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A Timeline of Katy Perry & Orlando Bloom’s Relationship

From flirting at an after party to engagement and welcoming a daughter together, here’s a full timeline of Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry’s relationship.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are living proof that love prevails over all.

The “Woman’s World” singer and the Pirates of the Caribbean star first sparked dating rumors back in January 2016, when they were seen dancing together at a Golden Globes after party. The two were then spotted on a number of vacations and out on dates together, before the pop singer made their relationship Instagram official in May 2016. In early 2017, the pair briefly split before reconnecting by the end of the year. Since then they’ve been inseparable, ultimately getting engaged in 2019 and welcoming their daughter Daisy Dove in 2020.

Throughout it all, the pair always has fun together. Most recently, the duo jumped out of a helicopter into the ocean while on vacation, as seen in a clip posted to Perry’s Instagram feed with lyrics from her song “Lifetimes” in the caption. “Like the stars are in the sky/ You and I will find each other / In every single life,” she wrote.

Bloom was previously married to Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr, with whom he shares 13-year-old son Flynn. The duo split in 2013. Perry, meanwhile, was married to actor Russell Brand until 2012.

From flirting at an after party to engagement and welcoming a daughter together, see below for a full timeline of Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry’s relationship.

Hailey Bieber Rocks Diamond ‘Mom’ Ring Shortly After Giving Birth to First Child

Hailey Bieber is officially a mom, and has some new ice to go with her new title!

The Rhode founder took to her Instagram Stories to share a photo of her hand, rocking her engagement ring on her ring finger, and a sparkling gold and diamond “Mom” ring on her index finger. See the post before it disappears here.

Per Page Six, the stunning ring is an Isa Grutman Jewelry design that retails for nearly $2,000 and features .21 carats of diamonds amid the 14-karat gold band.

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Last month, Hailey and Justin Bieber welcomed their first child together, a baby boy named Jack Blues Bieber. They shared the exciting news via an Instagram post, in which Hailey’s hand is seen holding her baby’s tiny foot.

The model previously opened up about her pregnancy journey in a W magazine cover story. “I probably could have hid it until the end, but I didn’t enjoy the stress of not being able to enjoy my pregnancy outwardly,” she explained of announcing her pregnancy at the six-month mark. “I felt like I was hiding this big secret, and it didn’t feel good. I wanted the freedom to go out and live my life.”

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She added that she was taking advantage of spending one-on-one time with her musician husband. “In the beginning [of pregnancy], it was super emotional for me,” she told W. “Like, ‘I love this human so much. How can I possibly bring someone else into this?’ I’m trying to soak in these days of it being Justin and me, just the two of us.”

After Four Year Hiatus, the DJ Awards Return With Nominees in House, Trance & More

After a four year hiatus, the DJ Awards are back.

A collection of DJs both famous and rising were recently announced as nominees in the awards’ nine music categories: house, Afro, techno, tech house, drum & bass, organic house, progressive house, breakthrough artist, live act and international DJ. Nominated artists include Peggy Gou, Martin Garrix, Blond:ish, Michael Bibi, Mochakk, Barry Can’t Swim, Francis Mercier, Rüfüs du Sol, Black Coffee and more.

See the complete list of genre nominees below. Voting for the awards is open to the public via the DJ Awards website.

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Beyond the genre awards, categories include a group of industry-focused awards, with the Ibiza Icon award being given as, the awards state, “a tribute to the legendary figures who have shaped Ibiza’s music scene, leaving an indelible mark on the island’s rich club culture and in our hearts.” The Ibiza Track of The Summer award will go to the song that most powerfully soundtracked the summer of 2024 on the island, and a number of awards will acknowledge achievements in the industry and live music space outside of Europe. These awards will be be voted for by dance industry execs from the Association For Electronic Music (AFEM).

The ceremony is set for Oct. 2 at the island’s Club Chinois. Tickets for the event go on sale Sept. 13, the same day that public voting closes. 2024 marks the 23rd year for the DJ Awards, with the ceremony founded in 1998 by Ibiza residents José Pascual and Lenny Krarup.

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The Awards are now under new ownership after being taken over earlier this year by Andy Grant, who recently told Mixmag that in 2024 “the most important outcome being to gain the respect of the global dance community as the new trusted guardians of this responsibility. Beyond that everything is on the table, and my vision is nothing short of positioning the DJ Awards alongside the Oscars and the Brit Awards in terms of scale, reach and recognition.”

