Sam Asghari is speaking out after he and his fiancée, Britney Spears, revealed they suffered a miscarriage.
“We have felt your support,” the 28-year-old wrote on his Instagram Stories late Monday night. “We are taking things positively and moving forward with our future. It’s hard but we are not alone.”
“Thank you for respecting out privacy,” he continued. “We will be expanding our family soon.”
The message of appreciation comes just days after Spears shared that she suffered a pregnancy loss just one month after announcing she was pregnant with her “miracle child.”
The child would have been the first for Britney and Sam, who met in 2016 and announced their engagement in September 2021. The pop star shares two teenage sons, 16-year-old Sean Preston and 15-year-old Jayden James, with her ex-husband, Kevin Federline.
Reba McEntire is returning to a TV screen near you!
The country superstar is set to appear on the next season of the ABC series Big Sky. The show is based on The Highway book series by C.J. Box and follows a team of detectives as they try to solve a series of kidnappings that have taken place on a highway in Montana.
Reba has been cast as a series regular in the role of Sunny Brick, who is “a successful back country outfitter with a secret history of missing customers,” according to Entertainment Weekly.
On her Instagram Stories, Reba says she’s “so excited” to join the series. The country legend is no stranger to TV, as she starred in her own sitcom, Reba, from 2001 to 2007.
Harry Styles assured fans that although One Direction is on an indefinite hiatus, he and his former bandmates have “a very deep love” for one another.
Speaking to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about his forthcoming album, Harry’s House, the Grammy winner reflected on his start in music. “I feel really lucky that we always had each other,” he explained of their shared experience in the spotlight as teenagers. He added they operated as a “unit that felt like you could keep each other in check and you could just have someone else who gets it.”
Calling his time with 1D “priceless,” Harry continued, “I think there is very much a respect between all of us … and that is something that you can’t really undo.” The “As It Was” singer added he and his former bandmates still have “a very deep love for each other.”
Looking ahead, Harry’s new album, Harry’s House, arrives this Friday. “This is my favorite album at the moment, and I love it so much,” he raved. Saying he is “the most relaxed he ever felt” when it comes to releasing new music, he attested, “I no longer feel like my overall happiness is dependent on whether a song goes here or goes here.”
Part of his relaxation comes from putting up healthy boundaries and realizing his career doesn’t define him — it’s the other way around. Part of that epiphany happened when Harry was unable to promote his sophomore album, Fine Line, because of the pandemic.
“It was somehow more powerful for me because I kind of just got to watch it do its thing,” he recalled. “By the time we went out touring, I’d finished this album and I got to play those songs with knowledge of what was next.”
If you haven’t yet had a chance to check out the new Disney+ movie Sneakerella, here’s a quick synopsis: think Cinderella but with female empowerment, a fairy Godfather and instead of the coveted glass slipper, it’s a hot sneaker that’s left behind. The modern-day musical takes viewers on a reimagined journey of the classic fairytale, infusing hip hop and sneaker culture throughout, on the search for the sneaker’s owner, El, played by Chosen Jacobs.
Director Elizabeth Rosenbaum told ABC Audio the script’s theme of sneaker culture was a universal one and while the story had no “race or ethnicity assigned to any of the characters,” the most fitting main star was Jacobs — a young Black boy from Atlanta who in real life loves sneakers just as much as El.
“Sneakers transcend everything, no matter where you’re from,” Jacobs said. “I love Air Forces. I can go to Nebraska and find someone who’s immigrated from Japan and they’re [also] like, ‘Oh, I love Air Forces.'”
Jacobs says no matter your age, race or religion, any and everyone can relate to “putting on that first-day-of-school outfit … your shoe was a big part of that.”
What’s really “dope” is the story’s broad range of representation, says rising star Lexi Underwood, who plays mogul-in-the-making Kira King. “The mere fact that it’s sneakers, music, culture — all those things bring us together and make us a community,” she said.
