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Paul Mescal is back to work after a quick trip to Miami to spend time with girlfriend Gracie Abrams.

Shakira has announced her new 2025 North American tour dates after upgrading show venues from arenas to stadiums – check out the full list of dates below.Last Friday (October 18), the ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ singer took to social media to announce just two weeks before the commencement of her North American tour that the run of shows was being postponed due to overwhelming demand.After extraordinary demand from fans for more tickets and more shows, Shakira and Live Nation decided to change all venues of the tour from arenas to larger stadiums. However, these changes would mean that the shows take place at a later date – which have now been confirmed to kick off in May next year.Shakira wrote on social media last night (October 21): “I’m so excited to share my best show yet with you.

‘I’m Still Standing,’” Mitchell said to the crowd. “But I think I have to sing, ‘I’m still sitting after all these years.’” As if that weren’t enough, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox and Meryl Streep — yes, Meryl Streep — also joined in the fun for an all-star rendition of “I’m Still Standing” that drew cheers from the crowd of 17,000 at the amphitheater.It was a joyous highlight of Mitchell’s two-night stand at the Hollywood Bowl — her first headlining concerts in Los Angeles in 24 years.

Olivia Nuzzi and New York magazine are parting ways.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Olivia Nuzzi and New York Magazine have officially parted ways. The political correspondent’s exit from the publication comes after she acknowledged having had a “personal relationship” with “a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign,” who has been identified as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

New York magazine said that it has parted ways with Olivia Nuzzi following the disclosure that she had a “personal” relationship with a subject. That person was later identified as Robert Kennedy Jr.

Shakira.com for tickets.Additional pre-sales will run throughout the week before sales open to the general public on Friday, October 25, at noon. Citi, an official tour sponsor, will also offer cardmembers access to pre-sale tickets between noon on Wednesday, October 23, and 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 24.The Welcome Ceremony for WorldPride 2025 will kick off at Nationals Park, with remarks from key dignitaries and the welcoming of athletes competing in the Capital Cup, a multi-sports festival associated WorldPride, followed by Shakira’s performance.Interpride, the international association representing more than 400 global Pride organizations, along with the Capital Pride Alliance, celebrated the news of landing such a prominent headliner for the Welcome Concert, which will take place amid various Pride festivities between May 17 and June 8, 2025.“We are thrilled to welcome Colombian pop legend Shakira to D.C.

31-year-old died instantly of massive internal and external injuries when he took his fatal fall from his hotel balcony, with experts at the time telling The Post that the singer appeared unconscious as he plummeted to the courtyard below.In addition to the pink cocaine, also called Tusi — a combination of methamphetamine, ketamine and ecstasy — the drugs detected in his bloodstream through toxicology screening results included benzodiazepine, crack, and cocaine, ABC news reported Monday.The outlet said a makeshift aluminum pipe for ingesting the substances was also found nearby. Witnesses also said Payne was acting erratically in the hours before his death — including smashing his laptop and offering a mystery woman $20,000.

Denzel Washington has been discussing his character in Gladiator II – a former gladiator turned rich arms dealer.Washington was in attendance at an exclusive early screening of the Ridley Scott sequel on Friday night (October 18) alongside co-stars including Paul Mescal, Connie Nielsen and Fred Hechinger, and spoke about his character Macrinus in the Q&A.“He’s misunderstood. He’s a nice fellow,” he began, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Are you not entertained? Because just about everyone who’s seen Gladiator II is taking to social media in praise of Ridley Scott‘s highly-anticipated sequel.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer Ridley Scott may not have been present for the first major screening of “Gladiator II” on Friday night on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles, but the 86-year-old director was the favorite topic of conversation for stars Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and Fred Hechinger in the post-screening Q&A. Mescal — who plays Lucius Virus, the grown son of Russell Crowe’s character from the first “Gladiator,” released in 2000 — spoke in awe about Scott’s ability to shoot the film’s elaborate opening battle sequence, which involved Pedro Pascal’s Roman general leading a fleet of ships invading a city on the North African coast.

was reportedly under the influence of a dangerous substance dubbed “Cristal,” when he plunged to his death from the third-floor balcony of his room at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel Wednesday night, Buenos Aires cops told TMZ on Friday. The substance can cause users to experience hallucinations and extreme highs and extreme lows, often making them aggressive, cops said.Police believe the drug could be behind the singer’s “erratic” behavior before his death and could have caused an hallucination that played a part in his fatal fall.

