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It remains to be seen if Super Bowl champ Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has what the comedic chops to play ball as host of Saturday Night Live this weekend. But in the promos for tomorrow night’s (March 4) show, he’s definitely game, yukking it up with musical guest Kelsea Ballerini about a possible merger of their famous names.
“Kelsea you should change your name to Travis, so you can have Travis Kelce and Kelsea Travis,” cast member Heidi Gardner helpfully suggests. “Or, maybe he should change his first name to Ballerini, I don’t know,” the country star counters.
Kelce doesn’t hate the idea, putting his hands above his head in a delicate manner and admitting, “Oh, I’ve always wanted to be a ballerina,” he says with a spin as the women give him props for his good form.
In a second promo, Gardner asks the New Heights podcast host and smash-mouth player if he’s ready for prime time and he notes that, “football isn’t that different from SNL, we’re working under a lot of pressure.” Gardner kind of gets it, but when Kelce notes that football also features a musical guest and cue card reading she’s confused. “And it airs at 11:30 and I’m in a bunch of wigs and Chloe Fineman is always there,” he assures her.
“Travis, I don’t know if that’s right,” the SNL master of impressions shoots back. “Okay, I get hit the head for a living so I’ll take that as fair game,” Kelce explains in a bit that skirts the edge of funny given the serious brain injuries suffered by a number of NFL players.
Gardner blows the whistle repeatedly on Kelce in a third bit in which she tells him he can “do better” while introducing this week’s lineup, working him like a relentless comedic position coach.
First-time host Kelce definitely got his reps in this week, also appearing in an earlier promo in which he dresses as Indiana Jones and channels the legendary bit in the original film. In his version, Kelce-as-Indy tries to swipe a statue of the SNL logo by replacing it with the championship Lombardi trophy the Chiefs earned by beating the Philadelphia Eagles in last month’s Super Bowl LVII.
Check out the promos below and watch SNL on NBC at 11:30 p.m. ET.
Madonna made headlines back in January when she announced her upcoming Celebration Tour with a racy, star-studded video in which the Queen of Pop plays a raunchy game of Truth or Dare with a group of celebrities.
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One of the stars in attendance was Jack Black, who revealed how it all went down as a guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday (Mar. 2). Black was on the popular daytime talk show dressed as his upcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie character Bowser, alongside his cast mates Keegan-Michael Key, Charlie Day and Chris Pratt. Clarkson showed a photo onscreen, in which Black, Madge and Lil Wayne are recreating a photo from Madonna’s 1992 Sex book.
“My wife and I were invited over to a dinner,” the School of Rock star recalled. “We thought we were going to have a nice, little, quiet dinner. At the end of the dinner, it was announced that Madonna was going to play Truth or Dare and we’re going to film it. So, anyone who wants to join, no pressure.”
Black noted that he wasn’t going to partake until his wife Tanya Haden insisted. “A lot went down and I had permission, OK?” the actor joked. “You can’t say no to Madonna!”
Watch the full interview below.
Kelly Clarkson, Blake Shelton, Niall Horan and Chance the Rapper joined forces to tackle a cover of Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” that was shared Thursday (March 2).
Seated in a circle in gilded velvet chairs, the four coaches of The Voice each took turns singing lines from the 1967 classic. “You’re just too good to be true/ Can’t take my eyes off of you,” Chance crooned, reminding fans that he’s just as good a singer as a rapper before tossing the mic to Horan, who contiued, “You’ll be like heaven to touch/ I wanna hold you so much” on the opening verse.
The former One Direction singer also shared the video to his social media accounts, captioning the clip, “Very glad we got to do this together ! Hope you enjoy.”
The two newcomers join OG coach Shelton and returning vet Clarkson for the reality competition’s 23rd go-around. The season will also mark the country star’s final turn in his trusty spinning chair after serving as a coach since the series’ debut in April 2011. Since then, he’s competed against 17 other superstars — from pal Adam Levine and original coaches Christina Aguilera and CeeLo Green, to more recent additions such as Nick Jonas, Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello — and taken home the trophy a record nine times, including with season 22 champ Bryce Leatherwood.
Most notably, though, Shelton also met his now wife Gwen Stefani on the set of the NBC show when the “Hollaback Girl” singer joined the rotating panel of coaches in season seven.
