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Lindsey Stirling is “still on cloud 9” after meeting her idol, AJ McLean. After running into the Backstreet Boy, she shared a snap of their meeting and told him, “You’re a rockstar.” The feeling is mutual for AJ, as Lindsey shared a video in which said he is a “massive fan” of hers and is “obsessed” with her Christmas album.

Michael Bublé teased the music video for his cover of “Make You Feel My Love,” which features him walking smoothly down the street as explosions go off behind him, scattering debris all over the road. He is unaware of the mayhem going on, which includes a building being sucked up by a portal and a fire-breathing dragon. He captioned the teaser post, “Subtle.”

Lady Gaga is hosting an Instagram Live on Thursday, where she’ll “walk” fans “through our Haus Labs products” as part of Sephora’s Beauty Chat Room. The stream starts at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sephora’s Instagram.

Kelly Clarkson took a crack at The Weeknd‘s “Save Your Tears” on her Wednesday installment of Kellyoke. Fans applauded her for upping the octave and belting out the song’s final lines.

Christina Aguilera dropped her new PRIDE collection, which is now available on her store. It’s an exclusive four-piece set that features a trucker hat, T-shirts and hoodies that celebrate her headlining LA Pride this Saturday. The hoodie proclaims “Say Gay,” which is a definite reference to Florida’s controversial new law.

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The Kid LAROI teased a new song on his Instagram Story Wednesday, tentatively titled “Tension.” The teased lyrics go “And baby, I regret it/ You told me you forgive me, but you won’t forget it/ And now I start to question your intentions/ You said it’s fine, but I still feel the tension.” It is not known when the song will drop.

BTS‘ Jungkook accidentally wiped his entire Instagram. Speaking on VLive, the singer insisted it’s not part of a rebranding or anything, he was just hoping to make his page “look nicer” and hit the wrong button. 

Louis Tomlinson is bringing back the Away From Home Festival, happening August 27 in Spain. The One Direction singer teased, “It’s been a life long dream to put a show of this size together and it’s an absolute honour to have such a great line up in such an incredible location … It’s going to be special!”

Halsey continues to ask the real questions. They tweeted out, “If i seem a little tired today it’s because my brain kept me up at 2 am begging the question ‘how fast could you run down a spiral staircase if a murderer was chasing you?'”

Lady Gaga is hosting an Instagram Live on Thursday, where she’ll take fans inside her Haus Labs makeup line as part of Sephora’s Beauty Chat Room. The stream starts at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sephora’s Instagram.

Christina Aguilera dropped her new PRIDE collection on her store, an exclusive four-piece set so fans can sport fun new clothes for Pride Month.

Kelly Clarkson took a crack at The Weeknd and Ariana Grande‘s “Save Your Tears” on her Wednesday installment of Kellyoke.

Zara Larsson not only bought her music catalogue, she also debuted her new record label, Sommer House, allowing her to own and control her own music releases.

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—Nick Cannon is gearing up to become a father … again. He confirmed the news on a recent episode of the Lip Service Podcast, after the hosts inquired about rumors that he has “three babies on the way.”

“Well, when you say ‘on the way … ‘” he joked, before asking, “What count are you at? Let’s just put it this way … the stork is on the way.”

In response to his short-lived attempt at celibacy in October last year, the Wild ‘N Out host said, “I was supposed to make it through the top of the year, but obviously I was going through some stuff, I got depressed.” He referenced the loss of his baby boy Zion, who died in December due to brain cancer. 

“The thing is everybody saw I was so down,” he said. “So everybody was like, ‘Let’s just give him a little vagina, and that’s gonna cure it all.'” In addition to his eighth baby on the way, his first with Bre Tiesi, many speculate Cannon is the father of twins with Abby De La Rosa.   

—Lori Harvey‘s mom, Marjorie Harvey, seemed to have joined the chat about her daughter’s split from Michael B. Jordan. 

After reports surfaced Monday that Lori, 25, and Jordan, 35, called it quits, her mother posted a message on her Instagram Story that fans say was shade toward her Jordan. 

