BTS will finally be reunited with their beloved ARMY — at least, the North American branch of it — in November, as they perform four in-person shows at L.A.’s SoFi Stadium.
BTS Permission to Dance On Stage — LA will take place November 27, November 28, December 1, and December 2. This will be the group’s first chance to perform live for their fans since their 2019 world tour. Since the pandemic, BTS has spoken many times about how upset they’ve been about the fact that they haven’t been able to connect with their fans in person.
Fans who bought VIP tickets to the group’s canceled 2020 Map of the Soul tour will get first access to presale tickets for the new shows.
For fans who can’t get to L.A., BTS will also do a livestream concert, BTS Permission to Dance On Stage, on October 24.
You can register for the presale now through October 2 at 6 p.m. PT via Ticketmaster. Here is the schedule for who can get tickets when:
10/5 3pm PT Day 1 – VIP Purchasers: MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR PRESALE
10/6 3pm PT Day 2 – Ticket Purchasers: MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR PRESALE
10/7 3pm PT Day 3 – BTS GLOBAL OFFICIAL FANCLUB ARMY MEMBERSHIP PRESALE
10/8 3pm PT Day 4 – General Verified Fan Presale
10/9 3pm PT Day 5 – General Public Onsale
(NEW YORK) — Recreational pot has become legal for more Americans, but despite that ease of access, marijuana use hasn’t ignited, a study released Monday found.
An article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found there was no increase in cannabis use among the general population or among previous users after their states legalized marijuana.
Researchers surveyed about 830,000 Americans over age 12 on their reported cannabis use, both before and after recreational marijuana was passed in their state. The study looked at data between 2008 and 2017.
Washington state and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana in 2021, after which marijuana use saw a slight increase among Hispanic and white participants, researchers said.
The study also found there were no changes in cannabis use or cannabis use disorder for individuals between the ages of 12 and 20 in the states that legalized the substance.
As of Sept. 27, 18 states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana use for adults over 21. In this year alone, four states, New York, New Mexico, Virginia and Connecticut, legalized the substance.
ABC News’ Dr. Ronnye Rutledge contributed to this report.
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Perhaps as a response to the quasi biopic Aline, which is hitting theaters in 2022, Celine Dion has authorized the production of a documentary about her life and career.
The documentary from Oscar-nominated director Irene Taylor will be “the definitive feature” about Celine, and has the diva’s “full participation and support.” It will follow her “incredible” life story and include all her career highlights.
“I’ve always been an open book with my fans, and with her sensitivity and thoughtful creativity I think that Irene will be able to show everyone a part of me that they haven’t seen before,” Celine says in a statement. “I know she’ll tell my story in the most honest and heartfelt way.”
“Going on this journey with a legendary artist such as Celine Dion is an extraordinary opportunity for me as a filmmaker,” adds Taylor. “Having access to examine her life and inimitable career, will allow me to create a multifaceted portrait of an iconic, global superstar, which I look forward to sharing with the world.”
Celine will kick off her new residency show at Resorts World Las Vegas on November 5. She’s set to resume her Courage world tour in 2022.
As previously reported, Aline is a French movie that’s a thinly veiled biopic of Celine. Its director, writer and star, Valerie Lemercier, claims Celine’s French manager signed off on the film, but told her that Celine didn’t want to read the script.
(NEW YORK) — Simone Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist gymnast, said she should have quit competing “way before” the Tokyo Olympics, where she had to withdraw from several events due to mental health struggles.
“If you looked at everything I’ve gone through for the past seven years, I should have never made another Olympic team,” Biles said in a new interview with LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images). “I should have quit way before Tokyo, when Larry Nassar was in the media for two years.”
“It was too much,” she said. “But I was not going to let him take something I’ve worked for since I was 6 years old. I wasn’t going to let him take that joy away from me. So I pushed past that for as long as my mind and my body would let me.”
