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Cosmopolitan
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Halsey and Lauren Jauregui Perform 'Strangers' Together for the First Time in 7 Years
In case you needed an update, Halsey and Lauren Jauregui are far from strangers. The singers, who both openly identify as bisexual, reunited to perform their 2017 hit, 'Strangers,' for the first time in 7 years during Halsey's For My Last Trick Tour stop at Chicago's Huntington Bank Pavilion on June 17. As proven by clips of their performance, there is truly no better way to celebrate Pride month—and, of course, fans went wild on social media once they surfaced. 'ARE U JOKING,' one fan wrote, while another added, 'Can't believe i'd live to see the day that they would sing this live together again.' This marks their first joint performance of the song since June 2018, when the Fifth Harmony alum kickstarted her solo career opening for Halsey on her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom World Tour. The song, which details the push-and-pull of a shifty relationship dynamic between two women, became an instant classic in the LGBTQ+ community when it was released. At the time, Halsey shared why she tapped Lauren for the track during an interview on The Zach Sang Show, saying, 'Lauren is a friend of mine and she is openly bisexual, and so am I. Our fans, really this past year, have just really expressed so much support and so much love and indication that they relate to us and that they are happy to us be outspoken about it.' 'I just love that Lauren and I are two women who have a mainstream pop presence doing a love song for the LGBT community,' Halsey said at the time. 'It's rare to see it from a girl's perspective.' The About-Face founder, who's non-binary and uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, also revealed that 'Strangers' was the first song in which she openly used female pronouns. 'It is the first song that I ever wrote where I openly used female pronouns and I have songs that are about women that I have been with but I was 19 and I tried to keep [my debut album] Badlands gender neutral,' she said. She continued, 'I was thinking to myself, 'If I want this song to be believable, it needs to be real.' So I'm not going to put a girl on this song to sing who's straight. I'm just not going to do it. So I reached out to Lauren, she came in and cut the vocal and it sounds awesome.' We can fully confirm it still holds up all these years later.
USA Today
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Ariana Grande's grandmother Marjorie Grande, known as 'Nonna', dies at 99
Ariana Grande's grandmother Marjorie Grande, known as 'Nonna', dies at 99 Ariana Grande's grandmother Marjorie Grande, known to fans as "Nonna," has died. She was 99. "We are devastated to share that the beloved matriarch of our family has passed away," Grande's mother, Joan Grande, wrote in a statement shared to her Instagram Story. Ariana re-posted the image to her own Story, sharing the news with her 375 million followers. "Marjorie (Nonna) Grande passed peacefully in her home and was surrounded by her family and loved ones for every moment of her last few weeks. We thank you for your love, support and for respecting our privacy as we grieve and celebrate her beautiful, extraordinary life." Ariana has spoken lovingly and often of her Nonna. At the 2025 Golden Globe Awards, Ariana told a reporter her grandmother was the second person, after her mother, she'd called after learning of her "Wicked" nomination. Marjorie Grande had a cameo in the last track off Ariana's most recent album, "Eternal Sunshine." In "Ordinary Things (feat. Nonna)," Marjorie advises her granddaughter, "Never go to bed without kissing goodnight. It's the worst thing to do. Don't ever, ever do that. And if you can't, and if you don't feel comfortable doing it, you're in the wrong place. Get out." Ariana explained in a March 2024 episode of The Zach Sang Show, "The album starts with a question and ends with an answer from a person that I love and trust so implicitly. I cherish what my family has to share with me."