Season 23 of The Voice is set to premiere on Monday (March 6) with the first round of blind auditions. Watch Chance, Horan, Clarkson and Shelton harmonize their way through “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” below.
Adam Lambert stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night (March 1) to perform his take on Culture Club‘s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me.”
Wearing a bold zebra-print suit, the American Idol alum serenaded the crowd, singing “In my heart the fire is burning/ Choose my color, find a star/ Precious people always tell me/ That’s a step, a step too far.”
Originally released by Boy George and co. in 1982 as their debut U.S. single, the new wave ballad peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and was followed by other top ten hits off Kissing to Be Clever like “Time (Clock of the Heart),” “Church of the Poison Mind” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya.” The following year, the band earned their first No. 1 hit with “Karma Chameleon.”
Lambert’s rendition, meanwhile, is included on his new covers album High Drama, which also features bombastic re-imaginings of Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World,” Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero,” Billie Eilish’s “Getting Older” and more.
While accepting an award at the 2023 Creative Coalition Spotlight Initiative Gala in January, the Queen + Adam Lambert singer looked back on the homophobia he faced coming off his breakthrough on Season 8 of American Idol, deciding to be “be as gay as I f—ing can be. And be flamboyant and be wild, and if it gets me into trouble, it gets me in trouble, but I’m not going to back down from it.”
Watch Lambert’s performance of “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” on Fallon above.
That’s My Jam is returning for season 2 on Tuesday, March 7, and Billboard has an exclusive first look at the wild premiere featuring Jason Derulo as an opera star.
In the clip, Derulo and Nicole Scherzinger face off against Kelsea Ballerini and Julia Michaels in a series of musical games and challenges hosted by Jimmy Fallon. When it’s the “Acapulco” crooner’s turn to compete in the Musical Genre Challenge, the Tonight Show host gleefully pulls the lever to assign him a song and genre at random. The result? Sisqo‘s late-’90s classic “The Thong Song” in the grand tradition of opera.
“Are you serious?” a baffled Derulo asks before Fallon proceeds to pass red roses out of several ladies in the audience. And despite his initial hesitation, the R&B singer steps up to the mic and lets loose — adopting a faux British accent as he proves there’s apparently been a bona fide opera star inside him this whole time.
“She had dumps like a truck, truck, truck/ Thighs like what, what, what?/ Wait, Jimmy, what?/ Baby move your butt, butt, butt/ I think I’ll say it again,” he intoned before shifting up a full octave and really showing off his vibrato-laden pipes.
Throughout the season, Fallon will also welcome Chloe x Halle, Keke Palmer, Adam Lambert, JoJo Siwa, Quavo, will.i.am and more to the stage of That’s My Jam with new games, including Turn the Beat Around, Don’t Fear the Speaker, Drawing a Blank, Bop Quiz and more.
Get a first look at Derulo’s operatic “Thong Song” below.
Adam Sandler will receive the inaugural King of Comedy Award at the 2023 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, which is set to air live on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. The show will be broadcast from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles for the first time.
“I’ve had so many great times at this fantastic awards extravaganza and I’ll always be excited to hang with da kiddies!!” Sandler said in a statement. “Love to all!!!”
Sandler has won 10 Kids’ Choice Awards over the years, for both his voiceover work in animated movies and acting roles in comedies.Sandler’s films have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide and include such hits as Grown Ups, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, The Waterboy and Hotel Transylvania.
Sandler is also set to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The award will be presented on March 19 at the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. The show will air on CNN one week later. Such stars as Jennifer Aniston, Judd Apatow, Drew Barrymore, Steve Buscemi, Conan O’Brien, Chris Rock and David Spade are scheduled to participate.
TikTok star Charli D’Amelio and Nate Burleson, co-host of CBS Mornings and CBS Sports analyst, will co-host the the 2023 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards.
Taylor Swift is the leading nominee in music categories. She has five nods – including two for favorite song, “Anti-Hero” and “Bejeweled.” And Swift’s nods don’t even count one for her cat Olivia Benson Swift. The feline is vying for favorite celebrity pet.
Harry Styles is the runner-up with four nods in music categories. Beyoncé and Lizzo have three each.
Nominees for favorite breakout artist are Devon Cole, Dove Cameron, GAYLE, Joji, Lauren Spencer-Smith and Nicky Youre.
