Twisty the clown has already become one of the most iconic characters on “American Horror Story: Freak Show.” But multiple professional clown organizations have aired their grievances with the way he’s been portrayed.

Earlier this month (October 15), Glenn Kohlberger, the president of Clowns of America International, spoke out against casting clowns as horror villains.

“We do not support in any way, shape or form any medium that sensationalizes or adds to coulrophobia or ‘clown fear,’” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Related: A Circus Clown Reacts To The ‘American Horror Story’ Murder Clown
Yesterday (October 24), the president of the World Clown Association, Randy Christensen, joined him by emphasizing that scary clowns shouldn’t be considered real clowns.

“The copycat clowns out in California — these are people finding some sick satisfaction in creeping people out,” he told Vulture. “These are not clowns. These are people that dress up as horror characters.”

The professionals in the clown business might be all about joy, love, and humor, but “American Horror Story” isn’t the only place where creepy clowns have been found recently. Wasco the clown terrorized Bakersfield, California, apparently as part of a photography project, and another mysterious clown popped up last Wednesday (October 22) in Indiana. Looks like the pros have a lot of PR damage control to handle.

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Reproduction didn’t used to be so intimate. Hundreds of millions of years ago, you didn’t even touch your partner when you made babies with them if you were an ancient fish. You just dropped your eggs off in the water and hoped a male fish would come along to fertilize them. But now, scientists have found the fish that invented actual sex.

The first animals to touch each other while doin’ it were tiny freshwater fish that lived in present day Scotland 385 million years ago. The species is known in the science world as Microbrachius dicki — and it was named even before scientists figured out what it was famous for.

Professor John Long, who works at Flinders University in Australia, was the lead author on the paper that revealed how M. dicki was the first known species to fertilize their eggs internally. He figured out how they must have mated by looking over old fossils and noticing that the male fish’s sexual organs were perfectly shaped to “latch on” to the female’s genital plates.

Due to their anatomy, the fish couldn’t face each other while mating, but had to link arms and copulate side by side. It’s kind of a cute move when you think about it, but it didn’t catch on among the larger fish populace. Spawning became the only method of reproduction again after these fish died out, and direct copulation didn’t reemerge until millions of years later.

These little guys were just way ahead of their ...

After participating in a Q&A as part of the New Yorker Festival on October 11, Mindy Kaling — writer and star of “The Mindy Project” — attended an after-party where an older drunk man apparently thought she was Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.

Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 10 for her work championing education for girls around the world. The 17-year-old activist is the youngest person to ever receive the prestigious award.

Kaling was not awarded the Nobel Prize earlier this month, but that didn’t stop a drunk man in his 80s from congratulating her profusely at New York’s Boom Boom Room. He also complimented the TV star on how well she had recovered from being shot in the head and neck by the Taliban.

The actress wasn’t sure if he was joking or if he was earnestly confused. “Did he really think I’m Malala? And that if I were, I’d be at the Boom Boom Room?” she said. Either way, she seemed to think the mix-up was hilarious. Trust Mindy to take it all in stride.

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Rainn Wilson has dropped Vine celebrity Curtis Lepore from his forthcoming show “Hollywood and Vine.” The decision to cut ties with the viral media star comes as a result of online backlash surrounding rape charges that were filed against Lepore by his ex-girlfriend Jessi Smiles late last year.

Earlier this month, “The Office” star announced that his production company had cast Lepore in a new ensemble comedy show called “Hollywood and Vine,” whose fictional plot will follow five young Vine celebs as they try to break into the bigger world of mainstream movies. Jerry Purpdrank, Lele Pons, Simone Shepherd, and Christian DelGrosso were also cast.

But on Friday (October 24), Wilson announced via Facebook that he had dropped Lepore from the project.

Jessi Vazquez, who’s also a Vine star and video blogger under the name Jessi Smiles, accused Lepore of raping her in her sleep last fall. The two met through Vine, where they both have millions of followers, and maintained a public relationship until they broke up last August.

A few days after the split, Vazquez suffered a concussion while filming one of the six-second looping videos that she broadcasts to her followers. Lepore offered to come over and help her out while she recovered — and then allegedly started having sex with her while she was unconscious.

Lepore denied the charges, but ultimately entered a plea deal where he pled guilty to felony assault, a less severe crime than rape. Vazquez tweeted that she was at peace with the decision ...

A honey spill at a busy Florida intersection drew thousands of bees to their deaths last Thursday (October 16).

A flatbed truck carrying thousands of pounds of honey hit a nasty bump on Del Prado Boulevard in North Fort Meyers, spilling 200 gallons of the sweet stuff all over the road. Soon enough, thousands of honeybees started swarming the pool, drawn by the smell.

Unfortunately, the bees got stuck in the massive honey spill — and when cars drove over them, they were crushed to death beneath their tires.

No one besides the bees was hurt in the accident. The local fire department teamed up with the Florida Department of Transportation to clean up the spill.

