WireImage/ Mike Pont(LOS ANGELES) -- Oscar-winner Jared Leto is going from Blade Runner to ground breaker: The Hollywood Reporter says he'll play Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in a biopic. Producer Brett Ratner was close with the cultural icon, who passed away last week at 91, and hoped to direct the project as far back as 2007. Ratner tells the trade, "Jared is an old friend. When he heard I got the […]
Bauer-Griffin/GC Images/AaronP(LOS ANGELES) -- After news broke Monday that legendary singer Tom Petty had been hospitalized, his famous fans reacted almost immediately. Though it was erroneously reported earlier in the afternoon that Petty had died, his longtime manager confirmed in a statement obtained by ABC News that Petty died at 8:40 p.m. PT Monday evening. Petty was 66 years old. Most social media posts, which began pouring in from celebrities this afternoon, […]
NBC/Trae Patton(LOS ANGELES) -- The Voice continued on Monday night with another hour of blind auditions. Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Miley Cyrus and new coach Jennifer Hudson were back in their spinning chairs, trying to add to their teams. Two of the night’s biggest artists went to Miley and JHud. The Voice honored victims a gunman who opened fire at a country music festival near Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay casino, killing at least 59 […]
ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) -- Monday night’s episode of Dancing with the Stars opened with a poignant moment of silence for the victims of the Las Vegas massacre Sunday night and it was decided that this week would not be an elimination week. Instead, it was a positive and upbeat exhibition focused on dancing, enjoying some guilty pleasures and being thankful. Tom Bergeron opened the show, saying, “There's an old saying […]
NBC/Andrew Lipovsky(NEW YORK) -- On Monday, Miley Cyrus kicked off "Miley Week" on The Tonight Show with performances of Dido's "No Freedom"in honor of the victims of Sunday's shooting near the Mandalay Bay casino which the lives of at least 59 people and injured 527 others, and her 2009 hit "The Climb." Cyrus was joined on “No Freedom” by Adam Sandler – also a guest on Monday's show, along with Dustin […]
ABC/Randy Holmes(LOS ANGELES) -- On Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy appeared in a cold open, his voice breaking. The Las Vegas native spoke passionately about the events of Sunday night with at least 59 people were killed and more than 500 wounded in one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history at a concert on The Strip.. Jimmy made pointed remarks singling out the president, his press secretary, the […]
ABCNews.co(LAS VEGAS) -- The man suspected of gunning down 59 people from a perch high up in Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino had cameras set up inside and outside of his hotel room, authorities said today. "I anticipate he was looking for anybody coming to take him into custody," Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said today. Sources told ABC News the suspect utilized at least one camera outside […]
David Becker/Getty Images(LAS VEGAS)-- Sheldon Mack, 21, of Victoria, British Columbia told ABC News Tuesday from his hospital bed that scenes from the Sunday night festival massacre in Las Vegas, Nevada, continued to play for him "like a bad nightmare" he can't wake up from. "It just kind of all happened so fast. It seems surreal," Mack told "World News Tonight" anchor David Muir. "But, I just keep seeing it […]
RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP/Getty Images(SAN JUAN, P.R.) -- Keyden is just 31 days old, but he's already experienced tragic hardship. Having been born just days before Hurricane Irma passed over his birth island of Puerto Rico and weeks before Hurricane Maria slammed into the U.S. territory as a Category 4 storm, Keyden is now living in a shelter. Home is now a classroom at Escuela Felix Seijo Rivera in Utuado, an inland […]
