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Simon Cowell’s entertainment company is teaming up with the BBC for the first time for a new dance contest. Saturday night talent show The Greatest Dancer is being produced by Syco, which is behind ITV hits The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, and Thames. It will see dancers from all different genres compete for the title of the best ...

An adult film actress has said she was threatened to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006. Stormy Daniels told CBS News’ 60 Minutes programme that a man approached her in a Las Vegas car park in 2011. The stranger allegedly said “leave Trump alone”, then looked at her young daughter and added: “It’d be ...

Apple Music executive Jimmy Iovine says streaming services are too similar – and need to diversify to survive. “The streaming services are all charging $9.99 and everyone has the same music,” he told the BBC. “And it’s really nice. You get whatever song you want, you get your playlists – but there’s got to be more interaction between the artist ...

The first person to win the Eurovision Song Contest, Lys Assia, has died at the age of 94, competition organisers have announced. She took the prize for Switzerland in 1956, with the song Refrain, and went on to perform in two more contests. Lys Assia died on Saturday at the Zollikerberg Hospital in Zurich. Eurovision described her as the “first ...

Tributes have been paid following the death of José Abreu, founder of a renowned music programme that changed the lives of thousands of children. Abreu founded El Sistema (the system), providing free music education in Venezuela’s shantytowns and poor neighbourhoods. The programme has inspired similar systems in other countries. Venezuela announced three days of national mourning for “Maestro Abreu”, who ...

The 39-year-old Saturday Night Live veteran made an appearance on Thursday’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen alongside his former co-star Jay Pharoah. When one caller asked them who the worst musical guest on the show was, they both agreed. “It was [Justin] Bieber. Bieber, he just was in a bad place,” Hader admitted. “Maybe he’s in a better place, but back then ...

Despite her best efforts, Pink has had to cancel her upcoming show in Canada due to illness. The “What About Us” artist took to Twitter on Thursday to announce that she is officially too sick to perform her Friday show, as part of her Beautiful Trauma Tour, at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec. “I am absolutely GUTTED to announce that tomorrow’s show, March 23rd ...

A 20-year-old singer kissed by Katy Perry during his American Idol audition has said the experience left him “uncomfortable” – because it was his first kiss. Benjamin Glaze, who was 19 at the time, told Perry and her fellow judges he had never kissed a girl. The singer beckoned him over for a kiss on the cheek, but then kissed ...

Ben Stiller, Seth MacFarlane and other stars have voiced support for students across the US who marked the Florida school shooting with a mass walkout. “Proud of my kids and all the kids for stepping up today,” tweeted Stiller. “These kids are awesome,” MacFarlane said of protesters at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, scene of the 14 February ...

(AllHipHop News) A woman accusing Trey Songz of assault is demanding a formal apology from the singer. The ‘Bottoms Up” hitmaker, real name Tremaine Neverson, stands accused of repeatedly punching Andrea Buera at a party in Los Angeles last month, during NBA All-Star Weekend. Buera, who claims to have been friends and “occasional romantic partners” with Songz for the past ...