Sylvester Stallone and wife Jennifer Flavin are the parents of three adult daughters, who just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on May 17. 

But as of Tuesday morning, there’s a new female in the Stallone household that’s trying to grab all of the Rocky star’s attention.

It turns out the family cat, Mabel, won’t stop kissing and licking Stallone’s neck, and the newfound obsession all started when he put on a certain brand of cologne.

Obsessed kitty! Sylvester Stallone, 75, found out on Tuesday that he has a new female vying for his attention: Mabel the cat

Straight off the top of the video, Mabel the cat can be seen showering her owner with kiss after kiss and lick after lick on his neck.

Looking absolutely determined, Mabel continues on and won’t stop smooching away, to the point where it almost resembles a cat tasting its food.

‘Listen, I can really make some sick jokes about this, but I’m going to refrain,’ the Rambo actor says as the brown, black and white-patterned kitty remains focused on his neck.

‘But this cat, for some reason, has ignored me, for I don’t know, seven years. And now it’s giving me a hickey. I don’t get it,’ he explained of their changing relationship.

Maybe it’s the smell: The Rocky star says Mabel the cat began her obsession Tuesday morning after he put on Tom Ford cologne

Taking it in stride: ‘Listen, I can really make some sick jokes about this, but I’m going to refrain,’ Stallone said as the brown, black and white-patterned kitty remained focused on his neck

The Rambo actor and director joked that his cat is giving him ‘a hickey’ after ignoring him for seven years

A woman from behind the camera, possibly his wife, suggested the cat’s newfound affinity for Stallone could be because of the smell of a new cologne he put on earlier in the day.

‘All I know is I put on Tom For cologne this morning, so if you want your cat to really give you some soulful kissing, go for the Tom Ford,’ he joked.

The actor, director and screenwriter would also show off his sense of humor when he wrote in the caption: ‘What to do when Mabel the cat gets inappropriate! #tomford #catnip’

Theory: A woman from behind the camera, possibly Stallone’s wife Jennifer Flavin, suggested the cat’s newfound affinity for Stallone’s neck could be due to the smell of the Tom Ford cologne he put on earlier in morning on Tuesday

Jokester: ‘All I know is I put on Tom For cologne this morning, so if you want your cat to really give you some soulful kissing, go for the Tom Ford,’ he said with obvious humor

One Wednesday, Stallone took back to his Instagram page to wish his youngest daughter, Scarlet Stallone, a happy 20th birthday.

‘A Glorious birthday to our wonderful daughter @scarletstallone… You are a gift!’ the prod father gushed in the caption, alongside a photo of Scarlett getting hugs and kisses from her sisters Sofia, 25, and Sistine, 23.

Stallone has no less than three films in some form of post-production that are expected to premiere in 2022: Samaritan, The Expendables 4 and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.

Birthday girl: One Wednesday, Stallone took back to his Instagram page to wish his youngest daughter, Scarlet Stallone, a happy 20th birthday

Sly and his ladies: Stallone and wife Jennifer Flavin, who celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary May 17, are the proud parents of three ladies: Sofia, 25. Scarlet, 20, and Sistine, 23

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Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of ‘crazy’ and ‘evil’ conspiracy theories that have been spreading about him on social media since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist said he has been the subject of millions of online posts and ‘crazy conspiracy theories’, and insists he would like to get to the bottom of what’s behind them.

The wild theories involving Gates, whose foundation has donated over a billion to coronavirus vaccine and treatment research, include unfounded claims he developed COVID-19 in a lab and wants to use the vaccine to implant microchip tracking devices into billions of people.

Another leading public figure in the fight against the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, has also become a target of several conspiracies, including claims he created the virus and is now blocking natural cures for it.

‘Nobody would have predicted that I and Dr. Fauci would be so prominent in these really evil theories,’ Gates told Reuters Wednesday.

‘I’m very surprised by that. I hope it goes away.’

Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of ‘crazy’ and ‘evil’ conspiracy theories that have been spreading about him on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic

Health professionals say vaccine misinformation could have lethal consequences if it leads people to opt for bogus cures instead

Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp in 2014, has through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19.

Since the pandemic began a year ago,conspiracies have spread over the internet, fueling misinformation about the coronavirus, its origins and the motives of those working to fight it.

In the first few months of the pandemic alone, between February and April last year, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking Gates to the origins of COVID-19 were mentioned more than 1.2 million times on television and social media, according to a New York Times study.

Then, in May 2020, a Yahoo News/You Gov poll found that 28 percent of US adults believed that Gates was plotting to use a potential vaccine to implant microchips into billions of people to track their movements.

Meanwhile, other conspiracies gathered momentum that included claims Gates was seeking to cull 15 percent of the population with the vaccine, and he was also falsely quoted as saying the vaccine would ‘no doubt’ kill 700,000 people.

