Jimmie Allen may be going into Dancing with the Star‘s first elimination tonight with the third-lowest score of the contenders, but he’s not letting that get him down.
In fact, he has a pretty positive view of how he and partner Emma Slater did doing the Tango.
“I’ve never danced before,” he explains, “so one, I’m just trying to remember myself that this whole, you know, Dancing with the Stars thing is like professional dancers paired up with celebrities that can’t dance, being judged by people that judge professional dancers.”
“So what I loved is, though,” he tells ABC Audio, “I love that they didn’t grade me like Jimmie Allen, the country singer. They graded me like a dancer, which was cool.”
After his first dance of the season, Jimmie sees nowhere to go but up.
“It showed the weaknesses, showed things I need to work on. It was fun and what I love about getting fives — after [judge] Len [Goodman] gave me a five, I was like, ‘I love fives!'” Jimmie laughs.
“But it’s room to grow… ” he reflects. “I figure the first week [if] you come out getting eights and tens and all that stuff, you know, you got a lot to live up to the next week. I got room to grow! That’s how I look at it.”
See how Jimmie fares tonight doing the Rumba to his hit, “Make Me Want To,” starting at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Tampa Bay 3, Miami 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Kansas City 2, Detroit 1
Texas 7, Baltimore 4
Chi White Sox 5, Cleveland 2
Toronto 5, Minnesota 2
Seattle 5, LA Angels 1
Oakland 4, Houston 3
NY Yankees 6, Boston 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 0
Cincinnati 9, Washington 2
Milwaukee 8, NY Mets 4
St. Louis 4, Chi Cubs 2
San Francisco 6, Colorado 2
LA Dodgers 3, Arizona 0
Atlanta 4, San Diego 3
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON
Florida 5, Nashville 4 (OT)
Boston 3, Washington 2 (SO)
Florida 3, Nashville 1
Seattle 5, Vancouver 3
NY Islanders 4, NY Rangers 0
Anaheim 6, San Jose 3
Ottawa 3, Winnipeg 2 (OT)
Edmonton 4, Calgary 0
San Jose 4, Vegas 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Arizona 31, Jacksonville 19
Atlanta 17, NY Giants 14
Baltimore 19, Detroit 17
Buffalo 43, Washington 21
Cincinnati 24, Pittsburgh 10
Cleveland 26, Chicago 6
LA Chargers 30, Kansas City 24
New Orleans 28, New England 13
Tennessee 25, Indianapolis 16
Denver 26, NY Jets 0
Las Vegas 31, Miami 28 (OT)
LA Rams 34, Tampa Bay 24
Minnesota 30, Seattle 17
Green Bay 30, San Francisco 28
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Phoenix 85, Seattle 80 (OT)
Final Chicago 89 Minnesota 76
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Nashville 0, Chicago 0 (Tie)
Seattle 2, Sporting Kansas City 1
Austin FC 2, LA Galaxy 0
Three years and one child later, Elon Musk and Grimes have called it quits.
The Space X and Tesla CEO confirmed the news to Page Six, revealing that while the two are “semi-separated,” they are on “great terms” and co-parenting their one-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii Musk.
“We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms,” Musk shared.
Explaining the reason behind their spit, he added, “It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in L.A. She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.”
Prior to news of the uncoupling, Musk, 50, and Grimes, 33, were seen together at the Met Gala earlier this month. The Canadian singer walked the red carpet and Musk met her inside.
The movie focuses on the creatively fruitful period from 1993 to 1995, during which Petty made his acclaimed 1994 studio effort Wildflowers and recorded many other songs that weren’t initially released on the album. The film features previously unseen footage shot during the making of Wildflowers, as well as new interviews with producer Rick Rubin and Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell — who co-produced the album with Tom — as well as with Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench.
The archival footage not only captures Petty in the studio, but on tour and with his family at home.
In additional to the October 20 screenings of Somewhere You Feel Free, the film will be shown at select theaters on October 21. Visit TomPettyFilm.com to find out where the documentary is playing and to purchase tickets. Then, later this year, the movie will get its worldwide release as a free streaming event in 4K resolution on Petty’s official YouTube channel as part of the YouTube Originals series.
You can check out a preview clip from the documentary on YouTube now that includes archival footage of Petty recording the Wildflowers track “Only a Broken Heart,” as well as recent footage of Rubin, Tench and Campbell chatting about the song.
Somewhere You Feel Free was directed by Mary Wharton, whose credits also include last year’s Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President.
An expansive Wildflowers box set titled Wildflowers & All the Rest, which featured a bevy of outtakes from the sessions, was released last year.
Three years and one child later, Elon Musk and Grimes have called it quits.
The Space X and Tesla CEO confirmed the news to Page Six, revealing that while the two are “semi-separated,” they are on “great terms” and co-parenting their one-year-old son, X Æ A-Xii Musk.
