BTS Announce Extended Hiatus to Pursue Solo Projects

Sunmi has announced the dates for her upcoming 2022 ‘Gone Girl Gone Mad’ tour of North America and Europe.Yesterday (June 29), the K-pop idol announced that she is set to go on a 15-date tour of North America and Europe later this year. Sunmi will be kickstarting the tour in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, with a show in August, before heading to six more cities in Europe, including Paris and London.After which, she will head over the pond to North America for an eight-show run in September.

Dakota Johnson has opened up about her family’s feelings when first watching HBO’s The Girl.

Dakota Johnson comes from one of the most important in entertainment. The actress is the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, two of the greatest actors of their time. Griffith is also the daughter of Tippi Hedren, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s muses and an icon of the era.

Dynamite singer was joined by BLACKPINK's Lisa and actor Park Bogum on the return journey to Korea after Paris Fashion Week – and they certainly travelled in style.READ: Inside Prince Harry and Meghan's £6.5m private jet they flew from California to UKThe BTS star shared a photo of the jet on his Instagram story, before his departure on Monday. BTS singer V posed outside his private jetThe photos showed V posing in front of an expensive-looking Bombardier Global 6000, which according to businessinsider.com costs $62.31 million (over £51 million).

1960s films “Marnie” and “The Birds.”The “Fifty Shades of Gray” alum, 32, noted in a recent Vanity Fair profile that Hitchcock gave Griffith, 64, a mini Hedren stuck in a small coffin as a toy for Christmas.“What happened with my grandmother was horrific because Hitchcock was a tyrant,” Johnson said. “He was talented and prolific — and important in terms of art — but power can poison people.”She noted that the traumatizing gift was “alarming and dark and really, really sad for that little girl” and “really scary.”The “21 Jump Street” actress then looked back on the 2012 HBO drama, “The Girl,” which fictionalized the contentious relationship between the “Psycho” filmmaker and Hedren, 92, during filming “The Birds.”Johnson and her grandmother saw a private screening of the movie with the rest of their family.“We sat at HBO, my family, and watched that movie together,” she said.Johnson continued, “It was one of those moments where you’re just like, how could you not have warned us? We’re in a room with some execs.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFollowing BTS’ announcement that they will be focusing on solo projects in the coming months, the group’s J-Hope announced on the Weverse platform early Saturday that he will release a solo album called “Jack in the Box” on July 15. The first single single will drop next week, on July 1.According to the official announcement, “Jack in the Box” lends voice to J-Hope’s aspirations to break the mold and grow further.

Few K-pop girl groups are conquering the globe quite like TWICE.

Billie Eilish has added another leg to her ‘Happier Than Ever’ world tour, announcing six tour dates in Asia this August.The shows, announced today (June 23), will mark Eilish’s first-ever headlining shows in the continent. The singer had previously performed in Singapore, Tokyo and Osaka in 2018 as part of the Laneway and Summer Sonic festivals respectively.The new dates will take Eilish to cities across the Philippines, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.

The company behind BTS is backtracking on the earlier announcement that group would be taking a break.

K-pop group BTS have confirmed they're to focus on solo projects while remaining ‘active as a group.’

Leigh-Anne Pinnock has shared an adorable picture of her two twins on Instagram as she hints at an upcoming solo project. The Little Mix star, 30, posted a sweet black and white photo of herself waving at her children with the caption: "Mama hard at work." Leigh-Anne's image sees the tots sitting in highchairs at the table with plastic bibs on.They are turned with their faces away from the camera as their mum is seen waving at them further back in the picture.The latest snap looks to be a continuation of Leigh-Anne's decision to not reveal the names or genders of her twin babies.

BTS are “going through a rough patch right now” and, as a result, are “going on a hiatus” in order to allow the group’s members to develop as solo artists and “find our identity”. But, they promise, they will definitely “return someday even more mature”.All very interesting statements, but none of which should be taken to mean that BTS are now on hiatus or aren’t working together.

Earlier today (June 14), BTS shared footage of their hour-long FESTA dinner, an annual event for members of the ARMY to connect with the Korean boy band on a more intimate level usual. About a third of the way through the meal, Billboard reports, the tone shifted from playful to serious.

After nine long years together, K-Pop sensation BTS is DONE!

BTS ARMY can release a small sigh of relief! A rep for the famed K-pop band has clarified statements about the future of the group. Amid reports that BTS is going on a «hiatus» so members can explore solo projects, a rep for the band tells ET, “To be clear, they are not on hiatus but will take time to explore some solo projects at this time and remain active in various different formats.”Announcing the news in a video posted to social media on Tuesday, BTS members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook shared that they are taking time to grow individually and made comments about the «exhaustion» they are experiencing. «We're each going to take some time to have fun and experience lots of things,» Jungkook said. «We promise we will return someday, even more mature than we are now.» RM echoed his bandmate's sentiments, saying, «I always thought that BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don't give you time to mature.

Popular K-pop boy band BTS have announced that they are going their separate ways for now. The South Korean band told fans that they are on hiatus to pursue solo careers.

Goodbye for now. BTS announced that while they aren’t going through a breakup, they are going to take a hiatus to focus on their solo careers.

K-pop group BTS announced Tuesday they would be taking a hiatus period to focus on their solo careers after nearly 10 years together.  The announcement was made during the group's annual Festa dinner.The 7 members -- Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, V, Jimin and Jung Kook -- celebrated the band's 9-year-anniversary at this year's Festa. "I think we should spend some time apart to learn how to be one again," said J-Hope during the video announcement.  The group stressed the difficulty in making the decision and emphasized the need for their members to grow and mature as individuals.  Suga, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Jimin and J-Hope of BTS attend the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 03, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

South Korean supergroup BTS  is to go on “temporary hiatus” so its members can pursue solo careers. The news came as the seven-man group hosted their annual FESTA dinner, which celebrates their founding.

BTS has announced that they're officially going on a hiatus.The group, made up of Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jungkook, announced the news during their FESTA dinner, which is part of an annual celebration of their founding.This month reportedly marks nine years since they created BTS. In a video shared to their YouTube channel, RM speaks about how individual members still need to grow and mature as individuals, despite having achieved so much as BTS. "I always thought that BTS was different from other groups, but the problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that they don’t give you time to mature," he said.