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UPDATE, WRITETHRU with more detail: Shortly before he was due to appear on ITV’s Good Morning Britain today, Ewan McGregor pulled out of the interview, citing comments made about this weekend’s Women’s March by host Piers Morgan. A supporter of President Donald Trump, Morgan yesterday on the program described some of the women who marched as “rabid feminists” and said he didn’t “see the point of the march(es)” which he called “generic” and “vacuous.” On Twitter this morning, McGregor, who is out promoting Trainspotting sequel T2: Trainspotting, wrote, “Was going on Good Morning Britain, didn’t realise Piers Morgan was host. Won’t go on with him after his comments about #WomensMarch.” Was going on Good Morning Britain, didn’t realise @piersmorgan was host. Won’t go on with him after his comments about #WomensMarch — Ewan McGregor (@mcgregor_ewan) January 24, 2017 On his Twitter account (whose timeline photo is of he and Trump), Morgan responded by saying McGregor is “just an actor after all.” Sorry to hear that @mcgregor_ewan – you should be big enough to allow people different political opinions. You’re just an actor after all. — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) January 24, 2017 Morgan also tweeted he expected McGregor was reacting to his Monday column in the Daily Mail in which he called himself “a feminist,” but decried comments made by Madonna on Saturday saying, “I can’t abide the feminazis, the radical, extreme feminists like Madonna.” On Tuesday, Morgan took to the middle-market UK tabloid to launch a vicious attack on McGregor where he referred to the actor as “unprofessional” and “disingenuous.” “An actor who had contractually agreed to appear on a TV show to promote his new film pulls out at the last minute because he doesn’t like the political opinion of one of the presenters,” said Morgan. Morgan said that after scrolling through McGregor’s Twitter feed, it “revealed a man absolutely enraged by both Donald Trump’s ascent to the presidency, and by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union.” He added: “His fury at the latter may strike some as slightly disingenuous given that McGregor himself quit the EU years ago to go and live the life of a pampered millionaire movie star in Hollywood. But I’ll leave others to decide whether that is hypocritical or not.” The presenter continued his tirade by taking a swipe at celebrities who take the podium to make “political statements that remain unchallenged,” which he says was “typified by Meryl Streep’s extraordinarily pompous and elitist anti-Trump speech at the recent Golden Globes.” Morgan even suggested that those who voted for Trump or for Brexit to “now boycott his movies” before criticizing McGregor for being “paedophile-loving” due to the fact he worked on Roman Polanski’s film The Ghostwriter. A spokesperson for Good Morning Britain told the BBC today that McGregor “came into GMB this morning to be interviewed about his new film but decided not to go ahead with it.” Per the Guardian, Morgan said on the telecast this morning, “Sorry that Ewan McGregor’s not here. He couldn’t bear the thought of being on the sofa with me because he doesn’t agree with me about the women’s march… I have to agree with what an actor thinks about a particular issue because they’re actors. And as we know actors’ views are more important than anybody else’s.” McGregor’s daughters had marched on Saturday. I’m with you in spirit today women of the world. My daughters are marching. I’m so proud to see this extraordinary power. — Ewan McGregor (@mcgregor_ewan) January 21, 2017 The long-awaited Trainspotting sequel reunites director Danny Boyle with McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller and Ewen Bremner. The world premiere was held earlier this week in Edinburgh with the UK release coming Friday via Sony.

Kim Zolciak-Biermann is used to having the cameras around her. She started out on The Real Housewives of Atlanta and even has her own show now called Don’t Be Tardy. Kim is returning to this season of RHOA and now she is speaking out about the one thing that is bad about having your entire life filmed. E! Online shared what Kim had to say about it all. A new season of Don’t Be Tardy will start airing on Friday. This show lets everyone get a glimpse into her everyday life. E! News had to ask Kim what was hard about having the cameras around all the time. Kim did share that Bravo is really respectful about everything with her family especially when her son Kash ended up being attacked by a dog. Kim said she couldn’t do a show like this for a network that didn’t respect her and it sounds like they are great about working with her. Another thing that Kim Zolciak-Biermann shared is that she just lives her life and the cameras are there. Most of their life gets filmed and as fans have seen ends up airing on the show. Kim is fine with that most of the time. Viewers have seen her fight with the kids and more on their show. So what does Kim Zolciak-Biermann think is a downside to having the cameras around all the time? She said, “That’s the only real down side is where there is something like super major going on that’s kind of difficult.” Kim was talking about the time when her son Kash was attacked by a dog. The cameramen were there and filming. Kash was hurt pretty bad and had to have surgery. It does look like Kim Zolciak-Biermann is going to let the fans see some of what went down with Kash when he was attacked. So far, Kim hasn’t revealed a lot like who the dog belonged to or how it went down. More than likely, she is saving all of that for the show. https://www.instagram.com/p/BY8RRxzh62r/?hl=en&taken-by=kimzolciakbiermann Are you excited for a new season of Don’t Be Tardy? Don’t miss the new season with Kim Zolciak-Biermann and her family starting on Friday on Bravo. Kim will also show up on the new season of RHOA when it starts airing. [Featured Image by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images]

Laura Loomer, a conservative investigative journalist, is charging “Auntie” Maxine for assault, citing Waters hit her hand and swatted her face with office papers.Laura Loomer, a conservative investigative journalist, is charging “Auntie” Maxine for assault, citing Waters hit her hand and swatted her face with office papers.Waters squirmed as she was confronted by Loomer and requested to meet privately in her office. Waters swiped at Loomer’s camera and swatted Loomer with her office papers.Watch:After the incident, Loomer vowed to hold the left accountable for their hypocritical actions.

Slow your roll ‘Baywatch’ fans. Alexandra Daddario is squashing claims that she’s loved up with costar Zac Efron. Alexandra Daddario, 32, wants to make something very clear: She’s not dating Zac Efron. Yes, he was her love interest in the 2017 Baywatch film but the actress claims that, in real life, they’re just “good friends.” Alexandra clarified their relationship in an interview with PEOPLE. Crushing the hopes of Baywatch fans everywhere, she said on May 31, “We’re very good friends. Zac and I’ve worked together, and we’re very good friends.” It’s not the first time that Alexandra has claimed that Zac, 30, is in the friendship zone. In May 2017, she told E! News, “We work together closely; he’s my love interest in the film. I understand why people would go crazy over something like that, but Zac and I are very good friends.” So, what happened? Alexandra’s comments don’t match what HollywoodLife and other outlets have been told about the status of her relationship with Zac. In April a source EXCLUSIVELY told us that the actress has been “very coy” about their rumored romance. The person added, “But people that are close to her know that this a defense mechanism because she really wants it to work and doesn’t want anything to get in the way of a great love match. She wants to make it look like she is single in public but is 100 percent all about Zac and the relationship they are brewing.” If we take Alexandra at her word, she and Zac have definitely – at the very least – formed their own mutual admiration society. On March 16, he posted a tribute to the actress on his Instagram page. Next to a photo of them together, he wished her a “Happy Birthday” calling her the, “most real, down to earth, stunning, intelligent, creative, loving and most rare Pokemon ever created.” And on April 4, when Alexandra posted a photo of her looking at her dog on Instagram, he commented, “Two hot b*tches.” Because, with flirting like that, of course people wouldn’t think they’re dating. Right?

Guess co-founder Paul Marciano is out. Following allegations of sexual harassment and a subsequent investigation, Marciano resigned as executive chairman on Tuesday. Allegations included “inappropriate comments and texts and unwanted advances including kissing and groping.” Investigators reviewed approximately 1.5 million pages of documents and interviewed more than 40 people. Nevertheless, Guess was unable to conclusively determine the veracity of the allegations leveled against Marciano in its investigation. In its filing, Guess said that “many of the allegations could not be corroborated,” but did note that “on certain occasions Paul Marciano exercised poor judgment in his communications with models and photographers.” In addition, the investigation found that Marciano did “place himself in situations in which plausible allegations of improper conduct could, and did, arise.” Guess said that Marciano reached settlements with five individuals, totaling $500,000. The names of the individuals were not released; however, supermodel Kate Upton has been public with her allegations of harassment and unwanted advances. Marciano’s resignation was reportedly voluntary. He plans to step down from the company’s board at the end of his contract on Jan. 30. Marciano had already stepped away from day-to-day operations in February after the company opened its investigation into his conduct. His older brother and fellow co-founder Maurice has been appointed chairman.

He set tongues wagging ever since he was pictured with model Tess Ward earlier this week. And now Harry Styles’ friends reportedly believe he is a 'great match' for his rumoured food blogger girlfriend. The 23-year-old singer and the 27-year-old beauty reportedly struck up a relationship after being introduced through mutual friends earlier this year. Scroll down for video 'Great match': Harry Styles’ friends believe he is a 'great match' for his rumoured food blogger girlfriend It's reported that insiders close to the Sweet Creature hitmaker have said they’re 'excited' for the star’s blossoming romance as they believe he 'deserves' a girlfriend. A source told E! News: 'I wouldn't say they [are] super serious or in love, but they're really getting to know each other. Every time they meet it's exciting. 'They're a great match. Everyone that has met them has only had good things to say. We're excited for him - he deserves a proper girlfriend.' MailOnline have contacted Harry Styles' reps for comment. Hot property: The 23-year-old singer and the 27-year-old beauty reportedly struck up a relationship after being introduced through mutual friends earlier this year The reports comes after his enormous fan base was determined to get to the bottom of his rumoured romance with Naked Diet chef, as eagle-eyed fans noticed the stunner sporting the same Gucci shirt as the 1D star. The hunk has reportedly enjoyed a string of dates with the health food-focused beauty, and many fans deemed the clothes share confirmation of the love, while other die-hard fans were disgruntled at the star's new relationship status. Harry soared to fame on The X Factor in 2010, as one-fifth of the wildly famous boy band, who have garnered a huge fan base - often seen online getting in explosive arguments about the various stars of the show. Sources claimed the pair had been on a 'number of dates' whilst the former One Direction singer has been in London promoting his upcoming debut solo album, due for release on Friday. Who's who? Harry's enormous fan base is determined to get to the bottom of his rumoured romance with Naked Diet chef Tess, as eagle-eyed fans noticed the stunner sporting the same Gucci shirt as the 1D star A source tells The Sun that the pair were introduced by mutual friends and they immediately hit it off. The insider explains: 'As soon as Harry met Tess there was an instant spark between them. 'They really bonded over their mutual love of quirky fashion and food – and things turned romantic quickly. 'They've been on a number of dates... This really seems different to Harry’s past relationships as Harry genuinely is besotted with Tess and doesn’t want to risk messing this one up.' Gucci steal! The hunk has reportedly enjoyed a string of dates with the health food-focused beauty and many fans deemed the clothes share confirmation of the love, while other die-hard fans were disgruntled at the star's new relationship status Hot new couple: Harry could have found the recipe for lasting romance after being linked to chef and blogger Tess Said mutual love of fashion appears to have cropped up in their mutual wardrobe item - which many fans were quick to insist was a mark of new romance. Adoring fans penned: '@harrystyles shirt... SOMEONE IS WEARING HAZZA's SHIRT...TOO CUTE... this shirt looks familiar... Harrys shirt?!... 'Is it a coincidence that they have the same shirt or... That shirtttt THIS IS SUPER SUSPICIOUS . Tess confess it to us if you & haz are dating... 'She's wearing his shirt & he hasn't denied the tabloid articles. They're dating, get over it.... You're really pretty but Gucci looks better on H'. 'Besotted': Harry soared to fame on The X Factor in 2010, as one-fifth of the wildly famous boy band, who have garnered a huge fan base - often seen online getting in explosive arguments about the various stars of the show Other loyal and seemingly hopeful fans, insisted the matching tops were indeed a coincidence as they penned: 'Omg, there are so many of those shirts, calm down... Y'all need to stop jumping to conclusions BECAUSE OF A GODDAMN SHIRT... bro anyone can buy the same shirts y'all are making such a big deal... 'Please tell me what the f**k is suspicious about a person who liked a shirt and bought it because she has the money to? Just because they have the same shirt as him doesn't mean s**t. Y'all really harassing her for no reason.' As ever with One Direction members, there was strong backlash while other kindhearted followers threw their support behind her. Users wrote: 'Tess I'm sorry for every disrespectful comment, here are a few different opinions but you know people like to talk and people like to say what the want. Just ignore it... Naughty! Tess was spotted with Harry last week as he used his mobile phone while driving, risking a £200 fine and six penalty points on his licence if pulled over by the authorities this fandom is embarrassing... This is the most embarrassing fandom to ever be a part of... I HAVE NO FANTASIES DUMBASS. you are the one being delusional and attacking her, f**king leave.' One unconvinced user wrote: 'let's see how long they're going to last. ill give it 2 months and i'm already stretching on it.' The pair were first spotted together last week as Harry drove his Audi through London. The star appeared to be using his mobile phone while driving, risking a £200 fine and six penalty points on his licence if pulled over by the authorities while Tess was in the passenger's seat. Recipe for love? The star reportedly enjoyed a string of dates with the health food-focused beauty, famed for her The Naked Diet cookbook MailOnline has reached out to Harry and Tess' representatives. Tess has garnered a huge online following thanks to her hit cookbooks and stunning looks. After training with top chefs at The Ritz, she ventured out on her own, focusing on simple, healthy cuisine. She also models and is a regular on the London social scene, having become pals with the likes of Suki Waterhouse, Millie Mackintosh and Amber Le Bon. Cool kid: She also models and is a regular on the London social scene, having become pals with the likes of Suki Waterhouse, Millie Mackintosh and Amber Le Bon Harry has enjoyed a string of high profile romances in the past, none of which have lasted long. After shooting to fame as a teen on The X Factor in 2010, he was linked to then Xtra Factor host Caroline Flack, who is 14 years his senior. He also enjoyed flings with pop star Taylor Swift and supermodel Kendall Jenner. Harry admitted before his reported new romance that he hadn’t dated for 'a long time' as he was busy filming war movie Dunkirk and working on his debut solo album. He said: 'I haven't dated in a long time really because I went away to do the movie then did the album so I haven't in a while. I have a couple of candles left still, though.' Cougar: After shooting to fame as a teen on The X Factor in 2010, Harry was linked to then Xtra Factor host Caroline Flack, who is 14 years his senior

We’re turning up on one of the most terrific time of the year, as well as no, we’re not discussing the vacations … It’s virtually honors period! Yes, the first to Hollywood’s craziest few months starts on Monday with the statement of the 2018 Golden Globes elections. Prior to we obtain there, it’s essential to take an appearance at the celebrities that are currently in talks for significant responds this year. Venture out supervisor Jordan Peele has several doubters claiming he’ll be for Ideal Movie, Funny, as well as Ideal Supervisor.

Best Director: “Manchester by the Sea” “I think I knew I had something special when the cast came together. And then I guess that first screening I understood that people related to the film like this. To me it’s one of the greatest performances. Casey [Affleck] really nailed it. Me and Casey just tried to focus on what is happening with that character and what he’s trying to do and what is getting in his way. It sounds kind of simple cause you do that with every character. But this character is dealing with a terrible loss while also trying to figure out to function. And I think Casey is so good at narrowing those waters, and always asked the right questions about the character. I didn’t really need to say that much. He liked to explore and I liked to explore, which made the experience that much more enjoyable.”

Flip or Flop is a television series airing on HGTV hosted by real estate agents and real-life husband and wife Tarek and Christina El Moussa,[1] and beginning with season 7, episode 6, the two continue working together although divorced. The show is the original show in the Flip or Flop franchise. Premise [ edit ] The El Moussas were both real estate agents prior to the crash in 2008, and later they began flipping homes, mostly in Orange County, California. In 2011, Tarek asked a friend to help him make an audition tape for HGTV. The friend filmed an entire episode of the process of house flipping from start to finish. The audition tape was sent to HGTV, and they were interested in talking to the couple. In 2012, HGTV signed the couple to a regular weekly program that shows the process of buying distressed property and renovating it.[2] Christina's expertise is primarily in design, and she works with Tarek to find and renovate homes. She handles the designs of the new spaces and keeps everything on schedule. The show follows them as they buy homes, typically bank-owned, short sales or foreclosures, to renovate and resell.[3] Hosts [ edit ] Personal life [ edit ] Tarek El Moussa grew up in Buena Park, California and Christina Meursinge Haack grew up in Anaheim Hills. Tarek, who earned his real estate license at age 21, met Christina while working in the real estate industry.[4] The couple were selling real estate in the Southern California area[5] when the housing market plummeted after the October 2008 stock market crash; they went from living in a $6,000 per month home to a $700 per month apartment.[6] The couple married in 2009 and have two children, a girl named Taylor Reese and a boy named Brayden James.[7] In 2013, a registered nurse and viewer, Ryan Reade, contacted the network after seeing a lump on Tarek's neck during a Flip or Flop marathon. Tarek had previously had the lump examined, and he said there was no issue. After Reade contacted producers, Tarek had the lump checked again; doctors discovered that he had stage 2 thyroid cancer.[8] The El Moussas thanked Reade in a video that can be seen on HGTV.com.[9] In May 2016, the couple had secretly split due to "challenges" in their marriage.[10] In January 2017, Tarek officially filed for divorce from Christina.[11] Real estate career [ edit ] Tarek and Christina run a real-estate agency, The El Moussa Group, in Orange County, California, an area with one of the largest foreclosure rates in the country. Tarek, Christina, and their partner Pete De Best, bought their first investment house in Santa Ana for $115,000. After selling the property for a profit of $34,000, the trio split the money and continued to flip houses, expanding their real estate investing business into Arizona and Nevada.[12] Series overview [ edit ] Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 13 April 16, 2013 ( ) May 28, 2013 ( 2013-05-28 ) 2 14 April 8, 2014 ( ) July 8, 2014 ( 2014-07-08 ) 3 15 October 7, 2014 ( ) July 7, 2015 ( 2015-07-07 ) 4 15 December 3, 2015 ( ) March 24, 2016 ( 2016-03-24 ) 5 15 June 9, 2016 ( ) September 22, 2016 ( 2016-09-22 ) 6 15 December 1, 2016 ( ) March 30, 2017 ( 2017-03-30 ) 7 8 June 15, 2017 ( ) July 20, 2017 ( 2017-07-20 ) 8 TBA May 31, 2018 ( ) TBA References [ edit ]

A video of alleged abuse of a dog on the set of Matthew Morrison's new movie has surfaced and the "Glee" alum says he is heartbroken by the footage and has called the producers to express his outrage. PETA posted the clip on Thursday, saying it appears to show a cage containing a German Shepherd suspended 20 feet in the air, then spun around by a crane and then plunged into a freezing river. The animal rights group said a whistleblower provided the footage and that it was shot in November for a scene for "Crazy Alien," which was filmed in China. The person said the director, Hao Ning, ordered two takes. TMZ quoted sources as saying that the dog did not appear to be injured, but was shaken up. "I've just been made aware and seen a video from the set of a film I worked on in China," Morrison, who plays the lead character in the sci-fi comedy movie, tweeted on Thursday. "My heart is broken to see any animal treated this way. Had I been on set or known about this, I would have made all efforts to stop this. I've called the producers to express my outrage." Glee's100 Most Memorable Moments. The film's director and the China-based production company, Dirty Monkey Films Group, have not commented. "PETA is urging the actors to hold the production accountable and calling for the public to boycott this film," the animal rights group said. "This scene should be cut, and Ning should commit to never working with live animals again. We're asking that the cast--including "Glee" actor Matthew Morrison--donate their salaries to animal-protection charities in China." Original Post: Matthew Morrison Outraged by Alleged Dog Abuse Video Filmed for His Movie © Copyright E! Online

There’s a video on the internet of Ed Sheeran, before he was famous, playing to bemused passers-by in London’s St Pancras station. He was more fresh-faced and less bearded, but was already purveying his now ubiquitous, one-size-fits-all mix of folk, soul, rap and bantz, urging the railway passengers to sing along and “make a circle”. In a staggeringly ironic comment to camera, he says: “My music doesn’t really hit everyone, otherwise I’d be a lucky man.” Eight years later, he is that lucky man – and then some – and the only real change is the size of the audience. A total of 200,000 people will see the creator of the fastest-selling album by a male artist ever (2017’s ÷, AKA Divide) in Manchester alone, over four nights, on the northern leg of the UK’s biggest ever solo tour. There are huge screens, a camera follows his grinning fizzog from the bowels of the stadium to the stage and there is a bloke on hand to pass him his pre-tuned acoustic guitars. But otherwise, not much has changed since St Pancras. “It’s just me, this guitar and this loop pedal,” explains the everybloke. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Zakary Walters Geezers with guitars (the choir-like noises from the loop pedal are the closest he gets to a backing band) don’t generally headline stadiums, but the 27-year-old Suffolk-raised Yorkshireman has successfully charmed millions of arena-goers as effectively as he did the bystanders at St Pancras. For refuseniks who blame Sheeran (like Coldplay and Phil Collins before him) for everything that’s wrong with music, the mystery is how he’s done it with such ordinary material. Plenty of artists are bland. Plenty write catchy songs. Perhaps nobody else writes songs that are quite so blandly catchy, but he does spin relatable everyday tales into uplifting mainstream anthems. Here 20 of them feature over 90 minutes. Sheeran’s scruffy charisma turns Castle on the Hill’s market-town youth reminiscence into the first of many singalongs, and his slightly bemused, cheery grin remains gleefully in place during The A-Team’s lyrics about a crack-addicted prostitute. Galway Girl may have been critically mauled as the musical equivalent of a fake Irish-themed pub, but it gets the joint jumping. As banter inevitably flows, an anecdote about once having played Manchester to a single person reveals the herculean drive behind the chumminess: “He’s now my lawyer. No matter how few people are in a crowd, I’ve always given my best.” He explains that “participation is a big part” – presumably even with a crowd of one – and well-worn routines such as getting the audience to scream are incontrovertibly effective. A mid-set wobble allows for toilet visits or perhaps an existential moment to ponder how pop became this boring, but as evening descends and volume increases, things liven up and some rawer edges are revealed. There’s a lyrical hint of darkness (well, dusk) to Bloodstream, and Perfect (“Dancing in the dark, with you between my arms”) arrives at the precise moment that the sun goes down and phones light up. Thinking Out Loud may be schmaltzy, but along with the wildly catchy grooves of Sing and the tropical house-ish Shape of You it rightfully generates a sea of swaying arms. Rising artists often claim to play pubs like they’re in Wembley Stadium: Ed Sheeran plays a stadium-sized version of a pub gig, but, undeniably, it works.

Chad Robert Kroeger (),[5] (born November 15, 1974), is a Canadian musician and producer, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist for the Canadian rock band Nickelback.[6] In addition to his work with Nickelback, Kroeger has been involved with a variety of collaborations, appearing as a guest musician in several songs and has contributed in both production and songwriting. He has co-written several songs for other artists and films. Early life Kroeger was born Chad Robert Turton in Hanna, Alberta on November 15, 1974.[7][8] His maternal grandfather was Alberta MLA Henry Kroeger, who was born in Moscow, Russia, to a Mennonite family of German descent.[9][10] After his father left the family when he was two,[9] he started going by his mother's maiden name of Kroeger. He learned to play the guitar at age 13. Career Nickelback In the early 1990s, Kroeger was part of a grunge cover band, The Village Idiots, with his cousin Brandon Kroeger and future Nickelback members bassist Mike Kroeger (his brother) and singer Ryan Peake. In 1995, Kroeger, Peake, Mike Kroeger, and then drummer Brandon Kroeger[11], formed the band Nickelback. Kroeger has continued to record and tour with this successful band for more than 20 years. The Suits XL In 2001, Kroeger, with the help of lawyer Jonathan Simkin, founded the band The Suits XL.[12] Band members included Sam Loubier-Demers and Yohann Gosselin on vocals and guitars, drummer Patrick Paquet, keyboardist Felix-Antoine Berube and singer Oliver Roy de Belleval. The next year, he co-founded the Vancouver, British Columbia-based 604 Records.[7] Later, in 2006, The Suits XL released an album through this label.[12][13] The next year the band was nominated for a Canadian Indie Award.[14] Collaborations Kroeger produced music for the bands Default, Theory of a Deadman, and Bo Bice.[citation needed] Kroeger, along with Saliva vocalist Josey Scott, Theory of a Deadman lead vocalist (serving as guitarist for this track) Tyler Connolly and Our Lady Peace drummer Jeremy Taggart, performed the theme song titled "Hero" for the hit movie Spider-Man in 2002. Also in 2002, Kroeger wrote and sang on "Why Don't You & I" for Santana's Shaman. However, when Arista decided to release the song as a single in Summer 2003, Kroeger's label, Roadrunner, refused permission, citing concerns that Kroeger appearing on a "high-profile single" would compromise the excitement over Nickelback's fall 2003 release The Long Road. Kroeger recommended The Calling's Alex Band, another Arista artist, as a replacement for re-recording the single.[15][16] In 2003, Kroeger won an International Achievement Award for the song "Hero" at the SOCAN Awards in Toronto.[17] In 2007, Chad Kroeger worked with Santana for a second time, when he co-wrote and recorded guitar and vocals parts for a new song meant to appear on the compilation album Ultimate Santana. The track is called "Into the Night" and was released as a single on October 2, 2007. The album Ultimate Santana was released in October. Besides working with Santana, Kroeger also recorded with Travis Tritt on his album The Storm, where Tritt did a cover of Nickelback's "Should've Listened" track from The Long Road. Kroeger also wrote and played guitar on Bo Bice's You're Everything. Chad Kroeger, Eric Dill, Rune Westberg and Chris Daughtry wrote the debut single of Daughtry's new album.[18] The single, titled "No Surprise", was debuted on American Idol Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Kroeger also helped write another song from the album titled "Life After You." He and Brett James co-wrote Tim McGraw's 2009 single "It's a Business Doing Pleasure with You." Kroeger featured on the Timbaland album Shock Value 2 with the song "Tomorrow in the Bottle", which also features Sebastian. In 2010 he provided guest vocals, along with Ludacris and guest lead guitarist Zakk Wylde, on the My Darkest Days single "Porn Star Dancing." In 2011, Kroeger was featured on the new Steel Panther album Balls Out with the song "It Won't Suck Itself." In early 2012, it was confirmed that Kroeger was working with French-Canadian pop rock singer Avril Lavigne on her upcoming fifth studio album.[19] Personal life In 2008, Kroeger was convicted of drunk driving in a British Columbia court after he was stopped for speeding in Surrey.[8][20] Kroeger started dating fellow Canadian rocker Avril Lavigne on July 1, 2012.[21] The relationship blossomed after they began working together in March 2012 to write and record music for Lavigne's fifth album.[21] Kroeger and Lavigne became engaged in August 2012.[22] The couple married in the south of France on July 1, 2013, which is Canada Day.[21] Lavigne and Kroeger honeymooned in Portofino, Italy. In September 2014, the entertainment media began reporting that Lavigne and Kroeger were headed for separation after only one year of marriage.[23] On September 2, 2015, Lavigne announced their separation via her official Instagram account.[24] In 2015, the second leg of the band's North American tour had to be canceled so Kroeger could have surgery for a cyst on his larynx. The entire leg of the European tour was cancelled as well.[25][26] Discography Singles As featured artist Other appearances

Jimmy Fallon celebrates the life and love of his mom, Gloria Fallon, and thanks "Tonight Show" fans for their support. (Published Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017) The show must go on, but not before a touching tribute to Gloria Fallon. After a week-long break from hosting "The Tonight Show," Jimmy Fallon returned to his late-night show and addressed the death of his beloved mother. While holding back tears, Fallon paid tribute to Gloria who he called "the best audience." "As some of you know, my mother Gloria passed away recently and I canceled our shows last week to be with my family and make arrangements. She was the best audience. She was the one I was always trying to make laugh and she was such a fan of the show, and everything I did," Fallon shared. "When we were little, my mom would walk us to the store, me and my sister, and we would hold hands and she would squeeze my hand three times to say I love you and I would squeeze I love you too." He continued, "Last week, I was in the hospital and I grabbed her hand and I squeezed I love you and I just knew we were in trouble, you know?" Celebrity Deaths: 2017's Fallen Stars E! News confirmed that Gloria died peacefully on Nov. 4, at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Fallon was at his mother's bedside along with other loved ones. "I feel so grateful to be able to do this every single night and I'm very appreciative of all the support from all of you that my family received over the past week and we're going to continue to work really hard to bring some light and laughter into the world," Fallon shared during Monday's episode. "Thank you for watching. Thank you for helping me and my family recover from this loss. Mom, I'll never stop trying to make you laugh. I love you." Jeff Daniels and Mary J. Blige stopped by, and musical guest Taylor Swift celebrated selling one million copies of her new album "Reputation" by performing a song. Fallon's producer Mike DiCenzo tweeted following the broadcast giving viewers some insight into Swift's performance the emotions both Fallon and the cast were dealing with during the show. E! and NBC are part of the NBCUniversal family. © Copyright E! Online

In 2018, NPR ranked this as the #94 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century, saying: 2001 was a great year for pop music, especially the pop collaboration. Jennifer Lopez and Ja Rule gave us the ‘I’m Real (Remix),’ and ‘Lady Marmalade’ received an epic reimagining from Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, P!nk, Mya (and Missy Elliot) on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. But above it all, The Ruff Ryders' first lady and Rolling Stone’s newly-minted ‘Queen of Confessional Pop’ held court with the release of ‘Let Me Blow Ya Mind,’ the deftly cool, swagged-out single from Eve’s sophomore album, Scorpion. An instant classic, the track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned the pair the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Almost 20 years later, the collaboration can still blow ya mind.

Are wedding bells in the future for Mariah Carey? The iconic singer reportedly popped the question to her bae, Bryan Tanaka, and the two are busy planning their big day! Did Mariah Carey, 47, have a vision of love when looking at boyfriend Bryan Tanaka, 34, one that left her feeling all sorts of emotions? After deciding that she just can’t let go of this hunk, Mariah reportedly decided to make it happen – an engagement, that is! “Word is Mariah took matters into her own hands,” a source tells OK! magazine, “It was an unusual proposal but it did the trick. She wrote a song about how she wanted Bryan to be her husband and she performed it for him while wearing a sexy, glitzy gown. Then she explained that she’s ready for them to make their relationship official.” Bryan gave a “hearty yes,” as the insider says, “He couldn’t believe his luck!” It appears Bryan also thinks he and Mariah belong together, and he always wants to be her baby. These two aren’t waiting around for one sweet day to tie the knot. While love takes time, Mariah and Bryan are already busy making wedding plans. “Mariah would love to get married in May at the Grand Wailea Resort in Maui,” the insider told OK!, “where she and Bryan first went public with their romance.” Mariah and Bryan struck up a relationship in late 2016, with Mariah low-key confirming the romance in February 2017 by calling Bryan her “boyfriend.” Mariah’s “also toying with the idea of a winter wonderland wedding,” the source says. “After all, she is the queen of Christmas!” Could Mariah have the fantasy holiday wedding she’s always wanted, saying “Thank God I found you” to her honey, her all? Whenever Mariah decides to get married, don’t forget about us when it comes to the wedding invitations! This alleged engagement would be the third time Mariah walked down the aisle, as she was previously married to Tommy Mottola, 68, and Nick Cannon, 37. After dealing with a pair of heartbreakers, MiMi isn’t fooling around, especially when it comes to her $520 million fortune. She’s working on an ironclad prenup, according to OK! magazine. “She’s had tow failed marriages already,” the source says. “She’s not going to take any risks here.” Speaking of Nick, expect to see him during Mariah’s big day. Nick and Mariah’s twins – son Morocco and daughter Monroe, 6 – will be featured in his wedding, and sources say Mariah’s thinking of asking Nick to walk her down the aisle. “[He] will always be a big part of her life,” the source added. Considering Mariah, Nick and the twins recently made an adorable appearance at the 2018 Kids’ Choice Awards, it makes total sense that Mariah’s ex would be on hand to see her say “I Do” again.

CLEVELAND — Donald J. Trump, on the eve of accepting the Republican nomination for president, explicitly raised new questions on Wednesday about his commitment to automatically defending NATO allies if they are attacked, saying he would first look at their contributions to the alliance.Asked about Russia’s threatening activities, which have unnerved the small Baltic States that are among the more recent entrants into NATO, Mr. Trump said that if Russia attacked them, he would decide whether to come to their aid only after reviewing if those nations have “fulfilled their obligations to us.”“If they fulfill their obligations to us,” he added, “the answer is yes.”Mr. Trump’s statement appeared to be the first time that a major candidate for president had suggested conditioning the United States’ defense of its major allies. It was consistent, however, with his previous threat to withdraw American forces from Europe and Asia if those allies fail to pay more for American protection.Mr. Trump also said he would not pressure Turkey or other authoritarian allies about conducting purges of their political adversaries or cracking down on civil liberties. The United States, he said, has to “fix our own mess” before trying to alter the behavior of other nations.

