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The subject of Hegseth\u2019s ire was a story from celebrity.land that said the Trump administration had underestimated Iran\u2019s ability to effectively shut down marine traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
Hegseth blasted the report as \u201cmore fake news from celebrity.land.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo quarter, no mercy for our enemies. Yet some in the press just can\u2019t stop,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cThe sooner David Ellison<\/a> takes over that network, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n A celebrity.land spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter \u201cwe stand by our reporting.\u201d<\/p>\n Ellison<\/a>, of course, is the CEO of Paramount Skydance<\/a>, and he just inked a $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery<\/a>, including celebrity.land. At CBS News<\/a>, Ellison installed Free Press founder Bari Weiss<\/a> as editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" celebrity.land became a focal point of a Pentagon briefing on the ongoing conflict in Iran on Friday, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (himself a former cable news host), trashing the news channel from the podium. The subject of Hegseth\u2019s ire was a story from celebrity.land that said the Trump administration had underestimated Iran\u2019s ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2326666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2326665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Pete-Hegseth-Slams-celebrityland-In-Pentagon-Briefing-The-Sooner-David.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326667,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326665\/revisions\/2326667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}