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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For years, Hollywood star Emilia Clarke didn’t speak publicly about suffering two brain hemorrhages in her twenties. “It still took years for me to grapple with my truth,” she said in a speech Wednesday after she was honored at Variety’s Power of Women London event. When Clarke shared her

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Peabo Bryson, whose smooth tone and operatic control produced classic Disney hits as well as R&B standards, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 75. The statement said he died Tuesday evening “surrounded by the love of his family and those closest to him.”

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — It’s nearly summertime, and we’re all doomed. So says Charli XCX, who’s abandoned the party in her new music and trained her gaze instead on death and destruction: “The world is gonna end, no hope for any of it,” she sings in “SS26,” her latest single. Charli and preeminent

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A 21-year-old university student stepped in to play piano during a performance of “La La Land in Concert” in Australia on Saturday, saving the show after the original pianist was taken ill. Sterling Nasa was volunteered by a friend after Academy Award-winning composer Justin Hurwitz asked if there were

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Content creator KSI has left the Sidemen after more than a decade with the massively popular YouTubers. In a video posted on his own YouTube channel, KSI, 32, told his 18.4 million subscribers about his departure. Describing it as the “hardest video I’ve ever had to make in

By T.M. Brown, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is now hosting the opening ceremony for the Great American State Fair after several performing artists pulled out of the event’s concert series. “As the visionary behind the Great American State Fair, we are excited to announce that President Trump will personally kick off

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Irish musician CMAT has shared her “deep sadness” about being body shamed after a live appearance last weekend. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, has said there is “no relief” from how she is treated online because of her body shape and that she has had

By Sandra Gonzalez, Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Being a “Survivor” winner means joining a strange club of hyper-ambitious humans, bound by both the surreal experience of reality television fame and knowing what it feels like to suddenly come into a good chunk of cash. When the show’s 50th season concluded on Wednesday, winner Aubry

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s tax authority has been ordered to repay Colombian superstar Shakira more than 55 million euros ($64 million) after a court in Madrid ruled that it had mistakenly pursued her for unpaid taxes. Tax officials imposed massive fines on the singer in 2021 after concluding that she had spent

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Dylan Sprouse and his wife, Barbara Palvin, are expecting their first child. The “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” star was pictured holding his wife’s baby bump while the pair smiled in a joint carousel post on Instagram Thursday. The 33-year-old actor was dressed in a suit and

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Despite Eurovision’s insistence it is apolitical, politics has always been part of the continent-wide song contest, as much a feature as whatever constellation of pyrotechnics and power ballads are on display that year. But where, previously, politics was somewhat of a punchline, a useful indicator for cynical fans to

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — On “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” Elle Fanning’s Margo paints her entire body a metallic green. Her aim? To fully embody her OnlyFans persona, an earthside alien named The Hungry Ghost, who offers mild nudity and harsh criticism of her willing subscribers’ genitalia. The earnings that Margo, a single mom,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Dua Lipa is suing South Korean technology firm Samsung in a US court for using an image of her without her consent. The complaint relates to the use of a photograph of the British singer on cardboard packaging for Samsung television sets sold across the US, according to legal

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Martin Short has spoken publicly for the first time about the “nightmare” of losing his daughter Katherine earlier this year. The “Only Murders in the Building” star told CBS in an exclusive interview aired Sunday that Katherine’s death by suicide back in February has been devastating. Katherine Short was

By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — The high-profile legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s production company will no longer go to trial after the parties announced a settlement just two weeks before jury selection was slated to begin. Details of the settlement agreement were not immediately available. Lively filed a complaint alleging Baldoni

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hollywood star Cameron Diaz and her musician husband Benji Madden have annouced the birth of their third child, a boy named Nautas. “Cameron and I are Happy, Excited, and feeling so BLESSED to announce the birth of our third Child, Nautas Madden. Welcome to the world Son,” wrote Madden,

By T.M. Brown, CNN (CNN) — Barry Levinson’s “Toys” is hard to track down today. It was supposed to be a highlight of the 1992 holiday movie season, a major-studio comedy release with a cast that included Robin Williams, Joan Cusack, LL Cool J, and a cameo from Jamie Foxx for his first film credit.

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Had things transpired differently, Taylor Frankie Paul would be six episodes into her quest to find love on the small screen. Instead, the TikTok influencer-turned-reality personality-and-canceled-Bachelorette-star this week appeared at a contentious court hearing that resulted in Paul and her former partner Dakota Mortensen being granted protective orders against