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Taylor Swift is spreading holiday cheer!

Taylor Swift was spotted showing appreciation to the service workers at Gillette Stadium last weekend!

The country's top sports stars lined the red carpet in Salford tonight (December 19) as they arrived for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards. The 70th edition of the annual awards show is taking place at MediaCityUK with the winner to be crowned by 9pm.

Beloved Mob Wives star Renee Graziano is sober — and she has former NBA star Lamar Odom to thank for it!

Swifties got another look at Taylor Swift’s star-studded birthday party, all thanks to her bestie Keleigh Sperry!

Britney Spears‘ memoir may be out, but that doesn’t mean she’s done reflecting on the past!

Stormzy and Clairo will be appearing at a benefit show in the US to raise money for the ongoing humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan.The Artists For Aid benefit show will take place on at Newark Symphony Hall in New Jersey on January 4 and has been spearheaded by rapper and poet Mustafa, who is from Sudan.Also set to perform are Omar Apollo, 6lack, 070 Shake, Charlotte Day Wilson, Mohammed El Kurd, Nick Hakim and more special guests.In an Instagram post, Mustafa wrote: “We worked tirelessly to bring this to you, but our fatigue is not even a splinter of what we’ll be singing for. In the last few years I visited both my homeland Sudan, and Palestine.

Madonna's tour-postponing medical emergency earlier this year resulted in two days comatose, it's been revealed. Back in July, the 65 year old pop star came down with a "serious bacterial infection" and was subsequently placed in intensive care, but the details have escaped the public domain until now. Performing in Brooklyn, New York over the weekend, she told the adoring crowd that lung and kidney failure caused her to pass out on her bathroom floor.

Travis Kelce is ready to make the most out of his Christmas.

Wham! taking the lead for the peak position on the charts.The news follows a neck-and-neck race between the iconic ‘80s pop duo Wham! And Eurovision star Sam Ryder over the past week, with their respective songs ‘Last Christmas’ [1986] and ‘You’re Christmas To Me’ [2023].At the first look at the race last week, just 42 chart units stood between the two taking the top spot on the UK charts, however, this week it has been revealed by the Official Charts that Wham! are in pole position, and have widened the gap between Ryder’s Amazon Music original track – which remains at Number Two.However, it doesn’t seem likely that the charts will stay this way until Christmas, with Ryder set to play a fan-exclusive gig tonight (December 19) in Shoreditch, London, in a push to promote the song in time for Christmas Day.Similarly, today (December 19) The Pogues are sharing a special, limited-edition physical run of their own iconic Christmas song ‘Fairytale Of New York’ in a push to climb the charts.Originally released in 1988 and featuring Kirsty MacColl, the track is being reissued in memory of the band’s late singer Shane MacGowan, who died “peacefully” in hospital from pneumonia on November 30. He was 65 years old and his funeral took place in Nenagh, County Tipperary on December 8.All proceeds from the reissue will be donated to the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, and the release also arrived alongside a fan campaign to get Fairytale of New York to Christmas Number 1 for the first time.The push for the top position on the charts has also been endorsed by Shane MacGowan’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke.

Ally Brooke and her long-term boyfriend Will Bracey have announced their engagement, just days after he popped the question.The Fifth Harmony star, 30, who shot to fame after the girlband was formed during the 2012 series of The X Factor US, has been in a relationship with Will since 2015. The romantic proposal came just a couple of weeks after Ally released a special Christmas EP titled Under the Tree, which saw her reunite with former bandmate Dinah Jane for a deut of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

. The singer set herself a brief that read: “fun!” for the launch of her Fenty X Puma Creeper Phattys, but rather than veer into kids’ entertainer territory, she and her bomber looked playful with a pop punk edge.Perhaps it’s the absence of authentic street style that made us zero in on her slightly off-the-wall outfit, but during an era when everything is curated or Photoshopped to the max, there’s still something exciting about the way Rih throws on an ’80s jacket (she’s also been wearing her Phattys with vintage Jean Paul Gaultier coats) and (Agolde’s are a recent favorite) while looking resolutely like herself.Rihanna’s sneaker launch ’fit was one part sporty, two parts playful.We’re under no illusion that the businesswoman’s stylist, Jahleel Weaver, cooked up this look with the same exacting approach as that red , but there’s always room within his outfits for Rihanna to have fun.

a member of Lizzo’s wardrobe department filed a lawsuit against the pop star and her touring team – citing illegal retaliatory termination, racial and sexual harassment, and a hostile work environment.According to a report by Music News, the attorney representing Lizzo filed a motion to dismiss the “meritless and salacious” complaint in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday (December 15). It also claimed that the former “disgruntled” employee “failed to perform the work that she was assigned” before she “refused to show up for work”.They also claim that the stylist was terminated after less than three weeks of employment for “abandoning her post” on the day of Lizzo’s concert in Paris, France in March, and argued that the case should be dismissed as it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction as the plaintiff “is a New York resident who worked for a Delaware corporation in Europe”.Responding to the pop star’s attempt to dismiss the lawsuit, the plaintiff’s lawyer Ron Zambrando said: “This motion was expected and is yet another Hail Mary by Lizzo’s team to try to shift blame to the victims, as she has done to the three other plaintiffs who have sued her for similar allegations of harassment, disability discrimination and retaliatory termination.”He continued: “Lizzo and her lawyers can continue trying to rationalise her illegal and wretched conduct, but we remain committed to seeking justice for our clients and look forward to our day in court where Lizzo can explain her behaviour in a public forum.”This isn’t the first time that Lizzo has faced legal action from her former employees.

