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Southern girls stick together! Kelly Clarkson paid homage to Dolly Parton during the 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards — and sang her heart out in the process.

Katie Price has been caught on camera performing a rendition of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' whilst on holiday in Thailand. She was filmed by an onlooker as she sang along to the track with a friend in a Bangkok bar, and the TikTok video has accumulated hilarious comments on Pricey's questionable vocal range and singing technique. One viewer wrote: "It's the fact she's holding the mic like she can really sing for me", whilst another added, "omg tone deaf".

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCharli XCX has dropped the latest single from her forthcoming album “Crash,” just days before her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” (which was originally scheduled for December but postponed due to omicron) and will perform the song on the show.According to the announcement, the song, which is accompanied by a video directed by Imogene Strauss and Luke Orlando, is one of the first Charli wrote for the album. The disco-fied song is a collaboration with the brother team of Justin and Jeremiah Raisen (a.k.a.

Leo Reed, former longtime secretary-treasurer of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399, has died. He was 83. Reed, a former pro football player, served as Local 399’s top officer for 25 years, and as the head of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Motion Picture & Theatrical Trades Division for 20 years. The cause of death was not disclosed by his family.

Snootie Wild was a rapper known for songs including his 2013 hit “Yayo.”Wild was born LePreston Porter in Memphis, the city where he built his musical career. He was a nephew of Arthur Lee, lead singer for the 1960s band Love.

Despite weak reviews, “Uncharted” got strong numbers with audiences with a B+ on CinemaScore and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, with special praise placed on Tom Holland in his first major blockbuster performance outside of the “Spider-Man” films. As with other hit films in the past year, the stronger-than-expected numbers were driven by younger, male audiences. Demographics data from Sony reports that 63% of opening weekend audiences were male, with 45% under the age of 25.

Kate Aurthur editorDiscovery Plus has unveiled the trailer for its three-part docuseries “Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed,” an investigation into the church made famous by its celebrity congregation, such as Justin Bieber, various Kardashians and other stars. All three episodes will drop on the streamer on March 24.The series explores the rise of Hillsong, which was founded in Australia by Brian Houston as an offshoot of his father Frank’s Sydney-based Pentecostal church.

Rihanna dresses up her baby bump in a shredded green top for the Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin party held at Goya Studios on Friday night (February 11) in Los Angeles.

Ricky Ian Gordon headed downtown where his “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” was being premiered by the New York City Opera on Jan. 27.

Brandy has opened up about her grieving process following Whitney Houston's death. In the forward of the new book, Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston by Gerrick Kennedy, the singer shared that she struggled to process the iconic singer's death. Houston passed away in 2012 at the age of 48 after accidentally drowning in a hotel bathtub, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.

Janet Jackson has revealed that she advised Justin Timberlake to not comment on their infamous Super Bowl incident.In 2004, during her half-time performance at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, Jackson suffered a “wardrobe malfunction” after Timberlake accidentally ripped a part of her top and exposed her breast, prompting huge controversy across America.This weekend, the singer’s new Lifetime documentary series, Janet Jackson, aired in the US, and during its fourth and final part Jackson spoke on the incident and recalled discussing the aftermath with Timberlake.“We talked once, and he said ‘I don’t know if I should come out and make a statement’,” Jackson recalled in the doc (via Pitchfork).“‘I don’t want any drama for you. They’re aiming all of this at me’,” Jackson remembered telling the former NSYNC singer.

Bleachers have announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates, sprawling into the second half of 2022.Sans a brief detour through Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, the band have 22 dates on their itinerary thus far. Each of the tour’s legs will feature unique support acts – Charly Bliss, for example, will open for the two sold-out dates in Boston where Bleachers will play their first two records in full (2014’s ‘Strange Desire’ on Thursday March 24 and 2017’s ‘Gone Now’ on Friday 25).Allison Ponthier will kick the festivities off throughout May, performing with Bleachers in Orlando, St.

Rihanna is making sure to gather the best group of models for her latest Savage x Fenty Valentine’s Day campaign. The singer’s undergarment brand just released the official images of the new lingerie drop.The “Love On the Edge” campaign debuted a unisex collection of bras, panties, boxers, bodysuits, and pajamas.

top and looked so cool. How does she do it? What are her secrets?Specifically, Rihanna wore the . It's sleeveless and has a high collar and drawstrings.

It didn’t take long for Netflix viewers to start rooting for the Navarro College Bulldogs Cheer Team when Cheer debuted in 2020. Us Weekly is giving updates on Morgan Simianer, La’Darius Marshall, Gabi Butler and more of your favorite cheerleaders.

BRISTOL, Conn. -- Former players David Cone and Eduardo Perez are joining Karl Ravech to form a new broadcast team for ESPN's “Sunday Night Baseball” telecasts.Alex Rodriguez, the scandal-tainted three-time MVP who had been on the telecasts during the past four seasons, will shift to eight Sunday night alternate telecasts on ESPN2 with Michael Kay, a mainstain on New York Yankees' broadcasts since 1992.Cone, a five-time All-Star and the 1994 AL Cy Young Award winner, had a 17-season big league career that ended in 2003.

investigation into the promoter of the Astroworld music festival in Houston, in which 10 people were killed during a massive crowd surge and attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms.The House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter Wednesday to Live Nation Entertainment Inc.'s president and CEO, Michael Rapino, asking for information about the company’s role in the Nov.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway on a documentary about Whitney Houston, which will explore the iconic singer before she became an international superstar.

