ABOVE: Shawn Mendes sets a single-and-ready-to-mindle thirst trap.

BELOW: Keep reading for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s even better son, the sad details of the Wisconsin parade disaster, two righties find their souls and quit Fox News and more ...

Is that his daddy's Oscar in those sweats? (Image via Instagram)

OMG.BLOG! (WORK UNFRIENDLY): Show me the sonny! Cuba Gooding Jr.'s man-child is all grown up.

JOE.MY.GOD.: Two hardcore right-wingers have up and quit Fox News over Tucker Carlson's outrageous Patriot Purge doc.

VICE: In Waukesha, Wisconson, a red SUV plowed into a Christmas parade, killing at least five people. While the right was eager to chalk it up to terrorism, it's been reported the suspects were fleeing a knife fight, and that the main culprit is a local rapper with a criminal history. Senseless.

Peter Aykroyd
1955-2021
SNL '79-'80
"The Java Junkie" pic.twitter.com/5IJWJTezgz

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) November 21, 2021

EXTRATV: Dan Aykroyd's younger brother, Peter Aykroyd — an SNL alum in his own right and a fan of the paranormal like his brother and their late dad — died this weekend at 66.

KENNETH IN THE (212): If you manspread TOO far, your legs'll stay that way!

YAHOO! ENTERTAINMENT: Though the film is just six years old, The Danish Girl's star Eddie Redmayne already soft-regrets taking the part of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to undergo SRS:

No, I wouldn’t take it on now. I made that film with the best intentions, but I think it was a mistake.

INSTAGRAM: I mean, I guess whatever turns your GF on:

RAW STORY: The calls are not coming from inside the house. Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi analyzed 32,315 pro-Kyle Rittenhouse tweets from November 19-20, discovering that 29,609 came from accounts with no geolocation — and at least 17,701, upon further investigation, were found to have come from Russia, China and the EU.

DAILY BEAST: Australian reporter Matt Doran flew halfway around the world to chat with Adele exclusively, but when he admitted to her face that he had not taken a moment to listen to her new album 30, she walked. The flub cost his network $700,000. Doran later admitted he had missed an email with the songs.

METRO WEEKLY: Gay British doctor Dr. Adrian Harrop is facing the loss of his job after he took to Twitter to defend trans people and trans rights.

BROADWAY WORLD: Veteran producer and progressive activist Scott Robbe died yesterday at 66. He was a well-known member and co-founder of ACT UP and Queer Nation, and as such was part of the crew that snuck into the NYSE in 1989.

INSTAGRAM (FOLLOWS APPRECIATED): Happy b'day to Jamie Lee Curtis!