Yara Shahidi set to debut as Tinker Bell
“Black-ish” and “Grown-ish” star Yara Shahidi will make her debut as Tinker Bell in “Peter Pan & Wendy”, the upcoming live-action film from Disney.
Shahidi is the first person of color to play Tinkerbell, the fairy who can make children fly with the help of Pixie Dust. This as fans are still approving the Disney casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel in “The Little Mermaid”.
The 23-year-old actress gained recognition for her starring role as the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on “Black-ish”.
Shahidi made her cinematic debut in 2009, starring opposite Eddie Murphy in “Imagine That”, for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination for the best performance in a feature film category. She also appeared in the Angelina Jolie action film “Salt” in2010 as a next door neighbor. In 2012, she played Chloe Johnson, the daughter of President William Johnson, in the TV series “The First Family”.
Twitch streamer Kai Cent breaks subscriber record
Kai Cenat has broken the record for the most Twitch subscribers.
The 21-year-old U.S. streamer amassed 300,000 subscribers on the Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch after a month-long subscriber marathon.
His ‘subathon’ – launched on Feb. 1 and featured the social media star streaming 24 hours a day. Subscribers even got to watch him sleeping.
The popular YouTuber officially overtook former Twitch record holder Ludwig Ahgren on Feb. 28.
Twitch is a livestreaming platform, where people typically play video games and talk to viewers.
Cenat broke Ludwig’s record with his own subscription marathon – or ‘subathon’ – a stream with a countdown timer which is extended every time someone subscribes to the channel.
Baddies West Stars Natalie Nunn and Tommie Lee box it out
Reality TV stars Nunn and Lee further hyped the event when the two went at it during the fight week weigh-in. However, the hype was quickly squashed just as Nunn did Lee for the brief fight.
Nunn started the meleé with a haymaker from the opening bell that seemed to rock Lee to the core. It never got better for the “Love and Hip-Hop” star.
The boxing match went down on Zeus Network hours, which airs “Baddies West”. Many fans speculated that Lee’s poor performance was due to drugs and alcohol after she hit the mat between the first and second round and could not or would not get up.
After finally getting up, the referee stopped the match shortly afterwards in attempt to keep Lee from receiving more abuse.
Vanessa Bryant wins $28.5 million for leaked crash photos
Vanessa Bryant has agreed to a $28.5 million settlement in her lawsuit with Los Angeles County over photographs of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and daughter Gianna.
The settlement includes $15 million that Bryant was awarded after a civil trial last August, as well as extra funds to settle any potential claims from her daughters, according to The New York Times.
The Los Angeles Lakers legend, Gianna Bryant, and the other seven victims died in the crash on Jan. 26, 2020 when the helicopter came down as they flew from Orange County to a basketball tournament.
Bryant’s lawyers told the jury in the case that in the days after the accident, police and fire officials employed by the county showed off photos of the crash site that included the bodies of the victims.
Ed Sheeran announces new album
Ed Sheeran is back with the latest installment of his mathematical albums.
With – (pronounced Subtract), he’ll cover a difficult period that spurred him to musically reflect on his “deepest, darkest thoughts,” he announced Wednesday in a press release.
The singer revealed that he found out within the space of a month that his pregnant wife had a tumor and no treatment option until the birth of the child.
The couple welcomed their second daughter, Jupiter, last May. Their first daughter, Lyra Antarctica, was born in 2020.
Sheeran also mentioned the sudden death of Jamal Edwards in February 2022, who was a “brother” and best friend to him.