Kenya Moore is on the birthday trip of a lifetime. To celebrate turning 47, the Real Housewives of Atlanta cast member and her husband Marc Daly — whom she married in a private ceremony on the beach in St. Lucia in June — jetted off on a vacation that has topped Moore’s bucket list for years. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “Never in a million years did I think I’d actually visit #Egypt,” the reality star said in a photo of the couple on Instagram. “I’ve long romanticized about visiting this historically rich country — and with my husband.” RELATED: Kim Zolciak-Biermann Admits She Spent $35,000 on a Couch: ‘I Thought It was Pretty Stupid to Be Honest’ The former Miss USA and businessman Daly stopped for their sweet photo op while sightseeing in the Giza Plateau, near Cairo. Home to the Great Sphinx, King Khufu’s tomb and the Great Pyramid, the site was a must for the two tourists. WATCH THIS: Kenya Moore Shares Why She Kept Her New Husband’s Identity Secret, Says She Wants Kids ‘Right Away’ “Thank you for the most amazing birthday gift of my life!” she wrote. Before sharing her whereabouts, Moore teased her adventure with this photo of a hotel living room with the caption, “Where in the world am I?” The space was decorated with yellow and red balloons and a cake for the guest of honor. RELATED: Tour NeNe Leakes’ Glamorous Atlanta Mansion: ‘It’s Like a Resort’ Moore and Daly met in 2016 and began dating after a few months. She kept his identity secret at first on RHOA, telling PEOPLE he “didn’t sign up for this world,” but has since opened up about their life together. “No more excuses, or negativity. I now have the chance to live not only for myself, but for my own family,” she said in November. “The stakes are the greatest they’ve ever been in my life. Today is better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be better than today.”

Jenny and her silk pillowcases. It’s no secret that Jennifer Lopez-at 48-has a body that won’t quit and skin that needs to be studied so we can all age like the goddess she is. Dramatic? Not even close. And while a lot of it may be down to great genes, Lopez has revealed in a new interview some of her beauty secrets and yep, they’re as diva as you might expect. Lopez credits her glow to positive affirmations, revealing she says one in particular to herself every day to keep her radiant, youthful look intact. So what is this magic phrase? “I am youthful and timeless at every age,” Lopez says every single day—but it’s not enough to just say the mantra daily, because Lopez also has a handful of pillows with these words and more mantras embroidered into them all over her home. “I tell myself that every day, a few times a day. It sounds like clichéd bullshit, but it’s not: Age is all in your mind. Look at Jane Fonda.” Lopez continues, “The affirmations are everywhere. I forget that they’re all here. They’re just part of the house now.” Before you scoff at Lopez’s positivity there is a school of thought that believes negative thoughts can age you. Australian-born Dr Blackburn, a Nobel Prize winner, co-authored The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer, with anti-aging psychologist Dr Elissa Epel, which investigated the link between telomeres, which protect our chromosomes, and the effect stress, sleep and diet can have on telomeres and how that directly corresponds with our health. The book asserts there is a correlation between depression and anxiety and shorter telomeres and that “when pessimists develop an aging-related illness, like cancer or heart disease, the illness tends to progress faster.” And really there's only so far a little highlight can go, step one is all about a positive attitude. Step two is to find yourself a great pillowcase and settle on your new mantra. So what’s the lesson here? Your inner glow is only a glass half full attitude away.

Do you know what the uncanny valley is? The uncanny valley is "a common unsettling feeling people experience when androids (humanoid robots) and audio/visual simulations closely resemble humans in many respects but are not quite convincingly realistic." If you've ever seen an animation that looked a little too real (like The Polar Express) and found yourself entirely spooked by it, that's the uncanny valley. Anyway, famed wax museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin unveiled their new live waxworks of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and...uh...I don't think I've ever seen anything this creepy. The bizarre waxworks have our favorite royals deep into holiday celebrations and cradling Meghan's baby bump. We're so deep into the uncanny valley we're basically in the Grand Canyon. Getty Images HELLO THERE, THE ANGEL FROM MY NIGHTMARES. Forget MarieClaire.com's Best Horror Films of 2018, because I have found it. If I went to a holiday party and these wax figurines were there, I'm fairly certain I'd be looking around for the nearest axe. I'm not hysterical, you are. Is this what the movie House of Wax is about? Does it take place in whatever dimension this wax museum thinks Meghan and Harry are hanging out in? Why is there a portrait of a cat Queen? I have a lot of questions, and a lot of feelings. Getty Images Matthias Nareyek I know for a fact Meghan and Harry would never be seen in a Christmas sweater like that. Madame Tussauds Berlin also posted a video of the live figurines standing together in the Gendarmenmarkt Christmas market, while they did some "baby shopping." TRIGGER WARNING: Do not click this if you enjoy sleeping. You will not sleep tonight. This is nightmare fuel. Imagine walking around, doing your holiday shopping, and thinking you've spotted royalty... and then THAT turns around. Black Mirror, call me. For more celebrity news, beauty and fashion advice, savvy political commentary, and fascinating features, sign up for the Marie Claire newsletter. SUBSCRIBE HERE

Perhaps McKinnon’s most frequently recurring political figure of the moment, the Jeff Sessions of SNL continues to be taken to increasingly surreal places. There was, of course, the period when he was on Trump’s chopping block, doing anything (even sitting on his lap) to get back in his good graces. But now we appear back to the elfish Southern caricature boasting a devious side (and a tail). Thank goodness.

Jennifer Lawrence revealed that negative reviews for mother! caused a strain in her romantic relationship with the film’s director, Darren Aronofsky. During an interview with Adam Sandler for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, the Oscar winner revealed that Aronofsky’s reactions to the film’s negative reception became “unhealthy” for them as a couple, and they eventually called it quits in October after one year of dating. “Normally, I promote a movie, ask people to go see it, and then it’s just out of your hands,” Lawrence, 27, said in the clip. “I normally just kind of let it go. Dating the director was different. We’d be on the [press] tour together, I’d come back to the hotel, and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is a movie.” “He comes back from the tour, and that’s all he wants to talk about and I get it,” she continued. “It’s his baby. He wrote it. He conceived it. He directed it. I was doing double duty trying to be a supportive partner, while also being like, ‘Can I please, for the love of God, not think about mother! for one second?’” Lawrence said that reading the reviews made her be extra protective of him, so she had to put an end to it. “I finally was just like, ‘It’s not healthy. Neither of us are doing it because if I read it, I start getting defensive.’ Especially because it’s my man,” she said. “It’s awesome, what we did — some people hate it and the people who hate it, really hate it. But it’s nothing that needs to be defended and if I read a negative review, I just feel defensive.” The American Hustle actress and the Black Swan director, 48, first met on the set of the psychological horror film. They sparked dating rumors in September 2016, and two months later they were spotted kissing in New York City. “They get along really well,” a source told Us at the time. In September, Lawrence spoke about the director in an interview with Vogue: “We had energy. I had energy for him. I don’t know how he felt about me,” Lawrence told the magazine. “For the past year, I’ve been dealing with him as just a human. I’ve been in relationships before where I am just confused. And I’m never confused with him.” The Hunger Games actress has previously dated Nicholas Hoult and Coldplay’s Chris Martin. Aronofsky was previously engaged to Rachel Weisz, with whom he shares 11-year-old son Henry. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now!

Tonight Kate and Leo, our dreamiest of dream duos, fulfilled all of our fantasies by walking the Oscars red carpet together―and being the CUTEST. Really, we squealed. Because LOOK:

Jimmy Kimmel loves to joke around, even if it gets him in trouble. In an interview from his February 2018 GQ cover story posted earlier this week, the 50-year-old late night host opened up about the infamous 2013 Twitter feud with Kanye West. “I live for moments like that. When I got in a Twitter battle with Kanye, I was so happy," Kimmel told the mag. "My wife makes fun of me. She's like, ‘You are so happy right now.’ I'm absolutely beaming. I feel very confident in a situation like that." The online war began when Kimmel did a parody sketch on his show, making fun of the rapper's BBC interview in which he claimed he was the "biggest" rock star. West didn't appreciate the joke and exploded on Twitter, calling out Kimmel. "JIMMY KIMMEL IS OUT OF LINE TO TRY AND SPOOF IN ANY WAY THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS," West tweeted at the time, followed by more NSFW comments. The feud was eventually squashed when West made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this past October. Then for Kimmel's 50th birthday, Kim Kardashian West read one of her husband's infamous tweets during the show's "Mean Tweets" segment. “JIMMY KIMMEL PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES… OH NO THAT MEANS YOU WOULD HAVE GOTTEN TOO MUCH GOOD P**Y IN YOUR LIFE,” she read aloud. Meanwhile, Kimmel is gearing up to host the Oscars for a second year in a row. Hollywood has already been very vocal about the recent sexual harassment and misconduct allegations within the industry, and Kimmel is ready to tackle the subject during awards night. “I'm surprisingly not nervous,” he said. “I think there are certain groups of people who think I shouldn't make any jokes about that situation. And there are groups of people who will be mad if I don't make jokes about that situation. So you just kind of have to figure it out. Whatever I do will be criticized by someone. Like, ‘You didn't make enough jokes about Harvey Weinstein.'" For more on Kimmel, watch below. RELATED CONTENT: Jimmy Kimmel Opens Up About Viewers' Response to His Emotional Monologues: 'It's a No-Brainer' Oscars Host Jimmy Kimmel Jokes 'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?' in New Awards Show Photos Jimmy Kimmel Shares Sweet Family Photo to Ring in 2018 -- See How Else Stars Celebrated New Year's Eve! Related Gallery

TLC has officially severed its ties with former “Counting On” star Derick Dillard after he repeatedly made negative comments about one of the network’s other stars, Jazz Jennings. On Saturday, the network released a statement on Twitter explaining that it has severed ties with Dillard after another round of comments against Jennings, who stars on her own series, “I Am Jazz,” which chronicles her life following her decision at a young age to transition from a male to a female. “We want to let our viewers know that Derick Dillard has not participated in ‘Counting On’ for months and the network has no plans to feature him in the future. We want to reiterate that Derick’s personal statements do not reflect the views of the network,” the statement reads. “TLC is proud to share the story of Jazz jennings and her family and will continue to do so.” The decision from the network comes after Dillard spoke for a second time about Jennings, arguing that he doesn’t believe that one can change their gender identity and refused to use feminine pronouns when discussing Jennings. “I pity Jazz, 4 those who take advantage of him in order 2 promote their agenda, including the parents who allow these kinds of decisions 2 be made by a child. It’s sad that ppl would use a juvenile this way. Again, nothing against him, just unfortunate what’s on tv these days,” he wrote in response to another commenter who brought up his older comments about Jennings. As previously reported, Dillard, who came to fame alongside his wife Jill Duggar on TLC, previously took issue with Jennings saying that gender is “ordained by God.” “What an oxymoron… a 'reality' show which follows a non-reality. 'Transgender' is a myth. Gender is not fluid; it’s ordained by God.” Jennings, who hasn’t directly responded to Dillard’s latest comments, said at the time: “Every day I experience cyber-bullying, but I keep sharing my story. Today was no different.” Dillard continued to respond to his latest statements, saying that he’s just trying to have a mature discussion about his concerns as a Christian. He also speculated as to the capability of a child to make decisions about their gender identity. However, people on Twitter were mostly unimpressed with his justification, and it was enough to prompt the network to completely sever ties with him.

Congresswoman Maxine Waters has reignited her political career as one of the most outspoken leaders of the Trump “Resistance.” She regularly and often beats the drum of impeachment for the president. However, in August of 2010, it was Waters who was under legal scrutiny for her behavior as a government official. Waters was charged with three counts of violating House rules and the federal ethics code.According to The Hill’s report from 2010:The House ethics committee on Monday outlined its charges against Rep. Maxine Waters, who is accused of helping a bank in which her husband owned stock secure federal bailout funds. The committee charged the 10-term California Democrat with three counts of violating House rules and the federal ethics code in connection with her effort to arrange a 2008 meeting between Treasury officials and representatives with OneUnited bank. The panel said Waters, who sits on the Financial Services Committee, broke a House rule requiring members to behave in a way that reflects “creditably” on the chamber. The committee said that by trying to assist OneUnited, she stood to benefit directly, because her husband owned a sizable amount of stock that would have been “worthless” if the bank failed. The committee also accused Waters of violating the “spirit” of a House rule prohibiting lawmakers from using their positions for financial gain, as well as a government ethics statute banning the dispensing of “special favors.”The charges were delayed and stalled by members of the committee, and multiple attorneys in the case were fired. Ultimately, Waters was absolved of the charges.According to National Review:[Waters] walked away with a slap on the wrist from the toothless House Ethics Committee in 2012 after being charged with multiple ethics violations related to her meddling in minority-owned OneUnited Bank … As stockholders, they profited handsomely from their relationship with the bank. It was a mutually beneficial relationship. After Waters’s office personally intervened and lobbied the Treasury Department in 2008, OneUnited received $12 million in federal TARP bailout money — despite another government agency concluding that the bank operated “without effective underwriting standards” and engaged “in speculative investment practices. After the federal bailout of Fannie/Freddie, OneUnited’s stock in the government-sponsored enterprises plunged to a value estimated at less than $5 million. Only through Waters’s intervention was OneUnited able to secure an emergency meeting with the Treasury and then-Secretary Henry Paulson. Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch president, reported that Waters’s friend and fellow California Democratic congresswoman Zoe Lofgren helped delay Waters’s scheduled 2010 House ethics trial on the matter by stalling subpoenas and improperly firing two attorneys working on the investigation. Six of ten House Ethics panel members quit the case in 2012 over questions about their partiality. An outside investigator absolved Waters of any wrongdoing. In spite of getting off on the charges, Waters carries with her a terrible reputation for corruption. Please see this list for a rundown of all the numerous scandals and charges which have been brought against her. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has listed her as one of the most corrupt members of Congress five times. Resist.

One Direction is an English-Irish pop boy band based in London, composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and, until his departure from the band in 2015, Zayn Malik. The group signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records after forming and finishing third in the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor in 2010. Propelled to international success by social media, One Direction's five albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014), and Made in the A.M. (2015), topped charts in most major markets, and generated hit singles including "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young", "Best Song Ever", "Story of My Life" and "Drag Me Down". The group has received numerous accolades including seven Brit Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, six Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards (including Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015), and 28 Teen Choice Awards. In 2013, they earned an estimated $75 million becoming the second highest earning celebrity under 30 according to Forbes.[1] The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) honoured them as the Global Recording Artist of 2013.[2] Forbes ranked them as the fourth highest earning celebrities in the world in 2015,[3] and second in 2016.[4] After the release of Four, One Direction became the first band in the US Billboard 200 history to have their first four albums debut at number one.[5] Their third album, Midnight Memories, was the best-selling album worldwide in 2013 with 4 million copies sold globally.[6] The band's Where We Are Tour in support of Midnight Memories and Four, was the highest-grossing concert tour in 2014,[7] the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history, and the 18th highest-grossing concert tour of all time, grossing $290.2 million (unadjusted for inflation).[8] In 2014, Billboard named One Direction Artist of the Year.[9][10] The band went on hiatus in January 2016, allowing all members to pursue other projects.[11][12][13] As of 2017, the band has sold a total of 50 million records worldwide.[14] History 2010–2011: The X Factor The X Factor Live tour in 2011 One Direction onLive tour in 2011 In 2010, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson auditioned as solo candidates for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor.[15] They failed to progress to the "Boys" category at "judges' houses" but were put together to form a five-piece boy band at Wembley Arena, in London, England, in July 2010, during the "bootcamp" stage of the competition,[16] thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. Nicole Scherzinger, a guest judge,[15][17][18] and Simon Cowell have both claimed to have come up with the idea of forming the band. In 2013, Cowell said that it "took him 10 minutes to put them together as a group".[19] Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice.[20][21] Styles came up with the name One Direction.[20] For their qualifying song at "judges' houses", and their first song as a group, One Direction sang an acoustic version of "Torn".[22] Cowell later commented that their performance convinced him that they "were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well."[23] Within the first four weeks of the live shows, they were his last act in the competition.[24] The group quickly gained popularity in the UK.[23] One Direction achieved third place in the competition and immediately after the final, their song "Forever Young", which would have been released if they had won The X Factor, was leaked onto the internet.[25] Shortly afterwards it was confirmed that One Direction had been signed by Cowell to a reported £2 million Syco Records record contract.[26][27] Recording for their debut album began in January 2011, as they flew to Los Angeles to work with RedOne, a record producer.[28] A book licensed by One Direction, One Direction: Forever Young (Our Official X Factor Story), was published by HarperCollins in February 2011,[29] subsequently topping The Sunday Times Best Seller list.[30] The same month, the boy band and other contestants from the series participated in the X Factor Live Tour.[31] During the tour, the group performed for 500,000 people throughout the UK.[32] After the tour concluded in April 2011, the group continued working on their debut album.[28] Recording took place in Stockholm, London and Los Angeles, as One Direction worked with producers Carl Falk, Savan Kotecha, Steve Mac, and Rami Yacoub, among others.[33][34] 2011–2012: Up All Night Released in September 2011, One Direction's debut single, "What Makes You Beautiful", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, after becoming the most pre-ordered Sony Music Entertainment single in history.[36][37] Subsequent singles, "Gotta Be You" and "One Thing", peaked in the UK Singles Chart top ten.[38][39] In November 2011, they signed a record deal with Columbia Records in North America.[40] Steve Barnett, the co-chairman of Columbia Records, said it was not a difficult decision to sign One Direction; "I just thought there was a void, and maybe they could seize and hold it."[41] "What Makes You Beautiful" was released in the United States in February 2012,[42] where it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28, becoming the highest debut for a British act since 1998.[43] It has sold over 4 million copies in the US[44] Upon arrival in the US in February 2012, One Direction embarked on a radio promotion spree, as well as their first North American concert tour as an opening act for Big Time Rush.[45][46] They made their first US television appearance on The Today Show, at the Rockefeller Center; an estimated 15,000 fans descended on the plaza.[47] Critically commended for its appeal to the teenage audience,[48][49][50] One Direction's first studio album, Up All Night, was released globally in early 2012. It became the UK's fastest-selling debut album of 2011,[51] and topped the charts in sixteen countries.[52] The album bowed atop the Billboard 200 chart, making One Direction the first British group in US chart history to enter at number one with their debut album.[53] They were inducted into the Guinness World Records as a result.[54] Up All Night also became the first album by a boy band to sell 500,000 digital copies in the US and, by August 2012, had sold over 3 million copies worldwide.[55][56] In April 2012, an American band that went by the same name filed a trademark infringement lawsuit.[57] According to the lawsuit, the US band had been using the name since 2009, recorded two albums and filed an application to register the trademark name in the US in February 2011.[57] The US band said they were entitled to three times the profits made by the UK band, as well as compensatory damages in excess of US$1 million.[57] The lawsuit claimed that Syco and Sony Music "chose to ignore the plaintiff's rights and wilfully infringed them" after they realised in early 2011 that the two bands shared the same name.[57] Syco Records subsequently counter-sued, suggesting the US group was trying to make money from One Direction's success and that the boy band was the first to use the name in US interstate commerce.[58] The BBC reported in September 2012 that the UK group won the legal dispute over the right to keep using their band name; the US band changed its name to Uncharted Shores.[58] The change of name was announced in a joint statement that also noted both groups were happy with the outcome.[58] In December 2011, One Direction embarked on their first headlining UK concert tour, the Up All Night Tour.[59] In early 2012, they announced Australasian and North American legs of the concert tour, with dates from April to July 2012.[60][61] The tour, comprising 62 shows, was met with positivity both critically and commercially.[62][63][64][65][66][67][68] A recording of a concert from the tour, Up All Night: The Live Tour, was released in May 2012.[69] In addition to the DVD topping the charts in twenty-five countries, its global sales had exceeded 1 million copies by August 2012.[56][70] One Direction's first book to be licensed in America, Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction, published in the United States in May 2012, topped The New York Times Best Seller list.[71] In June 2012, Nick Gatfield, the chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Music Entertainment UK, stated how he expects One Direction to represent a $100 million business empire over 2013.[72] Gatfield was quoted as saying, "What you might not know about One Direction is that they already represent a $50 million business and that's a figure we expect to double next year".[72] In August 2012, the group's record sales exceeded 8 million singles, 3 million albums, and 1 million DVDs, and they performed "What Makes You Beautiful" at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London, which represented the handover to Rio de Janeiro as the host of the 2016 Summer Olympics.[56][73] One Direction were the biggest winners of the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards winning their three nominations on 6 September 2012, including Best New Artist.[74] 2012–2013: Take Me Home One Direction's second studio album, Take Me Home, was released in November 2012.[75] Take Me Home was written in groups and has an average of just under five songwriters per track. Savan Kotecha, Rami Yacoub, and Carl Falk, who composed One Direction's hits "What Makes You Beautiful" and "One Thing", spent six months in Stockholm developing songs for the album, and were able to shape melodies around their tones.[76] One Direction began recording the album in May 2012, in Stockholm at Kinglet Studios.[77][78][79] The album cover artwork features the group surrounding a traditional British K2 red telephone box, a familiar sight on the streets of the UK.[80] Take Me Home garnered mixed reviews from music critics. There was praise for its quality of production, while it was criticised for its generic, rushed nature.[81][82][83][84][85][86] The album's lead single, "Live While We're Young", released in September 2012, reached the top ten in almost every country it charted in and recorded the highest one-week opening sales figure for a song by a non-US artist in the US[87] The album and its second single, "Little Things", both debuted at number one in the UK simultaneously; something that One Direction became the youngest act in British chart history to achieve.[88] Take Me Home sold 540,000 copies in its first week in the US, debuted atop the Billboard 200, and topped the charts in more than thirty-four other countries.[89][90] Additionally, Up All Night and Take Me Home were the number three and number four best-selling albums of 2012 globally, each album selling over 5 million units worldwide.[91] One Direction performed "Little Things" at the 2012 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, and headlined a sold-out show at New York City's Madison Square Garden on 3 December 2012.[92][93] In February 2013, One Direction released a cover version of "One Way or Another" and "Teenage Kicks", "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)", as the 2013 Comic Relief single.[94] As part of their involvement with the UK charity, One Direction travelled to Ghana to volunteer at a children's hospital, visit a school and make donations. The Official Charts Company revealed that One Direction had sold 2,425,000 records in the UK by February 2013.[95] One Direction embarked on their second concert tour in February 2013, the Take Me Home Tour.[96] The concert tour consists of over 100 shows in Europe, North America and Australasia. Ticket sales reached 300,000 within a day of release in the UK and Ireland, which included a six-date sell-out at the O 2 Arena in London.[97] In the Australian and New Zealand markets, tickets grossed US$15.7 million, with all 190,000 tickets being sold for the eighteen shows to be held.[98] The tour received critical acclaim from music critics who praised the band's live vocals and their performance abilities and was a commercial success, selling 1,635,000 tickets from 134 shows.[99] 2013–2014: Midnight Memories and This Is Us One Direction: This Is Us, a 3D documentary and concert film about the group directed by Morgan Spurlock and produced by Spurlock, Ben Winston, Adam Milano and Simon Cowell, was released by TriStar Pictures on 30 August 2013.[100] The film features the song "Best Song Ever", released on 22 July 2013. "Best Song Ever" was the lead single of the group's third studio album Midnight Memories.[101][102] The film was a box office success, topping the UK and US box offices and grossing over $60 million worldwide, and became the fourth highest-grossing concert movie.[103] "Best Song Ever" broke the 24-Hour Vevo Record with 10.9 million views on YouTube (this was the second time the band held the record with "Live While We're Young" attaining 8.2 million views on 20 September 2012).[104][105] On 16 May 2013, the band announced their first stadium tour, the Where We Are Tour, which began in April 2014. On 30 May 2013, the band announced a partnership with Office Depot on a limited-edition capsule collection of back to school supplies. They also confirmed that a portion of the proceeds from the alliance would go toward an anti-bullying educational program intended to promote kinder behaviour in schools.[106] The band performing in East Rutherford , New Jersey on 2 July 2013 On 23 November 2013, in support of Midnight Memories, the band participated in "1D Day",[107][108] a day dedicated to One Direction fans. The day constituted of a landmark 7.5-hour socially interactive YouTube live-stream featuring live band performances, celebrity guests including, Simon Cowell, Cindy Crawford, Piers Morgan, Jerry Springer and many more. The event was unique not only because of its long runtime but the unprecedented use of social media whereby fans got to participate in the show interact directly with the band via Google+ Hangout. Midnight Memories was released globally on 25 November 2013. It debuted at number one in the UK and in the US, making them the first group to debut at number one on the Billboard 200 with its first three albums, and the second to reach the top after The Monkees in 1967.[109] The album was described by the band as edgier and as having a "slightly rockier tone" than their previous efforts.[110] "Story of My Life" was revealed as the second single of the album with each member posting a photo from their childhood.[111][112] To promote the album, the band performed on both the American and British versions of The X Factor.[113] In December 2013, One Direction broke yet another UK sales record with the DVD and Blu-ray release of their 3-D concert film This is Us. Nearly 270,000 copies of the film were sold in the UK within three days of its release, beating the record previously set by Michael Jackson's This Is It in 2010 by 10,000 copies.[114] The group was named among the Top Global artists of 2013 by the IFPI because of strong digital downloads, physical albums, on-demand streams, and music videos.[2] 2014–2015: Four and Malik's departure On 21 July 2014, One Direction announced One Direction: Where We Are - The Concert Film, a film which documents the concerts of 28 and 29 June 2014 that took place in San Siro Stadium during their Where We Are Tour. After the announcement, the band announced the film would also have a limited 10–11 October 2014 international cinema release before its home media release in November 2014.[115] The group also released an autobiography book titled Who We Are on 25 September 2014.[116] On 8 September 2014, One Direction announced their fourth studio album to be titled Four, set to be released on 17 November 2014.[117][118][119] As part of the announcement, one of the songs from the album, "Fireproof" was released for free download for 24 hours on their official website.[117][118][119] "Steal My Girl", the album's lead single, was released on 29 September 2014,[120] and the music video was released on 24 October 2014. The second single from the album, "Night Changes", was released on 14 November, three days before the album's release.[121] Four was released on 17 November 2014, topping the Billboard 200 and the UK Album Chart.[122][123] On 22 November 2014, Paul Higgins, the group's tour manager who has been with them since its formation, parted ways with the band.[124] The band confirmed at the BBC Music Awards that following the success of Four, they had hopes to continue to go "somewhere else" on their fifth album.[125] In support of Midnight Memories and Four, the band's Where We Are Tour was the highest-grossing concert tour in 2014,[7] the highest-grossing tour by a vocal group in history, and the 18th highest-grossing concert tour of all time, grossing $290.2 million worldwide.[8] On 25 March 2015, the band released a statement announcing Malik's departure.[126][127][128] They admitted that they were angry at first because of Zayn Malik's decision.[129] The group made their first official public appearance as a four-piece on The Late Late Show with James Corden on 14 May, where they confirmed that they would continue working without a new fifth member.[130] Since leaving the band, Malik has gone on to have solo success with his number one debut single "Pillowtalk" and album Mind of Mine.[131] 2015–2017: Made in the A.M. and hiatus On 31 July 2015, the group released "Drag Me Down" without promotional material or announcement. The single is the first single from their fifth studio album, Made in the A.M., and the first material released by the group after Malik's departure.[132] Following the release, it was revealed that the group would going on hiatus in 2016 to take a break.[133] On 22 September, the title for the fifth studio album, Made in the A.M., was officially announced along with promotional single "Infinity" being released.[134] The group began to reveal the track listing on their Snapchat stories to which it was later confirmed on iTunes.[135] The album was released on 13 November 2015.[136] At the 2015 American Music Awards on 22 November, One Direction won the award for Artist of the Year for the second year in succession.[137] Louis Tomlinson later confirmed that the break would be around 18 months. On 13 December, One Direction performed on The X Factor final. Their last televised performance as a group, before their hiatus, was on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on 31 December 2015.[138] On 13 January 2016, Us Weekly published a report claiming that the group's hiatus would become a permanent split, with a "source" citing that each of the four remaining group members did not renew their contracts following the completion of the On The Road Again Tour in October 2015.[139] Representatives for the group denied said-report in a statement to Billboard, stating, "nothing has changed regarding hiatus plans for the group, and all will be revealed in due time from the band members' own mouths."[140][141] By May 2017, all members of the group had released solo singles.[142] Despite saying the hiatus would last 18 months, the band still are yet to confirm when they will reform. At the 2017 Brit Awards, One Direction won the Video of the Year award for their song "History". Payne accepted the award on the behalf of the band.[143] In February 2018, it was reported that the group has folded its touring company after having applied for removal within the Companies House registry in October 2017.[144][145] Artistry One Direction's debut studio album, Up All Night (2011), is predominantly a pop music record, containing elements of teen pop, dance-pop, pop rock, with electropop and rock influences.[150][151][152][153] Digital Spy's Robert Copsey described the album as a "collection of PG pop rock with killer choruses",[154] while The New York Times considered it "full of easy rock-inflected pop, blithe and sometimes clever."[155] Jason Lipshutz of Billboard acknowledged that the album demonstrates an originality in sound that was "necessary for the revitalization of the boy band movement".[153] The songs "One Thing" and "What Makes You Beautiful" were particularly noted for the genres of power pop and pop rock, for their "powerhouse" guitar riffs and "forceful" choruses.[146][147][150][156] Their second studio album, Take Me Home (2012), is characterised by rock-inherited pop, prominent electric guitar riffs, bright synthesisers, a homogeneous sound and message, and the pitch-correcting software Auto-Tune.[84][85][86][157][158] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian interpreted its signature sound as a "peppy, synth-bolstered take on early-80s new-wave pop, heavy on clipped rhythms and chugging guitars," which, he said, is at least an improvement on the substitute contemporary R&B "that was once the grim lot of the boyband."[85] Jon Caramanica, writing in The New York Times, considered the album "far more mechanical" than their debut album, although noted that it is sonically and lyrically similar.[84] The album's lyricism speaks of falling in love, unrequited love, the insistence that flaws are what make a person unique, commitment, jealousy and longing for past significant others.[84][85][86][159] Erica Futterman for Rolling Stone favoured their live acoustic performances as both showing, "Horan's ability to play guitar, as well as One Direction's admirable live vocals. There was no need to worry about a backing track or a bum note, a pleasant realization at a pop show."[160] Herald Sun's Cameron Adams opined that One Direction have "strong pop voices".[161] Melody Lau of the National Post wrote, "It's easy to get lost in inherent appeal of their perfectly coiffed dos and almost-too-put-together preppy style but somewhere in the midst of all the love-struck squeals of teenage girls are guys who can actually sing and, to a certain extent, entertain."[162] Jane Stevenson of the portal site Canoe concurred: "What I didn't really prepare myself for was that they all can actually sing in concert."[163] Chris Richards, writing in The Washington Post, dissented from the approval: "As the five traded couplets, it was tough to imagine a future Justin Timberlake, Ricky Martin or Bobby Brown emerging from the pack. No one voice stood out."[164] Mike Wass of Idolator felt One Direction's "surprisingly accomplished effort" of Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" proved that One Direction are "more than capable" of evolving their sound.[165] Their third album Midnight Memories (2013) is a pop rock record, a slight departure from the band's original teen pop sound. Liam Payne called Midnight Memories a "slightly rockier and edgier" album than their previous material. The album is heavily influenced by 80's rock[166] and folk music and briefly integrates elements of dubstep, notably in "Little White Lies". The album's lyrical themes primarily revolve around love, heartbreak and sexual intercourse. Many critics praised its lyrical depth and musical composition, as well as the group's level of involvement in the production process.[167] Their fourth album Four (2014) was released on 17 November 2014. Payne once again claimed that the album would be "edgier" and that the group had written most of the songs for it; Horan came up with the name of the album, commemorating the fact that it is One Direction's fourth record to date and that it has been four years since the band's formation. Signifying a further maturation of their pop sound, the album's first single, Steal My Girl, was dubbed by Billboard as "no What Makes You Beautiful, but its Coldplay-like piano pop could be a good direction",[168] and that the band was "not entirely ready to let go of its bubble-gum days". Rolling Stone described the record as "saturated with retro vibes"; its songs "split the difference between big, splashy Eighties pop rock and more elegant Seventies flavours – a very pesky whipper-snapper move that's not so far from what Haim's hit Days Are Gone did last year."[169] Other ventures Endorsements In 2011, One Direction became the face of Pokemon Black and White, starring in a series of television adverts.[170] They were the first installments in the fifth generation of the Pokémon series of role-playing games.[171] They also launched Nokia C3 and Nokia C2-02 phones. To promote the launch Nokia has made a series of photos of the band members using the phones to take photos of themselves.[172] In 2012, They teamed up with Colgate to launch their own One Direction Colgate MaxFresh Power Toothbrush, the One Direction Colgate Maxfresh Manual Toothbrush, and the One Direction Colgate MaxFresh Toothpaste.[173] The band was signed by Pepsi in a multi-million dollar advertising deal in 2012.[174] Pepsi's 'Live for Now' campaign starring One Direction battling NFL player Drew Brees has premiered on the brand's social media channels. It aired on TV in the US during the MLB playoffs, the World Series, NFL season and The X Factor, which is sponsored by Pepsi Max. Additional social media marketing includes a tie up with Shazaam, whereby consumers that use the digital music app in conjunction with the ad both on TV and online will be able to view exclusive content and link back to iTunes to buy One Direction’s single, 'Live While We're Young'.[175] Mini figures based on members of the group was launched for the band's US fans after the agreement was signed by American firm Hasbro.[176] Hasbro's girls business posted a 23 percent quarterly revenue gain, with One Direction products, such as dolls and a board game tied to the boy band, and My Little Pony toys contributing to the growth.[177] The band has signed up to endorse Filipino clothing brand, Penshoppe.[178] In 2013, one direction have announced that fans will get a chance to enter their very own 1D World in their brand new pop-up shop. The store will sell exclusive never seen before merchandise. One offer will be life-size cardboard cut-outs of the boys, phone cases, T-shirts and even the 1D Onesie.[179] The pop-up 1D World stores have become a huge success around the world, opening up in cities including Brisbane, Toronto, Vancouver, Chicago and Stockholm.[180] Nabisco became the title sponsor of One Direction’s North American tour[181] The band became the new faces of Toyota VIOS, releasing behind-the-scenes look at their commercial for the vehicle.[182] One Direction's debut fragrance, Our Moment, launched exclusively at Harrods and in their website, due to the band's busy schedule, the boys will not be in attendance at the in-store launch.[183] There were 4-second trailers released from the week beginning Monday 12 August, one for each member. The full length advert for the fragrance was released on 24 August 2013. It features the song "My Favourite Things" which originally by Julie Andrews from The Sound of Music covered by Diana Vickers.[184] Payne has reported that the idea came from a fan's petition. "A Twitter fan started an online petition for us to launch a fragrance, and we talked to our management", he said.[185] The perfume is the best selling famous fragrance of Christmas 2013. Its sales have beaten fragrances from other celebrities such as Lady Gaga's Fame, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday and Britney Spears' Fantasy.[186][187] In 2014, following the success of their previous scent Our Moment, the band has creatively named their second scent That Moment. The news was delivered via a video featuring Styles.[188] There will be a matching shower gel and body lotion. The band released a short, 6-minute film to promote the new fragrance.[189] They released a commercial for their third fragrance, "You & I." The name, taken from their Midnight Memories hit of the same name. The announcement of the fragrance commercial was teased on Twitter, with pieces of the cover art which shows all five of the guys being tweeted out one at a time. The commercial, which premiered on the One Direction fragrance site, is a bit goofier than "J'adore Dior,"[190] In the clip, a hexagonal pink bottle can be seen sitting in the centre of a highly fortified white room with motion lasers covering the floor. The boys are seen entering through the ceiling, suspended by wires and clad in all-black.[191] In 2015, One Direction appeared in an advert for the Toyota Vios. the commercial aired in Thailand.[192] Coca-Cola Mexico launched the session and full interview with One Direction, with a series of commercials in which Tomlinson, Payne, Styles and Horan showed us what it means to be a True Friend.[193] One Direction revealed their fourth fragrance ‘Between Us’ at The Sanderson in London, England on 24 June. Along with the bottle image, the band released a new commercial. Between Us comes after the band’s successful fragrances Our Moment, That Moment and You & I, which was the US’s number one celebrity women’s fragrance launch of 2014.[194] The band appeared in a Honda Civic ad, testing the sedan out for all the group's pop-star needs. The TV spot shows the quartet testing out the car's stereo, style and trunk space with a humorous tone and the tagline "It's all One Direction approved." The ad is set to the 1D single Drag Me Down. The commercial celebrates the launch of the new 2016 Honda Civic sedan and coincides with the release of One Direction's new album, Made in the A.M.. The group's 2015 U.S. tour was also supported by Honda.[195] Philanthropy In 2011, the band performed on the BBC's Children in Need 2011 charity telethon, helping raise over 26 million pounds.[196] In 2012 they extended their involvement with Children in Need as they opened the telecast with a performance of their single "Live While We're Young". A prominent annual event in British culture, the group said it was "incredible" to be involved in Children in Need as it was something that they had "always watched as children".[197] In February 2013, One Direction released "One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)" (a medley of "One Way or Another" and "Teenage Kicks") as the 2013 single for the UK's other major charity telethon Comic Relief.[94] For ITV's Santa charity Christmas campaign, they filmed a set of pleas to their fans and the general public, asking them to donate £2.[198] The band have made numerous other appearances for charitable causes, including the 2011 Pride of Britain Awards where they presented 13-year-old quadruple amputee Danielle Bailey the Child of Courage award at her school assembly, and the 2014 Royal Variety Performance where they played in front of Prince William and Catherine at the London Palladium.[199][200] In September 2012, Niall Horan organised an event to raise money for Irish Autism Action and another charity, called Temporary Emergency Accommodation Mullingar, based in his hometown. Due to overwhelming demand to participate in the fundraising, the ticket website for the event broke down. Horan's brother Greg commented on the website crash, saying that "there were 500 tickets and they were all snapped up pretty quick".[201] In 2013, band members Liam Payne and Harry Styles partnered with Trekstock, a leading cancer charity to help raise money for cancer research.[202] As ambassadors of the charity, the duo collaborated to offer the chance for one fan and a friend to win an evening out with them in return for a donation to the charity as part of an exclusive "#HangwithLiam&Harry" global campaign. They had originally set a goal of raising $500,000 and ended up raising $784,984. Trekstock later added that this amount would allow them to "complete funding of their Hodgkin's lymphoma trial, in the hope of offering a much brighter future to thousands of children and young people affected by this form of disease." One Direction were named the most charitable in 2013 behind Taylor Swift by social change organisation DoSomething.org.[203] In 2014, One Direction donated £600,000 for the Stand up to Cancer campaign by giving portions of their ticket sales revenues from their Where We Are Tour.[204] On 15 November 2014, One Direction joined the charity group Band Aid 30 along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording the latest version of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, to raise money for the 2014 Ebola crisis in Western Africa.[205] In 2015, One Direction launched 'Action 1D' campaign to raise awareness of global issues. The initiative aims to end extreme poverty, tackle inequality and slow down climate change with the help of their millions of fans. It is part of the wider action/2015 campaign, a global citizen’s movement that is all about the idea that 2015 can be the year when the world can set the agenda to end major global issues. One Direction will be asking their fans to describe the kind of world they want to live in by sharing powerful pieces of creative content, including videos and photos, using the hashtag #Action1D.[206] The quartet also starred in a campaign video, appealing to fans to join the movement.[207] Image One Direction greet Swedish fans in Stockholm , May 2012 A One Direction merchandising shop in Leeds in March 2013. Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph, in an article on One Direction's success in North America, notes that Americans had left a gap in the market and it took the prominence of Justin Bieber to demonstrate that there still was a market for "clean cut, wholesome, whiter-than-white, middle class parent friendly pop: cute boys advocating puppy love. And what could be better than one cute boy, if not five?"[208] One Direction have been described as sparking a resurgence in the interest in boy bands, and as forming part of a new "British Invasion" in the United States.[209][210][211][212][213][214] Bill Werde, a representative of Billboard magazine, commented, "There's a lot of possibility here, there's a lot of upside, that level of talent with those kinds of looks, it's really a perfect storm for a massive, massive successful phenomenon."[215] Sonny Takhar, the chief executive officer of Syco Records, attributes the breakthrough to the power of social media. "Sometimes you feel the song's the star, but it's not like that here – it's the act," he said. "It's a real moment. Social media has become the new radio, it's never broken an act globally like this before."[215] Will Bloomfield, the group's manager, added, "These guys live online, and so do their fans."[214] Their management employs a social media team and the members all tweet themselves, "which helps create the illusion that they couldn't be any closer to their fans," according to Caspar Llewellyn Smith, writing for The Guardian.[215] One Direction's Twitter account had amassed 10 million followers by February 2013, with the account gaining followers at an average of 21,000 per day.[216] In an approach pioneered by The Beatles, each member is known for his feature; Horan is "the cute one", Malik is "the quiet and mysterious one", Payne is "the sensible one", Styles is "the charming one" and Tomlinson is "the funny one".[217] Each member's individual identity is reinforced by their intentionally different personal styles. Caroline Watson, the band's original stylist, spoke about styling the band, "At the beginning I didn't want them all in black or all in leather—that whole stereotypical boy band thing." Instead, her original idea was for them to be the "male equivalent to the Spice Girls", with each member being a part of the group but still having his own individual style.[218] Horan commented on One Direction as a boy band, "People think that a boy band is air-grabs and [being] dressed in all one colour. We're boys in a band. We're trying to do something different from what people would think is the typical kind of boy band. We're trying to do different kinds of music and we're just trying to be ourselves, not squeaky clean."[219] Leah Collins, writing for the National Post, remarked that One Direction had succeeded on the latter front,[219] "For the most part, that just means the group presents themselves as typical, goofy and uncensored teenage boys – posting jokey YouTube videos, for instance, or boozing at awards shows."[219] Writing for The Observer, Kitty Empire opined, "One Direction fulfill a great many boy band prerequisites (looks, soppy lyrics, tune-grasp, fame-lust) but their lack of routines points to the subtle digressions afoot here".[220] Discography Filmography Tours Awards and nominations One Direction has received seven BRIT Awards,[223] seven American Music Awards,[224] six Billboard Music Awards,[225], five Billboard Touring Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards,[226] among other awards. One Direction holds the record as the most awarded act at the Teen Choice Awards with 28 wins from 31 nominations.[227] See also Publications One Direction: Forever Young , HarperCollins (17 February 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-743230-1 , HarperCollins (17 February 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-743230-1 One Direction: The Official Annual 2012 , HarperCollins (1 September 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-743625-5 , HarperCollins (1 September 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-743625-5 Dare to Dream: Life as One Direction , HarperCollins (15 September 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-744439-7 , HarperCollins (15 September 2011) ISBN 978-0-00-744439-7 One Direction: Where We Are: Our Band, Our Story: 100% Official , HarperCollins (19 November 2013) ISBN 978-0-00-748900-8 , HarperCollins (19 November 2013) ISBN 978-0-00-748900-8 One Direction: Who We Are: Our Official Autobiography, HarperCollins (25 September 2014) ISBN 978-0-00-757731-6

