Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton celebrated the one-year anniversary of their engagement on Sunday, and now, Gwen has shared some never-before seen video and pictures from the day that Blake popped the question.
“one year ago today?!” she captioned her Instagram post. “October 17th 2020 we got engaged! @blakeshelton I love you!” The first video shows Gwen showing off her ring as Blake dances up behind her and kisses her cheek. “Look! We just got engaged!” she yells, as the song “Celebration” plays in the background.
Another image shows Gwen on her knees covering her face as Blake kneels in front of her, holding her waist. Next, there’s video of Gwen’s massive diamond engagement ring.
Gwen and Blake didn’t make their engagement public until October 27, 2020. They tied the knot July 3, 2021 at Blake’s Oklahoma ranch.
Colin Powell, the Army general who served as both chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later as U.S. secretary of state, has died of complications from COVID-19 at age 84.
A statement from the Powell family, posted to Powell’s Facebook page, reads: “Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell served under four presidents — Ronald Reagan, GeorgeBush, BillClinton and George W. Bush — at the very top of the national security establishment, first as deputy national security adviser and then as national security adviser. He was later appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior ranking member of the U.S. armed forces and top military adviser to the president.
Powell was the first African-American ever to hold the post of Joint Chiefs chairman, and the first to be secretary of state, a position he held from 2001 to 2005 under President George W. Bush.
Powell helped shape American defense and foreign policy. He was in top posts during the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the downsizing of the military after the end of the Cold War, the 1989 invasion of Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, the 1992-93 engagement in Somalia, and the crisis in Bosnia.
Following his 1993 retirement from the Army at the rank of four-star general, Powell’s supporters urged him to enter politics, touting him as the only candidate with the moral stature needed to unite the country and heal longstanding racial wounds.
Throughout his service in the military, Powell never made his political leanings known. Although he served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, it wasn’t until 1995 that Powell announced that he had registered as a Republican. He publicly supported the candidacy of only two presidential candidates: LyndonJohnson and BarackObama, both Democrats.
Powell was engaged in several notable humanitarian and personal efforts. In 1994, he, former PresidentJimmyCarter and former Sen. SamNunn, D-Ga., embarked on a peacekeeping mission in Haiti, during which they were able to help bring to an end to military rule and establish an elected government for the country.
In 1995, Powell published his autobiography, My American Journey, in which he touched on everything from his military experiences to more personal matters. Powell was also involved in America’s Promise, a non-profit organization geared toward empowering young people, for which he served as chairman from 1997-2000.
Powell spent his entire adult life in service to his country. He leaves behind his wife of 48 years, Alma Powell, and his son, Michael.
L-R: Jim Moore, Pink; Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
Pink has confirmed that her father, Jim Moore, lost his battle with prostate cancer.
Taking to Instagram on Friday — her father’s birthday — the singer shared a photo of his grave, and reflected on the complicated relationship she had with him before expressing, “I don’t even know that I can handle the cold hard truth that I miss you yet. I wanna still act like this is one of those times that I’m busy and not calling. I can’t feel this yet.”
Noting that her father would have turned 76 on Friday, she lamented, “I don’t know where you are. And therefore I don’t know where I am either. Happy Birthday Daddy Sir. Gone but not forgotten. I won’t miss you yet. I’m not ready.”
Pink first hinted of her father’s passing in August when she shared two photos to Instagram of herself dancing with her dad, one at her wedding to husband Carey Hart and the other of a young Pink and Jim at a formal function. She captioned it, “Til forever.”
She’d previously revealed in June 2020 that her father was battling cancer, sharing on Instagram a photo of Jim smiling while undergoing his second round of chemotherapy, noting that he learned he had cancer after he “fell off a ladder and fractured his back.”
Pink, whose parents divorced when she was 10, helped her dad realize his music dreams in the mid-2000s when they recorded “I Have Seen the Rain” — a song Jim wrote while he was serving in the Vietnam War — together. She credited her dad’s song with helping her learn to play the acoustic guitar and how to harmonize, since it was the first song she ever learned.
The song was a hidden track on her 2006 album, I’m Not Dead.
The reports were true: Adele is indeed promoting her new album with a network TV special.
