(TOKYO) — US gymnast Simone Biles will compete on the balance beam on Tuesday, USA Gymnastics announced in a tweet.
Biles pulled out of the team all-around final, the individual all-around final, the uneven bars, and the vault in the past week citing her mental health.
Biles and Sunisa Lee, the individual all-around gold medalist, will compete for the United States.
Biles won the bronze medal on the beam during the 2016 Rio Olympics and is a four-time world champion.
Maroon 5 is taking Ava Max along on their North American headlining tour.
The “Kings and Queens” singer will be the opening act on the tour’s four stadium shows, including Wrigley Field in Chicago, IL on August 30; Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA on September 5; Fenway Park in Boston, MA on September 12; and Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, CA on October 2.
The trek kicks off August 10 at White River Amphitheatre in Auburn, WA, and runs through October 8 at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, CA.
In other Maroon 5 news, the band just achieved their first RIAA-certified Diamond single with their 2011 hit “Moves Like Jagger,” featuring Christina Aguilera.
Just prior to her death, Aretha Franklin cast her handprints in concrete in 2017. Three years later, they’ve finally found a permanent home.
The Detroit native’s hand prints were unveiled Sunday, according to the Detroit Free Press, to celebrate a new exhibit from the Detroit Historical Museum honoring the late legend. Originally, the castings were meant to be installed in the city’s then-newly announced Aretha Franklin Way. Plans for the installation were changed when Franklin passed away in 2018.
The temporary exhibit, titled “Respect,” showcases several artifacts belonging to the Queen of Soul, as well as props and costumes from her new biopic of the same name that opens in theaters later this month. The display will be available for viewing until the end of August at the museum’s Motor City Music Exhibition space.
In addition to the new exhibit, a private screening of Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson as Franklin, was also held Sunday for the singer’s inner circle.
Hudson, who was Aretha’s hand-picked selection to play her in the film, was also in the city for the festivities. She was joined by the movie’s director, Liesl Tommy, at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History for a Q&A session regarding the biopic. The event was invitation only.
Respect, which follows Aretha’s life story from being a singer in her father’s choir in church to becoming a worldwide music legend, debuts in theaters August 13.
Aretha died August 16, 2018 following a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 76.
Chris Young is bringing his “Famous Friends” on tour.
This fall, the chart-topping singer will set out on the Famous Friends Tour that covers 13 cities from October through December. The trek kicks off October 21 in Little Rock, Arkansas and runs through December 5 where it wraps at Mohegan Sun Arena.
Along the way, Chris and friends will make multiple stops in Texas and perform another arena show in Iowa at Xtream Arena. Mitchell Tenpenny and newcomer Callista Clark join as opening acts.
“Everybody’s been asking me when’s the tour announce — well now you have your answer and I couldn’t be more excited about it. I’m pumped to be able to share some of this new music on tour!” Chris shares in a statement.
The Famous Friends tour is named after Chris’ current #1 single, featuring Kane Brown.
News of the tour comes just days before the Tennessee native drops his long-awaited album, Famous Friends, on Friday. The 14-track album also features collaborations with Mitchell and Lauren Alaina. It’s his first studio album since Losing Sleep was released in 2017.
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Kathy Griffin revealed Monday that she has stage 1 lung cancer.
The 60-year-old comedian and actress shared a tweet announcing her diagnosis and said she will undergo surgery. She did not reveal when she received her diagnosis.
“I’ve got to tell you guys something. I have cancer,” Griffin wrote. “I’m about to go into surgery to have half of my left lung removed.”
Griffin continued: “Yes, I have lung cancer even though I’ve never smoked!”
She said her doctors are “very optimistic” because she said her cancer is “stage one and contained to my left lung.”
“Hopefully no chemo or radiation after this and I should have normal function with my breathing,” she wrote. “I should be up and running around as usual in a month or less.”
“It’s been a helluva 4 years, trying to get back to work, making you guys laugh and entertaining you, but I’m gonna be just fine,” she continued.
Griffin also told her followers she is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. “The consequences for being unvaccinated would have been even more serious,” she said. “Please stay up to date on your medical check ups. It’ll save your life.”
Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC estimates that “about 10% to 20% of lung cancers, or 20,000 to 40,000 lung cancers each year, happen in people who never smoked or smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.”
