Jennifer Holliday
After planning to perform at a Trump inauguration-related mall concert, Tony-winning Jennifer Holliday is now singing, “No, no, no, no way!”
Holliday, who voted for Hillary Clinton in the recent US elections, initially said that her intention to take part in the event wasn’t political. She saw it as something she’d like to do for her country. She’s just a singer, she insisted.
But after news about her participation drew flak, Holliday had a change of heart, and issued an apology to the LGBT community, which was most hurt by her “lapse of judgment.” In a statement to the entertainment website The Wrap, Holliday expressed regret “for being uneducated on the issues that affect every American at this crucial time.”
“Please know that I hear you… that I feel your pain,” the “Dreamgirls” star wrote. “The LGBT community was mostly responsible for birthing my career, and I am deeply indebted to you.”
Demi Lovato’s 20 tattoos
Demi Lovato
While Demi Lovato has been raring to get back into acting, there’s something that is holding her back—her tattoos.
“I have too many of them now,” the 24-year-old former Disney star, who’s known to have at least 20 tattoos, told Entertainment Tonight. “They would have to cover them up, and that would take forever.”
Fortunately, she didn’t have to worry about that while working on the coming animated movie, “Smurfs: The Lost Village,” where she lent her voice to the character Smurfette.
“I didn’t have to go through hair and makeup. I didn’t have to worry about my camera angles,” said the recording artist, whose album “Confident” is in the running for best pop vocal album at the 2017 Grammy Awards. “It was nice to be as animated as I wanted to be, to play with my voice, and to just have fun with it.”
Tough situation for Louis Tomlinson
On Dec. 7 last year, singer and former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson lost his mother, Johanna Deakin, after a yearlong battle with leukemia. The launch of his first solo single, “Just Hold On,” was only three days away. But at that moment, he felt like “throwing the towel.”
His 43-year-old mother’s death isn’t something Tomlinson is comfortable discussing. But in a recent interview with radio station SiriusXM, he finally broke his silence on his “tough situation.”
Louis Tomlinson
“But it was my mom who told me that I have to keep going. She told me very sternly that she wanted me to,” he related. And so he did.
Despite being in mourning, Tomlinson went up the “X Factor” stage to perform his new song, much to the respect of the audience and judge Simon Cowell. “That was tough, but I felt like it was nice for me to almost have a little sendoff for her,” he recalled.—Allan Policarpio