Cynthia Erivo's Aretha Franklin Will Blow You Away in First Trailer for Genius: Aretha

Betty Davis, a soul and funk singer of the 1960s whose growling, raspy vocal style and unapologetically explicit lyrics would influence future performers from Prince and Erykah Badu to Outkast, died today of natural causes at her home in Homestead, Pennsylvania. She was 77.

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Kim Kardashian, 41, feels betrayed by Travis Scott, 30, as he’s stayed close to Kanye West, 44, amid the “Runaway” rapper’s public drama with his ex. A source close to the Kardashians revealed to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY that Kim was hurt to see her sister Kylie Jenner‘s boyfriend stay close to Yeezy, as Kanye has publicly aired out his problems with Kim and their co-parenting relationship.

Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green's divorce is officially finalized, ET has confirmed.A judge on Tuesday signed off on the former couple's final divorce settlement.  was first to report the news.

Chrishell Stause appeared on Watch What Happens Live on Tuesday, Feb. 8, and her relationship with Selling Sunset co-star Jason Oppenheim unsurprisingly came up. The former soap star, 40, split from Jason, 44, in Dec. 2021, after only five months of dating, and so host Andy Cohen asked Chrishell for her thoughts about fan saying the former couple only dated “for a storyline for the show.”

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filed for a separation from the Beverly Hills, 90210 star, 48, in November, 2020, after an on-of relationship spanning over a decade.They finally reached a settlement in the proceedings last October and have reportedly been given the stamp of approval from a judge.According to TMZ, the judge signed off on their final divorce settlement on Tuesday, officially bringing their marriage to an end.The publication reports that they agreed to joint legal and physical custody of their three children, Noah, Bodhi and Journey.Sources added that the former couple did not have a pre-nup in place, meaning they are required by law to split everything acquired during their 10-year marriage.Megan and Brian started dating in 2004 and announced their engagement two years later.They initially hit a rough patch and went their separate ways at the beginning of 2009, but reunited the following June, before tying the knot that same month in a private ceremony in Hawaii.The lovebirds welcomed sons Noah and Bodhi together before the Jennifer’s Body star filed for divorce in August, 2015.However, they reconciled once again in 2016 and announced that their third child, Journey, was on the way.It wasn’t to last and the Desperate Housewives favorite announced that their marriage was over in May, 2020.Speaking on his podcast …With Brian Austin Green, he told listeners: ‘I wanted everyone to hear everything from me, and this is it. Neither one of us did anything to each other. ‘She’s always been honest with me.

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Vanessa Bryant continues to advocate for her late husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old Gianna Bryant following their tragic deaths in 2020. As fans of the famous family already know, Gigi was following in her father’s footsteps and was already a promising basketball prospect in her own right.

Naomi Osaka is the world’s highest-earning female athlete. The Japanese tennis player appeared in Forbes Magazine’s ranking this past Thursday, earning $57.3 million in prize money and endorsements over the course of the past year.Naomi Osaka acknowledges young fan after winning her first 2021 US Open matchNaomi Osaka’s dream car is the girliest, most glamorous, and magical ride everA post shared by 大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka)The Forbes list showed that the top-earning female athletes were all tennis players, with Osaka occupying first place by a significant margin, followed by Serena and Venus Williams in second and third place, earning $45.9 million and $11.3 million, respectively.

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ScHoolboy Q has discussed how the game of golf changed his “mental” and has taught him a lot about life.Since the release of his last album, 2019’s ‘CrasH Talk’, the TDE rapper has been heavily involved in the sport, and more recently he’s been enjoying his time as a player in the 2022 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California.Speaking in a new interview during the competition, Q (real name Quincy Hanley) talked about how golf has impacted him.“Coming where I come from, the life that I had, I never thought about playing golf, and I got into it and it changed my mental,” he said. “It let me learn myself as a person, like this is why certain things in my life are going bad or why certain things are going good because of the attitude thing, you get what I’m saying? It fixed my attitude in life, it fixed a lot of things about me in life.”ScHoolboy added: “Life is a golf game – some good shots, some bad shots.

(CNN)Cynthia Erivo is putting on the crown of the Queen of Soul in the new trailer for National Geographic's "Genius: Aretha." The Emmy award-winning series is set to return March 21 with a new installment that focuses on the life of Aretha Franklin. A new trailer for the latest edition, the series third, was released Tuesday.The network said in a press release that the season will "explore Aretha Franklin's musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world." In addition to Erivo, who is best known for her roles in "Harriet" and "The Color Purple" on Broadway, the show stars Courtney B.

The Queen of Soul's iconic story is coming to the small screen with the new trailer for Genius: Aretha on National Geographic Channel.Aretha Franklin's inimitable career will be put on display in the third season of Genius, which has previously explored the lives of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso.Cynthia Erivo stars as Franklin in the eight-episode series, which will be rolled out over four consecutive nights starting Sunday, March 21 on National Geographic Channel.

Cynthia Erivo wears her crown high as she becomes the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, in the new trailer for Genius.

Aretha Franklin’s story is finally coming to television via the third installment of National Geographic’s anthology series,. Starring Cynthia Erivo, the eight-part series will premiere over four consecutive nights starting Sunday, March 21.In addition to the official premiere date, the network also released a new two-minute trailer, offering a fuller look at the first-ever and only authorized scripted series about the Queen of Soul’s life and celebrated career.Starting in the late 1960s, will recount Franklin’s efforts to record her first album with Atlantic Records and then cover major moments in her career and personal life in the two decades that followed.