Cynthia Erivo Wows at Kennedy Center Honors 2023, Singing 'Alfie' for Dionne Warwick (Video)

The sisterhood between Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks began on Broadway. That is, the sisterhood of the order of The Color Purple. Both women starred on stage in the musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer-prize winning novel. Barrino spent 10 months in 2007 playing Celie, the poor country girl who survives an abusive step-father and husband and realizes her worth.

dropped her first song since 2021 titled “Yes, and?” on Friday.In the song, the lyrics seemingly slam the trolls who rolled their eyes at her relationship with the “SpongeBob Musical” actor, 31.The lines croon: “Say that s – – t with your chest, keep moving like ‘What’s next?’ ‘Yes, and?’”“Your business is yours, and mine is mine,” the lyrics continue. “Why do you care so much whose d – – k I ride?”Social media users took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to chime in on the piping hot tea.“Doing all this for Ethan Slater is embarrassing,” someone wrote alongside a clip of the tune.Another joked: “Ariana Grande casually dropping ‘yes, and?’ and [addressing] the Ethan Slater situation like it’s no big deal he is Spongebob.”“She doesn’t give a phuck about those home wrecker allegations lmao love it for her,” one added.Slater and Grande began dating last year after they met on set of the upcoming film adaptation of “Wicked.”The “Side to Side” crooner split from her husband of two years, Dalton Gomez, in July 2023.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece “1984” is getting a new audio-only treatment from Audible. The Audible original audio drama, set to premiere April 4, stars Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”) as Winston alongside Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”) as Julia. They are joined by Tom Hardy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) as the voice of Big Brother and Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers,” “Fleabag”), who plays the mysterious and dangerous O’Brien.

The Wicked movies only had two more weeks of filming remaining when the SAG-AFTRA strike impacted production last year.

Billie Eilish has revealed that she struggles to comprehend that her music helps people.Eilish opened up about how she finds fans telling her that her music made a difference in their lives “hard to take in” during The Hollywood Reporter’s Songwriters Roundtable alongside Dua Lipa, Cynthia Erivo, Olivia Rodrigo, Jon Batiste and Julia Michaels.“I don’t really know how to like believe it, because I know what it’s like to be in that position and it’s so real, and to know that you’re helping somebody who’s in that is really hard to believe and astounding and special and almost you feel like undeserving,” Eilish explained [via MusicNews]. “Like I didn’t deserve to help you through that.“But it’s so special and powerful,” Eilish continued.

Alexander Armstrong has become the second celebrity to have their identity unveiled on The Masked Singer.

The Masked Singer returned on Saturday night (January 6) with six more celebrity contestants taking to the stage to perform whilst hiding their identity. The opening episode of the new series of The Masked Singer aired last week and saw six characters go head-to-head - Maypole, Cricket, Big Foot, Dippy Egg, Weather and Rat - with Weather being unmasked as soul legend Dionne Warwick.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set a January 29 streaming premiere date for The Greatest Night in Pop, a feature doc just announced as world premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on the 19th of this month.

(Updated 5:07 PM PT with statement from RFK Jr gala organizers) The arguably greatest fictional TV POTUS ever is not endorsing the White House bid of Robert Kennedy Jr., and Martin Sheen sure as hell isn’t showing up as a warm prop at any RFK Jr fundraiser anytime soon.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor After a wild year that brought us an atomic bomb creator, a toy doll coming to life and an Indigenous woman’s fight for survival against her white husband, 2024 promises to be another exhilarating one with a slew of highly anticipated films and performances set to grace the silver screen. (See Variety’s most anticipated movies of 2024 for further proof) We’re going to have performers from long-awaited sequels (Joaquin Phoenix in “Joker: Folie à Deux”) and prequels (Anya Taylor-Joy in “Furiosa”), to anticipated biopics (Angelina Jolie in “Maria”) and original stories and characters (André Holland in “The Actor”). There are also performers from long-awaited adaptations (Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande in “Wicked: Part One”) and ones from movies that have been finished shooting for quite some time (Mark Rylance in “The Way of the Wind”).

Fans of ITV's The Masked Singer are throughly enjoying more crazy costumes, shock celebrity cameos and lively banter between judges Mo Gilligan, Davina McCall, Rita Ora and Jonathan Ross in series five, which kicked off on Saturday, 30 December. Sadly, Grammy Award-winning singer Dionne Warwick was the first celebrity to be voted off after host Joel Dommett revealed she was Weather.The Soul legend - who at 85 was also one of the show's oldest ever contestants - didn't seem to be surprised at the turn of events, though.

Olivia Rodrigo has revealed that listening to Lorde‘s ‘Royals’ changed “the trajectory” of her life.Speaking to Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Jon Batiste, Cynthia Erivo and Julia Michaels’ Songwriter Roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Rodrigo spoke of the first time she had heard the Lorde song on the radio and went on to explain how it had impacted her so deeply.“I remember hearing that song on the radio at the time… It was one of those ‘pinch me’ moments where you always remember, a snapshot memory, like, ‘Oh my God, what is this?!’ Changes the trajectory of your life,” Rodrigo called to her fellow musicians.“I remember listening to it as I first started writing songs and just being blown away by her lyrics that are just about being a teenager living in the suburbs,” Rodrigo went on to explain. “I just remember never hearing my life be put into a song like that where it just made being young and doing these seemingly unimportant things feel so sacred.”Most recently, the singer-songwriter discussed the inspiration behind some of the “emo” lyrics in her recent songs ‘Lacy’ and ‘All-American Bitch’.Speaking on the Kelly Clarkson Show, Rodrigo gave insight into how she conceived the lyrics for the outro of ‘Lacy’ – “And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you / Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you.”“Very emo of me, writing that,” Rodrigo told Clarkson, laughing.

Viewers were left stunned on Saturday evening when one of the masked singers in the UK version of the hit show was revealed as music legend Dionne Warwick – and she was sent home after just one episode.

The Masked Singer has made a welcome return to TV screens with 12 brand new characters taking to the stage in a bid to be crowned the champion of the series. A new series of the hit ITV show kicked off on Saturday, 30 December, and fans have already been eagerly guessing which celebrity is behind each costume.

The trailer for Cynthia Erivo‘s new movie has been released.

The movie The Color Purple is currently in theaters and winning over audiences around the country!

Ariana Grande is showing off some new ink she got earlier this year!

first gave a tribute to the comedian at the event, before honoring the “When Harry Met Sally” star, 75.“I want to acknowledge the person who should also be standing here with me is our brother Robin,” she said as she got choked up.She then pointed to an empty space next to her where Williams should have been.The “Ghost” actress then gave a sweet speech about Crystal, calling him her family.“You’re my big brother, and you have no idea what an honor it is to see you get your due,” she said. “I love you. You’re a mensch.

Queen Latifah, Dionne Warwick and the Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb have been awarded at the 2023 Kennedy Center Honors. Check out the footage below.The annual honours are given to figures in the performing arts for their lifetime contribution to American culture, and were held earlier this month in Washington, D.C.With President Biden in attendance, the show was hosted by Gloria Estefan, and featured tribute performances from artists including Gladys Knight, Missy Elliott and Michael Bublé.Rapsody played a version of Latifah’s ‘Just Another Day’, while Monie Love and MC Lyte duetted on ‘Ladies First’.