Why ‘The Real World: New Orleans’ Star Danny Roberts Matters

his band’s website on Friday that “due to a positive Covid case in the Willie Nelson Family Band” two upcoming shows scheduled to happen May 6 and May 7 would be postponed and that Nelson’s Sunday performance at Jazz Fest would be cancelled.Nelson was slated to close the Gentilly Stage — the same stage where his son Lukas Nelson is performing earlier in the day with his band the Promise of the Real. No replacement for the elder Nelson has yet been announced.The news comes after Melissa Etheridge announced Thursday that she would not be able to perform Saturday at Jazz Fest due to “COVID hitting my crew.” Mavis Staples will perform during that time period instead.“Oh my heart hurts not to be there.

Danny Bonaduce is suffering from a "mystery illness". The 62-year-old actor - who is best known for his childhood role as Danny Partridge on classic 1970s sitcom 'The Partridge Family' - caused concern to fans earlier this week when he announced he was taking "temporary medical leave" from his morning radio show and now his sister Celia has revealed that doctors are trying to figure out the problem as she thanked well-wishers for their support. She wrote on Facebook: "Many of you have reached out to see what's going on with my brother Danny.

Red Hot Chili Peppers have paid tribute to Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins during their headline set at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – watch footage below.The ‘Unlimited Love’ group stepped in to replace Foo Fighters at the event following the tragic death of their drummer Hawkins on March 25. Dave Grohl and co.

Working through it. When it comes to her marriage with Ralph Pittman, Drew Sidora admitted that one of the hardest parts is having to watch their obstacles unfold on The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has said that the band will “celebrate” the life of Taylor Hawkins during their upcoming show at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.The ‘Unlimited Love’ group stepped in to replace Foo Fighters at the event following the tragic death of their drummer Hawkins on March 25. Dave Grohl and co.

NEW ORLEANS -- Once silenced by the pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opens Friday for the first time in three years — a long awaited 2022 revival that holds echoes of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on even after Hurricane Katrina.The two-weekend production draws tens of thousands to the city's Fair Grounds Race Course, where as many as 80 musical acts perform daily on more than a dozen stages, complemented by art and craft exhibits and an array of booths featuring foods from Louisiana and beyond.Lionel Richie and Death Cab for Cutie are among Friday's draws. The Who headlines Saturday; the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sunday.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterWhen Kelley Wolf was first approached about reuniting with the cast of MTV’s “The Real World: New Orleans,” she was, she says, “extraordinarily skeptical.” While Wolf has remained somewhat of a public person as the wife of actor Scott Wolf — they met in 2002, two years after “New Orleans” first aired, and married in 2004 — she was deeply unsure she wanted to step back fully into the spotlight.“You know, we are middle aged people,” she says.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticThe last time there were as many trombones in a movie as there are in “Take Me to the River: New Orleans,” Harold Hill was probably leading a parade. The ongoing vitalization of the Crescent City’s music culture really is like something out of a horn salesman’s fever dream, with younger generations readily taking up New Orleans’ traditional second-line culture in a way that can only make the aging elders of other regional music scenes green with envy.

Dolores Catania recently confessed on Bravo's  that she was «still not right from» taping the season 12 reunion for … and now we know why, thanks to ET's exclusive first look at the trailer.Dolores and her castmates — Teresa Giudice, Melissa Gorga, Margaret Josephs, Jennifer Aydin and Jackie Goldschneider — gather together on a Nashville-themed set with Andy Cohen to revisit the season that was in a three-part special that seemingly only creates more tension for the group. The supertease opens on a behind-the-scenes screaming match between Teresa and Joe Gorga, her brother and Melissa's husband, with Teresa demanding her baby bro «tell Margaret to shut the f**k up!» before suggesting he slap Margaret's husband, Joe Benigno, «upside his head.» «You know what? Be a sister every once in a while!» Joe fires back, storming off and muttering under his breath, «F**king moron.» Things are equally as heated on set, with Jennifer accusing Dolores of having a «hidden agenda» and Dolores calling her co-star a «f**king c**t,» Teresa labeling Jackie a «b***h» and Melissa declaring that «everyone's a f**king loser.» Watch it all play out here: There are some lighter moments, too, with Andy questioning Dolores about «drunk Melissa finger-banging» her and Teresa reciting the «mirror, mirror» refrain from  while twirling around in her mirrored jumpsuit, but those are fleeting. The teaser gets back to dramatics quickly, with Jennifer facing questions about her husband, Bill's, decade-old affair, and Jackie tearing up about the difficulty of documenting her eating disorder on camera. It seems things really get going, though, when the men of RHONJ take the stage.

BBC Homes Under the Hammer star Martin Roberts has issued a fresh update after being rushed to hospital with "hours to live". The TV star spoke out after concern from fans. Yesterday, the former ITV I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here star said he has had an emergency operation to remove fluid which was "stopping my heart from working".

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThere are few alumni of MTV’s “The Real World” who have had as lasting a legacy as Danny Roberts.

, season 9 of MTV’s long-running reality TV franchise. At the time, she was a wide-eyed 21-year-old Brigham Young University student exploring life outside of Utah as the first Mormon on the series.

long-running reality TV franchise,, has reunited after 22 years to continue the social experiment of finding out “what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real.” On the third installment of, David “Tokyo” Broom, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Danny Roberts, Matt Smith, Julie Stoffer and Kelley Wolf all have moved back into the same Big Easy house -- but in the premiere, it quickly became clear that this group has a lot of unfinished business to deal with. While speaking to ET’s Lauren Zima, Roberts and Beck break down the explosive drama with Stoffer that led to a falling out between the housemates. “I don’t think we meant to disconnect from each other, but it just naturally happened.

Familiar faces in familiar places. After the success of The Real World Homecoming‘s New York and Los Angeles editions, the show is returning for a third season — and this time the original New Orleans cast is coming back.

’s 30-year history, Danny Roberts is one of the more memorable roommates to appear on the MTV reality franchise. And now, 22 years later, he’s reuniting with his castmates -- David “Tokyo” Broom, Melissa Beck, Jamie Murray, Matt Smith, Julie Stoffer and Kelley Wolf -- for season 3 of on Paramount+. “It brought up lots of memories and things that had been nicely tucked away in a closet, no pun intended,” Roberts tells ET’s Lauren Zima about the upcoming installment of, which may prove to be the most dramatic yet as he and other roommates finally unpack issues that forced them apart over the past two decades.

Rio Hackford, an actor whose credits include The Mandalorian, Swingers and Treme who also owned a popular club in New Orleans and was Taylor Hackford’s son, has died. He was 51.