Cole Swindell and Lainey Wilson are vowing to “Never Say Never” in their new collaboration.
The hitmakers are teaming up for a fiery new song that finds two people who can’t stay apart. It’s set for release on Thursday.
Cole and Lainey teased the song in a humorous video wherein they trade questions about things they would “never” do, whether it’s switching hats, Cole wearing a pair of Lainey’s bell bottoms, or Lainey accepting his offer of a White Claw, instead presenting two cans of Loud Lemon.
“Cole, what you say we do a song together?” Lainey asks, with Cole replying, “I’d never say never with you.” The two cast a deadpan look at the camera that leads into a teaser of the song, with them singing, “I never say never with you/I end up together with you/It’s hell and it’s heaven with you baby.”
“I’ve been waiting a long time for this one. @laineywilson LET’S GO,” Cole proclaims in the caption.
“@coleswindell, I think we got us a good one. Super excited to share this one with y’all on Thursday!” remarks Lainey.
The “Never Say Never” collaboration follows Cole’s most recent #1 hit, “Single Saturday Night,” and Lainey’s first #1 single in 2021 with “Things a Man Oughta Know.”
Monday night, Adele treated fans and friends to an early listen of her album 30, which officially arrives on Friday.
She posted photos of her listening party on Instagram, and captioned them, “Cocktails and crying all around.” The first photo shows Adele addressing her guests in a beautiful copper, brown and silver short dress that the New York Post reports is Oscar de la Renta.
One photo shows a table lit by a candle with the words “Easy On Me” — the first single from 30 — written on it, while another pic has a list of the custom cocktails guests enjoyed. The choices included an “I Drink Wine” spritzer and “My Little Love ‘Tail,” both named after songs on the album, as well as an Aperologetically Adele Spritz.
One of the guests was Adele’s close pal, Nicole Richie, who posed for a photo with Adele and some other guests, one of whom is clutching a green pillow with “30” written on it.
And because Adele doesn’t take herself too seriously, she also included a photo of herself sticking her tongue out, crossing her eyes and cradling her boobs while a guy — whom we assume was fixing her microphone pack — holds onto her waist. At least, we hope he was fixing her microphone pack.
Meanwhile, the ratings are in for Adele’s CBS special, One Night Only. According to Billboard, the show attracted the biggest Sunday night audience for any entertainment show so far this season, averaging 9.92 million viewers. That’s more than watched this year’s Oscars.
DaniLeigh has been charged with assault for altercations Sunday night and Monday morning with DaBaby.
The “Lil Bebe” singer, who has a three-month-old daughter with the “Suge rapper, is facing two charges of simple assault, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed late Monday to ABC Charlotte affiliate WSOC-TV.
DaBaby, whose birth name is Jonathan Kirk, told police late Sunday that DaniLeigh, born Danielle Curiel, assaulted him. Officers returned to the same address Monday morning and Kirk stated Curiel had assaulted him a second time.
DaBaby streamed Sunday’s incident on Instagram Live, and made it known that he was calling the police, saying, “Man, y’all come get her.” DaniLeigh claimed that he has been an absentee father and is trying to force her out of his Charlotte apartment,
In an Instagram Stories post, DaBaby said, “I don’t want no charges pressed or nothing. I just want her peacefully removed, which they need to hurry up [and] do as we speak. I ain’t even want that behavior on display but it’s OK, man this too shall pass, it’s all good.”
“I am a father. That’s the only reason why she is around me,” Kirk added. “If anything else is going to come to light it will come to light. I’m not participating in none of the foolery, man.”
A video posted by DaniLeigh and captured by TMZ showed her being questioned by police. She said, “I just feel like this is so unfair this situation…Nothing but genuine pure love for this man from the jump three years ago.”
“We have a child. Its very unfortunate,” DaniLeigh continued. “I will leave. I dropped everything for my baby to know her dad.. I will go figure it out.
(LARIMER COUNTY, Colo.) — A small fire has sparked mandatory evacuations in a popular Colorado ski resort town as wind gusts threaten to fan the flames.
The Kruger Fire broke out Tuesday morning near Kruger Rock in Larimer County, just outside Estes Park, a mountain town with about 6,000 residents, fire officials said. The fire had reached 20 acres before 9 a.m., according to the Estes Valley Fire Protection District.
Red flag warnings have been issued throughout Colorado over high wind gusts topping 40 mph. Videos posted to social media show the fire crowning, indicating the possibility that it could spread quickly.
Last year, Estes Park was wedged between the two largest fires in state history– the East Troublesome Fire and the Cameron Peak Fire — but a snowstorm in October 2020 halted the fires in their tracks.
The neighborhoods of Little Valley Drive, Hermit Park and Uplands of Fish Creek Road were ordered to evacuate on Tuesday morning.
Additional information was not immediately available.
ABC News’ Jeffrey Cook contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Several dozen New York City sanitation workers have been accused of submitting falsified vaccination cards to satisfy the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and they’ve been suspended without pay, according to a city official.
The city’s Department of Investigation is looking into the allegations, with spokesperson Diane Struzzi adding: “DOI is aware of allegations involving the issuance of bogus vaccination cards and declines further comment.”
New York City’s Sanitation Department also is investigating the situation in coordination with the DOI, according to Sanitation Department spokesman Joshua Goodman.
“These are very concerning allegations and we take them very seriously,” Goodman said. “Getting vaccinated is important to public health, and we do not tolerate anyone faking something that is a requirement of city employment.”
Over 87% of the department’s roughly 10,000 employees are either fully or partially vaccinated, according to ABC New York station WABC-TV.
“Anyone found to have faked their vaccination will be suspended without pay,” Goodman added.
The employees allegedly submitted real CVS cards listing that they had received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, but, upon verifying, officials realized CVS hasn’t administered the J&J vaccine since May.
Employees allegedly lied about taking the J&J dosage because it was easier to fake receiving a single shot. The cards all came from the same CVS in southern Brooklyn but were distributed to multiple sanitation garages.
As of now, the accused sanitation workers are facing up to three works of suspension without pay.
Machine Gun Kelly and Green Day are performing during the 2022 Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, a three-day event taking place February 10-12 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles ahead of the upcoming Super Bowl LVI.
The “Bloody Valentine” rocker will take the stage on February 10, followed by the “American Idiot” trio on February 12. Both shows will also feature a pop artist on the bill: MGK will be joined by his “Forget Me Too” collaborator Halsey, while Green Day will be accompanied by Miley Cyrus.
The festival’s middle date, February 11, will be headlined by Gwen Stefani and her husband, country star Blake Shelton, along with another country artist, Mickey Guyton.
Each of the three Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest concerts will be ticketed separately — tickets go on sale this Thursday, November 18. For more info, visit SuperBowlMusicFest.com.
Super Bowl LVI takes place February 13, 2022, at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium.
Lady Gaga is opening up on what her dramatic transformation entailed for the upcoming film, House of Gucci.
In the Ridley Scott-directed film, Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, the woman who was famously convicted of arranging the murder of her ex-husband, Italian fashion heir Maurizio Gucci.
Ahead of the film’s Nov. 24 release, Gaga spoke about the steps she took to embody Reggiani on the big screen and gave her thoughts on the woman who served 18 years in prison for the infamous crime.
“There was a lot that was in the media that was sensationalized about how she was this gold digger and about how she killed for greed and money,” Gaga said Tuesday on Good Morning America.
“I believe it was love, and I believe it was survival,” she added.
Despite feeling Reggiani was somewhat mischaracterized in the press, Gaga said she still had her reasons for not meeting with the woman.
“I didn’t wanna meet her because I could tell very quickly that this woman wanted to be glorified for this murder, and she wanted to be remembered as this criminal,” Gaga said.
“I didn’t wanna collude with something that I don’t believe in,” she continued. “You know, she did have her husband murdered.”
Instead, Gaga said she dove into her own research and worked at mastering Reggiani’s accent.
“I was just in Milan the other day doing a television show, and I had the most wonderful time with Fabio, who did my interview,” Gaga said. “When he told me that he was so impressed with my accent and that Italian people were impressed with my accent, I couldn’t think of a higher honor.”
See more of Lady Gaga’s interview with Michael Strahan on Nightline tonight at 12:35 a.m. ET on ABC.
(KENOSHA COUNTY, Wis.) — In a trial that began with the judge playing Jeopardy with prospective jurors, Kyle Rittenhouse participated in a game-show-style process on Tuesday of randomly selecting the 12 jurors to decide his fate.
Just after 10 a.m., the 18 members of the Kenosha County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court panel who heard evidence in the nationally televised trial of the 18-year-old had their juror numbers written on pieces of paper and placed in a metal raffle drum, which a clerk spun with the crank of a handle.
Judge Bruce Schroeder then instructed Rittenhouse to draw six numbers from the tumbler in a process that is a standard practice in Wisconsin. The teenager, seated at the defense table and dressed in a blue suit, reached in and pulled out six numbers one at a time.
A clerk then read aloud the numbers of jurors No. 11, 58, 14, 45, 9 and 52 who will serve as alternates during the deliberations conducted by the remaining panelists.
The alternates were immediately instructed to follow a bailiff into a back room as Schroeder gave the rest of the jury final instructions.
“All right, members of the jury, it is for you to determine whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty of each of the offenses charged,” Schroeder said.
After telling the jurors to send notes through the bailiff if they need to communicate with him, Schroeder said, “All right folks, you can retire to consider your verdicts.”
