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Music notes: David Foster, ABBA, Kelly Clarkson, Joe Jonas, The Weeknd and Sam Smith

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

David Foster is reflecting on being a dad at 73 and told People what he can offer his toddler, Rennie. While David admits he likely won’t be around when his son hits his 30s and 40s, he said, “I think I can offer him wisdom from my 72 years on the planet. And maybe that’s not a bad trade-off. I hope so.”‘

ABBA joked they almost had a potential fifth member — a literal fan. Taking to TikTok, they shared a humorous video of a white pedestal fan edited to look like it was gently blowing Anni-Frid Lyngstad‘s hair during the “Chiquitita” music video. “Almost the 5th ABBA member in this video,” the group joked.

Kelly Clarkson will guest star on The Rookie, spilled star Nathan Fillion. “She played herself,” he told LIVE with Kelly and Ryan. Fillion revealed Kelly stressed over her acting, even though she only had two lines, so production “kept it real.”

Joe Jonas helped a fan design her next tattoo. He shared a video to his Instagram Story of a fan asking him to draw her next ink during a performance. According to the fan’s reveal, it was a thin cloud with a lightning strike coming from its center.

The Weeknd broke his own Spotify record by beating himself as the artist with the most monthly listeners. He shared to his Instagram Story that he clocked nearly 150,000 more streams than his previous high. The new record now stands at 95,151,776 monthly listens.

If you live in the United Kingdom, you can win a virtual meet and greet with Sam Smith — all you have to do to enter is preorder their new album, Gloria, from their official store by January 18.

Paulina Porizkova fondly recalls first dinner with future husband Ric Ocasek

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Paulina Porizkova is sharing fond memories of her very first date with her late husband, The Cars’ Ric Ocasek.

“I’m sitting at a table at the Odeon restaurant, the very same table where, 39 years ago, I had my first dinner with the man who would become my husband,” she shares in an Instragram post. “We were having dinner with the whole band, their manager, and actor Timothy Hutton, but I hardly noticed anyone else but the tall, lanky and akwardly (sic) elegant man with turquoise eyes next to me.”

Paulina then writes about how the rocker accepted a dare during the meal to sit on top of a table where another couple was dining.

“Without a word, he pushed condiments and food aside and then got up on the table, folding his body so the entirety of him fit right on the table top, along with the plates and food,” she explains. “He sat there, mutely, for a minute, looking back and forth between the man and the woman, who gaped back at him. Then he got off, and slinked back next to me as if nothing happened.”

Paulina adds that while his band didn’t even notice what he was doing, “I thought he was the most compelling man I had ever met. Confident and funny in a absurdist Monty Python-esque way.”

The couple married in 1989 and had two sons together before announcing their separation in 2018. The Cars frontman passed away in 2019.

Dax Shepard reveals to Anna Kendrick she was the only actress to make wife Kristen Bell jealous

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

On the latest installment of his Armchair Expert podcast, Dax Shepard spilled some serious tea with guest Anna Kendrick about his wife, Kristen Bell.

“She has only had jealousy over a single human, and it’s been you,” Dax confessed to the Pitch Perfect alumna. “I’d never seen it [before]. It blew my mind.”

Dax told Kendrick, “Kristen was like, ‘Who is this other short person? Oh, so she can sing like that, too? I’m already here. We got another one.'”

Dax said he had permission to spill, explaining his wife has “nothing but benevolence for everyone,” yet added, “She monitored you, recognized how brilliant you were, lost some roles to you, and slowly processed the whole thing, and has nothing but wonderful feelings for you. But you’re the only person who ever made her jealous that I witnessed.”

For the record, Kendrick admitted she felt the chill from the Frozen star, adding she thought Bell “never really liked me.”

She added the caveat, “But I do think a massive percentage of that is just genuinely when it comes to really sweet, angelic, blond girls I just assumed they think I am weird, they think I am, like, this weird little troll.”

She added, “I think of her as just an angel, and she’s so sweet. And I feel so rough around the edges that I was like, ‘Oh, she must not like me.’ I am sure that’s just my projections, that’s not actually how she feels.”

