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Bunnie XO just had a breakthrough on her fertility journey with Jelly Roll.
In a raw video posted to her Instagram on Monday (June 16), the podcaster tears up while hiding her face in her hands as she talks inaudibly on the phone, seemingly having just received a piece of good news. “When you just got the call you’ve been waiting on for 5 months since this ivf journey started,” she wrote.
“All the tears, the hopelessness & the struggle, God finally said, ‘Here,’” Bunnie continued, adding in her caption: “Praise Jesus.”
The social media star and country singer have been trying to conceive through IVF for months. In the comments of her post, Bunnie clarified that she’s not pregnant yet — “We won’t announce that,” she asserted — but they are one big step closer to growing their family.
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“This is just a huge win for us,” Bunnie noted.
The Dumb Blonde host has been open about her experience with IVF, documenting the ups and downs on social media. In March, she got real on her podcast about how “lonely” the process can be, sharing, “It’s just you and these hormones and the waiting and the egg retrieval … It’s a lot to bear.”
Bunnie also recently clapped back at a troll who implied that she is too old to be trying for a baby. The same commenter also wrote that Jelly Roll — who has been open about his weight-loss journey over the past year — is “so unhealthy looking.”
“Yes, I have decided at the ripe age of 45 that I would love to hear the pitter-patter of little feet with the man that I’ve been with for almost a decade,” said Bunnie, who is a stepmom to Jelly’s two kids from past relationships, 17-year-old Bailee Ann and 7-year-old Noah.
“Not only am I financially in a great place to raise a child, but I’m also spiritually and mentally in a great place because I have been in the darkest places before and I drug myself out from the depths of hell,” she added at the time in a video on her Instagram Story. “Did you know that I was pregnant three times before we decided to do this IVF? I am so thankful that God did not let me have a baby when I was 20 years old because that poor child would have been through so much s–t with me. This is the perfect age.”
See Bunnie’s post about her IVF win below.
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Approved by Y2K baddies and TikTok influencers alike, Lancome’s Juicy Tubes create some of the most kissable pouts around.
The gloss has enjoyed a resurgeance in popularity as of late, likely in part to the revolving door that is the trend cycle. Iconic aesthetics from the 2000s are back in full swing, from clothing to makeup, and Juicy Tubes certainly fit the bill. You can shop the silky gloss everywhere from Lancome’s website to Sephora, Ulta Beauty and even Amazon for just $25.
Lancome Juicy Tube in 20 Lavender Latte
A lip gloss with a shimmering lavender finish.
Dubbed the “original high-shine gloss,” Juicy Tubes were first launched by Lancome in 2000, capitalizing on the frosty and ultra-glossy lip trend of the time. The gloss was so popular that Lancome claims to have sold 20 tubes per minute at the product’s peak.
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Juicy Tubes was briefly discontinued in 2018 and made a comeback in 2020. Following its return to the makeup market, Lancome launched a campaign in March titled Lancôme Juicy, bringing together famous faces such as Kelly Rowland, Ed Westwick, Hilary Duff, Gabrielle Union and Chad Michael Murray to discuss their experience with the iconic lip gloss.
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Lancome Juicy Tube in 05 Marshmallow Electro
A lip gloss with a pink and gold reflect.
Each gloss leaves the lips looking fuller without an overly sticky residue. Juicy Tubes come in three impressive finishes: sparkly, cream and jelly. The lip gloss also comes in a slew of shades — 11 to be exact. The line includes wearable neutrals and vampy browns, allowing for different looks for different skin tones. Some of our favorite shades include 05 Marshmallow Electro, 01 Pure and 20 Lavender Latte.
05 Marshmallow Electro is for our Y2K baddies looking for a high-shine flush to the lips. The gloss is has finely milled gold reflects that work to catch the light, giving the wearer the appearance of a plump pout. 01 Pure is a universal shade with a clear finish that works in tandem with the natural shade of your lips. We’d recommend wearing this gloss with a lip pencil to offer your lips dimension, making the gloss more impactful.
Lancome Juicy Tube in 01 Pure
A lip gloss with a clear glossy finish.
Finally, 20 Lavender Latte is a new shade for Lancome, and a great one at that. The new addition to the Juicy Tubes family boasts a sheer lavender base with finely milled champagne glitter suspended throughout. Much like 05 Marshmallow Electro, this gloss’ sparkling catches the light to help make your lips look fuller. We think this gloss would look great on darker skin.
No matter what shade you choose, Juicy Tubes will give your lips a boost of hydration that’ll take you back to the days when Britney Spears was on the radio and frosted tips were all the rage.
The judge overseeing the Sean “Diddy” Combs sex trafficking and racketeering trial dismissed a juror on the panel after discovering inconsistencies regarding where they lived. The judge hit back at Diddy’s defense team after they alleged the removal of the juror was a sign of racial bias.
