Entertainment news today mixes politics, celebrity legacy and the business of live events. A late-night booking shifts off broadcast television amid claims of regulatory pressure, while major music brands lock in future marquee appearances and a famous piece of royal fashion head...
Entertainment news today mixes politics, celebrity legacy and the business of live events. A late-night booking shifts off broadcast television amid claims of regulatory pressure, while major music brands lock in future marquee appearances and a famous piece of royal fashion heads back into the spotlight.
Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will no longer air on ABC and will instead be released on YouTube. Kimmel says he makes the change because of pressure he believes the FCC is putting on ABC over how the network handles political interviews, turning a guest booking into a wider dispute over broadcast oversight.
MTV says Snoop Dogg will host the 2026 Video Music Awards when the ceremony returns to Los Angeles on Sept. 27. The move gives the show a high-profile entertainer with long ties to music television and marks a geographic shift back to the West Coast for one of pop music’s biggest annual televised events.
U2 is set to be honored as MusiCares Persons of the Year for 2027 at the charity’s Grammy-weekend gala. The award recognizes the band’s long recording career as well as its broader humanitarian and cultural impact, and it positions the group as the centerpiece of one of the music industry’s most prominent annual benefit events.
Princess Diana’s black silk “revenge dress” is headed to auction after a museum-style tour, with estimates pointing to a six-figure sale. The garment remains one of the most recognizable pieces of royal fashion, and the sale underscores how memorabilia tied to Diana continues to draw strong collector interest and public fascination decades later.
Martyn Scrimshaw, the real airport chaplain whose work helped inspire the new series “Airport Chaplain,” is discussing the connection as the show reaches audiences. With Hugo Weaving starring, the production turns a little-seen pastoral role in a transit hub into the basis for a character-driven television drama.
Peter Catt resigns as dean of Brisbane after controversy over reality television filming inside St John’s Cathedral. The departure follows criticism of the decision to allow the production into the cathedral, turning a programming choice into a broader dispute over the use of a religious space for commercial entertainment.
Top Entertainment stories
- Jimmy Kimmel moves James Talarico interview from ABC to YouTube citing FCC pressure (33 sources)
- Princess Diana’s “revenge dress” to be auctioned after global display (12 sources)
- England mayors get new powers to introduce an uncapped tourist tax on overnight stays (11 sources)
- Primark announces home delivery in Great Britain for the first time (10 sources)
- U2 named MusiCares 2027 Persons of the Year for Grammy-weekend gala (8 sources)
- Dutch tour bus crash kills several near Susch in eastern Switzerland (8 sources)
- Snoop Dogg to Host 2026 VMAs as MTV Returns to Los Angeles (7 sources)
- Switch 2 update adds docked VRR, but only some games support it (5 sources)
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