(Reuters) - The Hogwarts universe is set to expand by an additional two new Harry Potter books, published in conjunction with a British Library event, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the magical series. The library exhibition titled, “A History of Magic,” featuring the two books will be open from October 2017 to February 2018, British publishing house Bloomsbury announced on Tuesday. Readers of “Harry Potter: A History of Magic – The Book of the Exhibition” will be able to explore the curriculum at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Potter’s wizardry school, which includes Herbology, Astronomy and Care of Magical Creatures. Mystical subjects including unicorns, alchemy and ancient witchcraft will be explored in “Harry Potter – A Journey Through A History of Magic.” The books, both by the British Library, include unseen sketches and manuscript pages from author J.K. Rowling, magical illustrations from Jim Kay and artifacts from the archives at the library. June 26 marked 20 years since the release of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” the first of seven Potter books in a series that sold 450 million copies in 29 languages and sparked a $7 billion movie franchise.

Andra Day, Common, Little Big Town, Lee Ann Womack and Danielle Bradbery "Stand Up For Something (From 2017 CMT Artists of the Year)"

The outrageous Star magazine cover story that has shocked America Star magazine (US) The Fury star has been separated from the Oscar winner for a year now - although their divorce is not finalised – and even though they were together so long and became parents to six kids, he has concluded they were never a great fit for each other, according to US publication Star. An insider told Star: “In hindsight, they really had nothing in common besides great sex. He’s sat up many nights going over what happened, and he’s analysed it again and again in therapy. He realises his relationship with Angie was toxic from the start.” Brad has reportedly admitted he drank too much while married to Angelina and that their hectic schedules and responsibilities as parents drove them apart. The source added: “Brad’s demons got a hold of him … Ange used to be so exciting. But by the time they had six kids, Ange was so tired that Brad’s needs were put on the back burner.” Brad Pitt has yet to publicly respond to Star's sensational allegations.

Another day, another celebrity breakup. According to reports, Sarah Hyland and Dominic Sherwood reportedly broke up after two years of dating. Hyland is one of the stars of ABC's Modern Family and Sherwood is one of the stars of Freeform's Shadowhunters. Fans are wondering: Why did Sarah Hyland and Dominic Sherwood break up? Elite Daily reached out to both Hyland and Sherwood's teams for comment, but did not hear back by time of publication. According to Entertainment Tonight, Hyland and Sherwood's relationship had just run its course. And hey, I get that. Things are good for a while, and then you just realize you're not right for each other. It doesn't mean it was a bad relationship, it's just one that's over. The pair first met when they co-starred in Vampire Academy back in 2014. (Hyland has also had a recurring role on Sherwood's Shadowhunters recently.) Hyland and Sherwood went public with their relationship in March 2015 when they were seen kissing at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. They used to post pictures of each other on their respective Instagrams all the time, but Hyland hasn't posted anything about Sherwood since April 15, and Sherwood hasn't posted anything about Hyland since April 22. Of course, Instagram posts realistically have nothing to do with the status of any given relationship. But that's just about the only indication we've had that these two were going to call it quits (albeit a very, very small indication). They celebrated their two-year anniversary in Feb. 2017. Hyland posted about the anniversary on Instagram with a caption that read, "Happy 2 year to my #1 @domsherwood." Sherwood talked about his love for Hyland in an interview with ET in Feb. 2017. In the interview, he said, Sarah makes me want to be a better version of myself. That's what I love most about her. She inspires me to be the best version of me. When she joined the cast of Shadowhunters, Sherwood said, Everyone fell in love with her on set. It was a real joy ... She's been coming in since season one, coming to visit me. Having her on set as an actress was just phenomenal. At this point it's unclear why Hyland and Sherwood broke up, but it was wonderful while it lasted!

Steven Spielberg is credited with a pretty impressive list of films, which were made during his nearly 50-year career in Hollywood. From “Jaws” to “Schindler’s List” and “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” the director has worked on some of the industry’s biggest movies. But Spielberg won’t watch most of them. “I don’t dwell,” he told E! on the red carpet for the premiere of “Speilberg,” the HBO documentary about his life and filmmaking career. There is one exception, however. “I’ll show my grandkids ‘E.T.’ for the first time,” he said. “And I’ll love sitting next to them and telling them that he doesn’t really die and ‘It’s only scary for a little while and then you grow to love him. I guide them through the experience.” The 1982 film about an extraterrestrial trying to make it home is beloved by fans all over the world. “Spielberg” will premiere on October 7 on HBO.

Earlier this week, it was announced Gigi Hadid will walk in the 2017 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which will take place in Shanghai for the first time. After the location and Hadid’s participation were revealed, some on social media started bad-mouthing the model, insisting she shouldn’t be welcome in China after seemingly mocking Asians by squinting her eyes in a Snapchat video back in February. At the time, Hadid was accused of being racist, and now that criticism has resurfaced. That’s where the real news ends. ZAYN has a history of coming to Gigi Hadid‘s defense, but no one is really telling HollywoodLife that he’s “desperate” to do so again. Gossip Cop can explain how this story is an instance of real news being twisted into fake news. Here’s where the fake news begins: “Zayn Malik Desperate To Defend Gigi Hadid After Racist Accusations,” reads the headline of an “exclusive” from HollywoodLies, which claims it “EXCLUSIVELY learned” he “can’t stand to see” his girlfriend “hurting over the racist accusations made against her.” A so-called “source close to the supermodel” is quoted as saying, “Zayn is furious people are accusing Gigi of being racist. He’s begging her to let him go on a Twitter rant defending her but she’s asked him to stay quiet for now. She doesn’t want him feeding the trolls.” The webloid is trying to play this two ways. If Malik does tweet, it can claim it was right about him wanting to defend Hadid. If he doesn’t, the site can claim it was right about Hadid requesting he “hold back.” Just like the tabloids, the bad blog often tries to cover itself. But HollywoodLies can’t cover up the fact that this story is inauthentic. The assertion that Malik wants to go on a Twitter rant defending Hadid isn’t really coming from a “source.” It’s coming from the singer’s own past. He tweeted in defense of Hadid during the original controversy earlier this year, which led to additional angry messages as the backlash grew. (As previously reported, Malik said he was called “ignorant” and a “terrorist.”) Because Malik did that before, it’s not exactly a stretch to think he’d be upset now and want to defend her again. As Gossip Cop has repeatedly pointed out, HollywoodLies likes to take hot topics (in this case, Hadid doing the fashion show in China) and craft “exclusives” around it (Malik wanting to defend Hadid from haters) for the sake of traffic. But far from being pieces of genuine reporting, these are often fake news stories that contain information anyone could guess. That is all that’s going on here. By the way, while HollywoodLies is also maintaining a “devastated” and “distraught” Hadid has been “crying a lot” over the situation, she actually looks pretty happy in the above photo from yesterday.

There’s a sad reason why there’s no one special in Justin Bieber‘s life at the moment. The singer opened up about it during an interview on Monday with Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O. “I haven’t been in a relationship for a while now,” the 21-year-old said after the hosts asked him who he’d be bringing with him to Australia when he performs there later this month. When Kyle questioned why a young pop star would want to be seriously involved with anyone anyway, Bieber clarified, “I’m a relationship type of guy. I love to be in love, love cuddling. I love all that stuff.” Exclusive Details on Justin Bieber’s New Single ‘What Do You Mean’ He added, “I got my heart broken. I’m just trying to let that heal up.” That prompted Jackie O. to ask about his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez. The radio host asked about Gomez’s name being scrawled on a wall in his new “What Do You Mean?” video, and he dismissed it, saying, “I think that might be fake,” before going on to say “it wasn’t me that did that.”

Get the latest from TODAY Sign up for our newsletter / Source: TODAY By Eun Kyung Kim U.S. figure skater Ashley Wagner expressed no regrets Wednesday for her “furious” reaction to national championship judges who dashed her hopes at a second chance to win Olympic gold. “What you see is what you get with me, and I pride myself on being honest and open,” the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist said on TODAY in her first interview since missing a spot on U.S. team heading to the South Korea Games. Wagner openly expressed her unhappiness over placing fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships last week. She told reporters after the competition that she was angry over the low scores she received. "I'm absolutely furious,” she told reporters last Friday. “I absolutely left one jump on the table, but for me to put out two programs that I did at this competition as solid as I skated and to get those scores, I am furious, and I think deservedly so." In her exclusive sitdown with TODAY Wednesday, the 26-year-old skater said she’s had some time to process what happened and she still feels “really proud” of her performances, but would not take back anything she said about her reaction. “I found out that my Olympic dreams had come to an end and I think that I was just heartbroken. Devastated,” she said. “I had worked 22 years for that moment and I had put out something that I felt so proud of.” She said seeing her scores go up “was confusing to me.” “And in that moment, when I was feeling the end of that Olympic dream, it was just heartbreaking,” she added. Wagner, from her Jan. 5 Free Skate performance at U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Getty Images Wagner said she feels that the three women who have since been named to Team USA — Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen — absolutely deserved their spots. “At the end of the day, based on the selection criteria, they absolutely made the right call with this team,” she said. Asked if she felt the judges were harder on her than the other contenders, Wagner pointed out that her scores in her second competition last week were lower than ones she had earned earlier in the season when she had been skating with injuries. “I ended up where I ended up,” she said. “I have a lot of experience in this sport, and I know what I consistently skate like and where I usually fall. I’m allowed to question things, but question things only in relations to myself,” she added. “I think that these girls earned their spots and I am so excited to take a step back.” Wagner, who will be an alternate on the U.S. Olympic team, said she doesn’t want to shed any doubt on the ability of the women heading to South Korea. She nabbed a spot on the 2014 team to Sochi even though she placed fourth at the U.S. championships. Judges decided to seat her on the Olympic team based on her body of work at the time. “I’ve been in the position where people have tried to take away my legitimacy for being on a team and I would never want to do that to another athlete, so I think these three girls going into the Olympics, Team USA has a great team going,” she said.

Another Bachelor couple bites the dust. Bachelor in Paradise alums Derek Peth and Taylor Nolan have decided to end their engagement, they announced on Tuesday. Their breakup comes about a year after they started dating on Paradise, and 10 months after Peth proposed with a stunning Neil Lane sparkler on the reunion show last August. "It is with much sadness that we have decided to end our engagement. We put everything we could into our relationship and are heartbroken to go forward separately, but we know this is the best decision for the both of us," Peth and Nolan said in a joint statement to ET. "We will still be present in each other's lives with support, admiration and respect for each other." Before meeting Nolan on Paradise, Peth appeared on JoJo Fletcher's season of The Bachelorette. Nolan, meanwhile, gained notoriety for her "emotional intelligence" argument with Corinne Olympios on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor. Peth and Nolan were pretty much inseparable when they hit the beach for season four of Bachelor in Paradise last summer, and two months later, Peth put a ring on it. Managing a long-distance relationship -- Peth lives in New York and Nolan resides in Seattle -- was always a concern for the pair. "Originally we were like, ‘This is fun, but we're in different states,’” Peth told ET during a joint interview with Nolan last September. “We tried to be realistic and then it turned out I couldn't stay away from her.” “We had a couple of really amazing days together before filming [the finale] -- we came out [to L.A.] early and did our own thing and I was like, 'I freaking love this girl, let's do something crazy,'” Peth shared of his decision to get down on one knee. “We don't really believe in having 'the one' or that one person; it's really about choosing each other, [but] there's something magnetically that has always attracted me to Taylor. We tried not to like each other, but that's what made it so genuine. We tried as hard as possible to not like each other, every step of the way!” “I was very resistant, but part of what I love him about it, is that he is so patient with me,” Nolan added. “He allows me to go through my process and is very supportive in that -- he's a very good teammate.” Season four of Paradise ended with three couples: Lacey Mark and Daniel Maguire (who revealed their breakup at the reunion), Nolan and Peth (who just split), and Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk (who are still together). Season five, meanwhile, already has one engagement -- Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon. See what they told ET about the special moment in the video below. RELATED CONTENT: Ashley Iaconetti On The Moment Jared Haibon Proposed: 'Of Course There Were Tears!' (Exclusive) 'Bachelor in Paradise' Season 5 Cast Announced: Grocery Store Joe, 'Winter Games' Favorites Returning EXCLUSIVE: Derek Peth & Taylor Nolan on Engagement, Resisting Love & How ‘BIP’'s Hiatus Nearly Split Them Up Related Gallery

Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green and Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay during the filming of the “Friends” episode “The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 1” in 1998. Lisa Kudrow has offered up even more proof that the cast of “Friends” took the name of the beloved sitcom to heart. On Monday, the actress told People that her co-stars altered a pre-show ritual when she was pregnant during Seasons 4 and 5 to include her unborn child — her now 20-year-old son, Julian Murray Stern. “The six of us would do a huddle backstage and just say, ‘All right, have a good show, love you love you love you love you,’” Kudrow, 55, told the outlet. “And when I was pregnant, then they would say, ‘Have a great show, love you love you — love you, little Julian!’ ’Cause we knew it was a boy and that was his name.” She added: “So sweet, they included my little fetus in the huddle.” The stars of “Friends” embraced one another’s children at other times, too. In 2005, Jennifer Aniston was named godmother of Courteney Cox’s daughter, Coco Arquette.

With the charts and pop radio heavily tilted toward rap at the moment, there’s so many recognizable artists in the mix for the rap Grammys that, beyond Lamar, the nominations are anyone’s guess. At the 2016 ceremony, Lamar won all four trophies in the rap categories — making him the third act to score a clean sweep after Eminem and Kanye West. And he just might do the same this year.

Drake Sets Single-Year Record, Celine Dion & Cher Shine at 2017 Billboard Music Awards Drake stole the show at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards in more ways than one, taking home 13 honors, surpassing Adele's mark as the artist with the most BBMA wins in one night, delivering a fiery performance in the middle of the famous Bellagio fountain and, maybe, getting himself a date after hitting on co-host Vanessa Hudgens during his acceptance speech for winning Top Billboard 200 Album for Views. Watch "It's crazy that we're all here on earth for a limited amount of time, and we gotta show love while we're here," he said on stage midway through the telecast, before getting straight to the point: "Vanessa Hudgens, you look incredible tonight." (Hudgens acknowledged that shortly afterward by asking if she was on the invite list for Drake's afterparty.) By then, Drake had already racked up 12 BBMAs -- 10 in the pre-telecast categories, and one earlier in the show for Top Male Artist -- on his way to a record-breaking 13 victories, which he achieved with the evening's final honor, Top Artist, to overtake Adele's previous record of 12 in 2012. It's an impressive number for an artist who utterly dominated 2016, shattering streaming records over and over again with the success of his album Views and its monster single "One Dance" featuring WizKid and Kyla. "Life is like toilet paper," he said while accepting his final award. "Either you're on a roll, or taking sh-t from assholes." Cher was presented with the prestigious Icon Award and rolled back the years with a high-powered performance of her iconic songs "Believe" and "If I Could Turn Back Time" -- sporting, fittingly, completely different looks for each performance -- a day after her 71st birthday. "I've wanted to do what I do since I was four years old, and I've been doing it for 53 years," she said with a humble air during her acceptance speech. "I think luck has so much to do with with my success... I think it was mostly luck and a little bit of something thrown in." Drake also won Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Billboard 200 Artist and Top Rap Artist, and took home awards for song sales, song streams and several rap and R&B categories on his way to lucky 13. Beyoncé earned Top Female Artist, Zayn was awarded Top New Artist and Blake Shelton (Country), Beyoncé (R&B), Twenty One Pilots (Rock), Juan Gabriel (Latin), The Chainsmokers (Dance/Electronic) and Lauren Daigle (Christian) and Kirk Franklin (Gospel) won top artist honors in their respective genres. Twenty One Pilots and Beyoncé were also big winners on the night, with five BBMAs apiece, while The Chainsmokers earned four. The show spent most of its three hours, fittingly, on performances and awards rather than hosting gimmicks, with 15 performances that ran the gamut of genres from hip-hop to pop to dance to rock to country. Nicki Minaj opened the show with a star-studded medley that included her Remy Ma diss track "No Frauds," which she performed with Lil Wayne, David Guetta's "Light My Body Up," Jason Derulo's "Swalla" and her own "Regret In Your Tears," bringing out each superstar in turn. Camila Cabello and Miley Cyrus both delivered the live debuts of their new singles -- Cabello's first solo songs since leaving Fifth Harmony, an emotional-yet-brief "I Have Questions" and a heated-up "Crying In the Club," and Cyrus' country-tinged comeback release "Malibu" -- while Lorde ("Green Light," performed as if at a goofy and awkward karaoke night), Sam Hunt ("Body Like a Back Road") and John Legend ("Surefire"), who was then joined by Florida Georgia Line for a surprise joint rendition of FGL's "H.O.L.Y.," all chipped in with memorable performances. Hudgens was a natural in her first year as co-host alongside veteran BBMAs host Ludacris, and their monologue would have had her in the headlines regardless of Drake's unabashed flirting. In hyping the performances to come, Hudgens showed off both her pipes and rapping skills with a cappella versions of Celine Dion's "Power of Love" and Nicki Minaj's verse from "Monster," impressing both Luda and the crowd in the process. Speaking of Dion, the diva performed her iconic song "My Heart Will Go On" 20 years after its initial prominence as the main song from the blockbuster Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet film Titanic, navigating the challenging track effortlessly and earning an extended standing ovation. (Read Billboard's oral history of the song right here.) It was easily one of the standout moments of the night, and impressive in its emotion and vocal dexterity. Diddy also took the stage to pay tribute to The Notorious B.I.G. on what would have been the rapper's 45th birthday and debuted the trailer for his upcoming Bad Boy Records documentary Can't Stop, Won't Stop. "It all started with the Notorious B.I.G.," Diddy said, referencing Bad Boy's creation and the 500 million albums it sold over the past 20-plus years. "Big sold over 25 million records worldwide; his Ready to Die album, his Life After Death album, classics... Biggie was the best rapper I ever had the chance to work with. Watching him and seeing him work is something that words can't explain." Bruno Mars, whose recent awards show performances have leaned more towards glitzy funk showstoppers like "24K Magic" and his excellent tribute to Prince alongside The Time during the Grammys earlier this year, took a different route for this one, getting passionate with his latest single "Versace On the Floor" as the show wound towards its conclusion. But there was only one way it would end: with Drake complete his record-breaking evening with the top award to go with his new place in BBMA history. His huge night catapulted him into the top 10 of artists who have won the most Billboard Music Awards over the years, though he still has a way to go to catch Taylor Swift at 21. But with the March release of his playlist-album More Life already shattering records he'd set last year with Views, it's hard to imagine he won't be gracing BBMA stages for years to come.

