PayPal has announced a special refund exception for ticket holders who purchased passes to the now-cancelled Byron Bay Bluesfest 2026 using the platform.
The online payment company, which was one of Bluesfest’s principal non-bank payment channels, said on Monday it would temporarily relax its standard refund policies in the wake of the festival’s sudden collapse.
“In light of Bluesfest’s sudden cancellation, and to support our customers, PayPal is making a one-time exception to its standard buyer protection eligibility window,” a PayPal spokesperson said.
“PayPal will consider all eligible claims for Bluesfest 2026 (Byron Bay) tickets purchased using PayPal, including those made more than 180 days prior to the dispute.”
Those who purchased tickets using PayPal’s buy now, pay later service “PayPal Pay in 4” have been directed to contact PayPal via the “contact us” section on the platform’s website to lodge a claim.
The move offers some relief to the estimated 10,000 ticket holders left out of pocket after Bluesfest went into liquidation on March 13, just weeks before its Easter weekend run.
A one-day adult ticket was priced at $257, with three- and four-day passes costing up to $554 and $686 respectively, while camping and car parking added further costs. In an email to creditors shortly after the cancellation, liquidator Worrells warned that refunds from the liquidation process were unlikely.
The refund situation has been complicated by the festival’s ticketing setup. Tickets were sold via Moshtix, which has disclaimed responsibility for refunds, stating that payments were made directly to Bluesfest via its own merchant facility and that it is therefore the event organiser’s obligation to refund purchasers.
PayPal has been listed as a creditor in documents filed with ASIC, owed $1.73 million. A second non-bank payment channel, Stripe, is listed as being owed $3.92 million. Those who purchased tickets by credit card may be able to pursue a chargeback through their bank.
Bluesfest was one of Australia’s longest-running music festivals, having operated for 36 years before its collapse.
The 2026 edition had been scheduled for April 2–5 at the Byron Events Farm in Tyagarah, with a lineup that included Parkway Drive, Erykah Badu, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sublime, Counting Crows, The Black Crowes, The Wailers, The Pogues and Split Enz.
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Barry Manilow is set to release a new studio album, What a Time, on June 5 – his first album of mostly new material in nearly 15 years.
Primarily produced by Manilow and longtime collaborator Michael Lloyd, What a Time is Manilow’s 33rd studio album and his first mostly original LP since 2011’s 15 Minutes, which became his 15th top 10 album on the Billboard 200. The veteran entertainer first made the top 10 on Billboard’s flagship albums chart in February 1975 with Barry Manilow II.
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Manilow has also released “Sun Shine,” an ebullient single that echoes Manilow’s 1977 hit “Daybreak.” The retro vibes include a whistling break and the evocative sound of a needle being dropped onto a vinyl record. Written by Manilow and Take That’s Gary Barlow, the song was produced by Manilow, David Benson and Greg Bartheld. Manilow doesn’t appear in the video, which was directed by Laís Sambugaro, and which focuses instead on an attractive young couple getting ready for the day.
The album opens with “Once Before I Go,” which was co–written by Oscar winners Dean Pitchford and the late Peter Allen and executive-produced by Manilow’s longtime mentor, Clive Davis. The song reached No. 25 on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary chart in February, extending Manilow’s more than 51-year history on that chart. He first charted on both Adult Contemporary and the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1974 with “Mandy.” Manilow acted in the “Once Before I Go” music video, which was filmed at the Westgate Las Vegas, home to Manilow’s long-running residency.
The album includes a new recording of “Another Life,” an “it’s over” ballad which Manilow included on his 1991 box set The Complete Collection and Then Some… Two of the tracks feature guest artists. Saxophonist Dave Koz is featured on “Look at Me Now.” Vocalist Sharon “Muffy” Hendrix sings a duet with Manilow on “When Somebody Says Goodbye.”
