MGK is in full-court promo mode in the lead-up to Friday’s (Aug. 8) release of his Lost Americana album. But during a visit to Today With Jenna and Friends on Thursday morning (Aug. 6), co-host Jenna Bush Hager and Las Culturistas co-host Matt Rogers were initially more focused on talking about babies. The pair surprised Kelly with a onesie for his newborn with ex Megan Fox, Saga Blade, featuring the logo of her show, before asking him what kind of dad he is.

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Wondering how life is with the nearly five-month-old, Kelly responded, “It’s awesome,” adding, “I wanna detract any of, like, the congrats to me and just move it to Megan because she really does all the work. I keep getting called, like, the ‘Music Teacher.’” He also laughed about someone calling him a “good dad” recently because he was simply holding little Saga, while Fox was “fuming” off to the side about the praise for what he joked was his bare minimum help.

“She is the one… I just play the guitar and hope and pray that the baby is happy,” said MGK, 35, who wore ripped jeans, a stripped T-shirt and a white Lost Americana baseball hat for the occasion.

Kelly also gave an update on his daughter from a previous relationship, Casie, who celebrated her 16th birthday last month. Asked if she’s working on getting her driver’s license, Kelly said there was some paperwork snafu, which means she can’t get her permit until September at the earliest. “Either way, she’ll get hers before mine, I still don’t have mine,” he said, laughing that he expects Casie to drive him to the bank when she gets her permit considering he’s picked up all the bills so far.

Getting back to album promo, MGK said he’s planning to do some more small-capacity pop-up shows next week for fans after inviting 300 diehards to join him at Cellar Dog in New York’s West Village on Tuesday (Aug. 5) for an intimate gig where he debuted the new “Semi-Charmed Life”-interpolating song “Starman.” He also noted that he was planning to announce a tour a few month ago, but due to what he dubbed the “gnarly” recession and the bumper-crop of other acts on the road, he decided to hold off for now.

“I inevitably have to announce a tour because I know that is a service to my fans,” he said before showing Hager and Rogers his killer hula hoop skills.

MC Hammer is facing a lawsuit claiming he’s failed to make car payments on a Land Rover and has refused to allow the car to be repossessed.

In a case filed last week in California court, JPMorgan Chase Bank claimed the “2 Legit 2 Quit” rapper (Stanley Burrell) and his U Can’t Touch This LLC still owe $76,732.79 on a $114,376.90 loan he took out to purchase the vehicle in 2023, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by Billboard.

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As a result of Hammer’s “default” on the agreement, the bank says it has “demanded possession” of the car, but that the star has “not surrendered the vehicle.”

A rep for Hammer could not immediately be reached for comment on Thursday.

Despite a legendary career as a rapper and dancer — featuring smash hits like “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” and cultural ubiquity via his distinctive “Hammer pants” — the MC has long been dogged by financial problems.

Six years after releasing the chart-topping Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, Hammer filed for federal bankruptcy protection in 1996, claiming only $1 million in assets to pay more than $10 million in debts, including hundreds of thousands in unpaid taxes and even a $500,000 loan from NFL star Deion Sanders.

At the time, Hammer told the newswire UPI, ‘It’s time to stop the bleeding and get on with my life. It’s time for me to close out old business and stop being the lottery for people who see Hammer as this big celebrity with a bottomless pit of dreams for people.”

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The case dragged on for years, including a judge’s 2002 ruling refusing to discharge Hammer’s debts because of his alleged failure to comply with the bankruptcy settlement. In 2005, a court-appointed administrator put his publishing catalog up for sale, eventually selling it for $2.7 million the next year.

The IRS sued Hammer in 2013, claiming he still owed nearly $800,000 in unpaid taxes from 1996 and 1997 that hadn’t been covered by his bankruptcy case. The feds later won a ruling in 2015 ordering Hammer to pay $798,033 for those years.

Few phrases are as iconic to fans of Lady Gaga than being instructed to “put your paws up” — and Drag Race alum Bob the Drag Queen decided to figure out exactly how often Mother Monster still says it.

