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Peppa Pig may be a small pink barn animal, but she’s still the queen of the jungle. Marking the cartoon protagonist’s first-ever cover song, Peppa will drop an adorable rendition of Katy Perry‘s “Roar” on Thursday evening (April 11) — because, as she puts it at the beginning of the song’s new lyric video shared […]
Benson Boone’s beautiful year continued Wednesday (April 10), as the breakout artist performed his signature song on late-night TV.
Sporting a smart suit, the Washington singer, songwriter and TikTok standout stopped by NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a rendition of “Beautiful Things.” Lifting from his LP Fireworks & Rollerblades (via Night Street Records/Warner Records), “Beautiful Things” has had an impressive, global ride, logging seven nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, six weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, five atop Australia’s ARIA Chart, and is on track for a fourth week at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart. In the U.S., “Beautiful Things” peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. On YouTube, the official music video has passed 100 million views in just two months. For his late night spot, Boone lead a full a full backing band, a taste of the world tour that kicked off last week in Chicago.
“Man,” he told Billboard ahead of his current jaunt, “all I’ve been thinking about is the tour, and I’ll be going some places that I’ve never been before. But after the tour, and after all the shows, I’m really looking forward to just being with my friends. I think we’re gonna go on a trip to Greece and have two weeks and just live my life.”
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The 21-year-old has been a regular on network TV this week. Earlier, he performed his hit for Today, looking relaxed in jeans, jacket and a bandana.
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“It’s definitely been crazy for me the past couple of months,” he told the morning crew. Success is “something you hope for but you never expect. But I’m just grateful to feel heard and to have a song that is out in the world, and everywhere.”
Watch the late-night performance below.
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Two retired NFL athletes swapped one helmet for another as The Masked Singer tackled a double-elimination. Fox’s quirky singing competition celebrated Transformers night on Wednesday, April 10, but there was no party for the Love Bird and Koala. Goldfish sang “Baby Come Back” by Player; Starfish performed “21 Guns” by Green Day; Ugly Sweater hit […]
Cailee Spaeny lived a dream scenario at the 2024 Golden Globes: meeting Taylor Swift and discovering that her love for the pop star was mutual.
Both the 25-year-old actress and Swift were nominated for awards at the January ceremony, with Spaeny in the running for best actress thanks to her titular performance in Priscilla and the 34-year-old “Anti-Hero” singer’s Eras Tour concert film earning recognition for cinematic and box office achievement. And though the prizes went to Killers of the Flower Moon‘s Lily Gladstone and Barbie, respectively, Spaeny could argue that meeting Swift was a win in itself.
“It was like I was looking at a real-life Disney princess,” she gushed of the 14-time Grammy winner in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published Wednesday (April 10). “I was so inarticulate. I was like, ‘Your hair is so pretty,’ and I said to myself, ‘Oh my God, really!? Is that the only thing you’re going to say?’”
“I also said, ‘I’m a [Kansas City] Chiefs fan and I love you,’ but I didn’t know what to say,” she continued. “And she was like, ‘Yeah, it’s all in one place now.’ And I was like, ‘Exactly!’ So I don’t have many fangirl moments, but that one was a big deal. Anyone my age would agree that you can’t keep your chill in that moment.”
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Spaeny, a Missouri native, made sure to specify that she’s been a fan of the Chiefs her whole life — and not just since Swift started dating tight end Travis Kelce in summer 2023. The Craft: Legacy actress also brought Bottoms‘ Ruby Cruz, her good friend and onetime co-star, as her plus-one to the Globes, and Swift had kind things to say to both of them about their performances in HBO’s Mare of Easttown.
“Taylor Swift brought up that she loved Mare of Easttown, which is so crazy, and Ruby went, ‘I’m in Mare of Easttown, too!’” Spaeny told the publication before marveling at Swift’s impeccable memory. “And then Taylor said, ‘But you were blonde in Mare of Easttown, weren’t you?’ So I don’t know what that says about Taylor. Maybe it’s just that she’s a massive Mare of Easttown fan, which is very cool.”
Both Spaeny and Swift are currently gearing up for the release of their latest projects, with the former’s Civil War, in which she stars alongside Kirsten Dunst, hitting theaters Friday (April 12). The latter’s new album The Tortured Poets Department arrives one week later, on April 19.
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UFC 300 is happening this weekend, and it’s shaping up to be a major milestone for the MMA company.
UFC 300 sees Alex Pereira defending his light heavyweight champion title against former champ and No. 1 contender Jamahal Hill, but it also features three additional title matches, marking a rare pay-per-view that features main event-level matchups throughout the entire card.
UFC 300 Livestream: Date, Time
UFC 300 takes place Saturday, April 13 at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT on ESPN+. You can watch Pereira vs. Hill live on TV, on your phone, computer or tablet through the ESPN+ app.
