Jelly Rollis sharing details of his health transformation as he prepares to kick off his nationwide tour in August.
The 39-year-old singer told People magazine he has lost around 70 pounds and hopes to lose another 100 pounds by eating well and exercising.
“I’m doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week. I’m doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day. I’m eating healthy right now,” Jelly Roll told People. “I feel really good.”
He continued, “I was thinking, I plan on losing another 100, 100-and-something [pounds]. If I feel this good down this weight, man, I can only imagine what I’m going to feel like by the time I go on tour.”
The singer has spoken out about his weight before, describing in the ABC News Studios-produced documentaryJelly Roll: Save Me that he was told he was “too fat” to succeed in music.
“They say we were too fat to be in the music business, my voice wasn’t cool enough — these were all mountains that we had to conquer,” Jelly Roll said in the documentary.
After overcoming additional obstacles including addiction, incarceration and mental health struggles, Jelly Roll is now a country music superstar.
Earlier this month, he took home three awards at the 2024 CMT Music Awards, including CMT Performance of the Year, Video of the Year and Male Video of the Year, the latter of which he also won the previous year.
Jelly Roll’s “Beautifully Broken” tour kicks off Aug. 27 in Salt Lake City and ends Oct. 27 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tickets are available now at jellyroll615.com.
The Beatles and Disney+ appear to be teasing another project.
A post shared on The Beatles’ Instagram features four white boxes, spaced out in similar fashion to the cover of the band’s 1970 album, Let It Be. On top of the boxes are the words “At Last…,” with The Beatles and Disney+ logos at the bottom.
The post’s caption reads, “There will be an answer,” another Beatles reference, this time to the song “Let it Be.”
While there’s no other information provided in the post, some fans have offered up guesses as to what’s being teased, with more than one thinking it may mean a reissue of the 1970 Let It Be documentary.
“Is this the Let It Be movie?” one person commented, with another adding, “Please tell me it’s the original movie PLEASE ????”
Whatever it is, it will be the second big collaboration between The Beatles and Disney+. In 2021, the streaming service debuted the docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, which was directed by Peter Jackson and used footage from the original Let It Be documentary. The series went on to win five Primetime Emmys.
Kings of Leon‘s Jared Followill could really “Use Somebody” to get a wasp out of his house.
In an Instagram post, the bassist has shared a video of him checking out a window when the stinging insect flew by. He then lets out a particularly loud shriek as his daughter runs over to see what’s wrong.
“You can do all the manly things in the world,” Followill writes in the caption. “But when a wasp touches your face and you scream like this in front of your family, it all goes out the window.”
He adds, “I have a lot of work to do to regain their respect as the man of the house.”
Kings of Leon will release a new album, Can We Please Have Fun, on May 10. They’ll launch a U.S. tour in August.
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez was given the maximum sentence Monday of 18 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Gutierrez’s attorneys asked for probation in a sentencing memorandum filed last week, citing her “complete lack of prior criminal history” and “relative youth.” Prosecutors, meanwhile, requested a sentence of 18 months with the designation of serious violent offender due to her “extreme recklessness” while working as an armorer on the Rust set in New Mexico.
“You alone turned a safe weapon into a lethal weapon,” Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer said. “But for you, Ms. Hutchins would be alive. A husband would have his partner, and a little boy would have his mother.”
Gutierrez said to the court, “My heart aches for the Hutchins family and friends and colleagues, as well.”
“Your honor, when I took on Rust I was young and I was naive. But I took my job as seriously as I knew how to, despite not having proper time, resources and staffing, I just did my best to handle it,” she said. “Today I humbly ask you to consider probation. … I beg you, please don’t give me more time.”
Gutierrez, dressed in tan jail clothes, watched on as Hutchins’ friends addressed the court before the sentence was imposed.
Hutchins’ friend Jen White told the court, “I still expect to see her. I still wonder what adventures she’s on … then my heart drops through my feet.”
“Halyna was a force,” White said.
“She inspired me. And I don’t think she knew that because I never got to tell her. She was one of my favorite people in the world,” White said, as Gutierrez wiped away tears.
White said if Gutierrez “had properly done her job, Halyna would still be alive.” She addressed the judge, “I beg you to impose the maximum sentence. She needs to be held accountable.”
