Normani cancels BET Awards performance after “bad” rehearsal accident

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Will Smith got his rap groove back at the BET Awards on Sunday night.The 53-year-old Oscar and Grammy winner performed his new single “You Can Make It,” a gospel-charged testimony — featuring Haitian-American singer Fridayy and the Sunday Service Choir — that was released on Friday.The performance marked the first time Smith appeared at an awards show since he infamously slapped comedian Chris Rock across the face for a joke at the expense of Smith’s wife Jada Pinkett Smith.“The darker the hell you gotta endure/The brighter the heaven you get to enjoy/The harder the fall, the higher you soar/God opens a window when the devil closes the door,” raps Smith, sounding more like the Fresh Preacher.“Believe me, they tried to bleed Will Smith/In the rearview, I see adversity was the gift/To lift me higher gifts require faith/So dry your eyes and then you’ll find the way,” he continues over the take-you-to-church arrangement.It all continues the Oscar Slapgate redemption tour that Smith has been on since “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” opened to boffo box office on June 7, reestablishing the actor as a bankable movie star.But now, the “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” MC is looking to regain the music cred that led DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to receive the first Grammy for Best Rap Performance in 1989.Smith wasn’t the only rap icon to take the stage at the 2024 BET Awards: Ms. Lauryn Hill celebrated the 25th anniversary of her Album of the Year Grammy win for her 1998 classic “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”Also performing at the show — hosted for the fourth time by Taraji P.

Prince Harry is set to receive a big award next month, but one fan in particular is NOT happy about it — and that’s the mother of US hero and former NFL player Pat Tillman, for whom the award is named. Pat was a NFL safety who enlisted in the Army after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, by the way.

The Script made a surprise appearance at a famous Glaswegian bar last night just hours after performing at Hampden as the opening act for P!nk on her Summer Carnival world tour.

The 2024 BET Awards are tonight (Sunday, June 30)!

“Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago,” the New York Times said today in the understatement of the moment as it a called for the incumbent to bow out of this year’s race against Donald Trump before it’s too late.

Former President Barack Obama weighed in Friday on President Joe Biden’s dismal debate performance the night before, offering a bit of perspective on the anxieties following his own listless showing in 2012.

Several documentaries in production are leaving Sunny Side of the Doc – the world’s biggest nonfiction film marketplace – with renewed momentum and exposure.

Meghan Markle was seen gathering her personal items as the Sussexes made their final exit from Frogmore Cottage, surrendering the keys one year ago.

K.J. Yossman Happy Accidents has set up a second North American office. The international film and TV studio has also appointed Courtney Colman as its chief financial officer.

Following the news that Princess Anne has been hospitalised following an 'incident' believed to be with a horse, there are many close friends and family who will be at her side as she focuses on her recovery. While her two children, Peter Phillips and Zara Tindall, are surely top of that list, there is someone else who grew up on the Princess' Gatcombe Park Estate in Gloucestershire who will surely lend a hand.

EXCLUSIVE: Image Nation Abu Dhabi is teaming with L.A.-based Russian-Kazakh director Timur Bekmambetov and his production banner Bazelevs to launch the Screenlife Accelerator Program in the UAE.

A pair of summer music festivals have new headliners. Tyler, the Creator has canceled his shows at Lollapalooza in Chicago and Outside Lands in San Francisco, replaced by Megan Thee Stallion and Sabrina Carpenter, respectively.

David Zaslav can now boast of having a former Press Secretary to the President of the United States among his corporate inner circle. However, even with trophy of Robert Gibbs on his shelf now,  the Warner Bros Discovery CEO may do well to remember the transition from DC to Hollywood has proved full of pitfalls over the years.

J.J. Rice, an 18-year-old kite foil racing star, has tragically passed away in a tragic accident.

Sharareh Drury Variety has won two best cover awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Variety‘s “Michael J. Fox Tells His Story” issue, which ran May 17, 2023, and features an in-depth interview with Michael J.

Stevie Nicks recently cancelled her show at the last minute due to an “illness in the band,” as per a statement shared on her social media accounts.The statement read: “Regrettably, due to illness in the band, tonight’s performance is being postponed. Please hold on to your tickets.

Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson is now the proud new owner of a Tony, too. The actress best known for her work in the American Horror Story franchise took home the gold Sunday for Best Actress in a Play for her work in Appropriate.“As a young actress I remember seeing Janet McTeer burst on the stage in A Doll’s House in the very theater I am currently living in,” said Paulson about doing Appropriate at the Belasco Theatre in NYC. “And some nights when I’m backstage I think about the indelible impact of her. I think about the walls of theaters all over this magical town holding the impact of each and every one of you in this room, and all of those who came before and I think how lucky those walls are to bear witness to the relentless interrogation of human experience that we endeavor to explore nightly for each other, to give back to one another with the hope of finding some shared path towards the truth about being alive. This is the heart and soul of what we do, and I am so honored to be amongst you.”

Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at the 2024 Tony Awards and received a standing ovation from all those present at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Bleecker Street released the first trailer for The Fabulous Four, a wedding comedy with an iconic bridal party, during Sunday’s 77th Tony Awards.