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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Afrobeats — the pulsating, fusion sound coming out of West Africa and the diaspora — has been on the rise globally for the better part of a decade. In recent years, the genre has gained a foothold in Western pop culture, and the Grammys are taking notice. Recording Academy CEO Harvey

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chloë Grace Moretz is opening up about how fame and social media caused her to “basically” become a “recluse.” “For a long time I was able to be the Chloë that people see and the Chloë that I am in private,” the “Kick-Ass” star said in an interview with Hunger.

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Chicago Med” star Marlyne Barrett is opening up about her battle with uterine and ovarian cancer. The actress received the diagnosis in July, telling People it was a shock. “The initial experience was a shock, a shock to my womanhood,” she said. “I didn’t believe them, but when they showed me

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Hailey Bieber is addressing a suggestions that has long had some of her husband’s fans upset. She helped kicked off the new season of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in an episode released Wednesday. Host Alex Cooper asked her about being labeled a “home wrecker,” as there was a theory

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The best part of “Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga” is that it manages to tell a complicated financial story with a fair amount of humor and context, in a way that doesn’t demonize the various parties, which doesn’t spare them from various levels of mockery. The result is a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Veteran journalist Katie Couric reported some personal news on Wednesday. In a post on her website, Couric shared she was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago. “Why Not Me,” she titled the post. “June 21, 2022, was the first day of summer, my 8th wedding anniversary, and the

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The Try Guys are going to try being a trio. The group, which gained popularity at Buzzfeed for their viral videos and eventually departed to begin producing content through their own company, announced on Tuesday that founding member Ned Fulmer “is no longer working with The Try Guys.” “As a result

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Adam Levine is back in the news, but this time for professional reasons. Maroon 5 on Tuesday announced they’ll kick off new Las Vegas concert residency in the spring. “M5LV • THE RESIDENCY,” the caption on their Instagram announcement read. “We’re headed back to Vegas! Tickets on sale Monday Oct

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Elvis Night” on “Dancing with the Stars” was all shook up and ended in a tie-breaking vote on Monday. In a bit of pre-performance drama, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son Joseph Baena was unable to perform with his partner Daniella Karagach Pashkova because she tested positive for Covid. Alexis Warr stepped in last

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Mila Kunis is sharing more about her husband Ashton Kutcher’s recent battle with a rare autoimmune disorder called vasculitis. Kutcher had revealed his illness during an episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge,” saying he experienced a two-year battle with a rare form of vasculitis that left him temporarily

By Chloe Melas, CNN Hayden Panettiere is sharing more about the custody arrangement of her only child. In a new episode of “Red Table Talk,” Panettiere opened up about the “very upsetting” experience of relinquishing custody of her 7-year-old daughter with former partner Wladmir Klitschko to him. Panettiere has previously said she was struggling with

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Hilaria Baldwin is trying to balance it all as a new mother of seven. She and husband Alec Baldwin recently announced the birth of their new daughter, Ilaria Catalina Irena Baldwin. On Monday she posted on the Instagram stories portion of her verified account a photo of her with two

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Hostages” tells several major stories in one, from the history of US intervention in the Middle East to the Iranian hostage crisis‘ impact on presidential politics to that period’s influence on media, launching “Nightline” as a byproduct. The result is a highly resonant trip down bad-memory lane, highlighting how those

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Kelly Ripa is opening up about her complicated relationship with her former morning show co-host, the late Regis Philbin. The pair co-hosted “Live With Regis and Kelly” from 2001 and 2011. She writes about their relationship in her new book “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.” Ripa told People writing about

By Lisa Respers France, CNN There’s a reason why Chadwick Boseman’s character in the “Black Panther” sequel was not recast following his death in 2020. In an interview with Empire magazine, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said “It just felt like it was much too soon” to recast the late actor, who died at the

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Pedro Pascal looks like he’s having a rough time in the first trailer for “The Last Of Us,” a new series based on the video game of the same name. Coming to HBO and HBO Max next year, Pascal plays Joel, a man who has survived the collapse of modern civilization,

