CBS’ reality competition series Beyond the Edge has an all-new episode tonight at 9 p.m. In the series, a group of celebrities is pitted against the unforgiving jungles of Panama, all to benefit their favorite charities.
Among the marooned stars are country superstars Lauren Alaina and Craig Morgan, supermodel Paulina Porizkova, Full House actress Jodie Sweetin, NFL legend Mike Singletary, Super Bowl MVP Ray Lewis, NBA champ Metta World Peace, former The Bachelor star Colton Underwood, and Real Housewives of New York City vet Eboni K. Williams.
Colton tells ABC Audio that after the splash he made in the news — as the only Bachelor to come out as gay — he welcomed a chance to unplug: “Honestly…getting rid of your devices and being isolated in the jungle was the most humbling but also refreshing thing…”
Williams agreed, saying with a laugh, “I just was at a place in my personal life, in my career where I needed to just go out the box and this was, Beyond the Edge was about as out the box as you could get!”
She continues, “So I immediately said yes. And then, you know, they put you on the…initial business class flight because it’s work and you’re going from…New York to Panama City. But then you get on the puddle jumper,” she laughs, “and then it gets a little real.”
“When my feet touched the ground of the jungle I was like, “I might need to go back home!”
Colton is raising money for his Colton Underwood Legacy Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and providing resources for people living with cystic fibrosis. Eboni’s charity is Safe Horizons, which provides shelter and support for the homeless and victims of domestic violence, sex assault and human trafficking.
(NEW YORK) — It’s extremely rare to find a complete skeleton of a dinosaur.
It’s rarer still that such a skeleton needs to be found twice.
Such is the fate of “Stan” the T. Rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton of one of the most legendary species of dinosaurs known to Earth.
The enormous fossil was sold in October of 2020 for more than $30 million to an unknown buyer. It subsequently vanished from public view — leaving the paleontological community and dinophiles the world over clamoring for clues as to its whereabouts and fearing its potential loss to science.
National Geographic’s Michael Greshko revealed Wednesday that Stan is bound for a museum in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi — potentially putting to rest widespread concerns that the invaluable fossil would be rendered inaccessible to study.
“Outside scientists’ biggest hopes for Stan hinge on reliable long-term access to this fossil,” Greshko told ABC News. “I know that scientists are hoping for a happy ending, not just for the fossil but for the science that depends on that fossil.”
Stan the T. Rex, an enormous T. Rex skeleton, vanished after being sold at auction two years ago.
Stan’s story begins in the early 1990s, when a nearly 40-foot long Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton was unearthed in South Dakota. The skeleton stood at a private institute in the state for two decades before a legal dispute forced its sale.
That auction in 2020 was nearly as eye-popping as Stan itself. The skeleton sold for $31.8 million to an anonymous buyer — making it the most expensive fossil auction ever.
As chronicled by Greshko, the price tag enraged scientists and scholars. They not only feared the fossil would be sealed behind closed doors, but worried its price tag would accelerate the gold rush of fossil privatization, which threatens to remove more and more bones from the realm of research and education.
“This is terrible for science and is a great boost and incentive for commercial outfits to exploit the dinosaur fossils of the American West,” one paleontologist told Greshko of the sale in 2020.
Since then, sleuths have searched for Stan’s whereabouts, with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson making perhaps the strangest cameo. A giant T. Rex skull was spotted by the The Rock during a television interview earlier this year, leading to speculation that he’d purchased Stan.
“I am not the mystery buyer,” Johnson later conceded in an Instagram post. “If I was the proud owner of the real STAN, I sure as hell wouldn’t keep him in my office 🤣🦖 I’d keep him in a museum, so the world could enjoy, study and learn from him.”
Greshko spotted a clue in monthly U.S. export totals — specifically an entry for $31,847,500, Stan’s precise price, due for the United Arab Emirates.
“Because Stan is such as high value item and this is such a niche commodity, Stan casts a long financial shadow on these data sets,” Greshko said.
“I was very confident it had been exported to the United Arab Emirates, and then the UAE happened to reach out to me about this museum project … and everything fell into place from there,” he said.
