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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
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- Daily Mail
Brock Lesnar's daughter Mya flexes her bulging muscles as she hits back at critics of her physique
Brock Lesnar's daughter, Mya, hit back at critics of her physique on Monday as she flexed her muscles in a new video. The national champion shot putter starred for Colorado State collegiately as she followed her wrestling icon father into athletics. And she had a message for her naysayers as she captioned a clip: 'Was made for lifting, not listening.' In the video, which was set to Lady Gaga 's hit 'Bad Romance,' Mya walks towards the camera in slow motion before turning around to flex her arms and back. The video also included some text overlaid which read: 'But they talk behind your back.' The track and field star was cheered on by her fans in the comments. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mya Lesnar (@ 'All of this!!!! [You're] amazing!!!,' one wrote. A second said: 'when people at the gym ask me what my goals are i'm going to show them this.' And a third added: 'Strong is the new sexy!' Lesnar, 23, was crowned the outdoor national shot put champion in June after winning the indoor prize last year. Her throw of 19.60 meters back in May also set a school record and was the furthest outdoor shot put throw by any woman in the 2025 NCAA season. In June, Mya made headlines as she and 49ers offensive lineman Drew Moss went public with their relationship. Moss, who also attended Colorado State, posted a picture of the pair to Instagram with the caption: 'Forever wedding date.' Brock Lesnar returned to WWE earlier this month as he appeared at SummerSlam Mya then responded to her boyfriend: 'My handsome man.' She graduated from Colorado State in June but has remained around track and field as she joined the Diamond League to compete in shot put professionally. Her latest post comes after her father made a controversial return to WWE after two years away. Lesnar appeared at SummerSlam at MetLife Stadium as he attacked John Cena.
Cosmopolitan
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
All the 2025 MTV VMAs Performers, From Sabrina Carpenter to Sombr
MTV's Video Music Awards have been the catalyst for some of pop culture's most iconic performances, from Michael Jackson's medley in 1995 to Lady Gaga's bloody opera for 'Paparazzi' in 2009. Of course, you can't ever mention the beloved awards show without acknowledging Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Taylor Swift's era-defining moments. The list goes on, and after a legendary lineup at the 2024 VMAs (Ahem: Chappell Roan, Katy Perry, and GloRilla, to name a few), we are simply seated for this year's ceremony. This year's show is set to take place on Sunday, September 7, and marks the first time it will air on both MTV and CBS. We'll see a mix of breakout stars and VMA vets take the stage at New York's UBS Arena, from Alex Warren and Sombr to Sabrina Carpenter and Ricky Martin. Check out all the artists performing at the 2025 MTV VMAs so you don't miss a beat. Ricky is a multihyphenate in every sense, thanks to his Latin Grammy-winning music and coveted acting roles to his humanitarian work over the years. That's why he's the first artist to be honored with the VMAs' Latin Icon Award. It's been 26 years since his first performance in 1999, when he took home 5 Moon Person awards and made history as the first male Latin artist to win for Best Pop Video. Busta Rhymes will also be honored with the first-ever MTV VMA Rock the Bells Visionary Award, which celebrates his boundary-breaking cultural impact in Hip-Hop and beyond. The 'Touch It' artist was also a Global Icon honoree at last year's EMAs. He last performed at the show in 2021, when he closed it out with a rapid-fire medley of his greatest hits. Hot off her legendary headlining set at Lollapalooza, Sabrina is returning to the VMAs after the release of her seventh album, Man's Best Friend. Last year, she hit the main stage for the first time to perform a medley of tracks off Short n' Sweet. She's also up for eight awards this year, including Video of the Year for 'Manchild.' Rising star sombr has definitely hit your Spotify algorithm thanks to his three (!!!) simultaneous hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 'undressed,' 'back to friends,' and '12 to 12.' This marks his awards show debut, as well as his first-ever VMA noms for Best New Artist and Best Alternative. The MTV PUSH artist's breakout hit, 'Ordinary,' has pretty much been everywhere and even earned a stamp of approval from Lana Del Rey at Stagecoach earlier this year. Naturally, the track has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 27 weeks and spent 10 of those weeks at number one. Latin powerhouse J Balvin hasn't hit the VMAs stage since 2022, but he's coming back this year thanks to his track with DJ Snake, 'Noventa,' and his latest collab with Justin Quiles and Lenny Tavárez, 'Zun Zun.' The 13-time nominee is looking to earn his sixth Moon Person award as he's nominated for 'Rio' in the Best Latin category.