Adele One Night Only will air Sunday, November 14 on CBS at 8 p.m. ET, and will also be available to stream on Paramount+. The two-hour special, which will be filmed in L.A., will feature the star performing her new material, as well as some of her hits. It’ll also include Adele sitting for an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
CBS describes the chat as Adele’s first “televised wide-ranging conversation,” with topics including her new album, her life after her divorce, raising her son and her weight loss.
Adele’s new album, 30, arrives November 19. Its first single, “Easy on Me,” is out now.
Kourtney Kardashian is ready to say “I do” to Blink-182‘s Travis Barker… because she just said “yes” to him asking for her hand in marriage.
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star shared two ultra-romantic images to Instagram late Sunday, which show them cozying up on the beach while surrounded by a sea of red roses and flickering white candles.
She simply captioned the announcement, “forever” and tagged Barker, who repeated the caption verbatim in the comment section using all capital letters.
Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian gave her Twitter followers a closeup look at her sister’s stunning engagement ring, writing in all caps, “Kravis forever.”
The video, which is set to Bruno Mars‘ “Marry You,” zooms in on Kourtney’s oval-shaped sparkler.
This will be Barker’s third marriage. He was previously married to Melissa Kennedy from 2001 to 2002 and to Shanna Moakler between 2004 and 2008. He shares two children, 17-year-old Landon and 15-year-old Alabama, with Moakler. Both Landon and Alabama celebrated the happy news on their respective Instagram stories and congratulated their future mother-in-law.
As for Kourtney, she shares three children with ex-Scott Disick, whom she never married: 11-year-old Mason, nine-year-old Penelope and six-year-old Reign.
Kourtney, 42, and Barker, 45, were first romantically linked in 2019, but the pair insisted they were just good friends and have been for years. The two went Instagram official in February 2021.
Jimmie Allen‘s coming off a big week, as he heads into “Grease Night” this evening on Dancing with the Stars.
Not only did he and his wife Alexis Gale welcome their second daughter, Zara James, over the weekend, he also just turned in his best performance of the season last Tuesday on Disney Villains Night.
Part of Jimmie’s strategy has been to learn everything he can from folks who’ve done well on the show before.
“I was actually FaceTiming Lauren [Alaina] today, talking about the Rumba,” he told ABC Audio earlier in the season. “Talked to Nelly, AJ McLean and I talked to Chuck [Wicks]. I talked to Nick Carter, talked to Donald Driver, DeMarcus Ware, talked to BabyFace — a bunch of people that did it.”
“You know, it’s been super cool,” Jimmie continues. “Rashad Jennings, he actually won it with my partner Emma [Slater]. Kaitlyn Bristowe, that won it last year, I talked to her yesterday. It was super cool.”
Jimmie’s also relying on country fans to come through for him.
“Oh, yeah! Listen, them country music fans show up!” he says excitedly. “Okay, they show up! And I’m hoping they graded me low, so they can see the growth, and then I can come back next and try to get better.”
“Because I don’t wanna jump from sixes and fives to nines and tens…” he explains. “I kinda wanna work my way up. I don’t wanna go too high too fast.”
So far, it’s a plan that seems to be working.
Tonight, tune in to see Jimmie dance the Foxtrot to “Sandy,” starting at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Drummer Ron Tutt, who played with Elvis Presley‘s longtime backing group the TCB Band from 1969 to Elvis’ passing in 1977 and also worked with many other famous artists, has died at age 83.
Tutt’s death was announced Saturday in a message posted on Elvis Presley Enterprises’ Graceland.com website.
“In addition to being a legendary drummer, [Ron] was a good friend to many of us here at Graceland,” the tribute reads. “We enjoyed each time he joined us here to celebrate Elvis Week, Elvis’ Birthday and many other special occasions. Ronnie was an amazing ambassador to Elvis’ legacy — sharing his memories of working with Elvis with fans — as well as bringing Elvis’ music to arenas around the globe through later Elvis in Concert shows and performances.”
The note adds, “Our hearts go out to [his wife] Donna, his family, his fellow TCB Band members — and to his fans around the world. He will be deeply missed by all of us.”
During his time playing with the TCB Band, Tutt also established himself as an in-demand session drummer. He played on two Billy Joel albums, 1973’s Piano Man and Streetlife Serenade, and recorded and toured for several years with the Jerry Garcia Band.
