Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and Hayley Hubbard — wife to Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard — recently shared some of her favorite gift ideas to People.
Whether it’s a soft pair of slippers, the perfect hydrating face mask or a new seat of yoga gear, Hayley’ got mom covered, and she also shared the item that she’s hoping for for this year’s Mother’s day: A customizable gold necklace with a sun-shaped pendant from EF Collection.
“This is what I’ll be hoping for this Mother’s Day customized with my kids’ initials, because every mom deserves to splurge,” she says. “‘You Are My Sunshine’ is something my husband and I sing to our kids, and it’s what my parents sang to me, so it feels appropriate to wear this sunny timeless reminder around my neck.”
If those gifts don’t suit mom’s personality, why not take cues from Kane Brown’s wife, Katelyn? She just launched her Allen Rose Wine collection, with a rosé named after her oldest daughter, Kingsley, and a Pinot Gris inspired by her youngest daughter, Kodi.
Luke Bryan’s wife, Caroline, also has some special merch sure to make moms everywhere feel special: Her Best Bad Influence apparel line features stylishly distressed “Mama” ball caps and “Best Bad Influence Mom” coffee tumblers.
Taylor Swift dropped yet another “Taylor’s Version” re-recording at midnight, this time a song from her 1989 album, “This Love.”
“This love is good / This love is bad / This love is alive / Back from the dead / These hands had to / let it go free / And this love came back to me” sings in the chorus to the pensive ballad.
“This Love” is the second track from her 1989 collection to get the “version” treatment. Taylor released “Wildest Dreams” back in September, leading fans to believe she’s ready to release her newly re-recorded version of the album. However, there’s been no official announcement thus far.
“This Love” will be featured in the upcoming TV series The Summer I Turned Pretty, based off the trilogy of books authored by Jenny Han. It arrives June 17 on Amazon Prime Video.
Maren Morris only has one special vocal guest on her latest album, Humble Quest, but it’s an important one. Her young son, Hayes, lends his voice to “Hummingbird,” a track that Maren wrote the day she found out she was pregnant.
“He’s like the only little feature on it,” the singer tells ABC Audio. “But yeah, his sweet little voice is eternally marked in this song.”
Hayes was born in March 2020, and since then, he’s given Maren a new perspective on everything. That includes songwriting and touring to her TV guest spots, like an appearance she made on Sesame Street in February 2020, just before he was born, when she sang a song called “Oops! Whoops! Wait, ah Hah!”
“I actually, a couple weeks ago, showed Hayes my episode of Sesame Street that I did,” Maren says, who notes one of Hayes’ favorite Muppet characters, Elmo, sang backup with her.
“He loves Elmo,” says Maren. “But seeing me in the television was very bizarre to him. I don’t think he understood what was going on — like, ‘Oh, you’re here and you’re there.’”
Now that Hayes is getting a little older, though, she hopes that she’ll have more opportunities to do guest spots that have some crossover with his interests. “I hope I can do Sesame Street again and bring Hayes, because he will lose his mind,” Maren says.
If you were to describe AWOLNATION‘s new, guest-filled covers album, it’d be hard to come up with a better word than “fun.”
The compilation, titled My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me, finds the “Sail” outfit taking on songs including Scorpions‘ “Wind of Change” with Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd and Portgual. the Man and Midnight Oil‘s “Beds Are Burning” with Rise Against, to ABBA‘s “Take a Chance on Me” with Jewel and Madonna‘s “Material Girl” with Hanson‘s Taylor Hanson.
For AWOL frontman Aaron Bruno, trying to create something as fun as possible amid the doldrums of the early COVID-19 pandemic seemed like the best option he had.
“Music is there to help people, it’s supposed to be fun,” Bruno tells ABC Audio. “When it can be lighthearted, that’s a great thing. That was generally the attitude I took to making this whole project.”
Working on My Echo, Bruno shares, was a nice alternative to “looking at negative news all the time and living in a constant state of panic.”
