Month: June 2021

Vin Diesel stars in the new F9. (Photo: Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images)Vin Diesel just knew that there was something about John Cena. While promoting the latest installment of the The Fast and the Furious franchise, the action star explained what happened when he met with Cena, who was auditioning to play the new character of his brother. "Now the idea of the brother worked great on paper, but when the time came to cast it, anxiety. Who could you cast to be Dom's brother and 20 years into the game?" Diesel said Wednesday on The Kelly Clarkson Show. "The audience knows our mythology so much." But Cena was a fit. "I had this strange feeling that Paul Walker had sent him," Diesel explained. The xXx star even documented his feeling on social media at the time, calling Walker by the nickn...

He also admitted he was "scared" before coming out. "Because I always felt there was something that I had to keep to myself," he expressed. "There's so much relief to not feel like you have to hide a part of yourself, like a secret." Archuleta, who said he struggled early on with reconciling his feelings for men and women, offered advice to those who might not understand or accept him in his coming out post on Instagram on June 12. The "Crush" singer wrote in his caption, "For people who don't really understand how feelings outside of just being heterosexual can be possible and okay I just plead that you be more understanding to people who experience and struggle with things that you may not experience or understand yourself."  The American Idol star continued, "I just invite you ...

Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus took to social media Wednesday to reveal that he is undergoing chemotherapy saying, “It sucks and I’m scared,” while adding that he feels hopeful and expects to be back on tour when he’s cancer-free. Earlier in the morning, Hoppus had alarmed fans with a photo he posted on Instagram, and then quickly deleted, of himself sitting in what appeared to be a hospital room with the caption, “Yes hello. One cancer treatment, please.” Many hours later, the 49-year-old rocker put a stop to the guessing game with a text statement that made explicit exactly what he’s been going through, and for how long. “For the past three months I’ve been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. I have cancer,” Hoppus wrote. “It sucks and I’m scared, and at the same time I’m ble...

Britney Spears on Wednesday called her court-ordered conservatorship "abusive" and requested that a Los Angeles judge consider ending the arrangement that has controlled her career, finances and personal decisions for more than a decade. The 38-year-old pop star sounded off on her father, Jamie Spears, who was named the sole conservator in 2008 when the arrangement was implemented and now acts as a co-conservator of her estate. "I think this conservatorship is abusive. I don't think I can live a full life," Britney told the court Wednesday. "I feel ganged up on, I feel bullied and I feel alone." "I shouldn't be in a conservatorship if I can work and provide money and work for myself and pay other people. It makes no sense." Britney claimed her father has "complete control" over he...

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Last weekend, actor Michael B. Jordan announced the launch of his forthcoming line of rums, J’Ouvert. The name was quickly called into question, as it references a Caribbean festival that celebrates emancipation but has origins in 18th-century slavery. After some people — including Nicki Minaj and Trinidad and Tobago’s minister of trade and industry — criticized the branding for being culturally appropriative, Jordan has issued an apology and said he plans to change the name. “I just wanna say on behalf of myself & my partners, our intention was never to offend or hurt a culture (we love & respect) &...