BREAKING: I tracked down Stan, the T. rex that vanished after it was sold for $31.8 million in a record 2020 auction. It’s going to be in a huge natural history museum being built in Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s capital.https://t.co/GfUGwUNYkZ
Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi announced Wednesday it will house Stan as part of an ambitious exhibit and research program to chronicle and study the history of life on Earth.
The identity of the anonymous buyer, however, remains unknown. And the effects of Stan’s colossal price could still reverberate throughout the bone hunting world.
“It remains to be seen how Stan’s record-breaking price will affect thee global legal and illegal trade in fossils,” Greshko said. “I know that academic paleontologists around the world are watching that very closely.”
(NEW YORK) — World No. 1 Ash Barty announced her retirement from tennis at the age of 25 on Wednesday.
“It’s hard to say, but I’m so happy, and I’m so ready, and I just know at the moment in my heart for me as a person — this is right,” she said in a 6-minute video posted to Instagram talking to former player Casey Dellacqua.
The Australian star is retiring not only as she holds the top rank for women’s tennis, but also just two months after she won the Australian Open on her home turf. About six months earlier, she claimed the title at Wimbledon.
That Wimbledon win, she said, was a pivotal moment that led up to her decision to retire after working “so hard your whole life for one goal.”
“To be able to win Wimbledon, which was my dream — the one, true dream that I wanted in tennis — that really changed my perspective,” she said. “I just had that gut feeling after Wimbledon.”
Still, Barty said, after victory on that famed grass court, “there was just a little part of me that wasn’t quite satisfied, wasn’t quite fulfilled.” That feeling was answered, she said, by being able to bring it home at the Australian Open, which she called “my perfect way” to celebrate her career.
Despite a great professional year, it was somewhat of a trying one personally, she said. In order to compete at the opens around the world, she lived away from home for some six months to avoid having to quarantine reentering Australia, which would have interfered with her training.
“Without a doubt it was something that was new to me, new to try and wrap my head around and comprehend where we’re going to be away for such an extended period,” she said in March 2021, according to The Guardian. “Of course there were tears the days leading up. There were tears when I did finally leave, and then when we left.”
She spoke frequently throughout the season about how difficult it was to be away from home — and how significant it was for her to be able to return and win in Australia.
“As an Aussie, the most important part of this tournament is being able to share it with so many people,” she said after winning in January, according to The New York Times.
This is not Barty’s first time leaving tennis, although she said in her Wednesday announcement this time felt different. Back in 2014, after succeeding at the junior level, she left the sport to travel less and spend more time with family. She transitioned over to playing cricket before returning to tennis in 2016.
While it may be the end of the tennis-related “Barty Party,” she’s looking forward to her future.
“Ash Barty the person has so many dreams that she wants to chase after that don’t necessarily involve traveling the world, being away from my family, being away from my home, which is where I’ve always wanted to be,” she said Wednesday.
(NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials.
The attack began Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation.”
Russian forces moving from neighboring Belarus toward Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, have advanced closer to the city center in recent days despite the resistance. Heavy shelling and missile attacks, many on civilian buildings, continue in Kyiv, as well as major cities like Kharkiv and Mariupol. Russia also bombed western cities for the first time this week, targeting Lviv and a military base near the Poland border.
Russia has been met by sanctions from the United States, Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting the Russian economy as well as Putin himself.
Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern:
Mar 23, 12:40 pm
Putin says ‘unfriendly countries’ will only be able to buy Russian gas in rubles
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his cabinet on Wednesday that Russia will require payments for natural gas in rubles, saying he will refuse to accept payments in “compromised currencies,” including the dollar and the euro, according to Russia’s state-run news agency, TASS.
Putin said Russia will continue to supply natural gas to other countries.
“I made the decision to implement within the shortest possible time the package of measures to transfer payments — we will start with that — for our natural gas supplied to the so-called ‘unfriendly’ states to Russian rubles,” Putin said.
-ABC News’ Christine Theodorou
Mar 23, 12:07 pm
Putin blocking hundreds of ships filled with wheat in the Black Sea: von der Leyen
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday accused Russia’s President Vladimir Putin of blocking hundreds of ships filled with wheat in the Black Sea.