Griffin sat down with ABC News’ Juju Chang to discuss her reaction to her diagnosis, admitting she was “in shock.”
“Once a day, I’ll just turn to nobody next to me and go, ‘Can you believe this s***? Is this a b**** or what?” she said.
Fetty Wap‘s 4-year-old daughter, Lauren Maxwell, has died.
The 30-year-old “Trap Queen” rapper shared Lauren with artist Turquoise Miami, who confirmed the heart-wrenching news on Saturday.
Sharing a short clip to Instagram of their daughter in a pool smiling and bouncing around, she wrote, “This is my amazing, beautiful, funny, vibrant, loving, talented, smart and hardheaded princess mermaid Aquarius.”
Miami then asked that those who see the post either comment or say to themselves “‘I love you Lauren’ because they say that souls can feel your love.” She closed the post with #rip and the broken heart emoji.
There was no mention of how Lauren died.
Fetty, born Willie Junior Maxwell, hasn’t directly commented on the devastating news. The U.S. Sun, however, reports that he seemingly acknowledged it after his Rolling Loud performance last weekend.
“LoLo daddy did that…for you last night baby girl,” he wrote in an Instagram Story, accompanied by a butterfly, dove and heart emoji on July 25.
Fetty followed up that post with a video of himself singing his record “Come My Way” with the phrase “Listen LoLo.”
Brett Young is a proud father, as he and wife Taylor announce the arrival of their second child.
Over the weekend, Brett took to Instagram to reveal that his second daughter, Rowan Marie Young, was born on July 21. She joins the couple’s one-year-old daughter, Presley.The “Mercy” singer shared the news alongside a photo of the sleeping newborn wrapped in a big pink bow.
“I thought my heart was maxed out. I usually don’t like to be wrong…… I was wrong. And I can’t wait to thank you properly for the opportunity to be your daddy. I already love you so much and I can’t wait to watch you and your sister become best friends,” Brett writes in the caption.
The singer also praises his wife and eldest daughter, encouraging the new baby to follow their example as she grows up.
“The women in your life are super heroes and you’re the luckiest lady alive. Presley has been begging for you. Be prepared for me to mess everything up and your mom and sister to always be there to fix it,” he continues. “I love you. Welcome to the ‘Youngs’ -Daddy.”
Brett and Taylor welcomed Presley in October 2019. His most recent #1 hit, “Lady,” is inspired by them. Brett’s set to release a children’s book, Love You, Little Lady on August 24.
First announced in 2019, a new Led Zeppelin documentary — the first in 50 years to feature the band’s participation — has been completed, and now has a title: Becoming Led Zeppelin.
As Variety reports, the director, Bernard McMahon, had what’s described as “unprecedented” access to the band for the project. “Becoming Led Zeppelin is a film that no one thought could be made,” Variety quotes MacMahon as saying. “The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.”
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones all sat for new interviews for the doc, and archival interviews with late drummer John Bonham, who died in 1980, are also included. Never-before-seen pictures and film, plus state-of-the-art audio transfers of Zeppelin’s music, round out the project.
McMahon also directed American Epic, a documentary series focusing on American roots music and its impact on the world. According to Variety, when Becoming Led Zeppelin was first announced, Page said that he knew McMahon would be “qualified’ to tell their story based on his “remarkable achievement” with American Epic.
So far, the documentary does not have a release date.
(NEW YORK) — Israel is now the first in the world to give a third booster COVID-19 vaccine shot to those over 60 and other vulnerable people as cases rise.
The U.K. expected to roll out boosters next month.
Watch the full report from ABC’s Good Morning America:
Lorde will be performing live in New York City’s Central Park later this month for Good Morning America’s 2021 Summer Concert Series.
The New Zealand singer-songwriter will be hitting the stage on August 20 — the same day her new album, Solar Power, is released. She debuted the title track off the album back in June.
Tickets are required to attend the free concert and strict COVID-19 protocols will be enforced. GMA requires all attendees to be fully vaccinated on the day of attendance.
Can’t be in New York City? You can get a front row seat for the performance at home by watching GMA live on August 20 and tweeting @GMA on social with the hashtag #LordeonGMA.