Biles, 24, was on track at this summer’s Olympics to win an unprecedented six gold medals during the Games, with the aim of also becoming the first woman since 1968 to win back-to-back titles in the all-around.
After stumbling on a vault landing in the team competition final, Biles withdrew from three of her event finals, citing her mental health.
Earlier this month, while testifying before Congress, Biles tied her performance in Tokyo to her struggle to recover mentally after being abused by Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics team doctor who is now serving up to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting hundreds of girls and women.
In the interview with New York Magazine, Biles said she is back in therapy and calls her recovery from the abuse she suffered a frustratingly long “work in progress.”
“You get surgery, it’s fixed. Why can’t someone just tell me in six months it’ll be over?” Biles said. “Like, hello, where are the double-A batteries? Can we just stick them back in? Can we go?”
Leading up to the Tokyo Games, Biles said she “didn’t feel as confident as I should have been with as much training as we had.”
Once there, Biles said she faced what in gymnastics is called “the twisties,” when one loses sense of where they are in the air or in their routine.
“If I still had my air awareness, and I just was having a bad day, I would have continued,” Biles told the magazine. “But it was more than that.”
“It’s so dangerous,” she said. “It’s basically life or death. It’s a miracle I landed on my feet. If that was any other person, they would have gone out on a stretcher. As soon as I landed that vault, I went and told my coach: ‘I cannot continue.’”
Biles faced criticism from some when she withdrew from her Olympic events, but she was mostly applauded for listening to her body and prioritizing her mental health.
To those critics who said she went to Tokyo and quit, Biles compared what she went through to suddenly waking up blind one day.
“Say up until you’re 30 years old, you have your complete eyesight,” she said. “One morning, you wake up, you can’t see … but people tell you to go on and do your daily job as if you still have your eyesight. You’d be lost, wouldn’t you? That’s the only thing I can relate it to. I have been doing gymnastics for 18 years. I woke up — lost it. How am I supposed to go on with my day?”
In the nearly two months since she returned home from Tokyo, Biles said she has had time to come to terms with what happened, though she said it still feels in many ways like she “jumped out of a moving train.”
“Everybody asks, ‘If you could go back, would you?’ ” Biles told New York Magazine. “No. I wouldn’t change anything because everything happens for a reason. And I learned a lot about myself — courage, resilience, how to say no and speak up for yourself.”
After almost two decades together, Miguel and actress/model Nazanin Mandi have separated.
A rep for the couple confirmed the news to People stating, “After 17 years together, Miguel and Nazanin Mandi have decided to separate and have been for some time now. The couple both wish each other well.”
It was not specified how long the pair had been apart or what led to the split.
Miguel and Mandi, both 35, dated for 10 years before getting engaged in 2016. They tied the knot in November 2018. The couple has no children.
Following news of the split, the “Adorn” singer took to his Instagram Story to share a thought-provoking message.
“What do you desire? Have certainty and clear intention about your desire,” the post read. “Clarity is key…Only take action on things that relate to, and excite positive emotion to your desire.”
Mandi also shared a cryptic message to her page, which read, “Someone once said: ‘You know you have a big heart when you feel bad for doing what’s best for you.’ And I felt that.”
(WASHINGTON) — Top White House climate negotiator John Kerry said in an interview with ABC News Live that every country needs to act to reduce emissions and address climate change faster than ever before, especially after warnings the upcoming climate summit in November could be a failure if more countries don’t increase their commitments to the Paris Agreement.
Kerry said Mother Nature “did a hell of a job whipping up enthusiasm to get something done” after the extreme events and record-high temperatures around the world this past year and said leaders are starting to feel the anticipation for the upcoming COP26 summit where countries will re-examine what they need to do to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees or 2 degrees Celsius.
“Every country has to go faster. None of us can say we’re really fast,” Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said in an interview with ABC News Live. “There are very few countries, you can get them on one or two hands, that are in keeping with the Paris numbers.”