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In a video posted to his TikTok on Wednesday (Aug. 6), Bob shared a clip of himself preparing to attend the Mayhem Ball in Los Angeles, in which he revealed his plan to track the number of times Gaga instructs her fans to put their hands in the air.

“I’m headed to the Mayhem Ball, and I have this little counter,” Bob said, holding up a handheld tally counter to the camera. “I’m gonna count how many times Lady Gaga requests that we put our hands up. I’m counting ‘put your hands up,’ ‘put your paws up,’ ‘get them up,’ ‘hands up,’ anytime it is clear to me that she is wanting us to put our hands in the air.”

Throughout the rest of the clip, Bob interviews a series of his friends before the show to get their predictions for how often Gaga will ask the crowd to raise their hands. TikTok personality and singer Brittany Broski guessed that Mother Monster would ask 15 times, while Bob’s partner, Jacob Ritts, said she’d make the request 131 times. “I was gonna say 45 [times],” Bob offered.

After a series of clips from the show, wherein Gaga performed songs including “LoveDrug,” “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi,” Bob appeared back on camera to reveal that the singer asked her fans to put their hands in the air a whopping 88 times. “I did include the four times that she sang it in the song ‘Applause,’ to be fair,” Bob said with a laugh. “Make sure your arms are rested before you go see Mayhem.”

Fans looking to throw their hands up at one of Gaga’s forthcoming shows still have plenty of opportunities to do so. Mother Monster is performing two Mayhem Ball shows in Seattle on Thursday (Aug. 7) and Saturday (Aug. 9), before heading to New York City for a six-date mini-residency at Madison Square Garden starting on Aug. 22. The tour will reach Miami, Toronto and Chicago in the coming months before Gaga heads overseas for the European leg of her tour.

Check out Bob the Drag Queen’s Mayhem Ball TikTok below:

Rupert Grint gets a little more Ed Sheeran than he bargained for in the musician’s new music video for “A Little More,” which dropped alongside the new song Thursday (Aug. 7).

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In the trippy visual, the Harry Potter actor reprises his role as the British pop star’s stalker from 2011’s “Lego House” music video. After serving time in prison for sneaking into Sheeran’s concert and impersonating him on stage, Grint’s character gets a fresh start in “A Little More” — but he can’t seem to escape the singer he once obsessed over.

“I used to love you/ Now every day I hate you just a little more,” Sheeran sings on the mid-tempo track over shots of Grint grimacing as the musician seems to pop up everywhere — on billboards, posters, TV and more.

Things really take a turn, however, when Grint meets a woman and asks her to marry him. At the wedding, all of the couple’s guests morph into Sheeran, who leers at the horrified actor. With a crowd of Eds watching from the chapel pews, Grint pulls back his bride’s veil to reveal that she has also transformed into Sheeran.

“I hadn’t worked with @rupertgrint in 14 years since Lego house, so didn’t know if he’d say yes to this idea,” Sheeran wrote on Instagram after the video dropped. “But I’m so glad he did. It’s such a fun, bonkers video … Rupert, my brother from another mother, thank you for throwing yourself into this, it wouldn’t exist had you said no.”

“A Little More” marks the latest single Sheeran has shared ahead of his September-slated album, Play. So far, fans have also heard “Azizam,” “Old Phone” and “Sapphire.”

The LP will mark the first installment in the Grammy winner’s next album series, following the close of his Mathematics sequence: 2012’s Plus, 2014’s Multiply, 2017’s Divide, 2021’s Equals and 2023’s Minus. All five projects reached the top five of the Billboard 200.

Watch the “A Little More” music video above.

The final chapter of Ozzy Osbourne’s life will be shown in an upcoming documentary, just weeks following his death. 

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The Black Sabbath frontman and soloist died of a heart attack on July 22 at age 76. Following a procession in his hometown in Birmingham, England, he was laid to rest on the estate of his home in Buckinghamshire on July 31.

The new BBC documentary Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home features footage from the final three years of his life, up to and including his farewell concert on July 5. The documentary was first announced in 2022 as Home to Roost and was conceived as a three-part series, but became a one-hour special as Osbourne’s health deteriorated over the years.

