Watch Janet Jackson kick off ‘Together Again’ tour with hits and rarities

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The Writers Guild of America West held a rally Wednesday night to demonstrate solidarity with the other Hollywood unions in their collective contract battles against Hollywood’s major employers. About 1,800 guild members attended the meeting at the Shrine Auditorium, and heard from WGA leaders about the reasons behind the two-day old strike. One of the stars of the show, however, was Lindsay Dougherty, the 39-year-old leader of Teamsters Local 399. “We’re all sticking together,” Dougherty told Variety outside the event. “We have an opportunity to change things in this industry, and the only way we’re going to do that is if we’re together.”

Real Pain. Scheana Shay held back tears as she relived her and Tom Sandoval’s friendship fallout — and intense Vanderpump Rules finale chat — after he cheated on Ariana Madix with Raquel Leviss.

Janet Jackson got an apology she didn’t ask for.

Emily Longeretta If anyone can successfully close out a packed desert show on Stagecoach Festival’s opening day, it’s Luke Bryan, who’s been playing at the festival for more than a dozen years and previously headlined in 2014, 2016 and 2019. On Friday night, he opened with a song that might as well have been written for the occasion, “I Don’t Want This Night to End,” and played a set that consisted of nearly all his hits, and a few surprise covers. In addition to his many party anthems — “Drink a Beer,” “Roller Coaster,” “Crash My Party” and “Play it Again” came all in a row — he also sprinkled in covers of Tim McGraw’s “Where the Green Grass Grows” and Brooks and Dunn’s “Neon Moon.”

Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee, turned 40 and celebrated with a party befitting the King of Pop’s pet.“He did get a cake — but it’s a special ape-healthy cake,” said Patti Ragan, founding director at the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Fla., the “retirement home” where Bubbles has lived since 2005.“We frost it with mashed bananas and add a little bit of blue food coloring … and then we wrote his name in blueberries,” Ragan said. The theme, fittingly, was bubbles.“We had tubs of bubble bath.

Ariana Madix is putting a whole ocean between herself and the Scandoval fallout!

Ariana Madix made a surprising statement about her relationship with Tom Sandoval before she learned he was cheating on her with Raquel Leviss.

Ariana Madix's pre-Scandoval joke has a whole different meaning now. In a deleted scene from , Madix joked about being in a throuple with her then-boyfriend, Tom Sandoval, and Raquel Leviss.The moment happened before Sandoval's months-long affair with Leviss came to light.

Boxoffice Company has agreed to launch showtimes, ticketing and technology for a number of popular theater chains using its Boost platform. The deal, announced Thursday, includes B&B Theaters, GCR Cinemas, Cinépolis USA, Everyman Cinemas and Landmark Theatres. The deal now brings more than 100 new theater chains in total under the purview of the company for its respective digital needs.

Bravo fans who continue to watch new episodes of Vanderpump Rules with a fine-tooth comb amid Scandoval need to be tuning into the Never Before Scene episodes.

their nostalgic joint tour across the U.S. and Canada, the alums stopped by for a round of ET's «Spilling the E-Tea,» reminiscing about their time on the show's second season ahead of the 20th anniversary of their appearance. The duo announced their current tour in December, with the journey taking them through stops in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta and more.

Janet Jackson can’t help but be happy to be a mom.

Kristen Doute has made it clear she’s team Ariana Madix — but which team is Billie Lee on??

MUNA have shared a new single called ‘One That Got Away’ – you can listen to it below.The Los Angeles trio – comprising Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin and Naomi McPherson – debuted the track during their set at Coachella 2023 last weekend after teasing that they’d be releasing a tune “very soon”.Today (April 17), the studio version of ‘One That Got Away’ premiered on BBC Radio One as the station’s ‘Hottest Record’.“This song is just rubbing your hot ass in the face of someone who messed up their chance of being with you,” Gavin explained in a statement. “It’s a bit vengeful and mean, but also fun.

Billie Lee has entered the chat. The former Vanderpump Rules star stepped out with Tom Sandoval over the weekend — and at least one of Ariana Madix’s supporters isn’t pleased.

Janet Jackson just kicked off her 2023 Together Again Tour and she performed 40 songs on the opening night.

Defending his approach. Howie Mandel had no regrets about his conversation with Tom Sandoval about infidelity — and he doesn’t care what critics like Lala Kent think.

Better off! Vanderpump Rules alum Jax Taylor thinks Ariana Madix is doing just fine without her ex-boyfriend Tom Sandoval.

Lala Kent is not impressed.

pulls us back in.On Tuesday, April 11, Tom Sandoval appeared as a guest on comedian/former Deal or No Deal host/current America's Got Talent judge Howie Mandel's podcast, , which he co-hosts with his daughter Jackelyn Shultz. Sandoval discussed his affair with co-star and his relationship with , his girlfriend of nine years whom he cheated on with Leviss. “I still love , and I care about her very much," he said.