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LaMelo Ball was unfiltered after the Charlotte Hornets' season-opening win ... casually dropping an F-bomb during his postgame interview!!

It all went down after the 23-year-old guard had his way against the Houston Rockets at the Toyota Center on Wednesday ... scoring 34 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in the 110-105 victory -- making him the first player in franchise history to record 30 points and 10 assists in the first game of the season.

Kemba Walker -- who played for Charlotte from 2011-2019 before joining the team as a coach this offseason -- dapped up Ball a few seconds right before his Q&A ... which prompted the reporter to ask about the impact the former guard has had on his game.

Francis Ngannou returned to the cage last weekend -- 6 months after tragedy struck his family -- and the combat sports superstar admits he was unsure whether he'd ever fight again.

TMZ Sports talked to the 38-year-old former UFC champion turned boxer/PFL fighter just days after he dispatched Renan Ferreira via a first-round knockout in Saudi Arabia ... and then broke down in tears after the bout while talking about the devastating loss of his little boy, Kobe.

"Oh, yes [I didn't know if I'd fight again]. There was a point that you didn't know anything. Everything seemed so fragile," Francis told us, adding his mind was racing a mile a minute during that horrific time.

American actress and model Jennifer Rubin was in her mid-20s when she became best known for playing the troubled asylum teen, Taryn, in the 1987 slasher sequel "A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors."

Joining Jen on the big screen included Robert Englund as the undead serial killer, Freddy Krueger, Heather Langenkamp as the new intern at the Westin Hills Asylum, Nancy Thompson, and Patricia Arquette who was finally able to defend herself against Freddy as a Dream Warrior, Kristen Parker.

Other notable work includes her roles in "Bad Dreams," "The Doors" and "The Crush."

Rob Lowe is looking back on a short romance he had with Demi Moore ... revealing they briefly hooked up early on in their Hollywood careers.

Rob told Kelly Ripa he "briefly had a thing" with Demi in the '80s during their time in the Brat Pack ... admitting to the hookup on Kelly's podcast, "Let's Talk Off Camera."

The way Rob tells it ... he and Demi banged at some point in the mid-'80s, before she got engaged to Emilio Estevez, another member of the Brat Pack.

Todd Chrisley's looking for work in prison -- he got canned from his job at the prison chapel, all because he was getting too chatty with certain inmates ... TMZ has learned.

The reality TV star's attorney, Jay Surgent, tells us ... Todd was dismissed from his administrative role at the chapel inside FPC Pensacola, where he's locked up.

He says Todd had been assisting a chaplain, helping set up church services for inmates of different faiths -- including Christian, Jewish and Muslim -- and was doing a good job, according to Surgent.

Halle Berry's going to like this ... the judge in her never-ending custody battle with ex-husband Olivier Martinez sided with her in a dispute over their co-parenting agreement.

Here's the deal ... over the summer, Halle claimed Olivier was trying to take time off from co-parenting therapy, and she complained and asked the judge to force Olivier to go back.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the judge sided with Halle ... but did note Olivier had already complied with her request after she dragged him to court over the issue.

Liam Neeson is hanging it up and retiring ... at least when it comes to action movies.

The "Taken" star revealed his plans to stop filming action flicks in 2025 in a new interview with PEOPLE ... explaining ... "I'm 72 -- it has to stop at some stage."

Liam's known for performing his own fight scenes -- though he does use a stunt double for bigger moments -- and he says it's just not believable that he would be fighting bad guys in his 70s.

Zach Bryan's ex-girlfriend Brianna LaPaglia is down in the dumps after being dumped by the musician in a very public way ... but our "TMZ on TV" crew isn't sharing her pain.

Brianna posted a tearful reaction video to Zach's sudden breakup post ... but check out the clip, it's kind of hard to take her seriously with a stage name like Chickenfry.

Zach's statement announcing the split reads like she was way more into him than he was into her ... at least that's our takeaway here.

Cardi B will no longer be performing at ONE MusicFest 2024 this weekend ... the superstar rapper was scheduled to headline the star-studded fest, but she says she's dealing with a health issue!!!

Cardi and ONE MusicFest broke the unfortunate news on Wednesday ... Cardi apologized to the fans in Atlanta but says she's still recovering from a "medical emergency" and is focused on coming back better than ever.

