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Ciara guest hosted The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday and her husband Russell Wilson joined, surprising the singer with an unexpected proposal.

The Seahawks quarterback got down on one knee and said, “I have a question for you. Serious question. Can we have more babies?”

The “Level Up” singer threw her head back in laughter while Wilson continued to plead for more children. “We definitely can, but we’ve got a little time before we get there,” Ciara joked.

The couple share three children, 19-month-old son Win Harrison, four-year old daughter Sienna Princess and Ciara’s seven-year-old son Future Zahir, whom she shares with rapper Future.

Glastonbury Festival announced Kendrick Lamar will headline its 2022 festival, which is returning after a two-year hiatus.

The event will take place at the Worthy Farm in Somerset, South West England and will run from June 22-26.

Paul McCartney is set to head up Saturday’s show and Kendrick will close out the festival on Sunday. Among the list of stars set to perform are Diana Ross, TLC and Billie Eilish.

The 25th anniversary of rapper Biggie’s death is March 9. The late NY rapper died in 1997 while in L.A. to promote his second and final album, Life After Death. According to HipHopDX, and in honor of the album’s 25th anniversary, Biggie’s estate announced a limited edition 25th Anniversary Super Deluxe Box Set, set to drop on June 10.

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On Sunday’s upcoming episode of American Idol, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan proclaim their love of…cheese. In a sneak preview clip shared by E! News, the two judges are seen making up a silly song about queso. With Luke on the piano, Katy begins singing and eventually produces chips and queso from underneath the judges’ table. “It’s been under the desk/And it ain’t gone hard/Just in queso you forget/I like snacks, yeah,” she sings.

Is it official? E! News confirms via a source that Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner are indeed expecting their second child together. The baby will join big sister Willa, who was born in 2020. Joe and Sophie have yet to confirm the news themselves, but Sophie has been spotted out and about with a noticeable baby bump.

BTS has racked up three new Guinness World Records, all thanks to their impressive social media presence. According to the Guinness website, the group now holds the record for most followers on Instagram for a music group, with 60,151,959 followers as of February. They also have the record for most followers for a music group on TikTok and Twitter. Their TikTok account has 45.7 million followers and their Twitter page has 44,167,059 followers.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Latto, the self-proclaimed “Queen of da Souf,” hopped on the remix of “Sorry Not Sorry” alongside fellow Atlanta rapper, Omeretta The Great.

Omeretta’s original version of “Sorry Not Sorry,” which dropped last month, shook up both the airwaves and social media because of its catchy yet somewhat controversial lyrics. In the song, the rapper lists names of Georgia towns she says are “not Atlanta,” including Latto’s own Clayton County.

Latto, born Alyssa Stephens, posted a TikTok video in response to the track and fans thought it was the start of a new rap beef. Doesn’t seem like that’s the case, since the two Georgia-born rappers came together for the remix.

DaBaby and NBA YoungBoy also joined forces to release new music on Friday. The duo announced their 12-track joint project Better Than You which features songs like “Hit,” “Neighborhood Superstar” and more.

In honor of its release, the rap stars hosted an Instagram Live listening session with close to 300,000 viewers tuning in.

Friday’s release of collaborations doesn’t stop there. GOOD Music’s Pusha T teamed up with Japanese producer Nigo to deliver a new track called, “Hear Me Clearly.”

The hardcore rap track will be featured on the upcoming album, I Know Nigo, marking the first album from the producer in nearly 20 years.

“These drug dealer Rollies is my TikTok and Triller/Insecure b****** get lip fillers/Covered in white like bridezilla and never been caught/So what’s the Shiggy dance for a brick n****?” Pusha raps.

As of now, there is no release date for I Know Nigo.

Meanwhile, Gucci Mane dropped his new single, “Publicity Stunt” and fans speculate the record is a response to NBA YoungBoys’ “I Hate YoungBoy.”

Take a listen to each of the tracks to see for yourself.

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It’s time to go back to the 1980s with Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

The HBO series stars John C. Reilly as Dr. Jerry Buss, the real estate mogul who bought the flailing NBA team and made them the brand they are today. Reilly tells ABC Audio he was “honored” to play Buss, whom he calls “an incredible American story of success.”

Adds Reilly, “It’s impressive enough to buy a team [and] in the first year you buy them, win the championship. But if you know all the behind the scenes, everything he was going through, it makes it all the more impressive.”

The early 80s may not seem so long ago to some, but Reilly says the series shows that culturally it was a completely different era.

“You gotta love the swagger that those guys had, to have a cocktail bar in the conference room, in the middle of a meeting,” he notes. “It just seems like, man, they got away with a lot of fun stuff.”

The HBO series also stars newcomer Quincy Isaiah as a young Earvin “Magic” Johnson, just before he enters the NBA.  Isaiah says it was a lot of fun to play Magic at that point in his career.

“He’s…trying to, you know, just figure out who he is and grow up and become an adult and see how he fits in this new world that he’s been thrust into,” Isaiah explains, “And we get to see him and meet him as he grows into the icon that we know, that’s Magic Johnson today.”

