Month: August 2020

What's your reason for voting? On Monday (Aug. 10), iHeartMedia announced the official launch of its 2020 voter awareness initiative, "Why I'm Voting," exclusively on Billboard. The non-partisan campaign will see artists from Billie Eilish and Selena Gomez to John Legend and Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds sharing the personal reasons voting matters to them in the upcoming 2020 election. Other famous faces taking part in the campaign include Dan + Shay, Finneas, Saweetie, Michelle Williams, DJ Khaled, Diplo and dozens more. Additionally, iHeartMedia listeners will also have the opportunity to record and submit their own 20-second audio or video message about why they're voting here. The campaign is set to run from now through Election Day on Nov. 3. "With voter turnout e...

Last weekend, in a new building with sweeping views of the city’s skyline in a gentrifying neighborhood in East Nashville, organizers advertised a party on social media dubbed “The V.I.P. Viewing of the Fashion House.” Masks were scarce. Hookahs were plentiful. And bodies by the hundreds packed and writhed in tight. Judging by videos posted to Instagram the next day, Nashville looked like it had opened its own Hedonism resort. One out-of-town attendee, who goes by DaddysJuiced, appeared in a video that showed him on his knees with his face burrowed in the ass of a woman. Framed in one of the home’s massive windows, DaddysJuiced did his thing while being gawked at by a long line of people waiting to get inside on the street below. Just under three miles away, in Nashville’s Broadway en...

Exactly one year after her very public separation, singer Miley Cyrus prepares to debut her first single of 2020. Her break from music came after she split from now-ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth. But now she’s back — and here’s why the teased lyrics seem appropriate for the occasion. Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s on-again, off-again relationship Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth attend the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 04, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. | Tony Barson/Getty ImagesCyrus and Hemsworth first met on the set of their film The Last Song in 2009. It wasn’t long before reports they were a real-life couple began to surface. They were together for two years (with a couple of rumored “breaks”) before getting engaged the first time. Then, in 2013, they c...

Simon Cowell is lucky not to be paralyzed after a horrific bike crash, breaking his back in three places, friends of the “America’s Got Talent” host tell us. The 60-year-old underwent a six-hour operation Saturday, while his longtime girlfriend, Lauren Silverman, waited nervously. Doctors said he narrowly missed severing his spinal cord. A source said: “He did a turn in his courtyard, changed gear, and then the bike went into a wheelie and threw him off the back . . . Simon was in complete agony and was stretchered out of his home and taken in an ambulance to hospital. “Friends at the scene quickly checked that he could move fingers and toes — he could have been paralyzed . . . When he fell off the bike, he landed right on his back, which broke in a number of places,” the so...

“Pain and Glory” star Antonio Banderas revealed he has tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, his 60th birthday. “I want to make it public that today, Aug. 10, I am forced to celebrate my 60th birthday in quarantine, having tested positive for the COVID-19 disease, caused by the coronavirus,” the star tweeted in Spanish. “I would like to add that I feel relatively good, just a little more tired than usual, and am confident that I will recover as soon as possible following medical instructions that I hope will allow me to overcome the infectious period that I am suffering, and that is affecting so many people around the planet,” the actor wrote. “I will take advantage of this isolation to read, write, rest and continue making plans to begin to give meaning to my 60 years,...

Season 2 of The Umbrella Academy places the Hargreeves children — once again — up against an impending apocalypse. Doomsday is coming, and they’ve got to save the world and get back to 2019, all without tinkering with the space-time continuum to an irreversible and consequential extent. The second season packs in surprising, yet inevitable moments, leading to quite the cliffhanger of a finale.  [Spoiler warning for season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’] Ellen Page attends the premiere of Netflix’s ‘The Umbrella Academy’ | Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesThe end of Season 2 presents quite the twist concerning Papa Hargreeves  Toward the end of the second season, Reginald Hargreeves pulls off a face mask — in a Mission Impossible–esque fashion — to reveal an alien-type, ...