The 33-year-old Puerto Rican former New York Giantswide receiver has joined E!’s morning news show Pop of the Morningas a co-host, E! has announced.
Cruz will join the recently hired Lilliana Vazquezand Scott Tweedieon the 11:00 am weekday show.
“I’m excited for this new journey in life,” Cruz said in a statement. “I’m excited for you guys to see me in a different way.”
Cruz was an undrafted free agent in 2010 when he landed at the Giants, finishing the 2011 season with a single-season franchise record for receiving yards, and later becoming part of the Giants victory over the New England Patriotsin Super Bowl XLVI.
He launched the Victor Cruz Foundationin 2014, which encourages children to become physically active, focuses on college readiness, financial literacy, and STEMprogramming.
E! News tweeted a brief video clip of Cruz announcing his new gig.
It’s been a GIANT secret… but we need to introduce the new host of E!’s Pop of the Morning. Welcome to the team, Victor Cruz @TeamVic! pic.twitter.com/CUrE1hNKNz
The official trailer has been released for 20th Century Fox/Marvel’s The New Mutants, starring the 26-year-old Brazilian actor.
A first teaser for the film was released during CinemaConin 2017, kicking off a long road for the comic adaptation for Josh Boonethat has included several release dates, reshoots, the Disney regime change and even thoughts of putting the film on Hulu.
But now it appears the latest theatrical release date — April 3 — will stick.
The X-Menspinoff moves outside the box of the more traditional Marvel fare, with Boone’s film written by Boone & Knate Leebilled as a horror thriller set in an isolated hospital where young mutants are being held for psychiatric monitoring. When strange occurrences begin to take place, both their new mutant abilities and their friendships will be tested as they battle to try and make it out alive.
In addition to Zaga, who portrays Roberto da Costa / Sunspot, the film also stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga and Blu Hunt.
It’s the first Fox/Marvel release since X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which launched in June. Directed by Kinberg, the dark tale of Jean Grey stumbled to an estimated $100 million-$120 million loss after ancillaries, which like New Mutants also included reshoots. It ended up grossing $252 million worldwide.
On Monday afternoon, the 34-year-old Colombian reggaeton singer announced via social media that his new single, “Morado,” is on the way.
J Balvin made the official announcement after posting a short clip, part of which will be his music video, where he appears as a king of an old kingdom, throwing purple paint at a wall, among other scenes.
The clip has an instrumental reggaeton track as background and ends with the phrase yo pedi un trago y ella la botella.
According to J Balvin’s post, the new song is “coming soon.”
Karamo Brown is hittin’ the road this Valentine’s Day…
Freeform will premiere its road-trip rom-com The Thing About Harry, starring the 39-year-old part-Cuban American Queer Eye host and actor,will be a post-Valentine’s Day offering.
The television movie starring Brown, Jake Borelli, Niko Terho, Britt Baronand Peter Paigeis set to premiere at 8:00 pm on Saturday, February 15, on the Disney-owned cable outlet.
Borelli portrays Sam, a handsome, funny, neurotic, intelligent young gay man who combines a scathing wit with an overly idealistic worldview. Sam came out when he was still in high school, something that took a lot of courage in his small Missouri town, but was bullied constantly. Terho plays Harry, an emotionally uncomplicated, promiscuous player who has always left a string of broken hearts in his wake. Under the surface, Harry actually yearns for love, family and stability, but the thought of commitment still terrifies him.
Brown plays Paul, an exceedingly well put-together yet overbearing and pretentious gay man.
“It’s been an honor to partner with Freeform in making great television with LGBTQ+ characters as leads,” The Thing About Harry executive producers Paige, Greg Gugliotta and F.J. Denny in a statement. “True equality can only be achieved when you see yourself reflected in the movies, music and stories that paint our culture.
“As young gay men in the ’90s, whenever a rom-com opened, we would watch the leading lady fall in love and imagine what it would be like if the boy was saying all those things to another boy. We’ve always wanted to make a movie — an unabashedly romantic comedy — that queer boys wouldn’t have to translate. It’s rewarding to take the genre to a new, all-inclusive level.”
The 27-year-old Mexican American singer/actress is preparing to release her eagerly anticipated third studio album, Rare, later this week.
But she’s celebrating the album with her fans one night before.
Gomez announced on Sunday night that Selenators can gather around their devices on Thursday night (January 9) for an iHeartRadioalbum release party special.
“I can’t wait to share this special moment with you only on @livexlive!” she tweeted.
The album, officially due out on Friday (January 10), will get an early preview during the Los Angeles Livestream special honoring the follow-up to Gomez’s 2015 album Revival.
In addition to an “intimate look into the details” of the album, special will also feature an exclusive Q&A with KIIS FM‘s JoJo Wright.
