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HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Brian Michael Smith who shared some tips on how to celebrate Pride despite being in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Brian Michael Smith, 37, had the honor of co-hosting the NYC Pride Rally on June 26. But with the coronavirus pandemic everybody is doing their part to help flatten the curve by

Alessia Cara emerged the top winner at this year’s Juno Awards, scooping up three trophies in a pre-recorded ceremony that paired celebration with an acknowledgment that more needs to be done to represent the diverse voices of Canadian artists. While the Junos usually mark the biggest night for the country’s music industry, the Monday event,

Get ready for Love in the Time of Corona, an upcoming Freeform miniseries joining the glut of coronavirus-inspired movies and shows already flooding an industry that is still trying to sort out how to work through a pandemic. Freeform announced the new series Monday, revealing that the four-episode romantic drama will star and be executive

Jennifer Hudson sounds absolutely incredible in the new trailer as the late Aretha Franklin, set for release on Christmas Day! The film also stars Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayons & Mary J. Blige. Jennifer Hudson, 38, just blew us away again! The singer showed off her powerhouse vocals in the newly released trailer for Respect, which features

When you get into a car, what’s the first thing you do after fastening your seatbelt? You look for some entertainment. And for 90 years, we’ve been reaching for the radio for our mobile music, news, sports, and entertainment. Listening to the radio (or some other form of audio entertainment) is one of the few

Pop sensation Ariana Grande took to her Instagram to share pictures and all-lowercase commentary from her 27th birthday party. In the posts, she divulged that the event was modeled after last summer’s flower-forward film Midsommar. “my friends and i went with a midsommar theme because help me,” she wrote Saturday. Previously, the Florida-born “break up

We stan a cider-drinking Adele! Just hours after posting a throwback photo her custom Chloé gown from the 2016 Glastonbury Festival, the star decided to rock the dress at home! Adele, 32, was having a blast at home on June 27! The “Hello” singer decided to take a walk down memory lane as she re-watched

Alberta-born actor Jason Thompson was named the winner of the Daytime Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Friday night for his work on the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless. And the winner for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series goes to…#YR’s @MyJasonThompson! 🎉 Send this #DaytimeEmmys winner

On Thursday night, Desus and Mero writer Ziwe Fumudoh interviewed Alison Roman on her weekly Instagram Live comedy show. The shows, similar to Fumudoh’s YouTube series Baited, revolve around the comedian asking white guests questions about race—from simple but revealing queries (“How many Black friends do you have?”) to targeted ones designed to, well, bait

It’s Ariana Grande’s birthday! The singer turned 27 on June 26, so we’re taking a look back at some of her best performance outfits ever worn for events like worldwide tours, the 2020 Grammys and more. Ariana Grande has said “thank u, next” to another year. As of today, June 26, the singer has officially

It’s been less than a month since the highly anticipated launch of HBO Max and now, thanks to a licensing deal from the ViacomCBS network, subscribers now have the option to watch all 23 seasons of South Park ⁠— well, all but five episodes. That’s right, though the much-beloved adult comedy series is now available

It’s not just two races, either. Elsewhere in New York, the race between Carolyn Maloney, the chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, and Suraj Patel, a veteran of the Obama administration, will hinge upon absentee ballots. Mondaire Jones, a favorite of the activist left, picked up more than double any other candidate in the crowded

‘Double Shot At Love’ heats up this week when Brandon can’t help but indulge in all of the ‘hot girls’ at Drai’s when the cast enjoys a night out before work! But, Marissa isn’t having it, which means one thing — drama! Things get out of control on the June 25 episode of Double Shot

Warning: This article may be triggering for some readers. Please read at your own discretion. Veteran porn star Ron Jeremy was charged with eight individual counts of sexual misconduct on Tuesday after allegedly raping three women and assaulting another in separate incidents dating back to 2014. The charges — which include sexual battery and forcible oral

Since 1906, a monument glorifying the Confederacy has stood in prominent place on the University of Mississippi campus in Oxford. That year the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a statue of an armed Confederate soldier on a tall marble plinth at the entrance to the campus of the University of Mississippi, part of a