“Our continent is being rocked by a tectonic shift, not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The consequences of this war on Europe’s security architecture will be far reaching. And I’m not just talking about security in military terms, but also energy security and even food security are at stake,” she said in a speech to the European Commission.
Von der Leyen addedd: “The effects of the Russian war go beyond energy of course, they also disrupting vital food supplies and driving food prices up.”
The consequences of this disruption will be felt from Lebanon, Egypt and Tunisia to Africa and the Far East, according to von der Leyen.
“We should not forget that Ukraine alone provides more than half of the world food programs’ wheat supply. The shelling and the bumping makes it impossible for Ukrainian farmers to do so,” she said.
“I call on Putin to let those ships go otherwise he will not only be responsible for one death, but also for famine and hunger. Let these ships go,” von der Leyen added.
-ABC News’ Christine Theodorou
Mar 23, 11:23 am
NATO allies expected to announce major increases to forces in the east
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters Wednesday that he expects allies to announce major increases to forces in the eastern part of the defense alliance at Thursday’s summit.
Stoltenberg said the first step would be the deployment of four new NATO battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. With the existing forces in place, there will be eight multi-national battle groups all along the eastern flank, from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
“We face a new reality for our security, so we must reset our deterrence and defense for the longer term,” Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenberg said he expects allies will agree to provide additional support to Ukraine, including cybersecurity assistance and equipment to help Ukraine protect against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
He added that NATO has a responsibility to make sure the conflict does not escalate beyond Ukraine, as “this will cause even more death and even more destruction.”
Stoltenberg also called on Belarus to end its complicity in the war.
-ABC News’ Christine Theodorou
Mar 23, 11:13 am
Bridge linking Chernihiv Oblast to Kyiv destroyed, governor says
The governor of Ukraine’s Chernihiv Oblast, Viacheslav Chaus, claimed Wednesday that Russian forces have destroyed the bridge linking the region to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
In a video posted on Telegram, Chaus shows the destroyed bridge over the Desna river, which he said effectively means that the road from Chernihiv to Kyiv is now severed.
-ABC News’ Fergal Gallagher
Mar 23, 10:53 am
Sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine would be ‘very reckless’, Russia warns
Russia warned Wednesday that sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine would be “a very reckless and extremely dangerous decision.”
Last week, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced that Poland will formally submit a proposal at the NATO summit on Thursday for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on Poland’s plans while speaking to reporters Wednesday.
“It would be a very reckless and extremely dangerous decision,” Peskov said. “A special military operation is going on, and any possible contact by our troops with NATO troops can lead to quite clear consequences that would be hard to repair.”
Mar 23, 10:32 am
Russia claims US isn’t interested in progress in Ukraine
Russia claimed Wednesday that the United States isn’t interested in the rapid progress of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
During a speech to students at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in Russia’s capital, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Washington of wanting to keep Moscow and Kyiv “in a state of hostilities” for “as long as possible.”
“Negotiations are difficult because the Ukrainian side seems to have expressed understanding of the things that should be agreed upon during the negotiations, constantly changing its position, refusing its own proposals,” Lavrov said. “It is difficult to get rid of the impression that they are being held by the hand by their American colleagues.”
He alleged “it is unprofitable” for the U.S. “that this process be completed quickly.”
“They expect to continue pumping weapons to Ukraine. Provocative statements are being made,” he added. “Apparently they want to keep us as long as possible in a state of hostilities.”
Mar 23, 10:27 am
US military aid begins to arrive in Ukraine
The first deliveries from the $800 million-military assistance that President Joe Biden authorized for Ukraine a week ago have started to arrive, a White House official confirmed to ABC News.
The military aid package includes Stinger anti-aircraft systems; Javelin anti-armor weapons; light anti-armor weapons; AT-4 anti-armor systems and tactical unmanned aerial systems.
CNN first reported the deliveries.
-ABC News’ Justin Gomez
Mar 23, 10:11 am
Video shows entire neighborhoods destroyed in Mariupol
Video has emerged showing the devastation in Ukraine’s besieged city of Mariupol.
