—Nick Cannon is gearing up to become a father … again. He confirmed the news on a recent episode of theLip Service Podcast, after the hosts inquired about rumors that he has “three babies on the way.”
“Well, when you say ‘on the way … ‘” he joked, before asking, “What count are you at? Let’s just put it this way … the stork is on the way.”
In response to his short-lived attempt at celibacy in October last year, the Wild ‘N Out host said, “I was supposed to make it through the top of the year, but obviously I was going through some stuff, I got depressed.” He referenced the loss of his baby boy Zion, who died in December due to brain cancer.
“The thing is everybody saw I was so down,” he said. “So everybody was like, ‘Let’s just give him a little vagina, and that’s gonna cure it all.'” In addition to his eighth baby on the way, his first with Bre Tiesi, many speculate Cannon is the father of twins with Abby De La Rosa.
—Lori Harvey‘s mom, Marjorie Harvey, seemed to have joined the chat about her daughter’s split from Michael B. Jordan.
After reports surfaced Monday that Lori, 25, and Jordan, 35, called it quits, her mother posted a message on her Instagram Story that fans say was shade toward her Jordan.
“You sit in s**t for too long, it stops smelling. So come the f**k outta there,” says actress Jennifer Lewis in the now-deleted video clip posted by Marjorie and later shared by The Neighborhood Talk.
Steve Harvey also shared what fans say was a cryptic message. The Family Feud host took to Twitter with a meme that reads, “Sometimes we need to thank God for what didn’t happen.”
The Kid LAROI teased a new song on his Instagram Story Wednesday, tentatively titled “Tension.” The teased lyrics go “And baby, I regret it/ You told me you forgive me, but you won’t forget it/ And now I start to question your intentions/ You said it’s fine, but I still feel the tension.” It is not known when the song will drop.
BTS‘ Jungkook accidentally wiped his entire Instagram. Speaking on VLive, the singer insisted it’s not part of a rebranding or anything, he was just hoping to make his page “look nicer” and hit the wrong button.
Louis Tomlinson is bringing back the Away From Home Festival, happening August 27 in Spain. The One Direction singer teased, “It’s been a life long dream to put a show of this size together and it’s an absolute honour to have such a great line up in such an incredible location … It’s going to be special!”
Halsey continues to ask the real questions. They tweeted out, “If i seem a little tired today it’s because my brain kept me up at 2 am begging the question ‘how fast could you run down a spiral staircase if a murderer was chasing you?'”
Lady Gaga is hosting an Instagram Live on Thursday, where she’ll take fans inside her Haus Labs makeup line as part of Sephora’s Beauty Chat Room. The stream starts at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sephora’s Instagram.
Christina Aguilera dropped her new PRIDE collection on her store, an exclusive four-piece set so fans can sport fun new clothes for Pride Month.
Kelly Clarkson took a crack at The Weeknd and Ariana Grande‘s “Save Your Tears” on her Wednesday installment of Kellyoke.
Zara Larsson not only bought her music catalogue, she also debuted her new record label, Sommer House, allowing her to own and control her own music releases.
Lindsey Stirling is “still on cloud 9” after meeting her idol, AJ McLean. After running into the Backstreet Boy, she shared a snap of their meeting and told him, “You’re a rockstar.” The feeling is mutual for AJ, as Lindsey shared a video in which said he is a “massive fan” of hers and is “obsessed” with her Christmas album.
Michael Bublé teased the music video for his cover of “Make You Feel My Love,” which features him walking smoothly down the street as explosions go off behind him, scattering debris all over the road. He is unaware of the mayhem going on, which includes a building being sucked up by a portal and a fire-breathing dragon. He captioned the teaser post, “Subtle.”
Lady Gaga is hosting an Instagram Live on Thursday, where she’ll “walk” fans “through our Haus Labs products” as part of Sephora’s Beauty Chat Room. The stream starts at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sephora’s Instagram.
Kelly Clarkson took a crack at The Weeknd‘s “Save Your Tears” on her Wednesday installment of Kellyoke. Fans applauded her for upping the octave and belting out the song’s final lines.
Christina Aguilera dropped her new PRIDE collection, which is now available on her store. It’s an exclusive four-piece set that features a trucker hat, T-shirts and hoodies that celebrate her headlining LA Pride this Saturday. The hoodie proclaims “Say Gay,” which is a definite reference to Florida’s controversial new law.
Kristen Stewarttook to Instagram Wednesday to say she’s “scarily excited” to announce she’s co-producing “the most gayest, most funnest, most titillating queer ghost-hunting show ever.”
The Oscar nominee goes on to explain she’s paired up with Scout, the production company behind gay-friendly hits Queer Eye and The Hype, and is looking for contestants for the series.
