After 39 years of marriage, Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon are separating. In a joint statement, the couple said they are now on “separate life paths”, but remain “legally married, co-parents, co-workers and business partners.” They met in 1983 on the set of “Doctor Detroit” and they were married the same year.
Ever since Netflix announced “That 90s Show”, a continuation of the classic Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show”, fans have been clamoring to know who would return. Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp were confirmed to reprise their roles as ‘Red’ and ‘Kitty Forman’, but now, we know almost the whole core cast will return in some capacity. Topher Grace, Laura Prepon, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Wilmer Valderrama will all appear on That ’90s Show.
Lizzo wants to collaborate with BTS. She’s become good friends with J-Hope from the K-Pop boy band after exchanging texts, and in a podcast appearance, she said: “I’ve gravitated towards BTS because they remind me of myself where it’s like, self-love and this positive energy and the way they love their fans.”
After covering Avril Lavigne’s hit ‘Complicated’ throughout Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” tour, she was joined onstage by the real deal during her Toronto show on Friday. Olivia introduced Avril as someone “who broke down so many barriers, and opened so many doors for girls like me. I’m so, so, so lucky that she came here tonight to sing with me.”
Duran Duran won fan voting for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2022, with over 900,000 votes. The rest of the top-5, who will all be placed on a fan ballot that will be tallied alongside the other ballots used to select this year’s winners, are, in order, Eminem (680,000 votes), Pat Benatar (630,000), Eurythmics (442,000) and Dolly Parton (393,000).
Dolly Parton now says she will “accept gracefully” if she is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. She previously asked not to be included in the voting process because she didn’t feel she had earned it, but The Rock Hall said her name would remain on the ballot. Fan voting ended Friday, with Dolly in 5th place with just over 390,000 votes.
Thanks to its appearance in the trailer for Marvel’s upcoming film “Thor: Love and Thunder”, Guns N’ Roses’ classic song ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ has hit #1 Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart – almost 35 years after its release.
Paul McCartney duetted with a video of John Lennon on the opening night of his tour in Spokane WA. Video footage shows Paul and his band performing the Beatles classic ‘I’ve Got a Feeling’ as the crowd erupts when John’s image appears on the video screen.
BILL MURRAY says the issue on the set of “Being Mortal” involved him doing something he THOUGHT was funny, that wasn’t taken that way. He says he’s open to learning from his mistakes, and going back to work.
DJ KHALED is asking McDonald’s why it’s so hard to find Happy Meals right now. He went to five locations on Saturday before he finally found one that had them. He said, quote, “McDonald’s, the kids want Happy Meals!”
KATIE HOLMES has a new man and he’s 10 years younger than her. His name is Bobby Wooten the Third and he’s a Grammy-nominated musician and plays the bass for several Broadway productions.
BARBRA STREISAND shared a photo from her 80th birthday party . . . with CHRIS MARTIN and DAKOTA JOHNSON. Apparently, they had a tea party.
PSY just released the song “That That” with BTS member SUGA, but it sounds like he’s been a fan for awhile. He applauded BTS for achieving his unfulfilled dreams of reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite” . . . “Gangnam Style” only got to #2.
AMBER HEARD replaced her PR team just in time before she takes the stand in court this week to testify against JOHNNY DEPP. In related news, Amber is rumored to be in “Aquaman 2” for less than 10 minutes.
Peacock is going to have a new “Dateline” show that examines a victim’s final day alive. It’s called “Dateline: The Final Day” and it comes out June 14th.
Selena Gomez and Rare Beauty are kicking off the ‘Your Words Matter’ campaign for Mental Health Awareness Month. Infographics shared by Selena and Rare Beauty suggest we avoid using mental health terms to describe non-clinical situations and to alter our language to focus on the person and not their disorder.
Madonna joined Maluma for two songs at his concert in Medellin, Columbia on Saturday night. The Material Girl was brought on stage for their 2019 collaboration, “Medellin,” off of Madonna’s ‘Madame X’ and her 2000 single, “Music”. The entire show was also streamed live on Prime Video.
“The Bad Guys” placed first for the second weekend in a row at the domestic box office, bringing in $16.1 million. Deadline reports that it was a quiet weekend overall, with total ticket sales estimated around $68 million, down 28% from last weekend. Ticket sales will pick up again this weekend, however, as fans make their way to the premiere of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”—opening Thursday. The film is expected to bring in between $150-200 million during its first weekend.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos celebrated their 26th wedding anniversary on Sunday. Kelly posted a photo of the pair to Instagram and wrote, “26 years with the love of my life!” Mark shared his own post to Instagram that featured two penguins holding flippers. “Happy anniversary! 26 years. Penguin status,” he wrote.
‘Us Weekly’ reports that ‘Selling Sunset’’s Christine Quinn has walked away from the Oppenheim Group. The show’s fifth season ends with a cliffhanger on whether Christine would stay on with the brokerage company, but ‘Us Weekly’ confirms she has since said goodbye. “It was Christine’s decision to leave the Oppenheim Group,” a source told the publication.
Due to a significant drop in Netflix subscribers and the company’s stock, the streaming platform has decided to axe Meghan Markle’s animated series, ‘Pearl’. The series would have been the Archewell Foundation’s first animated series.
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