Manilow wrote or co-wrote all but two of the 13 tracks. He teamed with John Bettis to write three of the songs. Bettis has written numerous songs for Manilow albums, dating back to “Where Are They Now from 1979’s One Voice. Manilow teamed with Bruce Sussman and Enoch Anderson to write two songs each for the album. Sussman co-wrote what is probably Manilow’s most famous song, “Copacabana (At the Copa),” as well as “I Made It Through the Rain,” his most recent top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Manilow teamed with Adrienne Anderson to write the closing track, “Coming of Age.” They cowrote “Could It Be Magic,” a song from Manilow’s 1973 debut album that was re-released and became a top 10 hit in 1975.
Manilow and Lloyd co-produced nine of the 13 tracks (with collaborators, in some cases). David Benson, Greg Bartheld and Manilow produced two tracks, the aforementioned “Sun Shine” and “Don’t Trouble the Water.” Other producers involved on the album include Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, a 12-time Grammy winner, and Dave Cobb, a nine-time Grammy winner.
The album is being released by Manilow’s STILETTO Entertainment. It’s being distributed by The Orchard. STILETTO has released three of Manilow’s last five studio albums.
The album announcement arrives amid a time of both health challenges and professional validation for Manilow. On Dec. 22, 2025, he announced a diagnosis of early-stage lung cancer, for which he underwent surgery. On March 3, he released an upbeat video in which he declared “But I am getting stronger and I have great doctors and wonderful friends and family, but I am so looking forward to getting back on stage.”
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In April, Manilow will receive the American Advertising Federation’s President’s Award at the Advertising Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The event will recognize his iconic work in advertising early in his career. He composed and/or performed jingles for brands including State Farm, Band-Aid, KFC, Pepsi, and McDonald’s. Manilow performed a medley of those jingles which he dubbed “Very Strange Medley” on Barry Manilow/Live, his double live album that reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 1977. Manilow was previously recognized for this work at the 2009 Clio Awards where he received an honorary Clio Award.
Manilow is a 2002 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and recipient of the BMI Icon Award. He has won two Primetime Emmys (in 1977 and 2006), a Grammy (in 1979) and a special Tony Award (in 1977). He also sang an Oscar-nominated song, “Ready to Take a Chance Again,” in the movie Foul Play and on the Oscar stage in 1979. Other plaudits include three consecutive American Music Awards for favorite pop/rock male vocalist.
Here’s the tracklist for What A Time, showing writer credits.
“Don’t Trouble the Water” (Barry Manilow/Enoch Anderson)
“Look at Me Now” (Featuring Dave Koz) (Barry Manilow/John Bettis)
“Nobody Told Me” (Barry Manilow, John Bettis)
“Coming of Age” (Barry Manilow/Adrienne Anderson)
2026-27 U.S. Tour Dates
Manilow also announced a long list of upcoming U.S. tour dates, running from April 13 to Jan. 21, 2027. Here are those dates, not including 45 dates that are part of his residency at the International Theater at Westgate Las Vegas. For all upcoming dates, visit Manilow’s website.
April 13 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena*
April 14 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center*
April 16 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza*
April 17 – Reading, PA – Santander Arena*
April 19 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena*
April 20 – Albany, NY – MVP Arena*
April 22 – Buffalo, NY – KeyBank Center*
April 24 – Greensboro, NC – First Horizon Coliseum*
April 27 – Jacksonville, FL – VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena*
April 29 – Duluth, GA – Gas South Arena*
July 30 – Charleston, SC – North Charleston Coliseum*
August 1 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena*
August 2 – Columbus, OH – Nationwide Arena*
August 4 – Lexington, KY – Rupp Arena*
August 5 – Cincinnati, OH – Heritage Bank Center*
August 7 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena*
August 8 – Norfolk, VA – Chartway Arena*
January 15 – Sunrise, FL – Amerant Bank Arena
January 16 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena*
January 17 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena*
January 20 – Tampa, FL – Benchmark International Arena*
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Australian hardcore band Parkway Drive have condemned the actions of a former merchandise manager after he pleaded guilty to a historical child sex offence in a New South Wales court last week.
