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Sabrina Elba revealed how she and her husband of three years, Idris Elba, successfully maintain a healthy marriage — by looking back at her own love story.

Sabrina told the Just the Sip! podcast that she and Idris met in 2017, with the former Miss Vancouver revealing that they met at “a jazz bar” when she was out celebrating a friend’s birthday.  Sabrina said her friend clocked Idris first and wanted to chat him up, so Sabrina took on “wing man” duties. However, the Luther actor thought Sabrina was hitting on him, not testing the waters for her friend, so he turned on the charm.

“I’m like, ‘Nope, excuse me, that’s wrong! I’m trying to be a good friend,” she laughed, but admitted she was taken by her future husband’s advances.

“We had the best conversation,” she dished. “We talked all night, all the next day. We were inseparable after that.” 

A year later, Idris proposed and they tied the knot in April 2019.

As for the secret of maintaining a strong relationship, said Sabrina, “Me and Idris just get along so well… Our values are connected, we have the same interests, we have the same comedy sense. Just so many things aligned.” 

It also helps that her mother approves of her son-in-law. “Actually, my mom and Idris really get along” Sabrina grinned. “She loves him to bits!”

During the interview, the model also spilled about adding a new member to the family, hinting to the podcast, “Not yet, but I’m almost there.” 

It would be her and Idris’ first child together.  Idris has two children from two prior relationships: Isan, 19, and Winston, seven.

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 Wednesday night on BET Presents the Encore, Kiely Williams of 3LW finally came clean about allegedly throwing a plate of chicken at ex-group member Naturi Naughton.

Cast members on the show were overwhelmed with laughter after Williams explained what happened with a bucket of KFC.

“My entire life has turned into…” the singer began before Fallon King of Cherish jokingly finished, “…a friend chicken meme.”

During her confessional, Williams said, “I didn’t throw chicken at anybody. The chicken was in my hand, but if you call my mother a b****, I’m throwing whatever.”

“Everybody laughed at first, and that sucks because that’s kind of what I wanted to let go of,” she continued. “That joke and the fact that when I brought out the chicken, everybody laughed was kind of reaffirming everything that I had been scared about. All of that kills me because it was so much more than that. Unfortunately, we were at a fast-food restaurant. I can’t change that.”

King, LeMisha Grinstead of 702 and Shamari DeVoe of Blaque continued laughing and making jokes about whether Williams threw KFC “original or crispy” chicken at Naughton. Regardless, Williams says there are no limits to her retaliation when it comes to someone talking about her mother.

“Throwing hands and whatever is in [me] over my mother. She is a saint,” Williams tweeted after the show. “If my phone was in my hand and not my dinner, she would’ve gotten that. And none of you would’ve done any different. #betpresentstheencore.”  

Catch BET Presents the Encore on Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. EST on BET.

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Live Nation is celebrating the return of concerts with $20 tickets to shows this summer.

The promotion, dubbed Return to Live, will let you see artists including Greta Van Fleet, Kings of Leon, Slipknot, Judas Priest, The Black Crowes, 311, Evanescence, Dead & Company, KISS and Rise Against at various outdoor Live Nation venues across the U.S. for just two $10 bills, taxes and fees included.

Other participating artists include 3 Doors Down, AJR, Alanis Morissette, Alice Cooper, Black Pumas, Bleachers, Coheed and Cambria, Korn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Megadeth, Primus and The Doobie Brothers.

The Return to Live tickets go on sale beginning next Wednesday, July 28, at noon ET. For the full list of participating artists and venues, visit LiveNation.com.

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Back in August of 2008, Glen Campbell took the stage at West Hollywood venue the Troubadour, the stage known for career-transforming performances from rockers, country stars, comedians and more since its opening in the late 1950s.

Glen’s fourteen-song set at that show included many of the crossover star’s enduring hits, including “Galveston,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Gentle on My Mind” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.”

