Dua Lipa reacts to complaints her music isn’t personal enough

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Dua Lipa has spoken many times about what has inspired her music, but it appears people still want more.

On CBS’ 60 Minutes on Sunday, interviewer Anderson Cooper told Dua, “I saw some writers who’ve said that in your songs — they don’t have a sense of who you are. You’re not pouring out your innermost fears and desires and wants.”

Her response to that? That’s the whole idea.

“Yeah. It’s something that I just naturally hold back. Some people are just so … ruthless with their own private life that they decide to put it all out in a song, because they know that it’s gonna attract people’s attention,” she said.

While Dua didn’t give any examples, there certainly are a number of pop musicians you could name whose lyrics are constantly dissected by fans in an attempt to find out who and what they’re singing about.

She went on to say, “For me, it was always important to make music that people really loved. Not because I was putting someone out on blast, or not because I’m doing it for the clickbait at maybe someone else’s expense.”

In addition to not singing about her private life, Dua doesn’t talk about it, either. She’s currently dating British actor Callum Turner, but while they’re often seen out and about together, she hasn’t mentioned him in an interview or appeared on a red carpet with him.

Emmys in memoriam segment forgets Shelley Duvall, Chita Rivera and more

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It’s nearly inevitable that after any awards show, people will notice some celebrity names were omitted from the in memoriam segment, and Sunday night’s Emmys were no exception.

The names of Shelley Duvall, Chita Rivera, Tyler Christopher and Johnny Wactor didn’t appear during Jelly Roll‘s heartfelt song tribute to the stars who had recently passed.

Former General Hospital star Christopher passed away at age 50 on Oct. 31, 2023; Chita Rivera died at 91 on Jan. 30. Wactor, another veteran of General Hospital, was fatally shot in Los Angeles during a robbery on May 25. He was 37. Duvall died at 75 years old on July 11.

Chappell Roan compares fame to an “abusive ex-husband”

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By now, you probably know a little bit about how Chappell Roan feels about her sudden rise to fame. But if you don’t, she makes it very clear in her new interview with the U.K. magazine The Face.

Chappell made headlines several weeks ago by posting messages on her socials asking fans to stop harassing her and her family. Now she tells The Face, “I feel like fame is just abusive. The vibe of this – stalking, talking s*** online, [people who] won’t leave you alone, yelling at you in public – is the vibe of an abusive ex-husband. That’s what it feels like. I didn’t know it would feel this bad.”

After describing an incident in which she was verbally abused by some men in an airport, which led her to run crying to the bathroom, Chappell tells The Face she texted Lorde for advice in that moment.

“She sent me a list of things I should do [in that situation],” Chappell says. “Literally wrote down eight things she wished someone would have told her when she was going through it. And she went through f****** hell. She was a baby!”

These experiences have led her to wish for failure. When the subject of Grammy Awards comes up, she tells The Face, “I’m kind of hoping I don’t win, because then everyone will get off my a**: ‘See guys, we did it and we didn’t win, bye’! I won’t have to do this again!”

Still, she’s determined to make her career “sustainable.”

“That’s my biggest goal right now,” she says. “The ambition is: how do I not hate myself, my job, my life, and do this? Because right now, it’s not working. I’m just scrambling to try to feel healthy.”

‘Bridgerton’ season 4 in production: See first photos of Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha

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The first photos of the Bridgerton season 4 stars are officially out, featuring joint shots with season leads Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha.

Netflix dropped the new images on Monday and also announced that season 4 of the Regency era series “is officially in production.”

In the upcoming season, Ha is slated to play the love interest of Thompson’s character, Benedict Bridgerton.

The streamer called Ha’s character, Sophie Baek, “a victim of tragic circumstances.”

In one of the new photos, Thompson and Ha are seen sitting next to one another on what appears to be a production cart. Thompson is dressed in a gray tweed three-piece suit, a gray tweed overcoat and a white button down, while Ha sports an oxblood leather trench coat, a brown windowpane tweed suit and gold jewelry.

Speaking with Tudum, Netflix’s official site, about the highly anticipated upcoming season, Thompson said season 4 is “striking” because it features “the struggle between a proper old-school fairy tale — the romance of it — and the actual reality of the world.”

“You have to hold both of them — the romance and the reality — in your hand,” he said. “In its best version, ‘true love’ happens in the middle of that.”

He added, “The storyline is a bit of a twist on Cinderella. You remember being told those stories as a child — the magic and the romance of them. It’s really exciting to have that weaved into the world that we know of Bridgerton. … It’s such a great story, but it’s also, I hope, really relatable.”

Please Please Please: Three weeks on top for Sabrina Carpenter

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Sabrina Carpenter has now spent as many weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart as there are words in the title of her first #1 hit. In case you forgot, that was “Please Please Please.”

Her album Short n’ Sweet has scored its third straight week on top of the chart, and Billboard notes that it’s only the second album this year to spend its first three weeks at #1. Only Sabrina’s friend Taylor Swift managed that feat with The Tortured Poets Department. Of course, that album went on to top the chart for a total of 15 weeks.

“thank you for 3 weeks at#1:’),” Sabrina wrote on Instagram. “short n’ sweet tour starts in ONE WEEEEEK. who comin.” She also posted some behind-the-scenes tour rehearsal images.

In addition, Sabrina has three songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a third straight week. “Espresso” is #3, “Taste” is #6 and “Please Please Please” is #8. Over in the U.K., “Taste” is on track to spend a fourth week at #1.

Kathy Bates denies retirement from acting: “It was misunderstood”

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Well, it looks like Kathy Bates isn’t retiring after Matlock after all.

Bates stopped by ABC’s On the Red Carpet show before Sunday night’s 76th Emmy Awards, where she threw cold water on a New York Times story that Madeline Matlock in the forthcoming CBS reboot would be her final role.