Kim Kardashian West, whose 17-hour transformation from brunette to platinum blond made headlines pretty much everywhere, has done it again. On Sunday she took to social media to announce her newest shade: a bright, bright, bright pink. We had a hint something was coming on Saturday, when she basically sounded an alarm for a future color drop: "I can't even tell you how over my blond hair I am!" she tweet-raged. (As someone who is a very much dyed platinum blond too, I can attest that we all have those days.) Kardashian West, however, did something about it. A big something. Although she hinted that she was a "brunette at heart" during a Create + Cultivate panel on Saturday, she definitely didn't go back to her roots with her recent dye job. Instead, she went bold—and it's pretty great. Judging by the multiple reveal posts, she's excited about it too. As for those of us wondering—quite rightly, given younger sis Kylie Jenner's former penchant for mixing up her look with wigs—if the look is indeed a wig, temporary, or permanent, Kim put down any confusion on Twitter before it could begin. "I wonder if it’s just a wig or permanent color? because we know Kim doesn’t play with wigs," one user posited. "I don’t really do wigs," she replied. "It’s real." Her stylist's Instagram backs it up: After news broke of the dye job on Sunday, her hair colorist, Chris Appleton, posted a photo of the dye in process on his 'gram (and that definitely looks like some Olaplex in the background). "New look who dis?" he captioned the pic. Kim is pink, Kris is blond, Kylie has a $1.4 million push present—and we're all just still trying to keep up with those Kardashians. Related Stories: -Kim Kardashian Uses This Drugstore Treatment to Keep Her Platinum Hair From Breaking -Kim Kardashian West Just Teased Her Next KKW Beauty Product-Kim Kardashian Just Chopped Her Hair Into a Blunt Lob

Awards season is heating up! The 2018 Critics' Choice Awards nominations were revealed on Wednesday and ET was with This Is Us star Chrissy Metz right after she landed a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. "It's really cool. Movin' on up! I found out as [I was] driving here and it's so wonderful," she told ET's Keltie Knight at The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women in Entertainment Breakfast at Los Angeles' Milk Studios. Chrissy Metz attends The Hollywood Reporter's 2017 Women In Entertainment Breakfast at Milk Studios on Dec. 6 in Los Angeles, California. Getty Images In addition to Metz's nomination, her co-star, Sterling K. Brown, is up for Best Actor in a Drama Series and the show itself has been nominated for Best Drama Series. The This Is Us family isn't alone in celebrating their Critics' Choice Awards nods. Guillermo del Toro's movie, The Shape of Water -- which stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer -- leads with a whopping 14 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director. Get Out, The Big Sick, Girls Trip and I, Tonya also got a few nominations as well as Game of Thrones, Black-ish, GLOW and Billions. Here's a look at the full list of nominees: Best Picture The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Actor Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name James Franco, The Disaster Artist Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger Tom Hanks, The Post Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Daniel Day Lewis, Phantom Thread Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Best Actress Jessica Chastain, Molly's Game Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Meryl Streep, The Post Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project Armie Hammer, Call Me By Your Name Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Patrick Stewart, Logan Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Hong Chau, Downsizing Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip Holly Hunter, The Big Sick Allison Janney, I, Tonya Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water Best Young Actor/Actress Mckenna Grace, Gifted Dafne Keen, Logan Brooklynn Prince, The Florida Project Millicent Simmonds, Wonderstruck Jacob Tremblay, Wonder Best Acting Ensemble Dunkirk Lady Bird Mudbound The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Director Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk Luca Guadagnino, Call Me by Your Name Jordan Peele, Get Out Steven Spielberg, The Post Best Animated Feature The Breadwinner Coco Despicable Me 3 The LEGO Batman Movie Loving Vincent Best Action Movie Baby Driver Logan Thor: Ragnarok War for the Planet of the Apes Wonder Woman Best Comedy The Big Sick The Disaster Artist Girls Trip I, Tonya Lady Bird Best Actor in a Comedy Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes James Franco, The Disaster Artist Chris Hemsworth, Thor: Ragnarok Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick Adam Sandler, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Best Actress in a Comedy Tiffany Haddish, Girls Trip Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick Margot Robbie, I, Tonya Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Blade Runner 2049 Get Out It The Shape of Water Best Foreign Language Film BPM (Beats Per Minute) A Fantastic Woman First They Killed My Father In the Fade The Square Thelma Best Original Screenplay Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, The Shape of Water Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, The Post Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Jordan Peele, Get Out Best Adapted Screenplay James Ivory, Call Me by Your Name Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound Aaron Sorkin, Molly's Game Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad and Stephen Chbosky, Wonder Best Cinematography Roger Deakins, Blade Runner 2049 Hoyte van Hoytema, Dunkirk Dan Laustsen, The Shape of Water Rachel Morrison, Mudbound Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me By Your Name Best Production Design Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin, The Shape of Water Jim Clay and Rebecca Alleway, Murder on the Orient Express Nathan Crowley and Gary Fettis, Dunkirk Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola, Blade Runner 2049 Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, Beauty and the Beast Mark Tildesley and Véronique Melery, Phantom Thread Best Editing Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar, The Post Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos, Baby Driver Lee Smith, Dunkirk Joe Walker, Blade Runner 2049 Sidney Wolinsky, The Shape of Water Best Costume Design Renée April, Blade Runner 2049 Mark Bridges, Phantom Thread Jacqueline Durran, Beauty and the Beast Lindy Hemming, Wonder Woman Luis Sequeira, The Shape of Water Best Hair and Makeup Beauty and the Beast Darkest Hour I, Tonya The Shape of Water Wonder Best Visual Effects Blade Runner 2049 Dunkirk The Shape of Water Thor: Ragnarok War for the Planet of the Apes Wonder Woman Best Song "Evermore," Beauty and the Beast "Mystery of Love," Call Me by Your Name "Remember Me," Coco "Stand Up for Something," Marshall "This Is Me," The Greatest Showman Best Score Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water Jonny Greenwood, Phantom Thread Dario Marianelli, Darkest Hour Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer, Blade Runner 2049 John Williams, The Post Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk Best Comedy Series The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Black-ish (ABC) GLOW (Netflix) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) Modern Family (ABC) Patriot (Amazon) Best Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Anderson, Black-ish (ABC) Aziz Ansari, Master of None (Netflix) Hank Azaria, Brockmire (IFC) Ted Danson, The Good Place (NBC) Thomas Middleditch, Silicon Valley (HBO) Randall Park, Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Actress in a Comedy Series Kristen Bell, The Good Place (NBC) Alison Brie, GLOW (Netflix) Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) Sutton Foster, Younger (TV Land) Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Constance Wu, Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) Walton Goggins, Vice Principals (HBO) Sean Hayes, Will & Grace (NBC) Marc Maron, GLOW (Netflix) Kumail Nanjiani, Silicon Valley (HBO) Ed O'Neill, Modern Family (ABC) Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Mayim Bialik, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) Betty Gilpin, GLOW (Netflix) Jenifer Lewis, Black-ish (ABC) Alessandra Mastronardi, Master of None (Netflix) Rita Moreno, One Day at a Time (Netflix) Best Drama Series American Gods (Starz) The Crown (Netflix) Game of Thrones (HBO) The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) Stranger Things (Netflix) This Is Us (NBC) Best Actor in a Drama Series Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us (NBC) Paul Giamatti, Billions (Showtime) Freddie Highmore, Bates Motel (A&E) Ian McShane, American Gods (Starz) Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul (AMC) Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan (Showtime) Best Actress in a Drama Series Caitriona Balfe, Outlander (Starz) Christine Baranski, The Good Fight (CBS All Access) Claire Foy, The Crown (Netflix) Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black (BBC America) Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) Robin Wright, House of Cards (Netflix) Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Bobby Cannavale, Mr. Robot (USA) Asia Kate Dillon, Billions (Showtime) Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (HBO) David Harbour, Stranger Things (Netflix) Delroy Lindo, The Good Fight (CBS All Access) Michael McKean, Better Call Saul (AMC) Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Gillian Anderson, American Gods (Starz) Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones (HBO) Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu) Cush Jumbo, The Good Fight (CBS All Access) Margo Martindale, Sneaky Pete (Amazon) Chrissy Metz, This Is Us (NBC) Best Limited Series American Vandal (Netflix) Big Little Lies (HBO) Fargo (FX) Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Godless (Netflix) The Long Road Home (National Geographic) Best Movie Made for TV Flint (Lifetime) I Am Elizabeth Smart (Lifetime) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (HBO) Sherlock: The Lying Detective (PBS) The Wizard of Lies (HBO) Best Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series Jeff Daniels, Godless (Netflix) Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies (HBO) Ewan McGregor, Fargo (FX) Jack O'Connell, Godless (Netflix) Evan Peters, American Horror Story: Cult (FX) Bill Pullman, The Sinner (USA) Jimmy Tatro, American Vandal (Netflix) Best Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series Jessica Biel, The Sinner (USA) Alana Boden, I Am Elizabeth Smart (Lifetime) Carrie Coon, Fargo (FX) Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies (HBO) Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies (HBO) Best Supporting Actor in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series Johnny Flynn, Genius (National Geographic) Benito Martinez, American Crime (ABC) Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies (HBO) David Thewlis, Fargo (FX) Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Best Supporting Actress in a Movie Made for TV or Limited Series Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Laura Dern, Big Little Lies (HBO) Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan (FX) Regina King, American Crime (ABC) Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies (HBO) Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Fargo (FX) Best Talk Show The Ellen DeGeneres Show Harry Jimmy Kimmel Live! The Late Late Show With James Corden The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Best Animated Series Archer Bob's Burgers BoJack Horseman Danger & Eggs Rick and Morty The Simpsons Best Unstructured Reality Series Born This Way Ice Road Truckers Intervention Live PD Ride With Norman Reedus Teen Mom Best Structured Reality Series The Carbonaro Effect Fixer Upper The Profit Shark Tank Undercover Boss Who Do You Think You Are? Best Reality Competition Series America's Got Talent Chopped Dancing With the Stars Project Runway RuPaul's Drag Race The Voice Best Reality Show Host Ted Allen, Chopped Tyra Banks, America's Got Talent Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars Cat Deeley, So You Think You Can Dance Joanna and Chip Gaines, Fixer Upper RuPaul, RuPaul's Drag Race The CW will broadcast the 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards live on Jan. 11. 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Her biggest project yet just dropped! Cardi B gave birth to her first child with husband Offset on Tuesday, July 10. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper welcomed a girl named Kulture Kiari. She announced the news via Instagram with a nude photo of herself cradling her baby bump. Cardi kept her pregnancy under wraps for months before finally revealing her bump during her stint as a musical guest on an April episode of Saturday Night Live. “I’m finally free!” the 25-year-old remarked as she walked off stage from her performance. Shortly after the happy news was confirmed, Cardi and her sister, Hennessy Carolina, began hinting that the artist was expecting a baby girl. The “Be Careful” rapper confirmed the sex of her little one in a May interview on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show. In the months leading up to her daughter’s arrival, the “Finesse” rapper canceled several performances. “Shorty keep growing and I be looking like I be moving and everything, but in reality, a bitch barely can breathe,” she told her followers in an April Instagram video. The expectant mom didn’t completely quit working, though. “She’s been taking a ton of meetings with designers for her Fashion Nova Line,” a source told Us Weekly in May. “She’s stopped doing shows, but she isn’t letting the pregnancy slow her down.” Us also exclusively reported at the time that Cardi was due in July. The “I Like It” rapper confirmed in June that she and Offset, 26, secretly married in September 2017. “There are so many moments that I share with the world and then there are moments that I want to keep for myself! Getting married was one of those moments!” she wrote in a Twitter note at the time. “Our relationship was so new breaking up and making up and we had a lot of growing up to do but we was so in love we didn’t want to lose each other.” She continued: “Was one morning in September we woke up and decided to get married. We found someone to marry us, and she did, just the two of us and my cousin. I said I do, with no dress, no makeup and no ring!” Offset publicly proposed to the artist one month after their top-secret wedding in October 2017 during a Philadelphia concert. Video of what appeared to be the Migos rapper — who has three children from previous relationships — in bed with another woman emerged not long after, but Cardi chose to stick with her husband. For the latest TV news and interviews, subscribe to our new podcast “Watch With Us” below Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox!

The Kardashian-Jenner crew is expanding their annual, cheer-spreading Christmas card to cover an entire month — and keeping fans guessing with daily sneak peeks. Since the start of the month, Kim Kardashian West and the photographer behind the card — Eli Linnetz — have been sharing images from the shoot on social media, much like an advent calendar. Linnetz wrote on Instagram that the series is titled, The 25 Days of Xmas. On Dec. 1, Kim posted the first image: a photo of son Saint, 2, in denim jeans as he posed by neatly wrapped brown presents with white ribbon. It’s the toddler’s first holiday card, as he was only a few weeks old when sister North and cousins Penelope, Mason and Reign Disick starred in the 2015 photo wearing coordinating chic black outfits. (The family opted to not release a card in 2016.)

The second wave of 2017 Teen Choice Award nominees is finally here! Less than one month after event organizers announced the first round of nominations, Fox released the second one, which includes five new categories such as Choice Gamer, Choice Changemaker and Choice Latin Song. Even though the music category is lead by Selena Gomez, with a total of five nominations (Choice Summer Song, Choice Female Artist, Choice Summer Female Artist, Choice Song: Female Artist, and Choice Collaboration), it also features such superstars as Ed Sheeran who scored another two nominations for Choice Pop Song and Choice Summer song, bringing his total to four this year, Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus. The movie categories include K.J. Apa, Colin O’Donoghue, Lili Reinhart, Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pine and many more. The first wave of nominations for this year’s Teen Choice Awards was revealed in June, with Pretty Little Liars leading with seven nominations, followed by The Flash with four and The Arrow, Supergirl, This Is Us and The Vampire Diaries each receiving three. Mark your calendars and get your popcorn ready! The Teen Choice Awards airs Sunday, Aug. 13 at 8/7c on Fox. See the complete list of Wave 2 nominees below. #TeenChoice is back and you know it's going to be lit! ? See you August 13 at 8/7c on @foxtv. A post shared by TC Headquarters (@teenchoicefox) on May 25, 2017 at 4:54pm PDT Movies & Television Choice Breakout TV Star ( #ChoiceBreakoutTVStar ) Chrissy Metz – This is Us Finn Wolfhard – Stranger Things K.J. Apa – Riverdale Lili Reinhart – Riverdale Millie Bobby Brown – Stranger Things Ryan Destiny – Star Choice TVShip ( #ChoiceTVShip ) #BELLARKE (Eliza Taylor & Bob Morley) – The 100 #BUGHEAD (Lili Reinhart & Cole Sprouse) – Riverdale #EMISON (Shay Mitchell & Sasha Pieterse) – Pretty Little Liars #KARAMEL (Chris Wood & Melissa Benoist) – Supergirl #MALEC (Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr.) – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments #STYDIA (Holland Roden & Dylan O’Brien) – Teen Wolf Choice Liplock ( #ChoiceLipLock ) Chris Pine & Gal Gadot – Wonder Woman Dan Stevens & Emma Watson – Beauty and the Beast Jennifer Morrison & Colin O’Donoghue – Once Upon a Time Matthew Daddario & Harry Shum Jr. – Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments Melissa Benoist & Chris Wood – Supergirl Orlando Bloom & Keira Knightley – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Music Choice Pop Song ( #ChoicePopSong ) “24K Magic” – Bruno Mars “Closer” – The Chainsmokers (feat. Halsey) “Don’t Wanna Know” – Maroon 5 (feat. Kendrick Lamar) “Love on the Brain” – Rihanna “Shape of You” – Ed Sheeran “Stay” – Zedd & Alessia Cara Choice Country Song ( #ChoiceCountrySong ) “Body Like a Back Road” – Sam Hunt “Craving You” – Thomas Rhett (feat. Maren Morris) “Every Time I Hear That Song” – Blake Shelton “The Fighter” – Keith Urban (feat. Carrie Underwood) “God, Your Mama, and Me” – Florida Georgia Line (feat. Backstreet Boys) “In Case You Didn’t Know” – Brett Young Choice Summer Song ( #ChoiceSummerSong ) “Bad Liar” – Selena Gomez “Castle on the Hill” – Ed Sheeran “Despacito” – Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat. Justin Bieber) “Malibu” – Miley Cyrus “Stay” – Zedd & Alessia Cara “That’s What I Like” – Bruno Mars Choice Summer Female Artist ( #ChoiceSummerFemaleArtist ) Camila Cabello Halsey Katy Perry Lorde Miley Cyrus Selena Gomez Choice Summer Male Artist ( #ChoiceSummerMaleArtist ) Harry Styles Justin Bieber Liam Payne Niall Horan Shawn Mendes Zedd Choice Summer Group ( #ChoiceSummerGroup ) The Chainsmokers Coldplay Fifth Harmony Florida Georgia Line Imagine Dragons Little Mix For more celebrity news follow us on social media via Facebook and Twitter @CelebMix.

Amy Schumer has parted ways with Sony’s live-action “Barbie” over a scheduling conflict, Variety has learned. “Sadly, I’m no longer able to commit to Barbie due to scheduling conflicts,” the actress said in a statement to Variety. “The film has so much promise, and Sony and Mattel have been great partners. I’m bummed, but look forward to seeing Barbie on the big screen.” The big screen adaptation of Mattel’s iconic toy line was expected to start production this summer on June 23, but Schumer’s busy schedule includes a lengthy promotional tour for her new Fox comedy “Snatched,” which opens in May, as well as an upcoming shoot for Rebecca Miller’s “She Came to Me” opposite Steve Carell. Sony needed to stick to its June 29, 2018 release date since Mattel already has merchandise and product cycles in motion–shifting the production to accommodate Schumer would have put on a strain on other partners on the film, according to insiders. “We respect and support Amy’s decision,” a spokesperson for Sony said in a statement. “We look forward to bringing Barbie to the world and sharing updates on casting and filmmakers soon.” Sony is still trying to find a director for the comedy. The “Barbie” movie is said to be in the vein of “Splash”, “Enchanted” and “Big.” In it, the main character gets kicked out of Barbieland for not being perfect enough and lands in a real-world adventure. Schumer recently did a polish of the script. It’s unknown whether the same tone will be kept with the comedian no longer attached. Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald and Amy Pascal are producing the film. Parkes and MacDonald initiated the original deal with Mattel in 2014. Schumer can be seen next in the action-comedy “Snatched,” which opens on May 12, 2017, and also has “Thank You for Your Service” opening in October. She is repped by UTA, Carrie Byalick at B Company and Maverick Management.

CLOSE Emma Stone stars as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell is Bobby Riggs in the 1970s-set sports film 'Battle of the Sexes.' Fox Searchlight It took more than Hollywood magic to turn Emma Stone, the svelte actress from La La Land, into Billie Jean King in her new movie Battle of the Sexes. For starters, the physical transformation required three months, 15 pounds and a meal and fitness plan. Trainer Jason Walsh, founder of climbing gym Rise Nation, who got Stone in shape for La La Land, knew the actress would need to up her calorie intake and strength training regimen to embody the powerful tennis legend. Here's what Stone went through to reshape her body. For her role in 'Battle of the Sexes,' Emma Stone gained 15 pounds. (Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon, 20th Century Fox Film) She wasn’t afraid of packing on pounds. Stone is “very petite and has a dancer's body,” but she was willing to bulk up to look more like King. “She took it seriously," Walsh says. "She wanted to do the story justice.” Gaining a dozen-plus pounds of muscle made Stone look more like a tennis pro, and also feel more like her character. “We wanted to give Emma the psychological backing” to be able to compete in professional tennis matches, Walsh says. “She needed to be resilient and to have the psyche of being really strong.” Emma Stone, here with co-star Ryan Gosling, had a lithe look for 'La La Land.' (Photo: Dale Robinette) She drank two high-cal protein shakes a day. “It wasn’t like we were taking someone off the Taco Bell diet,” Walsh says of his clean-eating client, “but we added shakes into her diet." The shakes had “hundreds of calories” each, he says, and usually contained a handful of spinach, a supplement known as ashwagandha and a “good tasting" protein powder. Fortunately, since Stone was working out so much (twice a day), she was hungry enough to down the filling beverages. Emma Stone getting her deadlift on. Ladies, DEADLIFT!!!! This lift will change your life. #Strongisthenewsexy #strong #motivated A post shared by JASON WALSH (@risemovement) on Sep 21, 2015 at 7:54am PDT She lifted an impressive amount of weight. Some of Walsh’s daily go-to strength training exercises for Stone? Pushing and pulling sleds twice her size, heavy farmer’s walks (aka walking while holding dumbbells) and up to 300-pound hip thrusts. At one point, Stone was deadlifting 185 pounds and doing push-ups with 50 pounds of chains on her back. “I was pretty proud,” Walsh says. The "Battle of the Sexes" Working with Emma is pure hell...we loathe each other #battleofthesexes #emmastone A post shared by JASON WALSH (@risemovement) on Sep 22, 2017 at 6:34pm PDT Then she backed off. While Stone was gaining weight, she stayed away from fat-burning cardio. But once she achieved the right look for the film, “we started adding conditioning aspects,” Walsh says. That meant Stone was lifting fewer weights and doing cardio at Rise Nation once or twice a week. She's two years beyond her most intensive Battle of the Sexes training, but Walsh encourages the actress, and anyone else trying to stay in shape, to mix activities like yoga and hiking with strength training. Yes, for women. And, yes, that means lifting weights. “I train (GLOW star) Alison Brie and (future Captain Marvel) Brie Larson, and all of these girls are strong as hell and not big,” he says. In fact, after incorporating weight-lifting into their workout routine, “They fit into their clothes better (and) are three, four, five times stronger than before.” Want to see the results of Stone's hard work? Battle of the Sexes is in theaters now in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, San Francisco and Washington. It expands nationwide Friday. Emma Stone, with co-star Steve Carrell, looked and felt very strong playing real-life tennis legend Billie Jean King. (Photo: Melinda Sue Gordon, 20th Century Fox Film) Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2ymKUKG

A recently-discovered photograph is turning the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance on its head, leading a handful of experts to believe the celebrated aviator and women’s rights role model actually survived her final flight — and was captured by the Japanese. Shortly after midnight on July 2, 1937, Earhart climbed into her Lockheed Electra at an airfield in Papua New Guinea and took off into the dark, muggy night. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Together with her navigator Fred Noonan, the 39-year-old pilot flew east toward Howland Island, a tiny sliver of land in the central Pacific Ocean, on the final leg of her boldest aeronautical adventure to date – circumnavigating the globe along the equator in a marathon 29,000-mile flight. And then suddenly, she vanished. “Gas is running low,” Earhart said in what’s believed to be her final radio broadcast to a Coast Guard cutter assisting with her navigation. “Have been unable to reach you by radio. We’re flying at 1,000 feet.” The mystery of what happened to Earhart and Noonan has gone unanswered for 80 years. Now Shawn Henry, a former executive assistant director of the FBI – and the History Channel – have come forward with the two-hour documentary Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence that premieres on Sunday, July 9 at 9 p.m. ET and attempts to answer this question. Les Kinney/National Archives/HISTORY Armed with a recently-discovered photograph purportedly taken of Earhart days after she crash-landed on a remote South Pacific atoll, Henry offers up a startling theory of a government cover-up that runs counter to the widely-accepted idea that she died after her plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. “This absolutely changes history,” says Henry, who led a team of investigators examining a range of evidence, including plane parts found on a remote Pacific island consistent with the aircraft Earhart was flying. “I think we proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she survived her flight and was held prisoner by the Japanese on the island of Saipan, where she eventually died.” Les Kinney/National Archives/HISTORY; (Graphic)Nok Acharee The theory that the Japanese military could be responsible for the disappearance of the two aviators – who they “may have believed were American spies,” says Henry – has been floating around for decades. But it’s the discovery of a black-and-white photograph – unearthed by retired U.S. Treasury Agent Les Kinney in 2012 and revealed for the first time in the documentary – that suddenly makes the theory more plausible, adds the former FBI boss. ‘Top Secret’ File A longtime Earhart buff who has spent thousands of hours combing through government records, Kinney discovered the photo in a “formerly top secret” file in the National Archives. “It was misfiled,” he tells Henry in the documentary, referring to the photo which depicts two blurry images on a dock believed to be Noonan and Earhart – who stares out at a nearby ship with her back turned to the camera. “That’s the only reason I was able to find it.” WATCH: Does This Photo Prove Amelia Earhart Survived Her Final Flight? By the time Earhart embarked on her around-the-world flight, the Japanese controlled many of the islands in the South Pacific that she and Noonan were flying on this final leg of their adventure. Kinney insists that any document that directly refers to Earhart as a Japanese prisoner was long ago “purged” from official files to hide the fact that the government knew Earhart was a prisoner and did nothing about it, including one report that totaled more than 130 pages. NY Daily News Archive/Getty Kinney’s undated photograph came from an Office Of Naval Intelligence file, he says, and was meticulously examined and evaluated by two of the nation’s top forensic photo analysts, using extensive recognition and proportional comparison technology. “I can say with more than 99.7 percent confidence that the photo is authentic and untouched,” explains digital forensic analyst Doug Carner. Facial recognition expert Kent Gibson, who compared known images of Noonan and Earhart with the individuals photographed on the dock, believes it’s “likely” they are the two lost aviators. “There’s nothing that points me in another direction,” says Gibson, who adds that the figure believed to be Earhart has the “same prominent, athletic shoulders as Amelia” and the same “short, bobbed hair.” Crash site investigator and former fighter pilot Dan Hampton traveled with Henry to the remote Mili atoll, where it’s believed Earhart crash-landed after flying roughly 850 miles off course during her flight to tiny Howland Island. From there she planned to refuel then continue on Hawaii. With her fuel tanks nearly empty, he believes she was forced to land on the rocky, coral-strewn atoll in the Marshall Islands. Islanders have long maintained that the two flyers crash-landed there. And twisted scraps of aluminum found near the atoll decades later were tested and determined to be consistent with the same grade of metal used in planes from the 1930s. “I’ve never seen a reef you could land an airplane on until I went out there,” says Hampton, who insists he was initially skeptical of claims that Earhart survived her flight. Vanished Without a Trace After her disappearance, the government launched what at the time became the largest ever sea and air search. American vessels, however, weren’t allowed into the Japanese-controlled Marshall Islands. No trace of the flyers or their plane was ever found. Days after their alleged crash landing, Henry believes Earhart and Noonan, along with their plane, were picked up by the Japanese military and taken roughly 200 miles to Jaluit Island, where Kinney’s photograph — which contains the caption: “MARSHALL ISLANDS, JALUIT ATOLL, JALUIT ISLAND. JALUIT HARBOR.” — was later snapped on the dock. Amelia Earhart waves from the Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, Ca., on March 10, 1937. AP Forensic analyst Carner identified the ship that the individual presumed to be Earhart appears to be staring at as the Koshu Maru, a Japanese cargo ship. Behind the ship on a barge is an object resembling an airplane that Gibson calculated to be 38 feet long. Records show that Earhart’s Lockheed Electra measured 38.7 feet long. The Koshu Maru is believed to have transported the flyers nearly 2,000 miles to the island of Saipan. In the televised special Henry interviews a former islander, now in her 90s and living in California, who is described as “the last living eyewitness” to have seen Earhart and Noonan after their crash. Henry and his team traveled to the now-crumbling, vine-choked prison cell in Saipan where they believe Earhart spent her final two years before dying in 1939, possibly from malaria or dysentery. Not so fast, says Dorothy Cochrane, curator for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Aeronautics Department, who insists that she’s never seen any “definitive evidence” to suggest that the pair survived their final flight. Cochrane, who as of press time had not yet seen the History Channel special, describes the idea that Earhart was taken prisoner by the Japanese as a “ridiculous theory.” She also insists that she’s “not aware of any missing government records [on Earhart] that could be a game changer.” Henry stands by his team’s findings, but acknowledges that Kinney’s photograph and their other discoveries open up countless new questions about Earhart and Noonan’s fate. “It is not clear why the U.S. [government] might want to cover up what happened to Amelia,” he says. “If in fact she was spying on the Japanese, the government may not have wanted the American public to know they put ‘America’s sweetheart’ in that situation and she was captured.”

At an intimate show in his hometown of Tishomingo, Oklahoma, February 9, Blake Shelton offered the crowd plenty of their favorites — including his girlfriend, Gwen Stefani. “Gwen sat in the stands and was grooving along,” a concert-goer says in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Blake sang a lot in her direction.” At one point, he even shared a sweet detail of their home life, says the witness: “Their dog was having puppies and they couldn’t wait to get home!” For now, those furry family members are serving as surrogates of sorts. “Blake and Gwen have decided to put plans to have a baby on hold,” an insider shares in the new issue. “Their feeling is if it happens naturally, great. But they’ve decided to not focus on it for the time being.” Stefani, 48, and Shelton, 41, have been trying to conceive for over a year, the source reveals. But the one blessing of their struggle is that it’s made them stronger than ever. The source says Shelton is “absolutely devoted” to Gwen’s sons, Kingston, 11, Zuma, 9, and Apollo, 4: “Blake is extremely attentive, loving and doting towards Gwen and the boys.” Shelton’s devotion is part of what made the couple try for a child together. “Blake has always wanted children,” explains a friend. “And he’s great with Gwen’s kids, which prompted them wanting their own.” The No Doubt singer was all in — but not anymore. “Not because of a change in her love for Blake,” explains the source, “but because she feels as if it might not be meant to be.” The country star is on board with her thoughts. “He is completely at peace with the prospect of not having any biological children of his own,” shares the insider. With no baby, they’ve also put their wedding plans on hold. Says the source, “Gwen is very traditional and wouldn’t want to be pregnant without being married.” Still, things are hardly cooling off for the Voice coaches. “Their relationship has grown and matured into a stable, loving union,” explains the source. “The need to get married and have kids isn’t the priority it once was.” When the duo first announced they were dating in November 2015, they were both going through emotional divorces. Stefani split from the father of her boys, Gavin Rossdale, after being married for 13 years, and Shelton had recently ended his four-year union with Miranda Lambert. Now, the pair have settled in to an “easy, effortless love” together, says the source. That includes spending plenty of time on Shelton’s Oklahoma ranch — something the glamour girl surprisingly adores! Another favorite activity? “Gwen loves hanging out with Blake’s friends and wives,” says the source. The low-key loves enjoyed a couples’ trip with pals in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, this January. For more on the couple’s decision to put their baby plans on hold, pick up the new issue of Us Weekly, on stands now. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now!

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Bieber and Baldwin only recently reunited, having dated in the past Canadian pop star Justin Bieber is engaged to US model Hailey Baldwin, US media reports. The 24-year-old popped the question at a Bahamas resort, according to TMZ. His security staff reportedly asked restaurant patrons to put away their phones before the star proposed. CNN and E! News confirmed reports of the engagement, which Bieber's parents also appeared to celebrate online. Bieber and Baldwin only recently reunited, having dated in the past. Bieber's father Jeremy posted a photo of his son on Instagram, saying he was "Excited for the next chapter", while his mother Pattie Mallette expressed her excitement on Twitter. TMZ reported Bieber and Baldwin appeared to have become involved again after Justin broke up with long-time girlfriend Selena Gomez. Baldwin has appeared in American Vogue, Marie Claire and Spanish Harper's Bazaar. She has also appeared in a number of modelling campaigns, music videos and television shows. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Baldwin, pictured in May, and the singer reportedly attend the same church She is the daughter of Stephen Baldwin, the actor and producer who has starred in films like Born on the Fourth of July, The Usual Suspects and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Hailey is also the niece of actor Alec Baldwin, who has starred in films like The Hunt for Red October and is known more recently for the television series 30 Rock and his portrayals of US President Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live. But while this is obviously happy news for the future Mr and Mrs Bieber, many social media users appear to be less thrilled: Skip Twitter post by @kaitpennington If Justin Bieber really is engaged to Hailey Baldwin. My heart breaks twice, once for myself and once for Selena — Kait Pennington (@kaitpennington) July 8, 2018 Report Skip Twitter post by @elliefogel If Justin Bieber & Hailey Baldwin are engaged, everything I’ve worked for since I was 12 was FOR NOTHING — Ellie (@elliefogel) July 8, 2018 Report Ariana Grande, who shares a manager with Bieber and also recently got engaged, hit back at a social media user who suggested both engagements had been orchestrated by their manager Scooter Braun. In a now deleted exchange, she wrote: "You do realise we are human beings who love and have lives, right? "Scooter is a wonderful human being too who cares first and foremost about our health and happiness." You may also be interested in:

It was a special night for Britney Spears at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards, as she was honored with the inaugural Icon Award. Not only that, but sister Jamie Lynn Spears made a surprise appearance, taking part in a performance medley of her older sibling's hits. Jamie Lynn presented Britney with the first-ever Icon Award and joined Kelsea Ballerini , Sofia Carson and Hailee Steinfeld for a medley of "...Baby One More Time," "Circus" and "Till the World Ends." "What a pleasant surprise, my goodness!" the older Spears said upon receiving the Icon Award. "This is such an honor. I want to thank Radio Disney so much for giving me their first-ever Icon Award. What can I say? This is such an honor! Your support throughout my career has meant so much to me." Spears went on to thank her fans, who she called "the freakin' best," and her two sons, Sean Preston, 11, and Jayden James, 10. Ballerini hosted the awards show, which aired on Sunday night (April 30), in addition to the medley of Britney classics. In an earlier interview , the country singer gushed about the pop legend, saying, "She was also my first concert, she’s a legend. She’s also the queen of pop music and I adore Britney Spears."

There is a snowman’s chance in hell that Disney will give Elsa a girlfriend in Frozen 2. And yet, thanks to a vague new comment from Frozen 2 co-director Jennifer Lee, LGBT Disney fans are probably going to get their hopes up once again, only to watch them melt. “I love everything that people are saying [and] people are thinking about with our film—that it’s creating dialogue, that Elsa is this wonderful character that speaks to so many people,” Lee told HuffPost in a recent interview, when asked about the prospect of Elsa getting a girlfriend. “It means the world to us that we’re part of these conversations.” Lee followed up that response with a lengthy comment that barely amounts to a “maybe” when read carefully: “Where we’re going with it, we have tons of conversations about it, and we’re really conscientious about these things. For me…Elsa’s every day telling me where she needs to go, and she’ll continue to tell us. I always write from character-out, and where Elsa is and what Elsa’s doing in her life, she’s telling me every day. We’ll see where we go.” HuffPost correctly labeled that noncommittal response a “glimmer of hope” for the #GiveElsaAGirlfriend campaign, which sprouted up on social media in 2016. Others have been more generous in their assessment: “Ring The Alarm!” BuzzFeed declared. “Elsa Might Have A Girlfriend In The ‘Frozen’ Sequel.” But it’s safe to say that we can un-ring that bell. If you think there’s a serious chance Elsa will find same-sex love in Arendelle, it’s probably best to let that hope go. Disney has been down this road before. “ For the last few years now, Disney has walked a delicate tightrope between not shutting down LGBT fans who want to see better representation in their films and not pissing off homophobic viewers. ” Remember when eagle-eyed fans spotted a lesbian-looking couple in the Finding Dory trailer, creating mounting speculation that we’d see definitively LGBT representation in a Pixar movie, only for the film’s co-director to give the cop-out answer, “They can be whatever you want them to be?” Or when the director of the live-action Beauty and the Beast remake promised an “exclusively gay moment,” angering social conservatives, only for Gaston’s sidekick LeFou to be briefly spotted dancing with another man in the film’s finale? (As my Daily Beast colleague Kevin Fallon wrote, “Truth be told, the most exclusively gay moment in this new Beauty and the Beast is my dramatic eye roll after seeing the actual thing.”) Disney’s biggest PG-13 property has disappointed LGBT fans as well. In 2016, director J.J. Abrams told The Daily Beast that he “would love it” if there were a gay character in Star Wars and that “it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.” Yet there are still no confirmed gay people to be found in the new films—despite some fans’ rigorous shipping of Finn and Poe. (And now that yet another Star Wars trilogy has been announced, there will be three more opportunities to depict a galaxy far, far away where, apparently, gay people either do not exist or live in hiding.) For the last few years now, Disney has walked a delicate tightrope between not shutting down LGBT fans who want to see better representation in their films and not pissing off homophobic viewers. There’s no reason to expect them to stop toeing that line until it’s safe for the film giant to throw their full weight behind the LGBT community. As the LGBT media advocacy group GLAAD noted in 2017, Walt Disney Studios “has the weakest historical record when it comes to LGBTQ-inclusive films” out of all the big studios. Disney’s got a family-friendly reputation to protect, and at a time when many Americans still think that children need to be protected from LGBT “corruption”—37 percent of respondents to one recent GLAAD survey, for example, said they would be uncomfortable with their child learning about LGBT history in school—a lesbian or bisexual Snow Queen is probably perceived as an unnecessary financial risk. According to Fast Company writer Joe Berkowitz, the “most family-friendly studio on the planet would be inviting a boycott” if they gave Elsa a girlfriend—so why sell fewer tickets to a guaranteed smash hit when you can sell more? And when Disney already caused an uproar among anti-LGBT evangelicals five years ago with Elsa’s nonspecific, feel-good song lyrics about “let[ting] it go” and “break[ing] through,” why would they double down this time around when they are sure to be under scrutiny? The parallel isn’t perfect, of course, but I always think about the interracial couple in The Princess and the Frog whenever LGBT fans seem to think the moment for a queer Disney character has finally arrived. According to Gallup polling data, a majority of Americans have approved of marriage between black people and white people since 1997, and over 75 percent have approved since 2004, but Disney still waited until 2009, when support was over 80 percent, to tell the story of Tiana and her prince. That’s the definition of playing it safe. So, if we speculate that Disney would wait to include an LGBT main character in an animated film until they only risked angering fewer than 20 percent of American viewers, then we’ve still got a ways to go yet. As of 2017, according to Gallup, only 64 percent of Americans now support same-sex marriage, up from 42 percent in 2004. If approval continues to climb at that exact same rate, it will hit the 80 percent mark in…17 years—probably about the same time that Frozen 7: Olaf’s Revenge comes out. It would be nice if Disney, like Elsa, could proclaim, “Let the storm rage on” and march forward. But if history is any indication, Frozen 2 will almost certainly give hopeful LGBT fans the cold shoulder.

