Month: August 2023

Britney Spears husband Sam Asghari filed for divorce on Wednesday after 14 months of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences” in the divorce filing. TMZ was the first to report the news that the couple had split and were currently living separately, with multiple sources noting that the separation stemmed from  “a nuclear argument that involve[d] allegations of cheating.”

Spears, 41, first met the 29-year-old Asghari — a model, actor, and fitness trainer — on the set of her music video for “Slumber Party,” from her album Glory, in 2016. The couple married in June 2022 in a lavish, star-studded wedding held in Los Angeles with approximately 60 guests in attendance, including Drew Barrymore, Madonna, Paris Hilton and Selena Gomez.

Spears and Asghari’s union marked Spears’ third marriage, and Asghari’s first. Spears was previously married to her childhood friend, Jason Allen Alexander, for 55 hours in 2004. Following the annulment, Spears married Kevin Federline that same year. The duo divorced in 2007, and share two children: Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden James, 16

Asghari and Spears were together throughout her efforts to terminate her conservatorship, which came to an end in November 2021, allowing Spears to regain control of her estate and finances. However, rumors began circulating in March that the couple were having marital woes. When addressing photos that showed Asghari and Spears without their wedding bands, Asghari’s rep, Brandon Cohen from BAC Talent, told PEOPLE that Asghari simply took off his ring because he was filming a movie.

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Usher has dropped the video for his new song titled “Boyfriend”, which stars actress and singer Keke Palmer.   The collaboration between Usher and Palmer comes shortly after the viral moment when Usher serenaded Keke at his Las Vegas residency, where she was later criticized by her boyfriend Darius Jackson, who is also the father of her child.

Jackson called out Palmer in numerous tweets after she was seen wearing a black, sheer outfit to Usher’s Vegas concert. Jackson’s initial tweet featured Palmer being serenaded by Usher with the caption. “It’s the outfit tho… you a mom.” After receiving backlash, Jackson didn’t back down, later tweeting: “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is. This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”

In response to the drama, Palmer released a line of T-shirts she promoted on her Instagram, sharing: “One thing is certain and one thing is true, IM A MOTHA, through and through! ‘IM A MOTHA’ and ‘Stevie to the bulls***’ shirts available NOW! To all my mom’s out there, how did your baby change you?? Mine empowered me! On such another level, my perspective changed because when my baby is good I’m GREAT! Look at that face! Gratitude galore.”

When sharing the ‘Boyfriend’ video on Instagram, Usher referenced the incident with the cheeky caption: ‘Nothing that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas…’Boyfriend’ starring the BIG BOSS herself @keke OUT NOW’

Take a look at the video for ‘Boyfriend’ – here.

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Country singer Morgan Wade has recruited “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Kyle Richards in the new video for Wade’s song “Fall in Love With Me.”

Wade wrote on Instagram: “The official video for ‘Fall in Love With Me’ is out now. It’s campy and fun — but also important and representative of all kinds of love, even in the country space, in any space. Thank you @davidmcclisterphotography for seeing this through … @kylerichards18 and I trusted the process of making a piece of art that stands boldly beside this music and I’m proud of that. Thanks for the support and love. Love is love is love.”

The video, directed by David McClister, follows Richards trying to win over her new neighbor, Wade. Richards is shown exercising in high heels and writing typewritten love letters to Wade in a ball gown, which the duo said was to “poke fun” at speculation that the women are more than just friends.  Said Wade: “I’ve done several music videos and every time there’s someone in it they always assume we’re dating or something’s going on. If you go on the Internet, you’ll see people are obsessed with us being friends.”

“Fall in Love With Me” is the third single off Wade’s upcoming album “Psychopath,” set to drop Aug. 25. It follows the release of the set’s first single, “Psychopath,” and its follow-up, “80’s Movie.”

Take a look at the video for ‘Fall in Love with Me’ – here.

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Madonna was forced to postpone the start of her Celebration Tour in July as she recovered from a serious bacterial infection, and now the singer has announced rescheduled North American tour dates.

The Celebration Tour was originally set to kick-off in North America and then head to Europe; however, the North American dates will now take place after the tour wraps in Europe. The Celebration Tour will begin in London on Oct. 14, and the first U.S. date will be on Dec. 13 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Five shows — in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Phoenix and Nashville — have been canceled.

Tickets for the previously scheduled shows will be honored on the new dates, and refunds will be issued at the original point of purchase for the cancelled shows. Madonna’s previously scheduled stop at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 27 has now been rescheduled for Dec. 26 at the Barclays Center. Those who had tickets for Madonna’s previously scheduled shows at Crypto.com Arena and Kia Forum in L.A. will be able to purchase tickets for her five new shows in March 2024 at Kia Forum.

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TMZ reports that Ashley Olsen secretly welcomed her first child with her husband, Louis Eisner, a son the couple have named Otto. Sources close to Olson shared that she gave birth in New York a few months ago, saying that the couple are “ecstatic” about welcoming their little bundle of joy.

News of the birth of Olson and Eisner’s son comes just months after the couple said “I Do” in an intimate California ceremony. The 37-year-old Olsen (who helms the luxury fashion brand ‘The Row’ alongside her twin sister, Mary-Kate), and the 35-year-old Eisner (an artist), tied the knot in a small ceremony at a private Bel Air home in December 2022 with only 50 guests in attendance.

The couple have reportedly known each other since they were in high school, and were first romantically linked in 2017. They have kept their relationship private, only making their first appearance together on the red carpet in 2021 to attend a celebration for Young Eisner Scholars, a nonprofit organization founded by Eisner’s father, attorney Eric Eisner.

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Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott have announced their engagement after 4 years together. According to People, Scott proposed Sunday during a family trip to Scotland, with Deschanel’s children, daughter Elsie, 8, and son Charlie, 6, partaking in the engagement.

Deschanel, 43, and “Property Brothers” host Scott, 45, shared the happy news on Instagram, posting a selfie with Deschanel holding her hand up to the camera showing off her engagement ring, along with the caption: “Forever starts now!!! ”  

The couple first met in August 2019 while filming an episode of “Carpool Karaoke: The Series,” which featured Scott, his twin brother Drew Scott, Deschanel and her sister Emily Deschanel. Deschanel and Scott began dating soon after, and went Instagram official later that year. Since then, the couple have shared pictures throughout the course of their relationship on social media.

This will be Deschanel’s third marriage; she was previously married to Death Cab for Cutie frontman Benjamin Gibbard from 2009-2012, and shares her children with ex-husband Jacob Pechenik, with whom she was married to for 4 years before divorcing in 2020. Scott was also previously married to to flight coordinator Kelsy Ully in 2007, before divorcing in 2013.

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