Justin Bieber is showing support for his home town’s professional ice hockey team!
The 32-year-old “Love Yourself” singer is from Canada and has been a proud fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs since he was young. He was invited to day one of the 2026 NHL Draft in Buffalo, New York on Friday (June 26) to announce this year’s top overall pick.
In a video shared by the official Maple Leafs X account, Justin is shown walking out in red track jacket featuring the Maple Leafs emblem as he greets the crowd and makes his way down to the main stage to chat with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.
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During his walk to the stage, the multi-Grammy winner shared how “grateful” he was to be there as someone who has been “a Leafs fan since I was just a little boy.”
“Man, what an incredible night. Awe, man, the child in me is ecstatic right now,” he said.
Once on stage, Justin announced 18-year-old Gavin McKenna as the 2026 NHL Draft’s top pick.
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“Mr. McKenna, we would like to draft you to the Toronto Maple Leafs,” Justin said.
Gavin was named one of the “Big 10 freshman of the year” after his “first season at Penn State,” and he ranked fifth in NCAA scoring. The announcer revealed he is the highest-drafted player ever from the Yukon region of Canada. Fittingly, Justin‘s song “Yukon” started playing during the pivotal moment.
Ariana Grande is celebrating her 33rd birthday TODAY (June 26) and it looks like she has ex-boyfriend Ricky Alvarez by her side to ring in the new year.
The Grammy-winning singer was spotted hanging out with Ricky and other friends while taking a break from touring on Thursday (June 25) in Austin, Texas.
Sources told TMZ that Ari and Ricky had lunch with some friends at a local restaurant on Thursday. So, what’s going on between them?
Ariana Grande and Ricky Alvarez spotted grocery shopping in 2016
TMZ’s insider claim that “there is nothing romantic between Ariana and Ricky this time around.”
The sighting comes days after Ariana actually changed the lyrics to a Ricky mention in her song “Thank U, Next.”
Ariana begins the song by referencing all of her exes. She normally sings, “Wrote some songs about Ricky / Now I listen and laugh.”
For the Austin show on Wednesday, Ariana instead sang, “Wrote some songs about Ricky / Now they kinda slap.”
If you didn’t know, Ariana is newly single after recently breaking up with Ethan Slater after years of dating. They met while working together on the Wicked movies, in which she played Glinda and he played Boq.
The 31-year-old Grammy-winning singer just dropped her song “Lost Boys,” which is the lead single off her upcoming album Lost Weekend.
Phoebe sings about a failed romance and Peter Pan syndrome on the new track.
The music video stars actor Skyler Gisondo
The music video for Phoebe‘s song “Lost Boys” features actor Skyler Gisondo, who will be seen in the upcoming movie Focker-in-Law as the love interest of Ariana Grande‘s character.
The video features Phoebe wearing elfin ears and a blue dress. It was directed by Ren Faire docuseries creator Lance Oppenheim along with Pablo Rochat.
Phoebe sings on the chorus, “Lost boys / Never grow up, never go home / Lost boys / Never spend their lunch money, yeah / Lost boys / Never grow up, never get old / Lost boys / Find me.”
The North American leg of the tour treks through the United States and Europe before two hometown shows at Los Angeles’ Intuit Dome before heading to the UK, Ireland and Europe in November.
No phones will be allowed inside the concert venues.
The Swedish pop songwriting icons announced a partnership with their collective, onstage during the 2018 ASCAP Pop Music Awards on April 23, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California., and investment firm HarbourView Equity Partners.
HarbourView acquired the publisher’s share of select compositions written by the collective, including hits by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and The Weeknd among many other stars.
The acquisition price is “in the low nine figures” according to Variety, but HarbourView did not confirm and said the company does not disclose deal terms.
“At HarbourView, we invest in culturally relevant intellectual property and the visionary creators behind it. Max Martin and Shellback continue to hold their place as hitmakers in contemporary music, and through Wolf Cousins they have built an extraordinary creative ecosystem spanning generations and genres. We are proud to partner with them and help steward the legacy of this remarkable catalog,” founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners Sherrese Clarke said in a statement.
“Wolf Cousins was founded to bring songwriters and producers together in an environment built on collaboration, mentorship and creative development. HarbourView’s long-term vision and respect for creators make them a natural partner for this body of work,” Max and Shellback said in their own statement.
Wolf Cousins includes legendary songwriters like Ilya Salmanzadeh, Oscar Holter, and Tove Lo, and includes hits contributed to stars like Demi Lovato and Imagine Dragons.