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said there’s a “high risk of failure” from the COP26 climate summit in November if countries don’t drastically increase commitments to reducing emissions.
The latest report from the United Nations found the world is on track to warm an average of 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, failing the goals of the Paris Agreement and triggering consequences from global warming like more extreme heat waves, droughts that would increase impacts on agriculture in some parts of the world and intensifying severe weather events. Even with every country’s current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they’re expected to increase 16% by 2030, according to the U.N. report.
“The 191 countries that have all put in their plans together, whether they’ve changed them, improved them or kept them the same, that 191 result in a 16% increase in emissions,” Kerry told ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee.
“That is a big F — that fails, it fails for everybody,” he added.
Kerry was appointed to the role as special envoy for climate by President Joe Biden to help re-establish the country’s role as a leader in international climate negotiations after former President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement.
Kerry, who previously served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama and for 28 years as a senator, has traveled to countries like India and China, which generates about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, to speak with leaders about increasing their commitments to reducing the use of fossil fuels.
During the U.N. General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the country will stop financing new coal power projects abroad and will provide more financial support for developing countries to build renewable energy infrastructure. Kerry said that is a good start, but he acknowledged it sends a mixed message when the country continues to use fossil fuels and build new coal power plants inside the country.
“I think now there’s a growing awareness in China,” said Kerry, who recently returned from his second trip to speak with leaders there. “And I think President Xi is personally very invested in this issue. And my hope is that President Xi is going to help us all to come together around certain choices we can each make. It is possible that China could do more to peak earlier or to reduce coal.”
Kerry said he understands frustration from climate activists like Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who recently tweeted that “whatever our so-called leaders are doing, they’re doing it wrong.”
“A lot of them have failed, but I think it’s unfair. I think it’s a little much of a reach to say that, ‘so-called leaders,’ there are a lot of real leaders around and they are trying very, very hard to move this process,” he told ABC News.
Kerry said he understands Thunberg’s frustration and anger, and he is also angry that some people are getting in the way of action on climate change.
“What we need to do is behave like adults and get the job done. And she’s absolutely right to be pressing the urgency of our doing that. But there are leaders out there trying to get some things done, just too slowly in some cases, and we’ve got to speed it up,” he said.
Lil Nas X is taking a victory lap after his debut album Montero bowed in second place on the Billboard200 albums chart.
He took to Twitter on Monday to celebrate that three of his songs have taken up residency in the BillboardHot 100’s top 10: “Industry Baby,” “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and “That’s What I Want” at numbers two, nine and 10, respectively. But he also shared a special message to the people who helped him become the man he is today — and that includes his haters.
“Let’s f****** goooooooooo!,” he tweeted out in all caps. “Thank u to my fans ily! And to my haters, s**k my f****** d***!” He closed the tweet with a butterfly and two red heart emojis.
Overall, 11 tracks off the Montero album are charting on the BillboardHot 100: “Scoop” featuring Doja Cat at 42, “Dolla Sign Slime” with Megan Thee Stallion at 47, “Dead Right Now” at 72, “Tales of Dominica” at 86, “One of Me” with Elton John at 88, “Lost in the Citadel” at 90, “Sun Goes Down” at 91 and “Am I Dreaming” featuring Miley Cyrus at 97.
He responded to that by tweeting, “wow i just became the first one hit wonder of all time to have 11 songs on billboard all at once.”
Lil Nas X is also shaking up two other charts: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs. “Industry Baby” dominates both lists at number one.
The group of 30 men who will compete for Michelle Young‘s heart on The Bachelorette season 18 has been revealed.
Young, a 28-year-old fifth grade teacher and former Division I college basketball player from Edina, Minnesota, will meet a group that includes a professional football player, two firefighters, a mathematician, two personal trainers and someone who describes himself as a “pizzapreneur,” which we can only assume is a combo of the words “pizza” and “entrepreneur.”
She will also have help from former Bachelorettes Tayshia Adams and Kaitlyn Bristowe, who will return as co-hosts.