“I was able to kind of lean on the connectivity with these different artists that joined me,” he says. “It was very therapeutic for me.”
Bruno adds that he’s “happy and grateful” for all the guests who “agreed to do this crazy thing” with him. Collaborating with so many different people on a single record was also a unique experience for Bruno, who’s the main driving force behind AWOLNATION.
“It’s like I’m in a band all of the sudden again,” he says. “I haven’t done that in awhile. So that feels good, as well.”
My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me is out today. AWOLNATION will launch a U.S. tour in October.
Josh Groban — or rather his voice — stars in a new Audible Original series called The Miranda Obsession, based on the true story of a Louisiana woman who, using the alias “Miranda,” made many male celebrities of the ’70s and ’80s fall in love with her, simply by talking to them on the phone. Josh plays Billy Joel, one of the stars Miranda charmed with her calls — and he tells ABC Audio that Billy’s since offered to chat with him about the experience.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan plays Miranda, and she invited Josh to play Billy. He prepared by listening to old interviews with the Piano Man, but he was concerned about mimicking Billy’s New York accent.
Josh tells ABC Audio, “I said, ‘Rachel, I’m not sure I’ll get it exactly.’ She said, ‘This is going to be kind of a dramatized account. So it doesn’t need to be exact.”
“It was really a blast to do,” Josh says. “And then I then got an email from Billy Joel saying, ‘Hey, if you ever want to talk about the story, let me know.’ So we’re at some point going to get together and chat about it, I hope!”
Josh notes that unlike most men Miranda spoke with — everyone from Richard Gere, Warren Beatty and Eric Clapton to Bob Dylan, Robert De Niro and Johnny Carson — Billy didn’t fall in love with her, because he was already dating both Elle MacPhersonandChristie Brinkley.
“The man was certainly not wanting for attention,” Josh laughs. “[But] that’s just how interesting this Miranda was. It was just somebody that really intrigued him. I think he saw a bit of himself in her. They both had kind of a fire and a drive and could talk because it wasn’t romantic…He felt…like there was a freedom there to…just have a great chat with somebody.”
So was this the original catfishing? Well, surprisingly, Miranda wasn’t after money — or anything else.
“Ultimately she didn’t really break any laws, she didn’t steal any money. She didn’t really do anything except say she was somebody she wasn’t,” Josh explains. He admits that every day, fans tell him someone claiming to be him is messaging them and asking for money.
“It is the Wild West out there,” he adds. “And this was really before the Wild West broke loose. And so to be able to do it well, you had to be really good at it.”
The second Sunday in May is upon us, so may the gifting and receiving of beautiful bouquets, heartfelt greetings cards, fancy dinners and quality time commence. In preparation of Mother’s Day this weekend, a few Black women chatted with ABC Audio about their special plans.
Fantasia is the perfect queen to her king, Kendall Taylor, and while the entrepreneur/businessman didn’t want to spoil any surprises he has planned for his wife, he says the mother of three will be showered with lots of love and appreciation.
“She definitely will be honored and reminded by me,” Taylor said, emphasizing the idea that every day should be Mother’s Day. “I always honor her just to let her know– sometimes if the kids don’t say it, sometimes if they don’t always show the appreciation…I remind [her that] I’m proud of you.”
Speaking of kids, Love & Hip Hop alum Amina Buddafly says her favorite way to celebrate is by spending quality time with her two daughters. “I always like to have them around,” she said. “They are the most important thing in my life.”
Reginae Carter, on the other hand, can’t fathom the thought of kids right now, thanks to her “birth control” of a younger sister. She does plan to honor their mother, Toya Johnson, who’s months away from her wedding to fitness guru Robert “Red” Rushing. “I’m probably going to do something to get her a little relaxed, maybe book her a spa day,” Carter said.