Megan Thee Stallion has canceled an upcoming concert in Houston in the wake of the tragedy that took place just weeks ago at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival.  The Houston, Texas community was left devastated with grief and unanswered questions after a crowd surge resulted in the deaths of ten people at the Astroworld Festival.

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HOUSTON -- Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others have been injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival.Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena told reporters the compression of the crowd toward the stage occurred while Travis Scott was performing.The surge happened around 9 p.m. Friday night.

Filmmaker Anthony Hemingway has signed on to direct a present-day remake of the 1996 film “The Preacher’s Wife” from Bassett Vance Productions and Anthony Hemingway Productions.The film will be based on the 1996 movie of the same name, which was directed by Penny Marshall and starred Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston and Courtney B. Vance. Having previously acquired the film rights from Samuel Goldwyn, BVP closed the deal for Hemingway to direct and produce the film.

Emmy winner Anthony Hemingway (Genius, American Crime Story) has signed on to direct a present-day “reimagining” of The Preacher’s Wife, featuring original cast member Courtney B. Vance, for Basset Vance Productions.

HOUSTON -- Television ratings are up for the World Series along with its return to its usual format with games in each team’s city.Atlanta’s 2-0 victory over visiting Houston in Game 3 on Friday drew a 6.1 rating, 16 share and 11,232,000 viewers on Fox.

HOUSTON -- Atlanta’s 6-2 victory over Houston in Game 1 of the World Series drew an average of 10,811,000 viewers on Fox, up 17.5% from the record low of 9,195,000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ opening 8-3 win over Tampa Bay last year.The Braves-Astros number was the second-lowest total to start a Series.Fox said Tuesday night’s game averaged 11,077,000 viewers combined for Fox, Fox Deportes for Spanish-language coverage and Fox’s streaming apps.

NEW YORK -- Fox News Media is getting into another rough-and-tumble world — the weather.The company is launching Fox Weather, a free streaming service and app that it expects will be used most frequently by customers on their mobile devices.In preparation for the Monday start, Fox has been building a staff, plucking personnel from The Weather Channel and markets in New York, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Charlotte, North Carolina, and elsewhere.Advances in weather technology and interest created by

Dolly Parton and her Smoky Mountain businesses have raised $700,000 to help residents impacted by recent floods in Tennessee.On August 21 more than 500 homes and 50 businesses were damaged after up to 17 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours, causing rising waters to tear through Humphreys, Hickman, Houston and Dickson counties.Parton chose United Way of Humphreys County to receive and distribute her donation, as suggested by her friend and fellow country music legend Loretta Lynn.

rumors always swirled that the two were romantically connected. In 2019, a book by Houston’s friend Robyn Crawford claimed that Houston in 1989 was infatuated with Murphy even as she was being pursued by Bobby Brown, and that she even tried to woo Murphy with no luck.

EXCLUSIVE: Nafessa Williams has been tapped to play Robyn Crawford in the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody the upcoming feature about the late musical icon, Whitney Houston. Williams steps in for Moses Ingram who recently parted ways with the role. Also joining the cast are Clarke Peters and Tamara Tunie, who are John and Cissy Houston. Naomi Ackie will play Whitney Houston in the musical biopic with Kasi Lemmons directing.

Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody.According to Deadline, Tucci joins Naomi Ackie who will play Houston in the feature film, which is written by Anthony McCarten and directed by Kasi Lemmons.Davis is the lawyer-turned-music producer and record executive who discovered Houston before anyone knew who she was.

EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award-nominated actor Stanley Tucci has been tapped to play Grammy-winning producer Clive Davis in the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon, Whitney Houston.

EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders has joined the cast of the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon, Whitney Houston. Sanders will play Bobby Brown and sources also tell Deadline that Black Label Media is coming on board to co-finance the film with Compelling Pictures and Primary Wave Music.

19 cities total in both red and blue states includes: Phoenix, Denver, Jacksonville, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, Raleigh-Durham, Northern New Jersey (to include Elizabethland Highland Park), Las Vegas, Buffalo, Cleveland, Portland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Salt Lake City.Tucker looked at the list and said: “You may notice that these communities include an awful lot of swing districts in swing states all over the United States.

EXCLUSIVE: Candidates backed by Fran Drescher in local SAG-AFTRA elections are racking up impressive wins as early results from around the country continue to come in. Candidates that her Unite for Strength slate deem “Drescher-friendly” already have won in Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston-Austin, Miami, the Missouri Valley, Portland, San Francisco, the Twin Cities and elsewhere.

Justin Timberlake has a «heavy heart» this week. On Friday, the 40-year-old singer revealed that Nicole Hurst, a background vocalist, had died.

told Oprah Winfrey last year she had to pull over the car she was driving so she wouldn’t crash it.Houston’s version, which became one of the all-time biggest singles, also netted Parton, who’s a world-class songwriter in addition to being a singer, about $10 million in royalties in the 1990s and the checks keep coming.Parton had a great idea about how to spend that money: She used it to help a Black neighborhood in Nashville.“I bought my big office complex down in Nashville,” she told Andy