Drone footage recorded Wednesday and released by a Ukrainian right-wing paramilitary group that has been incorporated into Ukraine’s National Guard shows entire neighborhoods destroyed in Mariupol. Mere shells are all that remain of buildings and smoke is still rising from some of the wreckage. The video has been verified by ABC News.
Ukrainian troops are continuing to battle persistent efforts by Russian forces to seize the strategic port city in southeastern Ukraine.
-ABC News’ Fergal Gallagher
Mar 23, 9:39 am
Russia, Ukraine agree on nine humanitarian corridors for Wednesday
Russia and Ukraine have agreed on nine humanitarian corridors to try to evacuate civilians trapped in embattled Ukrainian towns and cities on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
But the agreement does not include a safe passage from the heart of Mariupol, Vereshchuk said in an address Wednesday, adding that she hopes people wishing to leave the besieged southeastern port city can make it to nearby Berdyansk, where humanitarian aid awaits them. She said 24 buses are on standby to transport people.
Some of the previous attempts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol have failed after Russian forces continued to shell the city, despite agreeing to temporary cease-fires.
Mar 23, 9:17 am
Belarus expels several Ukrainian diplomats, closes Ukrainian Consulate General
Belarus announced Wednesday its decision to expel several Ukrainian diplomats and close the Ukrainian Consulate General in Brest.
“The Ukrainian embassy will continue to work in Belarus in a 1+4 format, that is, an ambassador and four staff members,” Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Anatoly Glaz said in a statement, according to the state-run news agency BelTA.
Mar 23, 8:27 am
Ukraine says 100,000 remain trapped in besieged Mariupol
Fierce fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces continued in Mariupol on Wednesday morning, with the Ukrainian government warning that as many as 100,000 people remain trapped in the besieged port city.
One Mariupol resident, who managed to escape with her elderly parents and four cats, told ABC News her home had no electricity or heat and that she would have to scavenge for food and other supplies under Russian bombardment. She recalled seeing bodies strewn in the streets because residents had no choice but to leave them there.
“We understood anytime we might be killed by the next bomb,” she said during an interview Tuesday.
Pro-Russia separatist forces from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic in Ukraine’s disputed Donbas region said Wednesday that 562 civilians, including 110 children, were evacuated from encircled Mariupol to the occupied town of Bezymenne in the past 24 hours. A total of 4,621 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol between March 5 and March 23, according to the separatist forces.
Mar 23, 7:59 am
Russia claims to have swapped prisoners with Ukraine
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners twice since the start of the war, according to Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
“Two prisoner exchanges have been completed between Russia and Ukraine,” Zakharova said in a statement Wednesday.
Mar 23, 7:56 am
Poland expels 45 Russian diplomats for espionage
Russia’s ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, said Wednesday that he has received a note from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanding the expulsion of 45 Russian diplomats on charges of espionage.
The diplomats must leave Poland within five days, according to Andreev.
The news came after a spokesperson for Poland’s Internal Security Agency announced on Polish television that authorities had compiled a list of 45 Russian diplomats in the country who were suspected of spying.
Mar 23, 7:45 am
Two residential areas of Kyiv shelled overnight, officials say
Russian shelling hit two residential areas of Kyiv on Tuesday night, according to the city administration.
A shopping center and two private houses were damaged in the Sviatoshynskyi district of the Ukrainian capital, but no one was injured and the fires have been extinguished, officials said.
Several private houses and high-rise buildings were on fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district, where four people were injured. Rescuers and medics were still on the scene Wednesday, and the extent of the damage was under assessment, according to officials.
Mar 23, 7:32 am
Russia doesn’t believe claims of civilian deaths in Ukraine
Moscow doesn’t believe Kyiv’s claims of civilian deaths in Ukraine caused by Russian forces, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.
“We don’t believe the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. Russian troops are carrying out no strikes, aren’t firing on civilians,” Peskov told reporters during a daily call. “Russian servicemen are helping civilians and, regrettably, more and more eyewitnesses get out of the cities saying that they are being held there as human shields, and that nationalist battalions are firing — and there are plenty of such cases — on civilians.”
