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UPI
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
American Music Awards: How to watch, what to expect
1 of 5 | Jennifer Lopez attends Amazon's "This Is A Love Story" premiere in 2024. She will host the American Music Awards show on Monday. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo May 23 (UPI) -- The American Music Awards will return Monday. The 51st ceremony "celebrating the most iconic music in America" will air on CBS and Paramount+ at 8 p.m. EDT from the Fountainebleu Hotel in Las Vegas. Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez will host, and she is also among the star-studded roster of performers. Rapper Kendrick Lamar is leading nominations this year, with 10 potential awards. How to watch The American Music Awards will air Monday at 8 p.m. EDT on CBS and on Paramount+ for subscribers who have Showtime. Paramount+ subscribers without Showtime can stream the awards show Tuesday. Participants Lopez will host and perform during the ceremony. She hosted in 2015 and has performed several times in the past. Other performers include Lainey Wilson, who released the track "Somewhere Over Laredo" Friday, Benson Boone, who will perform a track from his upcoming album American Heart, and Blake Shelton, who will sing a song from his album For Recreational Use Only. Gloria Estefan will also perform, marking three decades since she's done so, and Gwen Stefani will take the stage with a medley spanning her music career. Renee Rapp will sing as well. Janet Jackson, who will be honored with the Icon Award, will also perform. According to a press release, the Icon Award is given to "an artist whose music has had undeniable cultural and global influence over the music industry." Nominees Kendrick Lamar leads with 10 nominations, while Post Malone received eight. First time nominees include Boone, Doechii, Gracie Abrams, Jelly Roll, Lola Young, The Marias, Rose, Teddy Swims, Tommy Richman, Tyla Sabrina Carpenter and Zach Bryan. Kendrick Lamar rocks the stage at Super Bowl LIX halftime show Grammy-award winning rapper Kendrick Lamar headlines the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9, 2025. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Hindustan Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Did Ben Affleck just admit that Jennifer Lopez ‘drove him crazy'?
Ben Affleck is no stranger to the public eye, now the Deepwater star expressed that Jennifer Lopez 'drove him crazy'. Despite their fairytale beginnings, the couple's lovey-dovey period ended in divorce in 2024 after just two years. While appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe to promote his upcoming film The Accountant 2, Affleck spoke, 'The people you love the most drive you the most crazy,' while alluding his character's chemistry with costar Jon Bernthal . Many took this as a subtle nod to Lopez. The couple gave their romance a second shot after their engagement in the early 2000s fizzled out and began to show signs of strain during the filming of Lopez's passion project, This Is Me... Now: A Love Story. ALSO READ| Ben Affleck reveals why he is making his 'broke' kids work classic teenager jobs with minimum wage During the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Lopez breaks down in tears over her overwhelming workload, saying she felt guilty for missing a planned event with Affleck, per Daily Mail report. Still, just last week, Affleck called her 'spectacular', per Entertainment Tonight. 'For the record, Jennifer Lopez is spectacular, great to my kids, great ongoing relationship with them,' he said. 'She's an enormously important, tremendous person of a lot of integrity who I adore and am grateful to.' Daily Mail further reported that Luciana Barroso, the wife of Affleck's best friend Matt Damon, has been urging him to reenter the dating scene. 'Ben's been on a couple of under-the-radar dates, but so far there's been no magic for him,' an onlooker told the outlet. ALSO READ| Watch: Ben Affleck's 13-year-old son roasts him during a gaming livestreaming session But Affleck, who has struggled with alcohol addiction and gone through multiple stints in rehab. 'His recovery family is urging him to date a woman in the recovery community. Ben being with a woman who drinks is not conducive to his sobriety,' another insider told Radar Online. The father of three said in the same interview, 'I'm genuinely a happy person.'