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Besides Pereira vs. Hill, UFC 300 will feature three title matches, including Zhang Weili who will be defending her title against No. 1 ranked Yan Xianon; Justin Gaethje will be defending his BMF belt against former featherweight champ Max Holloway; and former lightweight champion Charles Oliveira will go up against No. 4 ranked Armen Tsarukyan.
Keep reading to learn how to watch the UFC 300 PPV match online below.
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How to Watch UFC 300: Pereira vs. Hill Online
Pereira vs. Hill is a PPV match will be offered exclusively on ESPN+. If you have an ESPN+ subscription, you can buy UFC 300 for $80 and get automatic access to the matches live. Early preliminary matches and prelims don’t require a PPV purchase and you can watch them live on Hulu + Live TV, ESPN+ or any streaming service or cable package that gets ESPN.
Don’t have an ESPN+ subscription? The streaming service offers a bundle, which includes the UFC 300 PPV feed and an ESPN+ subscription for $134.98.
While ESPN+ doesn’t offer a free trial, it’s relatively affordable at a cost of $10.99/month. A membership will give you access to the entire ESPN+ library, including live UFC Fight Night, plus live games of other sports like football, soccer, hockey, baseball and more. The content library also offers a shorter version of NFL Primetime as well as full replays of historic NFL games.
Want even more content options? ESPN+ offers a bundle with Hulu and Disney+. And, if you want live TV options, you can bundle the streamer with Hulu + Live TV.
UFC 300 Card
Here are all the matchups on the UFC 300 fight card.
Early Preliminaries:
Jalin Turner vs. Renato Moicano (lightweight)
Jéssica Andrade vs. Marina Rodriguez(women’s strawweight)
Bobby Green vs. Jim Miller (lightweight)
Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Cody Garbrandt (bantamweight)
Preliminaries:
Jiří Procházka (light heavyweight)
Calvin Kattar vs. Aljamain Sterling(featherweight)
Holly Holm vs. Kayla Harrison (women bantamweight)
Sodiq Yusuff vs. Diego Lopes (featherweight)
Main Card:
Alex Pereira vs. Jamahal Hill (light heavyweight)
Weili Zhang vs. Yan Xiaonan (women strawweight)
Justin Gaethje vs. Max Holloway (lightweight)
Charles Oliveira vs. Arman Tsarukyan (lightweight)
Bo Nickal vs. Cody Brundage (middleweight)
Where to Buy UFC 300 Tickets Online
If you want to watch UFC 300 in person, you can see the fight live at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. You can score last-minute tickets to UFC 300 through StubHub, Vivid Seats (get $20 off $200+ orders when you use the promo code BB2024), Ticketmaster, Gametime, TicketSmarter and Seat Geek.
If you can’t make it to the live fight, you can livestream UFC 300 on PPV through ESPN+.
The 2025 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2, one week earlier than the 2024 show, which was held on Sunday, March 10. And here’s good news for East Coasters who liked this year’s earlier starting time for the Oscars: The 2025 show will again begin at 7 p.m. ET.
The 2024 show clocked in at 3 hours 22 minutes, which means East Coasters were able to watch the full show and still turn in at a reasonable hour. In years past, millions of East Coast film fans had to choose between sticking around for the announcement of best picture and getting to bed before midnight.
The show will again be held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood, its home since 2002 (except for the pandemic-era show in 2021, when it was held at Union Station in Los Angeles).
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Nominations will be announced on Jan. 17, 2025 – just five days after nominations-round voting closes. Most awards shows take longer between the close of voting and the announcement of the nominations. The Oscars’ approach allows voters more time to see eligible films and make informed choices. (The Oscars take a bit more time to tally final-round ballots, which are due Feb. 18, 2025 — 12 days before the big show.)
This will be the second year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have Representation and Inclusion Standards (for which the Academy uses the acronym RAISE) to be eligible in the best picture category. As the Academy notes, these standards “are designed to encourage equitable representation on and off screen to better reflect the diverse global population.”
Thursday, Nov. 14 is the final day to submit a confidential Inclusion Standards form. Last year, the Academy required that producers meet at least two of these four standards: on-screen representation, themes and narratives; creative leadership and project team; industry access and opportunities; and audience development. (Read a detailed summary of the RAISE standards on the Academy’s site.)
Below are key dates for the 2024 Oscars season. (The Academy cautions that all dates are subject to change.)
