At each year’s Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy distributes a program book to attendees. It’s mostly devoted to nominees and special merit honorees, but it also includes a full page of head shots of past chairs of the academy’s board of trustees. The list goes all the way back to James B. Conkling, who was acting national chairman from the academy’s founding in 1957 to 1961. The joke among Grammy insiders is that it’s a sea of white men until you get to Leslie Ann Jones, who served as chairwoman from 1999–2001.

That isn’t quite true. The roster of past chairs includes Nesuhi Ertegun (1964-65), a Turkish-American who was born in Istanbul when it was part of the Ottoman Empire, and George Avakian (1966-67), an Armenian-American who was born in present-day Russia.

But if it isn’t literally true, it sure feels true, as you can see on page 131 of this year’s program book.

But things are changing in the Recording Academy, just as they are in America. The announcement on Wednesday (June 2) that Tammy Hurt has been elected to succeed Harvey Mason Jr. as chair marks the first time in academy history that back-to-back chairs have been people other than white men.

Jones, the first woman to serve as chair, was followed in that post by three white men: Garth Fundis (2001-2003), Daniel Carlin (2003-2005) and Terry Lickona (2005-2007).

Jimmy Jam, the first Black man to serve as chair (2007-2009) was followed by a white man, George J. Flanigen IV, who served a double term (2009-2013).

Christine Albert, the second woman to serve as chair (2013-2015), was followed by a white man, John Poppo, who also served a double term (2015-2019). Poppo was followed by Mason and now Hurt.

The changes go beyond just the chair role. As Billboard reported, for the first time in academy history, no white men were elected to any of the four key board positions. Two Black men, Rico Love and Om’Mas Keith, were elected vice chair and secretary/treasurer, respectively. Albert continues as chair emeritus.

The academy didn’t call attention to these history-making moves in its press announcement. Nor did Mason, who was named the academy’s president/CEO last month. They preferred to let the moves speak for themselves.

“I’m in awe of the amazingly talented group that’s been elected to lead this new era of the Academy and really excited at the possibilities as I start this journey with Tammy, Rico, Om’Mas, and Christine,” said Mason in a statement. “I know this group is going to do great work as we continue to transform the Academy and support the music community.”

Hailey Bieber chatted with Insecure actress and comedian Yvonne Orji on Wednesday (June 2) about navigating their relationship with God in the entertainment industry.

During one of her “A Conversation With” segments on YouTube, Bieber opened up about struggling to stick to the modest profile of a Christian as a model and how some of her shoots and social media posts have attracted negative attention from other religious people.

“I’ve met Christian people that are just super judgmental and made me feel like I’m a bad person because I don’t live my life the way they think I should live my life,” Bieber said. “And I felt weird about posting certain photos of myself or feeling like, ‘People in the church are gonna see this. Am I doing something wrong? Am I setting a bad example?’ And the reality is no!”

The reality is that hers and husband Justin Bieber’s faith is “the biggest thing” that grounds their relationship. “If we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t even be here. We wouldn’t even be together.”

The 24-year-old model also talked about how she’s feared some of her shoots that require showing more skin and wearing lingerie would receive backlash from other Christians who don’t label her as “modest.” While Orji recalled the struggle to sign the nude waiver required for shooting sex scenes on Insecure, Bieber revealed she would never model while completely nude.

“I think I also take a place where I’m like, ‘OK, I wouldn’t want to ever be shot naked, but props to any woman who’s comfortable doing that,’” she told the Bamboozled by Jesus author.

Watch their conversation below.

Congratulations are in order for Lance Bass and his husband Michael Turchin, who are expecting twin babies.

People broke the news Tuesday (June 1) that the former *NSYNC member and film actor, who have been married since 2014, are expecting a boy and a girl in November via surrogate.

“It has been quite the journey,” Bass said in an interview with the publication before the two delved into their years-long history of surrogacy attempts and a miscarriage. “Because of what we’ve been through the last four years, we were very cautious to get excited. And it kind of sucks because when you find out you’re pregnant, you want to celebrate with your family. You start planning their future in your head already, but we were so scared because we didn’t want to go through the pain again of losing them.”

The couple previously opened up in January 2019 about their attempt at expanding their family and how they were onto donor No. 7, but Turchin updated that number in their latest interview. “We went through nine different egg donors, which is rare,” he confessed. “We had to start all over again from the beginning. Not only did we need to get a new egg donor now because we found out she had early lupus, but on top of that, when we did our egg retrieval, we only had two healthy embryos. Normally, the number’s much higher. So we put both in and once she miscarried, we had to start all over from scratch again this past year.”

The 34-year-old actor has a twin sister, which inspired their decision to go for twins. “He just loved that experience. I always wanted to have a twin, but we’re like, ‘Well, that’s so perfect because now we can do one of mine, one of yours.’ It was a no-brainer!” added Bass, 42.

Bass and Turchin shared the happy news on their respective Instagram accounts in a TikTok video that announced Two Buns in the Oven in the style of a Halloween-themed horror movie trailer.

The pop singer said they’re “pretty set” on baby names and have been thinking about passing along a family name. But on the other hand, Justin, JC, Chris and Joey aren’t totally off the table. “They could still be,” he said of potentially having his babies share names with his former *NSYNC bandmates.

In the words of Heidi Klum: “Mariah better watch out.”

On Tuesday’s (June 1) season 16 premiere of America’s Got Talent, 10-year-old Peter Rosalita followed in the show’s grand tradition of little kids with giant voices as he nailed his high notes on Eric Carmen’s “All By Myself.” He started the song out in his lower register, but by the time he hit the chorus a second time, Rosalita was hitting octaves that would give Celine Dion a run for her money.

Rosalita — who is Filipino and was born in the United Arab Emirates — stunned the judges with both his vocal talents and his bubbly demeanor, with Howie Mandel saying, “I predict you’re going to go far in this competition.”

Especially surprising was the typically crusty Simon Cowell’s warm response to the young singer. “That was an incredible audition,” Cowell said. “There were parts during that audition that literally gave me goosebumps. You have an amazing voice, an amazing personality, an amazing energy. Everyone is going to fall in love with you after this audition.”

“I think America’s gonna love you,” new judge Sofia Vergara agreed, with Cowell countering, “I think the world’s gonna love him.”

We won’t give away how the judges voted (though you can probably guess). Watch Rosalita’s blockbuster performance for yourself below. America’s Got Talent airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

“All By Myself” was a No. 2 hit for Carmen in 1976 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a No. 4 hit just over 20 years later, in 1997, for Dion.