Jed Daniel Gordon, 44, appeared in Byron Bay Local Court and pleaded guilty to having sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old girl.
The offence occurred between November 2002 and July 2003, when Gordon was in his early 20s. ABC noted that Gordon is the brother of Parkway Drive drummer Ben Gordon and is due to be sentenced on May 19, when the court is expected to hear a victim impact statement.
The band addressed the matter in a social media statement on Sunday (March 22). “This is appalling and we condemn it,” they wrote. “We’re gutted and we support the victim.”
Parkway Drive acknowledged that while the offence predates the band’s own formation, they bore responsibility for employing Gordon in the years that followed.
“This happened before we were a band, however we bear moral responsibility for contracting him from 2003, on and off over the years,” the statement read.
“While he hasn’t toured with us since 2017, more recently he’s been part of our Australian online merch team. When the band heard about this, we terminated his contract immediately. He’s no longer involved with Parkway Drive in any capacity. This is heartbreaking on a very human scale.”
The news arrives at an already difficult time for the band. Parkway Drive were among the headliners booked for Bluesfest 2026 — a rare hometown appearance for the Byron Bay outfit — before the festival collapsed into liquidation on March 13.
The cancellation was the latest blow for the band, who had also been forced to shut down their own festival, Park Waves, late last year. “Another festival being crushed by the rising costs across our entertainment industry,” the band said at the time of the Bluesfest collapse. “It hurts to be another casualty in this chapter of the Australian music scene.”
Parkway Drive formed in Byron Bay in 2003 — their name taken from the street where they first rehearsed, at the Gordon family home in Ewingsdale. Over two decades, the band have grown into one of Australia’s most prominent heavy music exports, headlining major international festivals and selling out arenas worldwide.
They have released seven studio albums on Epitaph Records, with their last three — Ire (2015), Reverence (2018), and Darker Still (2022) — each debuting at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Darker Still also won the 2023 ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album.
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The “Blinks” unofficially passed their bi-ping-bong light sticks to the “Rubies” on Sunday night (March 22) at the Complex Live music festival at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld-Expo.
Closing out two days of concerts surrounding the third annual ComplexCon Hong Kong fashion and pop-culture exhibition and marketplace, K-pop superstar Jennie united both sides of her fandom under one roof.
The Blackpink die-hards showed up alongside the K-pop it-girl devotees who want to dress like, talk like and swagger like the artist’s “Jennie Ruby Jane” persona created for her 2025 debut solo album, Ruby.
It was clear the sold-out crowd was still hungry for every facet of Jennie, even though just two months earlier, Blackpink’s Deadline Tour came to an end a short distance away at Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium.
Hitting the stage at exactly 9:45 p.m. and wrapping by 10:15 p.m., the singer, dancer, actor, model and cultural force performed a tight 10-song, 30-minute set that drew heavily from Ruby. In a big night of firsts,
Jennie performed solo in China for the first time and became the first female headliner for Complex Live. Treading new ground — and edgier than many of her female K-pop counterparts, she frequently swears — Jennie’s choreography-driven R&B style weaves in hip-hop and club influences.
On this night, fans got what they wanted: a performance that felt like equal parts pulsating music video and runway show. Opening with “Mantra” and surrounded by a dozen male and female dancers, Jennie ignited a party onstage as she effortlessly moved through the slow-burn choreography that has become her signature — sharp, powerful hip-hop movements rounded out with fluid, sensual poses. Next came “Love Hangover,” followed by the J.Lo-esque party anthem “With the IE (Way Up),” where she sprinted down the stage, every move mirrored by her pack.
Jennie is also not afraid to stand alone in the spotlight, which she did during “Start a War.” In “Seoul City,” she wore a mini veil in tribute to the massive one she wore at the 2025 Melon Music Awards, inscribed with the Korean alphabet. Then the high-energy “ExtraL” and a solo “Handlebars” led into the live debut and theatrical apex of the night with “Dracula.”
