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The UFC is coming to The White House. President Trump, speaking at an event in Iowa Friday night, said that he was hoping to host an event from the mixed martial arts promotion on the grounds of the White House, as part of the plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary. A spokesperson for the UFC confirmed the plan to The Hollywood Reporter, with UFC CEO Dana White expected to reveal more on the event soon. “All of our national park battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of America 250 and I even think we’re…

Derek A.E. Fuhrmann, an ASCAP Pop Award recipient and co-writer of Phillip Phillips’ “Gone, Gone, Gone,” has died. He was 44.  Fuhrmann died June 27 in Nashville following a battle with cancer, publicist Harlan Boll announced. Fuhrmann was a University of Delaware graduate, where his career in music ignited. While in college, he formed a band called Omnisoul that was renamed The Crash Motive. The band signed with record label Sony BMG in 2005 and went on to have a successful run as a group.  They toured around the nation and a few of their songs were used in television…

We finally get some background behind Amanda Seales telling Shannon Sharpe and the rest of the world that Boldy James owes her some bail money. The Detroit rapper sat down with Brian “B. Dot” Miller for his interview series Cover Lines and was asked directly if he owes her some bread. “I’m glad you brought this up, Lord have mercy,” an exasperated Boldy replied as he shook his head. “She’s talkin’ about $2,000 of a bond she had to pay for me, right? I had a situation. She sent the money to help look out for me. But this is…

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne (long the band’s famed frontman) have a heavy (metal) legacy of hit albums on the Billboard 200 chart, dating to when the group notched its first chart entry with its self-titled debut in 1970. Through the years, the band, and Osbourne with solo projects, has rocked the chart with a series of high-charting albums. The band logged a series of top 40-charting efforts over the decades, first reaching the top 10 in 1971 with Master of Reality, which climbed to No. 8. The group last hit the chart with the reunion project 13, released in…

Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise’s recent reunion nearly happened more than a decade earlier. While the two actors shared a warm embrace at the London premiere of Brad’s latest movie F1 in June—marking… Source link

Hollywood is mourning the loss of Michael Madsen, who died Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. He was 67. The actor, known for his work in many Quentin Tarantino films like Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was found unresponsive by deputies responding to a 911 call at his home in Malibu. His rep told THR Madsen had “a cardiac arrest.” Following the news, stars and family took to social media to share tributes to Madsen. His sister and Candyman actress Virginia Madsen posted a photo of them with her mom, writing partly in the caption,…

“I let my kids do what they’re doing,” he shared. “And if they want to throw a boomerang at me, I’ll call them back.” Plus, both of his girls are married to successful men. As Stephen added, “I’m blessed that my two daughters married two great guys.” He also insisted that, no matter how much money his kids make, family comes first. “The sweet part of my kids, too, is, in the wake of whatever their success is, their dad remains the same,” he gushed. “I’ve always been the same way. You know you’re going to tell your daughter the…

Liam Gallagher has issued an apology for using a racial slur in a social media post earlier this week.  The Oasis singer took to X on Tuesday, where he wrote an apology for a since-deleted post he made on Monday using a slur used to mock East Asian people, per The Independent. “Sorry if I offended anyone with my tweet before it wasn’t intentional you know I love you all and I do not discriminate. peace and love LG x,” he wrote in the apology post.  In the X post (that is still available to view via screenshots), Gallagher used…

The Help Independent Tracks Succeed (HITS) Act, the long-in-the-works legislation that would allow musicians to deduct 100% of their production expenses in the year they’re incurred, passed in Congress as part of President Trump’s tax and spending cuts bill on Thursday (July 3). The milestone was quickly celebrated by Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, which has long lobbied for the bill to become law. Co-sponsored by Rep. Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.) and Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), the HITS Act was first introduced in July 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many musicians struggled due…

Rihanna’s son has got French on the brain. The pregnant singer, who shares sons RZA, 3, and Riot, 23 months, with rapper A$AP Rocky, recently shared snaps from a family road trip that revealed RZA is working on learning a new language. In the series of three photos, both boys were pictured sitting in car seats in the back seat. And while Riot could be seen relaxing with his pacifier, RZA’s face was covered by a large French workbook. Rihanna, 37, quipped in the caption, “they so over me on this lil road trip,” Meanwhile, the “Purple Swag” artist poked fun at…