The ‘OG’ of the cast, NBA legend John Salley, can attest. Having grown up a part of New York’s preeminent sneaker and fashion world, he said the film speaks the language of the arts. And just as The Wizard of Oz follow-up The Wiz resonated with its generation, today’s kids are “going to say Sneakerella before they say Cinderella.”
If you’ve seen Michael Bublé‘s video for “I’ll Never Not Love You,” you probably know that the final shot reveals that his wife, Luisana Lopilato, is pregnant with their fourth child. That scene also features a rare joint appearance by the couple’s kids: sons Noah and Eli, and daughter Vida. But as Michael tells ABC Audio, getting that shot — in which the kids walk out of a grocery store with their parents — was much harder than it might have seemed.
“That took like 15 takes and there were all unusable!” Michael laughs. “[The kids] were fighting. They were cold. Vida was crying, Eli pulled her hair. And so we finally took the one that was just good enough. And in that one, my son Noah kept staring at the camera!”
And as Michael notes, his efforts to stop Noah were ineffective, because, the singer suspects, the kid has inherited his love of being in the spotlight.
“I kept saying, ‘Babe, don’t look! Don’t look at the camera!'” Michael says with a laugh. “But he couldn’t help himself…he just couldn’t help himself! So there’s some Poppy in there, I think. You know, he saw the camera [and went], ‘Oooh! Camera! Oooh! Attention!'”
Noah also seems to have inherited some musical talent from his Poppy: Not only can the eight-year-old play piano, but he actually co-wrote the title track of Michael’s latest album, Higher.
Steve Lukather and Edgar Winter in 2014; Kevin Winter/Getty Images for John Varvatos
Edgar Winter‘s latest album, Brother Johnny, which was released in April, is a star-studded tribute to his late sibling Johnny Winter.
The 17-track collection includes a version of “Rock ‘n’ Roll Hoochie Koo,” a song written by Rick Derringer that Johnny first recorded in 1970 with his band Johnny Winter And, which featured Derringer, and that Rick subsequently had a solo hit with in 1973.
Edgar’s version features guitar work by Toto‘s Steve “Luke” Lukather, who also is a longtime member of Ringo Starr‘s All Starr Band. Edgar tells ABC Audio that he specifically chose Lukather to play on the track because he envisioned a Jimi Hendrix-style solo that he knew Luke could deliver.
“I wanted it wild, crazy, sort of twisted and demented. And I knew that Steve would do exactly that,” Winter explains. “I said, ‘I know…Steve [is] gonna play something different than Rick would ever have played or completely different than Johnny ever would have played’…And, man, Luke delivered.”
Edgar adds, “He played exactly what I was hoping he would. And I didn’t really tell him anything, I just know Luke and know more or less how he thinks and navigates things, and he always likes to push the envelope.”
Lukather has been a member of Ringo’s All Starr Band since 2012, while Edgar recently rejoined the group after previously playing with Ringo and company from 2006 to 2011. Speaking about Luke’s personality, Edgar notes, “[H]e has this rough, raw sense of humor, sometimes perverse, that we all love.”
Other artists featured on Brother Johnny include Ringo, Joe Walsh, ZZ Top‘s Billy Gibbons, The Doobie Brothers‘ Michael McDonald and John McFee, ex-Allman Brothers Band members Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, among many others.
This month, Bishop Briggs celebrated her first Mother’s Day.
The “River” artist, who revealed this past April that she’s expecting her first child, tells ABC Audio that she was “curious” what Mother’s Day would mean to her, given her own mother’s opinion on the holiday.
“I definitely grew up with a mom that felt every single day is Mother’s Day,” Bishop laughs. “She was very particular that we wouldn’t celebrate on Mother’s Day, it should be happening every day of the year.”
On her Mother’s Day, Bishop found the occasion to be a “really nice day to just be connected to whatever is gonna be happening soon.” She also saw it as opportunity to start a new Mother’s Day tradition — that is, however, before reality took over.
