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By Chloe Melas, CNN A Nicaragua-born designer living in Miami is the winner of the latest season of “Project Runway.” Shantall Lacayo was named the winner of the 19th season of the hit series on Thursday. The Nicaragua native had already starred on the Latin American version of “Project Runway” and made it to the

By Stella Chan, CNN A $60 million wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in the concert stabbing death of rapper Drakeo the Ruler at a Los Angeles music festival late last year. Darrell Caldwell, known by his stage name Drakeo the Ruler, 28, was stabbed to death backstage minutes before he was set to perform

By Lisa Respers France, CNN In a rare public rebuke,Kim Kardashian has pushed back on estranged husband Kanye West’s posting about their daughter North being on TikTok. On Friday the rap mogul, who now goes by “Ye,” posted a screen grab on his verified Instagram account of their eight-year-old on TikTok. “Since this is my

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Singer Fantasia Taylor and actress Danielle Brooks are set to star in Warner Bros.’ big-screen adaptation of the award-winning musical “The Color Purple.” News that Taylor and Brooks will play leads Celie and Sofia, respectively, was announced Thursday during ABC’s “Soul of a Nation: Screen Queens Rising” special. Warner Bros., like

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nick Cannon has apologized for “any extra pain or confusion” he may have caused with his recent announcement that he’s expecting his eighth child. On Monday’s episode of his daytime talk show Cannon announced that he and model Bre Tiesi are expecting a baby boy together. Cannon has publicly mourned

By Marianne Garvey, CNN Susan Sarandon is facing backlash from law enforcement for a Twitter post she shared comparing the officers gathered at slain NYPD Detective Jason Rivera’s funeral to fascists. Podcaster Danny Haiphong had originally posted a tweet that showed thousands of NYPD cops lined up on 5th Avenue in Manhattan last week to

By Lisa Respers France, CNN Cheslie Kryst’s mother is speaking out about her daughter’s death, saying she has “never known a pain as deep as this. I am forever changed.” April Simpkins shared a statement with “Extra” where Kryst had worked as an entertainment correspondent. The 30-year-old attorney and former Miss USA died after jumping

By Marianne Garvey Channing Tatum says he is traumatized after his dreams of playing a Marvel superhero fell apart. The “Magic Mike” star was set to play X-Men character Gambit in his own movie in 2016, but after production delays, the movie never happened. Tatum and his producing partner, Reid Carolin, were producing the movie

By Chloe Melas, CNN Two judges on “The Masked Singer” walked off after Rudy Giuliani unmasked himself at the end of a show taping, a source close to the show told CNN Wednesday. Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong walked off stage following the revelation of Giuliani as a contestant on the popular Fox reality show

By Sara Spary, CNN Irish actor Cillian Murphy has said it was “very strange” to film the final series of “Peaky Blinders” without Helen McCrory, as he remembered his “brave” and “magnificent” former co-star. Murphy, who plays protagonist Tommy Shelby in the hit series, said in an interview with Esquire on Tuesday that McCrory was

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Though still in its first season, “Abbott Elementary” has captured the hearts of millions. The show, a new mockumentary comedy on ABC, follows a group of teachers at an underfunded elementary school in Philadelphia, who are just trying to make things work. Sure, the lights flicker. And the textbooks are so

By Mirna Alsharif and Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Four men have been arrested for allegedly being part of a drug trafficking organization that sold deadly fentanyl-laced heroin to actor and producer Michael K. Williams, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York. Williams, best known for