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Considering her net worth is something like $190 million, you wouldn’t think Adele would have to shop at an outlet mall, but apparently she likes a bargain just as much as everyone else.

Page Six reports that it’s been told Adele was seen shopping at the Prada store at an outlet mall near San Bernadino, CA called Cabazon Outlets, and that she was with British rapper Skepta, with whom she’s been linked romantically.  A spy told Page Six that they clocked Skepta because he was British and reportedly had the same tattoos that Skepta has.

“She was sitting watching him while he was picking sweaters, pants, trying on jackets and coats and having the employees help him,” the spy says of Adele and Skepta. “She was giving him feedback and saying what she thought he looked great in.”

“It was cute that she was just waiting and being a normal girlfriend while he looked,” the spy added. “He must have shopped for 45 minutes.”  Adele also played with another customer’s puppy, notes the spy.

Page Six speculates that the two were at the outlet because it’s near celebrity hangout Palm Springs, and it was around the time of the Fourth of July holiday.

In other Adele news, she’s posted a photo of herself rocking an England soccer jersey, praising her home country’s team even though they lost to Italy in the Euro championship.  Noting that the final match took place at London’s Wembley stadium, she wrote, “You did us so proud! You brought our game home and brought us all together.”

 

 

 

 

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Fans on social media believe rapper G Herbo is in hot water with his girlfriend, Taina Williams, after being spotted at his ex-girlfriend’s party this weekend.

Herbo and Williams welcomed their baby boy, Essex, in May, but according to The Shade Room, the couple no longer follow each other on Instagram. Williams jumped into the comments to share a few laughing emojis and let everyone know she temporarily blocked Herbo.

“…That’s still my man he just blocked. Nothing to see here,” she wrote, along with a heart-eyes emoji.

It’s unclear what exactly prompted Taina to block G Herbo, though many believe it had to do with G Herbo attending his ex Ari Fletcher‘s birthday party on Saturday. Fletcher and Herbo co-parent their three-year-old son, Yoshon.

Hopefully, things are OK between G Herbo and Taina.  Twitter, however, seems to be having a field day going over the timeline of when Ari and G Herbo broke up in 2018 to when he began publicly dating Taina in January 2019.

“Y’all surprised about G Herbo being at Ari’s party last night. Y’all forgot he left Ari for Taina when they had an infant child,” one fan tweeted.

Another said, “Even if y’all think its okay for a [baby daddy] to go to his [baby mama] birthday party, Taina just had a damn baby. If G Herbo leaving her at home with the baby, it should not be for that reason.”

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Volbeat has premiered the video for “Wait a Minute My Girl,” the band’s latest single.

The animated clip is a hectic collage of strange images that definitely wouldn’t have seemed out of place in Sid’s Toy Story room. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

“Wait a Minute My Girl” dropped in June along with another new song, “Dagen Før.” It currently sits in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Volbeat’s most recent album is 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound.

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A stacked lineup of stars are confirmed to perform for the Country Music Association’s newly announced CMA Summer Jam, a two-night outdoor event taking place in downtown Nashville on July 27 and 28.

Performing the first night will be Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, Carly Pearce, Mickey Guyton, Cole Swindell, Dwight Yoakam and Lainey Wilson.

The following night, Jimmie Allen, Gabby Barrett, Luke Combs and Dierks Bentley will take the stage, as will Florida Georgia Line, Brothers Osborne, Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi and Thomas Rhett.

The show will take place at Music City’s Ascend Amphitheater, and it will be filmed as part of a three-hour primetime TV special, which will air later this summer on ABC. More details on that special, including additional performances filmed at other locations in Nashville, will be announced soon.

CMA Summer Jam marks the CMA’s first new outdoor concert event in two years. The COVID-19 pandemic has halted the annual CMA Fest, which usually takes place in June, for both 2020 and 2021.

Tickets for the show go on sale beginning July 14 at 10AM CT, and a portion of the proceeds will benefit the CMA Foundation, which supports music education programs across the country.

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You won’t have to wait until next year to see AJR‘s OK ORCHESTRA tour.