Stewart made the call on a selfie-shot video on her hairstylist and friend CJ Romero‘s social media accounts.
“We need to find the most incredible LGBTQ+ ghost hunters, paranormal specialists, mediums, psychics, investigators who will lead the pack on this super gay ghost-hunting adventure,” the Spencer star said.
“Can’t wait to see what you ghouls bring us!” she captioned the post, providing a link for interested hunters.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife director Jason Reitman is producing an animated series about the paranormal investigators and eliminators, according to Variety.
Reitman, who co-wrote the big-screen hit with Gil Kenan, is reteaming with him as executive producers of the project, according to the trade.
Reitman is the son of the late Ivan Reitman, the director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2, and the executive producer of Afterlife. Ivan died in February of this year.
Nothing yet is known about the new project, but it would be the third animated adventures of the boys in gray, following The Real Ghostbusters run from 1986-1991. In 1997, there was a shorter-lived cartoon called Extreme Ghostbusters.
(NEW YORK) — Students from several elementary schools gathered at Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem this morning, unveiling benches they painted to advocate for social justice issues. Most notably, they spoke about gun control.
The students at Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science painted a bench featuring a handgun with a twisted barrel and two daisies growing out of the muzzle to signify a future without mass shootings and violence.
12-year-old Nicholas Anderson felt strongly about the issue.
“Kids deserve to be in the world, and they need to get an education, and they need to live a life,” he said.
This event was part of a larger city-wide initiative to get students involved in activism through art by CEI Benchmarks. Its summer exhibition served approximately 1,250 children from the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
Initially, these benches were displayed in Washington Square Park last month, two days after the devastating shooting at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas. Some students were already working on benches to raise awareness about gun violence, but now the issue has new relevance in their young lives.
“Many little kids are left out because they get killed each day, and they don’t have a lot of security people to protect them,” said 11-year-old David Sanchez.
The benches have been moved to Thomas Jefferson Park, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Prospect Park, and Reverend T. Wendell Foster Park and will remain there until Sept. 15.
Miranda Lambert is making a stop on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday evening. It’s part of a busy week for the superstar, who is also performing this weekend as part of the TIME100 Gala.
Garth Brooks has set a new on-sale date for his July 23 Stadium Tour show in Buffalo. He postponed the original on-sale date due to the tragic mass shooting that took place in a supermarket in the city last month. The new sale date is Friday, June 17.
Lauren Alaina is joining forces with fashion brand Maurices to give away free pairs of jeans to CMA Fest attendees. For a limited time following the festival, fans can show their ticket at any Maurices store in exchange for a free pair of classic m jeans by Maurices. The giveaway lasts from June 18 to June 24.
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for its upcoming thriller Black Bird, one of the final performances from Ray Liotta, who died suddenly last month.
In the film, Liotta plays the incarcerated dad of Kingsman series lead Taron Edgerton, playing clean-cut Jimmy Keene, who is facing a 10-year stint in prison himself.
“I never wanted this for you,” the Goodfellas alum tells his onscreen son in the adaptation of the real-life memoir In With The Devil.
“Dad. Tell me there’s a way out of this,” Egerton’s Keene desperately says.
“Not a quick one,” his dad replies.
As it turns out, he’s right. Prosecutors make a deal with the young inmate: transfer to a maximum security prison for the criminally insane and try to get a confession from jailed serial killer Larry Hall, creepily played by I, Tonya‘s Paul Walter Hauser.
“You want me to check into hell and befriend the demon,” Keene says in response.
“You think you could be in danger. You are in danger,” Hall later taunts him.
The film debuts July 8 on Apple TV+.
Liotta passed away in his sleep while in the Dominican Republic, where he was working on a film. The 67-year-old completed work on Black Bird and another film, Cocaine Bear, before his death.
Other projects on which he worked, a drama about the L.A. Riots called April 29, 1992, and The Substance, are still in production.
(NEW YORK) — As the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors face off in the 2022 NBA Finals, players are calling attention to the case of Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who has been detained in Russia for more than three months.
“She needs to be home, she needs to be safe, she needs to be with her family,” Warriors point guard Steph Curry told ESPN on Tuesday.
“Right now it’s just about getting her home and everybody just joining that effort … to make sure she’s talked about and all hands are on deck and all resources are thrown at getting her home as soon as possible,” he added.
Some have argued that if NBA stars like Curry or Lebron James were wrongfully detained in a foreign country, more would be done to get them back home.
“There’s something to that,” Curry said when asked about how Griner has been treated.
“It is an unfortunate situation and it is a tragedy,” he said.
The Boston Celtics raised awareness about Griner’s case on the court this week by wearing “We Are BG” T-shirts — a slogan that has become a rallying cry in the WNBA and beyond this season to show support for the Phoenix Mercury star.
