Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will headline the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show, Pepsi confirmed on Thursday, September 26.
“Ever since I saw Diana Ross fly off into the sky at the halftime show, I dreamed of performing at the Super Bowl,” Lopez said in a statement provided by Pepsi, who sponsors the show every year. “And now it’s made even more special not only because it’s the NFL’s 100th anniversary, but also because I am performing with a fellow Latina. I can’t wait to show what us girls can do on the world’s biggest stage.”
Adds Shakira, “I’m so honored to be taking on one of the world’s biggest stages in the company of a fellow female artist to represent Latinos and Latinas from the U.S. and all over the world—and to top it off, on my birthday. This is a true American dream and we are going to bring the show of a lifetime!”
Courtesy of Pepsi
Fans of both Jennifer Lopez and Shakira have taken to Twitter to express their excitement. “This is the greatest day of my life,” one fan tweeted. “BEST Halftime EVERRR!!! Latino POWER!!” wrote another.
Peep some more reactions for yourself, below:
The year 2020 is shaping up to be a big one for Jennifer Lopez, who is already garnering awards-season buzz for her performance in the movie Hustlers. The film itself was a box office hit, and critics have singled out J.Lo as a highlight. Shakira, meanwhile, went on a world tour last year that spanned 54 dates across Europe, Asia, North America, and Latin America.
On Facebook, Jen Hart frequently wrote about her children, discussing what all six of them were up to in lengthy, paragraphs-long posts. But according to Bruce and Dana DeKalb, the Harts’ neighbors in Woodland, Washington, those posts provide a stark contrast to their own interactions with the six Hart children.
At first the DeKalbs rarely see the Harts, save a few chance encounters in their driveway. But this changes on Thursday, March 15, 2018 when Devonte approaches Bruce while he’s working outside and asks him for tortillas. The following morning, the DeKalbs answer a knock at their door: It’s Devonte again, this time asking for bread. Devonte shows up at the DeKalbs’ home asking for food on seven separate occasions that week.
While Jen is sharing pictures of Devonte on Facebook, smiling and seemingly happy, Bruce and Dana DeKalb are seeing something vastly different: A child who is afraid and hungry. Dana uses each one of those visits to gently prod for more information about the family.
Devonte eventually opens up to the DeKalbs, stating that he and his siblings are being abused by Jen and Sarah. Upon hearing this, Dana DeKalb takes action, calling Child Protective Services on Friday, March 23, to report the information she has collected about her neighbors. Officials show up within a couple of hours, but when they knock on the door, neither Jen nor Sarah answers. That evening the two moms will pack up their Yukon with their six children and leave hurriedly, knocking over their stone wall in the process.
PHOTO: Clark County Sheriff’s Office Incident Report
On Saturday, March 24, the Harts’ phones pinged off cell towers along the Oregon coast into California, and on Sunday, the 25th, Jen shows up in a Safeway surveillance video in Fort Bragg: Alone, wearing eyeglasses and a hoodie, she pays $20.08 in cash for groceries.
PHOTO: California Highway Patrol
On Monday, March 26, a Washington State CPS investigator calls 911 to request that a deputy go out to the Harts’ house.
That afternoon a German tourist spots the Harts’ tan 2003 Yukon XL upside down at the bottom of the cliff in Mendocino County. The bodies of Jen, Sarah, Markis, Abigail, and Jeremiah are found at the crash site; a foot, believed to be Hannah’s, is also discovered. Sierra’s body washed ashore about two weeks later. Devonte is still missing.
PHOTO: AP IMAGES
No one in the car was wearing a seatbelt. Jen’s blood alcohol level was over the legal limit, and toxicology reports show that Sarah and two of the kids had allergy medication in their system that could have made them drowsy. The car’s computer shows that moments before the crash, Jen had stopped on a gravel pullout 70 feet from the edge of the cliff, only to then accelerate. According to a Carfax report, the brake pads had been replaced the previous July. Per industry experts, the average brake pad lasts for around 40,000 miles—implying that the brake pads were likely in working order.
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Were Jen and Sarah running from a longer tail of child abuse allegations? Did those who knew them earlier in life have any indication as to what was going on? That, and more, next time on Broken Harts.
Subscribe now to our new podcast, Broken Harts, from Glamour and HowStuffWorks and based on this story from the October 2018 issue of Glamour. New episodes will air each Tuesday; find them on Apple, Google, Spotify, or wherever you like to get your podcasts. For the full transcript of this episode, click here. Have any tips, feedback, or questions? Email us at brokenhartspodcast@gmail.com
At Glamour’s 2018 Women of the Year Summit, Yvonne Orji opened up about how her faith led her to a starring role on HBO’s Insecure. Her story, below.
