Halle Bailey and DDG will no longer be part of each other's worlds — at least not romantically.

The "Little Mermaid" star and the "I'm Geekin" rapper have called it quits after two years of dating and recently welcoming a baby boy. "After much reflection and heartfelt conversations, Halle and I have decided to go our separate ways," DDG (born...Read more

DENVER — Bluegrass artist Billy Strings is offering refunds to attendees of his music festival in Buena Vista after he skipped his headlining sets at the last minute.

Ticketholders to the Sept. 27-28 event at The Meadows in Buena Vista event got to see openers such as Molly Tuttle, Full Cord and Jerry Douglas Band, as well as Strings’ own ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Garth Brooks returned to the stage Thursday after denying rape and sexual misconduct allegations lobbed at him in a civil lawsuit brought by a former employee.

The country music superstar posted a message to fans after playing his latest Las Vegas residency show at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, telling them how much he needed...Read more

Sebastian Stan can thank oodles of noodles for helping him bulk up for his biggest role to date.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe star revealed in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly that he gorged on ramen and soy sauce to “puff up” his face to play Donald Trump in the upcoming film “The Apprentice.”

“We were getting closer to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Quinta Brunson teased fans on Instagram Thursday evening.

“Season 4 of Abbott Elementary gets real sunny,” the post read. With it, a photo of Brunson posed like she should be on the cover of a hip-hop album with "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day. The actors are the epitome of happy ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — If "Megalopolis," Francis Ford Coppola's $120 million sci-fi epic/epic box office flop, has largely confounded viewers and critics — "What the hell did I just watch?" went the headline of one review — the film's real star may end up being the music.

Not that the score is any less strange than the film, but it's a good-...Read more

[This article contains spoilers for Episode 4 of "Agatha All Along."]

"It's just a stupid song," says a witch in the second episode of "Agatha All Along." However, as viewers of the new Marvel series know by now, "The Ballad of the Witches' Road" is anything but stupid. It's a cultural touchstone for the centuries-old witches, an instruction ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — My 17-year-old daughter occasionally reminds me that if I had been more supportive of her early success on Musical.ly, she might be a TikTok star by now and I could retire. Presumably to be her manager.

I regret nothing.

Certainly not after watching the FX docuseries "Social Studies." As schools reopened after the COVID-19 ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego-bound Eric Clapton is keeping very busy for someone who, over the past decade, has declared his intention to retire more than a few times.

How busy?

Let’s take a quick tally.

In April, the 79-year-old guitar legend, singer and three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee released “To Save a Child: An Intimate Live ...Read more

You may find yourself watching “Joker: Folie à Deux” wondering if its subtitle (which roughly translates as “a shared madness”) applies to the characters or the filmmakers. Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 hit “Joker,” which brought Joaquin Phoenix an Academy Award in the title role, is a big swing: It’s a courtroom drama/...Read more

Country superstar and long-running Las Vegas headliner Garth Brooks, saying he feels like he’s “having a loaded gun waved in my face,” has been accused of sexual assault and battery.

The allegations have been leveled in a lawsuit from an unidentified woman who claims to have worked as a hairstylist and makeup artist for the country artist...Read more

Jennifer Aniston says she and Barack Obama are just friends — and barely even that.

The “Friends” star appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Wednesday night where she was asked about a tabloid story indicating she and the 44th president are “obsessed” with one another.

According to an In Touch magazine cover story from a few weeks ago...Read more

Elon Musk is having trouble distancing himself from questions over which of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ powerful friends and business associates possibly enabled his alleged “criminal enterprise,” which authorities say was focused on fulfilling his sexual desires through sex trafficking and sexual assault of multiple people, including a 9-year...Read more

Country star Garth Brooks was accused of raping and sexually harassing a makeup artist in a lawsuit filed Thursday in California.

The alleged victim, identified as Jane Roe in the lawsuit, claims Brooks raped her in a hotel room in Los Angeles in 2019.

According to the suit reviewed by the Daily News, Brooks and Roe flew to Los Angeles so he ...Read more

Luke Bryan is venturing a guess at why Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" was snubbed by the Country Music Association Awards.

Despite the album debuting at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart — making Beyoncé the first Black woman ever to top the chart — it was shut out of the 2024 CMA Awards nominations, which were announced last month...Read more

DETROIT — Eminem pays tribute to his daughter Hailie Jade — and learns he's going to be a grandfather — in the music video for "Temporary," released Thursday.

The video is compiled of home video footage of Eminem, 51, and his daughter from over the years, and features footage from her wedding to Evan McClintock earlier this year.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ron Hale, a soap opera star who played Mike Corbin on "General Hospital" and Dr. Rodger Coleridge on "Ryan's Hope," has died. He was 78.

The actor died in St. George, South Carolina, on Aug. 27, according to South Carolina-based Bryant Funeral Home. His cause of death was not disclosed.

His niece Lori Brown said he died ...Read more

For Lana Del Rey, heaven is a place on earth with you — and without paparazzi.

The "Video Games" and "Say Yes to Heaven" singer said this week that she and her loved ones, including new husband Jeremy Dufrene, "would feel a lot safer" if local papz in Louisiana would leave them alone. In the comments section of a fan account, the Grammy-...Read more

The average sequel to a huge commercial success doesn’t try much of anything. Director Todd Phillips knows this. He is, after all, the director of all three “Hangover” movies.

Surprise! “Joker: Folie à Deux” is a lot of things, but a pro forma sequel it is not. This genuinely nervy jukebox musical (?) (!), very nearly a rebuke of the...Read more

It would take a mighty generous read to extract anything of worth out of "Joker: Folie à Deux," the tepid, sort-of musical sequel to 2019's transgressive origin story of the famed Batman villain.

Where the original film took the Joker story as a jumping off point to hold a mirror to a decaying society and its treatment of mental illness, for ...Read more