By Megan Thomas, CNN Dustin Lance Black revealed that he is recovering from a “serious head injury” that the Oscar-winning writer experienced about a month ago. In an Instagram post on Monday, Black did not share how he sustained his injury but said it put him “out of commission.” “So I vanished for a while…

By Marianne Garvey Christina Ricci will be the first to tell you she doesn’t like her terrifying “Yellowjackets” character Misty Quigley. “I mean, she’s not somebody that I would choose to be friends with,” Ricci tells CNN of her Emmy-nominated role. Still, she does like playing her even if she is untrustworthy. “I really enjoy

By Marianne Garvey “House of the Dragon” star Emily Carey is reacting to actress Olivia Cooke now stepping in to reign as the series takes a time jump. Cooke and Emma D’Arcy will now play the adult versions of their characters, Queen Alicent Hightower and Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen. Carey and actress Milly Alcock departed the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Batgirl” may have been scrapped, but that hasn’t stopped interest in the film. The movie’s star Leslie Grace shared a video montage of some behind-the-scenes moments on her verified TikTok account. “I couldn’t resist,” she wrote in the description of the video, set to the Omar Apollo song “Evergreen.” The

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Welcome, Ilaria Catalina Irena Baldwin! Hilaria Baldwin and Alec Baldwin announced the birth of their new daughter, their seventh child together, on social media with a video montage of the new baby. Born on September 22 and weighing 6lbs 13oz, the newborn was welcomed joyfully by her parents. “She’s here!,”

By Lisa Respers France, CNN While production of Season 6 of “The Crown” was briefly paused after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Season 5 is still on track to start November 9. When the popular series returns to Netflix, Imelda Staunton will take over the role of the Queen from Olivia Colman who portrayed

By Chloe Melas, CNN Armie Hammer and his estranged wife Elizabeth Chambers’ contentious split in 2020 was widely publicized, but more is coming to light about why that may have been the case. As the recent Discovery+ docuseries “House of Hammer” has brought allegations of sexual abuse by Hammer back into the headlines, CNN has

By Zoe Sottile and Michelle Watson, CNN It’s been a rough few weeks for Post Malone. The American singer-songwriter is back in the hospital a week after he fell on stage in St. Louis, according to a statement posted to his Instagram story on Saturday night. He was forced to cancel a planned show in

By Gene Seymour, CNN There’s a giant rock ahead. This is not a movie. Or a drill. But don’t worry. Apparently, we’ve got this. Or at least NASA does. On Monday, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft is supposed to collide with Dimorphos, a small “moon” orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos. NASA’s big

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Professor Joe can count on our attendance to Season 4 of “You.” Netflix on Saturday announced its stalker series starring Penn Badgley will return in two parts. The first part of Season 4 will launch February 10, 2023. The second half will follow on March 10, 2023, the streamer said. The

By Zoe Sottile, CNN British singer-songwriter Sam Smith’s newest collab with Kim Petras, entitled “Unholy,” has taken over TikTok. Smith, a Grammy-award winner, teamed up with Petras, a German pop artist who achieved acclaim after her debut single “I Don’t Want It At All” topped several viral musical charts on Spotify in 2017. Released on

By Isa Kaufman Geballe and Zoe Sottile, CNN Louise Fletcher, the actress who won an Academy Award for playing the villainous Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” died Friday in France, according to her agent David Shaul. She was 88. Shaul said Fletcher died of “natural causes,” without providing further details. She

By Scottie Andrew, CNN You may know him best as the creator of the no-nonsense matriarch Madea, the director and writer of several films and TV series that bear his name and a billionaire film studio founder. But now, Tyler Perry wants to reintroduce himself to audiences with a historical drama he’s waited nearly 30