Songs included in the deal include Taylor Swift’s “Style” and “…Ready For It?,” Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” “Into You,” and “No Tears Left To Cry,” and The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face.”
While the deal includes songs recorded by artists like Taylor Swift, it doesn’t affect ownership of the recordings themselves. Instead, HarbourView purchased the rights to collect some of the future publishing income earned by Max Martin, Shellback, and their songwriting team whenever those songs are streamed, played on the radio, licensed for film and TV, or used in other ways.
Taylor Swift still earns money from her own share as a songwriter and performer on songs she co-wrote, and her rights to those songs and any future re-recordings are not affected by the deal.
For songwriters like Max Martin and Shellback, deals like this provide a huge upfront payday instead of waiting years or even decades to collect royalty payments. In exchange for a large lump-sum payment today, they sell the right to receive some of that future income. The buyer is betting the songs will continue generating enough revenue over time to make the investment worthwhile.
Click here for more about why songwriters and artists may choose to sell future royalty income from their music.
HarbourView has amassed “approximately $3.88 billion in regulatory assets under management and acquired more than 70 music catalogs,” including works by Kelly Clarkson, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Pat Benatar, Nelly and many more acts.
The Swedish pop songwriting icons announced a partnership with their collective, onstage during the 2018 ASCAP Pop Music Awards on April 23, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California., and investment firm HarbourView Equity Partners.
HarbourView acquired the publisher’s share of select compositions written by the collective, including hits by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and The Weeknd among many other stars.
The acquisition price is “in the low nine figures” according to Variety, but HarbourView did not confirm and said the company does not disclose deal terms.
“At HarbourView, we invest in culturally relevant intellectual property and the visionary creators behind it. Max Martin and Shellback continue to hold their place as hitmakers in contemporary music, and through Wolf Cousins they have built an extraordinary creative ecosystem spanning generations and genres. We are proud to partner with them and help steward the legacy of this remarkable catalog,” founder and CEO of HarbourView Equity Partners Sherrese Clarke said in a statement.
“Wolf Cousins was founded to bring songwriters and producers together in an environment built on collaboration, mentorship and creative development. HarbourView’s long-term vision and respect for creators make them a natural partner for this body of work,” Max and Shellback said in their own statement.
Wolf Cousins includes legendary songwriters like Ilya Salmanzadeh, Oscar Holter, and Tove Lo, and includes hits contributed to stars like Demi Lovato and Imagine Dragons.
Songs included in the deal include Taylor Swift’s “Style” and “…Ready For It?,” Ariana Grande’s “Problem,” “Into You,” and “No Tears Left To Cry,” and The Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face.”
While the deal includes songs recorded by artists like Taylor Swift, it doesn’t affect ownership of the recordings themselves. Instead, HarbourView purchased the rights to collect some of the future publishing income earned by Max Martin, Shellback, and their songwriting team whenever those songs are streamed, played on the radio, licensed for film and TV, or used in other ways.
Taylor Swift still earns money from her own share as a songwriter and performer on songs she co-wrote, and her rights to those songs and any future re-recordings are not affected by the deal.
For songwriters like Max Martin and Shellback, deals like this provide a huge upfront payday instead of waiting years or even decades to collect royalty payments. In exchange for a large lump-sum payment today, they sell the right to receive some of that future income. The buyer is betting the songs will continue generating enough revenue over time to make the investment worthwhile.
Click here for more about why songwriters and artists may choose to sell future royalty income from their music.
HarbourView has amassed “approximately $3.88 billion in regulatory assets under management and acquired more than 70 music catalogs,” including works by Kelly Clarkson, Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, Pat Benatar, Nelly and many more acts.
The Grammy-nominated singer and actress stepped out for the final night of Ariana Grande‘s run of L.A. shows on the Eternal Sunshine Tour on Saturday (June 20) at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
Jennifer was spotted watching the show from the VIP platform at the back of the floor. She was joined by her longtime manager Benny Medina, her child Oskar, and ex-husband Ben Affleck‘s child Fin.
Jennifer stayed at the show all the way until the final moments, taking in Ariana‘s soaring moment when she flew into the ceiling during “Supernatural.”
At the show, Jennifer was seen carrying an Hermès Kelly bag.
You can watch Jennifer‘s new movie Office Romance right now on Netflix. The rom-com debuted on the streamer a couple weeks ago and it’s available to watch whenever you want!
Jennifer plays a powerful CEO and BrettGoldstein is her airline’s newest lawyer. Their secret Office Romance takes off when these two workaholics stop playing by the rules and start following their hearts.