“We are semi-separated but still love each other, see each other frequently and are on great terms,” Musk shared.
Explaining the reason behind their spit, he added, “It’s mostly that my work at SpaceX and Tesla requires me to be primarily in Texas or traveling overseas and her work is primarily in L.A. She’s staying with me now and Baby X is in the adjacent room.”
Prior to news of the uncoupling, Musk, 50, and Grimes, 33, were seen together at the Met Gala earlier this month. The Canadian singer walked the red carpet and Musk met her inside.
A lot has happened with Tom DeLonge since the last Angels & Airwaves album.
The former Blink-182 guitarist got divorced, finally returned to tour, made a movie, and, like the rest of us, was stuck at home amid the COVID-19 pandemic. All that went into what became Lifeforms, the first AVA record in seven years.
“I kept having these left turns that made me want to come back and rework the stuff I was doing and make it the best it could be,” DeLonge tells ABC Audio. “It’s just been a wonderful journey…I think it’s some of the best stuff I’ve ever done in my life. I definitely know it’s the most challenging.”
He laughs, “I definitely know it’s the most attention and focus I’ve ever given a record.”
Of course, another thing that happened to DeLonge over the past few years is that the videos of “unidentified aerial phenomena” that his UFO research company To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science published were declassified by the U.S. government.
The title Lifeforms is an obvious reference to that, as is the song “Losing My Mind” and its lyric, “I said we’re not alone/ And the government knows it.” The track itself, however, isn’t really about aliens. Instead, it’s more about the idea that a government UFO report barely made the news since society is too hampered by issues such as racism.
“In that song, I was, like, ‘I told you guys what’s going on, the government said this, but you’re still fighting each other as though that’s the important issue, that your skin color is more tan than mine,'” DeLonge says. “It’s so ridiculous, it’s so medieval, and it’s such a low self-awareness, and it’s such a lack of love.”
Friday saw the release of “My Universe,” a collaboration between Coldplay and BTS, and now you can watch a mini-documentary showing how Coldplay’s Chris Martin traveled to South Korea to create the song with the K-Pop superstars.
The Inside My Universe doc dropped on Sunday and, in it, Chris explains that he was asked to collaborate with BTS 18 months ago, but he wasn’t sure how would be possible.
Then, he explains, “My friend said the phrase ‘my universe’ one day, and I wrote it down. I thought, ‘That’s a cool title.'” He then decided to turn the song into a demo to send it to BTS, who were thrilled that he was willing to work with them.
The various members of BTS talk about how Chris is the “king of the stadium tours,” not to mention one of their role models and influences. “Just as I’ve heard, he’s humble down to earth and pure in heart,” says BTS member RM of Chris.
“The song is about how the power of love transcends all things: borders and rules and genders and race and every sexuality,” Chris explains. “If you look at people right now who are divided by a border, and can’t be together…that’s what the song is about, about how nothing can really stop people loving each other.”
“This song should definitely be dedicated to ARMY,” says RM, referring to their fans. “I wrote the lyrics while picturing the day we reunite with ARMY.”
“[Chris] said that when he wrote the song, he was thinking of Coldplay and BTS as representatives of Earth, coming together to build a new universe,” saysJin.
And, as Chris explains, BTS’ global popularity “just feels very hopeful to me, in terms of thinking of the world as one family.”
After years of recovering from life-threatening plastic surgery, K. Michelle is now starring in a new reality show titled, My Killer Body.
The “V.S.O.P.” singer has often discussed her health struggles over the past few years as she attempted to recover from complications from a series of cosmetic procedures that nearly ended her life.
“Years ago I decided to share with the world my surgery complications,” she comments in an Instagram post announcing the new show, which is slated to premiere in 2022 on Lifetime. “I decided to have an open form of communication that could save someone’s life.”
In what is described as a “transformation series,” My Killer Body will help men and women desperate to reverse plastic surgery procedures that now threaten their lives. Each episode will follow two patients who need help, while also telling K. Michelle’s ongoing personal story.
“I’m so blessed to have met a group of individuals who are struggling to live, who just want to heal, and they want to share their true story to help other woman and men,” she notes in her Instagram message. “These are some of bravest women I’ve ever encountered.”
The former Love and Hip Hop star says her new series will document her journey to restore her health.
“You guys get to be all up in MY business and see my actual surgeries to recover, my healing, my family, my new music, and me just trying to grow as a woman,” Michelle writes. “I feel like y’all have grown up with me. There is no shame in my life mistakes and definitely not in my growth. See the truth on this so you can stop making up your own narratives.”
