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Scottish singer Tom Walker praised the piano skills of the Duchess of Cambridge after the pair recorded a Christmas tune that was shown during a carol concert.
Walker, 30, performed a new song, “For Those Who Can’t Be Here,” accompanied by the 39-year-old Kate Middleton playing the piano, in a prerecorded segment shown during the concert broadcast on ITV on Friday (Dec. 24).
Walker said he had kept the performance a secret — even from his mother.
“She was in floods of tears watching it on the telly,” he told the BBC. “It was beautiful.”
Walker had performed at a charity event in front of the duchess, and when asked to play at the carol service he offered to perform a song the public hadn’t yet heard.
“So I sent it over to the team and they absolutely loved it, and then a week later they came back and said ‘Um, would it be alright if the duchess played along with you?’″ he recalled. “And I was like ‘What?’”
The pair rehearsed for a few weeks.
“She picked it up so well, it’s really not easy to go from not playing with other musicians for like 10 years to jumping straight in with like a whole band you’ve never met and camera crews doing live takes that’s being filmed in Westminster Abbey so I thought it just went so well,″ he said. “She’s [a] very talented musician.”
Kate and Prince William spearheaded the program, Royal Carols: Together at Christmas. The Westminster Abbey event was attended by those who had spent time with Kate and William during recent engagements.
Walker rose to fame after the release of his single “Leave a Light On” in June 2018.
Jared Leto sat back with a slice of rainbow cake, but with no shirt, for his 50th birthday.
The actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman gave the camera a thumbs-up for a shirtless snapshot he shared on Instagram Sunday (Dec. 26).
“Thx for all the bday wishes!” he captioned the picture that put his abs on display. The photo might have been taken on the set of his upcoming Sony and Marvel film Morbius, as it happens to capture (what looks like) blood dripping from his mouth.
One top comment on the post spoke for many who saw the picture of a seemingly ageless Leto on their feeds: “how are you 50.”
In a second Instagram update on his birthday, Leto shared a personal family photo: “Me and my mother in Louisiana,” he wrote about the classic black-and-white picture showing his then-pregnant mom. “Born at 2:36 PM Central Time 1971. She made the dress herself. From old draperies.”
Leto recently said he’s written more than 264 new songs during the pandemic. Thirty Seconds to Mars’ last studio album, America, was released in 2018, and it reached the No. 2 spot on the Billboard 200.
See Leto’s birthday portrait below.
JoJo and Dexter Darden are engaged. The singer and actor shared their happy news on Dec. 25.
“forever with YOU? Sign me UP,” JoJo gushed in a Christmas day post on Instagram, where she uploaded a series of photos and video clips celebrating the couple’s special moment — including a closeup of a sparkling engagement ring.
“celebrating Christmas a whole fiancé!!! the most thoughtful, creative, positive, handsome, strong, loving, uplifting human being asked me to marry him. so obviously I said YESSS!!!” she wrote.
JoJo added, “thank you for the most epic birthday surprise ever. and for flying out my mom, your mom, and both of our best friends to share in that incredible moment with us. you are one of one.”
“Yupppppp,” Darden, who plays Devante Young on Peacock’s Saved by the Bell, commented on the post. “thank you for being my forever.”
The singer, whose Trying Not to Think About It EP was released in October, recently performed for the Miss Universe pageant after returning to the stage for a mini tour in the fall. She’ll be back on the road in 2022.
“I want to tell my fans: You’ve given me so much,” she wrote in an October article for Billboard. “I hope that what I’m able to give you makes you just a sliver as happy as what you make me like your support. You sing these words back to me. You talking s— with me on Twitter — like, it’s so cool to be connected with all these people around the world through music, and through a similar spirit. A lot of us have lived different lives, but we’ve all felt similar ways and I think that’s really powerful.”
See their sweet post on Instagram.
Demi Lovato is debuting a fresh new hairstyle for the new year.
The 29-year-old singer took to social media on Christmas Day (Dec. 25) to show off their edgy buzzcut in a short FaceTime-recorded video by photographer Angelo Kritikos.
“Shot on FaceTime by @angelokritikos #freshstart,” Lovato wrote on Instagram.
In the glitchy clip, the singer wears a black heavy coat while striking numerous poses against a backdrop of snowy mountains. Lovato also modeled the closely cropped hairstyle in a mirror selfie on their Instagram Story.
It’s been a busy year for Lovato, who released their seventh album, Dancing with the Devil… the Art of Starting Over, which was followed by a four-part YouTube Originals docuseries of the same time. The singer also announced earlier this year that they identify as nonbinary and changed their pronouns to they/them.
The pop star discussed their ever-changing hairstyles in a March cover story for Glamour, telling the publication that their choices are an attempt to break free from the “heteronormative box” they’ve been confined in for many years.
“What I’m encouraging people to do is just make choices for themselves,” Lovato said. “Autonomy, for me, is what changed my life.”
See Lovato’s newly shaved head below.
Peloton users will be able to ring in 2022 working on their fitness with the help of Taylor Swift‘s re-recorded Red. The album is now featured in a number of at-home classes, Peloton said on Instagram on Dec. 25.
“Some guessed it. Even more hoped for it. Taylor Swift’s music. Now on Peloton. Experience class after class, song after song of Red (Taylor’s Version) in one of the most anticipated Artist Series we’ve ever made. All of the heartbreak. All of the hope. All of the classes, Red (Taylor’s Version),” the caption said.
Classes in cycling, tread, strength, stretching and yoga that work in Swift’s tunes are available on the Peloton app in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. A full schedule was unveiled on Peloton’s website.
Before sharing the news, Peloton — who in the past has partnered with Beyoncé, the Verzuz series and more — hinted at Swift being a part of its Artist Series with a series of clues, including publishing an Instagram post on Dec. 13, which is Swift’s birthday. The Dec. 13 update revealed the fitness platform’s last collaboration 2021 would drop on Dec. 25, teasing, “You won’t want to miss this one.”
Red (Taylor’s Version), a 30-track re-recording of her 2012 Red album, was released on Nov. 12, 2021 and became her 10th album to soar to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Among its previously unheard tracks is a 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” which went to No. 1 on the Hot 100.
See Peloton’s official announcement below.
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