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Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson have been immortalized in the fine arts. The songstress sisters acted as muses – and models — in dad Joe Simpson’s first art show titled “Dreams Work,” which showcases the former music manager’s collection of original photographs. While sipping from flutes of Freixenet cava, Simpson’s friends and family – including both his daughters and their husbands Evan Ross (wed to Ashlee) and Eric Johnson (married to Jessica) – fêted the 58-year-old with a gallery opening Sunday at the Bruce Lurie Gallery in Culver City, Calif. Ranging in price from $500 to $5000, the collection of 50 digitally enhanced portraits also includes never-before-seen images of Ashlee’s son Bronx, 7, and Jessica’s daughter Maxwell, 4, and son Ace, 2, with 10% of proceeds benefitting Adopt the Arts Foundation. “Jessica said she would not have missed the opening for anything and she’s always believed in her dad,” an insider told Page Six. “She’s so happy and proud.”

Miley Cyrus took over The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, where she joined the host for a few different musical segments, including an undercover performance in a New York City subway station that kicked off the show. Cyrus donned a long black wig, a cowboy hat and some dark shades while Fallon rocked a denim jacket, a shaggy brown wig and his newly-grown goatee as the pair took to the subway to perform as singing street buskers for unsuspecting passers-by. Backed up by a guitarist and a bucket drummer, Fallon played the tambourine while Cyrus belted out a flawless, soulful cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene," and it wasn't long before travelers walking past took notice. WATCH: Miley Cyrus Releases 'Inspired' ​i​n Honor of Pride Month -- Listen! Before the song was done, they had amassed quite a crowd -- which seemed to be a mix of people who recognized the pair and others who were just impressed with the singer's performance. After finishing the song, Cyrus and Fallon pulled off their thin disguises to the delight of the crowd. "This is my first time [playing] at the subway station," Cyrus yelled out. "This is exciting s**t for me!" WATCH: Watch Miley Cyrus Expertly Channel Her Inner Emojis The pop star then broke out into a performance of her hit "Party in the U.S.A." and led the giant crowd -- almost all of whom were filming the event on their phones -- in a massive singalong. Later in the episode, the "Malibu" singer joined in on a fun installment of "Google Translate Songs," in which she and Fallon sang lyrics to famous songs that had been translated into various other languages and back into English. Miley kicked things off with a performance of Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You," which, when translated, is called "Your Body's Curves," and includes the iconic lyric, "I like that cadaver." WATCH: Miley Cyrus Shows Off Her Dance Moves in ‘Ew!’ Sketch With Jimmy Fallon The pair also sang Google-translated versions of Rick James "Superfreak" (aka "Really Weird"), Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man," (aka "A Minister's Male Child"), and they did a duet of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," which Google translates into "Land Forms Don't Prefer to Get High." After sitting down for a Tonight Show interview as well, Cyrus closed the show with a performance of two new songs, "Malibu" and "Inspired." WATCH: Miley Cyrus Cries While Performing 'Malibu' at Billboard Music Awards

There's no doubt about it: Kelly Clarkson totally digs Gwen Stefani. In her first season serving as a coach on The Voice, the "Since U Been Gone" singer has developed stronger friendships with Adam Levine, Alicia Keys and Blake Shelton. At the same time, the Grammy winner has become closer with an idol she grew up listening to. While chatting with E! News exclusively before the "Battle Rounds" began, Blake recalled the double date he and Gwen went on with Kelly and her husband Brandon Blackstock. The reason he enjoyed it so much may surprise you. "It's fun to be around Kelly because there's that part of Kelly that I love about her—she's still such a fan of artists," he shared with Sibley Scoles. "One of my favorite times is to see her around Gwen...it's fun for me to see that fan, freak-out side of Kelly. She makes everything fun."

There are no bah humbugs allowed in the Ripa-Consuelos household. On Thursday, Live with Kelly and Ryan cohost Kelly Ripa shared several family photos just in time for the holidays. Through the series of 10 historic throwback Thursday images, fans got the message: This family is serious about holiday cheer. “Some photos of Christmas past. Little, middle, big,” Ripa captioned the post, referring to each of her three children, Michael, 20, Lola, 16, and Joaquin, who is 14. Dad Mark Consuelos was also in the mix. More: Kelly Ripa Is, Like, So Embarrassing on Her Anniversary With Mark Consuelos In the images, we see loads of smiles, dazzling Christmas decor and a range of matching holiday-themed pajamas, obviously. The real question is: Does her Lola approve? If you’ve followed Ripa on social media, you may know the teen is not a fan of her mom’s desire to share intimate family photos of her daughter. More: 2 Things to Know About Kelly Ripa’s Gorgeous Daughter, Lola Consuelos In October, the mother of three shared a sweet Halloween throwback of little Lola — and as Ripa explained on The Tonight Show, this didn’t go over well with the teen, who demanded her mom take the photo down immediately. Ripa agreed, but during her appearance on the nightly show, she had host Jimmy Fallon blow the image up and show it to his millions of viewers. “Why did I have these kids if not to exploit them on social media?” she joked to Fallon. Moms. In a photo Ripa shared last week, the caption read, “Wishing you a LIT holiday season! With love from the Consuelos gang.” Ripa even added “(and yes, Lola approved)” to the end to stave off any questioning. Phew! As many parents know, when the kids are happy, everyone’s happy.

Australian actress and film producer Margot Elise Robbie ( MAR-goh ROB-ee; born 2 July 1990)[1][2][3] is an Australian actress and film producer. In 2017, Time magazine named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and Forbes featured her in their 30 Under 30 list.[4][5] Born and raised on a farm in Dalby, Queensland, Robbie studied drama at Somerset College. She began her career in Australian independent films in the late 2000s, before working in the soap opera Neighbours (2008–2011), which earned her two Logie Award nominations. After moving to the United States, she starred in the short-lived ABC drama series Pan Am (2011–2012). In 2013, she had a supporting role in the romantic comedy About Time, and made her breakthrough later that year by co-starring in Martin Scorsese's biographical black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. Robbie launched a production company named LuckyChap Entertainment in 2014. Her profile continued to grow with leading roles in the romantic drama Focus (2015), as Jane Porter Clayton in the action-adventure film The Legend of Tarzan (2016), and as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn in the superhero film Suicide Squad (2016). Robbie received critical acclaim in 2017 for her portrayal of the disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the biographical film I, Tonya, which she also produced, receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Early life Margot Elise Robbie was born in Dalby, Queensland, and grew up in the Gold Coast hinterland.[6] Her parents are Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, and Doug Robbie, a former farm owner.[7][2][8] She has three siblings: an elder brother, Lachlan or "Lachie"; a younger brother, Cameron; and a sister, Anya.[8][9][10] Robbie grew up on a farm,[11] where she and her siblings were raised by their single mother; she has minimal contact with her father.[7][12] To make ends meet, Robbie worked three jobs simultaneously at the age of 16.[7] She studied drama at school,[7] graduating at Somerset College.[13] At the age of 17, Robbie moved to Melbourne to begin acting professionally.[14][15] Career 2007–2011: Career beginnings and Neighbours Robbie has been acting professionally since 2007, when she starred in two feature films, I.C.U. and Vigilante. After impressing the director with her performance during an audition, she won the lead in I.C.U. without an agent at the time.[1] Robbie also acted in commercials and had guest roles in The Elephant Princess and City Homicide as Caitlin Brentford.[16] Robbie began appearing as Donna Freedman on Neighbours from June 2008.[1] The character was originally only a guest role, but she was soon promoted to a regular cast member.[17] In an interview with Digital Spy, Robbie said she had gone on a snowboarding holiday to Canada with her boyfriend soon after auditioning, but had to return after only two days when told that she had won the role.[18] In early 2009, Robbie appeared in various Network Ten promotions, featuring an ensemble of popular Australian faces on the network. In July 2009, she filled the "Generation Y" guest spot on the Network Ten show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation. Robbie also became a Youth Ambassador for missing persons as part of National Youth Week.[19] In the same year, Robbie was nominated for Most Popular New Female Talent at the Australian Logie Awards.[20] She was also nominated for Favorite Hottie at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and was up against her Neighbours co-star Dean Geyer.[21] In September 2010, Robbie announced that she was to leave Neighbours after almost three years to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.[22] Her final scenes aired on 26 January 2011 and in April of that year, Robbie was nominated for Most Popular Actress at the Logie Awards.[23] 2011–2016: International recognition After arriving in Los Angeles for pilot season, Robbie auditioned for the new series of Charlie's Angels.[24] However, the producers at Sony Pictures Television preferred her for a role in ABC drama series Pan Am alongside Christina Ricci.[24] Robbie landed the role of Laura Cameron, a newly trained flight attendant.[25] Pan Am was cancelled after one season due to falling ratings, despite receiving positive reviews from critics.[26] In May 2012, Robbie joined the cast of Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time (2013) alongside Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.[26] About Time was released in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2013 and in the United States on 1 November 2013. The film received positive reviews[28] and grossed $87 million on its $12 million budget.[29] In August 2012, Robbie was cast in the role of Naomi Belfort, the wife of the film’s protagonist Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill.[30] [31] Garnering positive reviews it became a commercial success with a worldwide gross of $392 million, making it Scorsese's highest-grossing film.[32] The film was subsequently nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.[33] For her performance as Jordan Belfort's second wife Naomi Lapaglia, Robbie was praised by critics for her Brooklyn accent.[34] Critic Sasha Stone wrote "She's Scorsese's best blonde bombshell discovery since Cathy Moriarty in Raging Bull. Robbie is funny, hard and kills every scene she's in".[35] She received a nomination for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance [36] and won the Empire Award for Best Newcomer.[37] In 2014, Robbie founded her own production company, LuckyChap Entertainment.[38] In 2015, Robbie starred opposite Will Smith in romantic comedy-drama film Focus. In the film, she plays an inexperienced grifter learning the craft from Smith's character.[39] The film was released on 27 February 2015 to generally mixed reviews.[40] However, Robbie's performance was praised. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote "Robbie is a wow and then some. The Aussie actress who made us sit up and take notice as Leonardo DiCaprio's wife in The Wolf of Wall Street shows a comic flair backed up with beauty and steel. Even when Focus fumbles, Robbie deals a winning hand."[41] Focus grossed over $150 million worldwide.[42][43] In 2015, Robbie received a nomination for the BAFTA Rising Star Award.[44] Also in 2015, Robbie played the leading role of Ann Burden in the film adaptation of Z for Zachariah with Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor, which was shot in New Zealand.[45][46] The film premiered on 24 January 2015 at the Sundance Film Festival [47] and had its theatrical release on 28 August 2015, receiving positive reviews.[48][49] Robbie's performance was praised by critics. Drew McWeeny of HitFix wrote "Robbie's work here establishes her as one of the very best actresses in her age range today".[50] Robbie appeared in a documentary special celebrating Neighbours' 30th anniversary titled Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and the UK in March 2015.[51][52] She also appeared in Suite Française (2015) alongside Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas and Matthias Schoenaerts, an adaptation of Irène Némirovsky's novel.[53] The film received positive reviews.[54] Robbie made a cameo appearance in Adam McKay's comedy-drama The Big Short, released on 11 December 2015.[55] Robbie co-starred with Tina Fey in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a film adaptation of The Taliban Shuffle.[56] She plays Tanya Vanderpoel, a British TV journalist.[57] The film also stars Martin Freeman and Alfred Molina[58] and was released on 4 March 2016 by Paramount Pictures.[59][60] Later that year, Robbie starred as Jane Porter in David Yates's The Legend of Tarzan, opposite Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz. The film was released on 1 July.[45][61] Robbie's third 2016 role was Harley Quinn in Warner Bros.' DC Comics supervillain film Suicide Squad,[62][63] as part of an ensemble cast that includes Will Smith, Jared Leto, Viola Davis and Joel Kinnaman. Principal photography commenced on 13 April 2015,[64] and the film was released on 5 August 2016.[65] Robbie hosted the season 42 premiere of Saturday Night Live on 1 October 2016, with musical guest The Weeknd.[66] She was scheduled to voice a character in the DreamWorks Animation Larrikins,[67] before the project was cancelled.[68] 2017–present: I, Tonya and beyond In 2017, Robbie starred alongside Domhnall Gleeson in Goodbye Christopher Robin as Daphne de Sélincourt, wife of author A. A. Milne.[69] The film was released on 29 September 2017.[70] She next portrayed the American figure skater Tonya Harding in I, Tonya, written by Steven Rogers and directed by Craig Gillespie.[71][72] Reviewing the film for The Boston Globe, Ty Burr wrote, "Robbie is taller, bigger than the tiny, fierce Harding, but she gets the athlete’s forward drive, and the anger that seemed to fuel the dynamo, and when life hands Tonya lemons, Robbie sets her jaw and bears down."[73] For her portrayal of Harding, Robbie was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical[74] and the Academy Award for Best Actress.[75] She was the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for playing a real-life athlete.[76] In 2018, Robbie voiced the character of Flopsy Rabbit in the animated/live-action film Peter Rabbit, an adaptation of the Beatrix Potter book series.[77] She then starred in Vaughn Stein's thriller film Terminal as Annie.[78] In July 2016, Robbie was confirmed to star in an adaptation of Matt Ruff's thriller novel Bad Monkeys as Jane Charlotte. She will also produce the film for LuckyChap Entertainment.[79] In 2017, she was cast as Maid Marian in Marian, which she will also co-produce for LuckyChap Entertainment.[80] She was also cast as Queen Elizabeth I in the 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots,[81] and will star in independent film Dreamland, which she is co-producing.[82] In March 2018, Robbie confirmed that she would portray actress Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino's upcoming film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, starring alongside her The Wolf of Wall Street co-star Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt.[83] Robbie is scheduled to reprise her role as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad in various projects including Birds of Prey, Gotham City Sirens, Suicide Squad 2, and an untitled Joker/Harley Quinn film. Robbie will also serve as co-producer on each of the films, excluding Suicide Squad 2.[84][85][86] Birds of Prey is scheduled to begin production in late 2018.[87] Personal life and other work Robbie met British assistant director Tom Ackerley on the set of Suite Française in 2014,[7] and in December 2016, they married in a private ceremony in Byron Bay.[88][77] She and Ackerley previously lived in London with five other friends in a three-bedroom house.[89] They have since moved to Los Angeles.[90] In May 2016, Calvin Klein announced Robbie would be the face of their Deep Euphoria fragrance.[91] In 2017, Robbie appeared in a commercial promoting Nissan electric vehicles.[92] In February 2018, Robbie was announced as an ambassador for the luxury fashion brand, Chanel.[93] Filmography I, Tonya in 2018 Robbie at the Australian premiere ofin 2018 Film Television Awards and nominations References Further reading

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are reportedly engaged after two months of dating. And though the news may come as a surprise to many, it seems the couple has the approval of one of the actress' famous friends: Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex is "very excited" for the couple, a source told E! News. "Everyone is very happy and they are definitely a great match," the insider added of the duo's inner circle. Markle herself was engaged to Prince Harry in November and tied the knot in May. Chopra, one of her longtime friends, attended both the star-studded wedding at Windsor Castle and the exclusive evening reception at Frogmore House. If there's any chance the Duchess will attend Chopra and Jonas' rumored nuptials, she should take a note from her fellow actress' style book when it comes to wedding-guest dressing. Chopra wore a lavender Vivienne Westwood suit for the ceremony and a stunning sparkly Dior gown for the afterparty. Though Priyanka attended the royal wedding alone, we hope Meghan goes the opposite route and brings Prince Harry when it's her turn to play wedding guest. Jonas popped the question to Chopra last week in London around the time of her 36th birthday, People reports. The singer was so intent on finding the right engagement ring that he reportedly closed down a whole Tiffany & Co. store so he could pick one out. Getty Images Gotham He and the Quantico star first stepped out together for the 2017 Met Gala, but Chopra shut down romance speculation at the time. However, they sparked romance rumors again in May after fans started spotting them out together.

While Jennifer has often talked about how challenging she finds the constant speculation about why she doesn’t have children, she’s always been very frank about wanting a baby. All the way back in 2006 she even declared: ‘I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!’ But in 2015 while still married to Justin Theroux, she hinted they were struggling with conception, telling The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Who knows if it’s going to happen? It’s been While the actress has an uncertain future ahead of her with former flame Brad Pitt, 54, she has said previously she doesn’t ‘have to settle with a man’ to have a kid. But now, even though there are challenges ahead, Jennifer couldn’t be happier. Related: Jen and Brad: 'We're finally a family!' Related: Jen Aniston pregnant with Brad Pitt's baby New Idea Jennifer, who is currently filming the Netflix movie Murder Mystery alongside Adam Sandler, has rekindled a relationship with Brad Pitt, but has always indicated she would happily go it alone as a single mum if the opportunity arose. Back in 2010 she pointed out: ‘Women are realising it more and more, knowing that they don’t have to settle with a man just to have that child.’ A pregnancy couldn’t come at a better time for Jennifer. As New Idea reported last week, the former Friends star has been increasingly stressed about her career, and after watching the drama of her ex Brad’s divorce and custody battle with Angelina Jolie, has been fearful about her future. But now, even though there are challenges ahead, Jennifer couldn’t be happier. ‘Despite being warned that at 49 her chances of falling pregnant were slim, a miracle may happen,’ adds the source. ‘She’s getting help from a top fertility doctor in Beverly Hills, who she describes as a ‘magician’ and she hopes all her dreams come true.’ For the full story see this weeks issue of New Idea, on sale now!

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I spent my morning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center with this little baby today, Jenner wrote to caption a photo of her mammogram machine, encouraging others to get the exam. "So important and can save lives." Jenner also pointed out that her mother is a breast cancer survivor, "and so are dozens of my friends." According to the American Cancer Society, there are currently more than 3.1 million breast cancer survivors in the United States.

Sia is teaming up with Zoe Saldana and Julianne Moore in the fight against HIV and AIDS. On Thursday, the 41-year-old singer released a gripping music video for her new single "Free Me," which is centered around the health epidemic that has become the "No. 1 killer of women of reproductive age." RELATED: Sia Uncovered! The Singer Ditches Her Signature Bangs and Wigs While Strolling Through LAX Moore narrates the five-minute visual, starring Saldana as an expectant mother who gets diagnosed with HIV. "She's about to learn that the HIV is taking over her body, attacking her immune system, and if left untreated, will be passed on to the baby inside her," Moore says in the gut-wrenching opening scene. The piece follows the mom-to-be's journey from learning of her health status to building her emotional strength (as illustrated by a heartfelt dance sequence choreographed by Ryan Heffington), and giving birth to a healthy baby. MORE: Sia Releases New Single 'Move Your Body' Weeks After Filing for Divorce Fans will be able to download "Free Me" on Friday. All proceeds from the sale of the track will benefit the #endHIV campaign aimed at funding trials for the new e-vaccine that promises to prevent HIV. WATCH: Stars Align for AIDS Research Related Gallery

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Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova have been so secretive about their relationship that fans have often wondered if they’re even still together. But on Monday, the couple put any split rumors to rest after news broke they reportedly welcomed twins — a boy and a girl — over the weekend. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Here’s a look back at their private romance: 2001 The singer, 42, and the former tennis pro, 36, first met when she starred in her future boyfriend’s sexy music video for “Escape.” Sparks flew on set and they began dating shortly after shooting the video, which features Kournikova initially rebuffing his advances. The duo later make out and get hands-y in the bathroom on the sink. 2002 The couple weren’t always so secretive about their relationship. After making their official debut as a couple on the red carpet of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2002, they also coupled up a year later at the Once Upon a Time in Mexico premiere in New York City. Anna Kournikova and Enrique Iglesias Bill Davila/FilmMagic In true turn of the century fashion, Kournikova showed off rock-hard abs in an all-white belly-baring ensemble with strappy heels while Enrique wore distressed flared denim jeans and a black dress shirt paired with a T-shirt. 2004 The rumor mill went into overdrive about a possible engagement — or wedding — when Kournikova stepped onto the court at the World Team Tennis match with a blindingly large pink diamond ring on her ring finger. She later sported a simple band while out and about. Anna Kournikova Jason Squires/WireImage Reports circulated the duo had wed in a secret ceremony in Puerto Vallarta, but sources told PEOPLE at the time the rumors were false. 2006 – 2012 The pair appeared to be going strong for nearly a decade. In 2006, they sat front and center at the Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Miami Heat game in Miami, posed for photos at Big Pink restaurant and capped off the year with a date at Mauro’s Cafe in December. Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova Issac Baldizon/NBAE/Getty And the next year, Kournikova was photographed goofing around in a bikini with Iglesias while they prepared to board a boat in Miami. In December, they jetted to London and once again fueled wedding rumors when Kournikova was snapped with yet another plain band on her ring finger. Iglesias fueled breakup rumors when he told a Swedish newspaper that the duo had been secretly married but were “now” divorced. “We’re divorced. I am single now, but that’s okay,” he told Aftonbladet. “I don’t mind being alone.” However, a Kournikova pal told PEOPLE Iglesias was joking, and his rep also confirmed the duo were “still together.” In 2008, Kournikova told PEOPLE she was “never getting married” but added that “everything is good” between her and Iglesias. Days later, the singer told reporters he had been trying to get his girlfriend to marry him for years. “I always try, but she pays me no attention,” he said as he arrived in the Dominican Republic for a series of concerts. Though they didn’t attend many public events together for the rest of the decade, the duo were photographed going on dinner dates and vacationing in St. Barts. The former tennis champ also opened up about hopefully becoming a mother in the future in a 2011 interview with Women’s Health. “I absolutely want to have children, whether I have my own or adopt,” she told the mag. “I love taking care of people.” In a 2012 interview with Parade, Iglesias reiterated the duo had no plans to wed. “I’ve never really thought marriage would make a difference,” he told the outlet. “Maybe it’s because I come from divorced parents, but I don’t think you love somebody more because of a piece of paper.” 2013 – 2014 In late 2013, reports surfaced that the longtime couple had called it quits. But after the new year, they were photographed spending quality time together on a boat in Miami. Then in 2014, Iglesias shocked fans by again claiming he and Kournikova had divorced. “I got a divorce three days ago and I wanted to give you guys the exclusive. I’m serious. No, seriously. Don’t laugh,” he told reporters ahead of a performance at the Staples Center that October. 2016 Kournikova proved all was well in 2016 when she posted a photo of her and Iglesias with her brother Allan on her Instagram account. Over the last few years, Kournikova also began sporting another massive ring — perhaps a yellow diamond? — complete with a matching diamond band. 2017 Sixteen years after they first met, Iglesias and Kournikova reportedly became parents over the weekend. According to TMZ, the couple welcomed a boy and a girl named Nicholas and Lucy. Reps for the musician and athlete did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment. “I think she’d be a perfect mother,” Iglesias once told PEOPLE en Español in 2007.

Eric Ripert called Anthony Bourdin his “best friend” in a heartfelt post about his longtime TV companion Friday. Ripert, the co-owner and executive chef of Le Bernardin in New York City, found Bourdain dead in his hotel room in France just hours earlier, CNN reported. Authorities said the beloved chef, author and TV presenter committed suicide. He was 61. Ripert was in France to film an episode of Bourdain’s CNN show Parts Unknown. The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. View Sample Sign Up Now “Anthony was my best friend. An exceptional human being, so inspiring & generous. One of the great storytellers who connected w so many. I pray he is at peace from the bottom of my heart. My love & prayers are also w his family, friends and loved ones.” Ripert wrote. Ripert met Bourdain more than 20 years ago while they were working in New York City restaurants. The two collaborated frequently on screen, with Ripert usually playing the “straight man” – whom Bourdain gleefully tormented with spicy food and wild adventures. Italian actress Asia Argento, who had been dating Bourdain since last year, released a statement earlier Friday, calling Bourdain, “my love, my rock, my protector.” Write to Gina Martinez at gina.martinez@timeinc.com.

There was 'one last chapter to tell' in the Sex and the City saga, Sarah Jessica Parker said. And this dream of die-hard fans desperate for a third film to redeem the widely panned sequel almost came true in 2014. Then one of the leading actresses dropped out of the production. But it wasn't Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis or Cynthia Nixon. Court documents obtained by the DailyMail.com reveal the production fell apart when Michelle Pfeiffer, who never appeared in the six seasons of the HBO show or the two films, decided to opt out of the movie. Scroll down for video Filming for Sex and the City 3 was set to take place in New York City in 2014, but then one of the project's 'leading actresses' Michelle Pfeiffer, 59, dropped out of the film. She never appeared on the 6 seasons of the HBO show or the two films Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall starred in the first and second Sex and the City films which together grossed more than $700million worldwide Sex and the City executive producer Cindy Chupack filed suit over a Greenwich Village townhouse in 2014. The house on East Ninth Street is only a few blocks away from the facade of Carrie Bradshaw's iconic apartment on Perry Street in West Village. Sex and the City producer Cindy Chupack (pictured) said production on the film halted when Michelle Pfeiffer dropped out Chupack, who has also produced episodes of Modern Family and Divorce, explained in the court documents she put down a $15,000 deposit to rent a home owned by Rebecca Flores. The producer attempted to cancel the booking the next day after 'one of the lead actresses for the movie, Michelle Pfeiffer' opted out of the film. Documents state there was no replacement lined up for the 'Scarface' actress. By the time Chupack asked for her money back, Flores had already cashed the check and refused to refund her. Chupack sued for $28,500 in damages and Flores fired back, counter-suing for $100,000. Like Carrie and Mr Big's on-again, off-again relationship, the legal battle dragged on for years until the judge came back with an decision in May. The order states, 'As a backdrop, plaintiff, a noted screenwriter and movie producer, sought to rent an apartment in Manhattan for three months so she can work on the movie, Sex and the City, that was to be filmed in New York City. 'Plaintiff expressed her interest in renting the apartment listed for $20,000 per month for a three month period, and remitted a non refundable hold fee of $15,000. The filming of the movie did not commence as planned.' The townhouse is located on East Ninth Street and is just a few blocks away from the home used for the facade of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment on Perry Street Earlier this month, the judge threw out the producer's lawsuit entirely stating it was not the defendant's fault the movie was cancelled and the contract was clear about the deposit. It ordered Chupack's husband, plaintiff and attorney Ian Wallach to pay $5,000 on the defendant's first counterclaim in damages and another $5,000 in sanctions. The court filings detail email communication between the producer and renter which show in early January she wrote to Flores saying she would know if the film was for sure going to happen by February 8. Though Pfeiffer never starred on Sex and the City during its six season run, she did appear in the fim New Year's Eve in 2011 with Sarah Jessica Parker. The actresses also both have starring roles in HBO shows, Parker in Divorce and Pfeiffer in the upcoming film The Wizard of Lies. Filming for Sex and the City Three was supposed to start in 2014. Since then, Sarah Jessica Parker has hinted several times another film could be in the works The pair recently taped an episode of Variety Studio: Actors on Actors where they interviewed each other. The first Sex and the City movie was released in 2008, and grossed a whopping $415 million at the box office worldwide. The sequel, which was primarily set in Abu Dhabi, generated $288 million worldwide. Fans have been speculating about a third film for years, emboldened by Sarah Jessica Parker's hints. In January 2014, she told InStyle magazine, 'A part of me thinks there is one last chapter to tell.' In 2015 she posted a teasing Instagram of her leaving Bloomingdale's dressed in designer clothes. Fans couldn't help but wonder, why would Sarah Jessica Parker keep hinting there would be a Sex and the City movie if there wasn't a possibility of another film? She captioned the photo: 'Well. I guess the cat's out of the (little brown) bag. As usual, we will keep you posted on every detail as we are able. I'm under a strict gag order until then.' In 2016 while promoting her new show Divorce, SJP reiterated the line about another chapter, 'I will say that the idea, it rests in the butler's pantry. Not on the table, but somebody is holding it fairly nearby.' Much like her character Miranda, Cynthia Nixon was more pragmatic about her answer when she was asked by the Hollywood Reporter if there would be a third film in 2012. She said: 'I think we had a wonderful ride. I think it's fine to let it go.'

Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world George Michael opened up about struggling with the death of his first serious boyfriend in his final interview. The Wham! legend was filming a programme for Channel 4 in the UK when he died suddenly on Christmas Day 2016. He finished compiling the documentary less than 36 hours before he died. In the voiceover for the programme he said he felt “picked on my god” during his life. Freedom, directed by George and his friend David Austin, chronicles the making of the 1990 album Listen Without Prejudice and the subsequent legal battle with his record label. In a harrowing twist, the story of his life, now released posthumously, is narrated by George himself. He recalls the death of his first love, Brazilian Anselmo Feleppa, who died of an AIDS related illness in 1993. “It was the most frightening time of my life,” George says in the documentary. “I was terrified of losing him. He was my saviour. Finding a companion at that time in my life changed me.” He later says: “Then when my mum got cancer, I felt so bloody picked on by God. “I took it very badly, very badly indeed. I’ve never felt that kind of depression.” The pair met in a hotel lobby when they fell in love almost immediately. The Mirror says of the programme: “George speaks very movingly about Anselmo being the first love of his life and how important he was in his life. “It is very emotional and he clearly never forgot him and left a huge ­impression on George.” RELATED: Woman gives birth to baby thanks to secret IVF donation by George Michael The first trailer for the show, released last week, hears George describe how he was “terribly lonely” during the height of his stardom. The film includes contributions from a long list of his friends and associates, including his neighbour Kate Moss. Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Ricky Gervais, Nile Rogers, Mark Ronson, Tracey Emin, Mary J. Blige, Jean Paul Gaultier, James Corden, Tony Bennett and Liam Gallagher also feature in the film. Gallagher labels the late singer, who he had become friends with in his final years, a “modern day Elvis”. His final song, a re-worked version of his 80s song Fantasy, was released last week with music producer Nile Rogers. George Michael: Freedom will air on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday 16 October./em>

Advertisement Katy Perry has treated her closest friends and family members to new $7.5 million guest home in Los Angeles, more than a year after putting her own Hollywood Hills mansion on the market. The four bedroom, five bathroom property in upscale Beverly Hills will reportedly be used communally by those closest to the American star, whose bid to offload her listed home resulted the price being lowered in July. Spread over 4,400 square feet, the lavish Spanish style house includes tasteful French doors, a large outdoor area and sweeping manicured lawns. Generous gesture: Katy Perry has treated her closest friends and family members to new $7.5 million guest home in Los Angeles, more than a year after putting her own Hollywood Hills mansion on the market Lovely: The four bedroom, five bathroom property in upscale Beverly Hills will reportedly be used communally by those closest to the American star, whose bid to offload her listed home resulted the price being lowered in July A large outdoor pool and seating area affords tenants plenty of space to relax and unwind, while its acres of space is perfect for those hoping to make the most of the balmy Californian sunshine. The property is nestled within the heart of an exclusive gated community, with previous celebrity residents including Adele, Ellen Degeneres, Jennifer Lawrence and married couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. Neutral decor and minimalist furnishings prove to be recurring theme throughout the home, with a tasteful living room featuring fitted bookshelves surrounding a large, widescreen television. Green with envy: Spread over 4,400 square feet, the lavish Spanish style house includes tasteful French doors, a large outdoor area and sweeping manicured lawns Dive in: A large outdoor pool and seating area affords the occupier plenty of space to relax and unwind Elsewhere a modest, open-plan kitchen and breakfast nook sits adjacent to a polished glass table - an ideal spot for early morning coffee. Given Katy's musical background it's little surprise to find a piano in another of the property's tastefully decorated rooms, surrounded by welcoming sofas, chairs and a roaring open fireplace. The dining room table can comfortably seat ten, while patio doors look out on the property's neatly manicured back garden. Upstairs the inviting master bedroom includes a huge amount of space, filled with comfortable chairs, a sofa and obligatory double bed. Invite only: The property is nestled within the heart of an exclusive gated community, with previous celebrity residents including Adele, Ellen Degeneres, Jennifer Lawrence and married couple Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Bird's eye view: An overhead shot shows the property surrounded by shrubbery, while a long driveway sis behind its large gate Come on in: The living room features neutral cream decor and fitted book shelves surrounding a large, wide-screen television Katy's purchase comes just months after she reportedly slashed a further $335,000 from the price of her extravagant Beverly Hills compound in a desperate bid to offload the property she originally put on the market in September. The American singer, 33, was said to be open to offers of $8.95 million (£6,741,274) for the Mediterranean style property, which encompasses a four bedroom house, guest house, security building, separate fitness studio and an enormous outdoor pool. Katy originally listed the sprawling home 13-months ago, but a lack of offers is understood to have resulted in a modest reduction on its original $9.285 million valuation. Despite the marginally lower price, Katy is still set to make a modest profit from the property she purchased from heiress Aileen Getty for $8.2 million. Play us a tune: A piano sits in one corner, surrounded by welcoming sofas, chairs and a roaring open fireplace Settle down: A polished glass table sits adjacent to the property's modest, open-plan kitchen and breakfast nook Let's eat: The dining room table can comfortably seat ten, while patio doors look out on the property's neatly manicured back garden Rooms with a view: Open doors offer a glimpse of the tasteful dining room (L) and minimalist hallway (R) Walk this way: An open staircase leads guests up the second floor of the stunning Spanish style home Rest and relaxation: The inviting master bedroom includes a huge amount of space, filled with comfortable chairs, a sofa and obligatory double bed Wash and go: The bathroom includes huge mirrors and plenty of storage space for toiletries The singer also owns a separate five bedroom, and five and a half bathroom property, covering 2,815 sq ft and tucked away in its own gated community. According to Katy paid just under $19 million for the home, which was not officially on the market, in April 2017, according to TMZ. MailOnline has contacted a representative for further comment. Previously: The singer also owns a separate five bedroom, and five and a half bathroom property, covering 2,815 sq ft and tucked away in its own gated community (pictured)

Yet another A-lister has flocked to TV The stars in the film industry are slowly leaning towards roles with longevity and one star in particular, has opted for a TV series this year... It seems that 2018 is the year for some of Hollywood's biggest names to make a switch to the small screen. Earlier this year, we found out that the Big Little Lies cast (which already includes some of the industry's most prominent stars including Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley) was returning to TV with a new season and a new Hollywood icon — none other than Meryl Streep. Also, Penelope Cruz (who was just announced as Chanel's new brand ambassador) took on the role of Donatella Versace in Ryan Murphy's Assassination of Gianni Versace earlier this year. Now, yet another A-lister is making a return to the small screen. Julia Roberts will be bringing her acting expertise to the small screen for an upcoming psychological thriller, titled Homecoming. The first teaser trailer debuted at Comic-Con last week (where we spotted some of the best-dressed celebrities) and the film is expected to debut this November. If you're a fan of the Oscar-winning actress, then you'll be even more excited to know that the star will be reunited with her My Best Friend's Wedding co-star, Dermot Mulroney, for the upcoming series. Whilst we still have a few months to wait for Season 1 of Homecoming (which will make its debut on November 2nd, 2018, on Amazon Video), take a look at the new cast of Charlie's Angels in the meantime.