Emerging in a dramatic black coat that landed somewhere between cape and couture, Jennie leaned fully into gothic fantasy. The energy spiked again with “Damn Right,” where her catwalk-like prowl turned every scene into a runway moment. She closed with the anthemic “Like Jennie,” popping on her Gentle Monster shades.
Of their biggest get yet, Bonnie Chan Woo, CEO of Complex China, says, “Jennie’s live stages are always so captivating, and it’s clear how much creativity and dedication she brings to every performance. For ComplexCon Hong Kong, she went the extra mile by incorporating new, never-before-seen elements into her choreography and staging. Her presence in Hong Kong, even a year after her solo album release, meant so much.”
In 2024, ComplexCon arrived in Hong Kong as an offshoot of the U.S. event, which has moved between Long Beach, Las Vegas and Chicago over the past decade. While numbers are not yet in for 2026, the event is expected to break its previous sales and attendance records in part thanks to Jennie and this year’s artistic director, Labubu creator, and Hong Kong-born Belgian artist and illustrator Kasing Lung, who drew thousands to the Expo, waiting in line for hours for limited-edition Monsters merch.
Special items from the Virgil Abloh Archive — a collection of over 20,000 objects spanning Abloh’s creative practice — also drew major interest from the hypebeast community. Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF took over the Pigeons & Planes Stage, creating a collision of futuristic sound and viral culture.
Over three years, the festival’s concert series has brought major acts to China for the first time, including 21 Savage and Quavo. Last year, it made headlines worldwide as the stage for NewJeans’ final show, as the group was sued and disbanded by its record label, ADOR.
Complex Live 2026 also featured rapper Yeat on Saturday, marking his China debut, along with Jay Park and ALLDAYPROJECT.
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Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. spends a second week atop the Billboard 200 chart (dated March 28), following its debut at No. 1 a week ago. In the latest tracking week, ending March 19, the set earned 99,000 equivalent album units in the United States, according to Luminate. That’s down 77% compared to its opening sum of 430,000.
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Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. is the first album to spend its first two weeks at No. 1 since Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl (Oct. 18 and 25, 2025).
Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200 chart, Johnny Blue Skies & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight and P1Harmony’s UNIQUE both debut.
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 2,500 ad-supported or 1,000 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new March 28, 2026-dated chart will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on March 24. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.
Of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally.’s 99,000 equivalent album units earned in the latest tracking week, SEA units comprise 74,000 (down 47%, equaling 75.10 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; it’s No. 1 on Top Streaming Albums for a second week), album sales comprise 24,500 (down 92%, falling 1-3 on Top Album Sales) and TEA units comprise 500 (down 33%).
Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. is the first album to have two weeks in a row at No. 1 since The Life of a Showgirl logged its two most recent weeks atop the list on the charts dated Jan. 3 and 10. Since then, the No. 1 slot has been a revolving door of one-week No. 1s — seven weeks of No. 1 debuts and two weeks when former No. 1s from 2025 returned to the top for a week each (Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem on the Jan. 17 chart, and Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS on the Feb. 28 chart.
Back on the latest Billboard 200, I’m the Problem rises 3-2 with 74,000 equivalent album units earned (down 3%).
Johnny Blue Skies (formerly Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight debuts at No. 3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned — all from physical album sales. It’s the best week yet, by units earned or album sales, for the artist. It’s the second top 10-charting project for Simpson, following the No. 3-peaking A Sailor’s Guide to Earth in 2016. Mutiny After Midnight is currently only available on CD, vinyl and cassette. No release date has been announced for a streaming version or a digital download for purchase.
Mutiny After Midnight marks the first album exclusively available on physical formats to reach the top 10 in nearly three years. The last to do so was Taylor Swift’s Record Store Day-exclusive vinyl release Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions on the May 6, 2023-dated chart. That set, sold only at independent record stores, debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 75,000 copies sold (the entirety of its production run) in its first week.
Mutiny After Midnight’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across six vinyl variants (a standard widely available black LP, an indie store-exclusive red color edition and five further variants exclusive to the artist’s webstore). The album’s cassette edition was also sold exclusively via the artist webstore, while its CD was widely available.
