If you use Rihanna‘s Fenty Beauty products, chances are you are head over heels in love with the ultra-inclusive makeup line. Now, the “Umbrella” singer is expanding her network to cover hair.
Billboardreports Rihanna’s company Roraj Trade, LLC, recently filed two applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to trademark “Fenty Hair.” Products include brushes, combs, wigs, curlers, scrunchies, hair bands, clips, bows, pins and more.
It is unknown if the Grammy winner will unleash her own hair care line of shampoos and oils, but considering her Fenty umbrella covers skin care, shapewear and makeup, it’s quite possible this is where she’s heading next.
Fans are already going wild about Fenty Hair on social media. Some have pointed out that Rihanna’s hairstyles are always iconic, so they’re excited they may soon have the right tools to replicate them.
Rihanna’s decision to create inclusive lines has paid off; Forbes crowned her America’s Richest Self-Made Women after she amassed a net worth of $1.4 billion thanks to Fenty Beauty. This also makes her the first billionaire to come from Barbados, said Forbes.
Luke Combs is celebrating a big milestone today: It’s his wife Nicole‘s 30th birthday.
To celebrate, Luke posted a carousel of photos of Nicole, many of which were taken with pets or on hiking and fishing trips. “Welcome to the dirty 30 club,” he wrote in the caption. “You have amazed me more times than I thought was humanly possible.”
He also included a recent snapshot of Nicole at home with the couple’s infant son, Tex, who was born last month. Tex is their first child, and Luke has kept pretty quiet on social media since he was born, but he posted a sweet photo of Nicole cradling baby Tex in their bedroom, as their dog curled up on the bed behind her.
“Watching you become a mother, your positive outlook on life, your love for others, your honesty, your fierce loyalty and 1000 other traits that make you so perfect,” Luke continues. “I love you so much and I’m thankful for you Every. Single. Day.”
Luke and Nicole got married in August 2020. She’s been the inspiration behind several of his songs, and the music video for his “Forever After All” features footage of their wedding day.
Late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers are among the artists featured in an upcoming documentary titled Let There Be Drums!, according to Deadline.
Hawkins’ appearance in the film marks, as Deadline puts it, “what may have been the final filmed interview” he gave prior to his unexpected death earlier this year in March.
Let There Be Drums! — which aims to “examine the essential role drumming plays in great bands and how music passes from generation to generation” — will also feature interviews with The Beatles‘ Ringo Starr, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Jane’s Addiction‘s Stephen Perkins, ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum and the Grateful Dead‘s Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann.
Justin Kreutzmann, Bill’s son, is directing the doc in an effort to “talk to the world’s most influential drummers in hopes of better understanding his father and the instrument that defined his life.”
Let There Be Drums! is set to premiere in theaters October 28.
Ryan Gosling told Good Morning America on Thursday that he has always wanted to make an action film and is checking off that box with his latest movie, The Gray Man, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo.
The Oscar-nominated actor, who is known for his roles in La La Land and The Notebook,explains action films are, “probably what made me fall in love with movies.”
“It took a long time to get there but, you know, it was like finding the right one, finding the right character and obviously the Russo brothers directing this, who have been doing this for a decade at Marvel and killing it, I just knew I could go along for the crazy ride and feel comfortable with them driving,” he continued.
Gosling, who shares two daughters with his partner, actress Eva Mendes, also shared a funny moment involving his family that took place while he was filming in Prague.
He recalled, “…There’s lots of explosions going off…Eva and the kids…were in a hotel nearby.”
“I got a call in the middle of one of the scenes and…it was Eva saying, ‘How long are these explosions going to go on because the girls have a piano zoom class,'” he laughed.
In the movie, Gosling’s character, Sierra Six, is mocked by former CIA Agent Lloyd Hansen — played by Chris Evans — and referred to as “Ken Doll.” Gosling said the line was added into the script of The Gray Man after he was cast in the live-action Barbie film.
“I was the last to recognize the Ken in me but — I see it clearly now,” the actor joked, saying he’s experiencing a “Kenaissance.”
The Gray Man is out in select theaters now and hits Netflix Friday.
Lawyers for Amber Heard made it official on Thursday and filed a motion in a Virginia court to appeal the June verdict in the Johnny Depp defamation case.
A jury had decided Heard “maliciously” defamed the Pirates of the Caribbean star in a Washington Post op-ed in which she claimed to have been a victim of domestic and sexual violence.
While she did not name her ex-husband Depp in the article, the jury decided that the implication was clear and awarded him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The latter amount was capped to $350,000 by Virginia law.
Heard, for her part, was awarded just $2 million in her $100 million countersuit and awarded no punitive damages for comments made about her by a former attorney of Depp.
After the appeal was filed, a spokesperson for Heard gave a statement to ABC News that read, “We believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment. We are therefore appealing the verdict.”
“While we realize today’s filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice,” the statement concluded.
