Kate Winslet was hospitalized after suffering a fall while filming in Croatia.
Winslet, who is shooting her upcoming film Lee, slipped while on set and was taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure required by production, Entertainment Tonight reports.
A rep for the British actress told the outlet, “She is fine and will be filming, as planned, this week.”
Winslet will star in the historical drama Lee as Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed photographer working for Vogue as a correspondent during World War II.
Christina Milian saluted the start of Latin Heritage Month and explained how she honors her culture through her work.
“It’s part of who I am … I’ve always been so proud of my Cuban upbringing,” she told ABC Audio. “We’re storytellers … my mom was the type that, whether you are in the grocery store or anywhere, she talked to everyone!”
“I think part of the Latino community is telling your story, and knowing where you came from and making a better life for your children’s children. That’s why we strive to have dreams and to actually attain our dreams,” Milian said.
She added, “We’re pretty lively, so I think we bring our energy to our work ethic!”
The Resort to Love star teased she’ll celebrate her culture further by bringing her energy behind the camera.
“I’m looking to do more stuff behind the scenes,” she revealed. “I would like to produce more films and series and have the opportunity [to] open up the doors for more people to be able to show their talents and tell more stories.”
Milian is shining the spotlight on Latino-owned businesses across the country with Yelp’s Latinx Ones-to-Watch in 2022 list. The “Am to Pm” singer, who co-owns Beignet Box with business partner Elizabeth Morris, celebrated the growing number of Latino-owned businesses and wants to see more.
“I’m happy to see that we’re bridging the gap more,” she said.
To those dreaming of owning their own business, Milian offered this advice: “Go for it. The process is really important. You can learn so much along the way. And when you get there, you can pat yourself on the back and you’ll appreciate how hard you worked to get there!”
Talking Heads guitarist/keyboardist Jerry Harrison is preparing to play a special concert and Q&A event with ex-King Crimson singer/guitarist Adrian Belew on September 29 at the famed Los Angeles theater The Wiltern.
The show is the latest of several performances that Harrison and Belew, along with members of the Brooklyn, New York-based group Turkuaz, have played since 2020 celebrating Talking Heads‘ 1980 album, Remain in Light.
Harrison tells ABC Audio that the inspiration for the concerts was a 1980 show in Rome that Talking Heads played during their Remain in Light trek while Belew was a touring member of group.
“There was something unique and different about this [Rome] show, which was a little more free form, a little bit more open to, let’s say, improvisation,” Harrison explains. “And [Adrian and I] said, ‘Let’s try and duplicate that show.’ So, rather than doing the whole album … we did the Remain in Light songs that we did in that show, plus a bunch of [other Talking Heads tunes] from earlier albums.”
Harrison notes that the new “Remain in Light” concerts also have featured renditions of Jerry’s solo song “Rev It Up” and King Crimson’s “Thela Hun Ginjeet,” a tune co-written by Belew.
To present the show live, Harrison and Belew initially teamed up with Turkuaz, an eclectic funk group that Jerry had previously produced. After internal tensions led Turkuaz to break up in late 2021, Harrison and Belew’s concerts have featured most of the Brooklyn band’s former members, plus some additional musicians.
Harrison says the Q&A portion of the event at The Wiltern likely will take place before the performance, noting that it will “set the tone of people having sort of a conversation with Adrian and me.”
Tickets for the concert are available at LiveNation.com.
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On her global smash “Cold Heart” with Elton John, Dua Lipa sang part of Elton’s classic hit “Rocket Man.” Now, she’s recorded a new version of yet another iconic song, coincidentally one of Elton’s former duet partners: the late George Michael.
Dua has recorded her take on George’s 1990 top 10 hit “Freedom! ’90” for a new ad campaign for Yves Saint Laurent Beauty’s new fragrance, Libre Le Parfum (libre in French means free or at liberty). You can find a 45-second ad using the song on YouTube, though it doesn’t appear to have been officially released yet.
“Obviously, when you’re covering a song that has such a big legacy and with such an incredible artist, you know you want to do it justice,” she continues, noting she wants to be thoughtful about covering a song that holds “so much value to culture.”
“I wanted to create in my own way, but also have it hold the same meaning … I hope I did it justice,” she says.
As for her feelings about freedom, Dua says she feels the most free when she’s onstage.
“I feel lucky that I get to really live those moments, those words that I created in a studio environment and remember why I wrote them, and why I felt the way I did and be able to share that energy,” she explains.
And in case you’re wondering, Dua says her biggest beauty inspirations include Kate Moss and Drew Barrymore‘s ’90s looks, and her mother, who could put on eyeliner “so perfectly every time.”
For Hispanic Heritage Month, Gloria Estefan spoke to ABC News about her life and career. In her decadeslong career, you could say the Cuban-born star has lived the American dream, but her dreams, she said, have always been about creating and not about receiving accolades.
