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Trending on Billboard What better way to celebrate a historic Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction than grooving down the Jennifer Hudson Show spirit tunnel? On Tuesday (Nov. 11), Grammy-winning hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa visited Hudson’s talk show to reflect on more than three decades of boundary-obliterating moves. From reclaiming their masters (which they alluded […]
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K-pop quintet LE SSERAFIM stopped by the Jennifer Hudson Show on Tuesday morning (Oct. 28) to play some games and perform their spicy new single, “Spaghetti.” Though their collaborator, BTS’ J-Hope, was not on hand to lend his vocals to the track that dropped on Friday (Oct. 24), KIM CHAEWON, SAKURA, HUH YUNJIN, KAZUHA and HONG EUNCHAE had no problem heating up the stage for the studio audience without him.
With the video screen behind them featuring a floating galaxy of veggies, the women, dressed in a wild riot of colorful, mismatched tops and bottoms, wiggled, popped and locked across the stage as they sang the funky bilingual lyrics. “I serve looks like spaghetti/ I serve looks like bon appétit/ All my girls hot and ready/ Eat it up, eat it up,” they sang in unison as the chorus flashed in giant font behind them and the studio audience screamed every time they handed the vocal baton over to a bandmate.
LE SSERAFIM released their J-Hope collab last week, marking the BTS member’s first feature on a track by a K-pop girl group. They also just wrapped the North American leg of their EASY CRAZY HOT world tour, which kicked off in their native South Korea in April.
The women also hung around to play a game of “This or That” with JHud in which they answered a series of (not so) probing questions about their preferences. “I hope you guys know we want to learn as much as we can about you, right?” Hudson asked the super psyched audience before launching into the first softball query: sneakers or heels?
After conferring, the group all agreed on sneakers, also easily choosing late night over early mornings. But when she asked if they’re rather eat spaghetti with their hands or sip soup with a straw, the answer was, naturally, the very on-brand spaghetti. The questions were all pretty easy until Hudson asked them to choose one in a classic fantasy scenario: be invisible or be able to read minds?
“This is a tough one, huh?” Hudson said, as the women appeared to opt for invisibility, arguing “it’s better to not know anything.” And, even though its spooky season, asked to choose between a haunted house and a roller coaster, the group definitely opted for amusement park thrills over ghoulish chills.
Watch LE SSERAFIM perform “Spaghetti” and play “This or That” on the Jennifer Hudson Show below.
Lil Nas X may be a modern-day fashion icon in the making, but it turns out he doesn’t look back on every one of his risk-taking sartorial choices fondly.
Stopping by The Jennifer Hudson Show on Thursday (May 8), the rapper reflected on nearly baring it all at the Met Gala in 2023.
“There are definitely moments where I’m just like, ‘OK, I love that I did that; I don’t want to see it ever again,” he told Hudson as a compilation of his most editorial ensembles from over the years flashed on screen. Case in point: “The one from the Met Gala like two years ago where I’m, like, kind of naked and covered in crystals.
“I cannot explain to you how it feels walking up to Bad Bunny, like, ‘Hi Bad Bunny’ and just talking, and then walking away knowing that he’s seeing your ass covered in crystals,” Lil Nas confessed before covering his face in embarrassment.
Even still, the rapper managed to defend his jaw-dropping look, telling an amused Hudson, “I don’t regret it. I don’t regret it, I don’t want you to think that. But it was like, ‘I want to get out of my comfort zone, I want to feel good about my body,’ and I just wanted to step out there. And then just looking back, going, ‘Damn, everybody saw my ass covered in, like, silver crystals…”
“Well it was a good ass!” Hudson retorted, to which Lil Nas gamely replied, “Yeah, I love it! One of my favorite asses: mine.”
That year, the dress code for the annual gala organized by Anna Wintour was “in honor of Karl,” to pay tribute to late Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld, who was also the subject of the Costume Institute’s 2023 exhibition: “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” While the Billboard Hot 100 record-holder dazzled in his pearl-encrusted birthday suit for the A-list event, Bad Bunny rocked a breathtaking, backless all-white suit and floral train by Jacquemus on the famed steps of the Met.
Elsewhere during the sit-down, Lil Nas X also opened up about unlocking his “feminine energy” on new single “Hotbox,” teased his upcoming album Dreamboy and more. Watch the rapper’s chat with Hudson below.
Destiny’s Child may have disbanded in 2006, but the members are always just one text away. On the latest episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show airing Tuesday (Feb. 11), Michelle Williams spilled details about her group chat with honorary sisters Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland. After welcoming the singer/actress to her program, host Jennifer Hudson had […]
Mother’s day has been and gone. Not for Wiz Khalifa. Every day is like mother’s day for the hip-hop artist, who accompanies his mom literally everywhere. Including strip joints.
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When he taped an interview for The Jennifer Hudson Show, Khalifa gave viewers more than they bargained for when he discussed his friendship with mom, Peachie.
“Me and my mom do everything together. We go to strip clubs together. We went to Mexico. We went to Coachella together,” he tells the show’s host, Jennifer Hudson. “We do everything.“
With that cat out the bag, the “See You Again” rapper shared more Khalifa family matters, from snaps of his son’s “west coast gangsta” themed birthday party, tales of his early days making music with his dad and uncle, and his formative years spent abroad, including Germany and the U.K., thanks to his folks serving in the military.