2024 DJ Awards Music Categories & Nominees:

House

  • Gorgon City
  • Honey Dijon
  • Kerri Chandler
  • Sam Divine
  • Seth Troxler
  • Syreeta
  • TSHA

Trance

  • Armin van Buuren
  • Astrix
  • Dash Berlin
  • Infected Mushroom
  • Paul Van Dyk
  • Tiësto
  • Vini Vici

Techno

  • Amelie Lens
  • Charlotte de Witte
  • Indira Paganotto
  • Paco Osuna
  • Nico Moreno
  • Sara Landry
  • Sven Väth

Progressive House

  • ARTBAT
  • CamelPhat
  • Cristoph        
  • Eli & Fur
  • Eric Prydz
  • Franky Wah
  • Hernán Cattáneo
  • Tale of Us

Organic House

  • Bedouin
  • BLOND:ISH
  • Jan Blomqvist
  • Monolink
  • Patrice Bäumel
  • Robag Wruhme
  • WhoMadeWho

Tech House

  • Jamie Jones
  • Joseph Capriati
  • Marco Carola
  • The Martinez Brothers
  • Michael Bibi
  • Mochakk
  • PAWSA
  • Solomun
  • Vintage Culture

Afro

  • Black Coffee
  • Francis Mercier
  • Kelvin Momo
  • KILIMANJARO
  • Kitty Amor
  • Major League DJz
  • Pablo Fierro
  • Themba

Live Act

  • Barry Can’t Swim
  • Ben Böhmer
  • Bicep
  • Fred Again..
  • Mathew Jonson
  • Róisín Murphy
  • Rüfüs du Sol

Drum & Bass

  • Bou
  • Chase & Status
  • Hedex
  • Nia Archives
  • Sub Focus
  • Wilkinson

The Riot Noise Breakthrough Artist

  • Archie Hamilton
  • Ben Sterling
  • Desiree
  • Fleur Shore
  • James Hype
  • Miss Monique
  • Sammy Virji
  • Wade

International DJ

  • Calvin Harris
  • David Guetta
  • Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
  • Fisher
  • Martin Garrix
  • Peggy Gou
  • Swedish House Mafia

James Darren, Pop Singer & ‘Gidget’ Actor, Dies at 88

James Darren, the former teen idol and pop singer who played the dreamy surfer Moondoggie in three Gidget movies before starring on television on The Time Tunnel and T.J. Hooker, died Monday. He was 88.

Darren died in his sleep at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Jim Moret, a correspondent for Inside Edition, told The Hollywood Reporter. He had entered the hospital for an aortic valve replacement but was deemed too weak to have the surgery; he went home but had to return.

“I always thought he would pull through,” Moret said, “because he was so cool. He was always cool.”

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Early in his career, the dark-haired Darren received excellent notices for starring in Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960) — portraying the son of a hoodlum defended by Humphrey Bogart’s character in 1949’s Knock on Any Door — and for playing the Greek soldier Spyros Pappadimos in The Guns of Navarone (1961).

Even though he could not surf, the Philadelphia native got the role of Moondoggie (real name: Jerry Matthews) opposite three actresses as the precocious Malibu teen: Sandra Dee in Gidget (1959), Deborah Walley in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961) and Cindy Carol in Gidget Goes to Rome (1963). 

Darren revived his singing career in the late ’90s when he appeared on several episodes of the syndicated series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as the holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine, a role he called “one of the most enjoyable” he ever played.

Several of his Frank Sinatra-styled performances were recorded for the 1999 album This One’s From the Heart.

After many years out of the limelight, Darren made an impression as the husband of a bar owner in Harry Dean Stanton‘s final film, Lucky (2017).

James William Ercolani was born on June 8, 1936. Growing up on South 10th Street in South Philadelphia, he was inspired by another Philly native, Eddie Fisher, to become a singer and actor, and he commuted to New York to study acting with Stella Adler.

While in the city, the owner of a photography shop connected him to Columbia Pictures talent scout Joyce Selznick (David O. Selznick’s niece), and he went on to sign a contract with the studio.