Deadline reports that Judge Arun Subramanian ordered the removal of Juror No. 6, who was reported to be a 41-year-old Black man who is employed in an administrative role in a correctional facility. At issue with Judge Subramanian was the juror’s inability to confirm whether he lived in New York or New Jersey, thus giving pause on whether or not he could be a sound member of the jury panel.
The defense team for the beleaguered mogul addressed the judge via a letter claiming that the removal of the juror would make it so that no other Black juror alternate could join the panel and said they would attempt to seek a mistrial. In times past, the defense has stated that the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York operated under a racial bias.
As indicated in the report, the judge, who was considering the move last Friday, came into the court Monday morning (June 16) and announced the removal of the juror.
“The defense asked the Court to base its decision on race,” Judge Subramanian said in the court. “That would be inappropriate. So, Juror 6 is excused and is replaced by the first alternate.
He continued, “As to the defense’s allegation of prosecutorial misconduct here, that is inviting the Court to make a decision based on race – and cannot be granted.”
Juror No. 6 was replaced by a 57-year-old white man. It was expected that the trial would be concluded by the July 4 holiday.
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Some people might be obsessed with time, but Mariah Carey thinks the concept is nothing more than a thing of fantasy.
In a recent interview with Capital FM posted Monday (June 16), the superstar once again stated how she refuses to acknowledge the passage of time. Carey has long said she doesn’t subscribe to the construct of days, weeks and years, and has also asserted that she doesn’t have birthdays — only anniversaries.
“Is it true you don’t acknowledge the passing of time?” one interviewer asked, to which Carey confirmed, “That is true.”
“I just don’t believe in it,” she continued. “No, no, just time. Let it go. I don’t have a birthday, no. Anniversaries, yes.”
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Carey’s belief system also means that coordinating a so-called “time” to meet up with someone is not a viable option for her. “Yeah, I would have somebody call you and figure it out,” she calmly replied when asked how she goes about making appointments.
Mimi’s commitment to being free from the constraints of time dates back years. In an old interview reshared by the singer in 2023, a younger Carey explains, “I don’t have birthdays … I decided to do that. And I’ve noticed that people who decide not to have birthdays, they just don’t have them.”
That said, the “anniversary” of Carey’s ethereal existence is on March 27 each year. This year, she marked the occasion by sharing a photo of herself on a jet ski and writing on Instagram, “Thank you lambily for the anniversary wishes and for always making me so happy!!!”
Carey’s interview comes on the heels of her new single, “Type Dangerous,” which marks her first proper release since 2018. The track just debuted at No. 95 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated June 21, 2025 — not that she would recognize such a time stamp — becoming her 50th career entry on the chart.
Watch Carey discuss her thoughts on time below.
There are certain things you never forget: your first kiss, wrecking your dad’s new car, the birth of a child and, definitely, that time you slept with Warren Beatty. Barbra Streisand might have some of those memories, but when it comes to bedding down with Beatty, well, things are a bit fuzzy for the Hollywood legend.
Speaking to the New Yorker about her upcoming duets album, The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two, the 83-year-old star of stage and screen said she definitely remembered being propositioned by Marlon Brando back in the day, but, as she wrote in her 2023 memoir My Name Is Barbra, she just can’t remember is she and legendarily Casanova Beatty did the deed.
“I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration,” she said in answer to a question — more of a statement, really — about how no one in the “history of sex, or Hollywood, or anything” has ever written that line. “I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out,” Streisand said.
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Respectfully, New Yorker editor David Remnick couldn’t help calling b.s. on Streisand’s memory lapse, even as she doubled-down on saying she has no recollection of sex with Beatty. “But I know we’re still friends. Every year on my birthday, he calls me and we have a wonderful talk about our lives, our children, and so forth,” she said. “So we’re still friends. I met him when I was fifteen years old, and he was twenty-one, I think.”
In the memoir, Streisand first revealed that her memory is foggy about any intimate time with Beatty, who has been married to actress Annette Bening since 1992; Streisand married actor James Brolin in 1998. “Warren and I go back a long way (back to summer stock) and there’s some water under that bridge,” she wrote. “Recently, we were on the phone talking politics and who knows what else when he said, ‘I remember why we broke up.’ I said, ‘When were we together?’ Then I hung up and asked myself, Did I sleep with Warren? I kind of remember. I guess I did. Probably once.”
The book features details on the first time she met Beatty, when he was starring in a production of A Hatful of Rain in Connecticut. “He asked me to cue him on his lines. If that was a come-on, I missed it entirely,” she wrote. “He also played the piano. I was impressed. We used to eat together occasionally and talk about life. He was twenty-one, tall with movie-star looks, and women were already falling at his feet. I was sixteen.”
