In an apparent attempt to prove that he can work in every musical genre, pop superstar Ed Sheeranmade a surprise appearance Sunday night at a Luke Combs show in London.
Luke was performing at London’s O2 Arena as part of the Country 2 Country Festival, and Ed showed up to join him on a version of his song “Dive,” which appears on Ed’s album ÷ (Divide). While it wasn’t a single, the track’s a fan favorite and Luke often covers it in concert.
“Boys, I don’t know how we follow that,” laughed Luke after Ed walked off stage.
It seems Luke had the time of his life performing at the three-day festival that takes place across Europe, sharing photos from the stage as he performs in front of massive crowds. This marks the first year of the country music-themed festival since 2019. It was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lady Gaga’s been keeping her relationship with Michael Polanksy pretty quiet, but she brought him as her date to two major public appearances on Sunday: the BAFTAs and the Critics Choice Awards. At the BAFTAs in London, host Rebel Wilson awarded Polanksy the “best plus one award.” Gaga, sadly, went home empty-handed at both events.
At the Critics Choice Awards, Gaga also shared a special moment with West Side Story star Rachel Zegler, who plays Maria. “You’re stunning and I’m obsessed with you,” Zegler told Gaga during a commercial break, according to Variety. Gaga then embraced the young actress, causing her to tear up.
Kim Kardashian is loving Rihanna’s maternity style. Rih-Rih recently stepped out in a belly-baring look consisting of a black leather jacket, matching mini skirt, silver bra top, and thigh-high boots. In a Sunday post to her Instagram Story captured by E!, Kim commented on the look, “OMGGGGGG. @Badgalriri best pregnancy style ever.”
Ahead of her album release this week, Charli XCX surprised fans by dropping a brand-new song titled “Every Rule.” “Couldn’t wait so i’m giving you every rule…” the singer tweeted Monday. Her album, Crash, drops Friday.
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Rod Stewart may be a rich and famous rock star, but he’s not afraid to get his hands dirty.
A few days ago, Sir Rod, 77, posted two videos on Instagram of himself shoveling gravel with a road crew as they attempted to fill in a bunch of muddy holes all along the road in Harlow, Essex, England, that leads to his mansion.
“I’m repairing the street where I live, ’cause no one could be bothered to do it,” Rod says in the first video. In the second clip, he shows off the pothole-ridden dirt road, and says, “This is the state of the road where I live. People are bashing their cars up, and the other day, there was an ambulance with a burst tire.”
Of course, Rod’s motivation to repair the road isn’t solely altruistic. “My Ferrari can’t go through here at all,” he admits. “So me and the boys thought we’d come here and do it ourselves!” He also complains about the “millions and millions of pounds” that have been spent fixing a nearby highway.
Rod’s daughters Kimberly and Ruby Stewart applauded him in the comments, while his former Faces band mate and longtime Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood wrote, “Bravo, Rod!”
However, one fan noted, “Don’t hurt yourself! I’ve got tickets to see you in June!”
Another fan commented, “Takes you back to your graveyard days I’m sure,” referring to the story that, in his pre-fame days, Rod worked as a gravedigger. Rod later admitted in his autobiography that the story wasn’t true, but he’d gone along with it. In reality, he did work in a cemetery, but his job was measuring out plots, not digging graves.
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The stars of 90s TV favorites were on hand at Connecticut’s Hartford Convention Center over the weekend for the first-ever 90s Con.
Among the stars who sat down to throwback with ABC Audio included Reginald VelJohnson, Kellie Shanygne Williams, Darius McCrary and Jo Marie Payton from Family Matters.
“We’re not just one of the greatest shows of the ’90s,” enthused McCrary, who played Eddie Winslow, “We’re one of the greatest shows of all time!”
Payton offered a hearty “Amen!”
Family Matters ran from 1989 to 1998, first on ABC before a move to CBS for its final season. During the pandemic, the series found a huge new audience via streaming.
“I mean, everything else is horrible, but the cool thing about the pandemic is it drove us all back together,” commented Shanygne. “I think that parents that are our age…they wanted to share…a specific kind of experience with their kids.”
She continues, “When we saw that the show had been streamed over two billion times during the pandemic, that was awesome.”
VelJohnson, the Die Hard veteran who played Winslow family patriarch Carl, is pulling for a reboot, suggesting, “…I’d be a grandfather.” However, he laughed about what that would mean to the show’s most memorable character, played by Jaleel White, “…Urkel’s kids! Oh lord, could you imagine? ‘Did I do that?'” he said, dropping the character’s catchphrase.
Payton, who already stars in the reboot of The Proud Family on Disney+, has one rule: A reboot can’t be like Peacock’s new Fresh Prince re-do, Bel-Air. “I wouldn’t like to go that way because we were not a dramedy. We were a situation comedy,” she declared.
The third season of The Umbrella Academy — the Netflix show based on the comic book series created by My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way — finally has a premiere date.
New episodes will drop on the streaming service June 22.
The Umbrella Academy, which first premiered in 2019, follows a dysfunctional family of misfit superheroes who must come together to solve the mystery of their eccentric, not-so-loving billionaire father and, in the process, stop the apocalypse from happening.