Darren made his film debut as a high school senior and gang member opposite Robert Blake in the crime drama Rumble on the Docks (1956), then followed with roles in Operation Mad BallThe Brothers Rico and The Tijuana Story in 1957 and Gunman’s Walk in ’58. 

The Gidget movies made him extremely popular with young ladies. 

“The defining moment was when I was at a studio in San Francisco and word got out that I was there,” he recalled in a 2015 interview with Los Angeles magazine. “Thousands of girls were screaming out front. When I had to leave the building, they tackled me to the ground and pulled pieces of my hair out. The police had to rescue me and took me to the roof until things settled down.”

To land the Gidget gig, Darren had to convince the producers that he could carry a tune. “They were going to use somebody else’s voice, but I told them I could sing,” he said. “We went into one of the soundstages with a piano player and I sang the song and they said, ‘He can do it.’ Then they put me on their label, Colpix.”

Darren also was heard performing in All the Young Men (1960), Diamond Head (1962), Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963) and For Those Who Think Young (1964).

He sang “Almost in Your Arms” at the 1959 Academy Awards and “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World” on the 1964 Oscar telecast; performed as Yogi Bear in a 1964 animated film; and did a number on a 1965 episode of The Flintstones.

He also played the best friend opposite Sal Mineo in The Gene Krupa Story (1959), starred as a car mechanic in The Lively Set (1964) and ventured to Italy to topline Venus in Furs (1969) with Barbara McNair.

Darren was married to childhood sweetheart Gloria Terlitsky from 1955 until their 1958 divorce and to Evy Norlund, a former Miss Denmark, from 1960 until his death. He lived for decades in a home on Kimridge Road in Beverly Ridge Estates that had been owned by Audrey Hepburn.

In addition to his wife and Moret, survivors include his other sons, Christian and Anthony; grandchildren Amanda, Carly, Matthew, Natalie and Nicholas; and goddaughter A.J. Lambert, daughter of Nancy Sinatra.

Over the years, Darren encountered many fans of his music, some of them unexpected.

“I was in a pizza shop one day with a friend of mine. I heard this motorcycle pull up, and in walked Bruce Springsteen in his little motorcycle cap, like Brando wore in The Wild One — I guess he left his helmet outside,” he recalled in his chat with Weaver. “I said, ‘Oh, I gotta go say hi to him.’

“I walked up to him and said, ‘Hi, I don’t want to interrupt you, but my name is James Darren. I just want to tell you I’m a big fan. I love all your stuff.’ And he said, ‘James Darren? I bought “Goodbye Cruel World” in Freehold, New Jersey.’ Isn’t that sweet?”

–Duane Byrge contributed to this report

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

Mase Credits ‘Alkaline Diet’ for 70-Pound Weight Loss Transformation

Cam’ron and Mase’s It Is What It Is returned for the fall on Monday (Sept. 2) and the co-hosts didn’t waste any time addressing Mase’s new look.

Mase debunked any Ozempic allegations or rumors of using a weight loss drug to fuel his 70-pound transformation. “You took the needle,” Cam poked at his co-host with a laugh. “So what did you do to lose the weight, man?”

The rapper-turned-pastor brushed off the allegations and explained the new diet a bodybuilder put him on. “That’s the hate I want. That’s the hate I needed,” Mase replied. “I signed up with this coach named Ricky Moore, that’s a professional bodybuilder, and he just put me on the alkaline diet. I’m only eating fruit, vegetables and water for now.”

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Cam ultimately expressed he was happy to see his friend turn the clock back with a slimmer figure to go alongside his fuller hairline and whiter teeth.

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“You look great, man. You look like back in high school,” Killa said. “I’m happy to see it.”

Fans began debating if Mase was telling the truth on social media. “Comment section sad fr,” one person wrote on X. “I see a bunch of dudes hating on someones progression and speculating stuff vs just genuinely being happy for one of the OGs . I hate social media fr!”

Expect to see plenty more of Mase and Cam this fall with It Is What It Is returning just in time for football season. With O.J. Simpson passing away earlier this year, the co-hosts tapped Dallas Cowboys legend Michael Irvin to replace the late Juice on their weekly NFL spots.

Mase isn’t the only artist facing Ozempic allegations. Ice Spice shut down rumors of taking any weight loss medications last month while on tour sporting a slimmer figure.