Notably, the last widely available physical-only album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 came nearly a decade ago, when Garth Brooks’ archival five-CD box set The Anthology: Part I, The First Five Years, debuted at No. 4 on the Dec. 9, 2017 chart and spent three nonconsecutive weeks in the top 10.
P1Harmony earns its highest-charting album and second top 10 on the Billboard 200, as UNIQUE debuts at No. 4. The set earned 58,000 equivalent album units in its first week, the group’s best week by units earned. Of that sum, album sales comprise 56,000 (the act’s best sales week; it debuts at No. 2 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 2,000 (equaling 2.22 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs) and TEA units comprise a negligible sum.
The group previously visited the top 10 on the Billboard 200 with EX in 2025, debuting and peaking at No. 9.
The new album’s first-week sales were boosted by its availability across 24 CD variants and five vinyl variants (all containing collectible items such as photocards, stickers and posters, with some items randomized).
A pair of former No. 1s follows P1Harmony, as Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS falls 4-5 (57,000, down 14%) and Don Toliver’s OCTANE descends 5-6 (56,000, down 7%). Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving dips 6-7 (55,000, down 6%), and Bruno Mars’ chart-topping The Romantic drops 2-8 (54,000, down 32%).
Tate McRae’s former leader So Close to What surges 20-9 with 43,000 equivalent album units earned (up 61%) after the release of its deluxe edition on vinyl and CD.
Rounding out the top 10 is the chart-topping KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, stepping 11-10 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned (up 9%). The set notches its first gain in six weeks, following the movie’s double-win at the Academy Awards on March 15, when it won best animated feature and best original song (“Golden”).
Luminate, the independent data provider to the Billboard charts, completes a thorough review of all data submissions used in compiling the weekly chart rankings. Luminate reviews and authenticates data. In partnership with Billboard, data deemed suspicious or unverifiable is removed, using established criteria, before final chart calculations are made and published.
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ARIRANG, the new album from BTS, tops this week’s fan-voted music poll.
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Fans voted in a poll published Friday (March 20) on Billboard, choosing the seven-piece’s return LP as their favorite new release of the week.
ARIRANG is the poll leader in a week that also saw new music releases from Niall Horan, Lizzo, Paris Paloma and more. As the poll came to a close on Sunday, the K-pop superstars finished with an overwhelming 94% of the vote.
The album, a collection of 14 tracks via BigHit, was long-awaited by ARMY while the group formation of J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jung Kook, RM, Suga and V took a hiatus; the members were fulfilling mandatory military service in South Korea. BTS last released music in 2022 — the compilation project Proof, which launched at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart — but hadn’t actually released a full-length album of new songs in six years, since the 2020 release of Billboard 200 chart-topper BE.
ARIRANG features production from Diplo, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Mike WiLL Made-It and Ryan Tedder.
Besides unveiling the album this week, BTS also released a music video for the song “SWIM” co-starring actress Lili Reinhart. The cinematic visual was directed by Tanu Muiño.
Now that it’s all finally here, there’s still plenty to look forward to — like a globe-trekking stadium tour that kicks off in April.
Among the new releases trailing behind ARIRANG are a number of new singles, including Niall Horan’s “Dinner Party,” Lizzo’s “Don’t Make Me Love U,” Paris Paloma’s “Miyazaki” and Dermot Kennedy’s “Honest.”
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The iconic sketch comedy franchise made its United Kingdom debut on March 21 with Saturday Night Live UK, tapping SNL alum Tina Fey as host and English indie rock band Wet Leg as the musical guest.
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The international spinoff of Lorne Michaels’ long-running NBC hit opened with Fey’s monologue, which featured surprise appearances from Michael Cera and British talk show host Graham Norton.
“It’s an absolute honour and kind of historic,” Fey told the audience. “Guys, I am the youngest person to ever host SNL UK!”
Later in the episode, Wet Leg performed two tracks from the band’s sophomore album Moisturizer, which debuted at No. 6 on Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart and reached No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Albums Chart.
