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  • Demi Lovato slams diet culture

    Demi Lovato slams diet culture

    Demi Lovato refuses to live her life “according to diet culture”. The ‘Confident’ hitmaker refuses to exercise or count calories anymore but admits it is a “different experience” because she feels full of “divine wisdom and cosmic guidance”. Taking to her Instagram account, she shared: “Accidentally lost weight. I don’t count calories anymore. I don’t exercise anymore. I don’t restrict or purge … And I especially … don’t live my life accordingly to the diet culture … I’ve actually lost weight … This is a different experience but I feel full. Not of food but of divine wisdom and cosmic guidance. Full of peace, serenity, joy and love today (sic)”

    Meanwhile, Demi previously admitted she is “so proud” of the person she is today after her overdose.

    The 28-year-old singer – who suffered a near-fatal overdose in July 2018 – said: “Everything had to happen in order for me to learn the lessons that I learned. It was a painful journey, and I look back and sometimes I get sad when I think of the pain that I had to endure to overcome what I have, but I don’t regret anything. I’m so proud of the person I am today. And I’m so proud that people get to see it in this documentary and I couldn’t be more grateful that I had someone by my side.”

    And the ‘Anyone’ singer also revealed she is still living with the lasting effects of her overdose, which she says left her with “brain damage”.

    She explained: “I was left with brain damage, and I still deal with the effects of that today. I don’t drive a car, because I have blind spots on my vision. And I also for a long time had a really hard time reading. It was a big deal when I was able to read out of a book, which was like two months later because my vision was so blurry. I dealt with a lot of the repercussions and I feel like they are still there to remind me of what could happen if I ever get into a dark place again. I’m grateful for those reminders, but I’m so grateful that I was someone that didn’t have to do a lot of rehabbing. The rehabbing came on the emotional side.”

  • Demi Lovato to star in NBC comedy Hungry

    Demi Lovato to star in NBC comedy Hungry

    Demi Lovato is set to star in the NBC comedy ‘Hungry’. The 28-year-old singer will also serve as an executive producer on the single-camera comedy show. The project is being written by ‘Hot in Cleveland’ creator Suzanne Martin, and will tell the story of a group of friends who belong to a food issues group, according to People. In the show, the friendship group try to help each other as they search for love and happiness. Demi will executive produce the comedy alongside Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills, as well as Scooter Braun, James Shin and Scott Manson of SB Projects. Demi – who previously starred in the hit sitcom ‘Will & Grace’ – has been open about her own eating disorder battle in the past, admitting that it led her to overdose in 2018. Speaking to model Ashley Graham on her podcast, Demi shared: “When you have certain people around you that are telling you certain things, that you should look a certain way, it makes it harder. “So I was in that situation – I was just running myself into the ground, and I honestly think that’s kind of what led to everything happening over the past year.” The ‘Cool for the Summer’ hitmaker – who was rushed to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after suffering an overdose – admitted to living a “lie” before her health scare. Demi revealed she was trying to convince her fans that she was happy when she really wasn’t. She said: “It was just me thinking I found recovery when I didn’t and then living this kind of lie, and trying to tell the world that I was happy with myself when I really wasn’t.”

  • Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks bring star power to emotional, multicultural Biden inauguration

    Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hanks bring star power to emotional, multicultural Biden inauguration

    Jennifer Lopez ha a word with Kamala Harris at the Inauguration.
    Tom Hanks was a great attraction as host of the star-studded “Celebrating America” nighttime celebration.
    Jon Bon Jovi (left) and Demi Lovato (right) joined host Tom Hanks (center) for “Celebrating American
    35,000 fireworks lighted up DC at theinauguration.

    WASHINGTON (TIP): An emotional Lady Gaga performed a dramatic version of the U.S. national anthem, Garth Brooks sang a cappella, and Tom Hanks hosted a star-studded nighttime celebration to cap President Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, January 20. On a day marked by diversity and appeals for unity, Gaga wowed in a huge fuchsia Schiaparelli couture silk skirt and black top adorned by a large gold brooch of a dove carrying an olive branch as she sung “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Biden’s swearing-in ceremony.

    Gaga at one point gestured to the U.S. flag flying high over the Capitol, the seat of Congress that just two weeks ago was attacked by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump seeking to overturn Biden’s election victory.

    “She slayed it. I AM GAGA FOR GAGA!!!” actor Ed Helms wrote in a tweet.

    Ahead of her performance, Gaga said on Twitter she wanted to “acknowledge our past, be healing for our present, and be passionate for a future where we work together lovingly.” Country singer Brooks, a Republican, chose jeans and a black shirt and took off his black Stetson hat to sing an unaccompanied version of “Amazing Grace”, asking Americans at the ceremony and watching at home to sing the last verse along with him.

    Afterward, before replacing his coronavirus mask, Brooks hugged or shook hands with Biden, former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, outgoing Vice President Mike Pence, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Jennifer Lopez, dressed in white pants and a long matching coat, performed a medley of “This Land is Your Land” and “America The Beautiful,” interjecting in Spanish the part of the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance that says, “One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” At just 22 years old, poet Amanda Gorman captured the mixed emotions of the past four years with a poem in which she referred to herself as a “skinny Black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother (who) can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one.” The cultural celebrations continued Wednesday night with a broadcast across television and social media, hosted by “Forrest Gump” actor Hanks, who is known as “America’s Dad.” The events, bringing together some of the biggest white, Black and Hispanic celebrities, marked a sharp contrast with Trump’s inauguration in 2017, which was low on star power. Wednesday’s TV special, called “Celebrating America,” opened with Bruce Springsteen, standing alone with an acoustic guitar on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, singing “Land of Hope and Dreams.”

    Standing nearby, Hanks acknowledged “deep division and a troubling rancor” in recent years but said “tonight we ponder the United States of America … and the hopes and dreams we all share for a more perfect union.”

    Other performers included John Legend, Demi Lovato and country singers Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard, who paired for a song about unity called “Undivided.” Delivery drivers, healthcare workers and others also told stories of perseverance during the coronavirus pandemic. Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl, the son of a public-school teacher, dedicated a song to “all of our unshakeable teachers.” The show concluded with Katy Perry, in a white gown with blue and red trim, singing her hit “Firework.” Biden and his wife, Jill, watched from the White House as fireworks lit up the sky around the capital city’s monuments. Reuters