Blake Shelton has announced his first full-length studio record in nearly four years, titled Body Language, will drop on May 21st. The album is the follow-up to Shelton’s 2017 long-player Texoma Shore.
Body Language includes 12 tracks, including Shelton’s current single “Minimum Wage” and the duet with fiancée Gwen Stefani, “Happy Anywhere.” Body Language can be pre-saved/pre-order beginning on April 23rd.
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Emma Stone has welcomed her first child with husband Dave McCary. People magazine confirmed that the actress, 32, has given birth to a baby girl. TMZ reported that Stone gave birth on March 13 in the Los Angeles area.
McCary, 35, is a former Saturday Night Live segment director. Stone and McCary met in 2016 when she hosted Saturday Night Live and appeared in a sketch that McCary directed. The pair announced their engagement in December 2019 before getting married in 2020.
Stone will next be seen as 101 Dalmatians villain Cruella de Vil in Disney‘s Cruella, which is set for release on May 28.
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Amanda Seyfried will portray former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout. Seyfried will be taking the role over from Kate McKinnon, who was originally set to portray Holmes until she exited the series in February.
The Dropout is based on the ABC News podcast of the same name about Holmes and the rise and fall of her company, Theranos. Holmes lost millions and was indicted by a federal jury in 2018 after falsely claiming to have devised blood tests that only required small amounts of blood.
Holmes recently had her wire fraud trial delayed through Aug. 31 because she is pregnant. The trial was originally set to begin in July 2020 but has been delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Five people were killed and one was hospitalized following a helicopter crash in an Alaskan glacier, officials said. The Alaska Department Of Public Safety said Alaska State Troopers were alerted Saturday night of reports of an overdue helicopter and crash in the Knik Glacier, roughly 54 miles east of Anchorage.
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center dispatched a rescue team and found five occupants dead. One survivor was found and transported to a hospital. They are in serious but stable condition, as of Sunday afternoon, the department of public safety said.
Torrential rains across Tennessee flooded homes and left roads impassable, prompting over 100 people to be rescued in the Nashville area. Authorities said four were found dead on Sunday in the flood’s aftermath. Mayor John Cooper said at a news conference Sunday that Nashville received more than 7 inches of rain, the second-highest two-day rainfall total ever recorded.
Nashville Fire Chief William Swann said at least 130 people were rescued from cars, apartments and homes, while about 40 dogs were moved from a Nashville boarding kennel, Camp Bow Wow, to another location. Mayor Cooper said first responders are working with the Red Cross to canvass affected neighborhoods. Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said three bodies were found after Seven Mile Creek flooded. The body of a 70-year-old man, a 46-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man. Drake said a 65-year-old man’s body was found on a golf course.
Many rivers and creeks were at or near their highest level since 2010, according to the National Weather Service. Floods in May 2010 caused 21 deaths in Tennessee and an estimated $1.5 billion in damage in Nashville.
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Chris Young and Kane Brown just released the official music video fo their track “Famous Friends,” with many of the duo’s real-life friends included.
Young shared in a press release: “I can’t imagine a more perfect video for ‘Famous Friends.’ Peter [Zavadil, the director] knocked it out of the park on this one! I had a blast seeing my friends on set, and that rooftop performance with Kane is some of the most fun I’ve had in a video.”
Take a look at the video for ‘Famous Friends” at the link – here.
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Up-and-coming country artist Breland has teamed up with Mickey Guyton for a remix of his autobiographical track “Cross Country,” the follow-up to his debut hit single “My Truck.”
The 25-year-old Breland co-wrote “Cross Country” with Will Gittens, Sean Small and Sam Sumser. You can take a listen to the Cross Country remix and stream the song here.
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Actress Hilary Duff shared the first photo of her new daughter on social media, posting on Instagram with the caption: “Mae James Bair- We LOVE you beauty 3-24-21.” In the photo, Duff, 33, cradles the newborn while sitting in a home birth tub with her 2-year-old daughter Banks Violet. Looking on from outside the tub are Duff’s 9-year-old son Luca Cruz and her husband Matthew Koma.
Duff and Koma were married in December 2019, and welcomed daughter Banks Violet in October 2018. Duff also shares her son Luca with ex-husband and former NHL player Mike Comrie.
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The Bob Odenkirk thriller Nobody was the No. 1 movie in North America this weekend, earning $6.7 million. Nobody stars Bob Odenkirk as a mild-mannered man who turns to rage after his house is robbed and his family threatened.
Coming in at No. 2 is Raya and the Last Dragon with $2.5 million, followed by Tom and Jerry at No. 3 with $2.5 million, Chaos Walking at No. 4 with $1.2 million and The Courier at No. 5 with $1 million. Rounding out the top tier are The Croods: A New Age at No. 6 with $540,000, The Marksman at No. 7 with $375,000, Boogie at No. 8 with $340,000, Minari at No. 9 with $275,000 and Wonder Woman 1984 at No. 10 with $245,000.
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A tornado tore through a housing subdivision in Alabama on Thursday, causing severe destruction. Thousands were left without power across the Deep South as strong winds and heavy downpours swept across the region. The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado warnings in Alabama and surrounding states where forecasters said strong twisters that could stay on the ground for miles. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey issued an emergency declaration for 46 counties as the severe weather approached, and officials opened shelters in and around Birmingham.
Severe weather also hit parts of Mississippi on Thursday, a day after authorities reported a weather-related death in the southwestern part of the state. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia were also at risk of strong tornadoes, and areas in the path of Thursday’s storms included Memphis and Nashville in Tennessee.
A flash-flood watch Thursday covered northern parts of Alabama and Georgia and portions of Tennessee and western North Carolina. Up to 4 inches of rain were predicted, with higher amounts possible in northern Alabama.