The film will be broadcast on BBC One at 9 p.m. BST on Aug. 18, and will also be available on the iPlayer service. An international broadcast has not yet been confirmed, nor has a trailer been shared.

The documentary promises “intimate” access into Ozzy and wife Sharon’s lives as they complete their move back to the U.K. from their Los Angeles base, and the rocker prepares for his final live performance. Ozzy, Sharon and their children Kelly and Jack all contribute to the film.

Clare Sillery, BBC’s head of commissioning, documentaries, said in a statement: “We are honored to have had the opportunity to film with Ozzy and his family. The film captures an intimate glimpse into their journey as they prepare to return to the U.K. It features family moments, humor, reflection and shows the enduring spirit that made Ozzy a global icon. We hope it brings comfort and joy to Ozzy’s fans and viewers as they remember and celebrate his extraordinary life.”

Ozzy’s farewell concert Back to the Beginning took place at Birmingham’s Villa Park on July 5 and featured an all-star line-up, with Metallica, Slayer, Guns N’ Roses and Yungblud among the performers. The event concluded with a nine-song set by Ozzy, and saw him reunite with Black Sabbath’s original members for the first time in 20 years.

The event benefitted a number of local charities including Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Acorns Children’s Hospice, and raised a reported $190 million.

Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift both dated Jonas Brothers at the same time, but the real love story was the two women’s friendship that emerged from those romances.

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While guesting on an episode of Jake Shane’s Therapuss posted Wednesday (Aug. 6), the Rare Beauty founder reflected on how she first connected with the Eras Tour headliner nearly two decades ago. “Taylor and I dated the Jonas Brothers,” Gomez said with a laugh. “I dated Nick, and she dated Joe … We all know and love each other now, and it’s so cute. We didn’t know what we were doing.”

“She and I like to say the best thing we got out of those relationships was each other,” Gomez continued. “I was about 15, she was about 18, and that’s when it was the crazy, curly [hair] Taylor, and she had all these bracelets that went all the way up [her arm] … We became best friends, bonded over the breakup, as girls do. Then we just stuck around for all the ups and downs that came after, and here we are now 16 years later.”

Indeed, Gomez and Swift are closer than ever. Following their romances with the JoBros, the two women have continued to support each other in their respective endeavors. In March, the 14-time Grammy winner praised the Wizards of Waverly Place alum’s joint album with fiancé Benny Blanco, I Said I Love You First, and in May, Gomez congratulated Swift on reclaiming her masters.

And, just a few weeks prior to the podcast, the former country star sent her bestie home-baked sourdough celebrating Gomez’s “loaf story” with Blanco, a play on the title of 2009 smash “Love Story.”

Speaking of the Fearless hit, Gomez revealed on Therapuss that it was the first song Swift ever played for her before it was even released. “I was in a hotel room, and I remember it vividly,” she told Shane, who was in a state of disbelief. “It was just one of those songs that I instantly heard and thought, ‘This is one of the most beautiful songs ever.’”

“It was so sweet,” Gomez recalled. “She was like, ‘OK, I just want to play you this song, but just, like, I don’t know. It’s going to be the first single, I think.’ Just hearing her say those little thoughts … She is a chameleon. She’s incredible.”

Watch Gomez’s full interview with Shane below.

Two years after Britney Spears released her tell-all memoir, The Woman in Me, the “Toxic” singer’s ex-husband, Kevin Federline, is preparing to tell his side of their story. According to a press release from publisher Listenin, Federline’s You Thought You Knew will be distributed via audiobook and hardcover on Oct. 21, marking the first time the former dancer will open up publicly about “the events, relationships and realities that have defined his life.”

Father of six Federline — who shares two adult sons with Spears, Sean, 19, and Jayden, 18 — got his start as a back-up dancer in the mid-90s before marrying Spears in 2004. The memoir of “fame, fatherhood and the private cost of public life” is described in the release as “a deeply personal and emotionally grounded memoir that traces Federline’s journey from a working-class childhood to life in the global spotlight. It explores how he weathered the scrutiny of relentless media coverage, high-profile relationships, and the painful reality of raising children under a microscope, all while trying to hold his family together.”

