NEW YORK — Tracy Morgan says food poisoning was to blame for his taking ill during Monday's Knicks-Heat game, and that he's “doing OK.”

The actor-comedian posted an update on Instagram Tuesday morning, along with a smiling photo from a hospital bed, thanking fans for their concern. He also suggested humorously that perhaps his health episode spelled good luck for the Knicks.

“I’m doing ok now and doctors say it was food poisoning. Appreciate my MSG family for taking such good care of me and I need to shout out the crew that had to clean that up. Appreciate you!” Morgan wrote.

“More importantly, the Knicks are now 1-0 when I throw up on the court so maybe I’ll have to break it out again in the playoffs,” he quipped, ending his post with a #goknicks hashtag.

Morgan took ill in the second half of Monday night’s Heat-Knicks game, interrupting the action at Madison Square Garden with 6:09 left in the third quarter while workers cleaned up the area around his seat. The delay lasted more than 10 minutes. The Knicks went on to win, 116-95.

The 56-year-old Morgan, a longtime Knicks fan, was featured prominently during the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary weekend events, at both the “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” and the live “SNL50: The Anniversary Celebration” special.

He also has an upcoming untitled comedy pilot on NBC opposite Daniel Radcliffe, in which he plays a disgraced former football player looking to remake his image.

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Courtney Love says she’s fleeing Trump’s America

Rock star Courtney Love counts herself among the growing number of stars fleeing the U.S. to live abroad because of President Donald Trump’s return to power.

The “Doll Parts” singer told audience members at the Royal Geographical Society in London she plans to have British citizenship in six months, according to numerous social and traditional media reports.

“I’m really glad I’m here,” she reportedly said. “It’s so great to live here.”

Love called Trump’s return to the White House “frightening” and likened the new culture in Washington, D.C., to poison.

Comedian Rosie O’Donnell posted video to TikTok last week telling fans she and her child are living in Ireland until it’s “safe” to return to the U.S. Comic Ellen DeGeneres and her actor wife Portia de Rossi relocated to the United Kingdom after the 47th president was elected.

Singers Cher and Barbra Streisand have spoken about fleeing the country because of Trump, but don’t appear to have done so.

Trump, himself a former reality TV star, hasn’t expressed sadness over the celebrities he’s driven out of the country. He praised a MAGA reporter who asked Irish leader Micheál Martin why his country welcomed O’Donnell during an Oval Office press event last week.

“You’re better off not knowing her,” Trump told his Irish counterpart.

How to Academy, which sponsored the event earlier this month where Love reportedly announced her relocation, couldn’t be reached for comment. Video posted online shows the 60-year-old singer performing Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” at that gathering.

Love told the Soho House lifestyle blog in 2022 she had a home in London. It’s not clear if that’s her current residence. She also told concertgoers in London last year that she’d been “living in a cave in Birmingham” for nearly a decade.

The former Hole singer, whose rock star husband Kurt Cobain shot himself in the couple’s Washington state property in 1994, told the blog one of the things she most likes about London is its lack of guns.

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Will Smith is returning to music with a new album, ‘Based On A True Story,’ and a tour

Will Smith has announced his return to music. The “West Philadelphia born-and-raised” rapper and actor who rose to fame in the late 1980s as one-half of the musical duo DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, has not released an album under his own name since 2005′s Lost and Found.

That will change next week, when Smith returns as a solo artist with Based On a True Story, a 14-track album that comes out on March 28 on Slang Records. The set features contributions from Smith’s old partner Jeffrey Townes, plus Fridayy, Teyana Taylor, Big Sean, Joyner Lucas, and Smith’s son Jaden Smith.

Smith, who made his solo debut with 1997′s Big Willie Style, which produced the signature hit “Gettin’ Jiggy wit It,” teased the project with the single “Beautiful Scars” earlier this year.

The album, with a cover that photographs Smith outfitted in a Phillies jacket and cap, will also include “You Can Make It,” a song he released with Fridayy and the Sunday Service Choir last year.

In January, Smith told Billboard that the album was shaped by soul searching that began during the filming of the 2022 movie The Emancipation. It continued, he said, in the aftermath of the incident at that year’s Oscars ceremony in which he slapped Chris Rock during the live broadcast after the comedian mocked Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.

“After the Oscars, that spiritual investigation continued and a whole world woke up inside that I didn’t even know was there. Dreams, visions; parts of my inner landscape that I had no awareness of prior to three years ago,” Smith told Billboard.

“And that opened up this bubbling to share what I’m seeing and experiencing,” said Smith, who narrated the “In Memoriam” segment for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air executive producer and his mentor Quincy Jones, at this year’s Grammy Awards.

“A big part of my music now is about that: the ecstatic kind of joy I remember from church when I was growing up; the ability to try to make this place more bearable. You know, I’ve always had a wild imagination; that’s part of who I am. But there’s something new happening with me that’s demanding I explore musically.”

Smith has also announced his “Based On a True Story” tour, which kicks of in Rabat, Morocco, on June 25 and carries on in Europe through the summer, culminating in Paris on Sept. 2. North American dates have not been announced.

From combined wire services