“As a collective we wanted to come out and show our support for Brittney Griner,” Celtics star Jaylen Brown said, according to ESPN. “She’s been over there for an extended amount of time, and we feel like enough is enough.”
Celtics forward Jayson Tatum said that he got to spend time with Griner when they competed in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, which took place last year due to COVID-19 delays.
“It’s extremely tough seeing what she’s going through,” Tatum said earlier this week, according to ESPN. “I know everybody sees and feels that, and obviously we’re all together in support trying to bring her back to her family and things like that. Yeah, wearing those shirts today in support of her.”
Griner, a WNBA superstar, has been detained in a Russian prison for more than 110 days. She was visiting Russia in February to play basketball during the off-season when she was arrested at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow for allegedly having vape cartridges in her luggage that contained hashish oil — an illegal substance in Russia.
She was charged with “large-scale transportation of drugs” and could face up to 10 years in prison, according to The New York Times.
The U.S. government classified Griner’s case on May 3 as “wrongfully detained” in Russia, which means that the U.S. would work to negotiate her release. The State Department did not immediately return ABC News’ request for comment on Griner.
Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, told “GMA” co-anchor Robin Robertslast month that the support her wife has received from the league has brought the WNBA star “comfort” amid her detention.
The WNBA, which kicked off its 2022 season on May 6, is honoring Griner with a floor decal bearing her initials and jersey number (42) on the sideline of all 12 WNBA teams.
“Things like that matter, like, it has her hopeful,” Cherelle Griner told Roberts. “It lets her know she’s not forgotten.”
“Those small moments, I know, give her some type of hope,” she added.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began one week after Griner was detained on Feb. 17. Some officials are concerned that Americans jailed in Russia could be used as leverage in the ongoing conflict.
Cherelle Griner said that she would like to speak with President Joe Biden.
“I just keep hearing that, you know, he has the power. She’s a political pawn,” she said. “So if they’re holding her because they want you to do something, then I want you to do it.”
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said last month that a U.S. consular officer was able to meet with Griner on May 19.
Price said the officer “found her continuing to do as well as could be expected under these exceedingly challenging circumstances.”
“But again, our message is a clear and simple one — we continue to insist that Russia allow consistent and timely consular access to all U.S. citizen detainees,” he added. “One-off visits are not sufficient, and we will continue to call on Moscow to uphold its commitments under the Vienna Convention for consistent and timely access, as well.”
Calls to free Brittney Griner escalated following the release of U.S. Marine veteran Trevor Reed in April, who was freed from a Russian prison as part of a prisoner exchange. Former Marine Paul Whelan has also been detained in Russia since 2019.
Reed called for Griner and Whelan’s freedom at a rally on Monday in Griner’s hometown of Houston.
“There is no justice in Russia,” Reed said. “Brittney and Paul will not receive justice in Russia. They’re not going to receive a fair trial, they will not receive a fair investigation. They will be there as hostages until the United States gets them out.”
Griner’s trip to Russia has underscored the issue of pay inequality in professional basketball.
Many WNBA players have traveled around the world to play in the off-season because they don’t make enough money during the season — an issue that is not as prevalent for NBA players who are paid more. The top WNBA salary is $228K, whereas star NBA players can make at least $1 million a year.
ABC News’ Conor Finnegan, Courtney Condron and Kelly McCarthy contributed to this report.
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The documentary about George Michael, narrated by the late star, arrives in theaters June 22, and an exclusive new clip takes a deep dive into the origins of the late singer’s revolutionary “Freedom ’90” music video.
Elton John and Chic‘s Nile Rodgers both make an appearance in the nearly two-minute clip and discuss how Michael’s work permanently changed the music industry.
“It changed the whole face of how videos were done,” said Sir Elton. “The video said everything. It was genius and it was a revolutionary thing.”
Added Rodgers, “George had raised the bar to a whole new level.”
Michael didn’t want to be featured in the music video and instead asked five supermodels to star in “Freedom ’90.”
“It was a specific group of women that George wanted that had just been on the cover of British Vogue that was shot by Peter Lindbergh. It was like, ‘He wants you five and it has to be all you five,'” recalled model Cindy Crawford.
Added Naomi Campbell, who was also in the music video, “George pitched it to me in L.A. and his exact words were, ‘You’re the leader of the gang and unless you say yes, the rest of the girls won’t.'”
George Michael Freedom Uncut explores the late singer’s career following the release of his 1987 album, Faith, which skyrocketed him into fame, through the release of his 1990 follow-up work, Listen Without Prejudice: Vol 1. That period in his career saw George fight for his artistic freedom while grieving the loss of his mother and first real love.