For Depp’s part, a rep for the actor told ABC News in a statement, “The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented during the six-week trial and came to a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in multiple instances. We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand.”
Earlier this month, the judge in the case, Penny Azcarate, tossed an attempt by Heard’s lawyers to seek a mistrial in the case.
Thomas Rhett’s newest out-of-the-box collaborator is Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ben Rector. The two singers are teaming up for Ben’s next single, “What Makes a Man,” which will be out August 5.
“I’ve always been a fan of Ben’s, so when he reached out wanting to collaborate, I jumped at the opportunity to work with him,” says Thomas. “He’s an incredible artist, writer and performer and this song hit me as something I could immediately connect to.”
Ben’s foray into the country genre doesn’t stop there: He’s also gearing up to make his Grand Ole Opry debut on August 9, just days after the release of “What Makes a Man.”
TR’s new duet with Ben is available to pre-save now. Meanwhile, the country singer is currently making waves on the charts with another duet: “Half of Me,” his current single with Riley Green.
Thomas’ Bring the Bar to You Tour kicked off last month.
It’s a special moment when you’re handed the keys to your first car, which is why many people never forget the memory. That goes for both Jewel and Train frontman Pat Monahan, who spoke openly about their first cars.
“I think my first vehicle was a 1978 Chevrolet Chevette,” Pat revealedin a statement. “It was my mom’s car and she let me drive it. It was pretty sweet!”
He continued, “My finest memory of that Chevette was that I was allowed to do it all by myself. I was a 16 year old kid and being able to drive around and pick up [my] friends in Erie, Pennsylvania was a pretty big deal. I can’t say I loved anything most about the actual vehicle, [but] the freedom of the vehicle was what I loved most.”
As for Jewel, her first car was a little bit bigger than Pat’s Chevette. “My first car was a 1969 VW bus,” she disclosed in a statement.
“It was my first real ride and it also became my home so it was a pretty big deal,” she continued. “I was homeless at the time [and] this van represented safety and shelter.”
Jewel’s van was also responsible for starting her career as she revealed, “I wrote a lot of songs in that van and it’s amazing to think that those songs became my first album. Those songs ended up changing the entire trajectory of my life.”
“I will always think of a lot of music when I think about [that] van,” she added.
Jewel and Train’s recollections are a part of their collaboration with Mercury Insurance for its “My First Car” series, which encourages artists to share their best memories of their first vehicle.
(NEW YORK) — A Wisconsin family is suing TikTok after their 9-year-old daughter died attempting the so-called “blackout challenge” popularized on social media.
Arriani Jaileen Arroyo died by asphyxiation on Feb. 26, 2021. Now, her family, along with the parents of 8-year-old Lalani Walton of Texas, who also died of asphyxiation by strangulation on July 15, 2021, have come together with the Social Media Victims Law Center to file a lawsuit against TikTok on behalf of their daughters.
“This is not easy, to wake up every day and know that your little girl is never coming back,” Arriani’s mother Christal Arroyo Roman told ABC News’ Good Morning America on Saturday. “You’re never gonna hear her voice, you’re never gonna see her smile or hear her say ‘I love you.'”
Arriani was everything to her family. Her mother said she was an intelligent and stylish little diva who loved doing nails, dancing, and would give the coat off her back to those she loved. Like many children across the country, she also enjoyed following social media trends, including food challenges and learning new dances.
“We just never thought that there was a darker side to what TikTok allows on its platform,” Roman said.
In the wake of the two girls’ deaths, the Arroyos and Walton’s family are calling on TikTok for answers. The Arroyos told ABC News the families are speaking out in hopes of preventing other children from falling victim to the same crushing fates as their daughters.
“We just want people to be aware, because we don’t want no other children out there to be a statistic of this situation again,” Arriani’s father Heriberto Arroyo Roman said. “We want to make sure that we can save other kids.”
According to the June 30 lawsuit filed by the Social Media Victims Law Center on behalf of the families, multiple children from different states and countries died last year by asphyxiation after attempting the same “blackout challenge” — in which children choke themselves until they pass out — allegedly suggested to them on their TikTok “For You” pages.
The lawsuit specifically claims that “at all times relevant, TikTok’s algorithm was designed to promote ‘TikTok Challenges’ to young users to increase their engagement and maximize TikTok’s profits.”
It also claims the company was aware that some of the challenges allegedly being promoted to young people could be deadly, but that it did not act to correct the problem.
“TikTok outrageously took no and/or completely inadequate action to extinguish and prevent the spread of the Blackout Challenge and specifically to prevent its algorithm from directing children to the Blackout Challenge, despite notice and/or foreseeability that such a failure would inevitably lead to more injuries and deaths, including those of children,” the lawsuit reads.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, different versions of the challenge — sometimes referred to as the “choking game” — have existed for years and predate social media. But the lawsuit claims TikTok’s endless timeline algorithm has exposed children to those trends with deadly results.
