Claressa Shields is clapping back at internet users after she sparked heat for saying she wishes she could “surprise” Papoose with a baby for his birthday.

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Claressa Shields Claps Back After Saying She Wishes She Could “Surprise” Papoose With A Baby

During the early hours of Monday, March 2, Claressa Shields took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share a few words about her man, her man, her man, Papoose.

“My man deserve everything. I wish for his bday I could surprise him with a baby,” she wrote, while sharing a photo of her and Pap.

Shields’ words immediately sparked reactions, with one user, @nichnyati, writing, “Girl bye, begging for a baby on the internet while he’s still rapping about being single in 2025 is wild…  Keep that undefeated energy in the ring, not in the delivery room.”

This prompted Shields to reply:

“Are you ret**ded?”

But that wasn’t it. Additionally, another X user, @sheis_hennessy, wrote, “Girl he’s married , pls be fr ! You have entire legacy to maintain , pls be fr !”

To which Shields replied:

“Sybau, it’s called divorce goofy ass”

Furthermore, another X user, @easterlycahrles, wrote, “Why don’t you. Quit boxing for a year, and make a baby. It’s easy. Go home get in the sack. Get real hot and bothered- foreplay- yes fore play. , sense it’s birthday…”

This prompted Shields to dish more on her and Pap’s apparent baby plans.

“Hell naw lol. We planning for end of year”

Peep her tweet, the reactions, and her replies by swiping below.

To note, Shields also opened up about her baby plans in December 2025. As The Shade Room previously reported, at the time, Shields noted that she wants to have a baby in 2026 and is supportive of Pap’s hopes of it being a boy.

Social Media Weighs In After Claressa Shields Claps Back

Social media users shared their thoughts on Claressa Shields’ initial tweet and clapbacks in TSR’s comment section.

She Also Sparked Reactions Dancing To Shoutout From Megan Thee Stallion

Claressa Shields’ latest baby comments arrived on the heels of Megan Thee Stallion shouting her and Papoose out on her ‘B.B.B.’ remix verse. As The Shade Room previously reported, the track was released last week, and on it, Meg raps, “Just like Claressa, he love this Papoosey, Get In that flow state, he don’t wanna lose me.”

But that wasn’t it. Over the weekend, Shields showed Meg’s verse some love by dancing to it in footage shared online. In turn, Meg slid in her comment section, hyping her up.

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Bridgerton has gone through some onscreen recasts and book changes, which has caused some fans to worry that more main characters will look different in future seasons of the hit Netflix series.

Based on Julia Quinn‘s book series, the Regency show follows different members of a wealthy family as they each search for love in 19th century London. After the show premiered in 2020, Bridgerton went through cast changes when Regé-Jean Page left the show after season 1 and his onscreen love interest Phoebe Dynevor‘s screen time was cut as a result.

Other former leads had significantly less scenes from season to season while one member of the Bridgerton family — Francesca — was recast with Hannah Dodd taking over for Ruby Stokes. With there being eight seasons planned in total and multiple years before seasons, some have questioned whether more cast changes are coming up.

Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the recasting concerns:

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The Key Players

Season 1 of Netflix’s Bridgerton centered around Daphne Bridgerton (Dynevor) and Simon Basset (Page), who were the leads of the first book, The Duke and I.

Season 2 took inspiration from The Viscount Who Loved Me, which followed Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey) as he found love with Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley). Despite Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) being the subject of the third novel — An Offer From a Gentleman — his love story with newcomer Sophie (Yerin Ha) wasn’t explored until season 4.

The third season instead focused on Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) as seen in Quinn’s book Romancing Mister Bridgerton.

The Gist

Showrunner Jess Brownell confirmed in January 2026 that Eloise (Claudia Jessie) and Phillip Crane (Chris Fulton) or Francesca (Dodd) and Michaela (Masali Baduza) are next in line.

With the long filming schedules causing years between seasons, some fans have expressed concern that Fulton could be replaced as Phillip after being gone since season 2. There were also questions about whether younger Bridgerton siblings Hyacinth (Florence Hunt) and Gregory (Will Tilston) will be played by other actors despite being cast in the show as kids.

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What Has Been Said

Quinn broke her silence in February 2026 on possible changes in future seasons.

“I don’t necessarily know how they’re gonna spin it or write it or what they’re going to keep and change,” Quinn exclusively told Us Weekly while teasing Eloise’s upcoming season.

Quinn also weighed in on Hyacinth and Gregory’s respective seasons.

“It’s funny because they were, like, 12 and 13 when they started. If you asked me that back then [about the same actors playing them as adults], I’d be like, ‘I don’t know.’ But when I saw them again at the premiere, they were both drinking wine,” she told Us. “They’re both 18 now and Will was there with his girlfriend.”

The author pointed out that there were still a few years before It’s In His Kiss and On the Way to the Wedding will be featured with their own seasons.