I’m Yvonne Orji. So some of you may know me as Issa Rae’s very messy best friend Molly on HBO’s Insecure. Thanks for watching! But what you may not know is that the journey to get there was entirely faith-led. Like, y’all, I could not have this life or anything. Nothing about the six-year-old girl who emigrated from Nigeria to America who was destined to be a doctor…if you know anything about Nigerians, you’re a doctor, lawyer or engineer. My mom is still praying, “Just one day. Maybe just one day…” It’s like, no. But nothing about my story pointed anywhere to comedy.
And that is where God comes in. Y’all that was all His idea.
I was raised as a Catholic, so God was always kind of a part of my life in a way. But as a freshman in college, I attended a Bible study that completely changed my life. That’s where I became a born-again Christian. Now, I know some of you are like, “In college?” Yes, because nothing about freshman year says Scripture, OK? Because I had a plan, so I was like, where are the boys? But I attended a bible study, and the minister there kept referring to God as, “Daddy.” I’ve never heard anybody refer to Him so intimately, and I’m really competitive—I have three older brothers—so for no reason I was like, “I want what she has.”
One night, when I was trying to figure out what was next and needed some clarity, I heard Him say, “Do comedy.”
I wanted that level of intimacy, so I said yes to the invitation—and from that, I too developed a very intimate relationship where I hear God. And one night, when I was trying to figure out what was next and needed some clarity, I heard Him say, “Do comedy.”
I’m sorry, what?
Because I wasn’t funny. I was like, nobody laughs at me. They used to laugh at me. Nobody was like, “That Yvonne is SUPER funny.” But at that point, I was on my way to becoming a doctor. I was stalling because I got my masters in public health. This is what you do when you’re the child of immigrants—you go to school to avoid going to school. And then after I got my masters, I was still not ready to be a doctor. I wanted to go to Liberia, which was just finishing a war, because it was easier for me to go to a war-torn country than tell my parents that I wasn’t going to be a doctor.
So I was wrestling. I was wrestling with God’s words. I was like, “What do you mean you want me to do comedy?” Here’s the thing, how many people have challenged God and won? You know, you can’t wrestle with Him. I’m not a fighter, look at me. So clearly I took His advice and I did comedy.
Sounds daring and fun, but pretty soon after I moved to New York I found myself with zero dollars and zero leads. Let me tell you right now: That’s not sexy. OK? Because Sallie Mae wants her money, like all of it. So one day I found myself incredibly hungry. I was in Harlem, and if you live in New York you know about 2 Bros. Pizza. It feeds the artist and the homeless, guys. It was $1 a slice of pizza, and if you’re really fancy you can get two slices and a soda for $2.75. I see some people shaking their heads. 2 Bros. Pizza is where it’s at! But here’s the kicker: I’m living in Queens at the time, and I didn’t have the $4.40 to take the subway to get there and back. Here I was, 25 years old, with two degrees, and not even the $7 to get a slice of pizza.
I was like, was this really the life I risked it all for? I have a family that loves me and cares about me, and I am broke. I am poor.
PHOTO: HBO
Orji on ‘Insecure’
But God must have sensed my doubt because, in that instant, I promise y’all I got a download from Heaven…I grabbed a pen and paper, and I wrote everything I heard as He dictated plans for my life. And in that moment, it was like, this is amazing…I took a nap, and when I woke up I was like, I’m just going to say yes.
What followed was a series of saying yes. Because if He has plans for me, then I should just go with it. So I said yes to the temp job I hated but allowed me to perform comedy at night. I said yes to taking over a stand-up show in New York City. I said yes to a residency in a college production in Richmond, Virginia, that gave me two days to get there. I said yes to being a writer in the writers room for a TV show in L.A. At the time I didn’t know what that was, but, guys, it’s pretty self-explanatory. That’s what Google is for.
Say yes. What’s the worst that could happen?