Relaxing and resting is also on Gabrielle Dennis‘ Sunday itinerary, since it’ll be “just a normal day” for her and her Jehovah’s Witness mother. She’ll celebrate the other women in her life, by sending “beautiful messages” to those who’ve been moms, and to the women who’ll celebrate their first Mother’s Day this year.
(WASHINGTON) — Reproductive rights were top of mind for Hillary Clinton and others at the grand opening of the new Global Embassy for Women in Washington, D.C., on Thursday — just days after an unprecedented Supreme Court leak revealed a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
“I know this is quite an ironic week for us to be opening the headquarters, but in a way, it’s probably appropriate because no advance is ever permanent,” said Clinton, former first lady and secretary of state, before hosting a panel on the state of women’s rights. “There are always forces at work to turn the clock back, particularly on women and we know there still is a double standard about what is or is not expected and appropriate for how women make the choices in our own lives.”
The headquarters was established by Vital Voices, an international nonprofit that invests in women’s leadership and empowerment. It was founded in 1997 by the late former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Clinton and Melanne Verveer, former U.S. ambassador for global women’s issues.
Clinton described the recent Supreme Court revelation and state-level abortion restrictions as hurdles to progress while touting the embassy as a call to action and a place for women leaders to gather, plan and mobilize.
“We’re not going back and we are not giving in,” Clinton said. “We’re going to do everything we can to organize and agitate and motivate everyone we can reach [to ensure] the forward movement of progress that has been the hallmark of this great country of ours.”
The Center for Reproductive Rights estimates that up to 25 states could outlaw abortion entirely if the draft opinion holds.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News on Thursday, Clinton called the prospect “incredibly dangerous,” and said Americans should take action at the ballot box in November’s midterm elections.
“It is not just about a woman’s right to choose, it is about much more than that. And I hope people now are fully aware of what we’re up against, because the only answer is at the ballot box, to elect people who will stand up for every American’s rights,” she said. “
“And any American who says, ‘Look, I’m not a woman, this doesn’t affect me. I’m not Black, that doesn’t affect me. I’m not gay, that doesn’t affect me.’ Once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for next,” she added.
(NEW YORK) — Anthony Harris, who was convicted of killing his 5-year-old neighbor in 1999 at the age of 13 but had that conviction overturned in appeal, was a kind, hardworking student who could never be involved in a murder, Harris’ sixth-grade teacher told ABC News.
Jennie Arbogast, who taught Harris a year before Devan’s murder, spoke exclusively to ABC News’ “20/20” for the first time since Harris’ ordeal. She said she has feelings of regret over her community’s response to her former student’s arrest and wrongful conviction.
Devan’s body was found in a wooded area behind her home in New Philadelphia, Ohio, in 1998, and the police arrested and charged Harris with her murder. In 2000, an appeals court ruled that Harris’ taped confession, which was the key piece of evidence used to prosecute him, was coerced, and he was released from custody.
“I was picturing my student sitting in that conference or standing at my desk doing his best to answer the questions the way he would think I wanted him to answer them,” she told ABC News.
Arbogast, who was not asked to testify during Harris’ trial and only followed the proceedings, said there should have been more of a show of support for Harris.
“I felt like our mostly white community had let him down. I felt like Anthony should’ve had a parade of people behind him saying ‘absolutely not,'” she said.
Arbogast said she was disturbed by the reports that Harris was interrogated by an officer alone and confessed to the killing. Harris told ABC News that he felt immense pressure to confess so that he could go home.
Arbogast said Harris would “answer questions in a way that he would think the adult would want him to answer them.”
“I felt like they asked him leading questions and he was answering them in a way that he was being helpful,” she said. “I just felt like they didn’t even bother to find out what happened to that little girl.”
Arbogast said Harris’ case was still on her mind long after he was released from prison.
She wrote a letter to the editor of American Lawyer magazine in 2009 after it published a follow-up piece on the case where she expressed remorse for not doing more during Harris’ two years of legal battles.