The show will go on and the lineup is still stacked ... Earth, Wind & Fire, Nelly, Method Man, Jill Scott, GloRilla, DJ Drama, BigXThaPlug, Fat Joe and dozens of other well-known artists are still scheduled to hit the stage for what will be the fest's 15th anniversary.

D.L. Hughley ain't holding back when it comes to Donald Trump -- and he’s definitely not McLovin’ the Republican nominee's recent McDonald’s stop on the campaign trail.

TMZ caught up with the comedian at LAX Tuesday, and he didn’t mince words -- calling out Trump’s efforts to "learn" McDonald’s secret sauce as nothing more than a PR stunt, adding that deep down he doesn’t care about the working class at all.

What's more, D.L. even brought up his own days working at the fast food joint to back up POV ... recalling how he made $2.65 an hour working there back in '78.

As the 2024 Presidential Election shapes up to be one of the most important in the country's history, law enforcement agencies are planning extra measures to ensure the security of polling places ... TMZ has learned.

In the aftermath of the 2020 election and the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots ... voters and poll workers in some states are now facing threats and intimidation tactics.

TMZ has reached out to law enforcement agencies in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, D.C. and Washington state -- and officials tell us they are making plans ahead of the November 5 showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Marsha Kearney -- the mother of Kansas City Chiefs star Rashee Rice -- was slapped with a misdemeanor charge this month over allegations she stole her neighbor's package ... TMZ Sports has learned.

North Richland Hills Police in Texas tell us ... after Kearney's neighbor accused her of snatching some Chappell Roan records right off their porch in plain view of their Ring camera on Sept. 29, an arrest warrant for the 43-year-old was issued on Oct. 8.

Cops say Kearney ended up turning herself into the Tarrant County Sherriff's Office a week later -- on Oct. 15 -- and she was eventually charged with one count of mail theft.

Laura Loomer is firing off at Bill Maher, calling him out for trying to destroy her career by portraying her as a "floozy" -- and she thinks it's because she's crushing Democrats with her journalism.

We spoke with the right-leaning activist -- who's suing Maher for defamation for what she calls his false claim she's having an affair with Donald Trump ... something she thinks he's only doing because she's broken major stories involving Democratic heavyweights.

Loomer flaunts a few of these stories ... saying she was the one who broke the news about Tim Walz's family planning to vote against him and Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming election.

11:45 AM PT -- A representative for the Royal Bahamas Defense Force confirmed to TMZ ... The 66-year-old woman jumped from the 14th floor of the cruise ship. Search and rescue efforts were officially called off Wednesday.

The Taylor Swift-themed cruise from Florida to the Bahamas went from happy to sad Tuesday ... as a 66-year-old woman fell overboard and is now missing.

A rep for the U.S. Coast Guard tells TMZ ... the Royal Caribbean cruise ship filled with Taylor's "Swifties" left the Port of Miami Monday and was about 17 miles north of Nassau in the Bahamas when tragedy struck Tuesday night.

According to the spokesperson ... the woman tumbled off the ship called Allure of the Seas, plunging into the ocean at about 9:40 PM.

Ron Ely -- star of the 1960s TV show -- "Tarzan" has died ... this, according to a statement from his daughter Wednesday.

Ely's daughter, Kirsten, tells TMZ he passed away at home at the age of 86 peacefully surrounded by family on September 29th ... and went on to pay an emotional tribute to him in a lengthy IG post, remembering him as one of the greatest men to ever live -- and, a personal idol of hers.

She says her dad always brought a wave of positivity with him wherever he went ... saying his life story was one of relentless perseverance to do what was right, adding she's doing her best to walk in her father's footsteps.

Vince McMahon is facing yet another lawsuit -- this time, the former WWE honcho is being accused of ignoring claims of sexual abuse made by former employees known as "Ring Boys."

The docs were filed in Baltimore County Wednesday ... with Vince's wife, Linda McMahon, WWE and its ownership, TKO Group, also named in the lawsuit.

In the suit .... it alleges Melvin Phillips Jr. -- who served as the ring crew chief and ringside announcer -- hired underaged boys to assist the crew with errands and tasks for wrestling shows.