Young first appeared as a late arrival to Matt James‘ season of The Bachelor earlier this year. During James’ After the Final Rose special, it was announced that she and her fellow contestant Katie Thurston would be the franchise’s next two Bachelorettes. Thurston’s season ended with a proposal from Blake Moynes last month.
Young’s season of The Bachelorette premieres Tuesday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
Meet the 30 men who will vie for Michelle’s heart:
Alec, 29, an engineer from North Charleston, South Carolina
Brandon J., 26, a traveling nurse recruiter from Portland, Oregon
Brandon K., 29, a brand manager from Austin, Texas
Bryan, 31, an NFL player from Chicago, Illinois
Casey, 36, an advertising creative director from Miami Beach, Florida
Chris G., 28, a motivational speaker from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Chris S., 28, a commodities broker from West Hollywood, California
Clayton, 28, a medical sales rep from Columbia, Missouri
Daniel, 26, a firefighter from Austin, Texas
Edward, 27, a wellness coach from Los Angeles, California
Garrett, 33, a tech CEO from Salt Lake City, Utah
Jack, 30, a former Army officer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jamie, 32, a biotech CEO from San Diego, California
Joe, 28, a real estate developer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
JoMarri, 26, a personal trainer from Fresno, California
Leroy, 27, a biomedical Ph.D. student from Dallas, Texas
LT, 38, a yoga guru from Bellevue, Washington
Martin, 29, a personal trainer from Miami, Florida
Mollique, 36, an academic administrator from San Diego, California
Nayte, 27, a sales executive from Austin, Texas
Olu, 27, an IT analyst from Newark, New Jersey
Pardeep, 30, a neuroscientist from Brooklyn, New York
Peter, 26, a pizzapreneur from Port St. Joe, Florida
PJ, 30, a firefighter from Houston, Texas
Rick, 32, a medical sales rep from Los Angeles, California
Rodney, 29, a sales rep from Rancho Cucamonga, California
Romeo, 32, a mathematician from New York City, New York
Ryan, 30, an environmental consultant from San Jose, California
Spencer, 25, a financial crimes analyst from Cleveland, Ohio
Will, 28, an academic interventionist from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Pat Sajak and Vanna White recently kicked off their 39th season as host and hostess of ABC’s Wheel of Fortune and are locked in through the 2023-2024 season — but Sajak recently hinted when he might be ready to call it quits.
“We’re certainly closer to the end than the beginning,” Sajak, 74, teases Entertainment Tonight. “I’d like to leave before people tune in and look at me and say, ‘Ooh, what happened to him?'”
Over that time, White, 64, says she and Sajak have become like family, saying that after nearly four decades together, “he’s like my brother.”
“He’s funny. I mean, we could finish each other’s sentences if we wanted to. We know each other that well,” she adds.
The pair recently kicked off season two of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which airs Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern time on ABC.
(NEW YORK) — HomeGoods introduced a new shopping platform today to pick up your favorite candles, throw blankets and kitchen goods from the comfort of your home.
HomeGoods.com, the highly anticipated online store from the retailer, is a new destination for shoppers to discover a wide assortment of top brands and décor ideas. Of course, the new venture comes just in time for the holiday season.
Just like the retail store, there will be a wide variety of products to shop from, including bedding, seasonal décor, pet products, storage and organization with an ever-changing selection of brand-name and designer home goods at prices generally discounted below department and specialty store prices.
“We are thrilled to bring a second way for our passionate shoppers to discover and shop an assortment they know and love,” John Ricciuti, president of HomeGoods, said in a statement. “We hope our customers find the same excitement shopping HomeGoods online as they do exploring the aisles of our stores.”
In addition, HomeGoods will make its return process easy. Shoppers can return items at any one of the more than 820 HomeGoods locations across the U.S. or return by mail.
The store plans to continue to expand its online merchandise after the initial launch.