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Hilary Duff is making old content new again. The singer and actress has recreated her anti-gay bullying PSA from 14 years ago. In a video shared to her TikTok page, she is with Pentatonix singer Scott Hoying and his fiancé, Mark Manio. They all play teenagers trying on tops in a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Their marriage may have ended in 2016, but Lamar Odom still has love for Khloe Khardashian. The former basketball player told E! that the Hulu reality show “The Kardashians” has become a “guilty pleasure” for him, though he acknowledged it’s been difficult to watch his ex wife’s journey with the

By Jason Carroll and Lisa Respers France, CNN James Cameron has water on the brain. Not literally, just his love for the ocean. It’s evident in his forthcoming film, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” the sequel to his Oscar-winning hit 2009 film. Cameron spoke to CNN’s Jason Carroll about how the movie, which will debut

By Thomas Page, CNN Earlier this month, French filmmaker Romain Gavras arrived at the Venice Film Festival and dropped a metaphorical bomb with his latest film “Athena.” Billed as a drama set in a Parisian high-rise community (also known as a banlieue), audiences might’ve guessed what to expect. Banlieues have been a mainstay of French

Review by Thomas Page, CNN French writer-director Romain Gavras wants your attention, and like Karim, the fiery youth at the heart of his third feature “Athena,” he’s willing to go to extreme lengths to get it. Within “Athena’s” first ten minutes we witness a tense press conference erupt into violence, a raid on a police

By Sophie Tremblay, CNN Shania Twain’s life could make a hell of a country music song. In fact, there’s so much material it could make several great country music songs. She survived a tough childhood, lost her parents in a car crash and at the height of her career, was diagnosed with Lyme Disease —

By Lisa Respers France, CNN The love for Nia Long is flowing strong on social media as her longtime partner, Boston Celtics head coach, Ime Udoka, finds himself embroiled in controversy. Long and Udoka share a 10-year-old son and have been engaged since 2015. Consequently, many of Long’s supporters expressed upset after reports surfaced that

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN In theory there’s only so much to be done with a celebrity biography, but when the subject is Sidney Poitier, that’s an unusually target-rich environment. “Sidney,” a documentary from director Reginald Hudlin produced by Oprah Winfrey, does the actor justice, providing context, depth and considerable warmth in chronicling his remarkable

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN George Ward, a star of the British version of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” has died at the age of 28, according to a statement issued by his family. Ward, who shot to fame on the BBC’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race UK” under the stage name Cherry Valentine, died on September 18, his family

By Chloe Melas, CNN The artist formally known as Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, shared a message for his ex wife Kim Kardashian. During an interview which aired Thursday on “Good Morning America,” West said he’s sorry for “any stress” he’s caused. “This is the mother of my children, and I apologize for

By Lisa Respers France, CNN In her first interview since her mother Naomi Judd died by suicide in April at the age of 76, Wynonna Judd is reflecting on trying to move on without her. The pair performed as the beloved country group The Judds and Wynonna Judd talked to “CBS Sunday Morning” about the

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The waves of off-screen drama and gossip surrounding “Don’t Worry Darling” has put director Olivia Wilde’s second movie in an awkward spot, unable to justify the hype (it’s at best OK) but probably well advised to cash in on it. Florence Pugh makes the strongest case for seeing the film,

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Saying goodbye is never easy, but the Goldberg family is doing the best they can in the new season of “The Goldbergs.” The show wasted no time addressing the exit of Jeff Garlin from the sitcom, mentioning in the opening moments of Wednesday’s season premiere that patriarch Murray had passed away

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Continuing the most headline-producing movie press tour possibly of all time, Olivia Wilde stopped by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on Wednesday with her take on what has lovingly been referred to as #spitgate. For those who managed to avoid the details, the controversy stems from footage taken at the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chrissy Teigen can’t be blamed for feeling nervous. After suffering a devastating pregnancy loss two years ago, Teigen, now pregnant again, tweeted about how she’s feeling. “I finally feel the baby so I don’t need to text my doc for a daily drive by ultrasound anymore,” she wrote. The cookbook

