Pearl Jam has finally announced plans for a rescheduled North American tour.
Eddie Vedder and company were originally supposed to launch a run through the U.S. and Canada to support their new album, Gigaton, in March 2020, but the outing was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a news post Tuesday, the grunge icons reveal that the tour is current set to kick off in May 2022. The exact itinerary is set to be announced “early next year.”
“For nearly two years, the band has wanted nothing more than to play their new music live for you,” the post reads. “The whole Pearl Jam team shares your excitement for us all to be safely on the road again together.”
Pearl Jam’s 2022 also includes a European tour, which will begin in June.
Dancing with the Stars judge Derek Hough has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
Hough, 36, announced the news Tuesday on Instagram, telling his followers in a video: “I have some news to share and I wanted you to hear it straight from me. Even though I’ve been fully vaccinated, I have just been diagnosed with a breakthrough case of COVID. I just found out.”
The pro dancer, who has won the Mirror Ball trophy six times, as well as three Emmys for his choreography on the show, said he’s feeling “OK” and “strong.”
“I’m currently taking advice from medical professionals [and] doing everything I can to get better as fast as I can,” he added. “I’m currently in quarantine, and I’ll make sure I keep you guys all updated with what’s going on.”
Hough, who just appeared on Monday’s episode of DWTS, ended the video by sending “a lot of love” to his followers and urging them to “stay safe.” He also said he was rescheduling his shows in Las Vegas, which were set to take place this week, and will “announce the new dates shortly.”
The news comes as DWTS is set to air its season-30 finale in less than a week, with the episode set to take place on Monday, Nov. 22.
Hough isn’t the only person on DWTS this season to be diagnosed with COVID-19: contestant Cody Rigsby and his pro dancer partner, Cheryl Burke, each had breakthrough cases despite them both being vaccinated. The pair recovered and have made it to the season 30 finals alongside contestants JoJo Siwa, Amanda Kloots and Iman Shumpert, whose respective pro dancer partners are Jenna Johnson, Alan Bersten and Daniella Karagach.
Ed Sheeran just received a major invitation from Seoul, South Korea. The Mnet Asian Music Awards, known as the MAMA Awards, asked the British pop star to perform at their event.
Entertainment Tonight describes the MAMAs as K-pop version of the Grammy Awards. They will be held on December 11 and will be broadcast worldwide.
Ed recently collaborated with the K-pop group BTS on their summer hit “Permission to Dance” this year and co-writing their 2019 single, “Make It Right.”
The singer has yet to comment on the MAMA Awards invitation.
This announcement comes as the MAMA Awards revealed that they are thinking about moving the ceremony from South Korea to the U.S. because of K-pop’s growth in global popularity. If they do, the organizers will evaluate nominees on their international influence.
As for why they want to move the show to America, Kim Hyun-soo, who is the CJ ENM director-general of music content, said it’s because the U.S. is the “world’s biggest music market.” He adds that these changes will help “further heighten MAMA as one of the top-tier global awards show.”
The MAMA Awards go live Saturday, December 11, at 4 a.m. ET/1 a.m. PT.
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.