“I actually came on here to talk about that real quick. I wish y’all never learned the word Ozempic,” she said in an August Twitter Spaces. “That’s one thing I wish. Oh my God! Like, what even is Ozempic? What the f–k is that? Genuinely, what is that?”

She continued: “You lazy-a– b—–s never heard of a gym? It’s called the gym, it’s called eating healthy, it’s called being on tour. Like, what the hell? Maybe if I was sitting at home all f–king day, it’d be easier to stay big.”

Watch the episode of It Is What It Is below.



Sabrina Carpenter Says First Billboard 200 No. 1 ‘Feels Really Special’

Sabrina Carpenter achieved a career milestone this week as her latest studio album, Short n’ Sweet, topped the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking her first leader on the tally. To celebrate, the 25-year-old pop star took to social media to thank fans for their support.

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“can’t express my gratitude. My first #1 album!!!!” she wrote in an Instagram post. “thank you for listening to short n’ sweet. thank you for believing in me all these years! couldn’t do any of this without you ?:’) this feels really special. love you all.”

The five-foot tall singer jokingly added on X, “big week for the vertically challenged.”

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Short n’ Sweet is Carpenter’s seventh charting album but first to reach the top 20. Her first visit to the chart came in 2015 with Eyes Wide Open, peaking at No. 43. Until this week, Carpenter’s best chart rank came with the 2022 release Emails I Can’t Send, which debuted and peaked at No. 23. 

She also simultaneously has three songs in the top five of the Hot 100 songs chart. At No. 2 is Carpenter’s “Taste,” followed by “Please Please Please,” which boosted up from 9-3 after it became her first No. 1 in June. “Espresso” jumps 7-4 after previously peaking at No. 3. 

Alabama Barker Shares Sweet Montage of Dad Travis Barker’s Video Messages: ‘Cried Making This’

Alabama Barker is proving that, when it comes to her dad Travis Barker, it’s all the small things that count the most.

In a recent TikTok, the 18-year-old influencer pieced together multiple examples of the video mail she receives from the drummer every time she misses one of his FaceTime calls. In three of the clips, he tells the camera, “I’m going on stage, I love you!” while in others he tells Alabama, “I miss you, baby. Just getting ready to go to sleep. Just saying I love you.”

In all of the clips, Travis blows his daughter kisses. “Baby, I love you so much … getting ready to take off,” he says in one video message filmed from a plane.

“My dad is my hero, i couldnt ask for a better man to be my father,” Alabama captioned the post. “I cried making this he is my everything.”

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The Blink-182 band member is also dad to son Landon and stepdaughter Atiana — whom he shares with ex-wife Shanna Moakler — and recently welcomed a fourth child with Kourtney Kardashian, who has three kids with ex Scott Disick. A year and a half after tying the knot, the couple added a baby boy named Rocky to their blended family in November.

Barker is currently gearing up to play a slew of festival dates with Blink this fall, including Oceans Calling this month and Austin City Limits in October. The band recently announced that an eight-track project titled One More Time… Part-2 is coming Friday (Sept. 6), dropping singles “All in My Head” and “No Fun” a few weeks ahead of time.

Watch Alabama’s montage of video messages from her dad below.

Lil Wayne Announces Hot Boys Reunion at Lil’ WeezyAna Fest

After a false start at this year’s Essence Fest, the long-rumored Hot Boys reunion is finally happening (hopefully).

On Tuesday (Sept. 3), Lil Wayne announced on his X account that the reunion will take place at his annual Lil’ WeezyAna Fest later this year. The festival will take place Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans and presale tickets are already available. The Hot Boys, Mannie Fresh and Rob49 are the only listed acts, with fans in attendance to expect some surprise guests.

The reunion rumors started heating up when Juvenile revealed in May that the former group consisting of himself, Lil Wayne, B.G. and Young Turk were going to perform at Essence Fest and were working on a new album. “Hot Boys is back together, man. What you talkin’ about put the Hot Boys back together? Show y’all ain’t keeping up with sh–,” he said on Instagram Live. “Turk gonna be with me tonight, I’m gonna be with B.G. next week. Me, Wayne, Turk and B.G., all of us gonna be on stage in New Orleans with Mannie Fresh and Birdman. And we already done started working on a Hot Boys album. Any other f—ing questions? Keep on askin’ put the Hot Boys together. Have some f—in’ patience.”

