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By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears’ 13-year conservatorship is over. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny terminated the court-ordered arrangement during a hearing on Friday. Addressing the court, Spears’ attorney Matthew Rosengart said a “safety net” is in place for the singer’s finances and personal care. “The time has come today to end

By Megan Thomas, CNN Winter, an injured dolphin who learned to swim with a prosthetic tail and whose story served as the inspiration for two heartwarming films, died Thursday, according to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where she resided. “Animal care experts from around the country worked to treat her gastrointestinal abnormality. The CMA family is

By Sara Spary, CNN It’s the moment “Sex and the City” fans have been waiting for — a date for the return of Carrie and friends, 17 years after the original show ended. In a teaser-trailer released Friday, streaming service HBO Max announced that the new 10-part spinoff series “And Just Like That…” will debut

By Chloe Melas, CNN Britney Spears’ 13-year court-ordered conservatorship may finally end on Friday. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny is expected to answer Spears’ request to terminate her conservatorship at an afternoon court hearing. The court date comes a little over a month since Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, was suspended as the

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Paris Hilton is a married woman. The media personality and heiress tied the knot with fiancé Carter Reum on Thursday in a lavish ceremony at a private estate in Los Angeles, People reported. On Friday morning — in her first Instagram post as a wife — Hilton shared a shot of

By Marianne Garvey Paul Rudd is objectively cute. He’s funny. He’s a family man. He is charitable. But … sexy? People magazine’s selection of Rudd as this year’s Sexiest Man Alive came as a surprise to some, including Rudd, according to Dan Wakeford, the Editor-in-Chief of People, who said the actor was “baffled” by the

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Home Sweet Home Alone” is a very odd duck — a movie that basically replicates the three-decades-old “Home Alone” template, but in a way that feels slightly weird and ill-conceived. Dropping on Disney+ in connection with the streaming service’s two-year anniversary, it’s a reminder that not all well-known intellectual property

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jerry Douglas, best known for his role as family patriarch John Abbott on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” has died. He was 88. Douglas was beloved on the soap as the chairman of Jabot Cosmetics, a role he began in 1982. John Abbott, along with his

By Marianne Garvey The Country Music Association Awards will be presented on Wednesday night . The CMA Awards honor the best country music, performances and music videos of the year, selected by more than 7,300 members of the Country Music Association. The event is taking place in Nashville with pandemic protocols in place. Those in

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN There’s a scene in Rebecca Hall’s film “Passing” in which the character Irene Redfield vents to her husband about a childhood friend. The friend is Clare Kendry, a light-skinned Black woman who for years has been living as White. Since the two reconnected during a chance encounter in Chicago, Clare has

By Marianne Garvey, CNN “Dancing with the Stars” paid tribute to Janet Jackson this week, and featured a double elimination and one judge’s save. The legendary singer called in for a video chat with host Tyra Banks, telling her, “I think it’s great. I love all styles, all types of dance.” “It’s a way to

By Brian Lowry, CNN Welcome to movie-awards season, as two films arriving this week, “Belfast” and “Passing,” look back to the past through the lustrous filter of glorious black and white — the former seeing Ireland’s tumult in the 1960s via the eyes of a child, the latter America’s racial history in Harlem during the

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Wendy Williams misses her audience. The talk show host recently posted a health update on the “Wendy Williams Show’s” verified Instagram account, writing “HOW YOU DOIN’? I MISS YOU ALL!” “As everyone knows, my health has been a hot topic,” the statement reads. “I’m making progress but it’s just one

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bella Hadid is getting real about her mental health. In a lengthy Instagram post Tuesday, the model shared some tearful selfies and quoted singer and “Red Table Talk” cohost Willow Smith. “‘That feeling of thinking that you’re good enough or being insecure about your art- is natural- but at the

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Never has counting been so unexpectedly emotional. During her visit to TV’s most famous fictional block, Billie Eilish sat down with the Count from “Sesame Street” for a lesson on the number 2 set to the tune of her hit “Happier Than Ever.” A warning for those intending to press play

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Scottie Andrew, CNN Travis Scott concerts are known for being raucous and rowdy. But the 2021 Astroworld Festival, where he was set to close out the first night of performances, went beyond expected levels of rowdiness when it took a deadly turn. Footage from the day of his performance showed a

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Emilio Estevez is setting the record straight about his exit from “Mighty Ducks: Game Changers.” The actor shared a lengthy statement with Deadline in response to the publication’s recent story that stated “Disney Television Studios’ ABC Signature, which produces the hockey-themed sequel series, made the decision not to pick up

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Watch out, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jeff Bezos may have a special delivery for you. The mega-mogul had a funny response to Variety tweeting a video from their editor Marc Malkin showing DiCaprio chatting with Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez at the LACMA Art + Film Gala.” In it,

By Chloe Melas, CNN Drake is speaking out for the first time since the Astroworld Festival in Houston which resulted in the deaths of eight concertgoers. He took to Instagram and wrote, “I’ve spent the past few days trying to wrap my mind around this devastating tragedy. I hate resorting to this platform to express

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival left eight people dead and dozens injured, as the crowd surged during the rapper’s set. The crowd at the Friday night show in Houston was so packed that when audience members were pushed toward the stage, some told CNN that they were crushed to