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari melted fans’ hearts (and eyes) with their romance and hot beach bodies! The couple is starting to venture outside again amid the worldwide health crisis. A romantic beach date with boyfriend Sam Asghari, 26, inspired Britney Spears, 38, to update a famous line from The Beatles. “All you need is

Joel Schumacher, the veteran American director, died on Monday. He was 80. The world-renowned filmmaker was best known for directing St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), The Lost Boys (1987), Flatliners (1990) and Phone Booth (2002), among many other blockbuster movies. Schumacher established himself as a filmmaker of great flare, which also earned him much criticism in the mid-to-late 1990s after he claimed the

4:00 p.m.: I stop work to make dinner for tomorrow night. I like to prepare meals in advance. I also make batches of chicken stock. This is one of my favorite things to do. I find cooking meditative, and I especially love making stock because it appeals to my sense of thrift (I’m the child

Kourtney Kardashian and Tik Tok star Addison Rae are officially pals! The duo teamed up for an adorable new video, and wore matching outfits. New BFF alert? Kourtney Kardashian, 41, and Addison Rae, 19, have teamed up for a new Tik Tok video — and fans are going crazy! The pair danced in what appeared to be

Earlier this Pride month, J.K. Rowling wrote a widely critiqued tweet taking issue with a headline that opted for the specific “people who menstruate” over the general, but not always accurate, “women.” When people explained how the tweet was transphobic (even Daniel Radcliffe weighed in), the author of the Harry Potter series doubled and tripled

Whereas most of us can merely sigh, gnash our teeth, and slap our foreheads when Donald Trump says ill-informed and intentionally obnoxious things, righteous, wealthy people like George Clooney have the ability to open their wallets and respond in more effective ways. On Thursday, Trump boasted that his initial plan to hold his rally in

The Carters have arrived in the Hamptons! JAY-Z, Beyonce and their three children touched down in the ritzy New York haven, and  hours later Bey dropped a song in honor of the Juneteenth holiday. JAY-Z and Beyonce are doing their part to guard against transmission of coronavirus. The power couple flew in via private jet to

Cineplex says it’s sticking with coronavirus safety policies that leave it up to moviegoers to decide if they wear a face mask inside their theatres. The country’s largest movie exhibitor confirmed on Friday that despite a mandatory face mask policy being introduced at a number of major U.S. theatre chains, it intended to stick with

Facebook took the rare step of disciplining President Donald Trump and his campaign Thursday, as the social media platform officially removed 88 Trump-sponsored advertisements denouncing far-left groups. The social media network specifically took issue with an inverted red triangle used in the ads—a symbol that the Trump camp insisted represents antifa, but is far more

Jamie Foxx proved he’s putting in the work to transform his body when he offered fans a glimpse at his new buff physique for an upcoming movie role. Actor Jamie Foxx is gearing up for perhaps his most iconic movie role yet: boxing legend Mike Tyson. The 52-year-old Academy Award winner is set to portray the

“That ’70s Show” actor Danny Masterson was charged with the rapes of three women in the early 2000s, Los Angeles prosecutors said Wednesday, the culmination of a three-year investigation that resulted in a rare arrest of a famous Hollywood figure in the #MeToo era. The three counts of rape by force or fear against Masterson

“Some people might say that it’s apples and oranges—cutting the pay of assistants versus what the studio paid Kreisberg not all that long ago,” said a writer-producer who worked in the Arrowverse. “But it just reinforces the fact that those at the top of the food chain are protected, while the people who are most

J. Cole divided fans on Twitter with his first single of 2020. Some were in awe over his ‘effortlessly poetic’ lyrics, while others accused the artist of ‘tone policing’ a female for her posts about racial injustices. J. Cole, 35, caused an uproar on Twitter by dropping “Snow On Tha Bluff” with no heads up

For the third time in Television Academy history, Jimmy Kimmel will return as the host for the annual Emmy Awards this year. Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Emmys will return later this year and serve as the first major awards show to take place since the novel coronavirus put the global entertainment industry at