Nicki Minaj‘s husband Kenneth Petty was sentenced in Los Angeles on Wednesday after failing to register as a sex offender.
Petty, 44, was sentenced to three years of probation and one year of in-home detention for the offense, according to MyNewsLA.com. He was also ordered to pay a $55,000 fine.
The sentencing comes a year after Petty pleaded guilty to the federal charge of failure to register.
Petty was convicted in 1995 of attempted rape for an incident that occurred the year before with a 16-year-old girl in New York. He served over four years in prison for the offense and was ordered to register as a sex offender if he ever moved out of the state.
Petty and Nicki married in 2019 and moved to California afterward. They welcomed their first child together in September 2020.
Merry Christmas, Backstreet Boys fans! The group has officially announced that their first holiday album, A Very Backstreet Christmas, will arrive October 14 and is now available for pre-order.
The album includes the group’s renditions of Christmas classics like “O Holy Night,” “Winter Wonderland” and “Silent Night,” as well as three new original tunes: “Christmas in New York,” “Together” and “Happy Days.” The Target CD version includes two bonus tracks: “Feliz Navidad” and “It’s Christmas Time Again.”
In a statement, Backtreet’s Howie Dorough says, “We’ve been wanting to do a Christmas album for nearly 30 years now and we’re beyond excited that it’s finally happening. We had such a fun experience putting our BSB twist on some of our favorite Christmas classics and can’t wait to be part of our fans’ holiday season.”
The group is currently out on their DNA World Tour.
Here’s the track listing for A Very Backstreet Christmas:
“White Christmas”
“The Christmas Song”
“Winter Wonderland”
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”
“Last Christmas”
“O Holy Night”
“This Christmas”
“Same Ole Lang Syne”
“Silent Night”
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
“Christmas in New York”
“Together”
“Happy Days”
“Feliz Navidad” (TARGET ONLY)
“It’s Christmas Time Again” (TARGET ONLY)
Lizzo is giving fans an early peek into her new album, Special.
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the singer and rapper shared a video reel of herself twerking in a bikini on a lounge chair before grabbing the vinyl for her upcoming fourth studio album and revealing the track list.
“SHES A 10 BUT YOU CANT GET HER UNTIL JULY 15TH,” she captioned the post.
Lizzo’s forthcoming album boasts 12 songs including previously released tracks “Grrrls” and “About Damn Time.”
Here’s the complete track list:
“The Sign”
“About Damn Time”
“Grrrls”
“2 Be Loved”
“I Love You B****”
“Special”
“Break Up Twice”
“Everybody’s Gay”
“Naked”
“Birthday Girl”
“If You Love Me”
“Coldplay”
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill co-star as James and Margaret Dutton on the wildly popular Yellowstone prequel, 1883. On the show, Isabel May playstheir oldest daughter Elsa, but in real life, the actress admits she didn’t even know who Tim and Faith were before she signed on to the series.
“I didn’t know that they were big,” Isabel reveals to Kelly Clarkson on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, which Tim also joined via video chat.
But her musical blind spot paid off on set, as she was able to get to know the superstar couple not as famous country artists but as people.
“There was a blank slate. And my goodness, they are just the loveliest people I think I’ve ever met. I immediately fell in love with them,” Isabel continues. “It was so genuine.”
Specifically, she quickly learned that not only was Faith kind, but she was also hilarious. “She’s such a goofball!” Isabel says. “She makes animal noises, weird animal noises. She’s so gifted at it, too.”
The feeling is apparently mutual: Tim says that when he first met Isabel, he was impressed by how much she looked like she could be their actual daughter. As he got to know her, his admiration only grew.
“The more we got to know her, the sweeter she got, and the more we grew to love her and respected her,” he says. “She’s incredible. She just shines in the show.”
Here’s wishing Ringo Starr a very happy 82nd birthday filled, of course, with peace and love!
As previously reported, the former Beatles drummer is marking the occasion with the latest installment of his annual “Peace and Love” birthday celebration. This year’s event will feature Ringo gathering privately in Los Angeles with wife Barbara, some of his All Starr Band mates and several other celebrity friends to give a “Peace and Love” salute at noon local time.
Taking part in the celebration will be All Starr Band members Steve Lukather, Edgar Winter, Colin Hay, Warren Ham and Gregg Bissonette, as well as Benmont Tench, Richard Marx, Matt Sorum, Jim Keltner, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Perry, Diane Warren, and the late Roy Orbison‘s sons Roy Jr. and Alex.
As usual, Ringo is asking everyone to join in by saying or thinking “Peace and Love,” and/or flashing a peace sign, at noon local time wherever they are in the world.
As part of this year’s celebration, Artemis Music Space Network, with help from the International Space Station, will transmit Starr’s message across the planet, and into Earth’s orbit and outer space.
At noon, Ringo will signal the Artemis Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, to beam his message and music — including his 2021 single “Let’s Change the World” — to the International Space Station, which will relay peace-and-love messages and music down to the planet and out to the stars.
The event will kick off with a number of musical performances paying tribute to Ringo.
Meanwhile, “Peace and Love” celebrations are taking place in many locations around the world, including at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. In addition, a special Starr playlist will be played today in over 10,000 Starbucks stores.
Although we’re unable to see Justin Bieber livein concert at this time, that’s not stopping him from putting on a virtual reality show.
Garena has teamed with the “Peaches” hitmaker to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Free Fire game. The platform is reportedly pulling out all the stops to get fans excited for the milestone event — and that includes a special collaboration with Justin.