To that end, Dax reiterated, “I have to be ultra clear with you: She never disliked you.”

Thomas Rhett teases tequila announcement, Wynonna joins Dead & Company in Mexico

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Thomas Rhett is getting ready to share some big news about his tequila brand. The singer posted a photo of him and his cousin Jeff Worn surrounded by their Dos Primos tequila, teasing, “Big announcement comin tomorrow… any guesses?”

Wynonna Judd made a guest appearance at Dead & Company’s annual Playing in the Sand destination event in Rivera Cancún, Mexico, last weekend. Wy joined the rockers for a performance of the Grateful Dead classic “Ramble On Rose.”

Report: Selena Gomez is dating a member of The Chainsmokers

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Selena Gomez famously sang “The Heart Wants What It Wants” and, according to a new report, she wants The Chainsmokers‘ Drew Taggart.

Us Weekly claims the pair are dating and that sources say the two aren’t going to extreme efforts to keep their relationship off the radar. “They aren’t trying to hide their romance by sneaking around at members only clubs,” the insider spilled, adding they are “very casual and low-key” while “having a lot of fun together.”

As for how the two have been spending time, the spy claims Selena and Drew “go bowling and to the movies.”

“Selena can hardly keep her hands off him,” they continued.

The rumored romance comes a few months after Drew, who is 33, broke off his “casual summer fling” with Steve Jobs‘ 24-year-old daughter, Eve Jobs.

As for Selena, who is 30, she appears to have stayed out of the dating game after her highly publicized breakup with Justin Bieber in 2018. She had been linked to several singers, such as Niall Horan and Zedd, but those romances were never confirmed.

It wasn’t revealed how Selena and Drew met or how long they’ve reportedly been an item.

Cardi B recalls the moment she learned Takeoff died

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Cardi B sat down with Jason Lee to kick off his new talk show on Revolt. In the premiere episode, she opened up about where she was when she learned that Takeoff had died.

“[I] was in bed,” Cardi recalls. “We was going to go to LaLa’s party in New York, and my daughter threw up all over my costume … We just fell asleep, and out of nowhere, Offset’s phone kept ringing, mine kept ringing.”

She continued, “Offset picked up the phone and he’s just like (screaming), ‘No!’” Cardi asked him what was wrong, to which he responded, “Takeoff is dead.” She claimed she then smacked him and asked him not to saying something that bad about Takeoff.

When she repeated the question, the rapper responded, “Takeoff is dead.” She apparently smacked him and begged him not to say something so horrible.

Offset, she added, took the news hard, leaving her afraid as he threw up, ran around the house and tossed things. “It was terrible,” she said. “Everything was so triggering.”

Takeoff was shot outside of a Houston bowling alley on November 1. In the wake of his death, Cardi shared that she felt hopeless while trying to cheer Offset up.

“We living our life normally, but deep down inside our hearts have been so heavy,” she said. “I feel like if we talk about how we really feel or what motherf**kers really been going through, y’all will start saying, ‘Oh, sympathy.'”

“We don’t want no sympathy,” she continued. “We ain’t no charity case. But no lie, I have been feeling so hopeless trying to make my husband happy.”

U2’s Bono appearing on the ‘Smartless’ podcast

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

U2 frontman Bono is set to appear on the next episode of Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s Smartless podcast, debuting January 23.

“We needed a lead vocalist, so we got Bono,” they share in announcing the news. “Come join us for breaking-news, the similarities between Ireland and Jamaica, the difference between EQ and IQ, and, um… World of Warcraft.”

The news comes barely a week after U2 announced their new album, Songs of Surrender, will drop March 17. It will feature 40 rerecorded and reimagined U2 classics.

Jennifer Lopez hadn’t planned to get married in between starring in marriage-themed movies

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

The irony of starring in two back-to-back wedding-themed movies isn’t lost on Jennifer Lopez, especially since she just tied the knot with actor Ben Affleck.

