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Pete Davidson expecting his first child with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt
Pete Davidson is expecting his first child with his girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, who announced her pregnancy on Instagram. 'Welp now everyone knows we had sex,' the 29-year-old captioned her Instagram post, which featured footage of the new couple, including at an ultrasound appointment. Hewitt's post also featured a photo of shirtless Davidson, 31, holding Hewitt's stomach. The couple hugged each other in two other photos and took a selfie with face masks on in another image. Davidson's relationship with the model was revealed in March this year when they were spotted together in Palm Beach, Florida. A source told Page Six at the time that Hewitt 'respects Pete and his desire for privacy,' and that Davidson's mum and sister 'approve of this relationship and love seeing Pete so happy.' Hewitt soft launched their relationship later that month when she posted a video of the Saturday Night Live star in a white bathrobe to her Instagram Stories. Come May, the couple had quietly moved in together. 'Pete and Elsie have been living together in New York for the past few months,' a source told People. 'They're splitting their time between Pete's house in upstate New York and a brownstone they recently started renting in Brooklyn.' The Post reached out to Davidson's rep for comment. 'They're so happy together and doing great,' the source added. That same month, Davidson and Hewitt made their red carpet debut as a couple at the 13th Annual Blossom Ball in New York City. They also attended the New York Knicks game on May 16. About eight months before he began dating Hewitt, Davidson split from 'Outer Banks' star Madelyn Cline. The exes were together for less than a year. Davidson's other famous exes include Ariana Grande, Kate Beckinsale, Kaia Gerber, Phoebe Dynevor, Kim Kardashian, Emily Ratajkowski and Chase Sui Wonders. On Kevin Hart's talk show in 2022, the comedian spoke about wanting to start a family. 'My favourite thing ever, which I'm yet to achieve, is I wanna have a kid,' Davidson stated. 'It's super corny, but it would be so fun to dress up a little dude,' he continued. 'I'm so excited for that chapter so that's kind of what I'm just preparing for now, is trying to be like good as a dude and develop and get better so when that happens it's just easier.' Hewitt, for her part, dated Jason Sudeikis in early 2024 before she ended up with Davidson. She was also famously in a relationship with Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband, Ryan Phillippe, before suing him for alleged assault in 2017. The Cruel Intentions star denied Hewitt's allegations, and they settled the case in 2019.
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Mark Ronson on Raye collab 'Suzanne' and Amy Winehouse comparisons
Mark Ronson is a certified hit machine. And he has multiple awards, millions of streams and, crucially, the respect of his peers to prove it. He's the brains behind Bruno Mars-fronted mega-hit 'Uptown Funk', co-wrote the Golden Globe and Oscar-winning 'Shallow' with Lady Gaga, and collaborated with everyone from rappers Ghostface Killah and Sean Paul to vocal icons Adele and Miley Cyrus. Before the accolades, and a catalogue that cemented him as a taste-making super-producer to the stars, Ronson was an amateur DJ. For his 19th birthday, he received a pair of turntables and began scratching his way around New York City, gigging his way up from East Side clubs to high-fashion events. Now 49, Ronson has spent the past few years reflecting on his youth, writing a memoir called Night People, coming out in September. "The book is about 90s hip hop nightclubs in New York and me coming up as a DJ as a teenager playing for Biggie [Smalls] and Jay-Z and all these people," he tells Double J's Dylan Lewis. That nascent era has also reignited Ronson's creativity as he continues work on the follow-up to the Barbie soundtrack and his 2019 divorce album of "sad bangers", Late Night Feelings. "I've just been obsessing over the sound of it. And then I just met Raye, and we made this song just like that." The song in question is 'Suzanne', a delightfully smooth slice of soul played with a flesh-and-blood band, burnished with Ronson's signature classy, vintage polish. The timeless production is a natural fit for Raye, the breakout London star whose vocal and visual styling have regularly invited comparisons to the late, great Amy Winehouse. Initially, the 27-year-old Raye was reluctant to work with Ronson, who worked closely on Winehouse's 2006 blockbuster Back To Black, concerned people would double down on the similarities. "I actually was quite nervous and scared," she revealed in a People interview. "I know I can never, ever, ever, ever, ever attempt to replace or imitate Amy. I'm in awe of her. We all are, and we miss her." For the uninitiated: Raye, real name Rachel Agatha Keen, was slumming it in a bad record deal for years with Polydor, who failed to cultivate her talents. Instead, they shelved her music and had her writing songs for others, including Beyoncé and John Legend. After leaving Polydor in 2021, she channelled her frustrations into new songs — a difficult-to-categorise bridging of old-school jazz and R&B with contemporary pop, hip hop and electronic music — including her chart-topping global hit, 'Escapism' (featuring 070 Shake). Her 2023 independent debut album, My 21st Century Blues, was a runaway hit that saw Raye make history at last year's Brit Awards, winning six of her seven nominations and breaking Blur, Adele and Harry Styles' record four wins at a single Brits ceremony. Needless to say, Ronson has been a Raye admirer for some time. "Even though I've lived in America since I was eight, and I speak with a ridiculous accent, I am English," he explains. "So, when I see another English artist really come up through the ranks and start to take over — like how she's made a splash in Australia and America; killing it at the Oscars and the Grammys — I've just been cheering her on as a fan." Ronson has mentored plenty of emerging talent in his time, such as young Brooklyn artist King Princess and big-voiced gospel-pop singer Yebba, and often works in services of his artists' influences and tastes. That approach was no different with Raye. "She's young, she's definitely a generation who grew up with music like Amy Winehouse," Ronson says. "She's a really soulful singer, she has jazz influences. I might have guessed she was a fan of Amy, but I didn't know she was a super fan of mine. And she played it very cool." There's another strange connection between the two, with a 19-year-old Raye working out of Ronson's former London studio when he relocated once more to the US in 2016. "I left the studio there and I think she then took it over [as part of] a crew of people. It was her, Fred Again… a few other people that took this studio over." 