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How did the title of the book come about? PREMIUM Actor and author Shenaz Treasury (Courtesy the subject) When I was living in Brooklyn, in the US, I was going through some hard times personally and I thought about writing a book about my boyfriends. Right outside my apartment, I saw a recipe book, just lying there. At the time, my friends were going through divorces and breakups too, and they used to talk about what their husbands left them with, like alimony. I started thinking about what I had got from my…

Paramount is anticipating being profitable on streaming by the end of 2025, company leadership told investors Wednesday. As part of a report to investors on fourth-quarter earnings from last year, the company said it had reached 67.5 million subscribers on Paramount+ after netting 4.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. Subscription revenue grew 43 percent, Paramount said, attributing the increase to new subscriber growth and pricing increases for its direct-to-consumer streamer Paramount+.…

The MTV EMAs, one of the glitziest nights in the global pop music calendar, is to be held in Manchester for the first time.The music network’s Europe music awards will be held on 10 November at the city’s new Co-op Live arena, which is set to become the UK’s largest indoor venue when it opens in April.Bev Craig, leader of Manchester city council, said: “With the expertise, experience and reputation we also have for delivering successful, world-class events, we’re confident Manchester will provide a superb platform for the…

He’s also guy who boasted several Guinness World Records, including one for being the person “who has worked on the most video games in their lifetime” (his mother’s very proud) with over 300 credits. Problem was, only about 100 of those credits were verifiable, and Guinness reworded the record to read “most prolific videogame music composer” before nixing the record altogether.Well, you can buy his house — y’know, the one he (falsely) claimed was on MTV Cribs — for $3 million. Honestly, for that price, seems like a…

Mojo Nixon, the roots rock renegade who crawled from the American underground with his 1987 single “Elvis Is Everywhere” and maintained a career on the fringes of American culture, died after a cardiac event Wednesday. He was 66. His family confirmed his passing with a post on Facebook.In their statement, Nixon’s family wrote: “How you live is how you should die. Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire. Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking…

MTV, this is your sign to bring back your old programming! On Monday, Saturday Night Live released a hilarious “cut for time” sketch playing off the MTV classic reality show, Pimp My Ride. Host Jacob Elordi appeared in the sketch as a Russian janitor whose car broke down, prompting Please Don’t Destroy boys to want to help by “fixing” his car. And to make the throwback show reference feel even more nostalgic, the Pimp My Ride host himself, Xzibit, made a hilarious cameo. The clip opens with Elordi, playing a…

It took two minutes of screen time for Plane Jane to become the villain of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16. Right away, the shady Boston queen showed her true colors describing herself as an “authentically Russian hooker” and calling (according to the subtitles) a plus-sized queen a “piglet” in her native language. The shade continued all episode as she consistently made rude comments about her competitiors (both in confessionals and to their faces) and became the only queen to opt to rate the queens from worst to…

This post contains spoilers for the premiere episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16. RuPaul must know it’s an election year because she’s putting democracy first on the newest season of Drag Race, henny! On Friday, MTV aired the premiere — another split one — of the drag competition show, introducing viewers to the first seven of 14 queens set to compete for the crown of America’s Next Drag Superstar and $200,000. During the premiere, guest-judged by the gorgeous Charlize Theron, Ru introduced the newest…

Sad news hit this morning that Tony Bennett has died following a long battle with Alzheimer’s. The legendary crooner had one of the longest careers in the history of popular music. His debut LP, Because of You, landed in 1952, and he worked steadily in the studio and on the road until 2021. Fans who came of age in the Fifties will likely remember early hits like “Cold, Cold Heart,” ” Rags to Riches,” and “Strangers in Paradise.” Children of the Sixties are more likely to think of songs like “I Left My Heart in San…

Long before they were familiar with the ping of an incoming text or the screech of a dial-up modem, Gen X-ers and older millennials learned to anticipate the whirring satellite and clacking typewriter keys that opened every MTV News brief. The signature sounds, heard dozens of times a day on the network beginning in the ‘80s, meant that information viewers cared about — like, say, George Michael tour dates — was imminent (along with the slogan, “You hear it first.”)At a time when there was little access to the internet…