ABC/Mitch Haaseth(NEW YORK) — On Monday night, Maddie Poppe won the American Idol crown, but even before Ryan Seacrest announced it, she knew she’d won…because she literally saw her name written on the card in Ryan’s hand. “Every week…I [could] see the card, but I [didn’t] ever look,” she tells ABC Radio. “But this week…I …

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D. Herrick/FilmMagic(NEW YORK) — Philip Roth, the prolific author known for dark humored novels like Goodbye Columbus and Portnoy’s Complaint, died Tuesday in a New York City hospital of congestive heart failure, a close friend tells CNN. He was 85. The Newark, New Jersey-born writer — whose more than 25 books mainly centered on the Jewish …

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Tyler Golden/NBC(LOS ANGELES) — Kelly Clarkson notched a victory in her very first season as a coach on The Voice, as her artist Brynn Cartelli was crowned the season 14 winner — the youngest in Voice history. She receives a recording contract as her grand prize. Cartelli, a 15-year-old pop singer from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, finished ahead of runner-up, …

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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — BET has tapped Academy Award winning actor Jamie Foxx to host the 2018 BET Awards. The network announced on Tuesday that Foxx has signed on to host the annual event, which will take place in Los Angeles June 24. This will be Foxx’s second time hosting the music event — his first time …

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20th Century Fox(LOS ANGELES) — If your kids appeared in the movie that was currently #1 at the box office, you’d be proud, right? That’s why Taylor Swift is pretty excited right now. In the movie Deadpool 2, star Ryan Reynolds, a good friend of Taylor’s, sports a shirt featuring a picture of Taylor’s two …

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Craig Sjodin(HOLLYWOOD) — It seems like new Bachelorette Becca Kufrin is going to get her happy ending after all. ABC’s Good Morning America has confirmed that the reality TV star, who has wrapped production on her season of The Bachelorette, is engaged. Of course, the details of the proposal — and the identity of her …

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Lucasfilm(NEW YORK) — Actor Paul Bettany is still in theaters as Vision in Avengers: Infinity War, but on Friday you can see him without the purple android makeup as the villain in Solo: A Star Wars Story.  Was the actor hesitant to jump into another massive movie franchise. “No!” he told ABC Radio emphatically. “In fact, I chased it!” Solo reunited …

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ABC/Fred Lee(NEW YORK) — Spike Lee is ready to get back to work after receiving the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Award Sunday for his forthcoming film BlacKkKlansman. On Monday, Lee switched gears, posting a message from his hometown of Brooklyn, New York. “Back To Reality. Back To Da People’s Republic Of Brooklyn,” he wrote on Instagram. “We …

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Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — It looks like Ariana Grande has moved on after ending her two-year relationship with rapper Mac Miller earlier this month — and is “casually dating” Saturday Night Live castmember Pete Davidson, a source tells Us Weekly. The insider seems to confirm a story first reported by Bossip on Friday, telling Us that Ariana was spotted at the SNL after-party a week ago “hanging out with Pete and his mom.” …

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ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — If you ever wondered what happened to William Hung, Sanjaya Malakar and a number of other onetime American Idol contestants, Jimmy Kimmel wondered the same thing. On Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night — in celebration of the season finale of American Idol earlier in the evening — the late-night talk show host rented out a studio for several noteworthy former Idolcontestants to record …

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