“I never told Anthony that I thought him a good student and I believed in him. And I never for a moment believed him guilty, not for a second. As a teacher, I felt I failed him by not somehow reaching out to him and saying that I believed in him. Maybe if one person had, others would have, too,” she wrote.
Arbogast said she hoped those who wrongfully pegged Harris as a killer remember the trauma inflicted on him and express some remorse.
“But I hope that one day, he will not be seen by the naysayers at all,” she said. “I hope that history does his side of the story right.”
(NEW YORK) — Anthony Harris was 12 years old when he was charged and later convicted of murdering his 5-year-old neighbor, Devan Duniver.
Harris’ conviction was eventually overturned and, more than 20 years later, he said he is still haunted by the grisly crime.
“She was so young and she had passed away,” Harris, told ABC News’ “20/20” as he held back tears during an exclusive interview two years ago.
Harris, who has served as a Marine, said he is frustrated that Devan’s killer has never been identified or captured.
“The girl’s dead, my life has been destroyed, and this guy, this individual’s still free right now,” he said during an interview with “20/20” airing Friday, May 6, at 9 p.m. ET.
Harris’ sentiment has been shared by residents, who spent hours searching for Devan after she went missing on June 27, 1998, from her New Philadelphia, Ohio, neighborhood. Harris alleged that there were leads in the case that were not pursued.
Devan disappeared after she went outside to play. When her mother, Lori, discovered Devan was gone, she spent the afternoon looking for her and called the police in the evening. Harris and his family lived in the same apartment complex as the Dunivers and aided in the search.
Hundreds came out to help in the search.
The next day, Devan was found in the woods behind her home dead with multiple stab wounds to her neck.
Investigators claimed Harris provided inconsistent details about where he was and what he was doing during the time the girl was missing when he was initially questioned.
Two weeks after Devan’s body was found, the police called Harris and his mother Cyndi to the stationhouse, where the then-12-year-old Harris was placed in an interrogation room with Thomas Vaughn, the police chief of nearby town Millersburg.
Harris’ mother could watch through a two-way mirror but was unable to hear what was being said.
Vaughn repeatedly questioned Harris about whether he killed Devan, according to the audio of the interrogation. At first, Harris denied he was involved but he said Vaughn’s pressure got the best of him.
“The investigator, he had basically told me that, ‘If you confess to this murder you can go home.’ It’s like, ‘Okay. Well, I’m over here scared, so I want to go home,'” Harris recalled.
Harris ultimately confessed and was charged with murder. His case was a juvenile proceeding and, therefore, absent a jury; Harris’ fate was determined by Juvenile and Probate Court Judge Linda Kate.
Harris’ attorney Tarin Hale tried to suppress the taped confession from evidence but the motion was rejected by Judge Kate.
“My statement was very clear, there is no evidence in this case. That’s all you need to know from me. There’s no evidence here,” Hale told “20/20.”
Three members of the search party who combed the area in 1998 to find Devan told “20/20” they believe that there are elements surrounding Devan’s death that are troubling.
Donna Wenger, Nancy Niarchos and Jim Milliken all said they searched by the area where Devan’s body was found and didn’t see her. They said they believe her body was dropped at the spot later.
Wenger, Niarchos and Milliken each testified as witnesses during the trial and they recall seeing a man in the area who was wearing a long-sleeve plaid flannel shirt, which they said was odd given that it felt like a 90-degree summer day.
“I thought, ‘My God, is that guy ever creepy,'” Niarchos told “20/20.” “He was so suspicious looking and he was right there. I thought, ‘What is he doing here?'”
Kate ultimately found Harris guilty in 1999 and sentenced him to the maximum, incarceration until he turned 21.
Harris, however, would get a second chance on appeal.
On June 7, 2000, the Ohio 5th District Court of Appeals overturned the conviction and determined that Harris’ confession was coerced.
Harris was released the next day.
“There’s no sense to be bitter,” Harris told “20/20.” “Even though it hurt a lot, it didn’t destroy my core as a person, the things I believe in, the things I grew up to become. That’s why I don’t hold resentment in my voice when I speak.”