“It wasn’t part of my dream,” Gloria told ABC News when asked about her many awards, like her seven Grammys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “My dream was to be successful, to be educated, to make a life — later on, it became to make a life in music, and to be able to reach people’s hearts and minds with my music.”
“Those awards are all beautiful and fantastic, but we never, ever made music thinking of a hit song on the radio, or a Grammy,” she continued. “You might say, ‘Oh, come on, really?’ And I go, ‘Yes, really.’ Because to me, the joy is in the creating.”
The “Get On Your Feet” star says that every time she writes a song, “I know that somebody somewhere is going to be able to listen to those words and hopefully it will empower them, or make them feel better, or be able to cry. That to me was my American dream.”
Admitting that her success in achieving her dreams “comes with a lot of really nice perks,” Gloria noted that she and her husband and musical partner, Emilio Estefan, have been “very blessed and privileged.”
“We’ve tried to turn that into making life easier for other people through philanthropy and my foundation,” she continued. “But the dream was just to do what we love, to do what makes us happy and passionate.”
Next up for Gloria is an album called Estefan Family Christmas, which will feature her daughter, Emily, and her grandson, Sasha.
Carrie Underwood heads out on her Denim & Rhinestones tour this fall, and for the first time in a long time, she won’t have her kids in tow with her.
That’s right: Carrie’s adorable plus-ones, 7-year-old Isaiah and 3-year-old Jacob, typically join her when she’s on the road, but now that they’re old enough to go to school, they’ll be staying at home and only coming out for visits.
She’ll miss them, of course, but Carrie tells ET Online that flying solo this time around isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “I feel like it’ll be a little bit easier, I guess, to go on tour, because my kids are in school now,” she says.
“It’ll be the first time I haven’t had a baby on the road in years. Years years,” she continues. “So I am looking forward to being able to really work and not be so tired.”
Carrie’s tour kicks off on October 15 with opening act Jimmie Allen. Even though her boys won’t be joining her this time around, she’ll still see them plenty, she adds — the singer says she’s making stops at home in Nashville to make sure she sees her two kids as much as she can.
The singer’s boys have both gone on the road with her plenty, and Isaiah has also joined her in the studio in the past. He duets with his superstar mom on a rendition of “Little Drummer Boy,” which is featured on Carrie’s 2020 Christmas album, My Gift.
Nearly two years after a divorce, LeToya Luckett is feeling strong again and enjoying what she calls her rebirth.
The former Destiny’s Child member divorced her second husband, Tommicus Walker, in January 2021 right after their third anniversary. It was in the middle of the pandemic, and with two children, the divorce was traumatic.
“You’re already having to deal with the loss of normalcy,” Luckett tells Essence. “And then, on top of that, having another death, the death of a marriage. Honestly, to this day I still don’t understand how I coped with that, outside of prayer, meditation, a good therapist and just really putting everything in the hands of God.”
The two-time Grammy winner had just given birth to her second child, son Tysun; had gained significant weight; and was dealing with postpartum depression as a single parent.
Since then, LeToya has lost 60 pounds and says, “I’m in a great place.” Luckett calls her transformation the “rebirth of Toya.”
The 42-year-old entertainer has a recurring role on 50 Cent’s series Power Book III: Raising Kanan and hosts her YouTube series, Leave It To LeToya.
Tysun is now 2 years old, and his sister, Gianna, is 3 years old. When they grow up, Luckett hopes they will feel that “Mommy is resilient. Mommy never gave up. Mommy did whatever she had to do, to fight for us and to fight for herself.”
Pixies bassist Paz Lenchantin recalls crossing paths with late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins while on tour.
“I’ve run into him many, many times on the road,” Lenchantin tells ABC Audio. “We’re like little birds, it’s, like, ‘Oh, there you are!’ … and that’s the only time that we really see each other.”
Lenchantin reveals that Pixies had actually been asked about possibly performing at the Hawkins tribute show in London earlier this month. She says she “got a call” from former A Perfect Circle bandmate Josh Freese, who was one of the many guest drummers who played with the Foos at the end of the concert.
“They were wondering what we were up to, that they knew that we were on tour,” Lenchantin shares.
While Pixies were indeed in England for the day of the tribute, they’d already been booked to play another show at the End of the Road festival. Still, Lenchantin felt Hawkins’ presence while on the latest Pixies tour.
“In the beginning of this tour, I felt like I saw him out there in our audience,” Lenchantin says. “I know that he was a Pixies fan.”
“For some reason, I don’t know why, I kept seeing him outside smiling in the audience,” she adds. “And it would kinda shock me.”
A second Hawkins tribute concert will take place September 27 in Los Angeles.
Pixies, meanwhile, are gearing up to release a new album called Doggerel on September 30. They’ll play a quick run of U.S. dates in October.