Winning Time debuts Sunday on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.

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Is Britney Spears about to share some happy news? 

In two separate posts on Instagram, the singer refers to her longtime love Sam Asghari as her “husband,” leading many to speculate that the two might already be hitched.

Britney posted a black-and-white photo of Sam Friday in honor of his 28th birthday, captioning it, “Such an amazing pic of my husband @samasghari !!!! He’s such a hard worker and he amazes me each day with his passion for life !!!! I’m so lucky to be able to share my life with him …. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”

In a previous post from hours earlier, she shared a video of baby turtles and wrote that her “husband” Sam had sent it to her.

On Thursday, Britney was still referring to Sam as her fiancé in another happy birthday post, where she gushed, “Happy Birthday to my Fiancé … I love you so much. I want a family with you. I want it all with you!”

The two announced their engagement in September of last year.

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Hollywood Undead has premiered the video for “Chaos,” the band’s latest single.

The clip finds the rap-rock outfit surrounded by an army of masked dancers, reflecting the energy of the song.

“For the ‘Chaos’ video, we considered a more streamlined visual that represents the chaos that exists all around us,” says vocalist Johnny 3 Tears. “Both in the present and our subconscious.”

You can watch the “Chaos” video streaming now on YouTube.

“Chaos” is the first single off the next Hollywood Undead album. The currently untitled effort will be the follow-up to 2020’s two-part New Empire.

Hollywood Undead is currently on tour with Papa Roach and Bad Wolves.

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Wallows has premiered a new song called “At the End of the Day,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Tell Me That It’s Over.

“‘At the End of the Day’ is about being very invested in a relationship with someone and fearing it may ultimately be doomed but you just want that person to be happy no matter what,” says frontman Dylan Minnette.

You can listen to “At the End of the Day” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video, which chronicles a Las Vegas road trip, is streaming now on YouTube.

Tell Me That It’s Over, which also features the previously released songs “Especially You” and “I Don’t Want to Talk,” will be released March 25. It follows Wallows’ 2019 debut, Nothing Happens, which spawned the hit Clairo collaboration “Are You Bored Yet?”

Wallows will launch a U.S. headlining tour in support of Tell Me That It’s Over in April.

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This week’s New Music Friday includes a Justin Bieber collaboration, yet another version of Charlie Puth‘s current hit, and a track from this week’s Saturday Night Live musical guest.

Last year, Justin Bieber jumped on a remix of the Afrobeats song “Essence” by Wizkid featuring Tems, and ended up scoring a bit hit.  Now he’s joined Nigerian Afrobeats singer Omah Lay for a new track, “Attention.”  Omah was also featured on the “Masterkraft Remix” of Justin’s smash hit, “Peaches.”

After releasing an acoustic version of his hit “Light Switch,” Charlie Puth has now dropped an EDM version of the song by DJ/producer Tiësto. “Light Switch” is from his forthcoming album, CHARLIE.

Thursday was the five-year anniversary of Khalid‘s debut album, American Teen, and he marked the occasion by dropping a new track and video called “Last Call.”  “It’s important to me to commemorate this day and look back at everything that has happened,” he says. “I can’t believe it’s been 5 years already. I hope you guys enjoy it and celebrate with me and all we’ve done together.”

Singer, songwriter and producer Poo Bear, who’s brought you hits like, “10,000 Hours,” “Caught Up” and “What Do U Mean?”, has dropped a new single called “Favorite Human.”  He says the song is “really about those special people in your life, in my case I was thinking about my wife and my family while creating this, but I think it’s something very special that anyone would be able to relate to.”

Charli XCX will be this weekend’s Saturday Night Live musical guest, after her slot was canceled last year due to the Omicron surge.  She’s got a new song and video called “Baby,” from her forthcoming album, CRASH.  She told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe, “It’s about sex and sexuality and having good sex and just feeling yourself essentially.“

Lastly, Ashe is out with a new song and video called “Another Man’s Jeans,” about which she says, “It’s sexy! And loud! And fun!”

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As the 2022 ACM Awards quickly near, country stars are doing everything they can to look and feel their best for the big night — and for many of country’s hottest names, that makes booking a workout with trainer Erin Oprea.

Known as country music’s own personal fitness guru, Erin has played a pivotal role in the health and well journeys of A-Listers like Carrie Underwood, helping Carrie safely keep her fitness levels up even as she recovered from a November 2017 fall that left her with a broken wrist and 40-50 stitches in her face.

Erin was also there for Maren Morris every step of the way through her pregnancy with her son, Hayes, keeping her feeling her best with pregnancy-safe workouts.

Oprea’s known for dreaming up creative workouts, both for her celebrity clients and the fans watching from home. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric kept things lighthearted by creating a leg day workout set to her client Kelsea Ballerini’s “Hole in the Bottle.”

Want to train like your favorite country stars? You can download Erin’s app, called Pretty Muscles.

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