Bebe Rexha is set to perform her global hit “I’m Good (Blue),” a collab with David Guetta that reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 last month. It also received a Grammy nomination for best dance/electronic recording.
The show will also feature appearances by Nick sitcom stars That Girl Lay Lay (star of That Girl Lay Lay) and Young Dylan (star of Tyler Perry’s Young Dylan), who will perform his new single “I Just Wanna.”
The show will simulcast across Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nicktoons, the Nick Jr. channel, TV Land, CMT and MTV2, and livestream on Nick.com and the Nick App.
Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2023 is produced by Nickelodeon Productions and overseen by Ashley Kaplan, executive vice president, Nickelodeon & Awesomeness Unscripted & Digital Franchise Studio; Paul J Medford, vice president, unscripted current series; Luke Wahl, vice president, unscripted creative; Jennifer Bryson, vice president, production, tentpoles, events & music & specials; and Ellen Rydzewski, senior vice president, celebrity, events & talent relations. Jesse Ignjatovic, Evan Prager, and Barb Bialkowski serve as executive producers, with Harriet Cuddeford and Andria Parides serving as co-executive producers.
Many months ago, the internet was in an uproar with questions regarding a convincing video taken at the Venice Film Festival that appeared to show Harry Styles spitting into the lap of his Don’t Worry Darling costar Chris Pine. And finally, we have some answers.
In a Wednesday (March 1) video interview with Esquire, Pine finally revealed what actually happened in that viral moment from Darling‘s world premiere. “Harry did not spit on me,” he began. “Harry’s a very, very kind guy.”
“I had no idea what happened,” he continued, recalling how his publicist woke him up in the middle of his flight home, insisting they needed to release a statement regarding the spit-cident. “She showed me the thing, and it does look, indeed, like Harry spitting on me. He didn’t spit on me.”
Pine had previously denied that the “As It Was” pop star spat on him, with his reps releasing a statement almost immediately after the video started going viral in September that it was simply an “odd online illusion.” This is the first time, however, that either costar has provided an explanation for what Styles really did in the clip, if not hocking a loogie on the Star Trek actor’s lap.
“He leaned down, and I think he said, ‘It’s just words, isn’t it?’” Pine revealed in the new interview. “‘Cause we had this little joke. We’re all jet-lagged, we’re all trying to answer these questions. Sometimes when you’re doing these press things, your brain gets befuddled and you start speaking gibberish. And we had a joke: ‘It’s just words, man.’”
The “Watermelon Sugar” singer has also previously addressed SpitGate, as it’s referred to by some corners of the Twitterverse, in his own way. At his first concert back from the film festival, Styles joked with his audience that he’d “just popped very quickly to Venice to spit on Chris Pine.”
Watch Pine explain what really went down with the Grammy-winning singer at the Venice Film Festival below:
One Direction were famous for not dancing. Sure, loyal Directioners were welcome to tear it up at their shows, but the fellas were not going to do a number for your amusement. But Niall Horan was happy to toss that edict aside, for one night anyway, when he played a choreo-happy pirate on The Late Late Show on Tuesday night (Feb. 28).
The singer, who has a long and fruitful friendship with soon-to-depart host James Corden, was game to play along in a bit in which a gaggle of show tunes-loving high seas marauders tortured their captive with strangely elaborate dance numbers. Wearing a traditional tricorn hat, ruffled white shirt, purple vest and scraggly beard, Horan warned the captured British soldier that he was lucky to be alive.
“This ship, and it’s booty is all ours!” he informed the British naval officer, warning that the person he should really be afraid of is their leader, the dreaded Dreadbeard. We know his name because Horan and Corden sang a whole song about it. “I bet you’ve heard a million tales that tell you who I am,” Corden crooned as a fife and drum track bubbled up out of nowhere and their fellow pirates broke out into a jig as the ship inexplicably lit up in neon lights.
“His name has traveled everywhere from England to Japan,” Horan growled, while their prisoner said the tune did answer his question about who was in charge, but in turn elicited way more questions. “Like what the hell was that?” he asked. “That whole song and dance routine? What was that for?”
“What for?” Horan snarled, barely containing his laughter. “To strike fear into your heart and spread the terrifying tale of Captain Dreadbeard.” Suffice it to say it did not do that and the captive seriously asked if this happened every time they boarded a ship.
