Twitter Adds Elon Musk to Board, Caps His Stake at Under 15%

Chrishell Stause is coming clean about how she helped finance her new pad.

The PlayStation 5 console is still proving difficult to buy despite the official launch of the console taking place in the UK more than a year ago. Sony released the PlayStation 5 in the UK on November 12, 2020, and it has sold more than 10 million times worldwide, making it the biggest console launch in US history.

With “The Crown” to conclude after its sixth season (the fifth is slated to debut in November), Netflix is reportedly looking to delve even deeper into the history of Britain’s Royal Family.

With Pep Guardiola's current Manchester City contract due to expire in June 2023, speculation regarding his future has started to build over the past few months.

The 2022 Billboard Music Awards are coming!

best day of the week is upon us again and of course, the good people here at ESSENCE present to you all the new releases in music.The week, Pusha T dropped “Neck & Wrist” featuring Jay-Z and produced by Pharrell Williams, Vince Staples releases his new album Ramona Park Broke My Heart, the up-and-coming rapper Coi Leray gives the world her 20-track project Trendsetter, and Schoolboy Q shares his new song “Soccer Dad,” which is his first single since 2019.

Some good news from Broadway: Take Me Out, the well-received revival of Richard Greenberg’s baseball play, has extended its run by two weeks at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater.

EXCLUSIVE: REinvent International Sales has inked a North American deal on The Dark Heart, the Swedish true-crime series from The Guilty director Gustav Moller, with streaming service Topic taking U.S. rights and public broadcaster CBC Gem grabbing Canada.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIt is perhaps a telling sign of this strange era that one of the breakout music acts of the past 12 months was formed for a laugh by a pair of friends — singer-guitarists Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers — who had for years been trying to perform more “serious” music, mostly unsuccessfully. (Oddest of all, they didn’t even break through via TikTok.)But within weeks of sending around a private link containing four songs with their now-trademark new wave bounce and hilariously deadpan vocals, the deliberately ridiculously named Wet Leg had top management and a record deal.

2022 Billboard Music Award? We're one step closer to finding out!On Friday, the finalists for the 2022 Billboard Music Awards were announced, just over a month before the annual award show returns to Las Vegas after two years on Sunday, May 15. So who is a contender for a coveted trophy this year? After taking home 10 statues last year, The Weeknd leads the pack in 2022 as a finalist in 17 categories, including Top Artist and Top Male Artist.

“Jeopardy!” last year — and it has just been revealed that he was paid a hefty sum to anchor the beloved trivia series from March 22 to April 2, 2021.According to US Senate financial disclosure filings, the 61-year-old was compensated with roughly $269,000 for guest-hosting the game show. The money was donated to an unspecified charity.His economic earnings were disclosed due to him being a probable Republican US Senate candidate in Pennsylvania.Some of his other earnings noted in the papers: his $2 million salary for “The Dr. Oz Show,” and more than $7 million in ownership interest from Oz Media, the Wrap reported.Dr.

Eiza González stars alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the must see action thriller Ambulance, which hits theaters April 8th. The Mexican actress and singer plays EMT Cam Thompson, who gets caught in the middle of a hijacking when Will Sharp (Abdul-Mateen II), desperate for money to cover his wife’s medical bills, asks for help from his adoptive brother Danny (Gyllenhaal). HOLA! USA had the opportunity to talk to González, who opened up about how the role held a special place in her heart in terms of Latina representation in Hollywood, working with Michael Bay, singing, and more.It must have been awesome working with Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and it looks like you all had such a great connection. Do you have a favorite onset memory that, you know, you’ll never forget?I mean, the whole process was just really unique, you know, there were moments that Yahya was driving and Jake was losing his mind and I was just dying laughing in the back and we have to be serious.

Over the weekend somebody told me that the visual effects department was insanely small.I can confirm this for you, so we had five people doing a majority of the almost 500 shots. So that’s crazy.That is crazy. Can you talk about that?Yeah.

2022 CMT Music Awards are just around the corner, and the line-up is stacked with a roster of some of this year’s nominees and some winners from awards shows past.On Friday, it was revealed that Kenny Chesney will close out the show, marking his first return to the CMT stage in seven years. The country crooner will be performing his hit song, «Beers in Mexico.The CMT Music Awards is known for bringing some of the best world premiere performances and biggest collaborations and this year is no exception. Jason Aldean and Bryan Adams will perform together, while Jimmie Allen, Monica and Little Big Town will also hit the stage.

dodie is your favorite singer’s favorite artist! I have no information to back up that claim, but she’s one of music’s best kept secrets that we wish weren’t!