“Something that is full of life and growing through the cracks of something cold and hard and challenging,” she shared. “It’s kind of about breaking up with all different kinds of negative attachments, whether it’s my own monsters in my own head, external voices, things that no longer serve me.”
“It was a writing experiment for me to use that as a template so that I could be talking about one thing, sharing something, and people could use it however they want and apply it to their own lives,” Ariana continued. “It’s a little feral as well. Yeah. Yeah. It’s definitely from a place that I have been maybe like too shy or polite to tap into before. And this kind of just feels like, f–k it.”
Keep reading below to see the full petal tracklist…
The 27-year-old “Make You Mine” singer made an appearance on Therapuss with Jake Shane on Thursday (June 18).
During the conversation, she spoke about dating her 28-year-old Los Angeles Chargers quarterback boyfriend Justin Herbert, why they kept their romance private for a while, unintentionally going public, dealing with OCD, viral clips with famous sayings that have made their way around the Internet, and her decision to stop smoking weed.
Find out what Madison Beer had to say…
On her relationship with Justin Herbert:
“My boyfriend is a Pisces man…when I’m having a conversation with my boyfriend, my hair could be on fire and I wouldn’t have noticed. To be honest with you, he’s the first person I feel that way about. The world can be ending around me and I wouldn’t know well. Which was kind of cute…I think that, it’s just so mature. I guess if that’s the right word, which I’m sure obviously comes with age, but I think that I also am at a point in my life where I’m like, ‘what do I really want for my future?.’ Do, I want to just f–k around forever? No, I don’t, I know what I want. And I feel like that was also really big with us. Meaning it felt like he was, I don’t know, he just came into my life with the perfect time.”
On where they had their first date, and eventually making their accidental public debut last August:
“Dude, literally at my house because we were just, scared to go in public. We were so nervous…we were just trying, we weren’t trying to keep it private because we cared. It was just more so for us, especially when you’re first with somebody and dating them, you don’t want to publicly be out there. And then what if it doesn’t work out a month later? So I’d rather it be really, serious at that point. So I think we just were like, ‘we don’t need to be out in public.’ And we have no problem sitting in my kitchen and talking for eight hours. We don’t need to, go do things.”
“And that day was literally my album photoshoot. And he was just there and didn’t know there was a paparazzi outside. And what’s so crazy is we weren’t even ever meant to go outside. We were only ever meant to shoot in the house and randomly the photographer was like ‘the wall outside is really cute. We should just shoot there.’ I have these, big angel wings on. It’s ridiculous. And so we did it and nothing came of it. And then the next morning, I see the photos and no one has clocked him yet. It’s all just my fans being like ‘Madison‘s shooting’ because I had angel wings on…so no one had said anything. And then my friend who is in a Chargers discord, and he’s a huge Charger fans and he’s like, ‘what is this?’ And he sends me a screenshot of it and he’s like, ‘I just got this, got put in the Discord. And people just realize that that’s Justin.’ And I was like…I knew any second it was about to go everywhere. And I was just like, ‘oh my God.’ And it was fine. I mean, we weren’t stressed about it. And now we’ve obviously just embraced being kind of public.”
On her OCD:
“This is what made me actually want to seek out help because someone that was on my crew on my tour has diagnosed OCD, has been diagnosed for ten years. And there was one day on tour, last tour where it was like, ‘guys, let’s meet in the lobby at noon. We’re all going to go get lunch.’ And I was like, ‘amazing, see you guys down there. Just posting on Instagram really quick.’ This is at 10:30. So plenty of time to get an Instagram post up and then get to lunch. And I legitimately didn’t leave my room till 4:30 PM. I’m not joking. And I was sitting there and I was like, ‘This is disturbing’…I think I’ve had a lot of issues with control. I think that’s also where my death anxiety comes from, a whole different conversation…I think it’s just a, it’s a lack of control, a lack of knowing how it’s going to come across, lack of ability to dictate the perception. It’s just all of it. I think it’s too much for me.”
“I think for a long time I was really embarrassed…but now it’s a meme and it’s funny…I look back and I’m like, ‘I was 16 and I had balls on me’…I look back and I can be proud of that younger version of me because I’m like, ‘you know what? You stood on business.’”