Yes, in fact, it seems it does. Which, of course, elicited yet another elaborate number featuring their fellow pirates doing a delicate ribbon dance as Horan slipped into a seaweed-covered veil to portray a delicate siren of the deep while he and Corden shared a tender duet.
“I’m so confused right now, a mermaid broke your heart?” their hostage asked. “And whose idea were the ribbons?… And also, I’ve never met pirates before but I feel like there should be slightly less musical theater involved.” Turns out that was all Niall: he thought the ribbons added a “pop of color.”
The incessant questions sparked a mutiny among the crew, who then grumbled about the amount of high seas rehearsal they have to endure every day, along with gripes about who gets the leads in their marauder musicals. The bit ended with Horan and Corden doing an “All That Jazz”-style routine, complete with a tap dance break and Niall’s quick change into a glittery purple waistcoat for a bit-ending Rockettes high kick routine.
Horan’s forthcoming third solo album, The Show, is due out on June 9.
Watch Horan on The Late Late Show below.
Entertainment industry veteran and Live Nation Urban vp Brandon Pankey has announced the launch of Artist Presented Experiences (APEX), an advertising-based video-on-demand streaming network exclusively featuring programming presented by and for music artists.
Set to launch Tuesday (Feb. 28) on iOS and Android, APEX will offer a range of diverse and artist-centric content, including original scripted, unscripted and licensed programming. The network is powered by brand services agency Quantasy + Associates.
APEX’s programming lineup features content designed to allow artists and production partners to deliver their unfiltered creative vision directly to fans, with programming partners including Raedio, Complex Media, Mercury Studios, Live Nation Urban, LVRN co-founder Sean Famoso and director Stacey Muhammad (OWN’s Queen Sugar, BET’s First Wives Club). The network’s slate of original programming includes Raedio Presents The Playback, executive produced by Benoni Tagoe and Morgan Davis; On the Record, executive produced by Muhammad and Marc Lamont Hill; SuperShorts, executive produced by Famoso; and Help Wanted, a scripted comedy series executive produced by Max Smith and Atlantic Records recording artist Symba. Other original series slated for release on the platform this year include titles such as How I’m Livin, Ring Walk, APEX Acoustic and Generally Speaking.
APEX has also secured licensing agreements for episodic content from Complex Media (Brackets, Making It) and music documentaries from Mercury Studios, a division of Universal Music Group, featuring music superstars such as Amy Winehouse, J Balvin, Tupac Shakur, Miles Davis, Queen and Joni Mitchell. APEX will additionally offer exclusive themed national and international concerts and events.
“The vision for APEX has never been more clear,” said Pankey in a statement. “Artists deserve a platform to share their stories and connect with fans in a meaningful way. APEX has been a dream of mine since I started in the music industry. We’re providing a first-of-its-kind network exclusively featuring programming presented by and for music artists, allowing them to showcase their unique perspectives and creative visions. Artist innovation and creativity now has a home to live and to thrive.”
For more information on APEX and its programming slate, please visit watchapex.com.
Jesse Williams is joining in on the murder mystery fun. Selena Gomez took to Instagram on Tuesday (Feb. 28) to share a photo with the Grey’s Anatomy star, who will be joining the cast of Only Murders in the Building for season three, though she didn’t clarify who Williams will be playing in the popular series.
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“So @ijessewilliams is killing it on season 3 guys.. @onlymurdershulu @hulu,” she captioned a smiling mirror selfie of the duo in the makeup trailer.
Only Murders in the Building season two, starring Gomez Martin Short, and Steven Martin as true-crime loving neighbors who get wrapped up in a murder mystery, dropped on Hulu back in June. Pail Rudd joined the cast for a surprise cameo at the end of of the season as Ben Glenroy, the star of Oliver’s (Short) Broadway production. His character was found dead at the end of the season finale, and the upcoming third season is said to focus on the investigation into Glenroy’s murder.
Since then, Emily in Paris actress Ashley Park revealed that she is also joining the cast for season three. “Murders?? IN THIS BUILDING????” Park wrote in a caption on TikTok, along with a video in which she, Gomez and Short recreate a scene from the 1942 movie My Sister Eileen. “So excited to join this killer (pun intended) cast of amazing humans.”
Only Murders in the Building season three does not yet have a release date. In the meantime, watch the first two seasons on Hulu here.