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However, fans were disappointed when the reunion at Essence Fest never happened. While Birdman, Mannie Fresh, Juvenile and B.G. hit the stage together, Wayne decided to perform his own solo set after they left the stage and Turk was nowhere to be found.

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The Hot Boys haven’t dropped an album since 2003’s Let ‘Em Burn.

Tyla Goes On the Cutest Karaoke Date in Japan in ‘Breathe Me’ Music Video: Watch

Guess we know what Tyla‘s go-to karaoke song is, according to her new “Breathe Me” music video that dropped Tuesday (Sept. 3).

Picking up where her “Truth or Dare” music video left off seven months ago and featuring the same love interest, the “Breathe Me” visual takes place on a random late night in Osaka, Japan. The lovebirds are all smiles while headed to their private karaoke room for a sweet (and at times steamy) session where Tyla serenades him. The Nabil-directed video might’ve been filmed earlier last month when the South African singer did a signing at Tower Records Shibuya, since her man in the music video is rocking the store’s merch.

“Breathe Me” is featured on her self-titled debut album Tyla, which was released in March via FAX and Epic Records. It reached No. 24 on the Billboard 200 and No. 8 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Tyla is up for best new artist, best R&B and and best Afrobeats with her Billboard Hot 100 No. 7 smash “Water” at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards next Wednesday, Sept. 11. The “popiano” star won best new artist and best international act at the 2024 BET Awards in June, when she performed “Jump” alongside Gunna and Skillibeng.

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“The South African genre of amapiano just started bubbling, and I’m so proud that South Africa has a genre that people are enjoying and paying attention to. I’m super proud of my country and where our sound has gone,” she told Billboard in her cover story earlier this year.

Watch Tyla’s “Breathe Me” music video below.



50 Cent Reflects on ‘Wild’ First Meeting With Eminem in a Bulletproof Vest

Before the days of “Patiently Waiting” and “Crack a Bottle,” there was an initial meeting between 50 Cent and Eminem that laid the foundation for one of the most fruitful partnerships in all of hip-hop.

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50 sat down with the hosts of Million Dollaz Worth of Game over the weekend and took a trip down memory lane to recall his first encounter with Eminem, which he described as “wild.” The Queens legend even wore his signature bulletproof vest, as he wasn’t going to be taking any chances on the West Coast.

“It was wild,” he said. “Remember that show they had, Punk’d on MTV? I thought they had cameras and they was gonna come out and say, ‘You’ve been Punk’d.’ I was in California. He flew me to L.A. I came out, I was so bugged out from the experience that I came through the airport with the [bulletproof] vest and sh– on. I’m lucky I took the shock plate out the front of the joint because when I came through it [didn’t go off].”

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50 continued: “I get there, he’s like, ‘Yo!’ Hugs me, feel the vest and sh– and was like [shocked expression]. [I said,] ‘Yo, this is going to be the biggest sh– ever, right?’ He’s like, ‘Yo, so excited.’ It made me question whether what was happening was happening was right. It felt so good that it couldn’t be right. I’m like, ‘Yo, nah.’ When I left that meeting, I didn’t want him to feel like he bought a problem so I wouldn’t say anything about Ja Rule and them.”

The G-Unit honcho couldn’t process how excited Em was to meet him and potentially collaborate while he was already dominating the industry and coming off the fresh release of his iconic The Marshall Mathers LP.

“When I met him, the first night I met him, he had an event. The Marshall Mathers LP just came out,” 50 went on to provide more context to the initial meet-up. “The first week he sold 1.7 million records. And he was so excited about me that I’m looking like, ‘[Are] you serious?’”

50 would end up signing a joint venture deal in June 2002 to Eminem’s Shady Records and Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment. “Wanksta” served as the first single out of the partnership in November 2002, which landed on the 8 Mile soundtrack and peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“In Da Club” arrived in January 2003 and set the stage for 50 Cent to make the quantum leap to superstardom with his Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ album in February 2003. The glass-shattering debut LP launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 872,000 album units sold in the first week.

Watch the interview below. Talk of 50 meeting Em starts around the 51-minute mark.