Music

Katy Perry’s holiday tune “Cozy Little Christmas” went Platinum, and she celebrated by wearing her platinum Dellilah Jingle heels from her Katy Perry shoe collection. She posted photos on Instagram, captioning them, “When Cozy Little Christmas goes platinum, ya go platinum with the Dellilah Jingle too!”

The Rockettes want to dance with Meghan Trainor. The famous dance troupe posted a TikTok video doing Meghan’s “Made You Look” dance and captioned it, “Officially inviting @meghantrainor to join us for the next one.”

A TikTok user is going viral after sharing an awesome story about the time Pink defended her against a snobby British girl group while at an awards show after-party in the early 2000s.

Alessia Cara gave fans an early Christmas present Wednesday, dropping the official music videos for her holiday tracks “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Make It to Christmas.” The “Jingle Bell Rock” video made its broadcast debut Wednesday on MTV Live, MTVU and MTV Biggest Pop, as well as on the Para­mount Times Square billboards. The “Make It to Christmas” video is available on all platforms.

Eternals star Kumail Nanjiani admits he thought Harry Styles‘ cameo in the film was a joke … until the pop star showed up on set. “I started hearing rumblings about it here and there and I thought it was bulls***,” he tells the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “I was like, ‘The guy from One Direction, no way.’ And then you show up for work one day and there’s gorgeous Harry Styles.” Kumail also reveals he actually shot a different post-credits scene with Harry than the one that ultimately made the cut.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced that Eddie Murphy will be presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony.

First awarded to its namesake by the HFPA in 1952, the special trophy highlights a star’s “extraordinary achievements in the motion picture industry.” Previous winners include Morgan Freeman, Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Jane Fonda.

Hosted by Emmy-winning comedian Jerrod Carmichael, the 80th annual Golden Globes will take place January 10 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, airing live on NBC and streaming live on Peacock.

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Earlier this week, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift and Rihanna were nominated for the Golden Globes Award for Best Original Song. Their winning streak now continues with the news that they’ve all received Best Song nominations for the Critics Choice Awards.

Gaga is nominated for “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick, while Rihanna is nominated for “Lift Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Taylor is nominated for “Carolina,” from Where the Crawdads Sing. 

The rest of the nominees include “Ciao Papa,” from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and “Naatu Naatu,” from the Indian language film RRR, both of which were also nominated for Golden Globes, plus “New Body Rhumba,” a song by LCD Soundsystem from the movie White Noise.

Gaga has already won two Critics Choice Awards: Best Actress for A Star Is Born and Best Song for “Shallow,” from the same film. Taylor won a Critics Choice Award in the category of Most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary for the 2020 documentary Miss Americana. Rihanna has never received a nomination from the organization.

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Gunna was released from a Georgia prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one charge of conspiring to violate the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

“I have chosen to end my own RICO case with an Alford plea and end my personal ordeal by publicly acknowledging my association with YSL,” the Atlanta rapper said in a written statement provided to ABC News on Wednesday by his attorney Steve Sadow. “An Alford plea in my case is the entry of a guilty plea to the one charge against me, which is in my best interest, while at the same time maintaining my innocence toward the same charge.”

YSL is allegedly an Atlanta street gang, which started in late 2012 and “claims affiliation with the national Bloods gang,” according to charging documents.

Gunna added that while he has “agreed to be truthful,” he was not interviewed and did not cooperate with prosecutors in this case, which involves 27 other individuals, including Young Thug, who is facing eight charges as part of the same RICO indictment.

According to the indictment, among the objectives of the alleged conspiracy were “preserving, protecting and enhancing the reputation, power and territory of the enterprise through acts of racketeering activity including murder, assault and threats of violence.”

“While I have agreed to always be truthful, I want to make it perfectly clear that I have NOT made any statements, have NOT been interviewed, have NOT cooperated, have NOT agreed to testify or be a witness for or against any party in the case and have absolutely NO intention of being involved in the trial process in any way,” Gunna said in the written statement.

The rapper, whose legal name is Sergio Kitchens, has been denied bond three times since his arrest in May in a case that sparked a national debate about the controversial use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal cases.

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(Note Language) When it comes to guitar players, Scott Ian thinks Metallica’s Kirk Hammett doesn’t get the credit he deserves. During an interview with Revolver, the Anthrax guitarist shares that while he considers Metallica frontman James Hetfield the best rhythm guitarist, Hammett is the most underrated.

“For me, in the world of metal, I think the most underrated rhythm player is Kirk Hammett,” he said. “He’s in a band with James Hetfield, who, when it comes to metal, is the best. There’s no better right hand [than Hetfield’s] … He’s the f****** god.”

Ian explains that because Hammett is the band’s lead guitarist, folks don’t recognize his strengths as a rhythm player. “He’s gotta go f****** note for note with James,” Ian says. “And he can’t cheat. There’s no f****** cheating, he’s down-picking all those f****** parts. Nobody talks about that,” adding, “So Kirk, to me, is the most underrated.”

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Wednesday at 8 p.m., Ashanti gets haunted in VH1’s holiday movie A New Divas Christmas Carol.

“Is an updated ‘sista’ version of the classic Charles Dickens movie,” Vivica A. Fox enthuses to ABC Audio. “But instead of it being the Past, Present and the Future, we call ourselves the Sister Spirits … I play Bastia. Zara, which is played by Robin Givens, [and] Zero, which is played by the beautiful Eva Marcille.”

She explains, “We come to visit Ashanti, who plays Aphrodite, who is a music diva who is just bitter, and lost her will for love and for Christmas. So we have to take her through her past, present and future all together.”

Fox had a blast on screen and off with her fellow spirits. “I’ve known all of them for a very long time, but this is actually the first time that we shared the screen together, and we also got Mel B in there as well, too. So it’s just raining Black girl magic all over the place,” she laughs.

Even when the cameras were off for the Idris Elba-produced film, Vivica says the “spirits” bonded. “Robin Givens and I, we spent a lot of time together because we both love tennis. So we would sneak away and we would have a lunch break or dinner and go and watch the U.S. Open tennis matches. Eva and I, we were kind of like the party fun girls. So on the weekends, she would take me to Montreal or to New York, which were all very close by. And we would we just had fun. We really did. For five weeks we just had fun.”

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Ellen DeGeneres is “heartbroken” by the death of her former DJ and Ellen DeGeneres Show co-host Stephen “tWitch” Boss.

In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the talk show host shared a photo of her and Boss hugging, writing a tribute to him in the caption.

“I’m heartbroken,” DeGeneres wrote. “tWitch was pure love and light. He was my family, and I loved him with all my heart. I will miss him. Please send your love and support to Allison and his beautiful children — Weslie, Maddox and Zaia.”

Boss’ wife, fellow dancer Allison Holker, issued a statement confirming her husband’s death earlier on Wednesday “with the heaviest of hearts.”

Boss is known for his work on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where he served as the talk show’s DJ and co-host until it ended this year. He also teamed up with the comedian on Ellen’s Game of Games, which aired from 2017 to 2021.

Boss and Holker, a fellow So You Think You Can Dance alum who competed in season 2 and returned as an All-Star in subsequent seasons, married in 2013. They celebrated their ninth wedding anniversary on December 10.

To mark their anniversary, Boss took to social media to share a photo of himself and Holker dancing at their wedding and showing off their wedding bands.

In addition to adopting Holker’s daughter Weslie from a previous relationship, Boss and Holker shared two children, Maddox Laurel, 6, and Zaia, 3.

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