Mar 23, 6:42 am
Over 3.6 million refugees have fled Ukraine: UNHCR
More than 3.6 million people have been forced to flee Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, according to the latest figures from the United Nations refugee agency.
The tally from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) amounts to just over 8% of Ukraine’s population — which the World Bank counted at 44 million at the end of 2020 — on the move across borders in 28 days.
More than half of the refugees crossed into neighboring Poland, UNHCR figures show.
Mar 23, 5:45 am
Russian forces allegedly destroy Ukrainian weapons depot
Russia claimed Wednesday that its forces carried out an airstrike destroying a weapons depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also alleged that troops have destroyed 430 aircraft, including drones, as well as more than 1,500 tanks and other combat armoured vehicles belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the “special military operation” began Feb. 24.
Mar 23, 5:20 am
Talks with Moscow ‘are moving forward,’ Zelenskyy says
Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “very difficult” but “moving forward,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday.
“It’s very difficult, sometimes confrontational,” Zelenskyy said in an early morning address. “But step by step, we are moving forward.”
Zelenskyy added that he is “grateful to all international mediators who are standing up for Ukraine.”
Well, that didn’t take long. Following heated fan speculation around what appeared to be a viral marketing scheme, Harry Styles has officially announced his third solo album.
Called Harry’s House, the album will arrive May 20. The artwork shows Harry, wearing a blouse and bell-bottom pants, looking confused while standing in a room where the couch and other furnishings are on the ceiling. There’s also a video that shows a montage of images, and ends with Harry walking onstage with the facade of a house behind him.
Harry’s House is the followup to 2019’s Fine Line, which won him the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance last year.
As previously reported, Harry teased the project with a website called YouAreHome.co.
Good news for those who flock to the CW every Monday night at 8 p.m. ET — the hit drama series All American has been renewed for a fifth season, the network announced Tuesday.
The show is among six others that were green lit for additional TV time, including The Flash, Kung Fu, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Superman & Lois and Walker.
“These dramas are also important to our overall digital strategy, as they are some of our most-streamed and socially-engaged programming, and we look forward to adding more new and returning series to help strengthen and expand our multiplatform footprint,” said Mark Pedowitz, chairman and CEO of The CW Network.
The renewal may not come as a surprise to some — All American‘s season three premiere back in 2019 marked the CW’s largest audience for the 8 p.m. time slot since a Batwoman episode, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Fans on Twitter expressed excitement for the upcoming season, highlighting the fact that the news comes right after cast member Daniel Ezra‘s directorial debut on this past Monday’s episode.
One user tweeted, “All American getting renewed right after Daniel Ezra directs? Exactly”
All American is an hour-long weekly series inspired by the true-life events of former professional football player Spencer Paysinger. The show follows Spencer James, played by British actor Ezra, who navigates an up-and-down football career, life growing up in LA’s South Crenshaw gang culture, relationships and more
(NEW YORK) — One of two black box recorders was found amidst the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines flight, giving investigators hope it will shed light on why the passenger jet plummeted from the sky and crashed into a mountainside in southern China, authorities said Wednesday.
None of the 123 passengers and nine crew members aboard Flight 5735 survived when it crashed in the Guangxi region.
An official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China confirmed Wednesday that one of the recording devices was located. The official said the protective exterior of the box was seriously damaged.
During a news conference Wednesday, Chinese authorities said that they believe the recovered device is the cockpit voice recorder. It was found in the main impact point of the crash and has been sent to Beijing for repair and analysis, officials said.
Authorities publicly acknowledged for the first time that human remains were found at the crash site.
Investigators are still searching for the second recorder which stores flight data, including airspeed, altitude and wing flap positions.
Early data shows the Boeing 737-800 plunged from 29,000 feet to 8,000 feet, leveled off and then went into a freefall, exploding into a fireball that was seen and filmed by people nearby. One video showed the plane nose-diving into the ground.
The plane crashed after taking off from Kunming, the capital of China’s Yunnan province. The flight was headed to Guangzhou, a port city northwest of Hong Kong, Chinese officials said.
