Netflix By Crystal Bell Jake Picking's acting career started in an unusual place: goofing off in a high school math class. "My teacher told me, 'I don't know if anyone can tell if you're being serious or not, so you should try acting,'" the 29-year-old actor tells MTV News over the phone from his dad's…
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Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AG Way back in April 2019, Ariana Grande welcomed Justin Bieber to the stage during her headlining Coachella set. The two smiled together, then she gave him space to perform his hit "Sorry." Before he exited, he made sure to tease a new album "coming soon" — though it wouldn't arrive…
Paul Natkin/WireImage By Danielle Chelosky 2005 was less of a year and more of a weird dream. For once, emo had struck the radio waves, unlike the genre’s previous eruptions in the 1980s and ‘90s. Panic! at the Disco — a fizzy young group that played with gender image — sang an eccentric, noisy anthem…
Getty Images Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid are going to be parents! The supermodel confirmed her pregnancy in a prerecorded interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday evening (April 30). Prior to the show's airing, an advanced clip was posted to YouTube. When welcoming Hadid, Fallon began by excitedly congratulating her "on expecting a baby." "Thank you…
TM/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Remember last June when Drake let us all know he'd entered "album mode"? By the time that post turns a year old — a little over a month from now — he may indeed have another album out, marking a key entry in what may end up being (yet another) Summer of Drake.…
Jordan and Wes' streak of bickering on The Challenge continued during this week's episode. And it wasn't about a mission, an elimination vote or even an alliance... So what spawned this totally predictable spat? Oddly enough, it was the gym-area turf in the biosphere -- and how Jordan (sitting on the sidelines) perceived Wes was…
While Sammy "The Bull" Gravano and his clan moved to Arizona to get away from a certain stigma (after the infamous mafioso testified against Gambino crime boss John Gotti), Karen Gravano and her daughter Karina recently returned to their New York roots. But will the Families of the Mafia mother-daughter duo actually stay in the…
Getty Images After recording their fifth album since 2009, indie rock band Real Estate tried a novel experiment: They aimed to be everywhere at once. In addition to a planned summer tour across the United States and Europe, the five-piece filmed a short set of new songs from The Main Thing, their latest release, in…
By Sophia Kianni On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, youth climate activists organized the largest online mass mobilization in history. Over a three-day period beginning on Wednesday, April 22, we coordinated a steady stream of celebrity appearances, climate activist lectures, and musical performances. We were joined by politicians such as Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN),…
Hulu/BBC By Alissa Schulman “You'll have noticed that neither Lenny nor I are millennial women,” Ed Guiney, executive producer of Hulu’s Normal People says of himself and director Lenny Abrahamson on a recent Zoom call with MTV News. “But we do have millennial women working with us.” This is the kind of statement that can…
Yolanda Hadid has confirmed that her supermodel Gigi Hadid is having a baby with former One Direction singer Zayn Malik. Thanks, mom! The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, 56, broke the happy news that the famously on-again, off-again couple are becoming first-time parents in an interview with Dutch TV program RTL Boulevard on Wednesday. “Still shocked…
Amber told her Teen Mom OG producer that her children Leah and James are "numero uno" in her life. But there's another someone getting a bit of her attention -- and he and Amber have yet to interact in person. "I have been talking to somebody," Amber revealed during this week's episode. "Chemistry matters a…
Sarah. Wes. Svetlana. Across many seasons of The Challenge, certain rookies have proven it is, indeed, possible to spend more time inside an elimination round arena than out of it. And Jay — one of the game's newest players — is the latest on a long list. And while lightning has struck twice for the…
Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call By Rachel Sanoff Earlier this year, 28-year-old Andrea*’s Pap smear results came back abnormal, meaning cell changes had been detected on her cervix. The Los Angeles resident was told to schedule a follow-up appointment with her gynecologist so that they could perform a cervical biopsy, a routine outpatient procedure…
UPDATE (5/14/20, 10:00 a.m. ET): Mac Miller's breakout mixtape K.I.D.S. debuted at No. 112 on the Billboard 200 chart just weeks after its release to streaming services on April 29. April 29 marked the 10-year anniversary of the commercial release of Mac Miller's breakout mixtape, K.I.D.S. It was his fourth project overall, but thanks to songs like "Nikes on My Feet"…