By Chloe Melas Travis Scott will cover all funeral costs for the eight victims who died at his Astroworld Festival on Friday, according to a statement released Monday by a representative for the rapper and producer. The Houston-born artist will also partner with BetterHelp to provide free mental health services to all those affected by

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Alec Baldwin thinks police officers could be best suited to help film and television productions monitor the safe use of weapons on sets. “Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” Baldwin tweeted on

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Over the weekend, eight people were killed and many more injured during rapper Travis Scott’s Houston music festival Astroworld. Authorities are investigating what led to the tragedy. While there have been horrific mass casualty concert events, such as the 2017 terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande performance at Britain’s Manchester

By Marianne Garvey Kylie Jenner took to social media Sunday to comment on the tragedy at her partner Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston. At least eight people died and 300 more were left injured after a crowd surge during Scott’s performance at the festival on Friday. “Travis and I are broken and devastated.

By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Yellowstone” Season 4 premiered Sunday night with plenty of new drama for the Duttons and a glimpse at an upcoming prequel series about the family. Starring Tim McGraw as James Dillard Dutton, “1883” will take viewers back in time to the Duttons establishing their homestead in Montana. “Yellowstone” stars award-winning

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Sarah Jessica Parker is tackling criticism of her looks as she grows older. Parker says she and her former “Sex and the City” co-stars have received some negative comments over how their physical appearances have changed as they’ve gotten older. The cast is in production on a spinoff series, “And Just

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Shailene Woodley is denying reports that she posted a “cryptic” message amid a vaccination debate involving her fiancé, Aaron Rodgers. Rodgers, who is the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, has attracted criticism following the revelation that he had contracted Covid-19 after he had earlier said during a press conference

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN “Eternals” have landed, and we must have a discussion. First and most obvious, a question you’ve been pondering since you left the theater: How would I rank this among other Marvel movies? Well, friends, I don’t like hate mail. So I’m not doing that. But I did place it on this

By Chloe Melas, CNN Kieran Culkin hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time this weekend. The actor, who stars on the hit show “Succession,” hit it out of the park with his hilarious skits. Culkin’s opening monologue Culkin made sure to mention his character Roman Roy, a fan favorite on the show. “He’s one

By Chloe Melas, CNN Things just got creepy, okurrr! Cardi B took to Twitter to share a letter and a hat from Penn Badgley’s character Joe Goldberg from “You.” “Hello, you… My stalking and killing may make me a certified freak, seven days a week, but it also brought me to… you,” he wrote. “Cardi

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Rapper Fetty Wap, who was arrested on a drug trafficking charge last week, is being released from custody on $500,000 bond. The rapper, who is also known as Willie Junior Maxwell II, was indicted along with five others on a drug trafficking conspiracy charge, after federal prosecutors say the men allegedly

By Marianne Garvey ,CNN Angelina Jolie is responding to her new movie “Eternals” apparently being banned by certain Gulf Nations. Jolie, who plays warrior Thena in the Marvel film, discussed Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar’s request by censors to make changes to the film, reportedly because it features a same-sex relationship, which Disney declined to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Grand opening, grand closing. One day after Jay-Z launched his verified Instagram account, it appears he deleted it. The rapper/entrepreneur/producer is well known for not being active on social media, so there was some excitement when he showed up on the Gram this week. Jay-Z stayed true to his minimalist

By Lisa Respers France, CNN In a post meant to praise his current wife, some people think Chris Pratt took a swipe at his former one. Pratt posted a tribute to his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger earlier this week, about six weeks before her birthday, on his verified Instagram account. In a heartfelt caption, the “Guardians

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Four decades since their last album, Swedish pop legends ABBA are finally back, in one of the most anticipated musical returns in recent years. Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog reunited this year after going their separate ways in 1982. “ABBA: Voyage,” their new album released Friday,

Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Dexter” finished on such a dreary note in 2013 that the first reaction to a planned revival was “Why?” Yet time has helped expunge the bad taste, as the limited series “Dexter: New Blood” infuses new, um, juice into the old serial killer with a code, placing him in a

By Marianne Garvey Kanye West discussed a range of topics — from Kim Kardashian to his concept of a house — on a new podcast episode of “Drink Champs.” West spoke with hosts N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, marking his first major interview since the release of his “Donda” album. Saying a house is an idea

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Pop star Ariana Grande and British actress Cynthia Erivo are set to star in Universal’s big-screen adaption of the Tony Award-winning musical “Wicked.” Grande announced the news of her casting to her 274 million Instagram followers on Thursday with a carousel of images that summed up her excitement to be part

By Scottie Andrew, CNN Princess Diana lived a life so sensational and so public that it’s no wonder writers and directors have mined it for TV and film since the world first learned her name. Just a 19-year-old aristocrat when she got engaged to Charles, a 20-year-old princess when she became one of the most

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Chrissy Teigen says she has no idea if Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are a couple, but she still has some thoughts about it. Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, have been close friends with Kardashian and Kanye West whom she filed for divorce from in February. Kardashian has

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Actor Will Smith reveals a dark part of his upbringing and the complicated relationship he shared with his late father in a new memoir. In “Will,” out November 9, the star describes his dad as a man with dualities. “My father was violent, but he was also at every game, play,