Matthew Bergman, founder of the Social Media Victims Law Center and the lead attorney on the case, told ABC News that the lawsuit is focused on TikTok’s concerns for profitability, allegedly without regard for the harmful effects its engineering may have on the platform’s youngest users.
“This is a case about saving kids,” Bergman said. “Let’s be clear, children are sent to these challenges by the TikTok algorithms. This is not an accident and it’s not a coincidence.”
Bergman and the Arroyo family claim tragic events like Arriani’s and Lalani’s deaths were predictable and preventable by TikTok, which they claim promotes “engineered addiction,” according to the lawsuit complaint.
“Engineered addiction,” as defined by the lawsuit, is a familiar feature across many popular social media platforms and includes “bottomless scrolling, tagging, notifications, and live stories.”
“TikTok engineers its social media product to keep users, and particularly young users, engaged longer and coming back for more,” the complaint alleges.
Reached for comment, a TikTok spokesperson pointed ABC News to a statement the company released last year about the challenge but did not address allegations that the platform algorithms directed children to dangerous content.
“This disturbing ‘challenge,’ which people seem to learn about from sources other than TikTok, long predates our platform and has never been a TikTok trend. We remain vigilant in our commitment to user safety and would immediately remove related content if found. Our deepest sympathies go out to the family for their tragic loss,” the previous statement read.
Currently, searching the “blackout challenge” hashtag on TikTok redirects users to the application’s community guidelines, which is typically done when certain hashtags are related to harmful activities.
Experts warn of danger of gamification of disturbing trends online
Dr. Dave Anderson, a clinical psychologist from the Child Mind Institute, warned parents about risks to talk about with young kids who are on social media.
“If you see something online and you see people framing it as fun or a challenge or something interesting, you’re sort of gamifying the particular thing and decreasing people’s perception of the risks,” Anderson said, speaking with GMA on Saturday. “So calling it a ‘blackout’ challenge is branding.”
Linda Charmaraman, Ph. D., a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women and director of the Youth, Media & Wellbeing Lab, specializes in the research of early childhood adolescence and said monitoring is not enough because even the most “carefully watching parent” can miss a crucial moment in which a young child may be influenced to harm themselves by social media.
“[Children] have this trust that nothing bad’s gonna happen to them,” Charmaraman told ABC News. “And they don’t think as carefully as somebody who’s two years older or four years older, that there could be consequences not just on their physical health but their mental health, on their spiritual health.”
Charmaraman suggested parents “keep having dialogues and enlist their village” to engage in conversations with children about the content they consume on social media platforms to help keep them safe.
“It’s not a one big talk kind of situation,” Charmaraman said. “It’s an ongoing kind of exploration and partnership.”
Christina Ricci is bringing her voice to Gotham City. The Hollywood Reporter notes that the star will play none other than Harley Quinn in Harley Quinn & The Joker: Sound Mind.
The character, created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for Batman: The Animated Series, has become a fan favorite and was portrayed on the big screen by Margot Robbie in both the Suicide Squad movies and the spin-off Birds of Prey.
On the small screen, Kaley Cuoco voices Harley Quinn in her own animated series for HBO Max.
Introduced as criminal psychologist Dr. Harleen Quinzell, Ricci’s Harley, who treats — and eventually falls for — the Clown Prince of Crime, is the focus of the audio series instead of her “Mr. J.”
According to a tease, Dr. Quinzell is in need of money for an operation for her father when she meets “‘Patient J,’ a unique criminal who seems to have a strange power over everyone but her.”
“Harleen makes a fateful decision: to use her relationship with J to get what she needs, leading both of them down a dangerous path that will change their lives forever,” the tease continues.
Ricci’s project is a follow-up to the original Gotham-based audio series, Batman Unburied, which has been a hit on Spotify since its debut in May and will return for a second season.
The Zombies will be playing a sold-out show tonight at the intimate Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace venue in Pioneertown, California, but if you can’t make it to the concert in person, the event will be streamed live via the Veeps.com platform.
Tickets for the virtual event are available now for $17.99, and you’ll be able to view the concert on demand for 72 hours after the live performance takes place. The show starts at 11 .m. ET/8 p.m. PT. Opening for the British Invasion legends will be veteran U.S. alternative rock band Rooney.
In a recent interview with DesertLocalNews.com, Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone said about getting the chance to play at Pappy & Harriet’s, “I have heard of the reputation of this place and how unusual it is. I’m very much looking forward to going there.” The famous venue, located in the Califonia desert, hosted a concert by Paul McCartney back in 2016.
Meanwhile, Blunstone also revealed that The Zombies have “completely finished” recording their next studio album, which will be a followup to 2015’s Still Got That Hunger.
“I don’t have a release date and I don’t even have a title,” notes Colin about the upcoming record.
The Zombies will wind down the North American summer leg of their Life Is a Merry-Go-Round Tour with a three-night stand, July 28-30, in Park City, Utah.
The band also has a series of shows in mainland Europe scheduled from early September to early October, followed by a U.K. leg that will take place in April and May of 2023.
