By Leah Asmelash, CNN From the Winter Olympics to Tom Brady’s unretirement, it’s been a wild year in sports. And this year’s ESPYS will highlight just that. The ESPYS, ESPN’s annual awards show celebrating the year in sports, is set to air Wednesday night. Here’s everything you need to know about the show. Steph Curry
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart are always keeping us laughing. Johnson posted a video to his Instagram of the two stars doing a “tortilla challenge,” a TikTok trend that involves two individuals slapping each other across the face with a tortilla while trying not to spit out a mouthful
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Nolan Neal, who won a standing ovation on “America’s Got Talent” with a song he wrote about getting sober, has died, according to multiple media reports and tweets from “The Voice,” on which he also performed. He was 41. The Nashville native appeared as a contestant on Season 10 of
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey The first trailer for “Halloween Ends” is here. The movie is the third and final installment in the “Halloween” sequel-trilogy. Jamie Lee Curtis’ resumes her character Laurie Strode from 1978 original and once again faces off with villain Michael Myers, telling him “Come on, let’s go,” before they end up in a
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Three years after suing Netflix, Mo’Nique is airing a special on the streamer. “Thrilled to announce that Netflix is the home for the next original stand-up special from the groundbreaking, trailblazing, and iconic Mo’Nique!” Netflix tweeted Tuesday. In a video with the tweet, Mo’Nique said, “Can y’all believe this s—?” I done
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Take a closer look at the plane on the top of this story. Notice anything different about one of its engines? This Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger jet, has been recruited as a demonstrator to trial new cutting-edge open fan engine architecture which could help cut carbon emissions by up
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN There’s an understandably strong sentimental streak running through “Dickie V.,” a documentary tribute to ESPN analyst Dick Vitale, as he deals with his mortality after being sidelined by cancer. Yet the lack of depth about Vitale’s influence over how college basketball is covered, to use his parlance, prevents this from
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Justin Bieber will be resuming his tour after being diagnosed with an illness which left him with partial facial paralysis. “Justin Bieber RESUMES WORLD TOUR!!!” AEG Presents UK tweeted Monday. “Starting a run of European festivals in Italy on 31st July, then continue across South America, South Africa, The Middle
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Bruce Willis revisited the site of one of his most famous films. The actor’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, posted a video on her verified Instagram account recently that showed her husband visiting Fox Plaza in Los Angeles, which was the setting for Nakatomi Plaza in his now iconic 1988 film,
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN This week, many of us have been dealing with the record-breaking temperatures beating down across Europe and parts of America. While the worrying heat may have you wishing you could draw the blinds, crank up the fan and lay as still as possible, there are jobs to work and paychecks to earn,
Continue Reading Silvia Marchetti, CNN Made up of over 1,000 kilometers of mostly oceanfront trails circling the island of Sardinia, the ‘Cammino 100 Torri’ — or 100 Towers Path — might not be Italy’s most famous hike, but it’s certainly of its most spectacular. This epic round-trip journey, filled with blood-red sunsets, ancient architecture and stunning beaches,
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Jon Hamm would like to introduce everyone to the “Hamm Slamm.” Get your mind out of the gutter. Ahead of the MLB All-Star Game, the “Mad Men” star stepped in as a field reporter and spoke to some of baseball’s biggest names about their favorite nicknames for a home run —
Continue Reading By Yenny Sanchez, CNN The emerging queen of broadcast comedy is set to play the former queen of daytime. “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is slated to take on the role of Oprah Winfrey in The Roku Channel’s highly anticipated biopic “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” starring Daniel Radcliffe as the musician parodist.
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Sometimes singing competition shows get right, other times they pass on Maren Morris. “The Middle” singer was just 17 when she auditioned for “American Idol” in August 2007. Though Morris didn’t get past the audition round, her mom, Kellie, saved her ticket — then found it years later. “My mom found my
Continue Reading By Mark Morales A 31-year-old man who was working for the production crew of the NBC show “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was shot and killed as he saved parking spots early Tuesday morning, New York City police said. The victim was later identified as 31-year-old Johnny Pizarro of Queens, according to an NYPD press
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN A trio of Asian passports offer their holders greater global travel freedom than those of any other countries, according to a new quarterly report released by London-based global citizenship and residence advisory firm Henley & Partners. Japan has pushed ahead of Singapore and South Korea to offer its citizens visa-free or
Continue Reading By Scottie Andrew, CNN Harry Styles inspires more questions than he does easy answers. Questions like: How does one make the leap from boy band stud to formidable solo artist, or successfully style sweater vests and high-waisted trousers? And what, exactly, is the true meaning of “watermelon sugar”? We may never get the answers from
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Drew Barrymore is in a real life rom-com with the rain. The talk show host took to Instagram with a video of herself running outside into a rain shower and enjoying every second of it. “Whenever you can, go out into the rain!” she shouted, while getting drenched outside. “Do not miss
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Chelsea Handler and Jo Koy are taking a break from their relationship. Handler, who had been noticeably absent from Koy’s Instagram feed lately, wrote on her own Instagram account Monday that the two are taking a break. She also shared video that the two had planned to post on their upcoming one-year
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN From the looks of it, David Hasselhoff’s 70th birthday celebration went swimmingly. Hasselhoff shared a video on Instagram Monday in which guests sang happy happy birthday to him at a celebration. Some of his former “Baywatch” costars, including David Chokachi, Jeremy Jackson, Kelly Packard and Parker Stevenson, were in attendance.
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