Jewel is giving fans the behind-the-scenes scoop about how her surprise appearance at Olivia Rodrigo’s Madison Square Garden concert on April 9 came about.
The two singers teamed up for a performance of Jewel’s hit song “You Were Meant For Me,” and in a video posted to Instagram, Jewel told her fans the collaboration happened after Olivia’s people reached out to her.
“And I was excited because I was a fan of Olivia. I’ve been watching her career,” Jewel shared. “I became aware of her I think during ‘Drivers License.’ I liked her ’90s aesthetic. It’s a little edgy but very approachable — and she’s writing. She’s writing these songs, and I love them. So I was excited to go out, I was excited to meet her.”
Jewel went on to talk about how “toxic” the music industry can be and how well Olivia seems to be navigating it.
“This industry is like interacting with a poison. You have to have a plan. People will care if you’re famous, people will care if you’re making money … but nobody cares if you’re a good person. Nobody cares if you’re happy,” she says, before adding that Olivia’s “a good person. She’s grounded and she’s heartfelt.”
Jewel said that she’s proud of Olivia for her career, but also for her humanity, noting, “Where this industry just chews people up and spits ’em out I feel like she has such a shot as a human and that just made me happy.”
Luke Combs may have party songs like “Beer Never Broke My Heart,” but he’s never one to shy from heartfelt numbers.
The country star took to Instagram recently to share an acoustic preview of an unreleased track, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.”
The heartrending ode chronicles a young boy’s plea for his dad to take him to a ballgame and spend quality time together. As the story unfolds, listeners learn that the kid’s parents are divorced, and the boy pines for his parents’ reconciliation.
“Take me out to the ball game/ Pick me up at the house/ What’s this every other weekend thing even all about?/ ‘Cause mama said she loves you, and in some ways always will/ I guess maybe things are different now, but daddy can’t you still?/ Take me out to the ball game,” Luke sings in the video while playing his acoustic guitar in a stadium.
You can watch the full clip now on Luke’s Instagram.
Luke recently kicked off his Growin’ Up and Gettin’ Old Tour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with upcoming stadium shows in Buffalo, New York; Jacksonville, Florida; and San Antonio, Texas. Tickets are available now at lukecombs.com.
(WASHINGTON) — NASA announced Monday it is revising plans for its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission due to the estimated cost and long wait time for samples to return to Earth.
The mission’s goal was to collect samples of rock, soil, atmosphere and loose surface material and deliver them back to Earth via the Mars Perseverance rover. The rover, which landed in 2021, has been collecting and storing samples in specially designed tubes. The mission was a joint effort with the European Space Agency.
During a press conference, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said although the federal space agency is “committed” to retrieving the samples, independent reviews have estimated the project would cost between $8 billion and $11 billion and samples may not return until 2040.
“That is unacceptable to wait that long,” Nelson said. “It’s the decade of the 2040s that we’re going to be landing astronauts on Mars … the long and short of it then is that the current budget environment doesn’t allow us to pursue an $11 billion architecture and 2040 is too long.”
To make the mission work, NASA is requesting assistance from the NASA community, including the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), to create a new, updated mission design that “has reduced complexity, improve resiliency and risk posture, and well as well as strong accountability and coordination,” Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said during the press conference.
Nelson said he is asking NASA centers and JPL to report back in the fall for alternate plans to make the mission quicker and cheaper to carry out.
The sample retrieval orbiter was scheduled to launch in 2027 and the lander in 2028, the latter carrying a NASA-led Mars rocket and small Mars helicopters. It was scheduled to land in 2030 and Perseverance would bring the samples to the lander, attached to the lightweight rocket.
Next, the rocket — carrying the samples — would launch to meet the orbiter, the first to do so from another planet. Lastly, the orbiter would carry the samples the rest of the way to Earth, with plans to originally return in 2033, according to NASA.
The helicopters would be used as backups in case Perseverance is not able to bring the sample tubes to the lander or in case sample tubes are accidentally left on the Mars surface.
“Collecting compelling science samples that will help scientists understand the geological history of Mars, the evolution of its climate, and prepare for future human explorers,” NASA wrote. “The return of the samples will also help NASA’s search for signs of ancient life.”
Despite the schedule set by NASA, the future of the mission has been in question after an independent review board reviewed the federal space agency’s plans and goals for the MSR mission and presented a report in September 2023.