Federline, also known as K-Fed, went from dancing behind P!nk, LFO, Justin Timberlake, Destiny’s Child and Michael Jackson to becoming a tabloid staple two decades ago thanks to his whirlwind romance with Spears. The couple were broadsheet staples during their tumultuous marriage, which thrust Federline into the global spotlight before his retreat following the couple’s divorce in 2007.

“This book is extremely intimate and transparent. I achieved my biggest dreams, dealt with crushing heartbreak, and endured constant ridicule, all while becoming the father my children needed as they experienced nonstop emotional turbulence,” Federline wrote in a statement announcing the project. “If you’ve ever had questions, you’ll find answers here.”

In addition to co-starring with Spears in the warts-and-all UPN reality series Britney & Kevin: Chaotic, Federline, 47, released his debut (and so far only) album, the critically savaged Playing With Fire, in 2006, which was previewed by the hip-hop-adjacent non-album lead single, “PopoZão.” Federline also landed some commercial endorsements during his marriage to Spears, as well as cameos on shows including One Tree Hill and the big screen sex comedy American Pie Presents: The Book of Love.

In the years after their split, however, he’s largely avoided from the spotlight and appears to have spent his time DJing. Federline, who had two children with former fiancée actress Shar Jackson before starting a family with Spears, married for the third time in 2013 to former volleyball player Victoria Prince, with whom he has two daughters. Federline had sole custody of Sean and Preston for a number of years in the midst of Spears’ 13-year conservatorship, during which the singer’s personal and financial affairs were tightly controlled by her father and a series of lawyers following a troubling series of public mental health crises and erratic incidents.

Federline’s memoir will be the debut effort from Listenin, a new audio-forward imprint from Barracuda Bay Productions (Hockey 24, This Is North Preston) that says it will specialize in “self-narrated biographies of renowned personalities.” The release will focus on audiobook platforms, but Listenin also promised print and digital versions of the Federline memoir as well.

Kid Cudi hasn’t been shy about his dependency on drugs or suicidal thoughts at various stages of his life in his music. His vulnerabilities endeared him to millions across the globe, helping fans who had similar experiences feel less alone.

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The Cleveland rapper completely takes the mask off and pulls back the curtain on his life in his upcoming Cudi the Memoir, which will be released on Aug. 12. GQ shared a harrowing excerpt of the book, which found Cudi reflecting on his darkest hours and a near-fatal drug overdose while working on Man on the Moon II circa 2010.

“I was at peace with dying,” Cudi wrote. “After doing more coke than I ever had in my life I was losing all sense of what was real. I’d been alone in my New York apartment, crying for hours, listening to the Lykke Li song ‘Time Flies’ on repeat. It was a love song, but the melodies and her voice filled me with despair.”

He continued in the excerpt: “I tried to get up off the bed, but my legs wouldn’t work, so I collapsed to the floor and started to crawl. Eventually, I gave in and just laid on the ground. My heart was racing. It felt like it was going to burst any minute.

While Cudi’s music can be the medicine of choice for fans, he was the one ultimately looking for a life raft.

“I was a role model, but I didn’t feel like one. People called me their savior. But who was going to save me? I was a lighthouse for others, but I couldn’t find my own way,” he added. “It was peace I was after. Here, crippled on the floor, minutes from overdosing, was the closest I’d ever come to finding it. ‘You made great music that people loved,’ I thought, ‘but this is the end.’”

Elsewhere in the excerpt, Kid Cudi took fans back to sessions for 2015’s Speedin’ Bullet to Heaven, when he had been “plotting” to die by suicide.

“After we’d finished a session, I’d be alone Googling exit bags. I was thinking about a way I could actually do it. I was plotting it,” he admitted. “There’s a song at the end of Speedin’ Bullet where I say goodbye, and that was meant to be my final album. I was going to kill myself at the end of that album, or before it came out, or during that cycle. I was not planning to live that year. Not many people around me expected me to either.”