DUN DUN DUN. “Oh baby, baby ... ”. In just three seconds ...Baby One More Time, which turns 20 this year, announced the arrival of a new superstar: the then 16-year-old ex-Mouseketeer from Kentwood, Louisiana, Britney Jean Spears. Along with its equally iconic high school-set music video it re-turfed pop, kickstarting an entire sound (think funk-tinged R&B grooves mixed with Abba melodies), sweeping aside the dregs of grunge (sorry, Bush) and US heartland rock (bye, Hootie & the Blowfish), revitalising pop radio and MTV in the process, before cementing its songwriter and co-producer Max Martin as one of modern music’s most influential exponents. In the space of just three minutes and 31 seconds, Spears launched millennial teen pop, fusing family-friendly, girl-next-door fun with good old fashioned controversy, forging a template for those who followed. Without it, there would by no Christina Aguilera, no Katy Perry, no Charli XCX; Taylor Swift would probably still be singing country songs, and Eminem – who arrived in 1999 – would not have had as much to rail against. Released in the wake of Alanis Morissette’s hugely successful 1995 album Jagged Little Pill and its litany of imitators, it presented a different angle to the prevalent idea of female angst; this was gloriously OTT teen girl longing, encapsulated by a lyric – “My loneliness is killing me” – that feels depressingly evergreen. “The whole song is about that stress that we all go through as teens,” Spears tells me. “I knew it was a great song. It was different and I loved it, [but] I don’t think you can anticipate how a song is going to be received.” In a Sliding Doors-esque moment that could have changed the world as we know it, …Baby One More Time very nearly didn’t get written at all, with the song’s melody bubbling up as Martin was drifting off to sleep. Having hauled himself out of bed to his nearby dictaphone, he sketched out the song. “I remember listening back to [the tape] after [the song] blew up and you can hear me sort of go: ‘Hit me baby one more time’, then I hear myself say, Yeah, it’s pretty good,’” the notoriously interview-shy Martin told Swedish journalist Jan Gradvall in 2016. Martin, convinced he’d written an R&B song (“Pop music with a flavour – what we call R&B in Sweden, what you guys [in America] say is pop,” he said in 1998), sent the song, then called Hit Me Baby (One More Time), to TLC who rejected it. “I was like: ‘I like the song but do I think it’s a hit? Do I think it’s TLC?’ … Was I going to say ‘Hit me baby one more time’? Hell no!” said T-Boz in 2013. While TLC interpreted the lyrics as alluding to domestic violence, they actually represented Martin’s attempts at American slang, believing “hit me” could seamlessly replace “call me”. The song was then offered to fellow Swede, Robyn, whom Martin had already worked with on two US top 10 singles (Do You Know (What It Takes) and Show Me Love, both released in 1997), but again nothing came of it. According to Tim Bower’s 2012 book, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, the song had one further dalliance with a pop act other than Britney. The story goes that after hearing Martin’s demo of what had now been renamed …Baby One More Time, Cowell demanded he have the song for his latest boyband, UK rabble Five. Martin had already co-written Five’s debut single, Slam Dunk (Da Funk) alongside his mentor, the late Denniz Pop, but declined Cowell’s request, saying it had already been earmarked for Spears. “You’re mad,” Cowell is reported to have said. “No one can be successful with a name like that.” As a last gasp attempt, Cowell offered Martin a new Merc 500SL in return for the song. “It costs £95,000,” he added. It was …Baby One More Time that convinced Spears of the merits of pop. She initially saw herself as making “Sheryl Crow music, but younger”, while Larry Rudolph, an entertainment lawyer friend of Spears’s mum Lynne who had been tasked with getting her signed (he’s now her manager), had her record a clutch of songs originally recorded by Toni Braxton. It was those recordings that lead to auditions for Mercury, Epic and Jive (the first two labels said no; she signed with the latter) which included Spears covering Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You. With the more R&B-leaning early material not working, and with a clause allowing Jive to terminate her contract after 90 days if they felt an album wasn’t on the horizon, A&R Steve Lunt approached Martin, who had already delivered success for Jive’s boyband the Backstreet Boys. A meeting was set up with Spears in New York. “I was pretty young at the time, so I was nervous,” she says, “but he was so nice and put me right at ease.” For Martin, his song had finally found its home. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Maxed out: Spears and Martin, 2017. Photograph: Lester Cohen/WireImage From New York, Spears de-camped to Martin’s Cheiron studios in Stockholm to start recording. “I remember being so in awe of Stockholm,” Spears says. “I was out there for, like, 10 days, but we were so busy in the studio I didn’t have time to go out and explore on that first trip.” The song’s co-producer Rami Yacoub remembers Spears as “very shy and super sweet – I mean she was a kid and we had no idea there was a beast of an artist lurking under that innocent look”. The sessions were intense, with four of the album’s five singles recorded in that time. In 2001, Martin referred to the Cheiron sound as “direct, effective, we don’t show off”, words reiterated by Yacoub. “A song that sounds simple is not simple to make. It’s all about the taste and making sure you don’t add more than what the song needs.” For Spears, working with perfectionists suited her. “I really respect that when I’m working with him,” she says. “I think Max is a genius. It all just came together and felt right. In my opinion Max is the greatest songwriter of all time.” Another person to witness firsthand this studied effortlessness was Nana Hedin, a backing vocalist who had previously worked with Denniz Pop on songs by Dr Alban, whose 1992 hit It’s My Life soundtracked a Tampax advert in the UK. Pop recommended Hedin to Martin, who brought her onboard for …Baby One More Time. “I remember I thought the song was for teenagers but the production was filled with a grown-up attitude and sounds that I really liked,” she says. “I was so impressed by how a guy like Max could write lyrics that got into the hearts and spoke to the teenage thinking.” Occasionally, Hedin would record her backing vocals first, before the artist arrived, but with …Baby One More Time Spears’s vocals were already recorded. “I tried to sound exactly like her,” she laughs. “It was hard, but a lot of fun. I’m like a parrot in many ways. I try to get the same vibe and use the exact same pronunciation as the artist. In one harmony, each take is different; I sing very high, in another I use powerful belting, the next I’m whispering and sometimes I even pinch my nose for a sharper sound.” With Britney’s vocals recorded in March, and the song finished shortly after (“It took probably around two to three weeks to finish,” says Yacoub), Spears headed out on a summer tour, taking in 26 shopping malls. Aware that they had a potential hit on their hands, Jive sent reps out to meet with the influential US radio programme directors ahead of the song’s October release. “The label guy brought in a video featuring Britney rehearsing dance moves to the song,” remembers Clarke Ingram, then operations manager and program director of New York’s Top 40 radio station WPXY. “This had the desired effect of showing me that Britney had star quality, in addition to having a potential hit record. We went to lunch afterwards, and I committed to adding the song at that time.” In fact, Ingram is pretty sure he was the first person to play the song on US radio. “No other station would have heard it any earlier, and I know of no station that played it before we did.” For Ingram, …Baby One More Time represented the holy grail: a song pop radio could fully own. “We’d been through an alternative cycle in the early to mid-90s, and something of an R&B cycle after that,” he explains. “Britney was among the first big artists in a pop cycle that began in the late 1990s and continued into the early 2000s. The song hit the centre of the Top 40 audience, and it proved that by its performance, both on the air and off.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest She’s so lucky: Britney in 1999. Photograph: ACTION PRESS/REX/Shutterstock The song sold 500,000 copies on its first day of release in the US, eventually peaking at No 1. It reached No 1 in every single country it charted in, and was 1999’s biggest-selling song in the UK with 1.4m copies sold. A megastar had been created seemingly overnight. “I don’t think we understood what we had done,” Martin said in a 2008 Swedish radio documentary. “I remember sitting in the studio when they called me to let me know that my song had made No 1 in the USA … I had so much going on I didn’t really grasp the meaning of it”. He even forgot to tell Yacoub. “Max walked into the studio one day while I was working and said: ‘Hey man, by the way, we are No 1 in America,’” he recalls. “I asked him when it had happened and he said: ‘Three weeks ago.’ We really didn’t focus on charts, we just kept working.” Even celebrations were muted. “It was on a Tuesday, I believe: an early dinner, a cigar, and to bed at 11pm as we had work the next day.” An iconic song needed an iconic video. Unfortunately, director Nigel Dick’s original concept was deemed a dud by Spears. “I wrote an idea which sucked, so the label put me back on the phone with Britney who told me she wanted to make a video where she was stuck in a classroom thinking about boys and we took it from there,” Dick writes on the harangued-sounding FAQ section of his website. He also states the school uniform look, augmented by plaited bunches and bare midriff, was Spears’s idea too. What seems relatively tame now caused uproar in a bubblegum pop era that, via shows like MTV’s popular Total Request Live, was being fed directly into family homes. The video, an instant pop culture moment that gave Spears all-important tabloid notoriety, also fused in the public consciousness with David LaChapelle’s controversial 1999 Rolling Stone cover shoot featuring Spears lying on her childhood bed in her underwear clutching a Teletubby. Suddenly, the now turbo-charged teen pop genre had its flag bearer, one whose identity – sweet southern belle in the video for soft-focus follow-up single Sometimes; red PVC-clad dominatrix in the “not that innocent” Oops!…I Did It Again visual – was malleable enough to, at least initially, be everything all at once. How does Spears feel about the song almost 20 years later? “Wow, that went quick. It was such a fun and crazy time, it was a bit of a blur.” Britney Spears plays Open Air Theatre, Scarborough, Friday 17 August; touring to 1 September

It's a classic Prince George might be just 5 years old, but he’s already one of the world’s favourite royals. Why? Not only is he adorable, but he proved he’s an absolute sweetie when he comforted this crying bridesmaid at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, and he’s also shattering gender stereotypes by taking ballet classes. Prince William and Kate Middleton often share anecdotes about the little royal. Recently, Kate attended an event at the V&A and spoke to one of the venue’s senior curators, Martin Barnes. According to Hello, Barnes explained to her that one of the featured photographers, William Henry Fox Talbot, ‘wanted nature to draw its own picture on the paper instead of failing with the pencil’. It struck a hilarious note with Kate as it reminded her of Prince George. ‘She said, ‘George would do that!’ – that is blame the pencil, which was sweet,’ Barnes told the magazine. But more recently, William decided to share which Disney film Prince George loves the most – and to be honest, same. At a recent royal engagement, the Duke of Cambridge was asked by a little boy what TV show Prince George likes to watch. William responded: ‘He quite likes The Lion King – he’s watched that a few times.’ Sharethrough (Mobile) Okay, it’s not a TV show, but it’s great to know that George loves classic Disney. But he is also a fan of animated movies, with William elaborating: ‘He has watched some Lego movies as well… trying to keep him off the television is hard work!’ Well we have to say, it sounds like Prince George has a great taste in films, which he has clearly inherited from his parents. During an interview with BBC Radio 1, William and Kate revealed that their go-to television series is none other than Game of Thrones. See? They’re just like us.

Scheana Shay doesn’t even have to watch Vanderpump Rules to know how her relationship with now ex-boyfriend Rob Valletta has come off to fans. “I will admit, I haven’t watched the last few episodes … last season, watching my divorce wasn’t as hard for me because I was in a very happy relationship, and I was madly in love with Rob,” Shay told costar and BFF Ariana Madix on the Tuesday, March 6, episode of her podcast, Scheananigans. “Wait, you were?” Madix said sarcastically. “I kept it super low-key,” Shay joked. As previously reported, the SUR waitress filed for divorce from her husband of over two years, Mike Shay, in November 2016. She started dating Valletta shortly after, and viewers have been quick to criticize their relationship, calling Shay “pathetic” and “cringeworthy” on Twitter because she is seemingly more invested in their future than he is. “Now I’m single, I’ve been single for six months now, watching back me being that happy, love drunk girl, started to get a little hard,” Shay explained. “Obviously, you can’t see every minute of every conversation … I know I look really stupid, and you know what? I was coming off a divorce. I got back with someone who I felt was my soulmate and was the one … You can’t fault me for being happy and being in love.” “Rob was very reserved on the show,” she continued. “He is a person who lives his life on camera, acting and hosting, not for a reality show. For him, that was completely out of his comfort zone. He is a very private person … So for him, that was hard to have those raw emotions on there. The moments that we had in private are private moments. He did tell me he loved me. We were planning a future together, but then, just this world that he became a part of was too overwhelming for him to continue.” Valletta defended Shay on February 26 after fans slammed their relationship: “No one knows what happens behind closed doors and or when the cameras are off. But what I do know is that there are things that I never expressed on camera, but did in person. The reason I created space in our relationship was because of the world, not the person. @scheana and I have cared for and supported each other for 12 years no matter the circumstances or dynamic. Leaving mean or nasty comments needs to stop!” Vanderpump Rules airs on Bravo Mondays at 9 p.m. ET. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox!

Jada Pinkett Smith and Gabrielle Union are ready to leave their confusing past behind them. The actresses had an honest conversation during the latest episode of Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk Facebook Watch show in which they hashed out the miscommunication that led to them not speaking for 17 years. Though neither of them can pinpoint what it was that caused a rift, both Pinkett Smith, 46, and Union, 45, say that they felt tension with each other for almost two decades. Get push notifications with news, features and more. “This is a very special show for me, because what I decided to do was make this about creating a new girlfriend,” Pinkett Smith said to her mom and co-host, Adrienne Banfield-Jones, 64. “Gab and I, we had a bit of a break, we don’t know how, and she’s been open to this healing, she’s been open to this conversation.” RELATED: Will Smith Addresses Jada Pinkett Divorce Rumors in New Song Ahead of World Cup Performance Jada Pinkett Smith and Gabrielle Union Jason Merritt/Getty; Paras Griffin/Getty Before the show, Pinkett Smith called Union and invited her on the “Girlfriends” episode after not speaking for so long. “It felt so good on the phone with you to even just go, ‘Hey, I’m sorry that I didn’t even take the time to talk to you,’ you know?” Pinkett Smith explained to Union. “And then I had to just apologize and just thinking to myself, ‘Damn, Jada! That was some petty ass s–t!’ But at the same time going, ‘Well, that’s where you were then. Thank God you’re someplace else now.'” Want to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox. In the episode, Union also opened up about hitting rock bottom after her divorce from her first husband, former NFL player Chris Howard. The actress later married NBA star Dwyane Wade in 2014. “I had to hit rock bottom, I had to lose everything,” Union said when Pinkett Smith asked her about the moment everything clicked and she decided to make a change in her life. “For me that was my first marriage, going through the divorce process. I lost my show, my show was canceled. And I was having difficult relationships with my BFFs, my day ones. And it was everyone’s fault but my own.” After she “literally found myself under my bed with my dog,” the actress started working with trainer, life coach and actress A.J. Johnson. Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union Gabrielle Union/Instagram Pinkett Smith was the first to address the feud between the two in an April interview with Extra in which she promoted her new Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk. “I have a really touching episode with Gabrielle Union,” Pinkett Smith said. “We haven’t been on the best of terms for 17 years and we have a reconciliation.” “We don’t even know how it started!” she said, adding their feud was “definitely” over. RELATED: Jada Pinkett Smith Says Life and Work Caused Her to Lose Herself: I Was ‘About to Die’ Union then opened up about the feud during an appearance on the Today show in early May. “Jada nor I ever used the word feud… Back in the day, neither one of us knew originally what took place back then, but the people that we had around us were like, ‘Well, you know how she feels about you,’” Union told Hoda Kotb while promoting her new film on Monday. “And then it was like, ‘Okay, girl, bye’ for 17 years,” she continued. “And even though we’re both very outspoken women, we’re both activists, our husbands are friends, we both felt we had too much pride and too much insecurities to actually say, ‘Hey, did that ever happen or was that a creation of someone else who did not want to see two women rise together?’ ”

Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to comedy legend Don Rickles on Thursday night’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC. “This is not going to be our usual show tonight,” Kimmel said at the top of his monologue. “And I’ll tell you right up front that I’m going to cry — probably a lot, which is embarrassing. But I’m not good with this sort of thing and I’m sorry — especially to those of you who came here to see the show in person, because that’s probably not what you came for. But we lost someone that we and I love very much today.” Rickles died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 90. “I was fortunate enough to — not only have Don on this show as my guest — but also to become close to him and his wife Barbara, which was a lot of fun for me,” Kimmel said. Kimmel described Rickles as a towering presence in Las Vegas, where Kimmel grew up, and where Rickles found his greatest success as a stand-up comic. He also described the first time Rickles — who rose to fame as a frequent guest on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” — appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in 2006. “It was so exciting,” Kimmel said. “I felt like I was in some kind of talk show host fantasy camp. Sitting behind a desk while Don Rickles made fun of me. It was like being a real talk show host for a minute. For twenty minutes, it was like being Johnny Carson.” Rickles appeared on Kimmel’s show 17 times more in the years that followed. Kimmel also talked about taking Rickles, famous for his insult comedy, out to Mario Batali’s Los Angeles restaurant Mozza. “We rented the private room in back,” Kimmel said. “We had food, I invited his friends — it was beautiful. It was very expensive. At the end of the meal, he said, ‘I can’t believe you took me to a pizza place.'” Kimmel closed his monologue with a video tribute to Rickles, showing the best moments from the comedian’s appearance on the ABC show. Watch the video below.

Looks like Matt Rutler knows what a girl wants! After almost three years of dating, Christina Aguilera announced her engagement to boyfriend Matt Rutler via Twitter. On Valentine's Day, the "Beautiful" singer, 33, and her film producer boyfriend decided to make things official. PHOTOS: Christina Aguilera's body evolution "He asked and I said……" she wrote Friday along with a picture of her sparkling new engagement ring. Xtina met her beau on the set of the 2010 film Burlesque, which premiered while the pop diva was in the middle of a painful divorce from ex-husband Jordan Bratman. PHOTOS: Xtina's hair evolution Aguilera and Bratman were married from November 2005 until October 2010, and, ironically, the couple finalized their divorce on Valentine's Day 2011. They share custody of 6-year-old son Max Bratman. "He's the love of my life, and I adore him," Aguilera gushed about Max on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in November 2010 shortly after the divorce news broke. "He's such a character, and he's so happy and at the end of the day, that's what's most important." PHOTOS: Christina Aguilera's son Max through the years Though The Voice coach is known for keeping her personal life private, Aguilera has posed with her new fiancé on several major red carpets, including the 2011 Golden Globes. The couple has been living together in the Grammy-winning vocalist's new Mulholland Estates mansion in Los Angeles, which she bought in April 2013 for $10 million. Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox! Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? Download the Us Weekly iPhone app now!

Photo: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPeter Strzok, the FBI agent who sent anti-Trump messages to a colleague while leading the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Russia’s involvement in the Trump campaign, has said he’s willing to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, or any other committee that wants to talk with him. This could lead to dramatic hearings, as Strzok could expose more information about those probes, and is central to President Trump’s effort to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.Reports last week indicated that House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte was preparing to subpoena Strzok as part of the House investigation into the FBI’s conduct during the 2016 election. Strzok’s lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said in a letter to Goodlatte released Sunday that the move would be unnecessary, as Strzok “intends to voluntarily appear and testify before your committee and any other Congressional committee that invites him.”The letter noted that Strzok cooperated fully with the DOJ inspector general, who issued a report last week that was highly critical of the agent. In the lead-up to the 2016 election Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were having an affair, exchanged anti-Trump messages on their FBI-issued phones. In one, Page asked if Trump might become president and Strzok replied, “No. No he won’t. We’ll stop it.” The inspector general found no evidence connecting their views with “specific investigative decisions,” but said that comment and others “implies a willingness to take official action.”Strzok and Page said he meant Trump wouldn’t be elected, and noted that they did not do anything to hurt Trump’s odds, like leaking the existence of the Russia probe before the election. Goelman told the Washington Post on Sunday that there’s “no question” that Strzok regrets sending the messages, but that “I think what he was doing is expressing his political opinions in what he thought was a private text conversation, and he regrets that this has been weaponized by people with political motivations to try to discredit the Mueller investigation.”Mueller removed Strzok from his investigation several weeks after it started following the discovery of the texts.Goelman said that if asked to testify, Strzok would be willing to testify without immunity, and would not invoke his Fifth Amendment rights. He said the agent “intends to answer any question put to him, and he intends to defend the integrity of the Clinton email investigation, the Russia collusion investigation to the extent that that’s a topic, and his own integrity.”Trump reiterated his thoughts on the matter on Sunday night, which are not supported by the inspector general’s findings. The report did not cover the Russia probe, though that did not stop Trump’s allies from calling for Mueller’s immediate suspension.Why was the FBI’s sick loser, Peter Strzok, working on the totally discredited Mueller team of 13 Angry & Conflicted Democrats, when Strzok was giving Crooked Hillary a free pass yet telling his lover, lawyer Lisa Page, that “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming President? Witch Hunt! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018“The highest level of bias I’ve ever witnessed in any law enforcement officer.” Trey Gowdy on the FBI’s own, Peter Strzok. Also remember that they all worked for Slippery James Comey and that Comey is best friends with Robert Mueller. A really sick deal, isn’t it? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2018Strzok still works for the FBI, but it’s unclear what he does now. The inspector general referred him, Page, and three other people to the FBI office that handles disciplinary action.

What if I told you we’ve been watching Twin Peaks the wrong way all these years? What if I told you that David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal early-90s TV series didn’t have two seasons—but four? Let me explain: For all these years, we’ve been engaging with Lynch and Frost’s series as two wildly uneven seasons—the first a perfect nine hours of suspense, surrealism, and shocking reveals, followed by a front-loaded and sprawling second season where the wheels come off. By contrast, the show can be organized into four shorter seasons,each around eight hours, each with a beginning, middle, and end, and each with their own thematic fixations and arcs. A quote from Mark Frost spurred me to contemplate this new arrangement. In October 2014, BuzzFeed asked Frost why Showtime only ordered nine episodes. (If you recall, the new season was originally slated for nine installments. It’s since expanded to eighteen, a disparity I’ll discuss later.) About the nine-episode length, Frost said: “Well, if you think back about the first season, if you put the pilot together with the seven that we did, you get nine hours. It just felt like the right number. I’ve always felt the story should take as long as the story takes to tell. That’s what felt right to us.” After reading Frost’s quote, I fixated on that nine-hour length, pondering the various ways different networks approach the concept of a “season” of television. The classic American network season runs more than twenty episodes and unspools over the course of several months, usually from September until the start of summer. But as all of us TV nerds have learned in this, the Golden Era of Television, that’s not the only game in town. (Note: Spoilers for Mad Men and Breaking Bad appear in this graf.) Basic cable introduced us to shorter seasons—the first five seasons of HBO’s The Sopranos each ran for thirteen episodes, while its supersized sixth season ran for a more network-style twenty-one. (Though if you ask me, The Sopranos really ran for seven seasons, twelve episodes for season “six” and nine for season “seven.” As you can tell, I like reorganizing classic shows.) Other great basic-cable shows followed the “baker’s dozen” format. Mad Men’s first six seasons each ran for thirteen episodes, while its final season ran for fourteen. (I also prefer to think of Mad Men’s final season as two smaller seasons.) Breaking Bad’s first season ran a very Twin Peaks-y seven episodes, while its following four installments each ran thirteen. It’s fifth and final season ran sixteen episodes, split into two eight-episode legs across two years. (Side note: There’s a related conversation to be had about the “BBC” model, where shows run for precisely as long as they need—The Office’s fourteen episodes and Sherlock’s twelve (so far). Both models have their virtues, but for now, I’m going to focus on the AMC model as it relates to Twin Peaks.) Looking across these shows, we see the rise of a new phenomenon—the “midseason finale.” The midseason finale bears all the hallmarks of a standard finale—the protagonists usually find themselves in a bind or the narrative otherwise comes to a head. Mad Men and Breaking Bad both had their share of memorable midseason finales. “Waterloo” ended the first leg of Mad Men’s seventh season with such shocking twists as Bert Cooper’s death and the sale of SCD&P to McCann-Erickson. And of course, Breaking Bad’s now-legendary fifth midseason finale saw Hank Schraeder finally figure out the identity of Heisenberg. Why am I talking about this? To soften you up to accept my thesis: that like all of the classic shows it sired, Twin Peaks followed a similar format over its twenty-nine-episode run, delivering about eight hours of television at a time, each with their own premieres and finales. Coloquially, I refer to 12-13 episodes as the “AMC” model for season length. (And by “coloquially,” I mean “I’m the only person who uses that term because it’s a made-up thing.”) But for the sake of this essay, let me introduce a new made-up thing: the “Frost and Lynch”—or F&L—model for season length. The F&L model runs for seven to nine hours. Shorter and leaner than the AMC model, the F&L model skews more toward the BBC format, which favors the unity and symmetry of films and only calls on its TV seasons to run for precisely as long as they need to tell their stories. So finally, let’s talk about The Four Seasons of Twin Peaks. I’ll specify how and where each season begins and ends, why I made the choices I did, all while discussing the strengths and weakness of each season—because believe me, some seasons are better than others. Needless to say, MAJOR SPOILERS LIE AHEAD! Season One: “Murder In A Small Town” Pilot and episodes 1.1 through 1.7 The one unit of F&L-style seasonal storytelling you can spot with the naked eye is the first season of Twin Peaks, which also happens to be the actual, literal first season of the show. Starting with the now legendary pilot, the first season introduces us to the bizarre and byzantine world of Twin Peaks, with its interlocking network of rivalries, grudges, financial dealings, secret loves, and old hatreds—to say nothing of all the Norwegians, Brie sandwiches, black coffee, and delicious cherry pie. Twin Peaks is many things—it’s a meditation on how evil can infest even the most good-hearted people; it’s a TV version of Blue Velvet; it’s a portrait of a small town in mourning. It’s also a cannily self-aware goof on TV itself, using the tropes and traditions of classic TV—including and especially barn-burning night-time soaps and the cornpone sitcoms of the 60s and 70s. Frost, an alum of such meat ’n’ potatoes dramas as Hill Street Blues, helped Lynch build a reliably engrossing cast of regulars, some of whom could’ve been lifted out of Dynasty or Dallas (Josie Packard, Catherine Martell, the Hornes); while others hailed more from Mayberry or Green Acres (Sheriff Truman, Andy, Lucy, Hawk). That unusual division makes for a pleasing “court and mechanicals” rift among the series regulars—a rift spanned by the show’s lead, the boundlessly kind and intuitive Agent Dale Cooper. Cooper (a stand-in of sorts for Lynch) serves many functions in the narrative—he drives the investigation into Laura Palmer’s murder, he provides key exposition—but more than anything else, he’s good. He’s decent and kind and empathetic, and in a show that’s largely about a battle between kindness and cruelty, he’s our greatest, clearest, most shining avatar for the former. But anyway, let’s get back to season one, which unfolds over the course of nine of the most perfect hours ever seen on television. I get goosebumps when I recall some of its best moments—when the gang discovers the mysterious cabin where Laura and Ronette spent some of their harrowing final moments; when Coop asks Hawk if he believes in souls (“Several,” comes Hawk’s prescient answer). The first season also includes some of the finest examples of what makes Twin Peaks so influential: its willingness to smuggle arthouse imagery onto mainstream television. Sometimes that imagery is a simple combination of the daft and the terrifying, such as when Waldo the parrot gets it: Perched above an exquisite arrangement of doughnuts, Waldo chillingly recites Laura’s sorry pleas before an unseen gunman silences him, spattering the bird’s blood across the table. Other times that imagery is… well, this: Among its many virtues, Twin Peaks acted as a Trojan horse for arthouse imagery, techniques, impulses, and methods. It gave David Lynch a nationwide showcase for his mastery of dream-logic—and that daring has echoed across the following decades. I’d argue with confidence that not only did Twin Peaks sire the current golden age of television, but also that it specifically paved the way for shows like The Sopranos and Mad Men, both of which traffic in dream-logic storytelling. Season One at a Glance Strengths: Narrative tightness, dreamy imagery, perfect introductions—and every episode is a classic. Weaknesses: I’ve never liked how Major Briggs strikes Bobby in the pilot. It’s always felt like an early-development misstep—a flashy choice they made before they really got to know the character. Best episode: This was a tough choice between the pilot and episode three, “Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer,” but episode three scores a narrow victory. From beginning to end, it’s a perfect episode, packed with unforgettable scenes—from the opening introduction of a baguette-bearing Jerry Horne to Coop’s rock-toss to the now-immortal first visit to the Black Lodge, it introduced the imagery and perfected the particular off-kilter tone and humor that made Twin Peaks a hit. Second-best episode: I’m a huge fan of the season-one finale. It’s the only episode written and directed entirely by Mark Frost, and it shows. One of Twin Peaks’ myriad delights is the ongoing storytelling tension between its two eminent showrunners—Lynch is withholding and abstract, Frost generous and straightforward. Well, that straightforwardness makes for a rousing, headlong finale. I mean, it’s simply packed with stuff happening: the mill gets blown up, Andy shoots Jacques Renault, and of course, Coop gets shot. Season Two: “The Investigation” Episodes 2.1 through 2.7 My toughest choice for this essay was where to place the “second” season finale. Given that the first 15-16 episodes all bear on the revelation (and death) of Laura’s murderer, I had a few options. Does the “season” end right after her killer is revealed, in episode seven, “Lonely Souls”? Or does it end when her killer dies in episode nine, “Arbitrary Law”? I eventually decided to make episode seven, “Lonely Souls,” the finale. Here’s why: If you were to plot the episodes of Twin Peaks on a graph where the Y-axis represented an amalgam of quality and thematic payload, you’d see several spikes, usually when Lynch and Frost dropped in to write and direct an episode. They dropped in less and less often as the series went on, turning over the major writing duties to a team that came to be dominated by Harley Peyton and Robert Engels (who was a major contributor to both the series finale and the movie, Fire Walk With Me), and an eclectic crew of directors that included television journeymen (or journeywomen) like Lesli Linka Glatter, Todd Holland, and Tim Hunter, as well as some oddballs like Diane Keaton (whose episode ain’t bad) and Uli Edel. But the Lynch episodes carry an especial level of importance, and if we also factor the series finale into this equation, we further find that the series’ major events revolve around the activity of the BOB entity. And on that note, let commence an aria about the Twin Peaks that could’ve been: By now, it’s conventional wisdom that ABC screwed up the show by forcing Lynch and Frost to reveal the identity of Laura’s killer. It robbed the narrative of its momentum and revealed the execs’ fundamental misunderstanding of what Twin Peaks was—it was never a murder mystery. It was a demented and dreamy portrait of a small town. Laura Palmer’s murder was simply an initial, delicious hook to reel in the audience. In a better world, the showrunners would’ve been able to delay the revelation of Laura’s murderer until the series had run its course, saving its most dramatically satisfying reveal for the series’ final movements, much in the same manner as The Fugitive, which saved the capture of the one-armed murderer (himself referenced in Twin Peaks’ own one-armed man) for its series finale. But here’s the thing: not even ABC could completely screw up a show this good. Happily, the revelation of Laura’s killer only raised a larger, more inscrutable question: What exactly is happening in Twin Peaks? That structure—answering one question while raising others—was forced upon Lynch and Frost, but they handled it gamely, establishing a modus operandi later imitated by shows like LOST. (Side note—LOST ain’t perfect, but damn if it isn’t the closest thing we’ve had over the years to the kind of week-to-week weirdness that Twin Peaks delivered. I rewatched it recently, and it remains one of the all-time great shows.) In any event, here’s the point of my aria: Lynch and Frost are master showrunners. When forced to solve their story’s central mystery, they deftly redirected the show’s energies into a new and larger mystery: what is BOB? So endeth my aria. Let’s try to focus on taking about what actually happens in my proposed season two: we meet some intriguing new characters (Lenny von Dohlen’s Harold Smith, among others) and delve deeper into to the investigation of Laura’s murder. We also learn that while Laura’s murderer was technically her father, Leland (the incomparable Ray Wise), we also learn that he was under the possession of the malevolent entity BOB. This season also sets up the following two seasons in my arrangement: Coop gets word that his old nemesis, Windom Earle, may be at large again, while Major Briggs hints that something paranormal may be afoot in the woods surrounding Twin Peaks. Season Two at a Glance Strengths: Momentum established in season one carries through the end of this season. We find out who killed Laura. We learn more about the entity BOB. Premiere and finale are both top-notch episodes. Weaknesses: That “season one” magic starts to fade, but otherwise, I’d argue this season is as strong as season one. Best episode: “Lonely Souls.” Season Three: “Aftermath” Episodes 2.8 through 2.14 Well, it was nice while it lasted. My “third” season of Twin Peaks compartmentalizes all of the series’ weakest elements. Its worst storylines and worst episodes can all be found in this seven-episode stretch, which sees James ditch town for a pointless fling, Nadine succumb to retrograde amnesia, and Ben Horne become a Confederate war general. Hoo boy. On the plus side, there are some great episodes in here. The Tim Hunter-directed ninth episode, “Arbitrary Law”—which unmasks Laura’s killer—features one of the series’ most powerful scenes—Coop cradling a dying Leland after he confesses to the crime. As the jail’s malfunctioning sprinklers rain upon them, Coop recites from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, providing Leland absolution before he dies. On the writing side, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels start to take the reigns. I have no idea if either of them emerged as defacto showrunner, but I generally dig their episodes. As for the “third” season finale, I decided on “Double Play.” Windom Earle’s first appearance onscreen remains a strong moment, and it kicks off the action for my proposed “fourth” season. Strengths: Although the show jumps the proverbial shark in its “third” season, it’s still got that Twin Peaks magic, which lends it incredible charm even through its weakest stretch. Gary Hershberger’s Mike, basically unseen since the pilot, gets to shine. Windom Earle’s impending entry to the fray is legitimately menacing. Weaknesses: Too many to count. Best episode: “Arbitrary Law.” Season Four: “Project Blue Book” Episodes 2.15 through 2.22 Twin Peaks was the first show I binged. This was years before Netflix streaming, years even before Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service. I was just out of college, and although I’d seen the show’s first season (as well as the movie—don’t judge me), I’d never watched the show in its entirety. Luckily, my mom’d given me the complete series on VHS (!) for my birthday. Over the course of a week, I watched the whole series in grainy, pan-and-scan, LP glory. Ever since that first viewing, the awesomeness of the final eight episodes has lingered with me. When I first encountered the Black Lodge, I felt sure that it’d be impossible for the showrunners to explain what it was without robbing it of its power. Boy, was I wrong. Over the course of eight episodes, Twin Peaks imports themes and devices from shows like The Night-Stalker and The X-Files, pitching the Black Lodge as a sort of interdimensional nexus. You can only access it from certain places, and while it’s well-nigh impossible to escape, if you do, you’re liable to pop out at any place—or any time—in the world. Shows like Twin Peaks often straddle the line between science-fiction and fantasy until they’re forced to commit to one. LOST began as a crunchy sci-fi epic in the mode of MYST but eventually committed to contemporary fantasy in its final seasons, much to its detriment, I’d argue. But Twin Peaks gets to have its cake and eat it by treating the Black Lodge as neither magic or science, but paranormal and preternatural. Twin Peaks draws on a great many American folk myths, including an old favorite of mine, the Mothman. As the story goes, the Mothman is an extradimensional entity that supposedly menaced the town of Point Pleasnt, W.Va., in the late sixties, wreaking all manner of mind-bending havoc—delivering confusing reports about the future, teleporting people great distances, and inducing selective amnesia (or time-loss) among its victims. If you ask me, encountering the Mothman sounds a lot like a visit to the Black Lodge. (Side note, Mark Pellington’s 2002 movie The Mothman Prophecies is worth a look. It’s based on John Keel’s (supposedly) nonfiction book of the same name.) Anyway, in its “fourth” season, Twin Peaks deepens its mythology, placing the eccentric hamlet at the center of an interdimensional superhighway. Incidentally, more of this deeper mythmaking bubbles up in the prequel movie, Fire Walk With Me, as well as its companion work, The Missing Pieces—basically ninety minutes of deleted scenes from the movie. In FWWM and The Missing Pieces, we glimpse new realms (and new citizens) of the Black Lodge, while also bearing witness to some of its temperospatial aftereffects—David Bowie’s Phillip Jeffries teleports across the world in the manner of the X-Men’s Nightcrawler, while Heather Graham’s Annie Blackburn appears to Laura Palmer to warn her of future calamity. Strengths: An alluringly creepy, paranormal tone. The finale is one of the greatest episodes in TV history. Weaknesses: The sharp turn into X-Files territory may not be to everyone’s liking, but it’s certainly to mine. Best episode: “Beyond Life and Death.” So those are my proposed four seasons of Twin Peaks. What do you think? How might you rearrange the episodes, if at all? Should someone assemble a new prequel miniseries built from FWWM and The Missing Pieces? Also, what does the eighteen-episode revival herald in terms of storytelling? Will Lynch and Frost adhere to the F&L model, delivering two nine-episode “seasons” to us? Or have they essentially written an eighteen-hour movie that’ll unspool in a way none of us can predict? I don’t know the answer. All I do know is I can’t wait.