Kelly Clarkson‘s new album When Christmas Comes Around…, due next month, is her second holiday album, following 2013’s Wrapped In Red. Kelly says she hadn’t planned on another one — until she figured it might be just what she needs after the year she’s had.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Kelly, who’s going through a high-profile divorce from Brandon Blackstock, explains, “I kind of thought I’d never make another Christmas album because I love Wrapped in Red so much. And then I thought, ‘You know what? I feel like I could use some Christmas cheer, and maybe a lot of us could.”
“There’s a lot of songs on there that aren’t necessarily your, like, ‘Let’s play and get in a jolly mood’ kind of vibe,” she explains. “Some are, ‘Let’s really feel all the feelings’ Christmas songs.’ I think that’s why I named it When Christmas Comes Around, because when Christmas comes around, we are all in different places.”
“It’s very representative of all those different emotions that one might be feeling around Christmas time,” Kelly adds. “But there’s some happy stuff too. It’s like happy and sad…it kind of feels more like an album you release normal[ly], and then there’s Christmas sprinkled on it.”
The first single, “Christmas Isn’t Canceled (Just You),” is an example of this, Kelly notes, adding that she feels like, “a lot of things in life got canceled” in the past 20 months due to COVID.
“I think if you’d been in a relationship that didn’t work out…it was like, ‘O.K., it didn’t work out. That doesn’t mean it’s all ruined. That doesn’t mean everything’s over,'” she explains.
The new album features collaborations with Ariana Grande and country stars Chris Stapleton and Brett Eldredge.
(New York) — A large crowd of mourners packed a public funeral service for Gabby Petito, the slain 22-year-old travel blogger, on Sunday afternoon in Long Island, near where Petito grew up in Blue Point, New York.
The service was live-streamed online and showed the full length of a wall in a chapel at Moloney’s Holbrook Funeral Home, decorated with photos of Petito. An altar at the front of the chapel was covered in flowers and memorial candles.
Petito’s parents and relatives sat in the front row of the chapel accepting condolences from friends, family and strangers.
A prayer card handed out to mourners contained a poem title “Let it be,” a phrase Petito had tattooed on her arm.
“Do not grieve for me for I am free. I am traveling a path the Lord has taken me,” the poem reads. “Be not burdened with times of sorrow. I wish for you the sunshine of tomorrow. Perhaps my time seemed too brief. Do not lengthen it with undue grief. Lift up your hearts and share with me the memories that will always be.”
During the service, Petito’s father, Joseph, and her stepfather, Jim Schmidt, former chief of the Blue Point Fire Department, spoke.
Joseph Petito described his daughter as having “ridiculously blue eyes” and told mourners that “her nature was always to smile and treat everybody kind.”
“I want you to take a look at these pictures, and I want you to be inspired by Gabby,” Petito said. “If there’s a trip you guys want to take, take it now. Do it now while you have the time. If there is a relationship that you’re in that might not be the best thing for you, leave it now.”
Jim Schmidt added that throughout his career as a firefighter he has had to arrange funerals and give eulogies but added, “not one of them has prepared me for this moment.”
He pointed out a photo behind him of Petito as a little girl and said, “I still see Gabby as this.”
“Parents aren’t supposed to bury their children. This is not how life is supposed to work,” Schmidt said.
He added, “Gabby, at 22 years old, helped teach me that you can always make money but you can’t make up for lost time. Gabby loved life and lived her life every single day. She is an example for all of us to live by, to enjoy every moment in this beautiful world as she did. To love and give love to all like she did.”
Petito’s mother spoke out the night before the funeral with a heartfelt message to supporters.
Nicole Schmidt posted a message on Facebook late Saturday night following a 12-day silence.
“As I scroll through all the posts, my heart is full of love,” Schmidt wrote. “I wish I could reach out and hug each and every one of you!!! Your support has been so overwhelming, and we are so filled with gratitude.”
Schmidt also posted a series of family photos of her daughter as well as images of Petito traveling, telling supporters, “Please know what you are all doing for us does not go unnoticed, and with all of you by our side, we will get #justiceforgabby.”
Petito’s body was discovered a week ago Sunday in the Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming after her family reported her missing on Sept. 11. She vanished while on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, who authorities are still searching for and have named a “person of interest” in her death, which has been ruled a homicide.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Laundrie stemming from his alleged unauthorized use of a debit card to withdraw $1,000 during the period in which Petito was missing, according to the Associated Press. The FBI has not disclosed whose card Laundrie allegedly used.
Joseph Petito announced Saturday the creation of The Gabby Petito Foundation, which he said will provide resources and guidance to families of missing children.
“No one should have to find their child on their own,” he wrote on Twitter, “we are looking to help people in similar situations as Gabby.”
A vigil was held Saturday night in Florida for Petito.
People who were touched by her story gathered in North Port, Florida, outside the Laundrie home, attempting to convey a message to the family that they want justice for Petito.
Residents of Blue Point honored Petito on Friday night by lining streets in the city with thousands of memorial candles.