He also recorded with Neil Diamond from the 1980s till the early 2000s, and was a member of Diamond’s touring band until Neil’s retirement.
Other well-known artists that Tutt recorded and/or performed with included Johnny Cash, The Carpenters, Kenny Rogers, Elvis Costello, Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks, Michael McDonald, Glen Campbell and Gram Parsons.
When he was eight years old, The Kid LAROI decided that he wanted to be a musician — but he says it was just a coincidence that, years before he was born, his parents were in the music business too…kind of.
“My dad was trying to be a singer, I guess, and my mom was a model in Sydney,” the Australian rapper says of his parents. “My dad had some minor success in the U.K. but I guess, you know, stuff just didn’t work out. He came back to Australia, they met and they started like a little business together.”
The “Stay” singer continues, “They actually found a [music] act and signed an act to Sony Australia” — the label that LAROI is currently signed to, as it happens. But, he notes, “When they split up, they kind of left the whole music thing behind because they were kind of doing it together.”
And since LAROI was only three when his parents split, he wasn’t really aware of their music business background, and his parents no longer had any connections that would help him, either. Still, the “Without You” singer thinks it’s pretty crazy that he ended up in the business anyway, and succeeded where his parents hadn’t.
“They had a good little run with whatever they did, but I guess they didn’t even get to experience the full capacity of it,” he explains. “And a lot of stuff that I’m doing now is a big first time for them, like, they’re still learning this stuff. It’s just funny how s**t full-circles around!”
The Kid LAROI is now working on his debut album and will launch his first headlining tour in 2022.
Adele is confident that, in a battle between her new album versus fellow Brit Ed Sheeran‘s, her music would reign supreme.
Speaking recently to UK radio showHeart Breakfast, one of the personalities asked the “Hello” singer about her and Sheeran’s long-awaited studio albums.
After a six-year wait, Adele’s anticipated 30 arrives November 19 while Sheeran’s = (pronounced Equals) comes out October 29.
The DJ appeared to confuse the respective release dates and stated the records were both coming out “at the same time,” which prompted a hilarious exchange with the Grammy winner.
“[Ed’s album comes out] on the 19th?,” she questioned the radio hosts, which prompted one of the personalities to tell her not “to panic.”
That off-the-cuff remark caused Adele to burst out into a haughty laughter before she declared while raising a hand, “I ain’t panicking! HE should panic!”
The ribbing was all in good fun, though, with the “Rumors” singer quickly assuring, “I love Ed… and I really love his wife, Cherry [Seaborn].”
The feeling of love and rivalry is seemingly mutual because Sheeran previously told British GQ just how much he respects her.
“Adele is the one person who’s sold more records than me in the past 10 years. She’s the only person I need to sell more records than,” he said during the 2017 sit down. “That’s a big f****** feat because her last album sold 20 million. But if I don’t set her as the benchmark then I’m selling myself short.”
We shall see if Ed accomplishes his goal when he releases his new album at the end of the month… and whether or not 30 sets a new record that he must beat.
Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil is recovering from broken ribs after falling off the stage during his performance with his solo band on Friday at the Monsters on the Mountain festival in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
“Vince is back home and resting after breaking a few ribs on Friday night,” a message on Mötley Crüe’s Twitter feed reads. “Our love and best wishes for a speedy recovery and ready to rock in ’22!!”
According to TMZ, the incident happed a few songs into Neil’s set when he accidentally stepped off the edge of the stage and fell about four feet onto a cement floor.
TMZ reports that Vince, 60, was helped to his feet by his roadie and a security guard, and then was taken to a local hospital via an ambulance.
According to the website, Neil’s band finished up the set with guitarist Jeff Blando taking over lead vocals.
A video of the accident posted on the Metal Sludge Twitter feed shows Neil falling into a gap between the stage and the monitors. A separate fan-shot video showing a different angle of Neil’s tumble has been posted on YouTube.
Next year, Mötley Crüe is slated to team up with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts on The Stadium Tour, a major U.S. trek that’s is slated to kick off June 16 in Atlanta. The tour originally was supposed to have taken place in 2020, then was postponed until this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic before being pushed back yet again because of the ongoing health crisis.