At Trump rallies, anti-lockdown protests, and Q-Anon drives, countless participants have been observed holding signs supporting the Gates conspiracies, that often include the tagline ‘#SayNoToBillGates’.

The genesis of the distorted theories is believed to date back to a 2015 video, when, during a TED Talk in Vancouver, Gates issued a dire warning that, ‘if anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it is likely to be a highly infectious virus, rather than a war.’

Conspiracy theorists claim the premonition is proof that Gates had prior knowledge about the coronavirus.

During his Wednesday interview with Reuters, Gates asked: ‘But do people really believe that stuff?

‘We’re really going to have to get educated about this over the next year and understand… how does it change peoples’ behavior and how should we have minimized this?’

In the first few months of the pandemic alone, between February and April last year, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking Gates to the origins of COVID-19 were mentioned more than 1.2 million times 

During his Wednesday interview with Reuters, Gates asked: ‘But do people really believe that stuff?’

What Are Some of the Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories?

The main conspiracy theory involving Gates is that he intends to use the COVID-19 vaccine to implant a microchip into the arms of billions of people to track their movements.

A theory that Gates wanted to cull 15 percent of the population through the vaccine has also been peddled, as have false claims that he developed the deadly virus in a lab.

Other baseless theories include:

Gates offered a similar bemusement to the conspiracies during a key-note address at the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in December.

‘I’m surprised at all the conspiracy theories — people who think the vaccine is not meant to save lives. That’s all wrong, but the scale of it is a bit scary in terms of, will that prevent people from being willing to take the vaccine, and why are they looking for these simple explanations?’

Gates said the goal of his foundation’s vaccine development work is to advance public goods for global health through technological innovation by accelerating the development and commercialization of novel vaccines and the sustainable manufacture of existing ones.

‘Even [U.S. coronavirus expert] Dr. Fauci or myself, our basic motivation for being involved in this work has been questioned; maybe there’s something malign about that,’ Gates said. ‘I’m hopeful that the digital tools can get the truth out, as well as it’s gotten these conspiracy theories out.’

Bill Gates, who is America’s biggest owner of private farmland, is among the world’s richest people, with only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos boasting deeper pockets.

Prof Joseph Uscinski, a political scientist at the University of Miami and author of books on conspiracy theories, told the BBC last year said Gates has become a ‘voodoo doll’ of conspiracies simply because he is rich and famous.

‘Conspiracy theories are about accusing powerful people of doing terrible things,’ he said. ‘The theories are basically the same, just the names change.

‘Before Bill Gates, it was George Soros and the Koch brothers and the Rothchilds and the Rockefellers.’

Gates, a billionaire who stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp in 2014, has through his philanthropic Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation committed at least $1.75 billion to the global response to the COVID-19

At Trump rallies, anti-lockdown protests, and Q-Anon drives, countless participants have been observed holding signs supporting the Gates conspiracies, that often read ‘#SayNoToBillGates’ 

While Uscinski says the majority of conspiracy theories ‘die on the vine’, the ones that endure are those that offer ‘big villains and address issues that people care about’.

‘It should come as no surprise that rich people and big corporations are being accused of conspiring to put chips in our necks because that is a thing we fear,’ he said. ‘This has been the ammo of conspiracy theories for a long, long time.’

The rise of social media has also helped to propel theories such as the ones involving Gates into the public sphere.

‘Before the internet, they were self-contained and existed only in their own echo chambers or bubbles within certain communities, but the internet allows them to travel across political lines, between communities, so I think there is much more scope to mainstream conspiracy theories than before the internet,’ Rory Smith, from fact-checkers First Draft News, also told the BBC.

He added that conspiracy theories have particularly flourished amid the pandemic because people are more ‘psychologically vulnerable.’

‘This crisis is unprecedented in size and scope and the advice shifts as new studies are published. There are large areas of uncertainty and humans abhor uncertainty,’ Smith said.

‘We grab onto any information to inject some sort of sense and order and that is when the rumor mill starts. Conspiracy theories – and notably Bill Gates conspiracy theories – fill these informational vacuums.’

The rise of social media has also helped to propel theories such as the ones involving Gates into the public sphere, as people are said to be more ‘psychologically vulnerable’

Looking ahead, Gates praised Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins, head of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, as ‘smart’ and ‘wonderful people’ to Reuters on Wednesday.

Gates said he’s looking forward to seeing them be able to work effectively and speak the truth under the new administration of Joe Biden.

During former President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic, Gates said, it had ‘sometimes felt like they were the only sane people in the U.S. government.’

‘I’m excited about the team that Biden has picked’ to tackle the health crisis, Gates said.

Gates said he was also pleased that under Biden, the United States has rejoined the World Health Organization, and ‘that he’s appointed smart people, and the fact that Dr. Fauci won’t be suppressed.’

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