Jamie McCarthy/WireImage The Weeknd appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon May 15 and spoke about what a huge Tom Cruise fan he was, but said he’d never met the actor. Well, that changed just days later, when the singer met Cruise at the premiere of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. While on Fallon, The…
Todd Owyoung/NBC The Weeknd sat for his first-ever interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night and credited Tom Cruise‘s appearance on the show back in 2015 with boosting his career. Cruise took part in the ongoing “Lip-Sync Battle” segment of the program, performing Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face” and calling the singer “enormously talented.” “It…
Roc Nation Distribution Rihanna returns with her first new song and video since 2022’s “Lift Me Up,” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Like that song, the new one, “Friend of Mine,” is also from a movie soundtrack: Smurfs, the upcoming live-action/animated hybrid film in which Rihanna plays Smurfette. The video starts with Rihanna walking through…
Jenna Ortega, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Barry Keoghan; Marion Curtis / Starpix for Lionsgate The psychological thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow, starring Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, is in theaters now. While Abel starred in the 2023 HBO series The Idol, this marks the first time that he’s carried an entire film by himself. But as director Trey Edward Shults revealed,…
Paramount Pictures Feeling blue? News of Rihanna‘s new song may just put you in a better mood. From the soundtrack of the upcoming movie Smurfs, “Friend of Mine” is set to arrive Friday. Snippets of the song were featured in the latest trailer, in which clips of Rihanna in the studio recording were interspersed with clips…
Lionsgate As far back as 2023, The Weeknd has talked about retiring his stage persona, and many believed that his new movie, Hurry Up Tomorrow, would be its last hurrah. In it, he plays a character named Abel, which is his actual birth name. But now the singer says he’s not so sure. Asked by Entertainment…
Courtesy CBS/Solaiman Fazel Janet Jackson will be honored with the ICON award at this year’s American Music Awards, which will air live from Las Vegas on May 26 and stream on Paramount+. The ICON award is given to artists “whose music has had undeniable cultural and global influence over the music industry.” Miss Jackson will…
Greg Doherty/Getty Images for Lionsgate With all The Weeknd has accomplished, it’s hard to believe he’s never been interviewed on a late night talk show. All that’s about the change next week, when he makes his late night interview debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The show confirmed The Weeknd will be sitting down for a chat with…
Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images Rihanna was fashionably late to the Met Gala on Monday, arriving on the blue carpet after many livestreams had already come to an end. She arrived wearing a black cropped jacket, bustier bodysuit, a pinstripe skirt with a train, a satin polka dot cravat, a hat and black-and-white pumps, all courtesy…
Cindy Ord/WireImage/Getty Images Rihanna is expecting baby No. 3. The singer’s baby news was confirmed Monday night at the 2025 Met Gala by her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky. “It feels amazing, you know,” A$AP Rocky told reporters after they congratulated him following media reports that the couple was expecting their third child, according to The…