Streisand also chatted with Remnick about Bob Dylan after the New Yorker editor noted that in 1971 Dylan wrote a letter to one of his friends revealing that he’d written “Lay Lady Lay” about Babs, which was followed in 1978 by a letter/flowers exchange. Now, they are reconnecting on the Partners album, where they trade lines on the 1934 Ray Noble pop standard “The Very Thought of You.”
“The fun thing is that we were both nineteen years old, in Greenwich Village, never met each other. I was at the Bon Soir, and he was playing the guitar somewhere else,” she said. “I remember him sending me flowers and writing me a card in different-color pencils, like a child’s writing: ‘Would you sing with me?’ I thought, What would I sing with him? How could we get together on this? I couldn’t understand it at that time.”
But now that they’ve recorded “The Very Thought of You” she is delighted by the song choice that they both love. “He’s very shy, like I am. But he was wonderful to work with. I was told that he didn’t want any direction,” she recalled. “But when I talked to him about things that I suggested, he was so pliable — he was so open to suggestions. Everything I heard about him just went out the window. He stood on his feet for three hours with me.”
Also, for the record, when asked if she would ever tour or perform live on stage again after battling stage fright for much of her career, Streisand gave a clear answer: “Oh, my God! No!” The singer said that aside from when she was a teenager on her way up, she never really enjoyed live performance.
“I never wanted to be a singer; I wanted to be an actress. So I looked for material that I could act from Broadway plays — to be silly, you know, singing ‘Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?,’” she said. “I was open to the audience, and talking to them. Whatever I was doing was just about being in the moment, things that I was experiencing in acting class. It was never to be a singer; it was to be an actress.” That, and the fact that she’s had a lifelong battle with a bad back. “I’ve always had a bad back. So it’s not just age,” she said.
The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume Two is due out on June 27 and features a duet with Sir Paul McCartney on “My Valentine,” as well as guest spots from Hozier (the previously released “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”), James Taylor (“Secret O’ Life”), Tim McGraw (“I Love Us”) and Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande (“One Heart, One Voice”).
Karol G has teamed up with five telenovela giants for a new promotion clip of her forthcoming album, Tropicoqueta. Inspired by ‘90s Latin soap operas, the Colombian singer released a nearly two-minute Spanish-language video starring herself alongside actresses Anahí, Itatí Cantoral, Gaby Spanic, Ninel Conde and Azela Robinson. In true telenovela fashion, Karol and Anahí […]
Fuerza Regida isn’t done doing iconic things. After making history with 111XPANTIA — which become the highest charting Spanish-language album by a duo or group ever on the Billboard 200 when it debuted at No. 2 in May — the band from San Bernardino, Calif., is set to perform back-to-back shows at the Madison Square Garden and […]
Fuerza Regida takes us inside Street Mob Records’ headquarters and shares the story behind its success with 111XPANTIA hitting No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the first regional Mexican album to achieve this milestone. They also talk about why they love giving back to the community, how the band got its start, the group’s 10-year anniversary and more!
What do you think of 111XPANTIA? Let us know in the comments!
Griselda Flores: Hi, I’m Billboard‘s Griselda Flores, and I’m joined by JOP and Fuerza Regida, and they’re taking me out to eat hibachi. And we’re talking all about the community, 111XPANTIA making history and the come-up of Fuerza Regida.
Fuerza Regida: Fuerza Regida.
So where are we? We’re in Rancho Cucamonga.
We’re in Rancho Cucamonga. Right now we’re at the compound, Street Mob Records headquarters, and we order the truck every time here and there we get hungry, you know, like, bring the truck for all the employees and stuff.
Oh, OK, you guys could live wherever you want. Why stay in the area?
Because we’re from over here. We don’t want to move. I’d probably never leave from here.
Seriously?
I’m gonna cut you off, I’m gonna take this off because it’s hot.
I do want to congratulate you guys because 111XPANTIA, it made history. It was the first time that two Spanish language albums were No. 1 and No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Why do you think it was this album that made it happen?
The fans. Last album, right? They were talking a lot of s–t, right? And this album, they talked a little less, like last time, when they talked, they s–t for, like, what, for like, two weeks, no for like a month. And this album? Like a couple days because they were upset that it wasn’t like old Fuerza Regida, which is, like 2018. But I had to give them one track. And now we now we know that the fans really wanted that, and that one track is like No. 1 …
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The nearly 8,000 current members of Grammy U will be able to submit recordings during the upcoming Online Entry Process (OEP) period for the 2026 Grammy Awards. It’s the first time that Grammy U members have been allowed to enter recordings, though they still won’t be eligible to vote.