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On the music front, Khalifa is preparing the release of Kush & Orange Juice 2, a sequel to his “cult classic” mixtape from 2010. “I wanted to revisit that, just put some new flavor on it and get the fans something to have fun to,” he explains. “That’s what I’m known for, having a great time. So that same vibe I have in the studio I like to bring that outside.”
That studio vibe, he explains, is created with lighting up candles, incense and other items he chose not to go into.
Khalifa has landed 35 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including six top 10s and a pair of leaders, 2010’s “Black And Yellow,” and Furious 7 soundtrack from 2015 “See You Again,” featuring Charlie Puth, which led the chart for a whopping 12 weeks. The 36-year-old dad also boasts five appearances on the Billboard 200, including a No. 1 with 2014’s Blacc Hollywood. A release date for Kush & Orange Juice 2 has yet to be announced.
The Grammy Award-winning artist’s full interview airs Friday, May 17 on The Jennifer Hudson Show, produced by Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Telepictures. Watch snippets below.
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Billie Eilish and Finneas have earned their second Oscar nomination for their track “What Was I Made For?” and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt have been nominated for “I’m Just Ken,” but there are a few musicians and actors who are noticeably missing from this year’s nominations. Jennifer Lopez has been nominated for a Razzie […]
Molly Sims is just like any other Swiftie — she’s always going to do whatever it takes to cross paths with Taylor Swift, especially where her daughter is concerned. In her Friday (Jan. 12) appearance on the Jennifer Hudson Show, the 50-year-old model revealed the lengths she and her 8-year-old daughter Scarlett May went to […]
Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande finally got to sing their holiday collaboration live together for the first time. And on the latest episode of her talk show, J-Hud reported back to her audience about the whole experience. “This is a season full of surprises, y’all,” Hudson said on Tuesday’s (Dec. 12) episode of […]
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas‘ relationship is a fateful one. During a Thursday (May 11) appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show, the Love Again actress revealed one of the first times the Jonas Brothers singer set eyes on her was 23 years ago, when she was crowned Miss World — when he was only 7 years old.
“When I was 18, I won the Miss World pageant. This was in London — I had just turned 18 in July, complete child, I had no idea what I was doing or what this world entailed, didn’t have a lot of practice — but apparently, my mother-in-law said, ‘I remember watching you when you won,’” she told Hudson.
She continued, “I was in London, it was 2000. They were in Texas, and I was like ‘There’s no way.’ She was like, ‘I remember it so clearly because it was November, Nick was on some Broadway show at 7 years old, his brother was on some Broadway show at 8 or 9, and she said, ‘I remember this clearly because Kevin Sr.’ — my father-in-law — ‘loves watching pageants, and he, I remember, was watching it and Nick came and sat down and watched you win,’ which is unfathomable. That was 22 years ago. He was 7, I was 17.”
While fate appears to be on the couple’s side, when it was finally time to meet each other, Chopra revealed she initially “didn’t give it much of a chance.” In a separate interview with Today, she explained, “I was like, ‘He’s 25 years old, he’s a rock star. I want to get married, I want to settle down, I want to have a baby’ … I was 35 at the time. I wanted stability, and I didn’t give Nick enough credit until I went out with him on our first date. We spent the whole evening together, and I realized my husband is just like an old soul. He’s stability in human form.”
The rest, as they say, is history: Chopra and Jonas have been married for four years now, have a young daughter, and are now co-stars in their new movie Love Again.
Watch Chopra talk about Jonas watching her on television when he was still a child in the video above.
Like Jennifer Hudson, country icon Reba McEntire counts herself as a major Aretha Franklin fan — so much so, that the 68-year-old gushed over how much she loves Franklin during the Tuesday (March 28) episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show.
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“You covered Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ in 1980?,” Hudson asked the country star, who sang Franklin’s signature hit at the 1988 CMA Awards. “How did that come about?”
McEntire said the answer was simple, “I like the song. I love the song, I love Aretha.” The three-time Grammy winner also shared an anecdote about an encounter she had with the late Queen of Soul. “I got to meet her, she scared me to death, I wouldn’t even go up to talk to her,” McEntire said, with the American Idol alum adding, “Yeah that scared me too… I got to meet her in Washington, D.C. at Christmas in Washington, and she’s just amazing.”
The pair then paid tribute to their love and respect for Aretha in the most appropriate way — by covering Franklin’s signature 1967 single, “Respect.”
“What you want, baby, I got it/ What you need, do you know I got it?/ All I want you to do for me, is show me some respect when you get home/ Hey, baby/ Give it to me/ Hey baby,” McEntire kicked off the track, with Hudson providing an assist with some ad libbed vocals backgrounds.
Hudson then hopped on the second verse with ease — unsurprisingly, considering she played Franklin in the 2021 biopic, Respect. “I ain’t gon’ do you wrong while you’re gone/ Ain’t gon’ do you wrong ’cause I don’t wanna/ All I’m askin’ is for a little respect when you come home/ Baby/ When you get home/ Yeah,” she sang.
Watch McEntire and Hudson duet “Respect” in the video above.
