Production for the movie adaption of Colleen Hoover‘s New York Times best-selling book It Ends With Us has been put on pause.
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Timbaland was a guest on Shannon Sharpe’s podcast Club Shay Shay last week. The conversation eventually turned to R. Kelly, the popular R&B artist convicted of sex trafficking, racketeering, child pornography, and child abuse in multiple states, and Timbaland agreed with Sharpe that it was possible to separate Kelly’s music from his crimes.
“R. Kelly’s the king of R&B. We all know that, man,” Timbaland told Sharpe.
“Everybody jump when you say ‘R. Kelly’… I’m like, ‘So we just gonna ignore his music that he gave us, that we all jam to? No, we can’t do that.’ His art is his art, I ain’t gonna bash the man’s art. Read Next: Timbaland teases track with AI Biggie vocals “Don’t mix music up with personal,” he continued.
“Music is a feeling that stands alone. Music is something that don’t have no race, that brings people together. It don’t have no drama with it.
It is a place of enjoyment, of feeling, so don’t bring drama into music. Leave that outside.” Kelly is currently serving 30 years in prison after being convicted in New York on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. This February, he was found guilty of producing child pornography and child abuse in Chicago and received a 20-year sentence to be served concurrently.
Timbaland and Kelly never collaborated, though Timbaland did produce several songs for Aaliyah, who was married to Kelly when she was 15 and he was 27. The marriage was annulled after it was revealed that Aaliyah’s age was misrepresented as 18 on the marriage certificate. In a 2011 episode of True Hollywood Story, Timbaland describes being “in love” with the 16-year-old Aaliyah when they met in 1995, though he says he did not act on these feelings.
Production for the movie adaption of Colleen Hoover‘s New York Times best-selling book It Ends With Us has been put on pause.
Ethan Shanfeld Before Paul McCartney even took his seat, he was greeted with rapturous applause and an instant standing ovation at Tribeca Festival. And, in case anyone still doubted whether he still got it, he asked the crowd politely, “I’d like to hear all the girls do a Beatles scream, please,” resulting in a shriek so loud it sent shockwaves back to 1964. McCartney joined Conan O’Brien at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Thursday evening to promote his new book, a collection of unearthed photographs titled “1964: Eyes of the Storm.” Between 1963 and 1964, McCartney took 275 photos on a 35mm camera, documenting the Beatles’ incredible rise in Europe and first visit to America, including their historic performance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” McCartney thought he lost the photos, he told the audience, until a photo archivist in London recovered them in 2020. Of course, the “storm” referenced in the title of the book is Beatlemania, with a young McCartney pointing his lens out from the center of it.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Billions” will officially end with Season 7 at Showtime. The show, which is set in the world of high finance and politics, originally debuted on the premium cabler in 2016. Season 7 will consist of 12 episodes and is set to debut on Paramount+ with Showtime on August 11 before making its linear debut August 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. “‘Billions’ has deftly explored power, money and greed in a way that not only made it a massive hit, but also defined its own genre thanks to the creative brain trust of Brian and David,” said Chris McCarthy, President & CEO of Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios, and Paramount Media Networks. “This final season is packed full of the incredible, complex dialogue and character dynamics fans have come to love, and we are thrilled to partner with them on turning this hit series into a global franchise.”
Donald Trump is under arrest again, just two months after he was placed under arrest in New York.
Rosie O’Donnell and the late Barbara Walters had their ups and downs from cohosting The View together and beyond.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kevin Spacey alleged in a new interview with ZEITmagazin that people will start hiring him for more acting projects if he is cleared of sexual assault charges in London following an upcoming trial that is set to begin on June 28. The Oscar winner was charged one year go in London with four counts of sexual assault, relating to alleged incidents that took place between 2005 and 2013. “It’s a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be cancelled,” Spacey said about his career. “But I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these charges in London. The second that happens, they’re ready to move forward.”
Rumours about Leonardo DiCaprio and Gigi Hadid’s romance haven’t died down just yet.
Madonna and her son are having a good time. She shared a TikTok alongside David Banda, with the two dancing along to one of the most popular songs on TikTok. Madonna’s daughter Lourdes Leon poses on top of a pool table in a sizzling catsuitLourdes Leon recalls Madonna’s hilarious reaction to her first crushMadonna interrupts Tokischa’s tv appearance to ask why she never called her backThe clip shows Madonna and David dancing along to Joe Arroyo’s “La Rebelion.” Madonna and her son spin and twirl each other around, clearly looking like they’re having a good time.
Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker will follow her husband Matthew Broderick onto the West End stage when she appears in Plaza Suite next year. The 58-year-old American actress is starring alongside Broderick, known for teen comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, in the play at the Savoy Theatre in London from January 2024.
Nas announced an official tour afterparty in London to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop next week.On Saturday (June 10), the New York rap legend will embark on the UK leg of his NY State of Mind world tour with the Wu-Tang Clan – headlining the Parklife festival in Manchester, before performing at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro (June 12) and their sold-out show at London’s The O2 (June 13).Now, it has been announced that the rap icon will host an official afterparty at Camden’s KOKO after his London show. Kick-starting Hennessy’s summer program of events celebrating hip-hop, the party will celebrate 50 years of the genre and promises appearances from some of the UK’s best rappers and personalities.ON SALE NOW: #KOKO and @Hennessycelebrate 50 years of hip hop with the official ‘N.Y.
Brent Lang Executive Editor Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker are checking in across the pond. The two actors (a real-life married couple) are bringing their relationship comedy “Plaza Suite” to London following a sold-out Broadway run. The West End transfer of Neil Simon’s play is directed by Tony Awardwinner John Benjamin Hickey. It will play a strictly limited season at the Savoy Theatre from Jan. 15 to March 31 with tickets on sale in September. In an interesting twist, the play, which unfolds in one of the most famous hotels in the world, will be remounted in a theater that is part of an equally iconic hotel. The production marks Broderick’s return to the West End stage following his run in 2019’s “The Starry Messenger.” “Plaza Suite” is Parker’s West End debut. Both stars are known for their film and television work — he for “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Glory,” she for “Sex and the City.” However, they also frequently appear on stage. Broderick won a Tony for “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and “How to Succeed in Business…” and appeared in “The Producers.” Parker made herBroadway debut in 1976 in “The Innocents”directed by Harold Pinter, and appeared in “Annie,” “How to Succeed in Business…” and“Once Upon a Mattress.”
EXCLUSIVE: Rising comedian, actor and TikTok sensation Matt Rife is set to launch his first world tour. Rife’s ProbleMATTic World Tour, produced by Live Nation, will hit cities across North America, Australia and Europe throughout 2023 and 2024.
The trailer for Ben Platt and Molly Gordon‘s new movie Theater Camp has been released!
New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer. ET has you covered for everything in between.Kelly Clarkson leads this week's releases with her new single, «I Hate Love,» which features banjo playing from Steve Martin.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Max will be celebrating Pride Month in June through a series of events, programming and partnerships highlighting LGBTQ+ voices. Among the initiatives will be partnerships with Them and Newfest to help amplify queer voices, stories and content. The streamer has planned an in-app Pride takeover of the LGBTQ+ Voices page which will highlight queer content premiering in June. Among the programs will be the premiere of the HBO documentary “The Stroll,” which tells the powerful and poignant history of transgender sex workers in New York’s pre-gentrified meatpacking district in the 1990s. The Max original documentary reality series “Naked. Loud. Proud.” will stream. HBO documentaries “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” and TaylorMac’s “24-Decade History of Popular Music” are set to air.
After years of bad blood between Kim Cattrall and her “Sex and the City” co-stars, she’ll be reprising her “SATC” chararacter, Samantha Jones, in the revival series “And Just Like That”.
After years of bad blood between Kim Cattrall and her “Sex and the City” co-stars, she’ll be reprising her “SATC” chararacter, Samantha Jones, in the revival series “And Just Like That”.
Law & Order: SVU star Kelli Giddish, who is expecting her third baby!The actress, who left the beloved NBC police procedural after season 24 (her twelfth) earlier this year, is pregnant with her first child with her husband Beau Richards, who she married in 2021. She shares two other kids, sons Ludo, seven, and Charlie, four, with her ex-husband Lawrence Faulborn, who she was married to from 2015 until 2018.
on Nancy O’Dell’s “TalkShopLive,” to promote her new album “Chemistry,” Kelly Clarkson, 42, revealed that the reason behind the talk show’s move to New York is that she and her family need a “fresh start.”“I was like ‘guys, I need you to know what’s happening,” said the “Since U Been Gone” singer. “‘Like it’s either.
Does Hailee Steinfeld have a new beau in her life?