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Khloe Kardashian and ex Tristan Thompson are expecting a child together via surrogate, her team confirms to The Hollywood Reporter.
This will be the second child for Kardashian and Thompson, who plays for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls. The pair welcomed daughter True in April 2018.
“We can confirm True will have a sibling who was conceived in November,” a representative for Kardashian said in a statement. “Khloe is incredibly grateful to the extraordinary surrogate for such a beautiful blessing. We’d like to ask for kindness and privacy so that Khloe can focus on her family.”
A source tells THR that Kardashian and Thompson have since split up and do not communicate outside of matters related to co-parenting. According to the insider, True’s sibling was conceived via surrogate before Kardashian was aware of Thompson’s paternity scandal centering on a child who was born in early December.
Kardashian, who currently stars with the rest of her famous family on Hulu’s The Kardashians, had been open on their previous E! show Keeping Up With the Kardashians about her hopes to give True a sibling amid her fertility struggles.
She and Thompson have yet to comment publicly on the baby news.
During an interview with THR that published last month, Kardashian discussed the difficulty of reliving painful personal moments on TV, including the recent infidelity controversy surrounding Thompson.
“That definitely isn’t fun, but when things are so public, there’s no way around it,” she said at the time. “I mean, it’s something that I feel viewers would feel slighted or maybe [say], ‘This isn’t a docuseries, it’s not reality, because you’re not talking about this or showing this.”
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
The Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl Halftime Show have a few things in common. Both, of course, have been fixtures on network television for decades, but neither has even won the top Emmy Award for variety programming — an award currently called outstanding variety special (live). Both shows are nominated in that category again this year.
Will one of these shows finally prevail this year? Quite possibly. Each received five Emmy nominations this year, which is more than the other three nominees in this category — The Oscars (which received three nods), The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back! (which received two) and Live In Front Of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes (which also received two).
The Grammys became a live telecast in March 1971, but they assumed a higher profile when the show expanded from two hours to three hours in February 1983. The timing of the expansion was fortunate. The following year, Michael Jackson set a new record for most Grammys won in one night. That 1984 show, which was in effect a pop coronation, really needed to be three hours.
The Super Bowl goes even further back. It has aired every year since 1967, though the half-time show didn’t become the high-profile mega-event we know it to be today until the early ’90s. As late as 1986, the show was headlined by the bland vocal choral group Up With People. That changed in 1991 when the red-hot New Kids on the Block headlined the show, followed by Gloria Estefan in 1992 and, the real game-changer, Jackson in 1993.
This year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show — officially called The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent — was a widely-acclaimed celebration of hip-hop music and culture. It’s probably the front-runner to win this award, but award shows have a way of surprising us.
Several artists performed on more than one of these competing shows. Snoop Dogg was one of the headliners on the Super Bowl Halftime Show and also played Vernon in the live revival of Diff’rent Strokes. Anderson .Paak was a featured performer on the Super Bowl Halftime Show and also opened this year’s Grammys, along with Bruno Mars, as Silk Sonic. In addition to hosting and performing on The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!, Leslie Odom Jr. performed on the Grammys, in the pitch-perfect salute to the late Stephen Sondheim. John Legend and Ben Platt also performed on both the Tonys and the Grammys.
Some key behind-the-scenes talent worked on multiple nominees too. Jesse Collins was an executive producer on the 64th annual Grammy Awards and a producer on the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Hamish Hamilton directed both of those shows. Glenn Weiss directed both the Oscars and The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!
Here’s a closer look at this year’s Emmy nominees for best variety special (live):
A second man has been arrested on murder charges in a May shooting that killed two people and caused a stampede at a Georgia music festival.
Washington County Sheriff Joel Cochran said Wednesday (July 13) that Brian Keith Rozier, a 24-year-old East Dublin resident, was arrested by U.S. marshals. Rozier is charged with malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, using a gun in a crime and reckless conduct.
The shooting killed William Mykell Lowery, 17, and Christopher “Scooter” Dunn, 30. Both men were attending a Freaknik-themed music festival at the private Larry Mitchell Ballpark in Sandersville.
Rozier had not yet been booked into the Washington County jail Wednesday afternoon. It was unclear if he has a lawyer representing him.
Ryan Rozier, 22, also of East Dublin, was arrested in connection with the shooting in June for being a felon in possession of a gun and for violating his probation. It was not immediately known if the two Roziers are related.
Washington County commissioners sued to shut down the private park after hearing complaints from nearby residents following the shooting.
Witnesses said the crowded event had little security, no one checking for weapons and limited access.
A judge issued a temporary order closing the park. A hearing on a permanent closure had been scheduled for last week, but Cochran said it was delayed until Sept. 1. The park will remained closed until at least Sept. 4.
Investigators say they’re still seeking information about the May shooting.
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Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018, has died.
Tovey died Tuesday (July 12) at his Barrington home surrounded by his family, one day after his 69th birthday, the orchestra said in a statement Wednesday.
Tovey was diagnosed with a form of sarcoma in May 2019 and underwent surgery at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in June 2021 that briefly left him cancer-free, the statement said. The cancer returned in January.
“We are all heartbroken,” orchestra Executive Director David Beauchesne said. “Bramwell Tovey was a dear friend and colleague, and a person of uncommon ability, warmth, humor, sincerity and kindness. The youngest student and most revered guest artist received the same level of his care and attention.”
Tovey, a tuba and piano player who won Grammy and Juno awards, played in Salvation Army bands early in his musical career, according to the orchestra.
He developed a friendship with Leonard Bernstein that started in 1986 when — according to a biography on Tovey’s website — Tovey was as a last-minute substitute at the opening night of the London Symphony Orchestra’s Leonard Bernstein Festival, in the presence of the maestro himself.
He also had transformative tenures as music director at the Winnipeg Symphony and with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in Canada. Tovey was the music director of the Sarasota Orchestra in Florida.
He is survived by his partner Verena De Neovel, children Ben, Jessica and Emmeline, and grandchildren.
The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2022-23 season will be dedicated to Tovey’s memory. Memorial and funeral arrangements were not immediately available.
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