Lady Gaga was in tears Saturday night when she was forced to cut short the final show of her Chromatica Ball tour at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium due to dangerous lightning and rain.
Gaga posted a video of herself on Saturday crying backstage, and telling fans, “We really tried to finish the show tonight in Miami but we couldn’t, because even when the rain sort of stopped, there was lightning that was striking right down to the ground so close to us.”
“I know that for a really long time I’ve always wanted to be, like, that hardcore bad b***h, but what I really want is to also be responsible and loving,” she continued, “I don’t know what I would do if anything happened to anybody in the audience or any member of my crew…my band, my dancers.”
She concluded, “Chromatica will never be over, because Chromatica’s about healing and Chromatica is about knowing that you’re enough. And I feel like enough tonight, even though I didn’t get to finish.”
In a second post, she wrote, “Look, for years some of you have called me ‘mother monster’ — in my heart, I knew it was better to keep you safe.”
She added, “Sure, OF COURSE, I wanted to sing ‘Rain On Me’ for you in the rain — ‘I’d rather be dry, but at least I’m alive’ — I guess somehow I knew this moment would happen…Safety first. Love you. Thank you for the flowers and the cheers and for understanding. Life matters.”
Gaga also noted that Chromatica was “the greatest tour of my life.”
(SAN JUAN) — The entire island of Puerto Rico lost power just before Hurricane Fiona made landfall on Sunday afternoon, according to officials.
More than 1.5 million customers are without electricity as the Category 1 storm, with sustained winds at 85 mph and torrential rain bear down on the island, Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi announced on Facebook Sunday afternoon.
Fiona strengthened to a hurricane from a tropical storm Sunday morning. Emergency response teams for the utility companies will deploy once the conditions allow, Pierluisi said.
The National Hurricane Center said Fiona made landfall in southwestern Puerto Rico at 3:20 p.m. ET. Widespread torrential rain has been hitting much of the island and is expected to continue for several hours. Flash flood effects are in place across the eastern half of the island.
Pierluisi believes Puerto Rico is prepared as it can be, with enough resources and manpower in place to respond, he told ABC News earlier in the day — adding that the island learned its lessons from the devastating effects of Hurricane Maria in September 2017.
“We’re much in a much better position than we were five years ago,” he said.
Hurricane warnings will remain in place for Puerto Rico and the easternmost points of the Dominican Republic throughout Sunday. Tremendous rainfall is forecast, with much of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic expected to receive up to 10 inches. Some localized regions in Puerto Rico could get up to 20 inches.
While still a tropical storm, the system battered the Caribbean islands. One person died in the French territory of Guadeloupe, according to The Associated Press. More than 20 others were rescued amid heavy wind and rain according to the AP.
The island’s emergency management office in Puerto Rico even had a blackout during its Saturday morning press conference. Pierluisi reiterated during that press briefing Saturday evening that the fear is that heavy rains will produce mudslides.
After passing through the Caribbean, the storm system will head northward, passing just east of Turks and Caicos before tracking near Bermuda, forecasts show.
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Puerto Rico on Sunday, which allows federal agencies to coordinate all relief efforts.
Biden’s decision has the “purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in all 78 municipalities in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,” the White House said in a statement.
At least 101 people are in 79 shelters across Puerto Rico, with the expectation that the figure will go up, officials said.
The storm continues to move west-northwest at about 9 mph, with sustained winds of 60 mph as of Saturday evening.
Fiona’s center moved through the island of Guadeloupe on Friday night, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds across the Leeward Islands.
Sustained winds of 45 to 60 mph are expected for parts of southwest Puerto Rico and St. Croix Sunday night with gusts as high as 85 mph.
Rain and gusty winds will continue for Puerto Rico through Monday morning before conditions taper off in the afternoon, officials said.
The worst conditions in the Dominican Republic are expected late Sunday morning.
The rain has already saturated areas in the southeastern part of Puerto Rico, along with the mountainous areas, where potential mudslides and winds could cause the most damage.
“We shouldn’t underestimate this storm,” Pierluisi said in a briefing Saturday.
Resident Magda Diaz told ABC News outside a San Juan Walmart that she expects to be without power. Diaz said she loses power regularly, especially during smaller storms, and was recently in the dark for three days.
A LUMA Energy official told ABC News on Saturday that the company has been fixing the grid and is ready to get the grid back online if the system fails. LUMA Energy is in charge of the transmission and distribution of electricity on the island.
“We were expecting power outages from Fiona … and we’re bringing in 100 more workers from our parent companies that will be landing Sunday,” LUMA official Don Cortez said.
LUMA Energy’s Crisis Management Manager Abner Gomez told reporters the energy distributor is working to prevent a repeat of Hurricane Maria’s aftermath.
“We are going to make sure [a widespread outage] will not happen because we have the crews,” he said. “There will be damage. There will be outages and we will be ready to respond.”