“You sit in s**t for too long, it stops smelling. So come the f**k outta there,” says actress Jennifer Lewis in the now-deleted video clip posted by Marjorie and later shared by The Neighborhood Talk. 

Steve Harvey also shared what fans say was a cryptic message. The Family Feud host took to Twitter with a meme that reads, “Sometimes we need to thank God for what didn’t happen.”

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Miranda Lambert is making a stop on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday evening. It’s part of a busy week for the superstar, who is also performing this weekend as part of the TIME100 Gala.

Garth Brooks has set a new on-sale date for his July 23 Stadium Tour show in Buffalo. He postponed the original on-sale date due to the tragic mass shooting that took place in a supermarket in the city last month. The new sale date is Friday, June 17.

Lauren Alaina is joining forces with fashion brand Maurices to give away free pairs of jeans to CMA Fest attendees. For a limited time following the festival, fans can show their ticket at any Maurices store in exchange for a free pair of classic m jeans by Maurices. The giveaway lasts from June 18 to June 24.

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Machine Gun Kelly has announced a new song called “More Than Life.”

The track is set to premiere alongside a video this Friday, June 10. You can check out some clips from the video shoot now via Kelly’s Instagram.

“More Than Life” follows MGK’s new album, Mainstream Sellout, which was released in March. The Travis Barker-produced record includes collaborations with Bring Me the Horizon, WILLOW and blackbear.

News about the new song arrives just as Machine Gun Kelly is about to launch his summer tour, which begins Wednesday in Austin, Texas. The outing includes a rotating set of openers, including Barker, WILLOW, blackbear and Avril Lavigne.

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Queen Latifah is speaking out about her weight and why she’s angry about being categorized as obese.

The actress and singer opened up on a new episode of Red Table Talk about the day a personal trainer told her she would be considered obese.

“I was mad at that,” Latifah said in a clip for Wednesday’s episode of the Facebook Watch show. “It pissed me off,” she said, stunned at finding out that what she thought of as being “just thick” turned out to be “30% over” where she should’ve been in terms of weight, according to the trainer. 

“She’s showing me different body types and she’s telling me, this is what your BMI is, this is what your weight is, and you fall into this category of obesity,” said The Equalizer star, referring to body mass index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Latifah also opened up to Red Table Talk hosts Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne Banfield-Norris about the scrutiny she received early on in her acting career, including during her time on the hit ’90s show Living Single. 

”We looked like four women who live in Brooklyn, and that’s what we were supposed to be representing,” she said. “But the word came down that we needed to lose weight.”

As a result of her desire to spark more conversation around weight loss and obesity, Latifah joined the It’s Bigger Than Me campaign and is currently on a three-city tour encouraging honest discussion with audience and panel members. 

She told ABC Audio of the tour, “The only way we’re going to change the stigma that comes along with it and really educate people is to sit down, to have conversations.”

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The documentary about George Michael, narrated by the late star, arrives in theaters June 22, and an exclusive new clip takes a deep dive into the origins of the late singer’s revolutionary “Freedom ’90” music video.

Elton John makes an appearance in the nearly two-minute clip and discusses how George’s work permanently changed the music industry. “It changed the whole face of how videos were done,” said Sir Elton. “The video said everything. It was genius and it was a revolutionary thing.”

George didn’t want to be featured in the music video and instead asked five supermodels to star in “Freedom ’90.”  

“It was a specific group of women that George wanted that had just been on the cover of British Vogue that was shot by Peter Lindbergh. It was like, ‘He wants you five and it has to be all you five,'” recalled model Cindy Crawford.  

Added Naomi Campbell, who was also in the music video, “George pitched it to me in L.A. and his exact words were, ‘You’re the leader of the gang and unless you say yes, the rest of the girls won’t.'”

George Michael Freedom Uncut explores the late singer’s career following the release of his 1987 album, Faith, which skyrocketed him into fame, through the release of his 1990 follow-up work, Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1. That period in his career saw George fight for his artistic freedom while grieving the loss of his mother and first real love.

Visit GeorgeMichaelFreedomUncut.com to purchase tickets and see a list of theaters showing the film.

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