{"id":83154,"date":"2025-07-22T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83154\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:20:13","slug":"tenacious-d-breakup-drama-involves-george-clooney-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/83154\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious D Breakup Drama Involves George Clooney, Hunter Biden?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"taxonomy\">Posted in: <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tv\/hbo\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tv\/max\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tv\/\" rel=\"category nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TV<\/a> | Tagged: <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/george-clooney\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">george clooney<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/tag\/tenacious-d\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tenacious d<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt\" style=\"font-weight:lighter;margin:6px 0;font-size:1.1em;clear:both;\">An interviewer with Hunter Biden alleged that George Clooney had a hand in the breakup between Jack Black and Kyle Gass, aka Tenacious D.<\/p>\n<p>Published Mon, 21 Jul 2025 19:37:03 -0500 by <a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/author\/rflook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Flook<\/a><\/p>\n<p> | <\/p>\n<p>The breakup of <strong>Jack Black<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Gass<\/strong>\u2026 otherwise known as &#8220;The Greatest Rock Duo to Ever Rock The Planet&#8221;\u2026 otherwise known as &#8220;The D&#8221;\u2026 otherwise known as Tenacious D\u2026 is a subject that we&#8217;ve been following over the past year or so. It&#8217;s also a topic that&#8217;s pretty much gone cold over the past several months \u2013 but that changed in a very surprising way that would lead you to believe we were making it up. During an interview with U.S. President <strong>Joseph Biden<\/strong>&#8216;s son, <strong>Hunter Biden<\/strong>, reporter <strong>Andrew Callaghan<\/strong> from Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan claimed that <strong>George Clooney<\/strong> pressured Black to break up the band. No, that&#8217;s not the plot for the sequel to &#8220;The Pick of Destiny II,&#8221; but let&#8217;s start with a quick history lesson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com\/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:75\/https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MixCollage-21-Jul-2025-08-07-PM-4689.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com\/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73\/w:600\/h:338\/q:75\/https:\/\/bleedingcool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MixCollage-21-Jul-2025-08-07-PM-4689.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2256447\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20600%20338%22%20width%3D%22600%22%20height%3D%22338%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Tenacious D\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"\/><\/a>Image: Photo: Scott Kowalchyk\/CBS; Tenacious D\/New Line<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, here&#8217;s what went down. Back in July 2024, Gass&#8217; birthday was being celebrated on-stage during their performance at Australia&#8217;s ICC Sydney Theater. At one point, Gass was asked to make a wish before blowing out the candle on his birthday cake. &#8220;Don&#8217;t miss Trump next time,&#8221; was Gass&#8217; response, referring to the assassination attempt made on <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> only a day or so earlier. Well, it didn&#8217;t take long for news (and footage) of the moment to hit social media and start making headlines. Black would take to social media to make the case that he was &#8220;blindsided&#8221; by what Gass said and that he didn&#8217;t endorse hate speech or violence &#8220;in any form&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Black would announce that the world tour was on hold and that &#8220;creative plans are on hold&#8221; for Tenacious D. For his part, Gass would post an apology on social media, noting that when he said was\u00a0&#8220;highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake&#8221; and that he wasn&#8217;t looking to condone violence &#8220;of any kind, in any form, against anyone \u2013 though he would later delete his apology. During the August 2024 premiere of Borderlands, Black <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/music\/news\/jack-black-tenacious-d-be-back-tour-cancellation-kyle-gass-trump-1236098171\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offered some hope<\/a> that &#8220;The D&#8221; would be back: &#8220;We need to take a break. Everybody needs a break sometime, and we&#8217;ll be back.&#8221; On a personal level, Black and Gass have still maintained their friendship, with Black adding, &#8220;Yeah, we&#8217;re friends. That hasn&#8217;t changed. These things take time sometimes\u2026 And we&#8217;ll be back when it feels right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that everyone&#8217;s caught up, that brings us to the Hunter Biden\/Callaghan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBbkt2vYC4M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a>. &#8220;My only really famous Hollywood friend is actor Jack Black, we used to be neighbors in [Los Angeles], and Tenancious D did a concert in Sydney Australia, and, this is the day after they tried to assassinate Trump, and I guess Jack Black&#8217;s guitarist or whatever jumps up on stage, and he yells something into the effect of &#8216;Hey, next time you try to shoot Trump, aim a little bit closer,'&#8221; Callaghan shared at one point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;George Clooney is blowing his phone up, being like, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t kick your bandmember out of the band and, like, publicly denounce this guy \u2014&#8217; like I don&#8217;t know what the consequences were, but it was kind of like, &#8216;You&#8217;re out!&#8217; Out of what, we don&#8217;t know. And so his hand was basically forced to be like, &#8216;Oh, sorry, my band member has serious mental-health problems. We&#8217;re breaking up the band for now. The tour is canceled,'&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the initial reporting of the comments made during the interview, reps for Black and Clooney <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/george-clooney-forced-jack-black-break-up-tenacious-d-1236465988\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had not responded to a request for a comment<\/a>. Also, Callaghan is paraphrasing and not quoting what was said in his remarks above, and the timeline offered isn&#8217;t completely in line with what went down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enjoyed this? 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