The stars of the Gladiator sequel are stepping out to promote their new movie!

Gladiator II took place in Los Angeles in front of an audience of AMPAS and SAG voters yesterday (October 18) and the first reactions have been overwhelmingly positive.The sequel hits cinemas on November 15 in the UK and a week later in the US, and it stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the former heir to the Roman Empire who is forced into slavery after the invasion of Pedro Pascal’s General Marcus Acacius.Set 25 to 30 years after the events of the 2000 film, Lucius resolves to become a gladiator, and takes inspiration from the legend of Maximus Decimus Meridius, played in an Oscar-winning performance by Crowe in the original.Online, many attendees have praised the film, particularly the performances of Mescal, Pascal and Denzel Washington as Macrinus.“Apes! Sharks! Syphilitic emperors! ‘Gladiator II’ is some absolute sicko shit and Denzel Washington is relishing every. single.

The stars of the Gladiator sequel are stepping out to promote their new movie!

Around 15 million viewers were glued to their screens each week for Lost following its debut two decades ago, with many now revisiting the series on Netflix.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Are you not entertained by this year’s exciting and unpredictable Oscar race? Well, you should be because Ridley Scott‘s epic and potentially huge blockbuster sequel, “Gladiator II,” has exploded onto the scene following its first screening in Los Angeles in front of an audience of AMPAS and SAG voters. The long-awaited sequel to best picture winner “Gladiator” (2000) is igniting the spark for Scott, its three-time Oscar-nominated director, to be in the running to win his long-coveted Academy Award.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday announced the Pentagon has upgraded the paperwork of more than 800 veterans who were discharged other than honorably before discriminatory policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” were repealed.

Key congressional races and the contest for the White House have become even tighter according to polling data released this week, as Republican campaigns, including former President Donald Trump’s team, targeted their opponents with $65 million in anti-LGBTQ and especially anti-trans attack ads.

plunged to his death from his balcony, a witness has claimed.The 31-year-old singer was spotted hanging around with his pal, Rogelio “Roger” Nores, in the lobby of CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires Wednesday evening in the lead up to his fatal fall, the Daily Mail reported. A frustrated Nores had apparently been trying to coax Payne into the elevator so they could return to his third-floor room, grab his things and then check out, a woman claiming to be a guest at the hotel told the outlet.

before his fatal fall.A woman, identified as Rebecca, claimed to be staying at the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday and was one of the last people to see the former One Direction singer, 31, alive, according to the Daily Mail.“‘I used to be in a boy band — that’s why I’m so f–ked up,'” she claimed Payne told her during her 30-minute-long interaction with the singer in the hotel’s lobby.Rebecca — who works in IT in Washington DC and was staying at the hotel for a wedding — also said Payne was displaying some bizarre behavior before his death.She claimed that Payne was scheduled to check out of the Casa Sur Hotel on Wednesday morning but was still hanging around in the lobby late into the afternoon.“One of my friends was due to get his suite, so the hotel staff were a little on edge because he still hadn’t checked out at 4:30 p.m., but also because of his behavior,” she told the Daily Mail.“I came into the hotel, and he was waiting by the elevator, and it was so clear he wanted someone to recognize him, there was something a bit desperate about him.”Rebecca said she and her friends recognized him but weren’t “bothered” by the star’s presence.“When the lift came he suddenly said to us without any prompting: ‘Yes, I’m Liam!’ really drawing it out, and then said ‘All right come on you lot, get in the elevator with me, I love a cuddle,'” she claimed.Rebecca said she “decided against” hopping on the elevator and opted to wait for the next one, but claimed that “some of the other girls got in with him and halfway up, he started saying, ‘Oh, you’re Americans, I live in West Palm Beach.'”“‘I know Americans.

