Month: June 2020

Scheana Shay from Vanderpump Rules recently opened up about having a miscarriage. The Bravo star revealed the tragic news recently and her reality show family reached out to comfort her. One surprising message Shay got was from Stassi Schroeder, who was recently axed from the reality series for racial remarks. Shay noted that she’s been in close contact with the fired star more than in the last 5 years. Scheana Shay and Stassi Schroeder | Tommy Garcia/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty ImagesHow did Scheana Shay lose her baby? Shay revealed in the latest episode of her podcast Scheananigans with Scheana Shay that she had suffered a miscarriage. The reality TV star was expecting her first baby with boyfriend Brock Davies. “I have always been an open boo...

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Framed “I’m like an interested layperson.” That’s how Nirupa Rao describes her approach to her work. Despite having no formal training in art or botany, Rao combined an inherent talent and innate love for plants to become one of India’s leading natural illustrators. Bengaluru-based Rao grew up in a family that included botanists as well as horticulturalists: her grand-uncle Cecil Saldanha had documented Karnataka’s flora in the ’60s, collecting about 14,000 samples across 5,000 species. So, for Rao, plants were always synonymous with adventure and discovery. As a young girl, she remembers going on picnics, or “expeditions” as the adults would sometimes call them, where the kids would collect berr...

"I was uneducated. I was unread." Florence Pugh has done some reflecting and is now apologizing for cultural appropriation — including a time when she wore cornrows and a beanie "painted with the Jamaican flag colors." Marc Piasecki / GC Images The actor posted a note to her Instagram, where she recalled this moment from when she was 17. "Proud of my Rastafarian creation, I then posted about it the next day with a caption that paraphrased the lyrics to Shaggy's song 'Boombastic'. I am ashamed of so many things in [these] sentences," she wrote, adding that it was "cruel" she "forgot" about it and "had no idea how many people were offended." ...

Country singer Chase Rice is under fire for holding a large concert in Tennessee on Saturday night where fans went maskless and neglected to social distance. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people watched Rice perform at the Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary — a former prison turned museum and concert venue — in Petros, about 150 miles from Nashville. Chase Rice captured the crowd in his own Instagram story, writing “We back” as he panned the camera across the raucous crowd. Nobody in the footage appeared to be wearing a mask and the fans were standing shoulder-to-shoulder. The re-imagined Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary reopened May 1, and, according to their website, said they “will be observing social distancing guidelines.” Fellow country singer, Kelsea Ballerini,...

There were first-time winners in several key categories at the 20th annual BET Awards. Lizzo was named best female R&B/pop artist. She beat Beyoncé, who had won 10 times in this category, including the last six years in a row. Megan Thee Stallion won best female hip-hop artist, beating two former winners in the category – Cardi B, who had won the last two years, and seven-time winner Nicki Minaj. DaBaby won best male hip-hop artist, beating four-time winner Drake, among others. Gymnast Simone Biles won sportswoman of the year for the first time. She beat tennis legend Serena Williams (who had won 12 times in the category, including the last six years in a row). Here are other artists who made history at the BET Awards. Blue Ivy Carter, the eight-year old daughter of...