It's still not official yet, but the Beyonce pregnancy rumors are intensifying. E! Online is saying it has "confirmed" that she and Jay-Z are expecting again. But they're not naming their sources. Beyoncé addressed the rumors in an Instagram post, but she didn't DENY them. She also took the message down. It said, quote, "I can't stop the rumors from starting, and I can't really change people's minds who believe them. "All I can do is sit back and laugh at these low life people who have nothing better to do than talk about me."
The finale of Celebrity Apprentice was last night. Donald Trump crowned Trace Adkins the winner. Adkins won $250,000 for the American Red Cross in the final face-off against Penn Jillette. The last challenge had the two creating a Walgreens Delish ice cream flavor, making a promotional video and hosting a launch party. Jillette brought celebs Wayne Newton, American Idol winner Taylor Hicks and members of The Blue Man Group to his launch event. Adkins brought The Oak Ridge Boys, Wynonna Judd, NASCAR champ Tony Stewart and Tim Tebow. Adkins' event raised $564,000 for the American Red Cross.
This year's "Billboard Music Awards" went down last night…and when it was all said and done, Taylor Swift came out on top, taking home eight awards. During an acceptance speech, Taylor Swift told the crowd, quote, "You're the longest and best relationship I ever had." In all, there were 45 awards, and 10 of them were handed out during the show. (You can find the complete winners' list at Billboard.com.)
Justin Bieber was honored with the first-ever "Milestone Award". But as he walked to the stage, there was a lot of BOOING along with the cheering. When he got up front, he launched into a very defensive speech that included this: Quote, "I'm 19 years old, I think I'm doing a pretty good job and basically, from my heart, I really wanna say it should really be about the music . . . "It should be about the craft, the craft that I'm making. This is not a gimmick. I'm an artist, and I should be taken seriously and all this other bull should not be spoken of."
On a side note, Bieber’s song "Baby" has just become the highest-certified single in history. The previous record holder was Elton John’s 1997 Princess Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind"
While Miguel was performing, he jumped from the stage to the catwalk…however, he wasn't able to clear it cleanly. Instead, he landed on some girl's head, Butt first. We're assuming she's OK. (Here's video.)
A prehistoric sea creature has been named Kooteninchela deppi, after Johnny Depp, because it had scissor-like claws…kind of like Johnny in "Edward Scissorhands". The creature…which is an ancestor of things like lobsters, crabs, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and millipedes…lived 505 million years ago. (Here are some pics. "Chela" is Latin for "claws" or "scissors", by the way.) David Legg…the scientist who named it…says, quote, "In truth, I am a bit of a Depp fan, and so what better way to honor the man than to immortalize him as an ancient creature that once roamed the sea?"
George Michael was airlifted to a hospital after a Range Rover he was a passenger in crashed Thursday night on a British freeway. Paramedics say he suffered a head injury but is "recovering well". But his rep says he only suffered "superficial cuts and bruises."
This year's Cannes Film Festival has already seen gunshots and two robberies. Christoph Waltz was being interviewed by a French news show when gunshots caused everyone to flee. Turns out they were just blanks, but the shooter was arrested. Meanwhile, someone stole more than a million dollars in jewelry from a hotel, and someone stole a Chinese film executive's luggage from his apartment. Check out video here. You can't actually hear the gunshots.)
With just one new release at the box office this weekend, "Star Trek Into Darkness" easily took the #1 spot, making $84.1 million since Thursday.
That's slightly better than the first "Star Trek" reboot, which made just over $75 million during its opening weekend in 2009. Here are this week's Top 10 movies:
1. (NEW) "Star Trek Into Darkness", $70.6 million. Up to $84.1 million since Thursday.
2. "Iron Man 3", $35.2 million. Up to $337 million in its 3rd week.
3. "The Great Gatsby", $23.4 million. Up to $90.2 million in its 2nd week.
4. "Pain and Gain", $3.1 million. Up to $46.6 million in its 4th week.
5. "The Croods", $2.8 million. Up to $177 million in its 9th week.
Around 14.3 million people watched Candice Glover win "American Idol" on Thursday night. That's up from Wednesday's final performance show, which only had 12.1 million viewers. But it was "Idol's" least-watched finale of all time…by a lot. Last year's numbers were lows at the time. Before that, Season One was the lowest-rated. "Idol's" free-fall is even more dramatic when you include Scotty McCreery’s season two years ago. His finale had more than double the audience of this year's, with 29.3 million viewers.
Tim McGraw says his favorite moment from last night's "Tim McGraw's Superstar Summer Night", was when John Fogerty started singing the CCR classic "Born on the Bayou". Tim said, quote, "We were completely floored when [John] opened his mouth and started singing. We're all Fogerty fans, CCR fans, all the stuff that he did that was fantastic. "But when he started playing guitar and started singing 'Born on the Bayou' in that voice…I think he's in his mid-sixties, if I'm not mistaken. He can flat [out] sing. We just sort of stepped back and looked at each other and said, 'Are you kidding me?'"










