Maren Morris Says She Left The ‘Toxic Arms’ Of Country Music Because She ‘Couldn’t Do This Circus Anymore’

Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA), appointed earlier this month to fill the vacancy following the death of Dianne Feinstein, said that she will not run for the seat in the 2024 election.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Britney Spears writes in her new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” that the media fallout ignited by Justin Timberlake‘s 2002 music video for “Cry Me a River” turned her into a “harlot” (via The New York Times). The song, the second single from Timberlake’s solo album debut “Justified,” was reportedly inspired by his relationship and breakup with Spears.

Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd are going their separate ways.

Julia Fox opened up about auditioning for a role in Madonna‘s biopic.

Jada Pinkett Smith on the Today show, which aired on Monday.After a line of questioning about Pinkett Smith’s marriage status with Will Smith, the actress clarified that the couple are in fact trying to reconcile.“There’s no finding another great love, and I think that’s the point,” she said. “It’s like we are in a place now that we are in a deep, healing space. And we are really concentrating on healing the relationship between us,” the actress explained in the NBC studio in New York City.“There’s no divorce on paper.

Seinfeld reunion.Earlier this month co-creator and star Jerry Seinfeld teased during a stand-up gig in Boston the possibility of the show returning in some capacity.“Well, I have a little secret for you about the ending. But I can’t really tell it because it is secret,” Seinfeld said when asked about the show’s divisive final episode.“Here’s what I’ll tell you, OK, but you can’t tell anybody.

Madonna kicked off her ‘Celebration Tour’ in London last night (October 14) and said that she “didn’t think I would make it” after she was admitted to intensive care with a serious bacterial infection over the summer.The Queen of Pop performed over 40 songs from her back catalogue including her most famous hits and a number of deep cuts.During a rendition of ‘Mother And Father’ – a song about the death of her own mother – midway through the show, the star addressed her recent illness before she covered Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’.She told the crowd: “I didn’t think I would make it, and neither did my doctors. That’s why I woke up with all of my children sitting around me.”Madonna continued: “I forgot five days of my life, or my death, I don’t really know where I was.

Jada Pinkett Smith has more to say about the aftermath of the infamous Oscars slap.

Mark Sutherland Four songs into Madonna’s long-awaited Celebration Tour and a technical hitch gives her a chance to chat for a little longer than was probably planned. She tells the crowd of her early days being “hungry, broke and scared” in New York, with a lack of support from her father, who wanted her to come back home. “But I was not about to go back,” she declares.

Seriously?!?

Britney Spears says she had no idea who Maluma or J Balvin were while meeting them at a restaurant this week.

Cher has denied claims that she orchestrated the kidnapping of her adult son Elijah Blue Allman.The pop icon was last month accused of hiring four men to kidnap Allman, 47, as a way to prevent him from seeing his then-estranged wife, Marie Angela King, and get him clean from drugs.Allman – who is also a musician – had filed for divorce from King in 2021, but the pair allegedly reconnected for 12 days in November 2022.Court documents show that King has claimed that on November 30, the night of their wedding anniversary, four men reportedly entered the couple’s New York hotel room and abducted Allman.Cher was asked about the story during a new interview with People, to which she responded: “That rumour is not true.” The singer declined to comment further, but she did confirm that the situation is related to Allman’s addiction issues.“I’m not suffering from any problem that millions of people in the United States aren’t,” Cher told the outlet of her son’s yearslong struggles with substance abuse.“I’m a mother. This is my job – one way or another, to try to help my children.

“The events of the last couple of days have been quite difficult for everybody,” said filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as his film about a Nazi commander at Auschwitz screened Sunday at the New York Film Festival.

Sharon Stone has revealed that she suffers from seizures if she doesn’t get eight hours of sleep a night.The Basic Instinct star was given a one percent chance of survival after she suffered a bleed on her brain in 2001. The actress has been taking medication ever since, but admits she’s lost out on a lot of work due to her condition.“I’ve become more comfortable with publicly saying what’s really happened to me now,’ she told People magazine. “For a long time I wanted to pretend that I was just fine.”She continued: “I need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep for my brain medication to work so that I don’t have seizures.

Jack Antonoff is a production superstar, working with everyone from Taylor Swift to Lana Del Rey to Lorde, among many others.

Bethenny Frankel is clarifying her stance against Bravo!

The People’s Choice Country Awards made its debut on Thursday night at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. On this night at least, the people’s choice was Jelly Roll, aka Jason Bradley DeFord, who was a winner in four categories. 

Ice Spice is speaking out about the controversial remarks Matty Healy made about her earlier this year.

Sofia Coppola drew from her own experiences in telling the story of Priscilla Presley.

Rina Sawayama has claimed that she was groomed by a school teacher when she was 17.The singer shared the revelation for the first time in a new interview with the BBC a few hours before she performed at New York’s Pier 17 last month.“I was groomed,” she said, now aged 33. “It was by a school teacher.”“Seventeen to me is a child.