The late singer Liam Payne told a young woman "I'm so f***ed up" and smashed his laptop moments before he plunged to his death from a third-floor balcony in his hotel in Argentina on Wednesday, it has been claimed.

made its final journey across the US in 2018, before coming to two cities a year later for its 25th anniversary.It was confirmed last month that the festival was planning some sort of return for next year, but very few details had been released until now, with the festival sharing the announcement on its official Instagram account.Meanwhile, founder Kevin Lyman told Rolling Stone, “Since 1997, I said I was hoping that there was some kid in a garage that was going to come out and kick Kevin Lyman’s ass someday, and put on a better festival.”Because there’s not been anything to replace the Warped Tour in the meantime, Lyman’s bringing it back: “People start remembering once something’s gone that it was important, it was fun — and I’m hoping to recapture a lot of that again.”Two-day tickets will begin at $149.98, including fees, while the presale begins next Thursday (October 24) at 12pm ET/9am PT. You can find out more here.A post shared by Vans Warped Tour (@vanswarpedtour)Next year, the festival, which focuses primarily on genres including punk, pop-punk and alternative rock, will begin at the RFK Campus in Washington DC on June 14 and 15, before coming to the Shoreline Waterfront in Long Beach, California, on July 26 and 27 and then finally Camping World Stadium Campus in Orlando, Florida on November 15 and 16.Of the decision to keep it small to begin with, Lyman explaining that his “body won’t take riding around on a tour bus for 40 cities,” but that he’d be open to adding more dates going forward if 2025 goes well.As for next year’s lineup, that’s yet to be revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based indie film company CinemaStreet Pictures is launching the New Voices in Horror slate of films, company CEO Dana Offenbach has confirmed.

New character posters for the upcoming Gladiator II have been released!

Michaela Zee Former President Donald Trump addressed an audience of undecided Latino voters on Wednesday at a town hall in Miami, where he responded to questions about reproductive rights, climate change, immigration, the cost of living and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jimmy Carter voted by mail today in the 2024 presidential election, fulfilling a goal as he remains in hospice care and passed his 100th birthday earlier this month.

Angelina Jolie, who is getting strong notices for Netflix‘s Maria Callas biopic Maria, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Santa Barbara Film Festival‘s Maltin Modern Master Award. The honor will be bestowed in a ceremony February 5 as part of the fest’s 40th edition.

Jack Dunn The Santa Barbara International Film Festival will honor Angelina Jolie with the Maltin Modern Master Award at its 40th annual edition on February 5, 2025. Established in 1995, the Modern Master Award was created to honor filmmakers who have changed the movie industry through significant contributions and impact. The award was renamed the Maltin Modern Master Award in 2015 to honor long-time SBIFF moderator and film critic Leonard Maltin.

Hayley Hough are stepping into the spotlight in a new way.The couple has been documenting the past year after Hayley underwent an emergency craniotomy last December to treat a burst blood vessel.“We have a lot to share, actually,” Derek, 39, exclusively told The Post at “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday. “So that [tonight] was just the beginning of revealing a little bit more about the story. But we’ve actually documented the entire year and the whole process in detail.

Olivia Nuzzi‘s former fiancé Ryan Lizza is speaking out in legal filings and making more claims about Olivia‘s alleged year-long “personal relationship” with former presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Horror film enthusiasts are in for a treat as Sky and Now have added the chilling movie IT to their extensive film catalogues.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Nabbing the lead role in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” required Paul Mescal to act on the biggest film sets he’s ever seen. The director recently told GQ that his actor “nearly died” on his “first day walking in the Colosseum” that the production built to scale in Malta. “He didn’t realize it was going to be so big.” But perhaps even more intimidating for Mescal than acting within the “Gladiator II” sets were the scenes in which he had to go head to head with Denzel Washington, who stars in the sequel as a wealthy powerbroker in Rome who keeps a stable of gladiators for sport among which Mescal’s Lucius falls into.

MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann has crassly responded to an explosive court filing by Olivia Nuzzi’s ex that alleged Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

a no contact order that Nuzzi filed against Lizza in which she claimed that he hacked her devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.Nuzzi — “New York” magazine’s acclaimed Washington correspondent — had been engaged to Lizza — Politico’s chief Washington correspondent — until the revelations about Nuzzi’s relationship with RFK Jr.Lizza, 50, said in the filing that everything he knew about the relationship was a result of what Nuzzi, 31, told him, according to the Journal.Lizza said Nuzzi also described the relationship as “toxic,” “unhealthy,” “psychotic” and “indefensible.”He also alleged that Nuzzi had another affair in 2020 and claimed that it harmed a book deal the couple had, according to the filing.Nuzzi met RFK Jr., 70, last year when she profiled him for the magazine.RFK Jr. said he and Nuzzi met only once — and denied Lizza’s description of the relationship, the newspaper said.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.