Schroeder then asked the alternate jurors to return to the courtroom. Quoting Shakespeare, the judge said, “Parting, as they say, is such sweet sorrow.”
“You’ve been wonderful jurors, and we couldn’t have asked for a higher quality jury, better jurors, more attentive jurors, more prompt jurors,” Schroeder said to the alternates.
He explained that there have been “rare instances” in high-profile cases where alternate jurors have been restored to the jury deliberating after being dismissed.
“That is conceivable in this case. It’s not likely. In fact, it’s quite unlikely, but it’s possible,” Schroeder told the alternates.
He asked them to adhere to his order not to discuss the case with anyone and to continue to avoid media reports about the trial. He also asked them to stick around the court in case they are needed.
The trial initially began with 20 jurors, but one was removed for health concerns and another was dismissed after acknowledging in court that he told a tasteless joke to a deputy sheriff about Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed in a Kenosha police shooting that set off days of violent protests that led up to the shootings Rittenhouse claims he committed in self-defense.
Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree reckless homicide, first-degree intentional homicide, attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two felony counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety.
If convicted on all felony charges, Rittenhouse faces a sentence of life in prison.
Prior to closing arguments on Monday, Schroeder instructed the jury that they will be allowed to consider lesser charges against Rittenhouse if the panel decides the prosecution failed to meet its burden to prove the original charges.
Schroeder also granted a defense motion to dismiss a charge of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18 after the prosecution agreed that the rifle Rittenhouse used in the shooting did not meet the required standard of an illegal short-barreled rifle under the law.
The charges stem from the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and a shooting that left 27-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz wounded during an Aug. 25, 2020, protest in Kenosha.
During his testimony on Thursday, Rittenhouse said he shot all three men with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle in self-defense after they each attacked him.
“I didn’t intend to kill them. I intended to stop the people who were attacking me,” Rittenhouse repeatedly said, at one point breaking down and sobbing on the witness stand.
Oscar winning actor and producer George Clooney virtually sat down with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast Monday and discussed last month’s fatal shooting on the set of the movie Rust.
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza was injured when star and producer Alec Baldwin fired a gun he believed was “cold,” meaning unloaded. An investigation is ongoing.
Clooney explained he was good friends with actor Jon-Erik Hexum, who was killed in 1984 when he put a blank-loaded gun to his head and fired. George also revealed he was “really good friends” with Brandon Lee, who was mortally wounded in 1993 when an unnoticed bullet was fired into his abdomen by a blank charge on the set of The Crow.
“That was a series of…really stupid things,” Clooney said, detailing that accident.
Of the Rust shooting, Clooney exclaimed, “Why for the life of me, this low-budget film, with producers who haven’t produced anything, wouldn’t have hired for the armorer someone with experience,” he said, referencing 24-year-old neophyte Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed.
“Maybe they weren’t doing target practice with that gun, but they had live ammo with dummies in her pack. And that is insane,” Clooney said. “It’s infuriating.”
“It’s a terrible accident,” Clooney continued. “But a 24-year-oldperson with that little experience shouldn’t be heading up a department with guns and bullets on it.”
Gutierrez-Reed’s attorney has said he believes someone mixed live rounds with dummy rounds on the Rust set in order to sabotage the production, but has provided no public proof to support the claim.
“Every single time I’m handed a gun on a set,” Clooney explains, “I look at it, I open it, I show it to the person I’m pointing it at…every single take…And part of the reason we do that is because of Brandon.”
Clooney said he “hoped” Baldwin did the same, but didn’t know. He also said, “I’ve never heard the term ‘cold gun,'” referring to the term assistant director David Halls reportedly said to Baldwin to indicate that the gun was empty.
Allowing that “dummy bullets are tricky” because it takes a close inspection to see whether they’re harmless or not, live bullets had no business being on set. Clooney also said when it comes to revolvers — the same type of pistol Baldwin used — “you always point it at the ground and squeeze it [the trigger] six times” to ensure nothing comes out of the barrel.
A country singer in Nashville covering the Lit single “My Own Worst Enemy” got a very welcome surprise when members of the ’90s rock outfit joined him on stage.
Vocalist Ajay Popoff and his brother, guitarist Jeremy Popoff, were hanging around Nashville when they heard local musician Eric Van Houten playing an acoustic version of their inescapable 1999 hit at the Twelve Thirty Club restaurant and music venue. They then decided to sneak up behind Van Houten while grabbing a mic and an electric guitar before starting to jam out with him.
According to a press release, video of the interaction has racked up over 12 million views in 24 hours across several social media platforms.
Last week, Lit announced a podcast dedicated to “My Own Worst Enemy,” which will premiere November 23. The Popoff brothers and founding bassist Kevin Baldes will all take part in the series.
