Taylor Swift helped kick off Amazon’s Prime Day festivities by headlining the online retailer’s all-female Prime Day Concert on Wednesday. highlighted the show with her latest single “You Need To Calm Down.” The event also featured performances from Dua Lipa, SZA and Becky G. Amazon’s 2019 Prime Day shopping event kicks off July 15 and will run for a full 48 hours, while Swift’s new album Lover drops on August 23.
Billie Eilish is among the stars who have donated their Glastonbury outfits to Oxfam to raise awareness for their ”Second-hand September” campaign. Fans will be able to purchase the items in an online auction.
Serena Williams has been fined $10,000 for throwing a racket and damaging a court at Wimbledon. She has earned $400,000 since the tournament began a week ago.
Kanye West is building new, low income housing for the homeless. The homes are inspired by Star Wars and the architecture from ”Star Wars: A New Hope.” Kanye has already built several prototypes that resemble Luke Skywalker’s childhood home.
Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have developed a new brand of Mezcal. Mezcal is a distilled alcoholic beverage from Mexico made with agave.
“Stranger Things” actor Noah Schnapp says Will’s sexuality is “up for interpretation.”
The costumes for Season 2 of “The Masked Singer” have been revealed.
Rapper ASAP Rocky remains incarcerated in Sweden for his alleged role in a Stockholm street fight, and several fellow famous entertainers are calling for his release on social media. Post Malone, Shawn Mendes and Jada Pinkett Smith have all thrown their support behind a Change.org petition calling for Rocky’s release; as of Wednesday morning, it had garnered 330,000 signatures.
Cardi B., Lizzo, Jennifer Lopez, all appear in a series of new mini-trailers for the upcoming film Hustlers. The trailer for Hustlers is set to drop on July 17, while the film will be released on September 13.
Miley Cyrus’ sister Brandi has revealed that they had a near-death experience on their flight to the Glastonbury Festival at the end of June. “Our plane tried to land twice and had to come back up because there were other planes in our way,” Brandi went on to explain that her sister and mom Wish Cyrus are “very nervous fliers” and immediately started “losing their minds.” She continues, “They finally come back and tell us, ‘No need to panic but somebody was in our lane in the sky and we were going to hit them. terrifying.”
Despite rumours, Kendall Jenner and NBA star Kyle Kuzma are apparently not hooking up.
Tegan and Sara will release their ninth album, Hey, I’m Just Like You, on September 27. The record consists of reworked but never released songs they wrote and recorded 20 years ago.
Taylor Swift totally shook off one of her arch enemies, Kanye West, to top Forbes’ list of the highest-paid entertainers of 2019. West came in third, while his half-sister-in-law, Kylie Jenner, raked in $170 million to claim second place. (Swift earned $185 million over the last 12 months.) Sports is a form of entertainment as well, with international soccer stars making a strong showing. At any rate, here are the top 10; click on the second link for a fuller list:
- Taylor Swift, singer/songwriter, $185 million
- Kylie Jenner, reality TV & cosmetics mogul, $170M
- Kanye West, rapper/producer, $150M
- Lionel Messi, soccer, $127M
- Ed Sheeran, singer/songwriter, $110M
- Cristiano Ronaldo, soccer, $109M
- Neymar, soccer, $105M
- The Eagles, band, $100M
- Dr. Phil McGraw, owes Oprah everything, $95M
- Canelo Alvarez, boxing, $94M
Forbes’ Celebrity 100 list of the world’s highest-earning entertainers this year features six Avengers: Endgameheroes, from Chris Hemsworth (a.k.a. Thor) at No. 24 overall with $76.4 million (not all of his earnings were from Avengers) to Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) at No. 83 with $41 million. Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Bradley Cooper (Rocket Raccoon), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), and Chris Evans (Captain America) also assembled and made the cut. Together, the team earned $340 million.