In August 2016, Bieber threatened to leave Instagram after his rumored relationship with Sofia Richie was met with criticism from fans. “I’m gonna make my Instagram private if you guys don’t stop the hate,” Bieber captioned a black-and-white photo with the model. “This is getting out of hand, if you guys are really fans you wouldn’t be so mean to people that I like.” Gomez quickly weighed in with her own bit of advice. “If you can’t handle the hate, then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol – It should be special between you two only,” Gomez commented on his post. “Don’t be mad at your fans. They love you and supported you before any one ever did.” Bieber responded: “It’s funny to see people that used me for attention and still try to point the finger this way.” The back-and-forth didn’t last long, however. Gomez eventually took to her Snapchat to apologize for her initial comment.

Four sisters of Josh Duggar have filed a federal invasion of privacy suit against In Touch Weekly, which revealed two years ago that their brother had been investigated for sexual molestation. The original story led to the cancellation of the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting.” The sisters are not contesting the accuracy of the In Touch report — indeed, they themselves subsequently confirmed that they were the victims in the case. Instead, they seem to be following the playbook of Hulk Hogan, who brought down Gawker with an invasion-of-privacy claim. The sisters — Jill Dillard, Joy Duggar, Jessa Seewald, and Jinger Vuolo — also sued the city of Springdale, Arkansas, and Washington County, Arkansas, which released investigative records to In Touch pursuant to a public records request. The suit alleges that the localities violated state and federal privacy laws in releasing the documents. “Plaintiffs had no knowledge that the highly personal and painful details revealed in their confidential interviews would be disclosed to anyone except law enforcement and child services personnel,” the suit states. “Indeed, they were instructed that their statements would remain confidential and not be released to the public.” Related Josh Duggar Apologizes: ‘I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever’ According to the suit, local officials provided the sensitive police records just five days after receiving a records request from In Touch’s lawyer. The suit alleges that officials in the small town failed to properly consult with various branches of government before releasing the documents. If they had done so, the plaintiffs allege they would have discovered that juvenile records were not subject to disclosure. The suit cites speculation within the Springdale Police Department that a department source had leaked information about the case to the media, given that outlets seemed to know exactly which records to ask for. The records did not name the victims, but the suit alleges that online commentators were quickly able to puzzle out the girls’ identities. “Plaintiffs were subjected to spiteful and harsh comments and harassment on the Internet and in their daily lives,” the suit states. “Some chastised their personal decision to forgive their brother while others used the opportunity to provide unwarranted commentary on all aspects of Plaintiffs’ lives. Others simply reveled in the ad hoc disclosure of the lurid details of Plaintiffs’ suffering.” Unlike in the Hogan case, the material published by In Touch came from a government proceeding. News organizations are generally given wide leeway in the reporting of governmental conduct. In Touch has not responded. A spokesman for the city of Springdale told TMZ, which first reported the suit, that the claims are “without merit and false.”

Queer Eye star Karamo Brown proposed to his boyfriend of eight years, Ian Jordan, on Wednesday, May 9 — and it’s safe to say they will have one stylish wedding. Brown, 37, popped the question during Jordan’s surprise 40th birthday party at sbe’s HYDE Sunset in L.A. The Netflix series’ culture expert dropped down on one knee and presented his director love with a silver David Yurman band, Entertainment Tonight reported on Wednesday, May 9. “You are the funniest man I know, the kindest man, my biggest cheerleader,” Brown told Jordan, per ET. “You made me feel like I could do anything. . . . I hope we can conquer the world together for the rest of our lives. Ian Lamont Jordan, will you marry me?” Brown’s son Jason then made a speech. (Brown learned of Jason’s existence when he received papers from his high school girlfriend demanding overdue child support. At the time, Jason was 10. The reality star adopted Jason in 2007 and then adopted his half-brother in 2010.) Queer Eye’s Fab Five — Bobby Berk, Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness and Tan France — were all there to celebrate with their costar. France captured the proposal on camera and shared it on Instagram Stories, writing: “I couldn’t be happier for you, KK and Ian!” That night, the Real World: Philadelphia alum shared a prom-style portrait of himself with his director beau on Instagram. “I love you because of your heart, your humor, but mostly because you don’t mind serving #GlamourShots realness w/ me anytime I ask,” wrote Brown. “I pray today and this year brings you everything your heart desires.” Meanwhile, Us Weekly exclusively reported on Wednesday Queer Eye fan favorite Tom Jackson recently remarried his ex-wife! The couple eloped in a private ceremony in Tennessee on March 27. The newlyweds told Us: “The best part of the day was during the ceremony as we stood before the minister, both of us excited and happy to be recommitting ourselves to each other in marriage.” Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox!

- Actor Vince Vaughn was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and resisting arrest in Manhattan Beach, police said. Vaughn, 48, and his passenger were arrested about 1 a.m. at a sobriety/driver's license checkpoint at the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Artesia Boulevard, said Manhattan Beach Police Sgt. Matt Sabosky. Vaughn was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving as well as resisting, delaying or obstructing police, Sabosky said. His passenger, a male, was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication as well as resisting, delaying or obstructing police, he said. Vaughn was released about 7 a.m. with a citation to appear in court. The sergeant did not immediately know if his passenger was still in custody, or released. Vaughn is known for his roles in such films as "Swingers," "Wedding Crashers" and "Hacksaw Ridge."

Marc Anthony net worth: Marc Anthony is an American actor, singer, entrepreneur and producer who has a net worth of $80 million dollars. Marc Anthony is most probably most widely recognized for his music career. Marc is the highest selling salsa artist in history and has won numerous awards, including several Grammy Awards and Latin Grammy Awards. To date, Marc has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He was born Marco Antonio Muniz in New York City, New York, in 1968. His father Philipe Muniz was a musician and Anthony would join him in playing for friends and family. His mother Guillerminna was a housewife and mother of seven children, of which, Anthony was the youngest. Anthony was married to Dayanara Torres, a former Miss Universe, from 2000-2004. They have two sons together, Ryan Adrian and Cristian Marcus. He was then married to Jennifer Lopez for seven years. They are the parents of twins, Emme Maribel Muniz and Maximillian David Muniz. Anthony also has a daughter, Arianna, from a previous relationship. Outside of music, Marc has appeared in several popular movies including Hackers, Man on Fire, In the Time of Butterflies, The Substitute and more. He has also performed on stage in the musical, The Capeman, and has appeared on a couple of episodes of HawthoRNe on TNT. He is also an executive producer of HawthoRNe which ran from 2009-2011. Along with his acting career, Marc Anthony also performs as a recording artist and songwriter, as well as a backing vocalist for other artists, such as, Ann Marie, Menudo, Latin Rascals and others. He is known for his Latin style, salsa and freestyle. In 1993, Anthony released Otra Notra, a song sang in Spanish. He has also recorded many albums, such as, When the Night is Over, Todo a su Tiempo, Contra la Corriente, Libre, El Contante and more. After his recording of Contra la Corriente, Anthony did a television special on HBO, "Marc Anthony: The Concert from Madison Square Garden." His first single hit was Y Hubo Alguien, and was ranked as number one on the Billboard Hot Latin Tracks Chart. At this time he was signed to RMM records, but, in 1999 he left RMM and for Sony. He and Jennifer Lopez recorded a duet on her album, "On the 6." In 2001, his album "Libre" became gold and was at the number one place on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart for fourteen weeks. In July 2018, Marc purchased a $19 million mansion in Florida. He also owns a multi-million dollar property in Tarzana, California.

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Kim Kardashian is back to doing what she does best: posting photos of herself on Instagram in relatively little-to-no clothing, and giving no effs about it. Because why should she? Every body is a bikini body, and Kim looks incredible in hers, dammit! I’m really shy... A post shared by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Jul 20, 2018 at 11:28am PDT But while Kim in a bikini isn't exactly breaking news, her caption (read: "I'm really shy...") essentially amounts to her trolling herself. Which, clap-clap-clap. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Giphy Fun fact: Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness used a similar caption on a post yesterday, which was shared right around the same time as Kim's. Great minds think alike, Kim and JVN are the best and most self-aware celebs on your Insta feed, etc! But um, before we go....

Bella Hadid should win the award for being the most daring personality this year. The model looked practically naked in a head-to-toe crochet set, paired with Dior sneakers. This wouldnt be the first time a celebrity has pulled a look like this, remember when Kendall Jenner showed up to the airport in see-through pants? so it’s safe to say it won’t be the last. Apart from this style choice being one of the most statements of 2017, it’s incredibly form-fitting. But the question remains, would you rock this?

Apparently Liam Hemsworth isn’t the easiest guy to shop for! But we’re hearing Miley Cyrus has a plan! Here’s all the EXCLUSIVE details! What do you buy for the movie star who has everything?! It turns out, this is Miley Cyrus‘, 25, problem when it comes to getting the perfect Christmas present for her longtime fella Liam Hemsworth, 27! “Miley has a hard time buying Liam gifts because he’s a pretty simple guy, he’s not into material stuff at all,” an insider shares with HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. “One thing I know she is getting him is a new surfboard, when it comes to anything to do with surfing and Liam you can’t go wrong.” Sounds perfect! Miley is very excited about the holidays, Liam ‘s back home from shooting his movie and they’re getting some much-needed quality time together. The holidays are extra special for Miley and Liam because it was this time two years ago that they got back together so it’s kind of an unofficial anniversary for them.” Aww! The source went on to share that despite the struggle to nail down the best gift, this time of year is super special for this adorable couple for a very specific reason! “is very excited aboutholidays,‘s back home from shooting his movie and they’re getting some much-needed quality time together.holidays are extra specialandbecause it was this time two years ago that they got back together so it’s kind of an unofficial anniversarythem.” Aww! Head here to take a look back at Liam and Miley’s relationship in photos! As we previously reported, Liam recently visited Miley on the set of The Voice, but he was careful not to steal the spotlight! “He was on set last week!” Brooke Simpson told HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY. But she didn’t get a chance to talk to him because “he was trying to hide from people. It was during the show. He was trying to make sure no one saw him.” Sounds like he was the perfect boyfriend! “It was so cute!” she added. “They’re so real!” HollywoodLifers, are you loving these juicy details as much as us? Let us know in the comments section below!

Francesca Eastwood is going to be a mom! The 24-year-old daughter of actor and director Clint Eastwood and actress Frances Fisher announced the baby news at the 2018 Environmental Media Association Awards (sponsored by Toyota) in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Francesca took the awards stage with her mother, 66, while presenting an award, during which she told the star-studded audience that she is pregnant. Attendees included Jenna Dewan, Lance Bass, Bill Nye, Jaden Smith and host Amber Valletta. The baby on the way will be her first with actor/trainer Alexander Wraith. “Francesca and I are very happy and would like to share this private moment of joy with the rest of you,” the dad-to-be told The Blast. “We are very excited for what’s to come.” Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs? Click here to get those and more in the PEOPLE Babies newsletter. Francesca Eastwood MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock Francesca Eastwood and Frances Fisher RELATED GALLERY: Who’s Due Next? Chanel, Shenae and 65 More Celebs Who Are Expecting Francesca Eastwood Morgan Eastwood Instagram Francesca and Morgan Eastwood Morgan Eastwood/Instagram RELATED: Family Movie Night! Clint Eastwood Joined by Six of His Kids at Premiere of His Latest One day before she walked the EMAs red carpet, her younger sister Morgan Eastwood shared a glimpse of Francesca’s baby bump during a family trip to Disneyland on her Instagram Story. RELATED VIDEO: All the Times Scott Eastwood Looked Exactly Like His Dad! For the magical outing, the first-time mom-to-be wore a fitted black dress under a flannel shirt and leather-type black jacket. Clint and Francesca Eastwood Eric Charbonneau/REX/Shutterstock Francesca, who was named Miss Golden Globe in 2013, was last spotted with her famous parents in October at the premiere of her film M.F.A. in West Hollywood, California. The expectant actress tied the knot with Jonah Hill‘s brother Jordan Feldstein in 2013, but the marriage was annulled a week later. Feldstein died at age 40 on Dec. 22, 2017, as a result of a blood clot that originated in his leg, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. Clint, 87, is also a father to Kimber, his daughter with Roxanne Tunis; Kyle and Alison; his children with Maggie Johnson; Scott and Kathryn, his children with Jacelyn Reeves; as well as daughter Morgan with Dina Ruiz.

If Republicans capture control of the U.S. Senate, there will be many explanations for their victory: President Obama’s poor numbers, a great Senate map filled with attractive opportunities, a generally strong slate of candidates, the success of establishment-backed Republicans in primaries and others.But one of the biggest factors will have hardly anything to do with the national political climate or, really, the campaign as a whole. Five Democrats, all of whom are old enough to be eligible for Medicare, decided not to run for another term in the Senate. Their decisions, all announced before May 2013, are a huge but largely forgotten boon to GOP hopes.Story Continued BelowThe five retirements were: Max Baucus of Montana, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Carl Levin of Michigan and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. (A sixth, Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey, had announced his retirement, but he later died: Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat, now holds the seat after a special election last year.)Retirements present a challenge for the incumbent party because it’s easier for a party to hold a Senate seat when an incumbent runs for reelection. Significantly easier.Over the past half-century, about 85 percent of incumbent senators running in the general election were reelected. In open seats, during the same time period, the incumbent party held the seat just about 60 percent of the time. So not having an incumbent in a Senate race substantially reduces the odds of victory.The importance of open seats to GOP Senate hopes is particularly pronounced because of the party’s recent inability to defeat Democratic incumbents.In 1980, Republicans beat an eye-popping nine Democratic incumbents on Election Day to capture control of the Senate for the first time in a quarter-century. Since then, the GOP has not defeated more than two Democratic Senate incumbents in any general election. The party’s best recent Senate years, 1994 and 2010, were built largely on winning open seats (six in 1994, and four in 2010). Democrats, meanwhile, have had more success: They beat seven and six incumbent Republicans, respectively, in recapturing the upper chamber in 1986 and 2006. The latter year, 2006, was notable in that Democrats did not capture a single open seat in netting the six seats they needed to eke out a narrow 51-49 Senate edge.Republicans seem likely to beat more than two Democratic Senate incumbents this November for the first time in almost 35 years: Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas all have less than 50-50 odds of winning, according to the University of Virginia Center for Politics’ Crystal Ball ratings, which I help formulate. Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado is right at 50-50, and Sens. Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire are both in tough races too.But in all likelihood, the foundation for this year’s GOP gains will be built on winning open seats. That’s why the Democratic exits loom so large in the upcoming election.An election where these five senators chose to run for another term would look significantly different: There would probably be more competitive races, and Democrats would have a greater number of redoubts to hold off the Republican advance.Let’s assume, for the purposes of this “what if” exercise, that all five retirees were healthy enough and eager enough to have run for reelection, which is of course a big assumption for a group whose average age is 74 years old:West Virginia: Rockefeller might still be an underdog to Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R), who entered the race before the incumbent retired. But that race would have been much closer, presumably, than Capito’s largely sleepy contest against West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee would not have been able to just take a pass on the race, as it has this cycle. Capito’s strong performance as a candidate is an often overlooked bright spot for Republicans this cycle – she’s done so well, in a state where the GOP hasn’t won a Senate seat in more than a half century, that the race never became obviously competitive – but running in an open seat has made her job easier. The Crystal Ball rating here is Safe Republican; with Rockefeller in the race, we’d probably rate it just Leans Republican or maybe Toss-up. A few polls before Rockefeller retired suggested Capito would have started the race with a narrow lead, and Rockefeller did himself no favors by not being 100 percent pro-coal in recent years, a political problem in a state where coal is still king.Montana: Baucus, like Rockefeller, would have been in for a very tough race in 2014 if he had run. The Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling found him trailing 49 percent to 44 percent in early 2013 against Rep. Steve Daines, who eventually became the GOP nominee. Baucus announced his retirement in April 2013, and then later resigned to become ambassador to China. Gov. Steve Bullock appointed then-Lt. Gov. John Walsh, a fellow Democrat, to fill the vacancy. Walsh’s campaign, of course, fell apart over the summer under the weight of plagiarism. Now Democrats are stuck with little-known nominee Amanda Curtis, a state representative, and Daines is a huge favorite.Kyle Kondik is managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan political newsletter produced by the University of Virginia Center for Politics. He also directs the center’s Washington, D.C., office.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum are separating after nearly nine years of marriage. The former couple announced the split in a joint statement exclusive to PEOPLE: “Hey world! So…We have something we would like to share. First off, it feels odd that we have to share this kind of thing with everyone, but it’s a consequence of the lives we’ve chosen to lead, which we also happen to be deeply grateful for. We’re living in an incredible moment in time, but it’s also a time where truth can easily get distorted into “alternative facts” 😉 So we want to share the truth so you know that if you didn’t read it here then it’s most certainly fiction. We have lovingly chosen to separate as a couple. We fell deeply in love so many years ago and have had a magical journey together. Absolutely nothing has changed about how much we love one another, but love is a beautiful adventure that is taking us on different paths for now. There are no secrets nor salacious events at the root of our decision — just two best-friends realizing it’s time to take some space and help each other live the most joyous, fulfilled lives as possible. We are still a family and will always be loving dedicated parents to Everly. We won’t be commenting beyond this, and we thank you all in advance for respecting our family’s privacy. Sending lots of love to everyone, Chan&Jenna.” The actors, both 37, have one child together — daughter Everly — who will turn 5 in May. The couple most recently attended the Kids’ Choice Awards together where Tatum hit the stage to promote his new animated movie Smallfoot. They first met on the set of their 2006 movie Step Up and began dating shortly after before tying the knot in 2009. Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan have split. The last attended a red carpet together in November (pictured) Greg Doherty/Getty Buzz about a split began when Dewan Tatum attended the annual Vanity Fair Oscars after-party solo, but she told ET at the bash that Tatum was on daddy duty and “so happy to have a night off.” And in mid-March the former couple shared sweet snaps from a face painting session with their daughter. “When you fall asleep around a toddler,” Dewan Tatum captioned a silly shot of Tatum before sharing a solo selfie of her own look. Want to keep up on the latest from PEOPLE? Sign up for our daily newsletter to get our best stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox. Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan Tatum Channing Tatum/Instagram In February, the actress opened up to Health about the perception that she and Tatum had a “perfect life,” saying instead that they worked hard to keep their relationship going. “When people say you guys have such a perfect life, I want to scream and tell them no one’s perfect,” she said. “I think there are such things as great fits. It is a great fit as long as you are growing together, and I think up until this point we’ve really grown together. Even if one starts to grow, the other catches up and vice versa.” Dave Benett/WireImage Dewan Tatum said while they always made sure to make time for one another, they still had days where they didn’t get along. “But I think a couple needs to be conscious and to want to do the work and be willing to look at the parts of you that need work. Both of us have been pretty aware and willing to do that,” she continued. “We’ve always had the same values. But we’re not perfect! Are you kidding? We fight like other couples, we disagree about things, we have days where we don’t really like each other.” RELATED VIDEO: Channing Tatum & Jenna Dewan ‘Have Lovingly Chosen to Separate’ After Nearly 9 Years of Marriage In December, Tatum wished his wife a happy birthday with a heartfelt Instagram post. “This creature is one more year beautiful. The transformation she invoked this year has been something they only write about in books of fairytale and magic. Your strength and grace ever-evolving,” he wrote. “By doing so you make everything around you grow- everything. And I am so very grateful for your lessons. Happy life day my love.”

Fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars may have thought they had seen the last of the eliminated queens. However, Ru is always full of surprises and his biggest twist yet happened in the season finale. He brought back the eliminated queens who determined the top two for the season. Because of their decision, Trixie Mattel won Drag Race All Stars 3, and pretty much no one saw it coming. The eliminated queens returning to Drag Race changed everything, because for the first time in the series’ herstory, they had the real power. In previous seasons of All Stars, Ru had made determinations of who the top queens would be through their performances in various challenges. This season, that changed. The eliminated queens were back as a “Jury of Queer Peers” in Ru’s words. They acted in similar roles to other iconic reality TV shows that maintain a jury pool, like Survivor or Big Brother. In the end, the top two queens the jury chose were Trixie Mattel and Kennedy Davenport. Then it was between them to see who could win the crown. This was a much more exciting returning twist than the first time the eliminated queens came back to the competition in Episode 7. Then, it could have given a returning queen the boost to ride and potentially win the competition. However, it ended up being rather anticlimactic. That is because the queen who returned, Morgan McMichaels, was sent back home the week after she’d returned. This second return of the queens was so much more dramatic, though. Their decision brought up a central question for viewers: What does it mean to be the winning Drag Race Queen? This twist mattered so much because it is what fundamentally changed the competition and its future. In the past, it has been clear that the queen who was most successful throughout the competition deserved to be crowned queen. All Stars 3 was different. The eliminated queens determined the top two based on who they felt needed the title and money the most. They chose to reward the queens that they felt needed a bigger platform or wouldn’t be as successful on their own without the win. It really was a backhanded compliment when the eliminated queens picked Kennedy and Trixie as the top two. The most successful and deserving queens in the competition were barred from competing, in that sense. Of course, that meant that Shangela was not going to even get a shot at the crown. She has one of, if not the largest fanbase of any of the queens this season and ended up winning tens of thousands of dollars throughout the competition. It was clear that Shangela had been the front-runner — however, her success outside this competition clearly kept her from being considered for the top two. Shangela had won more challenges than anyone and she had never lost a lip-sync. She had proven throughout the competition that if it wasn’t BenDeLaCreme who would win, the crown should most logically be hers. Despite that, she wasn’t allowed to lip-sync for her legacy in the end. But Shangela was not the only one who was robbed of an opportunity. While BeBe had clearly made some enemies with her demeanor throughout the show, she had been consistently one of the best after Shangela. However, it was obvious that the eliminated queens didn't want BeBe to potentially win two crowns. Again, in their view, she didn’t “need” the win. More than in any previous season of Drag Race, the eliminated queens of All Stars 3 truly mattered. Despite BenDeLaCreme and Shangela absolutely dominating the competition, it was not to be that either of them would wear the crown. Finally, it was the eliminated queens' decision that allowed Trixie to win the crown. While some, (perhaps rightfully) think that twist was unfair or out of place, the season is now over. Ultimately, it is RuPaul’s drag world, and we’re all just living in it.

Dierks Bentley and Cassidy Black first met in eighth grade at Ingleside Middle School in Phoenix, Ariz. The country crooner fell hard but admits he "wasn't cool enough" yet for his future wife. "I was way too immature and into drinking beer and guns and blowing things up," he tells People . Black sums it up nicely: "He was just trouble." They tried dating in high school but soon were separated by distance, with Bentley moving to Nashville at 19 years of age and Black working at an advertising firm in San Francisco, Calif. Still, Bentley's romantic heart beat loudly, and he wrote her "crazy love letters" sent via FedEx. "That's why I married her! I was worried I'd get blackmailed with those letters!" Bentley says with a laugh. "I did save them and thought I could always sell them on eBay!" adds Black. A little while later, Black came to a show in Las Vegas, Nev., and when she walked onto the tour bus, Bentley knew she was the one he would spend his life with, for better or for worse. They were engaged in December of 2005, and the morning post-proposal, Bentley announced he had another trick up his sleeve: They were to elope in Mexico that day. "We got married in a little chapel in Mexico, and it was beautiful and private and real," says Black. Fast forward to more than a decade of marriage, three kids and countless memories later, and Bentley and Black are still going strong.