Air traffic controllers made repeated attempts to radio the flight crew when they noticed the aircraft’s rapid descent but were unable to restore communications with the crew before the crash, Chinese officials said.
U.S. intelligence doesn’t have a clear theory on what led to the plane crashing. A source tells ABC News they aren’t ruling anything out, including a possible intentional downing.
As a precaution, China Eastern Airline grounded its fleet of Boeing 737-800s on Wednesday.
Members of the U.S. National Safety Transportation Board, the Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and engine-maker CFM International are all joining the probe.
Ten years ago Wednesday, Lionsgate released The Hunger Games, the adaptation of author Susan Collins‘ 2008 bestselling dystopian novel.
Co-written by Collins, Billy Ray, and director Gary Ross, the film centered on a life-or-death annual competition in which powerless young people are forced to compete to the death, to the delight of the elites in Panem’s Capitol city.
Grossing $155 million in its opening weekend alone — the start of a nearly $695 million worldwide run — the movie spawned three sequels, and turned Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson into young box office superstars.
Lawrence played Katniss Everdeen, one of the “tributes” from Panem’s District 12, a skilled hunter who takes her younger sister’s place in the deadly games. Katniss quickly rises to the top of the field, to the delight of the Capitol’s viewers.
Hemsworth played Gale Hawthorne, Katniss’ best friend, fellow hunter and eventual love interest. Hutcherson, meanwhile, played Peeta Mellark, Katniss’ fellow District 12 competitor, who gets “shipped” with Katniss by the organizers of the Games to goose viewership.
The film also had stand-out supporting performances from a handful of stars. Woody Harrelson played Hamish, a former winner who has become a drunk in retirement, and who advises Katniss; Lenny Kravitz as Cinna, Katniss’ charismatic stylist, who gives her a camera-ready makeover befitting her celebrity status and who becomes a trusted confidante; Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, the Games’ flamboyant escort; and Stanley Tucci as the blue-haired talk show host Caesar Flickerman, who covers the competition.
All the characters returned in the follow-up films — 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 2014’s The Hunger Games:Mockingjay Part 1, and 2015’s Mockingjay Part 2 — which tracked Katniss quest to overthrow Panem’s autocratic rule and end the Games.
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Forget the saddle, Aerosmith is heading back to Sin City.
The rock legends have announced a batch of 2022 dates for their “Deuces Are Wild” Las Vegas residency at the Dolby Live at Park MGM. The performances will take place over three eight-show engagements from June 17 to July 8, September 14 to October 5, and and November 19 to December 11.
“The only rust at Dolby Live is going to be on our van in the lobby!” says frontman Steven Tyler. “We are locked, cocked and loaded!”
The “Deuces Are Wild” shows will mark the first to feature immersive Dolby Atmos audio technology. The music will be augmented by 12 screens featuring never-before-seen visuals.
Tickets go on sale next Thursday, March 31, at 10 a.m. PT, with various pre-sales beginning this Thursday, March 24. For all ticket info, visit ParkMGM.MGMResorts.com.
Between the Vegas dates, Aerosmith will play a 50th anniversary hometown show at Boston’s Fenway Park on September 8.
Olivia Rodrigo has grown up a lot over the past couple of years, but that doesn’t mean the 19-year-old has mastered living on her own just yet.
During an appearance on The Late Late Show with James Corden Tuesday, the singer says she recently moved into her own apartment with her best friend, but is still adjusting.
“I haven’t acclimated that well, to be honest,” she says. “Last night I had just Peanut M&Ms for dinner because I can’t cook.”
She may not be the best at “adulting” right now, but Olivia’s age does get her some perks overseas. She tells Corden about her experience at a British pub when she was in London for the BRIT Awards earlier this year.
“I actually did get to go to a pub and it was so crazy,” she says. “And they asked for my ID as I was going in and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can show them my real ID, this is amazing.’”
“My friend who was with me was like rifling through all of her fake IDs to like try to find the real one to show the bouncer because she was truly legal there,” Olivia adds with a laugh. “But it was very much fun, yeah.”
Olivia’s up for seven Grammys this year. Her new documentary OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) debuts on Disney+ Friday. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.