The group first took the stage with the album’s fourth single, “Mangetout,” a Grammy-nominated track that also landed on Billboard’s list of the 20 best U.K. and Ireland songs of 2025. They returned later with a performance of the lead single, “Catch These Fists.”
Following their SNL UK appearance, Wet Leg will head back to the U.S. for a run of major festival appearances, including Coachella, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and Outside Lands. The band’s U.S. tour is set to launch April 15 at the Fox Theater in Pomona, California.
SNL UK has also lined up its next two episodes. Wolf Alice will perform on the March 28 show hosted by Jamie Dornan, followed by Kasabian on the April 2 episode with host Riz Ahmed.
The series airs on Sky in the U.K. and streams on Peacock in the U.S. The debut episode drew more than 220,000 viewers on Sky, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It became available in the U.S. on March 22 through Peacock.
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Barry Keoghan is opening up about the online hate he received over his looks following his breakup with Sabrina Carpenter.
During his appearance on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on Friday (March 20), the 33-year-old Irish actor revealed that he went into hiding after his 2024 breakup with the pop star.
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“There’s a lot of hate online. It’s a lot of abuse of how I look,” Keoghan told host Ben Harlum. “I think I removed myself from online, but I’m still a curious human being that wants to go on and, if I attend an event or if I go somewhere, you want to see how it was received. And it’s not nice.”
He added, “It’s made me shy away, it’s made me really go inside myself and not want to attend places, not want to go outside.”
The Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man star also shared that he’s been avoiding public appearances because of ongoing harassment.
“It’s becoming a problem,” he said. “I don’t have to hide away because I am hiding away. I don’t have to go to places because I actually don’t go to places because of these things. But when that starts leaking into your art, it becomes a problem because then you don’t even want to be on screen anymore.”
Following his high-profile breakup from Carpenter in December 2024, Keoghan deleted his Instagram account. Shortly after, he issued a lengthy statement on X explaining his decision.
“I can only sit and take so much,” the actor wrote at the time. “My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don’t respond to.”
He added, “I deactivated my account because I can no longer let this stuff distract me from my family and work. The messages I have received no person should ever have to read them. Absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.”
Keoghan and Carpenter dated for about a year. A source at the time of their split told People the couple decided to take a break due to their busy careers. The pair first sparked dating rumors in late 2023 before making their public debut at the Vanity Fair Oscars afterparty. Keoghan also appeared alongside Carpenter in the music video for her Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping single “Please Please Please,” featured on her album Short n’ Sweet.
While on The Morning Mash Up, Keoghan said he’s concerned about the impact the online criticism could eventually have on his 3-year-old son, Brando, whom he welcomed with former girlfriend Alyson Sandro.
“It is disappointing for the fans, but it’s also disappointing that my little boy has to read all of this stuff when he gets older,” he said.
Keoghan is starring as Ringo Starr in director Sam Mendes’ upcoming four-part Beatles biopic series. The series also stars Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, and Harris Dickinson portraying John Lennon. The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event is slated to hit theaters in April 2028.
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Rio de Janeiro’s mayor is reacting to claims from Brazilian soccer star Jorginho that Chappell Roan’s security upset the athlete’s young daughter.
In a post on X on Saturday (March 21), Rio Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere wrote that the 28-year-old pop star will never perform at Todo Mundo no Rio while he remains in office and extended an invitation for the athlete’s 11-year-old daughter to attend the upcoming event as an honored guest.
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“I mean that as long as I’m in charge of our city, this young lady @ChappellRoan will never perform at Todo Mundo no Rio!” Cavaliere wrote in Spanish. “I doubt that Shakira would do that! By the way, @FrelloJorginho your little one is already the guest of honor of the organization in May!”
Todo Mundo no Rio is a series of free international music events held on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro each May. The inaugural edition was headlined by Madonna in 2024, followed by Lady Gaga in 2025. Shakira is set to headline this year’s event on May 2.
Jorginho reacted to the mayor’s post with a pair of red heart emojis.