Yahoo
15 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Who Could Be the Video Vanguard Recipient at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards? Our Eight Best Guesses
On Tuesday (Aug. 5), MTV announced the nominees for the 42nd annual Video Music Awards. Lady Gaga led nominations with 12, while her 'Die With a Smile' collaborator Bruno Mars was just behind her with 11, with big names like Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter trailing shortly behind that pair. While we now know the nominees for marquee categories like video and artist of the year, one award remains remains a mystery for the Sept. 7 VMAs: The Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. More from Billboard Selena Gomez Reveals Which Old Song She Wants to Re-Record and Perform Again Justin Bieber Shares Sweet Father-Son Moment With 11-Month-Old Son Jack Blues MGK Reveals What Taylor Swift Said to Him While Watching the Chiefs Lose the 2025 Super Bowl The lifetime achievement award, which dates back to the first-ever VMAs in 1984 and has been given out annually since (with occasional gaps, most recently for the pandemic-stricken first two years of the 2020s), is given to reward 'outstanding contributions' and 'profound impact' on music videos and popular culture. It's named after Michael Jackson, arguably the most outstanding artist in music video history, and has been handed out over the decades to video luminaries ranging from David Bowie and The Rolling Stones to Beyoncé and Missy Elliott. Most recently, the Video Vanguard has been awarded to global pop superstars Shakira (2023) and Katy Perry (2024). Who will be the 2025 recipient? As we did last year — correctly predicting Perry as the '24 honoree — Billboard decided to take a crack at predicting who will get the award this year. We started with some of the biggest and most legendary artists yet to receive the award, and filtered our list through factors like contemporary relevance, promotional considerations and the simple likelihood of the artist being willing to show up to deliver a speech and career-spanning medley performance, as has been customary of honorees for most of the past decade. Here are our eight best guesses for the 2025 Video Vanguard recipient, ranked (roughly) from least to most likely. 8. Lady Gaga Could Gaga cap what might be an already-triumphant night for her with a Video Vanguard win and accompanying career-spanning performance? It's certainly a possibility — and few artists would be as deserving, with Gaga's illustrious career as a music video icon spanning 17 years and encompassing countless classic VMAs moments. But one of those moments came just five years ago with her acceptance of the 'Tricon' award and her accompanying hits medley, which still might be a too-close, too-soon overlap with a prospective Video Vanguard win. 7. Kesha Kesha is coming off her biggest pop moment of the decade with her well-received, Billboard 200 top 20-charting Period album, and the current revival of her brand of what is now called 'recession pop' would make the timing even righter for a career-spanning celebratory performance. But while most Video Vanguard recipients have historically had at least a decade-long run of major MTV hits to pull from, Kesha's biggest pop impact mostly came in the first half of the 2010s — and as much as pop fans liked Period, none of its songs even reached the Billboard Hot 100. 6. Drake Drake unquestionably has the hits for a killer Video Vanguard medley, and he has the motivation — both from a legacy standpoint and from a promotional standpoint — following last year's deflating beef with Kendrick Lamar, and this year's upcoming Iceman release. The one thing he doesn't really have here is much of a relationship with the VMAs: It's unclear if he's even showed up for any of the ceremonies since Rihanna famously curbed him as he presented her with the Video Vanguard in 2016. 5. The Weeknd It's a little now-or-never for the artist born Abel Tesfaye, who heavily teased the retiring (or at least easing-off) of his The Weeknd persona following the release of this year's Billboard 200-topping Hurry Up Tomorrow album. He certainly has the right hits and the right timing, and he's historically cared about such legacy achievements — but would there be too much pressure on another high-profile career-spanning medley performance to live up to his triumphant Super Bowl halftime show from just four years earlier? 4. Bruno Mars Bruno Mars' career has been so stacked with hits that not only has he already performed at Super Bowl halftime twice, his most recent appearance was nine years and eight Hot 100 top 10 hits ago. Two of those, 'Die With a Smile' with Lady Gaga and 'APT.' with ROSÉ, were in the past year, thus making this a golden moment for Mars to celebrate his decade and a half of top-level hitmaking. The only question is if he still has anything to promote: He hasn't released an album since An Evening With Silk Sonic alongside Anderson .Paak four years ago, and even with the two smashes this year (and a third top 20 hit in Sexyy Red collab 'Fat, Juicy & Wet'), there's no indication of a larger project on the way. 3. Mariah Carey Has Mariah Carey really never won the Video Vanguard award? Forget that: Mariah Carey has still never won a single Video Music Award, getting shut out to date in eight career nominations stretching back to 1996. She's up for a ninth in September, with 'Type Dangerous' nominated for best R&B video, but MTV could really make this wrong right by giving Mimi the Video Vanguard for her decades-spanning career as a music video superstar. She'd be on the veteran side for the award at this point, but that didn't stop MTV from honoring Shakira two years ago, so perhaps there's still a chance for MC after all — and given the release of new album Here It for All later this September, now would be the time. 2. Ed Sheeran After a couple more intimate and introspective releases, Ed Sheeran has been jumping back into Big Pop with the singles off his upcoming album Play — one of which, 'Sapphire,' is up for three awards, including best pop and song of the year — at September's awards. Sheeran, a music video and VMAs fixture since the early '10 (as well as a record-setting live performer) seems a perfect candidate for a career-spanning celebration on the MTV stage — particularly because Play is dropping just five days later. 1. Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus is a true legend of the VMAs: a former host, video of the year winner and central figure in one of its all-time most infamous performances, all within just a three-year period in the mid-2010s. She's also a four-time nominee this year, and while her Something Beautiful visual album (up for best long form video) has been out for months at this point, it came with a somewhat muddled rollout and was met with a muted commercial response — meaning Cyrus might feel motivated to redeem its era with a massive spotlight performance on a stage she's very familiar with. We have our fingers crossed, anyway. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
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15 hours ago
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LL COOL J to Host 2025 MTV VMAs
LL COOL J is set to host the 2025 MTV VMAs, which will air live coast-to-coast from New York's UBS Arena on Sunday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. This will be his first time as the show's solo host. He co-hosted in 2022 with Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow. (The VMAs have favored hip-hop stars as show hosts in recent years. Minaj solo-hosted in 2023. Megan Thee Stallion did the honors last year.) More from Billboard Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars Are 1-2 in Nominations for 2025 MTV VMAs (Full List) Who Could Be the Video Vanguard Recipient at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards? Our Eight Best Guesses MTV VMAs Finally Add a Country Category for 2025: Here's When Other Genres Got Their Own Categories LL has a rich VMAs history. He won best rap in 1991 for 'Mama Said Knock You Out' and was the first rapper to receive the Video Vanguard Award in 1997. He also performed on the last two VMAs telecasts – he participated in an all-star salute to hip-hop's 50th anniversary in 2023 and led a 40th-anniversary salute to Def Jam Recordings in 2024. The latter segment also featured surprise guests Chuck D and Flavor Flav from Public Enemy. This year, LL's single 'Murdergram Deaux' (feat. Eminem) is nominated for best hip-hop. The song was taken from his 2024 album THE FORCE. LL has emceed many awards shows, most notably the Grammys, which he hosted for five consecutive years from 2012-16. Additional performers, presenters and special guests will be revealed in the coming weeks. Lady Gaga leads the nominations for the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards with 12 nods, followed closely by her 'Die With a Smile' duet partner Bruno Mars, who has 11 nods. Other top contenders are Kendrick Lamar (10), ROSÉ and Sabrina Carpenter (eight each), Ariana Grande and The Weeknd (seven each) and Billie Eilish (six). MTV has yet to announce this year's recipient of the Video Vanguard Award, but Billboard's Andrew Unterberger listed eight likely candidates – in ascending order of perceived likelihood. (Last year, he correctly predicted Katy Perry as the Vanguard recipient, so he knows what he's talking about.) This will mark the first time the show has been broadcast by CBS. It will also simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S. The 2025 MTV VMAs are executive produced by Bruce Gillmer, Den of Thieves co-founder Jesse Ignjatovic, and Barb Bialkowski. Gunpowder & Sky CEO Van Toffler is producer. Alicia Portugal is co-executive producer. Jackie Barba is executive in charge of production. Wendy Plaut is executive in charge of celebrity talent. Lisa Lauricella is executive in charge of music talent. This marks Toffler's return to the show following a decade-long absence. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
16 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Ricky Martin to Receive First-Ever Latin Icon Award at MTV VMAs, Will Be Performing (EXCLUSIVE)
Ricky Martin will make MTV VMAs history becoming the first ever artist to receive the annual show's Latin Icon award. Twenty-six years after he became the first male Latin artist to win best pop video and won the most awards of the night at the show, Martin will once again take the stage to perform and accept his award. The multi-Grammy and Latin Grammy-winning artist performed 'Livin' la Vida Loca' for the VMAs the same year it was nominated for video of the year at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, making Martin the first Latin artist in history to receive a nomination in this category. It won a total of five awards at the ceremony. More from Variety Lady Gaga Leads MTV VMAs Nominations With 12, Followed by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar MTV Video Music Awards to Air on CBS for the First Time in 2025 Taylor Swift Remembers 9/11 During Acceptance Speech at the VMAs: 'That's the Important Thing About Today' Martin has recorded music that spans Latin pop, dance, reggaeton, salsa and other genres. Born in San Juan, Martin began appearing in television commercials at age nine and began his musical career as a member of Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. The 2025 ceremony is set to air live on CBS Sept. 7. Lady Gaga is the frontrunner for awards, as the singer racked up a leading 12 nods in nominations. Gaga's dozen nominations are followed by 11 for Bruno Mars, 10 for Kendrick Lamar, eight apiece for Sabrina Carpenter and Rose, and seven each for Ariana Grande and the Weeknd. The show will air live in all time zones on Sept. 7, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 PT. It's the second year in a row the telecast is being broadcast from New York's UBS Arena. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Disney+ in August 2025 What's Coming to Netflix in August 2025
