conflict between Gaza and Israel that began on May 10 but was suspended when Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire.
The conflict began when Hamas fired rockets into Israel following a clash between Palestinians and Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Israel responded with air strikes targeting Hamas in Gaza. Both sides have claimed victory in the conflict.
Hamas, which does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, has long been <a href="https://www.state.gov/foreign-terrorist-organizations/">designated</a> a terrorist organization by the U.S.
Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blinken-announces-another-112-million-in-assistance-for-palestinians-gaza-relief-projects">announced</a> another $112 million in relief for Palestinians and other relief projects in Gaza and said the U.S. will reopen its consulate in Jerusalem, a move aimed at enhancing diplomatic relations with the Palestinians after they were de-prioritized under former President Trump.
Blinken said that the U.S. is in the process of providing a total of $360 million to support the Palestinian people. The secretary of state has insisted that no aid will go to Hamas.

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Pop singer-songwriter Carly Simon, reminiscing about her life in an interview with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/31/carly-simon-on-turning-down-donald-trump-i-thought-he-was-kind-of-repulsive">The Guardian</a>, said she found former President Bill Clinton has “charisma” and “lights up the room with his energy” while when she met Donald Trump in the past he was “all over me like ugly on an ape,” adding, “I thought he was kind of repulsive.”
Simon said of Clinton, “When he’s interested in a subject and he’s talking about it to a woman, there’s a different energy that comes across. He has ‘the glint’ and he can’t help himself. It’s charisma. His face changes. He doesn’t look the same. His energy comes through the expressions of his mouth and his eyes. He lights up a room with his energy.”
Simon mourned the fact that the revelations of the #MeToo movement had relegated Bill Clinton to the sidelines, saying,  “That’s so sad because, to me, he’s a tremendous asset and he’s such a charismatic and brilliant, brilliant man, and whatever lesson he had to learn, he learned it. It was of a particular time where there was a hairline of a difference between then and now. He didn’t do himself proud, but that’s passed, that’s over with, and now let his brilliance shine through.”
Simon recalled meeting Trump at a luncheon for Benazir Bhutto, the late prime minister of Pakistan. She recalled:
<blockquote>When I came into the room, there was Trump and a whole bunch of New York dignitaries. Trump wasn’t paying any attention to me at all. Why would he? Benazir Bhutto summoned me and asked me to go into the bedroom with her and so I went and we sat on the bed and she held my hands and said: “I just love your music.” We talked about different songs that were her favorites and it maybe lasted three minutes.
When I went out of the bedroom, obviously I had all of a sudden become important through the eyes of Donald Trump. So he was very anxious to meet me and invited me to Mar-a-Lago and was all over me like ugly on an ape.</blockquote>
Simon said she rejected Trump’s supposed advances, adding “because I thought he was kind of repulsive.”
Speaking of her hit “You’re So Vain” and applying it to Trump, Simon opined, “He is so vain, that’s for sure, and not in the best possible way. He doesn’t bring humor to the word. In the song, hopefully, the person could wink at himself in the mirror because he got the joke. I don’t think there’s much interest outside himself. What will happen with a narcissist is that they’re interested in themselves and anything that’s an extension of themselves, perhaps their children, but he’s not interested in the philosophy of great thinkers. I suspect.&#8221;
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Simon consented for her song &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8221; to be used for the first time for a political ad. The ad even started with the caption, &#8220;For the first time ever, Carly Simon is allowing the use of her song &#8216;You&#8217;re So Vain&#8217; for political purposes.&#8221;
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