Cudi’s memoir arrives on Aug. 12, and then 10 days later, the multi-hyphenate entertainer will release his 12th studio album, Free, on Aug. 22.

If you or anyone you know is in crisis, call 988 or visit the website for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, which offers free, confidential support 24/7. Those in need of confidential support for mental health or substance abuse issues can reach out to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Kane Brown is adding to his television resume, with the country singer set to appear as a guest star on the series premiere of ABC’s 9-1-1: Nashville, which airs Oct. 9 on ABC and streaming on Hulu the next day.

Hours before his part was announced, the musician shared a tease of the news in an Instagram Story video. “So I have a little TV shoot I’m doing this morning. I can’t tell y’all what I’m doing, but it’s gonna be sick and I’m excited! Gotta be there at 6:45 a.m. — that’s my call time,” he shares in the video, which shows him walking around outside in the pitch black. “So I ain’t got no other time to work out today, so I’m up! 3:45, going to the gym.”

The Nashville-based spinoff follows 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lonestar, which followed the lives of first responders in Los Angeles and Austin, Texas. Series regulars will include Chris O’Donnell, Jessica Capshaw, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, LeAnn Rimes, Hailey Kilgore, Michael Provost, Juani Feliz and Hunter McVey.

Though not many details are known about Brown’s role on the show, his part “proves heroic in a major storyline,” according to a press statement. Brown is filming his scene, which is set in a concert performance, on Thursday (Aug. 7) in Nashville.

The musician’s previous television appearances include portraying Robin in a 2023 episode of the series Fire Country. He’s also appeared on the series Barmageddon with fellow country music entertainer Blake Shelton. Additionally, Brown has served as a host for the CMT Music Awards multiple times. He released his fourth full-length studio project, The High Road, earlier this year.

Brown, who is represented by Neon Coast and WME, has notched 12 No. 1 Country Airplay hits in his career, with songs including “Bury Me in Georgia,” “Miles on It,” “I Can Feel It,” “Heaven” and “Homesick.”

See 9-1-1: Nashville‘s announcement of the musician’s guest-starring role below.

Who would have thought that the Greatest Mysterio of All-Time began his wrestling career at 8 years old? If you ask WWE Superstar Dirty Dom, it’s his “deadbeat dad”, Hall of Famer, Rey Mysterio Jr., who’s looking up to him these days.

At 28, Dominik Mysterio has become WWE’s most reviled antagonist, drawing nuclear heat from coast to coast due to his snake-like antics and unrelenting arrogance. On Sunday (Aug. 3), Dirty Dom slithered his way to another win, outsmarting AJ Stylez in a cerebral SummerSlam showdown to retain his Intercontinental Championship.

“From the smartest guys to the biggest guys, if you’re smart in the ring, you’ll be able to outmaneuver and do whatever you want in there,” Mysterio told me the following day before Monday Night Raw from The Barclays Center. “I think I proved that by being a 20-year veteran in this business. AJ thought he was going to walk in there and mess with some kid, but he was messing with the Greatest Mysterio of all-time.”

Though Dirty Dom’s in-ring debut began in 2020, the pretentious son of Rey Mysterio Jr. inherited his slick ways from iconic WWE superstar Eddie Guerrero. Much like Latino Heat, the West Coast native fully embraces the art of lying, cheating, stealing — a philosophy that’s helped him climb to the top of the WWE food chain.

For Entry 010 of Mic Drops and Elbow Drops, Dirty Dom chops it up with Carl Lamarre about his Intercontinental Championship reign, who he thinks is the best heel in pro sports, and how he built the ruthless confidence that fuels his fire.

The Eddie Guerrero homage was alive and well during that match. From your perspective as someone who honors his legacy, what do you think was Eddie’s most underrated skill as a wrestler?

I believe his ring IQ. People see how good he was inside the ring, what he did and how he achieved those things [because] his moves were great, but the way he would put things together and how he could be able to manipulate feelings based off what he was doing with his movements, I think that was severely underrated. There’s not a person that doesn’t say that when they worked with Eddie Guerrero, that he wasn’t the best person to work with because of how he carried himself. He can go in there and if there’s things he needed to change off the fly, he was the man to do it. So I think his ring IQ is definitely his most underrated skill.