By Megan Marcus, CNN Audio In a deeply personal and intimate conversation about loss and grief on Anderson Cooper’s new podcast All There Is, “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert opened up about the importance of “learning to love the thing you most wish had never happened.” Colbert, who is the youngest of 11 siblings,

By Jamiel Lynch and Jennifer Henderson, CNN New Orleans rapper Michael “Mystikal” Tyler pleaded not guilty Monday to multiple charges including first-degree rape and simple robbery, his attorney Joel Pearce told CNN. Mystikal was arrested in July after officials said a woman reported she was sexually assaulted and suffered minor injuries during the attack. He

By Megan Thomas Country music star Maren Morris is nominated for album of the year at the upcoming CMA Awards, but right now she wouldn’t feel “comfortable” attending the November ceremony. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday, Morris discussed her recent dispute with Brittany and Jason Aldean over comments they made

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN The Golden Globes are coming back to television. After holding an untelevised event earlier this year due to a diversity and ethics controversy, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, dick clark productions and NBC said on Tuesday that the show will be coming back to television on Tuesday, January 10, 2023. “We

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN A prequel to a prequel, “Andor” brings a gritty tone and look to the “Star Wars” universe, as much the washed-out landscape of “Blade Runner” as George Lucas’ far-away galaxy. Yet whatever promise that entails is mostly lost in flabby storytelling, essentially stretching what would have been a 10-minute movie

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Following allegations that he cheated on wife Behati Prinsloo and wanted to name their child after his alleged mistress, Adam Levine is speaking out. “A lot is being said about me right now and I want to clear the air,” the Maroon 5 frontman wrote in a statement on his

By Marianne Garvey Kelly Clarkson isn’t forgetting her roots. The singer and talk-show host was joined by her “American Idol” family at the unveiling of her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Monday. The original judging panel, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul, all attended. Cowell praised Clarkson and all she’s accomplished since winning

By Lisa Respers France, CNN The podcast that shined light on Adnan Syed’s case was there Monday when he was released to home detention. “Serial” explored Syed’s conviction for the murder of his high school girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Judge Melissa Phinn of the Baltimore City Circuit Court vacated his 1999 conviction on Monday. In

By Chloe Melas, CNN Actress Soleil Moon Frye spent one week with Ukrainian refugees and is urging the public to do what they can to help. Frye was on the ground with CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), Sean Penn’s emergency relief nonprofit which has supported disaster responses in the US and around the world. She

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Camila Cabello is turning her chair as the newest coach on “The Voice.” The singer joined the NBC reality singing competition for Season 2 on Monday, along with returning coaches Gwen Stefani, John Legend and Blake Shelton. Cabello,who started her career on “The X Factor” in 2012, appeared on “The Voice”

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Well, that didn’t last very long. Though “Love Is Blind” Season 2 cast members Deepti Vempati and Kyle Abrams just recently revealed in the post-finale show reunion that they were a couple, they are now broken up. “I understand many of you are curious as to where Deepti and I

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The meta aspects of a Hulu comedy about the making of a Hulu comedy quickly pile up in “Reboot,” a fictional show about reviving a series from the early 2000s, reuniting the cast and crew with all their insecurities and old grudges. Created by “Modern Family’s” Steve Levitan, it’s a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Blake Lively decided that if anyone was going to share her pregnancy photos it was going to be her. Over the weekend the actress share photos of her baby bump on her verified Instagram account. “Here are photos of me pregnant in real life so the 11 guys waiting outside

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN The process of trying to advance the original story and simultaneously replicate it becomes a jump that initially appears beyond the reach of “Quantum Leap,” an NBC redo of one of the more provocative concepts from the network’s golden years. Situated after “The Voice,” the series seems destined to get

By Brian Lowry, CNN “House of the Dragon’s” fifth episode is actually significant for logistical reasons, essentially marking the end of the chapter before the show time jumps ahead, featuring older versions of some characters and somewhat shuffling the deck. Yet the hour could generate as much buzz for a brutal death that occurred, inviting