As much as she said she was “flattered” that the retirement report “went around the globe,” Bates told ABC’s George Pennacchio that she was “misunderstood.”

“I think it was misunderstood because I … had one foot out the door until I read Jennie [Snyder] Urman‘s script and I was like, ‘OK, now we’re talking. And I want the show [Matlock] to run for years and years,” she said.

The original series of Matlock ran from 1986 to 1995, starring Andy Griffith as a defense lawyer named Benjamin Matlock.

The reboot show will chronicle Bates’ character, who rejoins the law workforce as a senior, scoring legal victories in courtrooms. In the interview with the New York Times to discuss the show, she said she felt like she was called to do the role, especially after experiencing some injustices in the early days of her career.

“Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it,” she said at the time. “And it’s exhausting.”

Despite her success, when reflecting on her acting career, she only recalled some of the blunders, telling the New York Times, “I never felt dressed right or well.”

“I felt like a misfit,” she said. “It’s that line in Misery when Annie says, ‘I’m not a movie star.’ I’m not.”

Her comments notwithstanding, a source told ABC News on Monday that “it is understood that Bates changed her mind [about retiring] after doing Matlock.”

Matlock will premiere on CBS Sept. 22 and will be available to stream on Paramount+.

“TV has to look like the real world”: Niecy Nash-Betts on LGBTQ representation on television

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Good Morning America caught up with Emmy presenter Niecy Nash-Betts and her wife, Jessica Betts, at the event’s after-party Sunday, and they spoke about queer representation on TV.

“Everyone wants to be fully seen,” Niecy said, “and, you know, we are happy to be representations of that.” Niecy and Jessica tied the knot in 2020.

She continued, “We applaud when others are [a] representation of that, and I just think that TV has to look like the real world at some point.”

During Sunday night’s ceremony, Niecy took the stage in the program’s salute to TV cops, joining NYPD Blue‘s Jimmy Smits and Miami Vice veteran Don Johnson. Niecy played Deputy Raineesha Williams on the beloved comedy series Reno: 911.

“Raineesha brought two important things to being a cop,” Nash-Betts said from the stage. “A marginal knowledge of the law and the belief that you can’t fight crime if you ain’t cute.”

*NSYNC’s Joey Fatone says group still hasn’t had the reunion conversation

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Ever since *NSYNC reunited to record a song for the Trolls Band Together soundtrack, fans have been asking whether or not a reunion might be in the works. The requests got louder after the group reunited again for the song “Paradise” on Justin Timberlake‘s new album, then performed it live onstage with him. But according to Joey Fatone, no answer on that topic is forthcoming.

Since last year, Joey has been saying that the members of the group need to sit down and have a conversation about their future. But while speaking to People on Sept. 13, Joey said, “We haven’t had that conversation yet. Justin is finishing up his tour, I’ve been doing a bunch of things with AJ McLean from Backstreet Boys. So that’s been great.”

However, he added, “Hopefully at some point when [Justin] is done with his tour, we’ll sit down and go, ‘What are we doing?’ and figure it out. I would love to have that conversation, whether yes or no — I just want to know. Just tell me so we can move on with our lives. Either say we had a good run and be done with it, or see what we can do.”

The next day, Joey told People, “It’s hard to get the five of us together and it’s a huge commitment. I will say the gears are in the right direction as far as the interest from everybody.”

He joked, “I’ll keep doing as many shows as I can to keep singing, but hopefully there’s a time when the other four knuckleheads get their heads out of their a****.”

Hailey Bieber’s dad says “the world” will see Justin and Hailey’s baby “soon”

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So far, all we’ve seen of Justin and Hailey Bieber‘s newborn son, Jack Blues Bieber, is a photo of his foot, but that might change in the near future.

Speaking to People, Hailey’s dad, actor Stephen Baldwin, said that he didn’t “want to say too much,” but did gush that the baby is “unbelievably cute.” He added, “And the world will see him soon.”

It’s not clear if Baldwin meant that Justin and Hailey are planning some kind of photo shoot to introduce baby Jack or that they’ll be taking him out in public somewhere.

Justin and Hailey announced Jack’s arrival on Aug. 23 with a social media post showing the baby’s tiny foot, Hailey’s hand and the message “WELCOME HOME JACK BLUES BIEBER.”

Jeremy Allen White says seeing ‘The Bear’ co-stars winning Emmys is “beautiful”

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In an upset, Hacks beat The Bear for Outstanding Comedy Series at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, but the FX series still walked away with an mantel full of awards for its second season. In fact, it beat its previous record, snagging 11.

Jeremy Allen White won for a second year in a row in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy category; Ebon Moss- Bachrach also repeated in the Best Supporting Actor category. Liza Colón-Zayas became the first Latina to win in the Supporting Actress category.

At the Creative Arts Emmys prior to Sunday’s show, White’s onscreen brother and mom, Jon Bernthal and Jamie Lee Curtis, snagged respective Emmys in the Outstanding Guest Actor and Actress categories for the series.

Backstage, White was in the mood to celebrate. “The fact that … Jamie and Bernthal won last weekend and that was so beautiful getting to see Lisa — I was … backstage and I got to go in the wings and watch her accept. And that was just the greatest.”

Jeremy also called co-star Lionel Boyce‘s nomination “so massive,” saying, “Everybody does such beautiful work on the show. And yeah, to see them recognized, it just it makes me so happy.”

Meanwhile, also backstage, Colón-Zayas says her win was for all the Tinas out there: women of a certain age who are still working hard to realize their dreams. “I really want us to … remember our worth. And we, all our voices, our stories, are compelling, they are many and they are profitable. So let’s all start paying attention.”

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