You’ve now passed 100 days as Intercontinental Champion. Has the thought of chasing Gunther’s historic 666-day reign crossed your mind?

Honestly, I’m a day-by-day kind of guy. I am a very chill, California kid from San Diego, if you catch my vibe. I’m a day-by-day, figuring it out [type of wrestler]. I know this is a working man’s title, but hell, if I don’t think anyone is good enough to challenge me, I might hold off for a year. I might not even challenge [anyone] for a year. Who knows? If you’re not worthy of it, why should I let you challenge for my title? I just beat AJ Styles — who’s beaten everybody — so I’ve technically beaten everybody. Forget Steiner Math, this is Dirty Dom Math.

Let’s stir the pot a little. If you had to serve as special guest referee for a triple threat between Rhea Ripley, Roxanne Perez and Liv Morgan, who’s walking out with the win and why?

Liv. Liv’s winning, 100%. Not even based off me being a biased referee or anything. It’s just based off of skill and achievement. Liv is the only person that’s beaten Rhea Ripley more than three times, correct? She retired Becky Lynch. She is the greatest woman’s world champion. She’s a four-time woman’s tag champion. She’s a Slammy Award winner. There’s levels to this, and I believe Liv is at the top of her level. Not even being a biased ref, I would count it straight down the middle and she’d win.

Your first SummerSlam match was against Seth Rollins. Five years later, you’re beating AJ Styles. From both an in-ring and confidence standpoint, what are you most proud of in your growth since then?

I’ve grown massively. I’ve been more confident in the ring and being able to move and do what I want in the ring as far as move-sets and how I act and do things. And being with The Judgment Day as well gave me a level of confidence I didn’t have to the point where I had guys like Finn [Balor], JD [McDonagh], and Damian [Priest] helping me out with all this stuff, telling me, “Nah, dude. This is where you’re at. This is where you’re gonna be.” Sure enough, they helped me build that confidence. Even Voldemort.

Voldemort from Harry Porter?

No, the other person from the Judgment Day that I don’t say the name of. 

Who was the first heel you gravitated toward as a fan and idolized? 

JBL. 

Why JBL? 

Because everything he did seemed so genuine and with hatred. He called himself “The Wrestling God” for a reason. Being a Latino Mexican myself, the skit of him going down by the border — and I know it might be a touchy subject right now — was crazy to me. As a heel, you’re pushing the button as much as possible. So to me, JBL was that dude, to where he can get away with everything and just do anything — because he’s also a 6’7′ cowboy of a heel that’ll knock your head off with a clothesline. 

Which current WWE superstar do you think mastered the art of nuclear heat better than anyone?

Me. There’s no doubt about it. Also, the people around me have helped me so much because obviously these were uncharted territories that we were going into. It happened with Vicky [Guerrero] — but no disrespect to Vicky, she was never a wrestler. She was never bumping and going in there. I’m in there bumping, cutting promos, top of my game, Greatest Mysterio of All-Time — no one’s doing it like I am. Plus, I’m 28 years old. If I wanted to, I could step it up even more — and no one in the past, the present, coming up and even now would lay a finger on me. 

Lastly, who’s the biggest heel in pro sports right now, and what makes them so good at it?

I mean, he’s loved by the city, but hated by everyone else — I’m gonna have to go with my boy Fernando Tatis Jr. Just ’cause the way he carries himself, he’s so swagged out. He’s a stud. He’s a stud in the outfield, he’s a stud at shortstop if they need him there and he’s a stud hitter. The dude could steal homers. He can do it all. People hate him for it, because what? He’s a baller? He’s getting paid millions and millions of dollars and he does this to your favorite teams. All the Dodgers hate him.

Mets fans hate him too.

Are you a Mets fan? 

I’m on the right side of history.

I was gonna say y’all had a bad three-game sweep. And he embraces being a heel. You have to be OK with the boos, getting hated and you gotta be able to embrace it. I think he’s one of the few guys that embraces being the heel. He doesn’t mind getting booed, he’s OK with it.