Now, more than a decade after that show took place, fans can revisit the singer’s performance with a new live album called Glen Campbell Live from the Troubadour. The collection arrives on Friday, July 23 from Surfdog Records/Big Machine Records.

An Arkansas native who toed the line between country and pop stardom while also enjoying a storied acting career, Glen died in 2017 at the age of 81 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He announced in 2011 that he’d been diagnosed with the disease. That same year, he was the subject of a documentary titled Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, which chronicled his last years on the road as he grappled with how his illness affected his abilities as a performer.

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Live music is back, and concert promoter Live Nation is celebrating by offering $20 tickets to its shows this summer.

The promotion, dubbed Return to Live, will let you see artists including Maroon 5, Jonas Brothers, Daryl Hall & John Oates and Alanis Morissette at various outdoor Live Nation venues across the U.S. for just twenty bucks — taxes and fees included.

Other participating artists include Lindsey Stirling, The Doobie Brothers, New Kids on the Block and Chicago.

The Return to Live tickets go on sale beginning next Wednesday, July 28, at noon ET. For the full list of participating artists and venues, visit LiveNation.com.

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Kanye West is letting the world know his children are the center of his world.  The rapper made a grand return to Instagram on Tuesday ahead of releasing his hotly anticipated 10th studio album, DONDA, and dedicated his first post to his four children.

Wiping his Instagram clean, Ye shared a slideshow of several chain necklaces that bear the names of his four children — North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm — whom he shares with his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian.  It should be noted that Kim is the only person Kanye still follows on Instagram.

The caption-less slideshow features a masked figure, clad in all black, modeling the necklaces that Ye identifies as being designed by luxury jeweler John Hardy. 

Since then, the rapper has shared three other posts, which include his latest Beats by Dre ad that stars runner Sha’Carri Richardson. Other snaps depict him kneeling in an empty stadium, while the latest depicts him wearing a DONDA sweater while facing a whiteboard that seemingly reveals the album’s track listing.

DONDA, Ye’s 10th studio effort, is named after his late mother, Donda West, who passed in 2007.  The album is due out Friday, July 23.

Ye will hold a listening event tonight at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. The event, which will also stream on Apple Music, starts at 8 p.m. ET.  It was also announced DONDA will feature Lil Baby, Travis Scott and Pusha T.

Billboard reports that, to celebrate the album’s release, the 44-year-old rapper will take over Rolling Loud Miami on Sunday.  Sources claim that the event, held at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, would be the first festival headlined by Ye since he played Coachella in 2019.

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The Glorious Sons have released a new song, “I Will Destroy the Void in You.”

The track, which is available now for digital download, is the third fresh tune from the Canadian rockers in as many months, following “Daylight” and “Young King.”

“This one’s just a few chords and some confessions,” says frontman Brett Emmons. “It’s one of my favorites we’ve ever recorded.”

The Glorious Sons’ most recent album is 2019’s A War on Everything, which includes the single “Panic Attack.” A press release promises “news about more new music coming very soon.”

Meanwhile, you can catch The Glorious Sons on tour this winter, beginning December 10 in Pittsburgh.

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Billie Eilish is giving fans a “cinematic concert experience” from the comfort of their own homes.

The singer’s new concert special, Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, is set to premiere exclusively on Disney+ on September 3.

Shot at the Hollywood Bowl, the show will feature Billie performing every song off her new album, Happier Than Ever, in sequential order for the first and what’s said to be the only time.

“Disney is incredibly iconic, so to collaborate on something like this is a huge honor,” Billie says in a statement. “To be able to present my album in this way and dedicate it to the city that I love and grew up in is so exciting to me. I hope you love it.”

The special, directed by Robert Rodriguez and by Oscar-winner Patrick Osborne, will also include animated elements as Billie pays tribute to her LA hometown. Her brother, FINNEAS, will also take the stage with her, along with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Happier Than Ever, the album, comes out July 30.

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