Month: April 2021

DJ Khaled is feeling good about his upcoming new album, which he announced to be '99% done' in a series of social media posts on Friday. His enthusiasm was sparked, in part, when he was able to land the two Justins: Timberlake and Bieber, to appear on the solo project titled, Khaled Khaled. While his day included a confirmation from Timberlake that his 'vocals is in', and a celebratory jump into his backyard pool, the famed record producer did miss out on a FaceTime call from the two pop superstars. Scroll down to video  Legendary: Pop superstars Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake tried to FaceTime DJ Khaled to no avail after the famed record producer celebrated his upcoming studio album is '99% done' The social media flurry began before noon when Khaled celebrated ...

She is a young mother celebrating her most recent trip around the sun. And Gigi Hadid looked resplendent on Friday, when she was seen with her partner Zayn Malik and her famous family members while celebrating her 26th birthday in New York City. The model wore a fetching dusty ribbed lavender ensemble, consisting of a matching capped-sleeve top and flared pants. Birthday girl: Gigi Hadid looked resplendent on Friday, when she was seen celebrating her 26th birthday in New York City The beauty’s top featured corset-like stitching under her bust. The fashionable garment also had straps hanging from the front and back.   It was open in the back as well. Gigi flashed her peace sign fingers as she walked along, entering her birthday party in the NoHo district of Manhatta...

The Kardashian's won't be hitting the campaign trail on behalf of Caitlyn Jenner now that's she's running for governor of California ... because their views and the views of C.J. don't mesh, and the fallout from her divorce from Kris makes it all just too tricky. Sources close to Caitlyn tell TMZ ... she spoke to her family before announcing her campaign Friday, giving them a heads up. We're told she did not expect them to stump for her on the campaign trail, and now we know why. Caitlyn's politics have been an issue with the family for years.  She has taken positions on issues like gay marriage -- which she initially opp...

Lucky No. 7! Anna Duggar is pregnant with her and Josh Duggar's seventh child, she announced via Instagram on Friday, April 23.  "It's a GIRL!!!!!" Anna captioned a video of the couple getting showered with pink confetti as their kids ran towards them with excitement. "We are overjoyed to announce baby seven is on the way and we can't wait to hold her in our arms this fall!"  Josh and Anna most recently welcomed a child, a baby girl they named Maryella Hope, in November 2019. Much like Josh's parents—19 Kids and Counting stars Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar—the couple has stuck to a theme for their kids' names.  Josh and Anna's first child, Mackenzie, was born in 2009, followed by Michael, 9; Marcus, 7; Meredith, 5; Mason, 3; and Maryella; 17 months. Needless to say, we'd wager their...

Oprah Winfrey says she had no idea her revealing interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle would be so impactful — and she was surprised that Markle “went all the way there” by accusing the royals of racial bias. The 67-year-old opened up about the March broadcast on Nancy O’Dell’s new TalkShopLive streaming show. Oprah Winfrey went in depth with Nancy O’Dell about her thoughts on the royal interview.Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese/Handout via Reuters“I had no idea that it would have the reverberating impact that it has had and continues to have,” the media mogul said. “Our shared intention was the truth. They wanted to be able to tell their story and tell it in such a way that allowed them to be as truthful as possible,” Winfrey continued of the pair. Op...

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RELATED STORIES After 16 weeks (or was it 16 months?) of fierce competition, Friday’s RuPaul’s Drag Race finale closed the book on one of the most twisted seasons in herstory. A marked improvement over last season’s all-virtual finale, though still not quite the spectacle to which fans have become accustomed, Friday’s main event pit our Top 4 — Gottmik, Kandy Muse, Rose and Symone — against one another in all-out smackdown for the crown. Heading into the long-awaited coronation, 44 percent of TVLine readers expected the night to end with Symone being named America’s Next Drag Superstar, with Gottmik (31 percent) and Rosé (22 percent) following closely behind. As for Miss Congeniality, most readers assumed that honor would be bestowed upon Olivia Lux. The night kicked o...

Photo credits: Left: Kelsey Grammer (Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images), Right: Alec Baldwin (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival) Spend enough time watching the ups and downs of TV pilot production, and you tend to get a pretty “So it goes” attitude to the projects that don’t actually make it. So many good casts have worked together under so many good writers and producers over the years, only to fail at the final gate, that a certain equanimity is a natural reaction. “There’ll be other shows,” you tell yourself. And it’s true, usually—unless the show in question is a pilot in which Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer are 60-plus-year-old roommates attempting to shove their collective egos into a single room, a proposition that makes our skins crawl damn near off our bodies even as...

Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images On Friday, writer Michael Chabon added his voice to the rising tide of those speaking out about producer Scott Rudin, a conversation initiated by an April 7 Hollywood Reporter story, and continued in a Vulture report published Thursday, in which dozens of the producer’s former interns and assistants allege bullying, threats, and physical intimidation by Rudin in the workplace. In an essay entitled “Apology of a Rudin Apologist,” published to Medium, Chabon acknowledges he knew about at least some Rudin’s behavior and apologizes for normalizing it: “I’m not proud of that. Let me state it more honestly: I’m ashamed.” “T...

Michael Chabon, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2000 novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and worked for years with producer Scott Rudin on an unrealized film adaptation, has written a lengthy mea culpa – titled Apology of a Rudin Apologist – in which he expresses shame and regret for “enabling Scott Rudin’s abuse.” In a nearly 1,400-word essay posted today on Medium, Chabon writes of both witnessing and receiving the producer’s abuse. “I heard stories of Scott’s tantrums and vindictiveness, but not of smashed hands and people pushed out of moving cars,” writes Chabon, whose first screenplay was optioned by Rudin in 1994. “But I knew enough. I regularly, even routinely, heard him treat his staff, from the new kid doing the coffee run to the guy just under Scott ...