From shuttered award shows to exonerated pop stars, here are your top entertainment headlines.
Barrymore Out at MTV
The Writer's Guild of America and its ongoing strike are having ripple effects that extend beyond just a pause in producing our favorite scripted TV programs.
Drew Barrymore, who was tapped to be the master of ceremonies at the 2023 MTV Movie Awards, has pulled out of hosting duties. It's a show of solidarity as the writers who keep Hollywood afloat seek better contract terms with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
"Everything we celebrate and honor about movies and television is born out of their creation. And until a solution is reached, I am choosing to wait, but I'll be watching from home and hope you will join me," Barrymore said in a statement.
The show will go on but will proceed without a host.
The news came just a day after Hollywood's actors guild, SAG-AFTRA, said it was also standing in solidarity with writers.
The fallout also includes the ever popular Saturday Night Live airing reruns until a deal is worked out.
Ed Sheeran Wins
Ed Sheeran has been cleared of copyright infringement in the case brought against him by the family of Ed Townsend, a writer who worked with Marvin Gaye.
A federal jury found that Sheeran's 2014 Thinking Out Loud did not pirate key elements from Gaye and Townsend's iconic 1973 hit Let's Get It On.
"I am obviously very happy with the outcome of this case, and it looks like I'm not going to have to retire from my day job, after all. But at the same time, I am unbelievably frustrated that baseless claims like this are allowed to go to court at all," the pop star said in a statement.
The suit was filed in 2016, shortly after the Gaye estate won another copyright infringement battle against Pharrell Williams, T.I., and Robin Thicke for their own smash hit Blurred Lines.
The Sheeran trial had been delayed while another suit involving Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven was litigated.
Summer is heating up and more people are starting to travel, but some are opting to skip the security lines at the airports and travel by train. As part of our Need2Know Vacation series, cheddar's Ashley Mastronardi reports from a train en route to Virginia.
The iconic 7-Eleven Slurpee cup just got a makeover. The company rolled out the new cups on Monday as part of its "Anything Flows" campaign, and they feature a colorful design on the front with a big "S" resembling the swirly top of the icy drink.
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There was plenty of uncertainty in the run-up to this year’s Tony Awards, which at one point seemed unlikely to happen at all because of the ongoing Hollywood writer’s strike.
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You may not know her name, but you've probably seen her face. Madhulika Sharma has graced Vogue India and ELLE Magazine and modeled for popular brands such as Reformation and Skims. Cheddar's own Hena Doba spoke with Sharma to discuss her globe-spanning modeling career, her education in fashion history, and working alongside Kim Kardashian.
The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside more splashier rivals on Sunday to win the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners.
The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by different avatars on a huge screen above the altar, led the more than 300 people through 40 minutes of prayer, music, sermons and blessings.
New York's Assembly and Senate passed a bill to create a commission that would consider reparations for slavery.