'Suzanne' sees Ronson embracing the retro-facing sound that skyrocketed his career in the mid-2000s after the breakout success of Back To Black. So how does he feel about the Winehouse comparisons? "I'm not gonna lie; I guess when I first came out, people were like, 'Oh, the retro guy. Of course!' "I think because Amy was the first thing that I ever really had success with, for a little while … everything I did sounded like that, for about three or four years. "Then, by the time I made [2010 album] Record Collection with 'Bang Bang Bang' [featuring A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip and electro-pop artist MNDR], I was sort of ready to move on. "But it's funny now, there's a new generation of kids — there's Jalen Ngonda and Thee Sacred Souls — going back to that. Kids who are hearing it for the first time. "So, I always have to be in the studio with a younger artist like a Raye who'll be like, 'No. Do that shit. We love that!' I'm like, 'Really? But I did that before.' And they're like, 'No, no. It's cool.' "So, I mean, it's fun to get back together with so many musicians that I did that [sound with] because Raye feels like an artist sort of worthy of that sound." 'Suzanne' saw Ronson reuniting with guitarist and producer Thomas Brenneck. A member of instrumental ensembles Menahan Street Band, Budos Band and El Michels Affair, Brenneck's expansive credits include albums for funk and soul greats Charles Bradley and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings. He also played on Back to Back, and perfectly represents the kind of prolific, old-fashioned, behind-the-stardom muso that Ronson loves filling out his key personnel with. "But you know I I'm always trying to make something that still sounds fresh, I guess." After co-writing the music with Brenneck, the rest "just came so easy," Ronson continues. "I just left the room for a second and Raye said, 'I think this song's supposed to be called Suzanne.' It sounded very random … But I was like, 'Cool!'" Between smooth bottom-end, gentle guitar strokes and warm brass, Raye uses vivid details to paint a lush lyrical portrait of a female crush. "Grey skies out the window, but she's a summer breeze," she sings. "You can't tell if she's into you, she's a winding road/That I've been running on down since I was seven years old." Ronson didn't tell Raye at the time, "because I wanted her to have her own Suzanne. But there was a woman growing up [who] helped raise me and my family," he explained to triple j. "She had just passed away, like two weeks before [recording]. She was from Southampton in England; it was all these coincidences." He tells Double J: "It was such a lovely, cathartic release. We didn't really make it for either one of our albums. We just liked it. We were like, 'Let's just put it out.'" Raye and Ronson have already knocked out a second collaboration, 'Grandma Calls The Boy Bad News', which Ronson describes as having a "Memphis Atlantic record, kind of 60s feeling", and released as part of the soundtrack to the Brad Pitt-starring F1 movie. Plus, there's hope that the partnership can continue. "We have such a great energy. You never know, but I do hope so," Ronson concludes. "Because I love Raye and her energy and I love how free ['Suzanne'] was and it just came out of us. That's why I'm very grateful for the gift of this song. I know that sounds a little over the top but I mean it."
News.com.au
6 hours ago
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Inside the family ‘drama' that kept Kendall and Kylie Jenner away from major event: report
There's reportedly 'bad blood' in the Jenner clan that led to Kendall and Kylie Jenner not attending their half-brother Brody Jenner's wedding to Tia Blanco. Tense relations between Brody's mum, Linda Thompson, and Kendall and Kylie's mum, Kris Jenner, has spilled over to their children, the US Sun reported Tuesday. Although Kendall and Kylie could easily have made arrangements to attend Brody's Malibu wedding at Thompson's home over the weekend, the sisters chose not to go, a source told the outlet. Linda and Kris have not got along 'in decades,' leading Brody to reportedly dislike the Kardashian 'momager', reports Page Six. 'He's never gotten over it, and so when the siblings were trying to build relationships, Brody would often fall back into this narrative of blaming Kris for everything,' the insider continued. While Kendall has reportedly made an effort to get along with her dad Caitlyn Jenner's side of the family, the source said Kylie has firmly aligned herself with the Kardashian side. 'Kylie has admitted to friends she just feels like a stranger in the Jenner family unit,' the source explained. 'She has nothing in common with them. She feels her place is as part of the Kardashians.' Reps for Kylie, Kendall and Brody did not immediately respond to Page Six's requests for comment. Website TMZ reported on Monday that Kendall and Kylie didn't attend the wedding because they thought their presence would take the spotlight away from Brody and Blanco. 'Brody and his half sisters have nothing but love for each other,' a source told the outlet. Caitlyn did attend the intimate wedding, which had around 60 to 70 guests, reports TMZ. The wedding took place just two weeks after the Olympic gold medallist lost her longtime friend and manager, Sophia Hutchins, in a tragic ATV accident. Caitlyn, 75, shares Brody, 41, and older son Brandon Jenner, 44, with Thompson — her second ex-wife. The I Am Cait star also shares son Burt Jenner, 46, and daughter Cassandra Marino, 45, with her first wife, Chrystie Scott; and Kendall, 29, and Kylie, 27, with her third ex-wife, Kris.