The mayor’s post follows a lengthy Instagram Story from the soccer star on Saturday, in which he said Roan’s security left his daughter in tears after an incident that morning at a São Paulo hotel.
In his post, Jorginho said his wife, Catherine Harding, and 11-year-old daughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil when they spotted the singer at the hotel restaurant during breakfast.
“My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t approach Roan or ask for anything.
He claimed the encounter quickly escalated when a security guard allegedly confronted his family, speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and harassment, even threatening to file a complaint with the hotel, leaving his daughter “extremely shaken” and in tears.
“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard — who is not my personal security,” Roan said on her Instagram Story, lying in bed at the start of her video.
“I didn’t even see,” the singer continued. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me. No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”
Roan added, “I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions. When they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken.”
The pop star concluded her message, assuring viewers, “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
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Chappell Roan is responding to claims that her security left Brazilian soccer star Jorginho’s 11-year-old daughter in tears following an incident at a São Paulo hotel.
The 28-year-old pop star, who performed at Lollapalooza Brazil on Saturday (March 21), took to her Instagram Story Sunday morning to share her side of the story after Jorginho posted on social media that his daughter was “extremely shaken” when a security guard allegedly confronted her and her mother during breakfast, accusing the child of “harassment” simply for recognizing the singer and smiling.
“I’m just going to tell my half of the story of what happened today with a mother and child who were involved with a security guard — who is not my personal security,” Roan said, lying in bed at the start of her video.
“I didn’t even see,” she continued. “I didn’t even see a woman and a child. Like, I did not. No one came up to me. No one bothered me. Like, I was just sitting at breakfast in my hotel. I think these people were staying at the hotel as well.”
Roan added, “I did not ask the security guard to go up to talk to this mother and child. They did not come up to me. They weren’t doing anything. It’s unfair for security to just assume someone doesn’t have good intentions. When they have no reason to believe, because there’s no action even taken.”
The pop star concluded her message, assuring viewers, “I do not hate people who are fans of my music. I do not hate children. That is crazy. I’m sorry to the mother and child that someone was assuming something, that you would do something and that if you felt uncomfortable, that makes me really sad. You did not deserve that.”
In his post on Instagram, Jorginho said his wife, Catherine Harding, and 11-year-old daughter were staying at a São Paulo hotel ahead of Roan’s headlining set at Lollapalooza Brazil when they spotted the singer at the hotel restaurant during breakfast.
“My daughter, like any child, recognised her, got excited, and just wanted to make sure it was really her,” the midfielder shared, noting she didn’t approach Roan or ask for anything.
He claimed the encounter quickly escalated when a security guard allegedly confronted his family, speaking “in an extremely aggressive manner” and accusing his daughter of “disrespect” and “harassment,” even threatening to file a complaint with the hotel, leaving his daughter “extremely shaken” and in tears.
The incident follows Roan’s recent experiences with unwanted attention from fans and photographers. Earlier this month, she was seen self-documenting a chaotic encounter with autograph seekers and photographers in Paris.
“I’m just trying to go to dinner, and I’ve asked these people several times to get away from me,” she said to her phone in the video, uploaded by an onlooker. “These are all the people that are completely disregarding my boundaries,” she added later in the clip.
While many have applauded Roan for standing up to paparazzi harassment, Boy George wrote on X in early March that she should “own your fame” and to “cheer up girl. The world is at your feet stop kicking it!” He added, “boundaries are boring” and encouraged her to “break them with the magic of kindness.”
Others have come to Roan’s defense. Folk-rock singer/songwriter Noah Kahan recently took to his Instagram Stories to support the “Pink Pony Club” singer. “Maybe they should just idk leave her alone?” Kahan wrote in his first post. In a follow-up video, he elaborated on his disdain for paparazzi behavior, sharing his own experiences: “These people literally find out where you’re staying, where you’re flying in to, where your team, family, whoever is staying. They are clearly not your fans, they just sit outside places so they can try to guilt you into signing sh–t so they can sell it.”
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