Spotify to compete with Clubhouse after acquiring Locker Room live audio app

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One night, when Diane Warren was 15 years old, someone actually paid her to stop singing at a restaurant. “They had said, ‘Bring your guitar and play a couple of songs. Maybe you’ll get discovered.’ I got paid after one song to stop. $15. They said I was interfering with people’s dinners.”

She can’t believe it either. Cameran Eubanks is just as surprised as anyone that Austen Kroll and Madison LeCroy got caught up in rumors about Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez.

The 25th of April is a special day for songwriter Diane Warren. Not just because it’s the Oscars and she’s nominated for her 12th Best Song in a row for “Io Sì (Seen)” from the Netflix Sophie Loren movie The Life Ahead, but it’s Warren’s late father’s birthday.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is walking the walk.This week, the actress thrilled her fans by turning her closet into a makeshift runway to model clothes from her lifestyle collection, Casa Zeta-Jones. She fittingly set the mini runway show to the sounds of Madonna's "Vogue," as lyrics famously tell her to "strike a pose."A post shared by Catherine Zeta-Jones (@catherinezetajones)"When in doubt, turn your closet into a runway!!" she captioned the video, which shows her modeling two different outfits.

Amelia Hamlin didn’t appear bothered after the world learned about Lisa Rinna‘s true feelings about her daughter hanging out with a man 18 years older than her. Lisa’s disapproval over Scott Disick was revealed in the new trailer for The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills that dropped on April 12, and on that very same day, Amelia was pictured walking out of her pilates class in West Hollywood.

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to well-received Holocaust documentary Love It Was Not, which will play at Hot Docs this month.

Holding out hope! Although Josh (Nico Tortorella) and Liza (Sutton Foster) haven’t been together in quite some time on Younger, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be a curveball in the final season.

During this past year of virtual awards ceremonies, it’s not often that we’ve had a poignant moment to truly pause, reflect and be moved.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter recently was in talks to acquire Clubhouse, the heavily hyped live-audio social media app, in a deal worth $4 billion, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.Twitter’s overture came even as it has been developing a similar feature called Spaces.

Amanda Byne turns 35 on Saturday, and she has reason to celebrate.The star's lawyer, David A.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSpotify will roll its own rival to the buzzy Clubhouse live-audio chat app — saying it will launch a range of new live and interactive programming in the next few months.Spotify announced the acquisition of Betty Labs, the creators of Locker Room, a live audio app focused on sports talk.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Spotify’s deal values Betty Labs at around $50 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez's relationship has been in the news since the past few weeks. The couple, after hitting a rough patch, seems to be trying hard to mend their relationship and have decided to remain engaged while doing so.

Clayton Davis Netflix just tacked on another Oscar nomination to its already record-setting haul. The streamer announced that it has acquired worldwide rights to the Academy Award-nominated live action short film “Two Distant Strangers” from directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe.