ABC/Lou Rocco(LOS ANGELES) — Constance Wu surprised fans with the news that she welcomed her first child with boyfriend, musician Ryan Kattner, over the summer.
The news came as a shock, since the Fresh Off the Boat and Crazy Rich Asians star never publicly revealed her pregnancy and has kept a low profile since the spring.
“They are doing great, and they’re so excited and happy,” a source told E! News.
Wu, 38, was last photographed walking the red carpet at the Queerties 2020 Awards Reception, according to the entertainment website. She labeled her Twitter account “defunct” back December of 2019, and did the same with her Instagram page this past May.
Wu’s will next be seen in the upcoming big screen drama I Was a Simple Man, premiering at Sundance in January.
BG015/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images(LOS ANGELES) — Emma Roberts is a new mom!
The 29-year-old actress and her boyfriend Garrett Hedlund welcomed a baby boy named Rhodes on Sunday, according to TMZ.
Rhodes weighed in at about nine pounds, according to the gossip website, which reports mother and baby are doing fine.
Emma confirmed she was pregnant in an Instagram post back in August, captioning a series of photos showing off her growing baby bump, “Me…and my two favorite guys.”
It’s the first child for both Roberts and Tron: Legacy actor Hedlund, 36; the pair were first romantically linked in 2019.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Atlanta 128, Detroit 120 Memphis 116, Brooklyn 111 (OT) Utah 110, Oklahoma City 109 Denver 124, Houston 111 Portland 115, LA Lakers 107 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Buffalo 31, New England 9 TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Maryland 70, Wisconsin 64 Minnesota 81, Michigan St. 56 Gonzaga 88, N. Arizona 58
ABCIn 2020, perhaps more than any year before, country music made strides toward social change. But it wasn’t without its share of controversy.
The Dixie Chicks became the Chicks, while Lady Antebellum opted to officially adopt their nickname, Lady A, to remove words associated with slavery. The latter transition sparked an ongoing legal battle, as Seattle-based singer Anita White accused the trio of trying to co-opt the name from a Black artist who’d been using it for years.
Artists like Maren Morris, Cassadee Pope and Charlie Worsham showed their support for Black Lives Matter on social media, while “Mississippi Girl” Faith Hill championed removing the Confederate symbol from her home state’s flag — which the state ultimately did.
Leave it to none other than Dolly Parton to say it best: “And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white a**** are the only ones that matter? No!” she told Billboard.
Meanwhile, both the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music worked to give Black artists a bigger platform. Darius Rucker co-hosted the 2020 CMA Awards, which included Jimmie Allen’s presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charley Pride. Sadly, country’s first Black superstar passed away just weeks later from complications of COVID-19.
Both shows included appearances by Nashville-based gospel legend Cece Winans, while Kane Browndelivered a moving rendition of his anthem “Worldwide Beautiful” on the ACMs. Keith Urbanaccompanied Mickey Guyton on piano for one of the night’s showstoppers, a stripped-down version of “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” The up-and-coming female vocalist ended the year with a Grammy nomination for her thought-provoking track, “Black Like Me.”
2020 was also a year where female artists continued to make strides in the male-dominated format. In April, Gabby Barrett and Ingrid Andress made history, becoming the first female artists to ever to consecutively top the chart with their debut singles, “I Hope” and “More Hearts Than Mine,” respectively.
Though she’s won lots of awards, Ashley McBryde also managed to clinch her first top-ten hit in September with “One Night Standards.” Maren Morris, Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce and Miranda Lambert continued to find success on the airwaves, while newcomers Tenille Arts, Caroline Jones, and Priscilla Block made their mark on the chart for the first time.
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) — Michael B. Jordan is taking the leap from People‘s sexiest man alive to director.
According to his co-star Tessa Thompson, the 33-year-old actor will make his directorial debut with the third installment of the sports drama Creed.
“He is directing the next Creed,” Thompson revealed during an interview with MTV News.
“It’s going to be ammo, I think, for me, when he is engaging with me as a director,” she continued. “I’m just going to tell him to dial down the sexiness. But we’re not gonna make it until later in the year. So who knows what happens? Another man will be – I don’t know if he will still be the Sexiest Man Alive in six months.”
When it comes to how the Westworld actress feels about Jordan nabbing the title of sexiest man alive, she admittedly hasn’t talked him him about it yet but is already plotting for when she does.
“I’m proud of him. I’m so happy for him. And I will give him a lot of crap about it in person and cannot wait,” she said.
ABC/Lou Rocco(LOS ANGELES) — Constance Wu surprised fans with the news that she welcomed her first child with boyfriend, musician Ryan Kattner, over the summer.
