Rosie O’Donnell debuts mystery person on Instagram while vacationing in Spokane

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CBS News has tapped Adam Verdugo as the next executive producer of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.

Federal prosecutors say embattled R&B star R. Kelly should spend at least 25 years in jail for sexually abusing women and girls. The recommendation comes after a New York City jury found the "I Believe I Can Fly" singer guilty of racketeering, including acts of bribery and sexual exploitation of a child, and other counts at a sex-trafficking trial last year.

R. Kelly is sentenced to more than 25 years in prison in a new court filing.The R&B singer (real name Robert Sylvester Kelly) was convicted of sex trafficking and racketeering offences last year and was due to be formally sentenced last month before the hearing was delayed until June 29.Now in a new filing via the New York Post, prosecutors have called for the singer to be jailed for more than 25 years.“In light of the seriousness of the offences, the need for specific deterrence and the need to protect the public from further crimes of the defendant, the government respectfully submits that a sentence in excess of 25 years is warraned,” the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York wrote to the judge in the case.The US Attorney’s Office also said the singer relied “on his fame, money and popularity as an R&B recording star… to both carry and conceal his crimes”.“He continued his crimes and avoided punishment for them for almost 30 years and must now be held to account,” prosecutors added.The 31-page filing details allegations of “callous disregard” he showed his victims during his decades of abuse and sexual exploitation, warning that Kelly “is unlikely to be deterred from further sexually abusing and exploiting children and others.”But R.

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Angelique Jackson A second season of the Lupita Nyong’o’s popular YouTube Originals series “Super Sema” is coming soon and Variety has your first look.YouTube Originals Kids & Family and the educational entertainment company Kukua have released the official trailer for new episodes of the NAACP Image Award-nominated digital series, with Academy Award-winning actor and New York Times bestselling author Nyong’o voicing Sema, an extraordinary young African girl who is a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) whiz.The action-packed new season premieres June 17 on the Super Sema YouTube channel and features 11-minute episodes (longer than Season 1’s five-minute clips) following Sema and her friends on even more exciting world-changing adventures, using their clever STEAM skills and inspired technovations to save their town of Dunia from an evil AI robot. Additional kid-empowering content will roll out every Friday alongside the new episodes of Africa’s first kid superhero franchise.

HFPA will provide distributors of motion pictures with a hybrid approach to screenings:1)     Contact the HFPA office to arrange a screening date on the official HFPA calendar for all motion picture releases. For English-language motion pictures, that official screening date must be no later than seven days after the release of that English-language motion picture in Los Angeles. Unless the country of origin is the U.S., screenings of non-English language films do not have to follow this one-week-after-release standard but must take place prior to the final date for all 2022 motion picture screenings.2)     Distributors must provide all HFPA jurors with the opportunity for an in-person screening in both Los Angeles and New York (these may also be part of the distributor’s premiere, junket or all-media screenings) or distributors can provide jurors a screening link or a DVD copy of the motion picture so jurors may view it at home.

Hollywood Life, Beyoncé wore the look on a with husband Jay-Z in New York. Even though it feels like a swamp in New York City right now with summer temperatures starting to climb, Beyoncé is Beyoncé: She wore a black suit jacket over the look.

Rosie O’Donnell kicked off Pride with a bang. The actress and TV personality wished her followers a happy Pride by sharing a photo of herself and her girlfriend Aimee.Meet Taylor Zakhar Perez, the lead of Amazon’s upcoming gay rom-comMillie Bobby Brown on Will’s sexuality in Stranger Things: ‘He’s just a human being’A post shared by Rosie O’Donnell (@rosie)The photo shows the two smiling at the camera. O’Donnell looks at the camera while Aimee hugs her from behind, showing off her bright pink hair.

new report from the New York Post.According the Post, O’Donnell was re-signed as an anchor in April of this year, with $3.8 million annual salary. That is less than half of her previous $8 million contract, amid decreased ratings.

The writing’s on her side! Kristin Cavallari debuted new ink on her torso, and the art seemingly honors her love of travel.

Comedian Whitney Cummings knows she has some haters.“It took me a long time to learn that I’m an inherently triggering person,” she told The Post at the Fox Upfront in New York. “I’m the woman who’s running my mouth.”The “Whitney” star, 39, revealed how she deals with men on her Instagram account posting “You’re not funny.”“You don’t have to like me but you watch my stuff so you’re already a radical feminist,” she explained.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“I’m a masterpiece! I’m a masterpiece! Look at me, I am Anna,” shouted drag queen Yuhua Hamasaki as she riled up the crowd in full Anna Delvey garb at the imprisoned fake heiress’ one-night-only solo art exhibit. Hamasaki’s over-the-top impression of the subject of Shonda Rhimes’ Netflix limited series “Inventing Anna” was just the start of a surreal experience put on by the Founders Art Club and Delvey’s art dealer, Christopher Martine, at New York City’s Public Hotel on Thursday night.Titled “Allegedly,” the collection featured 20 pieces of art that were drawn by Delvey, legal name Anna Sorokin, herself from Orange County Correctional Facility in New York. Before the work was actually shown, guests at the exclusive event were treated to cocktails, like the “Anna on ICE,” and a recorded message from Delvey played by the DJ.

Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland has been released early from prison.McFarland was serving a six-year sentence after pleading guilty to multiple counts of fraud, including for the disastrous festival in the Bahamas in 2017.He spent six months of his sentence alone in solitary confinement after taking part in the recording of a podcast.According to TMZ, McFarland has now been released from the Milan Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan, where he was being held.He is now under the management of Residential Reentry Management New York – the administrative office overseeing halfway houses located in southern New York, eastern New York and New Jersey, according to The Hollywood Reporter.McFarland’s release date from the halfway house is currently set for August 30.Back in 2020, he requested an early release from his six-year prison sentence due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, but his request was turned down.McFarland’s release comes after Martin Shkreli, the disgraced “pharma bro” who famously bought Wu-Tang Clan‘s ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ for $2million (£1.4m), was also released early from prison. Shkreli was serving a seven-year sentence after being found guilty of securities fraud following claims he defrauded investors in former hedge funds in 2017.

UPDATE: The promoter behind the crash-and-burn Fyre Festival has been released from prison after serving less than four years for his role in the 2017 Caribbean concert disaster.