“I was just talking to a group of people and [Ariana Grande‘s] ‘thank u, next’ had just come out and I was like, ‘wait, guys? I have tea.’ And that’s what I thought. I was telling them tea. And it was something cute. And I think that it the hardest part of all of those types of things was having to be like, ‘oh wait, I can do something that I think is pure intentioned and fine’, and then the Internet can be like, ‘oh my God, she’s so cringy and annoying.’ And then it makes me, question my personality. And it made me just be like, ‘am I cringy and annoying?’ And ‘is that who I am?’ And so I think that sucked. And I was really young. I mean, I was 20 when the video thing happened, and then I was 16 when the other thing happened.”
On her favorite song to sing on tour:
“My favorite song to sing is my song “Envy The Leaves,” which I doubt you’ve ever heard. It’s a very deep cut off of Silence Between Songs. And I just love it so much…I feel like I, I’m sure a lot of people who sing also can relate to this, where some songs just, take you completely out of your body and you just sing and you almost, you black out and you don’t even know that you just sang a song. That’s what that song does for me.”
On quitting weed:
“I stopped smoking weed like a year ago…fully quit because I just, I had one night where I was like, ‘oh my God, I’m going to die one day and be in a coffin forever.’ Didn’t love that thought when I was stoned. So then I said, ‘I’m going to put that down.’”
Ariana Grande kicked off her The Eternal Sunshine Tour earlier this month, and last night’s show brought out a lot of celebs!
If you don’t know, The Eternal Sunshine Tour will continue through September, where she’ll visit 41 cities over the course of the summer.
On Wednesday (June 17), Ariana performed her tour live from the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif. We noted several big names in attendance, and have some photos to share!
Some stars who hit up the show include former co-stars, music stars, and more.
Keep reading to see which celebrities were in attendance for Ariana Grande’s tour performance last night…
Following a delay on tickets going on sale, rumors started swirling that Ariana was leaving the production, but the musical’s social media accounts have seemingly shut them down.
The show posted a photo of Ariana on stage during a stop of her Eternal Sunshine Tour, sharing a quote from composer Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical.
“‘Only way to make a work of art.'” they wrote in the caption on Wednesday (June 17), adding, “Our Dot is putting it together on The Eternal Sunshine Tour. That’s what counts.”
The London production of Sunday in the Park with George, starring Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, is set to launch in 2027 at the Barbican Centre. Tickets are slated to go on sale this fall.
If you don’t know, the musical follows painter Georges Seurat as he meticulously works on his masterpiece, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” while navigating his complicated relationship with his lover Dot. The second act of the musical later shifts to his great-grandson, George, exploring how art, love, and creative legacy echo across generations, with Dot now aged to be elderly.
Coming up later this year, Ariana is also set to release her new album petal, and she’s starring in the new movie Focker-In-Law!
The 32-year-old “hate that i made you love me” superstar fought back tears while onstage during her eternal sunshine stop at the Crypto.com Arena on Sunday night (June 14) in Los Angeles.
Ariana was preparing to sing her track “Hampstead” when she suddenly got teary and cried, explaining that she felt overwhelmed “in the most beautiful way ever.”
“You can’t do this to me, you know what I mean, because you know what’s going to happen. You know I’m a cancer. This is going to happen,” Ariana amusingly went on to say, shouting out her fans for being a “loving, safe presence” for her.
“Holy s–t, holy f–k. Thank you,” she added.
Ari is also launching a new philanthropic endeavor: the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation, focusing on protecting trans and LGBTQ+ rights, expanding access to mental healthcare, community support, arts education and more.
According to the post that she shared on her Instagram, the foundation will be launched with four different funds partnering with organizations like the Humanity Crew and Trans Lifeline. Find out how she’ll be helping.
Ariana Grande is launching a new philanthropic endeavor.
The 32-year-old pop star launched the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation focusing on protecting trans and LGBTQ+ rights, expanding access to mental healthcare, community support, arts education, and more.
According to the post Ariana shared on her Instagram, the foundation will be launched with four different funds partnering with organizations like the Humanity Crew and Trans Lifeline.
Here’s the statement she shared.
I am beyond excited to finally announce the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation. Our mission is to support, protect, and provide resources for our vulnerable friends in need. Through four different funds, we will be supporting handfuls of incredible organizations that provide the safe space and care that is desperately needed by so many right now.
It has been my privilege to be able to support these causes on my own over the years, and I’m grateful to now be able to expand that reach and amplify the life-saving work that these organizations do through the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation.
The Protect & Defend Fund is one of several funds that is part of the foundation, and they advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights, and reproductive justice; Heal & Dream Fund is to help expand access to mental health and community support; Seen & Celebrated Fund goes to combatting LGBTQ+ erasure and ensuring their voices are heard; and the Emergency Support Fund is a responsive fund to aid communities during times of collective need.