“[Showrunner] Jess [Brownell] has said the next two seasons will be either Eloise and then Francesca or Francesca and then Eloise, which makes sense. It takes a few years to film, so by the time we get to Hyacinth and Gregory, the actors are going to be well into their 20s,” Quinn explained. “So I think it’ll probably be OK. Will it be weird that we knew them when they were 12? We see child stars grow up all the time.”

She continued: “As a writer, it was hard to write those two books at first. I really had to let them grow up in my mind a bit and that was hard for both of them. I was really glad it took several years — but even so — I can’t remember how much time passed in the writing. I really had to let them grow up. It was tough.”

Brownell, meanwhile, confirmed that Eloise’s romantic future won’t change. “I think we are interested in honoring the love interest from Eloise’s book. I can dispel, she’s not ending up with Theo. She’s ending up with the love interest from her book,” she told Swooon.

The showrunner also shut down other possible recasting — such as Daphne and Simon. “We are not interested in recasting the characters,” Brownell told Variety in February 2026. “I think it would feel like a disservice to everything Regé and Phoebe set up in season 1, and all the beautiful work they put into those characters.”

What’s Next

In addition to Eloise’s To Sir Phillip, With Love and Francesca’s When He Was Wicked, Hyacinth’s It’s In His Kiss and Gregory’s On the Way to the Wedding are the only remaining books left to bring to life.

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The X-Files is a show with many fine qualities, including inventive scripts and top-notch actors. Arguably, though, the show’s biggest strength was its ability to gross its audience out with some of the creepiest creatures to ever grace the small screen. The best example of this is the Flukeman, a horrific monster that haunts the sewers and can emerge from the toilet to kill its victims.

The episode does a wonderful job of capitalizing on its audience’s fears, and more than a few fans started taking a second glance at the toilet after watching “The Host.” After all, this episode (written by X-Files creator Chris Carter) had enough freaky details to make you sick, and many of us are still processing what we first saw all those decades ago. However, what most fans never realized is that this episode made the crew quite literally sick for a simple reason: it was partially filmed at a real sewage treatment plant!

The Smell Is Out There

The plot of “The Host” is that FBI Agent Fox Mulder (who is stuck on dead-end cases because the X-Files has been shut down) is assigned to investigate the death of a Russian whose body washed up in Newark, New Jersey. After pounding the pavement and visiting a sewage treatment plant, Mulder discovers the horrifying truth: the Russian was killed by a human-sized flukeworm. He captures this Flukeman, but after it escapes custody, Mulder ends up cutting the creature in half with a sewer overflow pipe, preventing it from escaping into the ocean and creating more of its kind.

“The Host” is considered the gold standard for “monster of the week” episodes, and The X-Files crew did a great job bringing this terrifying tale to life. They really went the extra mile, including creating a sprawling sewer set that even included real tanks and running water. However, other shots required even more verisimilitude, and that meant getting down and dirty by filming in an actual sewage plant.

Nobody Was Ready For The Smell

As you might imagine, this location stunk to high heaven. Making matters worse, this X-Files episode was being filmed on a hot summer’s day, so the producers offered crew members an option: they could either take the day off or wear special rebreathers (which cost the show a small fortune to acquire) to help ward off the smell. In a stunning show of solidarity, nobody took the day off, and the breathing equipment helped ward off the awful smell long enough for them to finish shooting the episode.

However, there was just one problem with this plan to manage the stench: the location of the catering truck. The truck for the crew was located outside, upwind, and as far away from the sewage treatment plant as the producers could manage. On paper, this would allow the crew to grab some much-needed lunch without having to worry about the horrific smell of the plant.

Unfortunately, the catering truck wasn’t as far upwind as it needed to be, and the results were instantaneous: several production staff members who had ditched their breathing equipment to grab a bite got violently ill. They all gathered at a fence on the outside perimeter of the sewage treatment plant, and they all shared the same purpose. Namely, to empty out their stomachs, vomiting until there was absolutely nothing left!

Trust No One (Especially Your Nose)

Still, the crew got back to work and finished shooting one of the best episodes of The X-Files to ever grace the small screen. It wasn’t easy, though, and production staffer Al Campbell (as reported in X Marks the Spot (On Location with The X-Files)) later reported his trick for whenever he felt queasy: “I’d visit the primary sedimentation tank – the place where the raw, untreated sewage came in.” He reported that after “a couple of minutes of that, and I’d go back to whatever I was doing, feeling relieved and grateful that nothing else was as bad as where I’d just been.”

The X-Files remains one of the most captivating shows in television history, and this story proves that the cast was never afraid to get down and dirty to provide us with one killer episode after another. “The Host” literally made the crew working on it sick, but this didn’t keep them from creating the ultimate monster of the week episode. Forget blood, sweat, and tears: it turns out that puke is the real secret ingredient of the creepiest TV show ever made!