So there was a lot of hustle and there was a lot of setbacks. I’m not going to front. The road to comedy was not sexy. I make it look very sexy now, but it was hard. That show that I was writing on got canceled—but from that point forward, I just kept listening. … I put every idea I had into creating the trailer for a show called First Gen, a series about a Nigerian girl who drops out of Med School to become a comedian (sound familiar?). This was back in 2016, and the trailer for First Gen became my audition tape for Insecure. It’s what Issa was able to see and turn to the producers and say, “Give her a shot.” I didn’t have an agent, manager, anything, I had never acted. So this is HBO—Home Box Office—this is not like, a small production. And this thing that I hunkered down and accomplished was what Issa was able to be like, “Let’s try her out!”
So, I’m not a surgeon, I’m not. Don’t get sick around, I’ll probably just give you Advil. But I’m definitely fulfilling my purpose. Inside all of us exists some kind of compass—whether it’s divine or otherwise—but it’s something desperately trying to navigate you and all of us to the life we know we were destined to live. So I think the choice is pretty simple: Keep letting fear sidetrack you or take what you’ve been given, maybe even told from God above, and say yes. But whatever it is, keep going. Keep doing it. Why not? That’s what Glamour Women of the Year is all about—women who are not afraid to go after what they want.
Say yes. What’s the worst that could happen?
Find out more about Glamour‘s 2018 Women of the Year here.
Andy Sachs may have come out on top at the end of The Devil Wears Prada, but have you ever wondered what happened to the fashion-forward dreams of Miranda Priestly’s second assistant, Emily Charlton? Well, now is your chance to find out: A sequel book featuring Emily is on its way.
On Tuesday Entertainment Weekly published an exclusive sneak peek at the first chapter of the story. The plot revolves around Emily, who has apparently left Runway in the dust and Miranda to put her own damn coat in the closet. As Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada, revealed, her forthcoming novel will be called When Life Gives You Lululemons and focuses on Emily’s life as a high-powered image consultant. For her next job, Emily must travel to Greenwich, Connecticut, to consult an A-lister with a DUI to overcome. Clearly, she’s got her work cut out for her.
From partying at Gigi Hadid’s house to working for a Justin Bieber–like pop star named Rizzo, the first chapter alone reads more like a Hollywood tell-all than a fictional novel. And that may be what makes this next chapter in The Devil Wears Prada series so much fun. At the very least, the new book will be the ultimate beach read when it hits bookstores on June 5, 2018.
Littlefinger has been up to no good on Game of Thrones for a while now. The scheming troll, otherwise known as Petyr Baelish, is wreaking havoc left and right in Westeros. And his new targets are Arya and Sansa Stark. Exhibit A: In last week’s episode, he led Arya to the scroll Sansa wrote—under duress, seasons ago—urging Robb to swear allegiance to King Joffrey. This will no doubt cause tension between the sisters—because Arya will think Sansa is betraying Jon Snow—and that’s exactly what Littlefinger wants. He’ a messy queen who lives for the drama.
Why is he like this, though? It’s clear Littlefinger wants to see Westeros destroyed by war, so what’s driving his hatred? Is he just plain evil? Is he pissed about Dany and Jon’s potential romance? Or maybe he worships the Many-Faced God?
A Reddit user who goes by NippleBeardTM think it’s the third option—and this makes total sense. NippleBeardTM points to the eerie similarities between Littlefinger and the Many-Faced God as the primary evidence for this theory.
“[Littlefinger] comes from next to nothing and is basically regarded as no one in terms of the royalty he commonly associates with,” the user writes. “He’s squirmed his way into a position of royalty through marriage and manipulation. He thrives in the chaos that he creates, the sides that he takes politically seem as meaningless to him as the people he gets killed.”
Now, compare these attributes to what we know about the Many-Faced God. NippleBeardTM notes this elusive deity “doesn’t give a s–t about anyone, steals faces, [and its] followers are loner masters of disguise with rigorous discipline.” Hmmm, doesn’t this sound a lot like what we just said about Littlefinger?
Plus, think about how Littlefinger knows literally everyone and travels so often under the radar. Is this because he’s channeling the shape-shifting power of the Many-Faced God? Also, Littlefinger is responsible for the War of Five Kings, which sounds like something that would make the Many-Faced God very happy.
But that isn’t even the strongest piece of evidence. Take a second to think about the Valyrian Steel Dagger. “Guess where the Many-Faced God religion originated? Yep. Valyria. Guess whose dagger started the War of Five Kings by trying to assassinate the Stark family heirs? Good ‘Ole Petyr,” the Reddit theory reads. Dun, dun, duuun.
Could this craziness be true? It seems likely. If you’re skeptical, you can read NippleBeardTM’s entire theory here—but we’re 100 percent convinced. And terrified.
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