Thursday, Nov. 14: General entry, best picture, RAISE submission deadline
Sunday, Nov. 17: Governors Awards
Monday, Dec. 9: Preliminary voting begins 9 a.m. PT
Friday, Dec. 13: Preliminary voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, Dec. 17: Oscars shortlists announcement
Tuesday, Dec. 31: Eligibility period ends
Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025: Nominations voting begins 9 a.m. PT
Sunday, Jan. 12, 2005: Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Friday: Jan. 17, 2005: Nominations announcement
Monday, Feb. 10, 2005: Oscars Nominees Luncheon
Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025: Finals voting begins 9 a.m. PT
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025: Finals voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025: Scientific and Technical Awards
Sunday, March 2, 2025: 97th Oscars
Ryan Gosling has been a star for more than three decades. And, judging by the way he absolutely crushed it during the mega song-and-dance performance of his spotlight Barbie song “I’m Just Ken” at the Oscars earlier this year you’d think the 43-year-old triple-threat lives in a zone where nerves are never an issue.
But in the first promo for his third stint as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend (April 13), Gosling is as jangled as a 12-year-old asking his first crush out to the movies. It’s all a put-on, of course. But in the endearing video, Gosling practices how he’s going to introduce himself to the night’s musical guest, country singer Chris Stapleton, and he just can’t seem to get it right.
Wearing a Stapleton T-shirt, Gosling works up his nerve to knock on the singer’s dressing room door as he rehearses his best meet cool lines for the “Tennessee Whiskey” singer. “Mr. Stapleton, big fan, love your music,” Gosling says as he grips a head shot of Stapleton and a black marker. “Nah, it’s stupid.”
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Trying out a more casual approach, Gosling whips his phone out of his back pocket and gets in selfie position as he says, “Yo Chris! One for the ‘gram?” That one also fell flat, so Gosling opts for a more formal, Shakespearean take, intoning, “Master Stapleton, ’tis I, Sir Gosling. That’s cool,” he says.
But when Gosling finally works up the confidence to open the door, he walks into a darkened room to find Stapleton’s perfectly lit, signature straw cowboy hat sitting majestically on a mannequin head. The image is so overwhelming that Gosling drops his marker and photo in awe as he struts toward the hat, thinks better of it, then plops it on his head contentedly as Stapleton’s “White Horse” blasts out.
Gosling will hit screens on Friday (April 12) in the action comedy The Fall Guy, in which he stars as aging choreographer Colt Seavers in the film loosely based on the 1980s TV series about stunt performers that starred Lee Majors. The actor made a surprise appearance on SNL last weekend during Kristen Wiig’s fifth hosting turn, presenting the beloved former SNL star with her five-timers hosting jacket.
Check out Gosling’s promo below.
Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat. Some of Olivia Rodrigo‘s former High School Musical: The Musical: The Series castmates showed their support for the 21-year-old pop star by coming to see her Guts World Tour show at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night (April 9), after which they all met up backstage to pose for a […]
Ryan Gosling is a Swiftie onscreen and off — and so is his Fall Guy costar Emily Blunt. In an interview with Fandango posted on YouTube Tuesday (April 9), the two actors revealed their favorite Taylor Swift songs while discussing their new film alongside director David Leitch and stunt doubles Ben Jenkins and Logan Holladay. […]
Manchester, for any music (or sport) fan who knows their stuff, is a city that punches several divisions above its weight. For its part in the spread of electronic dance music through the U.K. in the late ‘80s, and the peerless, timeless bands that emerged from its scene — think The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order, Happy Mondays — Manchester is one of the world’s great music cities.
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The Stone Roses, the indie-rock enigmas whose iconic, self-titled debut from 1989, is considered by many as the greatest debut of them all, if not the greatest album, period, are among the Manchester royalty.
As is Oasis, the now-defunct giant of the Britpop era, which landed at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart with every studio album (seven in total), and smashed records along the way. The “Live Forever” rockers are one step away from induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame.
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The Stones Roses’ guitarist John Squire and former Oasis and Beady Eye frontman Liam Gallagher recently teamed up for a collaborative, self-titled album which – no surprises here – blasted to No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart earlier this year, outselling its nearest competitor by three copies to one. Liam now boasts 14 U.K. No. 1 albums across a three-decade career.
On Tuesday night, April 9, that “superduo” paid a visit to NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, for a performance of the bluesy-rock album track “I’m A Wheel.”
Gallagher, in particular, is in fine form, staring down the barrel of the camera, snarling and full of menace and reminding us how a seasoned frontman, with his deep bag of tricks, can own the stage.
The singer unloaded some of that venom in February, when the shortlist for the Rock Hall of announced – with Oasis featuring on it.
The famously tetchy singer, who went solo after older brother and chief Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher split the band in 2009, summed up his vibe about the nod in a short, sharp tweet in which he wrote, “F–ck the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS.” The latter is a Jamaican slang term frequently employed by Gallagher on his socials when peeved to express his disdain in no uncertain terms.
Watch the late-night performance below.
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