Month: August 2024

Katy Perry will receive MTV’s Video Vanguard Award and perform a medley of her biggest hits live at the 2024 VMAs, taking place on Wednesday, September 11th at 8 pm ET/PT from New York’s UBS Arena.

The network announced that the five-time VMAs winner will return to the VMAs stage for the first time since 2017 when she pulled double duty as both host and performer. Perry received the VMA’s  top honor ‘Video of the Year’ in 2011 for her hit song, “Firework.” Perry joins Camila Cabello, Chappell Roan, GloRilla, Rauw Alejandro and Sabrina Carpenter as those slated to perform, with additional names to be announced soon.

Bruce Gillmer, President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events, Paramount and Chief Content Officer, Music, Paramount+, said in a statement: “Katy is a musical powerhouse and true pop culture icon. With her game-changing creative vision, she has become a global phenomenon and taken over the world’s biggest stages. Katy’s prowess will be on full display live on the VMAs with a can’t-miss, career-encompassing performance celebrating her biggest moments and chart-topping hits.”

Taylor Swift leads this year’s VMA nominations with ten, followed by Post Malone with nine, Ariana Grande, Eminem, Sabrina Carpenter six each, Megan Thee Stallion and Sza five each, and Lisa, Olivia Rodrigo and Teddy Swims with four apiece.

Fans can vote for their favorites across 15 gender-neutral categories, including the highly-coveted Video of the Year, Presented by Burger King, by visiting vote.mtv.com through Friday, August 30th thanks to The General Insurance. Voting for Best New Artist,

Perry’s new album, 143,  will also be released on September 20th via Capitol Records.

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Mariah Carey revealed that both her mother Patricia, and sister Alison died on the same day last weekend. Neither the cause nor the exact date of Patricia and Alison’s death is known at this time.

Carey, 55, said in a statement shared with Variety: “My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day. I feel blessed that I was able to spend the last week with my mom before she passed. I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.”

Mariah’s mother Patricia was a Juilliard-trained opera singer and vocal coach. She went on to marry Alfred Roy Carey, welcoming three children—Morgan, Alison and Mariah—before divorcing when Mariah was 3 years old.

Carey openly spoke about her complicated relationship with mom Patricia and how they faced struggles over the years, writing in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey: “Like many aspects of my life, my journey with my mother has been full of contradictions and competing realities. It’s never been only black-and-white — it’s been a whole rainbow of emotions. Our relationship is a prickly rope of pride, pain, shame, gratitude, jealousy, admiration and disappointment. A complicated love tethers my heart to my mother’s .. I had to stop making myself available to be hurt by [my family]. It has been helpful. I have no doubt it is emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with my [siblings]. The situation with Pat, on the other hand, is more complicated. I have reserved some room in my heart and life to hold her — but with boundaries. Creating boundaries with the woman who gave birth to me is not easy — it is a work in progress.”   In the dedication section of her memoir, Carey wrote: “And to Pat, my mother, who, through it all, I do believe actually did the best she could. I will love you the best I can, always.”

Carey also spoke of her estrangement from her sister Alison, recently describing her on Oprah Winfrey’s Apple TV+ interview series as “troubled” and “traumatized.” In her book, Carey wrote that it was “emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact” with Alison and her brother Morgan.

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Actress Danielle Fishel has revealed she is battling breast cancer. The Boy Meets World star, 43, shared that she was recently diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS).

Fishel shared the news of her diagnosis on her re-watch podcast Pod Meets World, which she co-hosts with her former co-stars Rider Strong and Will Friedle.  Said Fishel: “So I would like to share something with our listeners … I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer. It is very, very, very early. It’s technically stage zero. To be specific, just because I like too much information all the time, I was diagnosed with high-grade DCIS with micro-invasion. I’m going to be fine. I’m having surgery to remove it. I’m going to be on some follow-up treatment. I’ve had to make a lot of decisions over the last couple of days.”

Fishel added: “The only reason I caught this cancer when it is still stage zero is because the day I got my text message that my yearly mammogram had come up, I made the appointment … For some reason I had always thought [if I were diagnosed with cancer] I would suffer in silence. I would get the diagnosis, I would not tell anyone. I would tell only my small group and then I would just suck it up. And then when I’m on the other side of it then I would tell people. But the place you have the most to learn from is that at the very beginning of a story or in the very messy middle of a story. My first instinct when I was diagnosed was to do that clam up thing … and then what I realized is the more people I talk to, the more people have their own experiences.”

The actress and her husband Jensen Karp have two sons: Adler, 5, and Keaton, 3.

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Season 4 of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building premieres August 27, and the streaming service recently shared a trailer featuring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Only Murders in the Building is a mystery comedy-drama following Charles (Martin), Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez), a trio of New York City neighbors who investigate murders and create their own true crime podcast.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the end of season three left the characters shocked by the death of Charles’ friend and former stunt double, Sazz (Jane Lynch). In the season four trailer, the trio look into the death of Sazz, while contending with the actors (Eugene Levy, Zach Galifianakis, Eva Longoria) hired to play them in a movie about their podcast.

Hulu has hailed season four as Only Murders‘ “starriest season yet,” with guest stars that include Meryl Streep, Molly Shannon, Richard Kind, Kumail Nanjiani, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Cyril Creighton and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.

Only Murders in the Building Season 4 premieres Aug. 27 on Hulu, with new episodes every Tuesday.
See the trailer: here.

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Justin Bieber and his wife Hailey have welcomed their first baby together, a son named Jack Blues Bieber.

Justin, 30, posted the news via Instagram, sharing a photo of their son’s foot wrapped in a blanket to announce his arrival with the caption: “WELCOME HOME JACK BLUES BIEBER ” Hailey, 27, later posted the same photo to her Instagram Stories with the child’s name, and teddy bear and blue heart emojis.

The couple were married at a New York City courthouse in September 2018, an later held a second wedding ceremony in front of family and friends in South Carolina the following year.

Justin and Hailey originally announced that Hailey was pregnant with their first child back in May, sharing a series of photos and videos that showed off her baby bump as the pair renewed their wedding vows.

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