In February I saw a photo of Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge sitting next to each other at the Royal Foundation Forum, wearing colour coordinated dresses (lavender for Kate, deep purple-blue for Meghan). It wasn’t their dresses I minded, it was how they sat – legs crossed neatly at the ankle, knees pressed firmly together. It was that dulce et decorum pose passed down to generations of girls and young women expected to demonstrate their good breeding on social occasions – expected to show they are “ladies”. Both Kate and Meghan had folded their hands in their laps, the arms forming a gentle circle, the hands quietly clasped, as if ready to shelter a child or calm a kingdom’s cares. But it was the legs that haunted me – in part because I’d been taught that same bit of etiquette when I was a young black midwestern girl in the 1950s and early 60s, a child of the manners- and achievement-conscious black bourgeoisie, which in those days we called the Negro elite. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Meghan Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge at the Royal Foundation Forum. Photograph: Chris Jackson/AFP/Getty Images In fact, things turned out better than I’d feared. In a subsequent photo Kate crossed her legs at the knee. And when both women were asked in the video about the causes they planned to take up, Meghan spoke out. The words “MeToo” and “Time’sUp” flowed from her lips. So did the words “I fundamentally disagree”, as in: “What’s interesting is … when speaking about girls’ and women’s empowerment you’ll often hear people say: ‘Well, you’re helping women find their voices,’ and I fundamentally disagree with that. Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen.” Rachel Meghan Markle, for those who have chosen or somehow managed to miss the ceaseless chronicling of her life thus far, is the only daughter of Thomas Markle (white), an Emmy award-winning cinematographer and lighting designer, and Doria Ragland (black), a social worker and yoga instructor who focuses on community mental health. This union of white Hollywood and black social-spiritual activism made her the offspring of a modern and ever more varied biracial bourgeoisie. The family settled in Woodland Hills, a prosperous Los Angeles neighbourhood. Prosperous and largely white: Meghan’s mother was regularly mistaken for her nanny there. This must have happened in the 80s and early 90s when she was a young girl; it still happens in the US to every black woman I know who has a mixed-race child. Meghan’s parents divorced when she was six, and she lived with her mother after that, although she saw her father regularly. There are two half-siblings from his previous marriage, both quite a bit older. Relations with them, at least since the courtship and engagement, have been strained. Timeline Prince Harry's relationship with Meghan Markle Show Hide The pair meet in London through friends and begin a relationship. News breaks that the prince and Markle are dating. Kensington Palace confirms in an unprecedented statement that they are dating. The prince attacks the media over its “abuse and harassment” of his girlfriend. Markle is spotted in London amid unconfirmed reports she is enjoying her first stay at Kensington Palace since the relationship was made public. Markle reportedly meets the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte for the first time in London. The engagement looks set when Markle graces the cover of US magazine Vanity Fair and speaks openly about Harry for the first time, revealing: “We’re two people who are really happy and in love.” Markle makes her first appearance at an official engagement attended by the prince when she attends the Invictus Games opening ceremony in Toronto, Canada – although the pair sit about 18 seats apart. It emerges that the prince has taken Markle to meet his grandmother, the Queen, whose permission they need to marry. They met over afternoon tea at Buckingham Palace. The prince’s aides are reported to have been told to start planning for a royal wedding, with senior members of the royal family asked to look at their diaries to shortlist a series of suitable weekends in 2018. Markle is spotted in London, prompting speculation she is preparing for an engagement announcement. Clarence House announces the engagement, and the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh say they are “delighted for the couple and wish them every happiness”. The couple marry before a celebrity-studded congregation at St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political participation and leadership. Yes, she has been praised and criticised as “outspoken”, but her style never risks being “aggressive” or “combative”, or any of the other words thrown at women who are deemed insufficiently graceful when they disagree with men. Even when she makes staunch political statements, her manner astutely – sometimes cloyingly – balances the forthright and the pleasing. She’s learned to use political maxims and assertions very effectively. As in: “It’s time to focus less on glass slippers and more on glass ceilings.” With the word “fairytale” now a ubiquitous tag line for the royal romance, this should be a useful daily mantra. The Cinderella story refuses to dwindle into a period piece; in the last 20 years alone there have been six film remakes with white, black and Latina leads. But Markle has not been plucked from poverty or – like the heroines of such romcom adaptations as Pretty Woman and Maid in Manhattan – from the low-status toil and trouble of working-class life. Her net worth as an actor has been estimated at around $5m. An actor’s fortunes can fluctuate, especially when that actor is a woman. But so can the fortunes of a wife. If the royal marriage were to end in divorce, Markle would not have to depend on the Windsor millions nor, like many once-upon-a-time celebrities, design a skincare or jewellery line for QVC. Any 'commoner' who marries into any royal family ​is seen as marrying up. But Harry is marrying up too, by marrying out Love that results in the bride’s near magical social ascent is the key element in Cinderella tales. But is Markle automatically marrying up by marrying a prince? In the old school way, yes: any “commoner” who marries into any royal family is seen as marrying up. But Harry is marrying up too. He’s marrying up by marrying out – out of long-entwined bloodlines, out of entrenched rituals and hierarchies, out of a lineage as constricted as it is privileged. We always ascribe social ambitions to commoners, but aristocrats have their own longings for a world elsewhere. Harry is marrying into all the possibilities of postmodernity. It’s a world where – as Zora Neale Hurston said of black folktales and music – hierarchies, styles, sites of social and cultural change are being made and forgotten every day. In this world-elsewhere that is here and now, Markle’s identities as a progressive biracial and black feminist are impeccable. When speaking of her role on TV series Suits, as the biracial lawyer with a black father, she said: “Some households may never have had a black person in their house as a guest, or someone biracial. Well, now there are a lot of us on your TV and in your home with you.” And now there are even a few of us in the castles you see on TV. How would a global marketer for the royal family describe their marriage? Charles is not going to help the royal brand become fresh and contemporary. William and Kate are contemporary royals – unpretentious, decent and likable. But they do not suggest risk or daring. Today the House of Windsor is like a venerable and all too predictable fashion house. Its cultural currency depends on history packaged as costume drama: The Queen, The Crown, The King’s Speech, Darkest Hour. To flourish it must attract new designers, new ideas and new muses. And let me end my fashion analogy by noting that in March this year, Virgil Abloh, a Ghanaian American designer, was named artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton, a fashion house founded in 1854 when Queen Victoria was on the throne and the royal family had yet to be rebranded as the House of Windsor. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Prince and Markle pictured at Kensington Palace in November 2017, just after their engagement was announced. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters ¶ Perhaps a better genre through which to read the complexities of the Meghan-Harry narrative is the romantic comedy. In the best romcoms, attraction is ignited by tension and difference. Thwarted too. The characters have to learn something from each other and something about themselves; negotiate across troublesome boundaries (gender and class privilege, temperament), and learn to take emotional risks. For this union, Harry has had to renounce his protected status as a vivaciously shallow party boy whose transgressions took the form of booze-fuelled pranks, such as showing up at a friend’s birthday party in a Nazi desert uniform with a swastika armband (the party’s theme was “colonial and native”), or hosting a game of strip poker in a Las Vegas hotel room. Reformation followed in three stages, each appealing to a different constituency. He served in Afghanistan. He recently confessed to emotional and mental health problems that began soon after his mother’s death: a shutdown of feelings, bouts of rage and anxiety followed by psychological counselling. Finally, there came his involvement with Markle. A professional woman, an educated woman, a 36-year-old divorced American woman, a woman of colour and a feminist whose presence in his life would soon require that he forcefully denounce racism and sexism in the British press (and, I trust, among his more un-woke friends and relations). “I’ve never wanted to be a lady who lunches – I’ve always wanted to be a woman who works,” Markle once said. In show business she worked her way up. She didn’t become a Hollywood superstar; she did become a skilled, well-paid lead in a highly rated TV series. She had a social conscience, which she acted on. And now, she is more famous and more influential than she was ever likely to be on her own. It remains the way of the world. Does Amal Clooney have more resources as a human rights lawyer and philanthropist now that she is married to George Clooney? No doubt. Once a woman enters a royal family, every aspect and function of her body becomes a site of proprietary fantasy Whatever we think of her new job requirements, Markle will remain a working woman with a lifetime of public performances ahead. Every word, every gesture, every detail of dress will be scrutinised and read for subtext. The touches of white on her navy J Crew coat? A tribute to the British suffragettes. Bare legs instead of tights for the engagement photos? A subtle flouting of royal dress proscriptions. Once a woman enters a royal family, every aspect and function of her body becomes a site of proprietary fantasy. The female body as a nation’s procreative destiny: the only real change through the centuries is that fantasy has replaced realpolitik. For Diana Spencer, that meant her uncle certifying her virgin status in a tabloid newspaper interview shortly after her engagement to Charles. As if his niece’s body parts were a bride price to be flaunted, eliciting leers and cheers. For Markle, it means media warnings that she is 36 years old and shouldn’t wait much longer. “Meghan, Oh Baby! Meghan and Harry Planning a Honeymoon Knock-Up” went one headline. Her former husband, producer Trevor Engelson, is also conjuring imaginary children. He has announced plans for a Fox comedy: “Divorce is hard,” goes its pitch. “Sharing custody is harder when an ex-wife marries a British prince. Sharing custody with the British royal family in the unforgiving spotlight of London’s tabloid media is next level.” ¶ “Meghan Markle Looks Gorgeous With Naturally Curly Hair in Childhood.” The published photo was charming, as is the video of her at 11, with a curly frizzy ponytail, chastising the ad industry for its sexism. Many of us used to ask if we’d ever see Michelle Obama in an updated version of the afro she wore in her pre-public figure days. Many of us used to answer that the furore it would cause – the afro as proof of the first lady’s secret allegiance to white-hating black militants – probably wasn’t worth the gesture. And since a small dust-up followed Meghan’s recent appearance in a bun with wavy tendrils around her face, it’s hard alas to imagine how anything, including the claim of biographer Andrew Morton that she is a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce, would atone for a full display of those racially marked curly/wavy/frizzy locks. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Markle at her aunt’s wedding. Photograph: Mail on Sunday/Solo Syndication But if she never wears her version of a natural, she has already done race history a real service. She has helped scuttle false, foolish constructs of “the mulatto” that were developed a few centuries ago to counter the very real threat that mixed-race people posed to the constructs of white supremacy. To serve popular culture, the female mulatto became a source of social and erotic intrigue, a figure who needed strict narrative policing. Stories, novels, plays and early films gave her two options. She could be a scheming seductress (see Lydia Brown in DW Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, the mistress of a gullible white abolitionist played by a panting and grimacing white actress). Or she could be tragic (as in Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon of 1859, and Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars of 1900), a beautiful, seemingly white woman of faultlessly refined bearing, doomed by the taint of black ancestry. The tragic version attracts the love of a well-born young white man who does not know her secret. She tries – she hopes, she longs – to pass for white, and the ruse works for a time. But, when the innocent gentleman proposes marriage, the plot dictates that her shame be revealed and she must die, by her own hand or from a fatal disease. Decades of scholarship and memoir have corrected and complicated this narrative, of course. Still it lingers and titillates, a handy tool for condescension, suspicion and breezy sneers. A key theme in these stories is the heroine’s terror that, if she marries her white hero, she might bear a child whose skin colour would reveal the dreaded racial truth. I imagine there’s plenty of spiteful, behind-the-scenes chatter about whether this “touch of the tarbrush” will taint Meghan and Harry’s offspring. Perhaps the “blackamoor” brooch that Princess Michael of Kent was photographed wearing on her way to a royal event with Harry and Meghan was meant to signify such a dread: Meghan as the black ewe tupped by a white ram, who will produce a shamefully black offspring. And surely the Daily Mail was gesturing towards this when it ran a story about the ostensibly tawdry origins of Markle and her mother, titled: “Harry’s girl is (almost) straight outta Compton: Gang-scarred home of her mother revealed – so will he be dropping by for tea?” Doria Ragland was cast as “a dreadlocked African American lady from the wrong side of the tracks”. One whose career as a yoga instructor and social worker suddenly made her the equivalent of the mulatta’s disreputable mother, who gathers roots and practises hoodoo. Early rumours had it that Ragland would walk her daughter down the aisle (with her usual dreads, I hoped). Now it’s reported that Markle’s father will, or that they will share the duty. I vote for Ragland alone. Still, to watch a divorced, interracial couple walk the royal red carpet has its own rewards when, once upon a time just 51 years ago, US law forbade their marriage. Like any black and biracial woman, she has had a lifetime of learning to both confront and navigate codes In 2015 Markle wrote an essay for Elle in which she quite eloquently established that she is both biracial and black. She started with the blunt racial slurs of her childhood, which turned, as she grew, into the patronising queries and assumptions favoured by adults who think themselves liberal. A perfect example was the teacher who told her to fill in “white” on a census because “that’s how you look, Meghan”. Intended as a compliment, no doubt. In the essay, she also discussed the institutional racism exposed by the police shootings in Ferguson and Baltimore. She recalled the flurry of racist tweets set off when Wendell Pierce was cast as her African American father on Suits: “Ew, she’s black? I used to think she was hot.” Then, having described both her struggles with, and her pride in, being biracial, she ended the essay with a tribute to her black ancestry. “You create the identity you want for yourself, just as my ancestors did when they were given their freedom. Because in 1865 (which is so shatteringly recent), when slavery was abolished in the United States, former slaves had to choose a name. A surname, to be exact. Perhaps the closest thing to connecting me to my ever-complex family tree, my longing to know where I come from, and the commonality that links me to my bloodline, is the choice that my great-great-great grandfather made to start anew. He chose the last name Wisdom. He drew his own box.” Excellently done, I thought. She’s refusing to let white readers white out her black identity. When it comes to issues of race, gender, sexuality and class, how much can Meghan Markle say and do? How much does she want to say and do? We simply don’t know yet. Like any black and biracial woman, she has had a lifetime of learning to both confront and dextrously navigate codes that range from the puzzling to the vehemently punitive. Like every actress she’s had to confront misogyny. But she has options that previous generations did not. The speech she gave at the 2015 UN women’s conference began in rousing, declamatory mode: “I am proud to be a woman and a feminist”; moved to personal narrative (this part grounded in the story of how she organised her campaign against that sexist television ad at age 11); then built up to inspirational political exhortation. “It is said that girls with dreams become women with vision. May we empower each other to carry out this vision, because it isn’t enough to simply talk about equality, one must believe in it, and it isn’t enough to believe in it, one must work for it.” May the work recommence once the £32m wedding is done. • On Michael Jackson by Margo Jefferson is published by Granta.

Stephen Colbert hosted a politically charged 69th Emmy Awards, which included big wins for "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Veep" and featured a surprise guest appearance from former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. (Published Monday, Sept. 18, 2017) The 2017 Emmys belonged to "The Handmaid's Tale." Alexis Bledel won the Outstanding Guest Actress award last week at the Creative Arts Emmys, and Sunday proved to be just as fruitful for her co-stars Ann Dowd and Elisabeth Moss, who won the awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, respectively. The acclaimed Hulu series, which began streaming on Hulu in May, received eight awards from 13 nominations, including Outstanding Drama Series. After the show, E! News' Zuri Hall caught up with the cast and crew backstage, where Moss (modeling a a Prabal Gurung dress) confessed she "blacked out" after beating the likes of Viola Davis ("How to Get Away With Murder"), Claire Foy ("The Crown"), Keri Russell ("The Americans"), Evan Rachel Wood ("Westworld") and Robin Wright ("House of Cards"). "I really did. I don't really remember much of it. I've never experienced them actually calling my name, so it was a very strange feeling," said Moss, who received five nominations between 2009 and 2015 for her work on "Mad Men." Finally winning was an "incredible" feeling, she added. "It's like an out of body experience — and then you immediately try to remember everybody you have to thank." Emmy Awards 2017 Winners Fellow Emmy winner Donald Glover had the exact same reaction to his Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series as Moss did when she won. "I blacked out," he told Hall as well. "I was not ready for that." At the end of her acceptance speech, Moss thanked her mom, calling her a "f---ing badass." Since CBS censored her, is there anything else she wanted to say? "No," she said. "I crushed it!" Moss then handed one of the two Emmys in her hands to Bledel, who called her own recognition at last week's ceremony "amazing" and "so exciting." More than anything, the actress said, "I'm just so proud to get to do this work. To have an Emmy...I just can't believe it." © Copyright E! Online

(CNN) Blac Chyna was granted a temporary restraining order barring Rob Kardashian from coming near her or posting about her online. The reality star appeared in court Monday morning with her attorneys as she sought to stop what she alleges is cyber-bullying by Kardashian. Kardashian posted personal information last week about his relationship with Chyna on his Instagram account, including sexually explicit images of his former fiancée whom he accused of cheating on him and using him for his fortune. Outside of court, Chyna's attorney Lisa Bloom said they were granted everything they sought in their petition. "As we have said all along, revenge porn is a form of domestic abuse," Bloom said. "It is also a crime in California and 38 other states." Attorney Robert Shapiro represented Kardashian, who did not appear in court. Shapiro said his client stipulated to the restraining order and agreed to follow all the conditions. The attorney said Kardashian's concern now "is the health and welfare of the baby and both parents are going to work toward that goal." "I, personally, on Mr. Kardahsian's behalf apologized and offered our regrets as to what happened in the past couple of days," Shapiro said. "Now we move forward to do one thing and one thing only, what ever is in the best interest of the child." Chyna echoed that sentiment in a brief statement she made after the hearing. "I'm just going to get back to co-parenting Dream," she said. In the petition, Chyna, whose legal name is Angela White, alleged that Kardashian swore at her in front of her 4-year-old son, King, and got angered when she attempted to call King's father during an argument back in April. "Rob immediately grabbed my phone and pushed me to the ground by aggressively shoving me by the side of my arm and hitting me on the side," the declaration read. "I fell down from the blow to my side. I was sore and it hurt to walk." The next hearing in the case has been set for August 8. Earlier the model and entrepreneur appeared on "Good Morning America" with Bloom in an interview which aired Monday morning before the hearing. Chyna told "GMA" she was "devastated" by Kardashian's actions. "Like, this is a person I trusted," she said. "I just felt...betrayed." She denied claims she engaged with the photos by liking some of the images her ex posted, saying she has Kardashian blocked on Instagram. She said she decided to pursue legal action after speaking with her former love with whom she shares an eight-month-old daughter, Dream. "The moral of the story is he doesn't respect me," said Chyna, whose real name is Angela White. "If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law." Bloom said on Friday she had filed for a temporary restraining order against Kardashian on behalf of her client. California has laws regarding "revenge porn" in which a person can be charged for publicly releasing unauthorized nude images of another person to cause them emotional distress. The former couple has had a tumultuous relationship that's been documented on both social media and their E! reality series "Rob & Chyna." Things were also complicated by the fact Chyna shares a son with rapper Tyga, who left her to begin dating Kardashian's younger sister, Kylie Jenner. On Monday's "GMA" appearance, Bloom defended Chyna against those who say the reality star already exposes a great deal of herself in her own social media postings. "Any explicit photos that she may have chosen to post in the past that's her choice," Bloom said. "This is like saying that a woman can't be raped if she previously chose to have sex with someone. It's her body, it's her choice,each and every time." Chyna said she and Kardashian split in December and there is absolutely no hope of a reconciliation. She said she has not heard from any of his family members since Kardashian's social media postings last Wednesday. Chyna addressed speculation that she got pregnant as a revenge ploy against the Kardashians or to get money out of the reality mogul family, Chyna denied it. "I was already Blac Chyna before the Kardsahians," she said.

Margot Tenenbaum, now 21 weeks pregnant. (Photograph by Katherine Wolkoff) Manhattan, of course, has long been proudly gaunt, inhabited as it is by legions of celebrities, socialites, fashionistas, and those who would be them (remember Edith Wharton’s ethereal creatures, Lily Bart of the “long, light step” and the “slender pink nails”? Slender nails?). Only in the past few years, however, have the “bump,” the “basketball,” and the “belly on two sticks” entered the local lexicon. Blooming stars now strut the red carpet at the Oscars and pregnant supermodels flaunt their exposed bellies, while Us Weekly, People, and the Star intrepidly report on who has stayed admirably attenuated (Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker) and who has not (Debra Messing, Kate Hudson). In late spring, the hot gossip swirled around paparazzi shots of Paltrow emerging smilingly (triumphantly?) svelte from a London hospital. The conspiracy theory was that she hid out in the hospital for a few weeks after giving birth—there’s just no way she could’ve lost so much weight so quickly. The pregnant-celeb watch is about to reach a new peak this fall, as Julia Roberts waddles—she’s having twins; she can’t help it—toward a January due date. Toss into this roiling mix the Atkins and South Beach diets—the latest devotionals in New York’s Church of Divine Diminishment—and you’ve got a freshly minted group neurosis. You’ve also got an unnerving question: Are women starving their babies by starving themselves? W ay back when, in the late fifties, a woman as tortured as Sylvia Plath could be at her sunniest when she was “cow-heavy and floral.” Today, the prevailing attitude toward the extra flesh of maternity verges on disgust. A sampling of what women tell me they do not want to be while pregnant: “a fat slob,” “a huge blob,” “sloppy,” “horrible like Kate Hudson,” “fucking gross.” Tenenbaum’s language is less harsh (“mushy” is her preferred pejorative), but she has the same fear of becoming almost offensive, of not measuring up. She keeps worrying, she says, about an upcoming vacation with her husband’s family. There’s no way she wants to expose her girth in a bathing suit, but then she wonders if they’ll think she’s “ashamed” of her body if she swims in shorts and a shirt. “And maybe I am ashamed,” she says. Berger sympathizes. “The last time I got weighed [at the OB’s], I was really pleased the nurse just wrote the number in my chart and didn’t say it out loud, because it was so . . . If you knew how much I weighed, you’d be like, ‘Oh, my God!’ ” In conversations with several dozen more pregnant women and new mothers, I was repeatedly struck by how fixated they are on the new pregnancy ideal, how much they lap up the praise if they “achieve” it, how anxious they are if they don’t. It’s a jungle out there, and only the scrawniest survive. Beth Dorfman, a second-trimester periodontist, was so concerned about blowing up, and about eating healthy in general, that she consulted nutritionist Tanya Zuckerbrot early in her pregnancy (Zuckerbrot says she’s seen a significant increase in the number of women who come to her for weight-related reasons). “I remember shopping with my mother and I thought, ‘These random people walking past me on the street, I wonder if they think “Hmm, that girl might be pregnant,” or “That girl might just have eaten seventeen cupcakes an hour ago,” ’ ” Dorfman says. Zuckerbrot advised Dorfman to eat more protein and fiber (pregnant women can go Atkins, by the way, as long as they eat some carbs) and turned her onto the miracle that is Scandinavian fiber crisps. “They’re like sixteen calories a cracker,” Dorfman says. “They’re not the tastiest—a nice bagel or bread would taste better—but they satisfy some of the craving and fill me up.” Dorfman promptly began eating three of the Scandinavian crisps topped with peanut butter and jelly for breakfast. Even her peanut butter is diet, she says. “It’s not Skippy Reduced Fat; it’s even lower fat than that, like 2.5 grams per serving.” All the calorie counting is a necessary evil, says Dorfman. “When you’re pregnant, you’re only supposed to eat 300 more calories per day,” she says, citing a common recommendation. “That’s not much. One of those Dannon Light ’n Fit yogurts, that’s 100 calories right there.” When it comes to exercise, so many women rhapsodized to me about spotting a sublimely trim pregnant woman exercising her butt off at the local Equinox that I began to wonder whether clever health-club marketers were fitting trainers with fat pads. Meredith Paley, a vice-president at Kenneth Cole whose daughter, Ava, was born in July, is one of those who attracted gawkers. Her pregnancy-workout schedule: spinning on Tuesdays, body sculpting Wednesdays, one or two other random gym visits a week, and five-mile Central Park runs on Wednesdays, Fridays, and both weekend days. Because Paley knows that doctors recommend that pregnant women keep their heart rates under 140 beats per minute (to keep sufficient oxygen flowing to the baby), she says she always wore a monitor and walked when the number got close. A serious runner, Paley volunteers several times that intense exercise is natural for her, what makes her feel good. Still, she says, “I’m the first to admit that I didn’t see pregnancy as an excuse to sit on my ass and let the pounds come.” One maternity researcher says she finds her subjects’ weight-restrictive behaviors unnerving. “The pregnancy and delivery is all about them. If you can’t invest in your baby by gaining weight, I think it’s a harbinger for lack of investment in the child.” Dorfman, also an avid exerciser, is frustrated by the heart-rate cutoff. “If the doctor says 140, I want to go to 137—that’s just the type of person I am. I’m not going to jeopardize the health of my child, but I’m on the treadmill like, God, I’m not even sweating. I feel like it’s not doing anything.” This kind of superfit patient has become increasingly common, says Upper East Side obstetrician Shari Brasner, during the ten years she’s been in practice. She mentions a third-trimester patient who blew by her running in the park recently (“It was unbelievable”), and one who, after developing a painful nerve cluster in her foot, cut a hole in her sneaker rather than step off the treadmill. The doctor says it’s not hard to spot which patients are tormented by their expansion: “They take ten minutes to remove every last bit of clothing, down to the rubber band on their ponytail, before getting on the scale.” Julie Tupler disavows the idea that women should be skinny or diet during pregnancy, but there’s no denying that her classes attract those who are serious about flab. “You’re not supposed to gain ten pounds in the first trimester,” says Patty Surak, who was eight months along, “but I did.” On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Surak and five other very pregnant women were assembled for a Tupler session, outfitted in oversize T-shirts and black exercise pants. One staple of Tupler’s class is a sort of pregnancy-safe sit-up. The group’s homework is 500 a day. “What’s the magic word for next week?” Tupler asked. “One thousand,” the group replied in unison. “You can start doing these again right after the placenta comes out,” Tupler said. “I had one student who even did it before!” A s is probably obvious by now, it’s not just how much weight women gain but where they gain it. Like Dante’s levels of hell, there’s a hierarchy of bad to worse. Level 1: All extra adipose tissue is smartly confined to the stomach. (“That’s the baby’s body, not yours,” says mother and academic body watcher Susan Bordo, author of the recently rereleased Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body.) Level 2: Your breasts get big, too, but nothing else. (“I know a lot of women who get pregnant who are very flat-chested, and it’s like heaven to them,” says Tenenbaum, who’s already well endowed and hasn’t felt the thrill, though her husband apparently can’t get enough: “He’s like, ‘Your boobs! They’re so big! It’s great!’ ”) Level 3: Your butt and thighs puff up, or become “rumply” (one UrbanBaby mother’s lament). And finally, Level 4: Your face and ankles swell, a fate that befell 34-year-old publicist Katie Pottinger. “My entire body widened. My face, I wouldn’t even say it was puffy; I mean, it really blew out. There was a thickening,” she says, “that happened all over.” The skinny-pregnancy set also lives to be told they’re having a boy. Under the old anti-feminist canard straight out of Grimm’s, girls “steal” their mother’s looks. “I was like a preening peacock when people told me ‘You must be having a boy,’ ” says Kate Walsh, an associate editor for Metropolitan Home and the new mother of a very female Evelyn. Diana Becker, a soft-spoken 28-year-old legal secretary, got the other end of the deal: “You must be having a girl,” a neighbor lady informed her. “Why?” Becker naïvely asked. “Because people get fat all over when it’s a girl.”

The heart wants what it wants — and Selena Gomez's heart just wants her puppy back! It's been almost two months since she split from her ex-boyfriend The Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) and even though they've both moved on, there's one major thing that the former couple is still fighting about — the dog that they adopted while they were still together! Sources exclusively reveal to Life & Style that Sel thinks she should keep their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel pup, Charlie, "and so does Abel.” “Selena is angry,” says the source, “because she feels like it was more of a gift from Abel to her than a mutually adopted pet, so she’s determined to keep it.” Selena Gomez gave her dog Charlie a kiss while on set of her untitled film project. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Back in September — just one month before their split — Selena, 25, and Abel, 27, were spotted together at an NYC pet shop and they seemed to have picked out the puppy together. It also seemed like they shared custody of the pup even though Selena is the only one who had been spotted with Charlie in public. But it seems like Abel has grown attached to Charlie too, and he shared photos of the adorable dog on his Instagram story before their split. Selena got Charlie just days after she announced that she had spent the summer recovering from a kidney transplant as a result of her battle with lupus, so it seems like Charlie helped her get through that health scare. But now that she's feeling better, Sel is getting back to work on an untitled project with controversial filmmaker Woody Allen and that's why Abel thinks he should be the one to have custody of Charlie. “He thinks Selena won’t be able to take care of Charlie as well as he will because of her schedule,” the source says, adding that Selena isn’t listening — and she won't give up Charlie without a fight. “She is in love with her puppy.” For more on your favorite celebrities, pick up the new issue of Life & Style on stands now! More from Life & Style Selena Gomez Says She's Back With Justin Bieber Because "I Cherish People Who Impacted My Life" The Weeknd Wants to Get Back Together With Bella Hadid Selena Gomez Honors BFF Francia Raisa in Emotional 'Woman of the Year' Speech

Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani remain more than cool. They’re great! http://www.eonline.com/news/921998/blake-shelton-reminds-fans-that-gwen-stefani-is-the-greatest

Jada Pinkett Smith broke the news that, before a recent reconciliation, she and Gabrielle Union had been feuding for nearly two decades. Two decades. That’s the length of some actors’ entire careers, yet the public was none the wiser. The two actresses deserve some kind of award just for outwardly keeping the peace. Pinkett Smith revealed the news to Extra while promoting her upcoming Facebook Watch talk show, which Union will eventually appear on. “I have a really touching episode with Gabrielle Union,” she told Extra. “We haven’t really been on the best of terms for 17 years, and we have a reconciliation. They were like, ‘We wanna do a girlfriends show,’ and I was like, ‘Well . . . .’ Her name just kept coming up. It just couldn’t be anything else. So we brought it to the table.” 17 is a very specific number, not rounded up or down. It’s a number a person can rattle off because they’ve kept the books up to date, and because something happened. That would mean that whatever went down did so in those halcyon days of 2001. This was post-Bring It On Gabrielle Union, and pre-The Matrix Reloaded Jada Pinkett Smith—around the time of Two Can Play That Game and Ali, respectively. What could have possibly happened? They were never on a set together as far as IMDb is concerned, though Union starred alongside Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith, in Bad Boys II, in 2003. The only picture that exists on the newswires where the actresses appear in the same frame is from February 2016, at the 47th NAACP Image Awards, and they have three women—Taraji P. Henson, Loretta Devine, and Tika Sumpter—between them. Was it a skirmish over the alarmingly few roles for black women in Hollywood? Or something more personal than professional? Pinkett Smith says neither of them can remember why it started. (Vanity Fair has reached out to Union for comment.) The show airs Monday, May 7, and co-stars Pinkett Smith’s mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris and her daughter Willow Smith. I suppose we’ll all just have to watch for more clues. Update (Monday, May 7 at 10:50 a.m.): Union stopped by the Today show on Monday and told host Hoda Kotb that indeed the “feud” is over. “Jada nor I ever used the word feud, so it just became more of a media creation,” she said. “Kind of like back in the day, neither one of us actually knows what originally took place back then. But the people we had around us were like ‘well you know how she feels about you’ and they were like, ‘well you know how she feels about you.’ And then it was like ‘girl bye’ for 17 years. Even though we’re both very outspoken women, both activists, our husbands are friends, I worked with her husband, we both had too much pride and too much insecurities to just say, ‘Hey, did that ever actually happen or was that just a creation of someone who didn’t want to see two women rise together?’”

Creator Nic Pizzolatto is taking his anthology series to the Ozarks for Season 3. Stephen Dorff (Somewhere, Immortals) is set to play Arkansas State Investigator Roland West, joining Oscar winner Mahershala Ali and actor Carmen Ejogo (Selma, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them). Ali and Dorff will play partner detectives on the case of a macabre crime that spans three decades. Ejogo will play a schoolteacher named Amelia Reardon, who is connected to two missing children. Pizzolatto has scripted the episodes for Season 3, co-writing Episode 4 with David Milch. The new season will mark Pizzolatto?s directorial debut; Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) will also direct. Pizzolatto and Saulnier will executive produce along with Scott Stephens, Season 1?s Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, as well as Cary Joji Fukunaga, Steve Golin, Bard Dorros and Richard Brown.

Denzel’s recent comments about the “Orwellian Police State” is so very apparent, given the FBI, DNC, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama scandal inside the administration’s treasonous activity in having the Clinton Foundation pay for a fake dossier, made by Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, which they hoped would create false allegations which would concede Donald Trump’s Presidential victory. This fake dossier was then passed to James Comey at the FBI, who then issued FISA warrants to surveillance Donald Trump at the Trump Tower prior to the election, which later sparked Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel to investigate any Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential Election. This, in a nutshell, exposes the spying and the treason that the DNC committed under the Obama administration to try to prevent Trump from succeeding, which is all stated in the Nunes Memo.Denzel affirmed, “If the Democrats had won the election, we never would have found out they were using false documents to get warrants to spy on American citizens and political opponents. We never would have known this. Think about it!”Denzel Washington, who has been nominated for Best Actor for the film ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ (his 8th total Oscar nomination), didn’t pull any punches on the revelations of the released memo, stating: “They would have a tool they would use over and over again to circumvent the will of the people in future elections”.When a reporter then asked Denzel Washington if he felt the memo released by Congress on Friday was “reliable”, he responded, “Hell yeah, it’s reliable. We don’t need to know the nitty gritty to understand exactly what’s happened here”.“We know that a warrant to spy on the Trump team was issued based on media reports, and these media reports were based on information provided by an opposition research firm being paid by the DNC and Hillary Clinton.”“You guys can’t see what is wrong with this? You’re kidding me. Well I guess you are reporters. How many reporters was it that got caught colluding with the Clinton campaign?”Denzel Washington then later called out individual reporters and media outlets for never publishing anything negative about the Democrat Party, and subsequently hiding their scandals from any in-depth news output.Denzel continued, “I grew up a Democrat. I get it. I know a lot of people who hate Trump with a real passion. But you’ve got to understand that we dodged a bullet when Clinton lost. More than one bullet. We avoided the creation of an Orwellian Police State”.We couldn’t agree more, and we thank god for Donald Trump every day, which has been our sentiment all along here at Brainstain. We also wonder why the mainstream news media is now trying to downplay the severity of the memo, as if it didn’t constitute complete treason?The double standards are “oh so” apparent, and it’s good to see somebody high up in celebrity circles like Denzel Washington to be brave enough speak out on these pressing issues, and helping to expose the scandals of the Democrat Party.

It took Kelly Ripa more than a year to find the right co-host for Live after Michael Strahan unexpectedly left for Good Morning America. Now, her incredible chemistry with Strahan’s replacement, Ryan Seacrest, is undeniable, but in the midst of the sexual misconduct allegations against him, Ripa is feeling betrayed and torn about standing beside him. Could these skeletons in Seacrest’s closet force Ripa to leave the popular morning show? According to Life & Style, in the era of the #MeToo and #Time’sUp movements every business is playing it safe, and that means things could change at Live, especially if ratings start to drop and big names start to avoid the show. “[Kelly’s] waiting to see what happens with Ryan. But [either way] this is a dark period for her,” reveals an insider. “She’s pissed…Kelly feels blindsided. The last thing she needs is celebrities boycotting. Everyone is on pins and needles.” At this point, Ripa and Seacrest are still interviewing A-listers on the show, but that wasn’t the case when he was on the Oscar red carpet earlier this month. While hosting the E! Live from the Red Carpet Oscar special, Seacrest obviously had a slow night after publicists decided to steer their clients away from him because of the sexual misconduct claims. This resulted in a 43 percent drop in ratings in key demographics compared to 2017, plus a 35 percent drop in overall number of viewers. Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, did walk by and acknowledge Seacrest by telling him he looked amazing and was doing a great job, but that doesn’t mean she still isn’t conflicted about the allegations. She does want to side with her co-host, but no one thought he had any skeletons in the closet, and everyone is asking if he knew this was going to come out. Ripa did seemingly take a dig at Seacrest on the show late last month when she asked him if he wanted her to put his shoes back on after they talked about having a treadmill day on the show. It seemed to be a reference to the allegations against Seacrest that included him pushing his accuser’s head towards his crotch while she tied his shoes. But, the next day, Ripa told audiences that she fully supported her co-host, saying that she adores him, and it is a privilege to work with him, and those words led Seacrest to tears. Oscar emcee Jimmy Kimmel also had no problem talking with Seacrest and avoiding jumping to any conclusions about the allegations. He said that we should afford people the opportunity for truth and find out the facts before hanging someone out to dry. Advertisement Live with Kelly and Ryan, starring Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, airs weekday mornings in syndication around the country.