Taylor Swift has bought back the rights to her first six albums.

The 35-year-old singer revealed that six years after music manager Scooter Braun bought her former record label Big Machine and all of the songs from 'Taylor Swift', 'Fearless', 'Speak Now', 'Red', '1989' and 'Reputation', she has managed to reacquire them.

She shared in an ...Read more

Taylor Swift now owns her master recordings "in spite of Scooter Braun, not because of him".

The 35-year-old singer / songwriter revealed in an emotional open letter to fans on her website that she had recently bought back the rights to her first six albums, which Braun acquired from her former record label, Big Machine Records, in 2019.

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LOS ANGELES — OK, which focus group asked for soap made from Sydney Sweeney’s dirty bathwater? Because y’all are in trouble.

In announcing the limited-edition Sydney’s Bathwater Bliss product Thursday, boutique soap company Dr. Squatch said on social media that it exists because “y’all wouldn’t stop asking” for Soap á la ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's all (Taylor's Version) now.

Taylor Swift announced Friday that she had reacquired the rights to her early recordings, six years after music executive Scooter Braun bought her old record label (and with it, control of Swift's first six studio albums).

Braun's 2019 purchase of Big Machine — which he later sold for a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When "Abbott Elementary" creator and star Quinta Brunson received a key to the city from Mayor Cherelle L. Parker at her alma mater, Andrew Hamilton School, on Wednesday, the comedian began her remarks, unsurprisingly, with a joke: “What does it open?”

The audience of teachers, students, Brunson’s family, old classmates ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former stylist testified on Thursday to the former flames of Cassie Ventura, saying she dated both Michael B. Jordan and Andre Branch during her contentious on-and-off relationship with the hip-hop mogul.

Deonte Nash — who worked for Diddy from 2008 to 2018 — took the stand for a second day in the ...Read more

Rapper Tory Lanez‘s defense team has launched a new website featuring what they claim is “suppressed evidence” in his shooting case against Megan Thee Stallion.

Lanez is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after a jury found him guilty of shooting the hip-hop star in the foot nearly five years ago after a party in the Hollywood ...Read more

Caroline Rhea finds it "weird" that she left 'Sabrina, The Teenage Witch' before it ended.

The 61-year-old comedienne starred as Aunt Hilda on the hit 1990s sitcom alongside Melissa Joan Hart, and quit at the end of the show's penultimate season so she could take over Rosie O'Donnell's talk show slot, but still to this day finds it odd that she...Read more

Blackpink star Rosé dreams of "being anonymous" because it would give her more "freedom".

The 28-year-old pop singer shot to international fame with the girl group back in 2016, but she goes to great lengths to disguise herself - even dressing up like an old woman so she could walk the streets without being recognised - and Rose admits she ...Read more

Ryan Phillippe was "afraid" to play a gay character early on in his career.

The 50-year-old actor - who was previously married to his 'Cruel Intentions' co-star Reese Witherspoon and has Ava, 25, as well as 21-year-old Deacon with her - took on the role of Billy Douglas on the soap opera 'One Life To Live' in the early 1990s but had ...Read more

Charli XCX wants to make a 'Final Destination' movie featuring "It girls".

The 32-year-old pop star is a huge fan of the horror franchise - which focuses on people who cheat death before their destiny catches up with them - and she's been rewatching the the first five movies before heading to the cinema to see the sixth installment 'Final ...Read more

CHICAGO — Right now at the movies, Tom Cruise, a Hawaiian island dweller and a genetic lab experiment from space are simultaneously agitating and reassuring millions with tales of apocalypse-thwarting derring-do (“Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning”) and a loving family in challenging circumstances (“Lilo & Stitch”). It’s good...Read more

At the beginning of "Mountainhead," written and directed by Jesse Armstrong of "Succession" fame and premiering Saturday on HBO, three multibillionaire tech bros make their way by private plane, helicopter and SUV caravan to join a fourth in a big modernist house on an isolated, snowy mountaintop for a weekend of poker and drugs — "no deals, ...Read more

Russell Brand pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault in court on Friday morning (05.20.25).

The 49-year-old comic was charged last month with five sexual offences, and he appeared at Southwark Crown Court just before the weekend, where he denied one allegation of rape, one allegation of indecent assault, one of oral rape and two further ...Read more

Yungblud has hailed Lady Gaga a "beautiful mind with a limitless imagination".

The 27-year-old rocker is one of the 'Born This Way' hitmaker's Little Monsters and would love to be in the room every time she makes a creative decision.

He told Rolling Stone: "I would love to be a fly on the wall every time Gaga walks up to her team and goes, '...Read more

Addison Rae has served up another slice of pop heaven on new single 'Fame Is A Gun'.

The viral sensation will release her debut album, 'Addison', on June 6, and the latest taste tackles the dark side of fame.

She sings: "Fame is a gun, and I point it blind/Crash and burn, girl/Baby, swallow it dry"

Previous singles include 'Diet Pepsi', '...Read more

DENVER — In the weeks before the Sundance Film Festival announced its decision to leave Park City after 41 years, Utah’s Republican governor, Spencer Cox, signed a bill rolling back diversity efforts at public universities and in state government, while the state legislature there plowed forward on a measure that now bans gay pride flags ...Read more

Zoe Saldana is refusing to give smart phones to her 10-year-old twins.

The Hollywood actress is mother to 10-year-old sons Cy and Bowie - as well as their younger brother Zen, eight - with her husband Marco Perego and she's revealed the elder boys have been pestering her for smart phones but she's refusing to give in to their demands.

Zoe told...Read more

Hoda Kotb decided to leave 'Today' when her daughter was facing a health crisis.

The 60-year-old journalist - who is the adoptive mother of Haley, eight, and six-year-old Hope - recently stepped down from her long-running position as host of the NBC news programme 'Today' alongside Jenna Bush Hager and after revealing that her daughter had been...Read more

Cheryl Burke wants people to stop focusing on her body.

The 41-year-old dancer - who is best known for having been a professional on 'Dancing with the Stars' - has "done so much work" on her mental health in recent years but feels "gaslit" when met with comments about her physical appearance even though she is aware that she "signed up" for ...Read more