2/19/24: Last News

Katy Perry announced she’s leaving her role on the judging panel later this year. “Oh hiiii @AmericanIdol,” Sparks, 34, tweeted on Friday. “I hear a seat opened up at the judges table! I’m putting my name in the hat!” Sparks’ public plea comes days after Perry, 39, told Jimmy Kimmel last week that the current Season 22 will be her last after seven years on the show.

Instagram photo dump posted Saturday, the 82-year-old sexpot reached for a measuring tape to show off her indoor plants — and ravishing roses received from her suitors. “The tall Phaius swamp orchid with twelve flower stems is 44″ tall, the Lady Slipper is 5″ across, the Cattleya is unusual shades of magenta and yellow, and the roses from three different men friends are gorgeous all together. How often does that work out so well?” she asked.The Post has contacted reps for Stewart for comment.

ready for it.Two Australian Taylor Swift fans received the shock of a lifetime when they were personally invited by the singer to enter her VIP tent during the songstress’ show in Melbourne, Australia on Sunday. YouTubers Emily Hunt and Bonny Rebecca, who run the popular Swift-themed “Chats and Reacts” channel were sent further into a tizzy when the invites — as well as handwritten notes from the pop superstar — were delivered by none other than her father, Scott Swift, News.au. reported.

backed up to the beat a little too far. Madonna shocked her Seattle audience over the weekend when the Queen of Pop toppled over while in a chair during one of her performances at Climate Pledge Arena. In a video obtained by TMZ, the incident occurred when the mononymous singer, 65, sat on a chair during her performance of “Open Your Heart,” and a dancer then attempted to drag the chair down a long section of the stage.

unconditionally moved by this meeting. Katy Perry got emotional during Sunday’s “American Idol” premiere as a contestant met her biological family for the first time following her live audition. Arizona native McKenna Breinholt stepped into the audition room and revealed to Perry and her fellow “Idol” judges, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, that she was adopted.According to Breinholt, 25, her adoptive family struggled to conceive a child before ultimately going through the adoptive process.“I have the best family in the world they’ve always supported me,” Breinholt said, adding that when she had turned 21, her parents revealed that she had inherited her musical talent from her biological mother, Amy Ross Lopez, who was in a band called Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl before she sadly passed away.

BAFTA Awards, where Scott’s film, “All of Us Strangers” was up for multiple awards. On the red carpet, BBC’s arts and entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson stopped Scott, 47, to ask whether he knew “Saltburn” star Keoghan, 31.Scott confirmed he did know Keoghan, prompting Paterson to probe the actor as to what he thought about Keoghan’s “naked dance scene” in “Saltburn.”A flustered Scott shook his head and struggled to muster up a response. “I won’t spoil it for anybody,” he finally said about the infamous scene, in which Keoghan’s penis is clearly visible.

forever and always.Taylor Swift thanked her record number of fans in Australia on Sunday after she played three “Eras” Tour shows to a whopping 288,000 people. “96,000 people the first night, 96,000 people the second night, 96,000 people tonight. All of that, those are all the biggest shows I’ve ever played on a tour and you did it three times,” Swift, 34, told the screaming crowd at Melbourne Cricket Ground in a clip posted to X (formerly Twitter).

British Academy Film Awards security team revealed that they ousted a prankster shortly after he managed to join the cast and crew of “Oppenheimer” on stage after winning the coveted Best Film award on Sunday. “A social media prankster was removed by security last night after joining the winners of the final award on stage,” a BAFTA spokesperson told Deadline after the award show.

interview with “Good Morning America,” where he hinted that the recent health woes could have a “reunifying effect” on his family.But it seems as though that feeling is not reciprocated 5,459 miles away from Montecito, Calif., as sources close to the monarch say he’s “firmly of the opinion” that Harry can’t return as a working royal.“Have the King and Harry been speaking? Yes. Does this mean a return to the fold even on a temporary basis? No,” a source told the Daily Mail.Another insider added, “Aside from a small number of investitures, the King does not plan to offload a great number of duties on other family members while he undergoes treatment.”Other sources noted that Harry’s “half-in, half-out” approach simply isn’t enough to see him return to the royal fold with his wife, Meghan Markle.Despite that, insiders claim that Charles, 75, would be open to fixing his damaged relationship with his youngest son.The Post has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.Over the weekend, sources close to Harry told Page Six that the Duke of Sussex would be willing to return to royal duties if he was asked to.“I have a hard time believing if his dad asks for his help that Harry would say no, I think he would try,” an insider said.But at the same time, the source added: “I don’t think it’s something that Harry would ask [to do] on his own.”During his interview on “GMA” Friday, Harry said, “I think any illness, any sickness brings families together.