Season two, which featured a new Way solo song called “Here Comes the End,” ended with a cliffhanger that, because of some time travel shenanigans, introduces a whole new family of heroes, the Sparrow Academy.
The Umbrella Academy season three will star returning cast members Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher and Justin H. Min.
The first round of guest artists appearing in the upcoming country music musical May We Allhas been unveiled.
Co-produced by Florida Georgia Line‘s Brian Kelley, May We All tells the story of Jenna Coates, a singer from the fictional town of Harmony, Tennessee, with dreams to make it big in Nashville. But along the way, she faces a series of setbacks that send her back to her small hometown, where she rediscovers who she is.
The score includes generations of country music, with songs by Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert,Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton and many more.
May We All will premiere at Tennessee Performing Arts Center in June, with several of Brian’s fellow country artists slated to fill the rotating cast role of Bailey Stone throughout the month, with each guest star performing as the character on their respective date.
“One Big Country Song” hitmakers LoCash will open the show as Bailey on June 7, with Breland taking over the role on June 8. Lainey Wilson will perform on June 14, with Lindsay Ell filling the role on June 22.
Danielle Bradbery, Jamie O’Neal and former American Idol contestants Trent Harmon and Caleb Lee Hutchinson are among the other artists who will take part in the production.
May We All will run at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville from June 7 to July 17.
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In an apparent attempt to prove that he can work in every musical genre, Ed Sheeran made a surprise appearance Sunday night at a show in London by country music superstar Luke Combs.
Luke was performing at London’s O2 Arena as part of the Country 2 Country Festival, and Ed showed up to join him on a version of Ed’s song “Dive,” which appears on Ed’s album, ÷ (Divide). While it wasn’t a single, the track’s a fan favorite and Luke often covers it in concert.
“Boys, I don’t know how we follow that,” laughed Luke after Ed walked off stage.
In just the past couple of months, Ed’s collaborated with Camila Cabello on the Latin-flavored “Bam Bam,” Fireboy DML on the Afrobeats song “Peru,” the metal band Bring Me the Horizon on a remix of his own song “Bad Habits,” and Elton John on the holiday song “Merry Christmas.”
Lindsay Ell has been through some difficult moments. She went through a public breakup, grappled with heartache and ultimately channeled those emotions into heart theory, her most intimate and revealing work to date.
She’s also learned a lot about self-love and what she’s looking for in a partner, the singer tells People.
“What bad breakups teach us is what we don’t want and what we truly do want,” Lindsay says. “Sometimes, it’s just the right relationships at the wrong time. Or sometimes, we fall in love with the wrong people for us.”
But by this point in her life, she’s learned to be happily single and feel truly comfortable with who she is as an artist and a person. “My insecurities make me who I am, and no one can be a better version of you. And you will find the right person who will like that,” she notes.
In the meantime, Lindsay has also used her hard-earned wisdom to support friends as they navigate their own heartbreak, like Carly Pearce. Carly went through a very public divorce in 2020 after marrying fellow artist Michael Ray just eight months earlier.
Now, Carly’s got a new man in her life, and Lindsay says it feels good to see her friend happy again. “Going through that heartbreak and then coming out of it — that’s just such a cool thing to watch a good friend experience that for themselves,” she adds.
Alexisonfire has announced a headlining U.S. tour.
The outing launches May 19 in Nashville, and will stretch all the way into the fall before wrapping up October 9 in Anaheim, California.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 18, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit the Alexisonfire website, TheOnlyBandEver.com.
The tour news comes a week after Alexisonfire announced their new album, Otherness, last week, ending the 13-year wait for a follow-up to the band’s last full-length record, 2009’s Old Crows/Young Cardinals.
Otherness will be released June 24. It includes the lead single “Sweet Dreams of Otherness.”
Machine Gun Kelly has revealed the track list and guest artists appearing on his upcoming album, Mainstream Sellout.
In addition to the previously released “Emo Girl” featuring WILLOW and “Ay!” featuring Lil Wayne, the 16-song set includes collaborations with Bring Me the Horizon, blackbear, iann diorr, Gunna and Young Thug, as well as a second tune with Wayne, plus an appearance from SNL cast member and future astronautPete Davidson.
Also on the track list is the single “Papercuts,” which was released last year back when the album was called Born with Horns.
Mainstream Sellout arrives March 25. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s Tickets to My Downfall, which was also produced by Blink-182‘s Travis Barker.
Here’s the Mainstream Sellout track list:
“Born with Horns”
“God Save Me”
“Maybe” feat. Bring Me the Horizon
“Drug Dealer” feat. Lil Wayne
“Wall of Fame (interlude)” feat. Pete Davidson
“Mainstream Sellout”
“Make Up Sex” feat. blackbear
“Emo Girl” feat. WILLOW
“5150”
“Papercuts”
“WW4”
“Ay!” feat. Lil Wayne
“Fake Love Don’t Last” feat. iann dior
“Die in California” feat. Gunna & Young Thug
“Sid & Nancy”
“Twin Flame”