The brother trio has announced a run of live headlining dates for this fall, kicking off September 7 in Madison,  Wisconsin. The trek will precede the previously announced 2022 OK ORCHESTRA tour, set to launch next April.

Tickets to the 2021 shows will go on sale this Friday, July 16, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit AJRBrothers.com.

OK ORCHESTRA, AJR’s fourth studio album, was released in March. It includes the singles “Bang!” and “Way Less Sad.”

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After his 2018 conviction on sexual assault charges was overturned by Pennsylvania’s highest court, Bill Cosby is reportedly considering suing the state of Pennsylvania.

Cosby was sentenced in September 2018 after being convicted of drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand in 2004. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that an agreement with a previous prosecutor in the case meant Cosby shouldn’t have been charged in the case.

The comedian’s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, says the state violated Cosby’s due process rights. He told the Domenick Nati Show Friday, “We are looking at what recourse, what legal recourse we can take against the state of Pennsylvania” and added that he believes the state has “an axe to grind against black men.”

Wyatt stated Cosby is hoping to obtain “a couple of hundred grand” in compensation.

On Sunday, Montgomery County PA District Attorney Kevin Steele issued a statement, obtained by ABC News, which addressed State Supreme Court Chief Justice Max Baer calling Cosby’s trial a “reprehensible bait and switch” by the prosecution, referring to a claim made by Cosby’s legal team that Montgomery County prosecutor Bruce Castor promised not to criminally prosecute Cosby in the Constand case.

“To be very clear, prosecutors in this case did not believe there was an agreement not to prosecute or immunity for the defendant at the time we moved forward on the case, and we do not believe it now,” Steele’s statement reads, in part. “If we had believed there was an agreement or immunity, we would not have moved forward in our attempt to bring Cosby to justice.”

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Justin Bieber had quite a warmup for his 2022 tour this past weekend: He performed three times in 24 hours in Las Vegas, Billboard reports.

Things kicked off Friday night when Justin performed for more than an hour at the Encore Theater at the Wynn Las Vegas, singing 18 songs, including his new collaboration with The Kid LAROI, “Stay” — and LAROI joined him to sing the track.

Then, a few hours later, Billboard reports, Justin appeared at the Wynn’s XS Nightclub and sang five songs, including “Peaches,” “Sorry,” “What Do You Mean” and “Where Are You Now.”

On Saturday night, Justin was back at the Wynn to celebrate the grand opening of the hotel’s new supper club, Delilah. After walking the red carpet with his wife Hailey and other stars, including Kendall Jenner, Anitta, Machine Gun Kelly, Addison Rae and others, took the stage for a midnight set.

Justin sang about six songs for the 500 guests, Billboard reports, including “Holy,” “Hold On,” and “Peaches,” as well as “Stay,” for which he was joined again by The Kid LAROI.

He wrote on Instagram, “Last night was crazy!”

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On this date in 2014, “Somethin’ Bad” — a duet between two of country music’s biggest female artists — became a #1 hit. Neither singer was a stranger to the top spot on the chart, but the song was the first chart-topping duet between two female solo acts in two decades. Do you know who sang it? ANSWER: Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert.

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Ariana Grande and her husband Dalton Gomez apparently went Dutch when it came to their honeymoon: The singer has posted a bunch of photos of a trip to Amsterdam and The Netherlands.

Ari captioned the photos with emojis of a snail and a waffle, both of which are apparently associated with Amsterdam.  The images include videos of a swan and a ladybug, but what gives their location away is that the two are seen posing inside a set of giant wooden shoes. There’s also a beautiful picture of a windmill and a shot of one of Amsterdam’s famous canals. 

The two seem to have taken a boat ride, visited a jazz club and traveled by train while they were there, based on the pictures and some videos on Ari’s Instagram story.  It’s not clear when the honeymoon took place, but Ari is still wearing her signature ponytail. There have been reports recently that she’s switched that out for a bob, but that’s unconfirmed.

Ari and Dalton wed in an intimate ceremony in May after they began dating last year.

 

 

 

 

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