Month: April 2024

Country artist Morgan Wallen was arrested Sunday night on three felony charges, after allegedly throwing a chair off of a six-story bar on Broadway in Nashville just before 11 p.m. local time on Sunday, April 7. The bar in question Chief’s on Broadway, is owned by country singer Eric Church, and just had its grand opening on Friday, April 5.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed the arrest on social media, sharing a statement alongside a photo of Wallen’s mugshot which read: “Country artist Morgan Wallen, 30, was booked early today on 3 cts of felony reckless endangerment and 1 ct of misdemeanor disorderly conduct for throwing a chair from the rooftop of Chief’s Bar Sun night. The chair landed on Broadway, close to 2 MNPD officers. His bond: $15,250.”

Local Nashville outlet WKRN reported that witnesses said Wallen was seen picking up the chair, throwing it over the rooftop’s edge and “laughing afterward,” with video footage reviewed by police showing the singer throwing an object off the roof and it plunging six stories down. Wallen was booked into Metro Jail early on Monday morning and released a few hours later.

Wallen’s attorney, Worrick Robinson, confirmed the arrest to Entertainment Weekly in the following statement: “At 10:53p Sunday evening Morgan Wallen was arrested in downtown Nashville for reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. He is cooperating fully with authorities.” Representatives for Wallen declined further comment.

Wallen’s arrest in Nashville comes just days after he kicked off the 2024 leg of his One Night at a Time World Tour in Indianapolis, Indiana. Per PEOPLE, Wallen is schedule to perform in Nashville on May 2 and 3 at Nissan Stadium, following a headlining performance at Stagecoach music festival at the end of April.

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Actor Jonathan Majors escaped jail time and was sentenced by a New York judge on Monday to participate a domestic violence treatment program, over three months after being convicted of reckless assault and harassment. Per Deadline, the one-year “in person batterers” intervention program will take place in LA, where Majors is based.

Majors, who pleaded not guilty and did not testify at his trial, was charged with four misdemeanor charges. The actor was convicted by the jury of three men and three women in the three-week trial late last year, after several days of deliberations. He was not convicted by the jurors of intentional assault in the third degree and of aggravated harassment in the second degree against then-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. Majors could have faced up to a year of jail time for his conviction on December 18 on two misdemeanor counts of reckless assault and harassment against Jabbari.

During Monday’s sentencing, Manhattan Judge Michael Gaffey issued a permanent order of protection against any contact whatsoever with Jabbari, and continued therapy for Majors. The actor cannot apply for or own a gun, and any violation of the sentencing terms could result in Majors being put behind bars for up to 364 days. If Majors does not complete the West Coast intervention program, he could also face six months in jail.

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Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have announced their separation after 14 years of marriage. A joint Instagram statement by the couple read: “After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down. In 2023 we jointly filed to end our marriage. We have always prioritized our privacy and have been quietly working through this change. We forever share in our devotion and love for our children. We sincerely appreciate your respecting our family’s wish for privacy.”

Per PEOPLE, Baron Cohen, 52, and Fisher, 48, first met back in 2001 at a party in Sydney, Australia. Cohen and Fisher were engaged in 2004, and went on to get married in 2010. The pair share three children together: Olive, 15, Elula, 12, and Montgomery, 8.

Rumors that the couple were having marital difficulties have been circulating for months. Fisher attended the Vanity Fair Oscars Party solo earlier this year, and she had not posted any photos with her husband via Instagram since November 2023.

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Anya Taylor-Joy confirmed that she secretly married Malcolm McRae two years ago, taking to Instagram to share previously-unseen photos of her gothic-inspired New Orleans wedding on April 1, 2022.

Taylor-Joy posted photos from her big day which included an image of “anatomically correct” heart-shaped cakes, and photos of the actress in her Dior wedding gown, along with the caption: “Two years ago, on April Fools, I secretly married my best friend in New Orleans. The magic of that day is ingrained in every cell of my being, forever. Happy second ( first ) anniversary my love…you’re the coolest N.B yes, those are anatomically correct heart cakes. Yes, I am the vampire Lestat.”

McRae, the frontman of the rock band More, also posted photos on social media, writing: “I love you now and somehow I always have and somehow it will never end. Happy two year anniversary (yesterday), beautiful.”

Taylor-Joy has starred in Netflix‘s The Queen’s Gambit and films such as The Witch, Last Night In Soho, Emma and Dune: Part Two. She has been romantically linked with frontman McRae since May 2021. There had been rumors of their marriage in recent years, with conflicting reports made by Page Six who stated that McRae and Taylor-Joy were married in an “intimate courthouse wedding” in July 2022, and a report via PEOPLE of a ‘star-studded’ wedding in Venice in October 2023.

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Beyoncé has dropped a re-imagined new version of her chart-topping hit, titled “Texas Hold ‘Em (Pony Up Remix).” The remix comes just days after Beyoncé released her eighth studio album, Cowboy Carter. Spotify announced that the  27-track album was the music platform’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far, becoming the first country album to hold the title.

Beyoncé released “Texas Hold ‘Em” and “16 Carriages” in February, ahead of dropping Cowboy Carter. “Texas Hold ‘Em” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, making Beyoncé the first Black woman to top that chart. It also topped the Billboard Global 200 — making it the first time Beyoncé has reached no. 1 on that chart since it was launched in September 2020.

Queen Bey also launched a cryptic new website, beencountry.com, which fans suspect may be her way of teasing a forthcoming tour announcement. The homepage of the new website features throwback shots of Beyoncé as a child singing at the Texas Sweetheart Pageant, as well as a recent image of her in cowboy attire. On the site are images of a banjo and her slogan “This ain’t a country album. This is a ‘Beyoncé’ album.”

Take a listen to ‘Texas Hold ‘Em (Pony Up Remix)’– here.

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Apple TV+ shared the official trailer for the mystery series ‘Sugar’, starring Colin Farrell and debuting April 5 on Prime Video. The series marks Farrell’s first starring TV role since the BBC Two series The North Water (2021).

Farrell plays John Sugar, an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia Siegel, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. The official show synopsis reads: “As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secret; some very recent, others long-buried.”

Sugar is created and executive produced by Mark Protosevich (‘I Am Legend’), while Farrell, Audrey Chon and Simon Kinberg also serve as executive producers. The cast of ‘Sugar’ also includes Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Amy Ryan, James Cromwell, Anna Gunn, Dennis Boutsikaris, Nate Corddry, Sydney Chandler and Alex Hernandez.

The series will have a two-episode premiere April 5 on Apple TV+, with new episodes to follow each Friday. See the trailer for Sugar – here.

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