Honeybees are already suffering from colony collapse disorder, a significant drop in population numbers that’s probably because of the chemicals used in agricultural pesticides. This new honey tragedy can’t have helped them out at all. RIP little guys.

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During her recent appearance on the BBC’s “The Graham Norton Show,” Taylor Swift reminisced about the most British thing she’s ever done: sing karaoke with Prince William at Kensington Palace.

Sure, sure, we know it happened last winter, but let’s just reminisce along with her for a minute shall we?

In what she called her “first royal encounter,” Taylor was invited onstage by Jon Bon Jovi to sing “Livin’ on a Prayer” with Prince William during the Winter White Gala in London.

“I was very nervous for the whole thing,” she told Norton. Apparently, Prince William was, too: He freaked out to Taylor privately because he couldn’t remember any of the lyrics to Bon Jovi’s 1986 hit!

Luckily, the whole thing went off without a hitch. “We went up there and we sang along to ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ and I died,” Taylor said.

Watch a brief clip of the royal singalong below.

Classic Tuesday night with Jon Bon Jovi performing 'Living on a Prayer' with Taylor Swift and HRH

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The government official responsible for the safety of attendees at a K-pop concert where 16 fell to their deaths has committed suicide.

Sixteen concert-goers died after falling 60 feet through a ventilation grate at a festival in Seongnam, South Korea, yesterday (October 17). The official appointed to ensure the safety of the first Pangyo Techno Valley Festival was found dead today (October 18) at 7 a.m. local time. He jumped from a 10-story building, police confirmed.

The official, whose surname was Oh, left a brief note behind for his wife. It read, “I am sorry for the dead victims… Please take good care of my children.”

In addition to the 16 victims who passed away, 11 more attendees were seriously injured in the fall after they climbed atop a ventilation grate that could not hold their weight.

Festival-goers were watching the girl group 4Minute perform when the tragedy occurred.

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When Britney Spears and Madonna shared a kiss in the middle of their performance at the 2003 VMAs, it seemed like it could have been a spontaneous display of affection. But Britney’s manager Larry Rudolph has shared the inside scoop on the grueling rehearsals behind that iconic moment.

“Once that kiss happened, the world exploded,” said Rudolph in a new video interview with Billboard.

He told the magazine all about Madonna’s unforgiving rehearsal schedule: “Madonna had been very, very, very rigid about the rehearsals. She was telling Britney and I every day, ‘Be here tomorrow at 10 o’clock.’ She would never address me by name, she would just say, ‘You, make sure Britney’s here tomorrow at 10 o’clock.’ And I would say, ‘okay.’ You don’t want to upset her.”

After the kiss happened and the media firestorm erupted, Madonna made sure to thank Rudolph personally for getting Britney to rehearsals on time. He explained how she confronted him in an elevator after the show and gave him a big kiss on the lips. “You see, Larry? It was all worth it,” she said.

Watch Rudolph’s interview below.

Madonna has been in the studio working on her new album, though unfortunately we don’t see another collab with Britney in the cards.

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Although David Bowie Day might have come and gone, the legendary glam-rock singer and totally influential fashion icon just won’t quit. He’s got a brand-new single, an “American Horror Story: Freak Show” homage and even a museum exhibit dedicated to his damn self.

Related: 11 Artists Influenced By Iconic David Bowie

On Sunday (October 12), Bowie premiered his new single, “Sue (or In a Season of Crime),” on BBC Radio 6. The seven-minute prog odyssey is a long way away from the catchy glam-rock hits that shot him up the charts over 40 years ago, but it still features plenty of the singer’s freakish charms. It’ll appear on Bowie’s forthcoming compilation album, Nothing Has Changed, due out November 17.

That’s not all. On Wednesday (October 8), Jessica Lange’s character on “American Horror Story,” Elsa Mars, sang Bowie’s seminal “Life On Mars” in a bizarre stage show, even though this season is set 19 years before the single was released in 1971.

According to the show’s creator, Ryan Murphy, David Bowie was totally cool with his song appearing in the episode, as he identifies as a freak himself.

And in case you missed it, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art is currently hosting an entire exhibit on the star’s career called “David Bowie Is.” A documentary by the same name based on the collection saw its stateside release at the end of September.

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Beyoncé and husband Jay Z weren’t the only ones who had a great weekend at the Louvre. After throwing up an impeccable selfie on Instagram, Bey shared photos of her adorable 2-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy, spinning in a pink dress at the famous Paris art museum.

Related: Beyoncé Slays The Louvre With Her “Mona Lisa” Smize

In between taking in some of the world’s most beautiful art, the Knowles-Carter family paused to dance through the hallways and take absolutely perfect family snapshots of each other. I don’t know if it gets any cuter than these!

Blue Ivy’s fashion game is already on-point. Wait, is she pulling a Marilyn Monroe on that vent?

Bey and her little girl shared a hug between sculptures.

Jay and Blue high-fived in front of the “Mona Lisa.”

These three get our vote for cutest family.

Blue even took a few photos herself!

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