“It’s the most honest music I’ve ever made and I can’t wait for you to hear my heart,” Gomez tweeted last month along with a grainy video featuring snippets of the videos for the singles released from the album so far, including “Lose You to Love Me” and “Look At Her Now,” as well as first listens to the bouncy title track, the slinky “Cut You Off” and “A Sweeter Place,” which features Kid Cudi.
Fans can listen and tune into the special for free at 10:00 pm ET/ 7:00 pm PT here through the LiveXLivemobile and OTT apps for iOS, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV and Apple TV. The stream will also appear on YouTube, LiveXLive’s Twitch channel and LiveXLive’s socials and fans can listen live by tuning into their local iHeartMedia CHR and Hot AC radio stations across the country.
Pre-order Gomez’s new album here, and check out the Rare track list below.
“Rare” “Dance Again” “Ring” “Vulnerable” “People You Know” “Let Me Get Me” “Crowded Room” feat. 6lack “Kinda Crazy” “Fun” “Cut You Off” “A Sweeter Place” feat. Kid Cudi
Mariah Carey’s celebrating a return to No. 1 Down Under…
The 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American singer tops the charts in Australia with “All I Want For Christmas is You.”
Carey’s insta-holiday classic rules the ARIA Singles Chartfor the second year running. Its chart journey in Australia is no less unusual than its 25-year-long ride to the summit in the United States.
“All I Want For Christmas is You” was released in 1994 and peaked at No. 2 that year Down Under. Powered by streaming, the tune hit the summit for the first time in 2018, a full 24 years after its release.
The Queen of Christmasalso bags eighth position on the national albums survey this week with Merry Christmaswhich, like “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” is six-times platinum certified.
The 34-year-old Colombian reggaeton singer’s latest single, “RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)” with The Black Eyed Peas, has reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs chart.
It’s J Balvin’s eighth No. 1 on the chart.
“RITMO,” released on October 12, crowns the tally in its 11th week after a six-week run in the top five. The track dethrones Bad Bunny’s four-week ruler “Vete.”
Though all metrics for “RITMO” are up (sales, streams and airplay), it ascends mainly on the strength of streaming activity. The song registered 7.1 million U.S. streams (up 3%) in the week ending December 26, according to Nielsen Music, and remains at No. 5 on the Latin Streaming Songschart for a second week.
While “RITMO” posts a 2% decline on Latin Airplay, it continues at No. 13 for a second week on the chart.
Meanwhile, the track takes the Digital Greatest Gainer honors with a 19% gain holding steady at No. 2 on the Latin Digital Song Sales list for a fifth consecutive week.
J Balvin has a total of 55 Hot Latin Songs entries.
Over on the all-genre Hot 100 chart, “RITMO” moves 89-86.
Mariah Careyhas extra reason to celebrate this Christmas…
The 49-year-old half-Venezuelan American singer’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week.
Carey’s carol also breaks its own record for the biggest streaming week ever for a holiday song: 54.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending December 19, according to Nielsen Music.
The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming, radio airplay and sales data.
Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” on Columbia/Legacy Records, tops the Streaming Songschart for a third consecutive week, and fourth total frame (after a week at No. 1 last holiday season), up 19% to 54.4 million U.S. streams in the week ending December 19, according to Nielsen Music. The total is the best weekly sum ever for a holiday hit, surpassing the 51.9 million that the song drew last season (January 5, 2019).
Originally released in 1994 on Carey’s album Merry Christmas, the modern classic reached the Hot 100’s top 10 at last in December 2017 and rose to its prior No. 3 high last holiday season, before topping the tally for the first time last week and becoming only the second holiday No. 1 ever on the Hot 100, joining The Chipmunks‘ “The Chipmunk Song” (with David Seville), which ruled for four weeks in 1958-59.
Among other feats achieved last week with the Hot 100 coronation of “Christmas,” Carey collected her 19th No. 1, extending her record for the most among soloists and moving to within one of The Beatles‘ record 20. This week, she adds her record-extending 81st career week at No. 1 and extends the longest span of Hot 100 No. 1s for any artist: 29 years, four months and three weeks, dating to her first frame at No. 1 on the chart dated August 4, 1990, with “Vision of Love.”
Additionally last week, Carey became the fourth artist with Hot 100 No. 1s in the 1990s, 2000s & 2010s, joining Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Usher. No act has ever logged time at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in four distinct decades, consecutively or otherwise; thus, if “Christmas” is No. 1 on the chart next week (dated January 4, 2020), Carey would become the first artist to achieve the honor. (A new video for the song, released Friday, December 20, will help the song’s fortunes on next week’s charts.)
