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Adore Delano is proudly coming out.
On Wednesday night (July 26), the 33-year-old RuPaul’s Drag Race season six finalist and American Idol contestant, came out as transgender in an emotional video documenting her journey.
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“I wanted to let everybody know that I am transitioning, and I kept it really of hush-hush the first three months because I wanted to go through the beginning stages of the puberty privately,” Adore shared in a video posted on Instagram, in which she also opened up about being sober for the last two years. “I’ve found that it’s been very enlightening and has made me probably the happiest I’ve ever been in my adult life.”
Adore went on to recall her journey from “dysphoria to euphoria” and feeling like she born in the wrong body. She also talked about coming out as bisexual at age 12 before coming out as gay, and then revealing to her mom in high school that she was transgender.
“I came out to my mom as transgender,” Adore explained. “I didn’t know the words for that. I just told my mom ‘I’m not a boy, I’m a girl. I want to live my life as a girl.’ And I’m so blessed to have a mom, especially in the subculture that I grew up in, that was so understanding. She was so understanding with everything and she said, ‘Let’s figure it out and get you through school and know how to put ‘em up and fight when you need to.’”
However, when she auditioned for season seven of American Idol in 2008, she decided to “suppress everything.”
“I threw it away, I burned it. I reinvented myself into something that was so uncomfortable,” Adore recalled. “It was almost like a sacrifice in order to get what I wanted career-wise. It made sense to me at the time, as a 16-year-old, and then I got on
EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Fiennes has scored a winner with playwright James Graham’s knockout stage play Dear England, which will transfer from London’s National Theatre to the West End in the fall.
The Inbetweeners‘ James Buckley has revealed the culinary confession that motivated him to go on Celebrity MasterChef out of “shame”.The new series of the BBC cooking competition got underway yesterday (August 2), and will feature a host of stars across the season alongside Buckley – who played Jay Cartwright on the Channel 4 comedy series – including The Wanted‘s Max George, Black Eyed Peas‘ apl.de.ap, singer Jamelia and more.During the first episode, Buckley was working on a rice and prawn recipe when he was asked about his favourite dish by host Gregg Wallace.“I don’t really like anything green,” The Inbetweeners star replied (via Metro). Wallace later asked asked Buckley if he had cooked rice before, to which the actor bluntly replied: “No.”“Oh come on!” Wallace said, before Buckley admitted: “I know it’s really bad, that’s one of the reasons I wanted to come on the show, out of shame almost.
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Sophia Scorziello editor The Princess Grace Foundation has awarded 29 individuals and names grant and scholarship recipients for the 2023 Princess Grace Awards. Founded in memory of actor Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, PGF has been celebrating and supporting budding artists in film, dance and theater since 1982.
Adore Delano, the reality TV star contestant best known for her appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race and American Idol, came out as transgender to her 2 million Instagram followers last Wednesday.In the video, which now has 1.5 million views and over 200,000 likes, the co-runner-up of Season 6 of Drag Race explained that she had been privately transitioning for about three months.“There’s no way to start this video or this announcement or whatever without being awkward as hell,” Delano said as she started the video, explaining that comments online regarding her gender identity were one cause for the video. “I wanted to let everybody know that I am transitioning, and I kept it really of hush-hush the first three months because I wanted to go through the beginning stages of the puberty privately,” she said.
The winter series of Love Island could be heading for big changes as show bosses are reportedly considering an All Stars series for 2024.The ITV show has had two series in 2023 - a winter series filmed in South Africa earlier this year and a summer series filmed in Mallorca - with host Maya Jama stepping on board to present the show.The winter series of the show first aired in 2020 and and then didn't happen again until earlier this year. However, that could be set to change, after one source claims the winter edition of the dating show is set to be replaced with a series made up of former show contestants from next year.
Thirteen Republican presidential candidates attended the Iowa GOP’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines Friday night.
In this new era of actors’ financial transparency, actor Seann William Scott has revealed the paltry amount he was paid to appear in 1999 hit comedy American Pie.
JoJo Siwa is reflecting on her public back-and-forth with Candace Cameron Bure after the "Dance Moms" alum called the "Full House" star the "rudest" celebrity she had ever met in a TikTok video last year. After the clip went viral, Siwa, 20, and Bure, 47, had several other public exchanges, and the two appeared to have resolved their differences.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Drag Race” fans rejoice. Full 90-minute episodes of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 15 are headed to Paramount+. From Aug.
Tom DeLonge has teased the upcoming album from Blink-182 – telling fans that it is set to be their “best album” yet.The comments on the forthcoming LP were teased by the musician in a new interview, promoting his latest collaboration with Fender and announcing his new limited-edition Stratocaster guitar.During the discussion, he shed light on the status of new music from the pop-punk veterans, and explained that the band are writing what they consider to be their strongest songs to date.“I still think we’re writing our best songs. I think our album coming out is probably our best album we’ve ever made,” he began, going on to reflect on their recent US live shows.“The production that we brought on this tour is finally the first perfect, cohesive branding and symbol of everything that the band is about.
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The Goo Goo Dolls are back on the road!
With Jungkook’s “Seven,” featuring Latto, taking the top place on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, it’s a good day for both K-pop and rap.
The Goo Goo Dolls are back on the road!
Following another round of waivers granted by SAG-AFTRA, we have the first one granted that will allow to promote a film rather then shooting a film. Sources confirmed to Deadline that The Unknown Country, which stars Lily Gladstone and Quantum Leap‘s Raymond Lee and opens this Friday, was granted a waiver by the guild allowing for guild members to do publicity for the upcoming film.
Naman Ramachandran XYZ Films will represent documentary “London Recruits” for North American sales, it was revealed at the ongoing Durban FilmMart. Directed by Gordon Main, the film sheds light on a pivotal moment in South Africa’s history. In 1970, the struggle against the apartheid government in South Africa developed a new secret weapon. Oliver Tambo hatched a plan to infiltrate young British activists into the country, posing as tourists. Their mission, in the face of brutal lockdown by the racist regime, was to help inspire ordinary South Africans to join a liberation movement that would never give up till freedom was won. To mark the partnership, Ronnie Kasrils, now 86, the former underground African National Congress (ANC) freedom fighter at the heart of the story, participated in detonating a bucket “leaflet bomb” outside the market hotel. These were the devices deployed in 1970 by amateur secret agents that Kasrils recruited in London on orders from Tambo. The devices brought messages of hope from the banned ANC to the South African population at large.
Action star Dolph Lundgren has tied the knot with personal trainer Emma Krokdal.The Rocky IV actor, 65, best known for his role as the Soviet boxer Ivan Drago, married his fiancee, 27, at their villa on the Greek island of Mykonos. He told US magazine People: “We chose to celebrate our love by getting married at our villa in Mykonos with family and a few close friends. With both Covid and a long road of challenging medical treatments, we’ve had to push our marriage plans many times.
Tamzin Outhwaite has revealed that she still gets told that her ex Tom Ellis cheated on her a decade after he “walked out” on their marriage.
BTS member Jungkook has opened up about what it means to be a “giant pop star” and where he currently sees his own music career.The South Korean singer recently made his solo debut with the single ‘Seven’, featuring American rapper Latto. The song, which was described by his label as the start of his “official solo activities”, comes a decade after the K-pop idol made his debut as part of the boyband BTS.Speaking to Weverse Magazine on the occasion of ‘Seven”s release, Jungkook touched on his ambitions as an artist, saying that his “one big goal” is to become a “giant pop star”. The singer’s response was met with bewilderment by the interviewer, who went on to ask: “You’re already a giant pop star, aren’t you?”“No.