John Lamparski/Getty Images Chris Rock‘s younger brother Kenny Rock recently told TMZ that he signed a deal to participate in a celebrity boxing match and that he’d be willing to meet Will Smith in the ring. In the video clip, he revealed that the match is set for June 11, and while he hasn’t yet solidified an opponent, he says he’s looking to …
Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images for Ocean Drive In a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor forcible touching charge to resolve his forcible touching and sex assault case in Manhattan. The actor had been accused of forcibly kissing a woman at a nightclub in September 2018. He also admitted to subjecting two other …
Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez/picture alliance via Getty Images Amanda Bynes hasn’t said anything on her social media since her mother’s conservatorship of her affairs was terminated last month, but on her Instagram, she just posted that she and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have just dropped a single. “Diamonds,” a song on which Michael raps, and Bynes provides the chorus, is available on Spotify and …
“Dopesick” — Hulu/Gene Page The nominations are out for the 82nd Annual Peabody Awards, spotlighting 2021’s “most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media2.” Among the nominees this year are Questlove‘s Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Hulu’s opioid crisis drama Dopesick, which previously earned …
Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Grassroot Soccer Tonight on CBS is another installment of the 42nd (!) season of Survivor. Way back in 2001, the winner of the third season, Survivor: Africa, was Ethan Zohn, and he’s still watching the show, so ABC Audio wanted to get his perspective on the current iteration of the Emmy-winning series. “I’m torn …
Phil Walter/Getty Images Serena Williams is one of the most celebrated, decorated and beloved tennis stars of all time. But her superstar status as an Olympic medalist doesn’t negate the fact that as a Black woman, she’s at times overlooked and undervalued. In a personal essay for ELLE magazine, the 40-year-old star shares the harrowing story of what happened …
Rich Fury/WireImage Jennifer Lopez is dishing more about her engagement to Ben Affleck. In her On the JLo newsletter, the superstar shared an update, titled “How It Went Down,” detailing how the actor popped the question. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” the Marry …
© 2022 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved./Karen Ballard It’s not anything new to see Mark Wahlberg take on true-life roles — Joe Bell, Deepwater Horizon, Patriot’s Day, and Lone Survivor among them — but Father Stu is a different kind of project for the 50-year-old actor/producer. “I really think the film chose me,” Wahlberg tells ABC Audio. …
L-R: Maisie Williams, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Sophie Turner — HBO/Macall B. Polay For eight seasons Maisie Williams played Arya Stark on the hit HBO show Game of Thrones and now she’s opening up about a time she “resented” the role. In a recent interview with GQ UK, the 24-year-old actress got candid about her time on the fantasy drama, which …
Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images Millie Bobby Brown is getting real about what it’s like growing up in the limelight. While on Tuesday’s episode of The Guilty Femininst podcast, the Stranger Things actress, who turned 18 in February, opened up about how she’s navigated the industry while coming of age. “I deal with the same things any 18-year-old is dealing with: navigating …