JLo starred in the romantic comedy Marry Me last year and will soon play a different bride in the action rom-com Shotgun Wedding.

“I didn’t plan any of it this way,” she told Entertainment Tonight. “I mean, Marry Me ... we wound up filming it, like, right before the pandemic happened and then they held onto that for a year and a half … and Shotgun Wedding, that was the first one I did when people started filming again.”

Jennifer reflected on the differences between the two films. While Marry Me also highlighted her musical talents through various original songs, Shotgun had her choreographing fight scenes.

“I had to get my inner Lucille Ball on for this, you know what I mean?” she said of her latest movie. “It’s more hijinks, more kind of raw — the action added a whole other element to it.”

She also praised co-star Josh Duhamel for being “the most amazing leading man who could do the comedy, do the action, and really nail the emotional stuff.”

But what about her real-life leading man, Ben Affleck? Duhamel took over for the singer and declared, “He is dreamy.”

Shotgun Wedding hits the Amazon Prime streaming service on January 27.

Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige says Paul Rudd’s Ant-Man is ready to take on one of Marvel’s biggest baddies

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

When the trailer for Marvel Studios’ upcoming Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania recently debuted, fans were struck by how different it appeared than the previous two hit Ant-Man movies.

While director Peyton Reed‘s first two installments leaned heavily into the action-comedy genre, Paul Rudd‘s third standalone go-round has real end-of-the-universe stakes, thanks to Jonathan Majors‘ Kang the Conqueror.

In an exclusive cover story with the United Kingdom’s Empire, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige explains, “We wanted to kick off Phase Five with Ant-Man because he’d earned that position. To not simply be the back-up or the comic relief, but to take his position at the front of the podium of the MCU.”

Reed explains, “We’re not running around the streets of San Francisco anymore. We’re fighting one of the most powerful villains in Marvel history, and maybe these are the most unlikely Avengers to be the first to go up against this guy.”

Feige teases it won’t be easy, as Kang, who Majors brought to life in another form in Loki, can “re-write existence and shatter timelines.”

The movie once again reunites Rudd’s Scott Lang with Evangeline Lilly‘s Hope van Dyne/The Wasp, Michael Douglas as Hank Pym and Michelle Pfeiffer as his wife, Janet van Dyne. This time around, Lang and company get sucked into the Quantum Realm, where Kang tempts Scott with his powers, promising the hero more time he lost with his daughter Cassie, this time played by Kathryn Newton.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania debuts in theaters July 6 from Marvel Studios, which, like ABC News, is a subsidiary of Disney.

Alan Cumming “had a blast” on Peacock’s new reality show ‘The Traitors’

January 16, 2023 by WDNY Radio

Tony-winning stage actor and Emmy-nominated TV star Alan Cumming takes on a very different role as the host and games master of new Peacock reality show The Traitors.

This unscripted competition series, which dropped its full season on the streaming service, is “a nail-biting psychological adventure in which treachery and deceit are the name of the game.”

Twenty contestants, including reality stars like Brandi Glanville and former Bachelor Arie Luyendyk Jr., compete in a series of challenges, with a quarter of a million bucks at stake. But the twist is, three of their kind are secretly traitors trying to undermine them — and even conspiring to “murder” them.

For Cumming, it was a chance to let his hair down, he told ABC Audio in December. “I did have an absolute blast. I mean, I really think it’s my favorite thing I’ve done all year. I’ve done some really exciting projects and played some great parts. But actually, if I had to choose one thing to do again, it would be this.”

He adds, “It was so hilarious and playing the character, a sort of heightened character, and it was so campy and Bond villain-y. And then I became really, you know, invested in the game myself.”

The traitors are chosen in dramatic fashion, with all contestants blindfolded and Cumming secretly tapping the undercover baddies on the shoulder. The actor ate it up. “I would make the producers text me who … the traitors were going to murder every night in their ‘turret.’ It’s the campest thing, and there’s cloaks and everything. So I just I had such a hoot.”

He explained, “I love a game … I love all kind of sort of confusing people. And that was really up my street.”

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