Prince! How do I love thy purple majesty? Let me count the ways. For starters: In addition to being an incredibly talented singer/songwriter/musician/guitar prodigy and sexy muthafucka, you have named a new song after my favorite meme.
Giuliana Rancic told Mario Lopez today that the surrogate who was carrying her and Bill Rancic's second child suffered a miscarriage while nine weeks pregnant. The same surrogate also carried the couple's first child, Duke.
The Purple One's highly anticipated cameo on New Girl was last night. There was some kind of game or something on before it. Some kind of hand ball thing. (HAHAHA I kid; I lost $50 on the Broncos and I am still crying).
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The Enchanted Ball is board game in which up to four princess compete for the affection of one prince. So, it's perpetually the penultimate episode of The Bachelor.
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ALERT: PRINCE WILL BE GUEST STARRING ON NEW GIRL. Taylor Swift, you are officially out of the running for the award of Sexiest Musical Guest Star on New Girl.
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We already heard a snippet of Prince's new jam Breakfast Can Wait, but the whole song and accompanying video certainly deliver. (Because breakfast?) Even more impressive, it was directed by and stars 18-year-old Danielle Curie.
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Today in celebrity news that makes PERFECT SENSE, talented sing-witch Stevie Nicks told Vanity Fair that she's spent the last five months holed up in the enchanted hollowed-out tree that she calls a home, writing fan poems about Game of Thrones.
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In today's Tweet Beat, Ari Graynor is in the middle of two men who are not too shabby, Yoko Ono makes us get weepy and Prince, our beloved sweet Prince, pays tribute to a very talented musician.
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Janelle Monae is streaming her entire new album, The Electric Lady, online, and it sounds amazing. So good. Guests include Erykah Badu, Solange, Miguel, Esperanza Spaulding, and Prince. Yes, PRINCE! So far the bubbly "Dance Apocalyptic" and the steam-funk soul "Givin' Em What They Love" are my favorites.
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Miley Cyrus took a cue from the Linda Blair Playbook during her "Blurred Lines" duet with Robin Thicke — who was dressed like a natty member of a 1920s chain gang, incidentally — at the MTV VMAs last night. Specifically, she danced with some life-sized teddy bears, took off her furry teddy (get it?) to reveal nude…
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A Janis Joplin biopic that's been on the books for almost a decade now — and been considered as a vehicle for damn near every under-40 actress out there — is finally looking more concrete. Lee Daniels will direct as his follow-up to The Butler, and he's cast Amy Adams as the lead. She seems a bit ethereal for it, but…
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And yes, that is Dave Chappelle as Prince in the cover art because Prince is perfect.
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Are you still watching Grey's Anatomy? If so, sorry, brah — Sandra Oh is bailing after 10 seasons as lovable control freak Dr. Cristina Yang. Bailing GRACEFULLY. Ahem, Katherine Heigl. Says Oh:
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Beyoncé is the entertainment equivalent of the U.S. postal service: Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, et cetera. She's known for charging forward without missing a beat whenever a technical or physical malfunction occurs at one of her concerts — that time Michelle Williams fell down, for instance.
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I promise we will stop talking about this soonish, you guys. After "careful consideration" from Ballantine Books, the publication of Paula Deen's upcoming cookbook Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up — currently #1 in cookbooks and #18 overall on Amazon — has been cancelled, along with…
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When Janelle Monáe and Eryklah Badu teamed up for their video for the song "Q.U.E.E.N.", our own Madeleine Davies called it "possibly the most fun and stylish music video of all time." The pair have managed to up their cool factor 5000 percent by getting Prince himself to remix the song, which is basically like…
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Yes, the new music video for "Fixurlifeup," slated to appear on Prince and his all-female backup band 3rd Eye Girl's upcoming album Plectrum Electrum, has a message. A few messages, actually, but unlike past hits, none of them are "go fuck something." (I know, I'm kinda disappointed too).
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So Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey had a totally low-key renewal of their wedding vows. Cannon and #dembaby Moroccan were dressed as Disney princes while Mimi and #fembaby Monroe were in princess garb. It was grillions of dollars, in Disneyland, they Vined the shit out of it, and invited Entertainment Tonight. Some…
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I mean, how hard is it to catch a flight? This is a rhetorical question for Lindsay Lohan, who missed her plane last night from New York to attend her trial in L.A. this morning. (We're now on her twenty-something trial. When you move into the double digits, you should get a free Shakeweight or some turtle wax or an…
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