“I’m excited to partner with Garena Free Fire to have this opportunity to entertain my fans across the globe,” he raved. “This collaboration with Free Fire has allowed us to explore various dimensions in which we can integrate my music with games and I can’t wait for everyone to enjoy what we have worked hard on behind the scenes.”
Justin will not only step up for a in-game performance, set for August 27, he will also debut an exclusive track just for the game’s anniversary.
Not only that, Garena is making it possible for players to dress their avatars up in new outfits and enjoy some custom emotes to dance along to the Grammy winner’s music. That’s not all, though — players can also take on some minigames and win a chance to perform with Justin’s avatar on the virtual stage.
Garena teased there will be more exciting announcements to come in the following weeks.
Free Fire is a battle royale, first-person shooter game, and is one of the top gaming apps on the iOS and Android stores. The game set a record in August 2021 for having the most global players online in a single day — over 150 million.
Sheryl Crow is just one of the several artists who were set to perform as part of this week’s Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois. But the festival has canceled or postponed all scheduled shows through July 10, in the wake of the mass shooting in Highland Park on July 4 that left seven people dead and dozens more wounded.
On Twitter, Sheryl, a longtime anti-gun violence advocate, posted the festival notification and wrote, “We are hurting w/ the community of #HighlandPark & all the communities suffering from gun violence during this confusing time in our history. We feel helpless to know how to help. We encourage everyone to give to those who are in mourning.”
She added that she plans to her reschedule her Ravinia appearance, which was to have taken place Thursday night. Her next show is July 8 in Ohio. All ticket holders will receive refunds by August 1.
On Wednesday, the alleged shooter, 21-year-old Robert Crimo III, was ordered held without bond by a judge. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for July 28.
Steve Perry and Neal Schon in 2017; Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
As Journey prepares to release its latest studio album, Freedom, this Friday, founding guitarist Neal Schon reveals he’s working on becoming friends again with the group’s famous former lead singer, Steve Perry, who parted ways with Journey in 1998.
In a new interview, Schon tells Vulture that he and Perry have had the chance to connect more since he recently took a more active role in Journey’s business dealings.
“We’re talking and getting to know each other again — though not trying to get together musically again,” Schon says. “But he’s learning who I am now, through a portion of our business that I’m kind of controlling now. I’m talking about a Journey trademark that I’ve obtained, as we’ve never owned our own trademark.”
Schon continues, “All these years, many people lied to us [with regard to Journey’s business]. My wife and I finally got to the bottom of it after investigating for years. We were fought hard by everybody, but we managed to obtain the trademark. So we’re talking about that and figuring out the future of that, but we’re talking.”
Schon says that he and Perry were “very, very tight” during Perry’s early years with the band.
“I have great memories of when Steve and I first met,” he notes. “We hung out all the time, man. We were like brothers. We were crazy. We spent a lot of nights out way too late doing things we shouldn’t be doing. Drinking and whatnot … But bottom line, we had a really good time for many, many years … He was a really funny guy.”
Schon also mentions how well he got along with Perry during the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, adding, “I hope that we can become even better friends in the future.”
After Whitesnakecanceled the remainder of the European summer leg of its Farewell Tour because various band members had taken ill, frontman David Coverdale reports that he’s back home and trying to get well.
“Still not 100% but, very happy to be home,” Coverdale wrote in a Twitter message posted Tuesday. “Being sick in a hotel, on tour, just ain’t the ticket…I hope You & Yours Are Well, Wherever You Are…Know You Are Appreciated & Loved…XXX.”
The tweet is accompanied by four images, including ones with messages that read “When all else fails take a nap” and “Keep healthy and stay safe,” and another showing a drawing of a pair of hands holding a rose and captioned, “For you.”
Last week, before Whitesnake officially announced that the rest of the European shows had been canceled, the band reported that the 70-year-old rocker had been “diagnosed with an infection of the sinus & trachea” and that his doctor had recommended “5 days of no singing and bed rest.”
During the trek, drummer Tommy Aldridge and guitarist Reb Beach also battled illness.
Whitesnake is now scheduled to return to the stage for the North American leg of its Farewell Tour, which kicks off August 17 in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and is plotted out through an October 21 performance in Las Vegas. Most of the shows will feature the band supporting The Scorpions.
Dua Lipa strut the Balenciaga Couture Show catwalk in Paris. Dua donned a canary yellow mini-dress with a cascading train and accessorized with long black opera gloves, black pantyhose and dynamic black heels.
John Mayer‘s father suffered a medical emergency. The singer alerted fans on his Instagram Story that his father was taken to the ER and is “now fairly stable and will continue to undergo some procedures.” John will be staying by his father’s side as he recovers, so he has called off his concert in Saratoga Springs.
Madonna shared some adorable photos she took of her kids during her Fourth of July celebrations. “Last night was fire,” she captioned the snaps of her roasting marshmallows with her kids Mercy James, David Banda, and twins Estere and Stella.
Vanilla Ice is back with a new song, called “Joyburst.” He also kicked up the nostalgia with a very ’90s-inspired music video. The song is now available to stream across all music platforms.
Hungry? Alessia Cara shared her simple recipe for whipped feta dip. She posted a photo of it on her Instagram Story and explained that all you need is feta cheese, paprika, salt, garlic, pepper, parsley, roasted tomatoes, olives, honey, olive oil, pumpkin and sunflower seeds. Unfortunately, she didn’t provide any measurements …