“We are thrilled to offer this opportunity to our members for the first time ever in Grammy U’s nearly 20-year history,” said Jessie Allen, Grammy U’s managing director. “We have so many incredibly talented members from all different backgrounds, fields and genres, and this special opportunity will not only give them firsthand experience with the Grammy Awards process, but also a coveted chance to be listened to, nominated and maybe even voted to win a Grammy Award by music’s best and most qualified creators. I can’t imagine a better way to kick off Grammy U’s upcoming 20th anniversary.
Grammy U members can submit any recordings, but the academy encourages them to use this opportunity to submit their own recordings.
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While the same OEP eligibility requirements will apply to Grammy U members’ submissions as for Recording Academy voting and professional members and registered media companies, there will be a shorter window for submissions, a $20 fee per entry and a maximum of five entries per member.
Voting and professional members are allowed five “courtesy entries,” after which they must pay a fee per entry, which climbs as the weeks go by. Early entry pricing (July 16-Aug. 1) is $40 per entry; standard pricing (Aug. 2-22) is $75; and final deadline pricing (Aug. 23-29) is $125. Grammy U members do not receive any gratis entries.
Grammy U member entries must be submitted between July 16 and July 30. By contrast, the entry period for voting and professional members runs from July 16 to Aug. 29.
“As the entry period progresses, so does the daily number of entries the awards team processes,” says an academy spokesperson, by way of explaining the different submission period. “A dedicated two-week window for Grammy U submissions at the beginning of the entry period allows for the awards team to provide some extra attention and help to these first-time submitters.”
Grammy U members pay a fee of $50 for four years of membership. After those four years, the renewal fee is $50 annually, if the person is still eligible. (They meet that test if they are a full-time student of any age or are between 18-29 and actively pursuing a career in music.)
By contrast, voting and professional members pay an annual fee of $150. Media companies pay an annual fee of $180 to register with the academy.
The Recording Academy hasn’t decided if this will be a permanent change or just a one-time opportunity for Grammy U members. “This opportunity for Grammy U members to submit product is something we are very excited to implement for this year,” said a spokesperson. “We are taking it one step at a time and are looking forward to assessing how it goes for future years.”
Notable Grammy U alumni include three Grammy winners: Scott Hoying (Pentatonix), producer/engineer Sarah Tudzin and classical conductor Michael Repper, as well as Grammy-nominated gospel singer Elyse Victoria Johnson and singer/songwriter Leland.
Grammy U members have specifically curated programming and opportunities year-round, geared toward emerging artists and music professionals.
In April, Grammy U hosted its second New York Conference, which included a series of panels and industry-focused networking and career development opportunities for Grammy U members. The event featured Grammy winners Coco Jones and Laufey as keynote speakers, and closed with an exclusive artist showcase headlined by Grammy winner Samara Joy.
In 2024, Grammy U implemented more than 100 national and chapter programs nationwide for Grammy U members. Programs included a Masterclass with Halle Bailey during Grammy Week; a New York conference with Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Remi Wolf and Beanie Feldstein; a Fall Summit with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan; and more than 50 Grammy U Soundchecks – where members get behind-the-scenes looks into how artists prepare for tours and concerts – with artists such as Joy, Laufey, Gracie Abrams, Kacey Musgraves, Twenty One Pilots, Will Smith and Young Miko.
Additionally, Grammy U facilitates a mentorship program that connects the emerging music community with industry players. In 2024, Grammy U facilitated more than 950 mentorship pairs, with 25 international participants in countries including Brazil, Canada, India, Nigeria, Romania and the U.K.
Read more about Grammy U member benefits here.
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R. Kelly’s legal team has filed an emergency request to get him out of prison because of serious health problems.
According to TMZ, the 58-year-old singer fainted after prison staff reportedly gave him too much medication while he was in isolation. He was rushed to a hospital at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, for treatment. This wasn’t the first sign that something was wrong. It has been reported that Kelly had been asking for medical help for a swollen leg for months, but says he was ignored.
When doctors at the hospital examined him, they allegedly found blood clots in both his legs and lungs, which can be very dangerous if not treated.
Kelly’s lawyers say the prison failed to give him proper medical care and that his health is getting worse. They believe he needs to be released so he can get the medical treatment he urgently needs. His legal team says staying in prison could put his life at serious risk. On top of the health concerns, Kelly’s lawyers recently claimed that federal officials are purposely trying to hurt his case and are working against him. They say he isn’t being treated fairly.
Right now, the court hasn’t made a decision on whether to let him out. But his lawyers are pushing hard, arguing that his current condition is too serious to ignore. They want him to get care outside of prison before it’s too late.
R. Kelly has been in prison since 2019 after being found guilty of several serious crimes.
In 2021, a New York court gave him 30 years for things like sex trafficking and using his fame to control and abuse young women. In 2023, a court in Chicago added another 20 years for child pornography and trying to get minors involved. Most of that new sentence runs at the same time as the first, but one extra year was added on.
As of June 2025, he’s serving a total of 31 years in a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.
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