Nicki Minaj has made history after her fifth studio album, ‘Pink Friday 2’, topped the Billboard 200.Earlier this month, Minaj dropped her long-awaited album to much acclaim and online hysteria. ‘Pink Friday 2’ boasted features from pop and rap juggernauts such as Lil Uzi Vert, J.

. Yet, one of the most notable styling tricks that has effortlessly transitioned to the streets is the use of It’s as straightforward as it sounds: add a pop of red to your outfit—be it a casually draped sweater over the shoulders or a pair of luxurious cashmere socks—and look as fashion-forward as .

Santa dropped by Ayrshire hospital wards to spread a little seasonal cheer to children and their families staying in hospital this festive season.

Noddy Holder has reflected on his friendship with Freddie Mercury, revealing that the Queen frontman would share his aspirations with him.The moment took place during a rare TV appearance from the Slade singer, when he appeared as a guest on the Channel 4 morning show Sunday Brunch over the weekend (December 17).In the programme, the glam icon shared anecdotes about his extensive time in the music industry, particularly the elaborate outfits he would wear on stage during the ‘70s. It was here that he reflected on his relationship with Freddie Mercury – back before the singer found fame with Queen.In the conversation, he recalled the origins of his iconic mirror hat and dispelled the myth that he bought it from the iconic rock singer.“I made the top hat with mirrors.

Eurovision Song Contest has been revealed – you can check it out below.The 68th Eurovision will take place in Malmö, Sweden, with the Grand Final of the competition due to be held on Saturday, May 11, 2024. This week, it was announced that Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander will represent the UK.Today (December 19), Fredrik Stormby from Sweden-based design studio Green Wall Designs has been confirmed as the Lighting and Screen Content Designer for the 2024 contest.The designer will join the senior production team along with production designer FlorianWieder to help create, design and deliver “a large-scale and spectacular show to a global audience of over 160million”.Green Wall Designs, which was co-founded by Stormby, is one of the world’s leading creative studios renowned for creating captivating visual experiences in music and live entertainment.The company specialises in video, lighting and scenic elements, and worked on Loreen’s winning performance at Eurovision 2023 back in May.

Kesha is finally free from Dr. Luke’s record label Kemosabe following a long-running legal battle with the producer.Back in June, the pair reached a settlement in their defamation lawsuit just one month before the case was due to go to trial. It came after Kesha released her fifth album ‘Gag Order’ – her contractually obligated final LP for Kemosabe – in May.Kesha initially sued Dr.

Chic legend Nile Rodgers and Merck Mercuriadis – former manager of acts including Elton John and Beyoncé – and was set to share its half-year results today (December 19).However, it has confirmed that it will be delaying the publication of the results due to concerns that music catalogues and songs are not being valued high enough amid a sale.As reported by The Independent, the UK firm decided to sell just under 30 music catalogues to the sister fund, backed by investment giant Blackstone in September this year.The deal valued the assets at about $418million (£360million), however, this number was down by nearly a quarter compared to the valuation it was given back in March.It came as the company revealed it did not receive any better offers as interested parties “could not justify” a higher price, and also sold 20,000 “non-core” songs for about $23million (£20 million) – nearly a 15 per cent discount on a September valuation.Amid the potential sale, Hipgnosis – which spent $1billion (£720m) acquiring artists’ back catalogues in 2021 – stated that the valuation received from an independent valuer is “materially higher than the valuation implied by proposed and recent transactions in the sector”.As confirmed by the outlet, a spokesperson for Hipgnosis has said that the company has sought advice from its investment adviser, Hipgnosis Songs Management, which gave the board “concerns as to the valuation of the company’s assets in its interim results”.It was also reported that the fund launched a strategic review two months ago, which could potentially lead to the replacement of founder and chief executive Mercuriadis.The half-year results are now expected to be published by December 31.

Taylor Swift’s ongoing tour of the same name.The word was named by the website as its inaugural Vibe of 2023 yesterday (December 18), with the organisers crediting it for its evolution across the year, as well as its surge in popularity across the world in recent months.“Vibe was one of Dictionary.com’s top lookups of the year, which led us to consider what word could best represent 2023’s overall culture vibe,” said Grant Barrett, head of lexicography at the website (via Billboard).“Like vibe, the word era has been undergoing a similarly slangy evolution, referring to our moods, aesthetics, and life stages—and in 2023, we saw a real surge in this use of eras across popular culture.”The term, which was originally derived from Latin and has been used commonly in the English language since the 17th century, is formally defined as the “periods of time in a person’s life characterised by something distinctive and noticeable, such as a particular emotional state, relationship, achievement, or interest”.Its usage also grew substantially throughout 2023, namely due to its use on social media platforms and newer slang meaning to refer to either an artist’s album cycle or a stage in someone’s personal life.However, one of the main factors driving the word into popularity over the past 12 months will no doubt be in relation to the monumental live shows by Taylor Swift, titled the ‘Eras Tour’.Since kicking off with the US leg back in March, now-billionaire Swift has broken numerous records with her live shows this year, and the ‘Eras’ tour is projected to raise a total of $5.7billion – enough to send every person in the United States $20.Showing how widespread the impact of the tour is, software company QuestionPro calculated that