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

The Strokes have played hit song ‘Under Cover Of Darkness’ for the first time in six years – check out the moment below.The Strokes were performing at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center on Wednesday (April 6). The gig was originally due to take place here on New Year’s Eve but was delayed due to a surge in COVID-19 in December.The band referenced the postponement, doing a pretend countdown to the new year just before their encore.The first part of the 18-song set ended with ‘Angles’album standout ‘Under Cover Of Darkness,’ which the band hadn’t played since 2016.Watch the moment here:Setlist:‘Bad Decisions’‘Juicebox’‘Eternal Summer’‘New York City Cops’‘Hard to Explain’‘Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus’‘What Ever Happened?’‘Reptilia’‘Under Control’‘The Adults Are Talking’‘Heart In A Cage’‘Electricityscape’‘Razorblade’‘Selfless’‘Trying Your Luck’‘You Only Live Once’‘Under Cover Of Darkness’Encore:‘Take It Or Leave It’The Strokes recently headlined Lollapalooza in Argentina, marking their first performance of 2022.Julian Casablancas and co.

Fans' hearts melted last month when Gemma Atkinson shared the special moment her toddler reunited with her dad Gorka Marquez after she took her to see him dance for the first time.

A perfect match! Demi Moore and her new boyfriend, Daniel Humm, are enjoying all of the sweet nuances of their relationship.

Jimmy Kimmel is taking another shot at Marjorie Taylor Greene following her report of him to the Capitol Police.

Police are searching for a man who vanished after being dropped at Manchester Airport.

This May, Melanin Markets will take over the Royal Exchange Theatre, celebrating and showcasing black-owned businesses in the UK. Following the success of its Christmas-themed event last year at Contact Theatre, Melanin Markets Manchester returns on Sunday, May 8 on an even bigger scale.

Sentric Music has signed one of those publishing deals with the band Boston Manor covering their back catalogue and a number of future works. How do I know this? Well, the band’s manager Stuart Gili-Ross says so.“We are delighted to announce this partnership with Sentric”, says he.

Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has finished the first draft of an autobiography, though he can’t quite decide what to call it. There are currently five options and, on Twitter earlier this week, he invited fans to let him know which of those five they prefer.Talking about the autobiography in an interview with Cleveland.com last year, Butler said: “I started out because, when my parents died, I always wished I’d asked them a lot more things… I don’t really know much about my mum and dad, because they were always just there.

The charity War Child has announced that it is releasing limited edition vinyl versions of four albums it put together in the 2000s, which between them include music from the likes of Muse, Stereophonics, Oasis, George Michael, Avril Lavigne, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Coldplay, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Manic Street Preachers, Beck, Keane, Lily Allen, Elbow and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.War Child, of course, has had a long partnership with the music community as part of its fund-raising efforts, beginning with the release of ‘The Help Album’ in 1995. It has released a number of other records since then, each featuring music donated by an eclectic mix of artists.The albums being released on vinyl today are ‘1 Love’, originally released in 2002 in partnership with the NME; ‘Hope’, the result of a tie-up with the Daily Mirror in 2003; ‘Help! A Day In The Life’, recorded on one day and released the next in 2005, to mark the tenth anniversary of ‘The Help Album’; and ‘Heroes’ from 2009, in which music legends were invited to nominate a newer act to cover one of their songs.Profits from the sale of the vinyl version of these records will fund War Child projects around the world, including in Ukraine.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe British Film Institute has announced five new board members including Netflix’s film chief Scott Stuber.Stuber joins the BFI’s board of governors along with eminent British industry exec and academic Monica Chada; producer Elizabeth Karlsen, co-founder of Number 9 Films (“Carol”); Laura Miele, vice-president and COO of interactive entertainment giant Electronic Arts; and writer, producer and director Edgar Wright (“Baby Driver,” “Shaun of the Dead”).The appointments were announced by U.K. Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries.Each new BFI board member will serves a term of four years beginning in May 2022.“It’s a privilege to be appointed a Governor of the BFI, an institution I have long admired,” Stuber said in a statement “I wholeheartedly endorse their mission to promote the next generation of U.K. storytellers, widen access to screen culture and support the continued growth of this extraordinary sector,” he added, noting that, “Our industry is in a state of constant evolution and I look forward to playing my part in ensuring the BFI remains best situated to champion its past, present and future.”The BFI’s new board recruits join the current BFI board, which includes Michael Birshan; Idris Elba; Gerry Fox; Jay Hunt; Robin Saunders; Andrew Smith; Phil Stokes and Nell Whitley.Said BFI Chair Tim Richards: “I am honored to be welcoming five new incredibly talented industry professionals to the BFI Board of Governors.“Their knowledge and experience across film, television, games, technology and business combined with that of our existing governors, will be invaluable to the BFI and the industry as a whole.

The British Film Institute (BFI) has added five experienced executives to its Board of Governors.