Black America Web
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
10 Celebrities Who Can Help You Understand Pansexuality
Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin There's a lot we need to work on as a society, but from a general perspective the world has grown in strides when it comes to accepting people for who they are however they decide to identify. Our team always keeps an eye on what's tending, who's being searched and where the conversations are happening throughout the digital world, and pansexuality is surprisingly enough a strong topic of curiosity. Last month we saw rising country sensation Tanner Andell, also well-known as one of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter collaborators, confirm to Out Magazine that she is pansexual and later appeared on The Zach Sang Show music podcast to indulge further. Take look at a clip below: RELATED: Black Celebrities Who Identify As Bisexual, Pansexual & More 'It's funny when people ask me my sexual orientation, but I feel like you should be able to hear that in my music,' she also told Out Magazine , which is admittedly fair given tracks like her 2023 BUCKLE BUNNY album cut, 'Strawberry Crush.' Lyrics like, 'Strawberry wonder, strawberry lover / Bet she tastes like strawberries under the covers,' make it clear that Tanner is craving some feminine energy. At the same time, the next verse confirms she's got a boyfriend who's over in aisle 10 checking out produce. The fluidity in how she shifts her attraction based on feeling instead of typical gender norms is a perspective we've seen in a handful of celebrities before her. SEE ALSO Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
Daily Mail
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Zayn Malik's friends 'insist daughter Khai, 4, saved him and helped him turn his life around following concerns for his wellbeing' after One Direction exit
Zayn Malik 's daughter Khai has reportedly been credited with 'saving him' by his friends and motivating him to turn his life around. The singer, 32, welcomed four-year-old daughter Khai with ex-girlfriend Gigi Hadid, in September 2020 before the pair called it quits on their romantic relationship for good in October the following year. Since leaving One Direction in March 2015, Zayn has battled crippling anxiety, faced concerns about his drug use and hit the headlines after being filmed during a shirtless altercation in New York. While last year saw him dealing with the tragic death of his former bandmate Liam Payne, leading him to postpone his debut solo tour - the first in a number of delays to the tour. But last month, Zayn successfully completed his Stairway to the Sky shows, concluding in Mexico City with the words: 'We got there'. And now his daughter has been credited with helping him make the 'incredible turnaround', after fears that it could have 'gone so differently', according to The Sun. A source told the publication: 'Friends inside and outside of the music industry are incredibly proud of the man Zayn has become. 'It could have all gone so differently - there have been genuine concerns for him over the years, but the storms he has weathered have given him strength and clarity. 'Finishing the tour was a huge hurdle for him to overcome. It's been an incredible turnaround. Fatherhood has been the making of him. Khai has absolutely saved him.' Last year, Zayn himself explained how fatherhood had changed him, admitting Khai unlocked a love in him he'd never had before. Opening up about his daughter on The Zach Sang Show, he said: 'I feel like my daughter brought that colour back in my life. 'She just makes me happy. I have so much love in me that I didn't have before she was born. 'She laughs all day. She wants to do the silliest things and she gains so much excitement from it. She just has a whole fresh perspective on life that had somewhat become grey for me.' He added: 'She's a force of nature. She's given me maturity. She's forced my sensibility to become this mature father for her, this good responsible role model that takes accountability for their actions and sticks to their work and proves that my word is bond.' Zayn splits custody with supermodel Gigi, 30, who he began dating in 2015, before a brief split in 2018 and again in 2019, and then a final separation in 2021. Their decision to finally call things off once and for all was reportedly caused by tension between Zayn and and Gigi's mother, Yolanda Hadid. Zayn was charged with four counts of harassment after he pleaded no contest to the charges after allegedly pushing Yolanda into a dresser and calling her a 'f*****g Dutch s**t' in September 2021. Court documents revealed that he had to complete 360 days probation in addition to completing an anger management class. However, the former couple seem to have put the drama behind them, with them now sharing an amicable co-parenting relationship. Last month, Gigi shared rare insight into their co-parenting arrangement, saying that despite their split, they're raising their daughter Khai with 'love and camaraderie'. Gracing the cover of Vogue's April 2025 issue, she explained they plan their custody schedules 'months in advance,' and they always 'have each other's backs' when it comes to raising their daughter. Gigi shared that all of her work commitments are planning around the weeks she and Zayn have their daughter. She said: 'Zayn and I do our custody schedules months in advance. That doesn't mean that it doesn't change here and there, but we help each other out and have each other's backs.' She added that she and Zayn have entered the new phase of their partnership with 'love, and a feeling of camaraderie,' all the while aware that there will always be public interest in their relationship. Alluding to Gigi then went onto allude to a row Zayn had with her mother Yolanda, where the singer was charged with four counts of harassment. She said: 'There is the hard part of the world knowing this much, and thinking they know everything. And at the end of the day, we're not interested in giving everyone our whole story.' She added: 'What we are interested in is raising our daughter together, with so much respect for each other, and not just as co-parents, but what we've been through together.' The Sun also reports that Zayn has 'come a long way' since his feelings of resentment around One Direction, pointing to his emotional rendition of a 1D song last month. Zayn shot to fame when he competed on The X Factor in 2010 and the judges put him into the boyband alongside Liam, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson. However, he left fans devastated in 2015 when he sensationally announced he was leaving the boyband in a bid to be a 'normal' then 22-year-old. But during one of his final tour gigs last month, Zayn sent fans wild by performing Night Changes - the first One Direction song he'd performed in 10 years. While the date of the gig showed a special significance, with 25 March being the exact date he left the boyband, a decade ago. He delighted fans by belting out the 2014 track as a surprise opener, with clips online showing the crowd erupting into screams as he sang the first line. And after the rendition, Zayn was emotional as he told the crowd: 'I haven't sung this song in 10 years. Thank you, that was amazing, I almost cried.' And a source told The Sun: 'When Zayn first went solo, there's no way he would have wanted to sing a 1D song. Now, he's not afraid to admit it almost brought him to tears. He's come a long way'.