In the report, the mission was described as having “[an] unrealistic budget and schedule expectations from the beginning.”
The authors of the report said the program would cost between $8 billion and $11 billion and that “technical issues, risks, and performance-to-date indicate a near zero probability” of the estimated launch dates. The report found the 2027/2028 date was more likely to occur in 2033, delaying the mission by a few years. Additionally, the Decadal Survey, conducted by the National Research Council said samples were unlikely to return until the 2040s.
“Independent review boards like the one we commissioned for Mars Sample Return help review whether we’re on the right track to meet our mission goals within the appropriate budget,” Sandra Connelly, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in a statement after the report’s release. “We thank the board for its work, and now our job is to assess the report and address if there are elements of the program that need to change.”
Past missions to Mars have confirmed that certain areas of the planet were capable of supporting life in the past, according to NASA. Evidence indicates parts of Mars were warm and wet about three billion years ago, which would be around the same time early life was developing on Earth.
“This commonality raises the prospect that discoveries on Mars can give us important insights about the origin and evolution of life on Earth,” NASA stated.
Deadpool vs. Wolverine doesn’t come out until July 26, but even back in December, Fandango users voted it as their most anticipated movie of 2024.
Rumblings about the movie’s showcase at last week’s CinemaCon only added fuel to the fire, and there, its director, Shawn Levy, weighed in to Screen Rant about what the film is — and what it’s not.
“It’s the third Deadpool movie, but it’s not Deadpool 3,” says the veteran of Free Guy. “It’s a different thing that’s very much Deadpool and Wolverine,” he explains, “and it’s not trying to copycat anything from the first two movies. They were awesome, but this is a two-hander character adventure.”
A “two-hander” is Hollywood-speak for what most people know as a “buddy movie,” like ’80s classics Lethal Weapon or 48 Hours, the latter of which Levy has previously compared to his new movie. Instead of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, however, he has Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman.
Levy explains, “I just felt privileged every day because you’re talking about two massive movie stars in their most iconic roles.”
The filmmaker adds of the R-rated film — a Marvel Studios first — “I’ll tell you that the guiding thought in crafting the movie was audience joy. That was always the North Star. Yeah, it’s going to be gnarly. Yeah, it’s gonna be funny. That’s a given. But we wanted to build a great time at the theater for audiences, and that’s our goal.”
Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
Bob Marley‘s legacy will live on in a big way this year.
The Marley Brothers — Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian Marley — have announced a 22-date tour, a reunion run for the children of Bob Marley.
The Marley Brothers: The Legacy Tour will kick off on Sept. 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and span a full month before ending on Oct. 5 in Miami, according to a release from Live Nation announcing the tour.
The tour will feature individual hits from Bob Marley’s children as well as his classics, according to Live Nation. Combined, Marley’s children account for several Grammys individually, including Julian Marley’s Best Reggae Album win at the 2024 ceremony.
Several of Bob Marley’s children were members of a group called Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, founded in 1979, which saw several years of success before the children forged their own solo careers.
The tour will precede what would have been Bob Marley’s 80th birthday in 2025, celebrating the reggae innovator and his global success spreading messages of unity and peace. The tour will mark the brothers’ first time playing together in two decades.
The presale will start on Tuesday, with the general sale occurring Friday, April 19, on MarleyBrothers.com.
The release also noted that Bob Marley: One Love, a biographical drama chronicling Marley’s life, will start expanded screenings on Saturday, April 20.
Russell Dickerson is gearing up to bring country music across the pond.
The “Every Little Thing” singer will head out on his Good Day To Have A Great Tour in August for shows in the U.K., Northern Ireland and the Netherlands.
The trek kicks off August 23 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, before hitting the U.K. and concluding in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 1.
“I’m so excited to see the RD Fam across the world!” Russell says in a press release. “I’ve had the best time playing in the UK in the past so to be able to return and play in the UK, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands is honestly a dream come true.”
“Can’t wait to see everybody – we are going to have many great days on the road this summer!” he adds.
Tickets go on sale Friday, April 19, at 9 a.m. local time at Russell’s website.
In the meantime, while you wait, you can presave Russell’s new song, “Good Day to Have a Great Day,” arriving May 3.