“In the morning, my husband and I just had breakfast in bed, and I was, like, ‘Every Mother’s Day, we should do this! Just a chill breakfast in bed!'” Bishop laughs. “And I just realized how naive I sounded. Even if there’s breakfast in bed, it is gonna be chaotic.”
She adds, “It was nice that this first year we could sort of, like, bask in the naivety of it all of, like, ‘Wow! It’s just so calm!'”
The same day Bishop announced her pregnancy, she released two new songs, “High Water” and “Art of Survival.” Both tracks were written about her sister, Kate, who passed away last year.
Alice in Chains‘ co-headlining tour with Breaking Benjamin just got a bit bigger.
The two bands have added a new date to the outing, taking place October 7 in Holmdel, New Jersey. As with the rest of the tour, Bush will also be on the bill.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 20, at 10 a.m. ET.
As previously reported, the Alice and Benjamin tour will kick off August 10 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and will wrap up October 8 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit AliceinChains.com.
Alice in Chains released their latest album, Rainier Fog, in 2018. Breaking Benjamin’s most recent release is their 2020 acoustic compilation, Aurora. Bush dropped their newest album, The Kingdom, also in 2020.
Lionel Richie will be honored with the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize on Tuesday. Ahead of the moment, the singer caught up with CBS’ Sunday Morning to talk about his lifetime achievements.
Lionel reflected on growing up by Tuskegee University, where he was surrounded by Black lawyers, war heroes, doctors and more, and joked that his parents “had a nervous breakdown” when he decided to pursue a music career with The Commodores.
“You could see everyone passing going, ‘Oh, there’s poor Lionel. Poor misguided Lionel!,'” he chuckled. Of course, The Commodores scored numerous chart-topping singles with Richie as their lead singer, before he set off a solo career.
Lionel reflected on his success, which saw him cross into the mainstream and anger some of his original R&B fan base. “Someone asked me a question one day, ‘Lionel, how does it feel that you’ve left your roots?'” Richie recalled. “And I said, ‘Did you ask that to The Beatles? Did you ask that to The Rolling Stones? Everyone came over to borrow from us, but I can’t go that way?'”
The singer also reflected on his hiatus at the peak of his career, which he took to care for his ailing father, who passed in 1990. “It gave me an opportunity to kind of take a look over my shoulder just a little bit to see where I was in altitude. And it was frightening,” he reflected. But, he added his father’s death gave him a new perspective on fame.
Lionel now sees his career as an “adventure,” which he says “is just an amazing ride.”
He also admitted it’s been 13 years since he released an album of all-new songs, but teased he’ll break the dry spell “this year.”
Elvis Presley‘s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, has posted a new message on her socialmediasites in which she shares a glowing review about director Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming musical biopic about her late father, Elvis.
In the note, Lisa Marie first points out that she is still grieving for her son, Ben Keough, who died by suicide at age 27 in July 2020.
“I am and will forever be mourning the loss of my son,” she writes. “Navigating through this hideous grief that absolutely destroyed and shattered my heart and my soul into almost nothing has swallowed me whole.”
Lisa Marie then proceeds to shower praise on the Elvis film, revealing that she’s watched it twice and thinks it’s “nothing short of spectacular” and “[a]bsolutely exquisite.”
She writes that lead actor Austin Butler “channeled and embodied my father’s heart and soul beautifully,” adding, “In my humble opinion, his performance is unprecedented and FINALLY done accurately and respectfully. (If he doesn’t get an Oscar for this, I will eat my own foot, haha.)”
Lisa Marie continues, “You can feel and witness Baz’s pure love, care, and respect for my father throughout this beautiful film, and it is finally something that myself and my children and their children can be proud of forever.”
Presley also notes that she was moved to tears when she saw how her three daughters — Riley, Harper and Finley — were “so filled with pride about their grandfather and his legacy in a way that I have not previously experienced” after watching the movie.
She adds, “It breaks my heart that my son isn’t here to see it. He would have absolutely loved it as well.”
Elvis, which also features Tom Hanks as the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s manager, Col. Tom Parker, hits theaters on June 24.
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