Alicia Keys and beau Swizz Beatz are blissed out with news they're going to be parents. "I'm super-excited," Swizz tells us from St. Tropez. "People are calling me from Dubai and Japan. We haven't set a wedding date, but we will. We're just letting everything flow." Meanwhile, he's made peace with ex-wife Mashonda. Her lawyer, Bernard Clair, confirms that she's now received Swizz's check for $334,000 in child… Continue
A tipsy partygoer's head was impaled by a fence after he fell from a balcony at a Chelsea party early Saturday - and his family is overjoyed he survived.
Nicholas Blossom, 21, was causing a ruckus outside on the third-floor balcony on Sixth Ave. near W. 26th St. when the cops were called around 4 a.m., sources said.
As cops arrived, Blossom - of Williamsburg, Brooklyn - tripped and fell off the balcony, only to land a floor below with… Continue
Celebrity Rehab is all set to add another star to its cast -- "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony" rapper Bizzy Bone. We're told Bizzy - real name Byron McCane -- wants to seek treatment for an addiction to marijuana and alcohol.
As we've previously reported, the producers behind the VH1reality show starring Dr. Drew have been on a mission to lock down a cast -- and fast ... or else the show could be in danger.
Janet Jackson is seriously considering taking her "nasty" act on the road.
Following the overwhelmingly positive reaction to her "American Idol" finale performance, the pop star is “seriously entertaining” going on tour, TMZ reports.
Jackson, who has toured only once since 2002, was “blown away” by viewer responses to her appearance on the Fox show Wednesday.
The 44-year-old singer received a standing… Continue
You're at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you're a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.
Either way, you're playing a video game - and you may be improving your vision and other brain functions, according to research presented Thursday at a New York University conference on games as a learning tool.
"People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition,"… Continue
NEW YORK - Ke$ha's former managers say the pop star squeezed them out of her career under pressure from hit songwriter Dr. Luke, but her lawyer said Friday she simply exercised her rights to fire the managers when they didn't perform.
Ke$ha, who had the No. 1 song in the country with "TiK ToK" earlier this year, signed up with ex-managers DAS Communications Inc. when she was an up-and-comer in 2006. Their agreement called for her to pay the New… Continue
This one is classic. Beyonce is being sued by a guy who claims his daily routine was turned upside down by a film crew shooting a Beyonce music video for "Why Don't You Love Me." Philip Markowitz alleges in a lawsuit obtained by TMZ ...his peace and quiet was shattered the morning of March 26, 2010, when the film crew "invaded his neighborhood" ... waking him out of a peaceful sleep at 7 AM.
That nightmare was followed by a series of… Continue
Indonesian lawmakers, following Sharia law, decided to ban women from wearing tight pants, with authorities issuing out over 20,000 long skirts throughout the province of Aceh. While we're all for freedom of expression, we think the tight pants ban in Indonesia should be extended to include some of hip hop's culprits: Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Drake, Soulja Boy - we're talking to you guys. And to justify the laws, we came up with a few reasons for the… Continue
By now, you may have read the rather lengthy New York Times Magazine feature on M.I.A. (and if you haven't, well, here it is). If you're like us, there were probably more than a few passages that made you go, "Wait, what?"
Journalist Lynn Hirschberg pulled no punches while profiling M.I.A. — debunking her claims that she hasn't seen her father in years, contacting the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum to balance out her version of the country's war… Continue
On Friday morning (May 28), as the good people of America prepared themselves for the long Memorial Day weekend by packing their bags and heading off to the beach, a rumor began spreading online that Tom Cruise had died. Word was, the actor died in an accident while in New Zealand.
But MTV News can confirm that the "Knight And Day" star is very much alive, and we got the word from Cruise himself. He just happened to be on the phone with MTV News… Continue
The shocking photos that appeared earlier this week of a dramatically gaunt 50 Cent is just another example of the extremes to which he'll go to win. The G-Unit general lost the weight for a role as a football player with cancer in the upcoming "Things Fall Apart," and he spoke to Cleveland's Call and Post about why the movie was worth the sacrifice.
"It's myself, Mario Van Peebles, Ray Liotta, Lynn Whitfield, and it's a project that I wrote,… Continue
Diddy racked up one more reason to celebrate on Wednesday night: The mega-mogul hosted the launch party for Diddybeats headphones at the W Hotel in Union Square. While Combs yukked it up with pal Tracy Morgan.
Teen sensation Justin Bieber may not be such an angel after all.
During a recent jaunt to Australia, the omnipresent Canadian pop star allegedly dropped an F-bomb on a floor manager on the set of Australia's daytime talk show "Sunrise."
"We had him on and he was a thoroughly nice bloke, really decent guy," co-host David Koch told Sydney's Mix FM radio station, according to popular Aussie Web site news.com.au.… Continue
Miss Keys is definitely pregnant, and what's more engaged! The singer has been linked to boyfriend Swizz Beats since September 2008 following the breakdown of his marriage to singer Mashonda.
Keys announced today she will marry Beats, real name Kasseem Dean, later this year. With a representative claiming "they're very happy".
This will be the third child for Dean, and a first for… Continue
PROVO, Utah - Gary Coleman, the adorable, pint-sized child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" who spent the rest of his life struggling on Hollywood's D-list, died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42.
Life support was terminated and Coleman died at 12:05 p.m. MDT with family and friends at his side, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank said.