Devan Duniver’s murder remains unsolved.
The last time the investigation picked up was in 2005 when Richard Dobbins was appointed as special prosecutor. He conducted a two-year probe and ultimately concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute anyone.
Wenger, Niarchos and Milliken told “20/20” they were never contacted by the special prosecutor to discuss the case.
Ryan Styer, the district attorney for Tuscarawas County, Ohio, which currently has the files related to the special prosecutor’s investigation, told “20/20” in a statement that, after reviewing the findings, he believes investigators “invested a lot of time conducting many interviews of witnesses and known persons of interest.”
He said he also feels there’s insufficient evidence for prosecution but has asked authorities to speak to the witnesses from the trial “20/20” interviewed.
Harris said he hasn’t given up his drive to help find the person responsible for killing Devan.
“We’re going to figure this out [and] give her some kind of closure,” he said.
(NEW YORK) — As states across the country have passed bans against abortion, more women have had to spend time and money heading across state lines to get the legal procedure.
And with the Supreme Court poised to roll back Roe v. Wade, abortion rights activists told ABC News they fear that it will become near impossible for women in the South and Midwest to get a legal and safe procedure.
Two women who recently had to travel hundreds of miles to get an abortion allowed “Nightline,” to accompany them through the process in hopes that people, including policymakers, can see just how devastating those laws will be to other women in the same situation.
“I feel like people need to know and need to know our side of the story,” said “Marie,” a 31-year-old Texas woman who got an abortion in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month and asked ABC News not to reveal her real name. “We’re not evil. We’re not baby killers.”
After Texas passed its ban on abortions following six weeks in the fall, Marie had to look for health care centers in nearby Oklahoma. The state’s Planned Parenthood centers saw a 2,500% jump in patients from Texas following the ban, according to the non-profit.
Marie told ABC News she had to wait more than a month for an open appointment, had to take a week vacation from her job and had to drive 14 hours straight to the Planned Parenthood center in Tulsa.
“In the car by myself for 14 hours, you definitely have a lot of time to think,” she said. “It’s been really, really hard.”
Marie said she felt more nervous because of news reports of copycat abortion bans that made its way through the Oklahoma State Legislature. Marie was able to get her procedure done before Gov. Kevin Sitt signed a copycat bill into law on May. 3.
“How dare you try and force people to do things the way you want them to do them. It’s our bodies. I feel like women will be desperate, harm themselves,” Marie said.
Nicole, a 39-year-old mother of two who recently traveled to Kansas to get an abortion, also shared that sentiment with “Nightline.” Nicole said that even though she has a full time job and loves being a mom. But she and her partner could not afford to have another child.
Her situation is common among abortion patients, according to health data. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said about 60% of patients who have had an abortion have at least one child.
“I wanted to give a voice to the older women- [who] already have kids, and I want to give an opportunity for the government to see how it affects us,” Nicole told “Nightline” about why she wanted to tell her story.
Nicole was early enough in her pregnancy that she could have a medication abortion, but due to a backlog in Oklahoma she had to drive to Kansas to get the pills. She told “Nightline” that she had to pay for travel, find childcare for her two boys and drive back and forth to the clinic.
Nicole said the experience backed up her concerns about raising another child.
“If I struggle to pay $800, $900 to take care of something like this, how would I be able to take the money, the time, and everything, and take care of a child?” she said.
Kansas could become another state to ban abortions. The right to an abortion is currently protected by the state constitution but the public could vote to restrict it through a ballot initiative scheduled for Aug. 2.
Nicole and Marie told “Nightline” that they are upset that lawmakers aren’t considering the circumstances that women are in when they make decisions regarding abortion rights.
Marie added that her experience has made her want to speak out more.
“I feel like it’s going to affect my life now forever because I’m going to fight more for women in this situation that don’t have any other choices,” she said.
