The NFL has been spicing up its international games with halftime performers, a bit like mini-Super Bowls.
British rapper Giggs performed Sunday (Oct. 12) at halftime of the game between the New York Jets and Denver Broncos at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Broncos won 13-11.
“It’s a huge moment to be a part of the London Games,” Giggs said. “I’ve been on a journey with my music, and to get to share that with my city and the NFL fans is something I’m really proud of.”
The south London native’s 2007 single “Talkin’ da Hardest” remains a popular anthem among his fans. Cleveland Browns players unfamiliar with the song liked what they heard when it was played last week.
Giggs has done collaborations with artists including Drake, 21 Savage, Ed Sheeran and Dave.
Last week, British singer Raye performed a halftime show at Tottenham with a nearly seven-minute set that included her hit “Where is My Husband!” The Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland 21-17 in the game.
British singer-songwriter Myles Smith was chosen to headline the halftime show at the first-ever regular-season NFL game in Ireland. At Croke Park, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Vikings 24-21 two weeks ago.
Last month, Grammy award-winning Karol G performed in São Paulo, Brazil, when the Los Angeles Chargers beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-21 at Corinthians Arena.
Bad Bunny will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl halftime show at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, California.
The NFL has been on an aggressive international growth pattern, so expect more to come.
“Bringing the best in sports and entertainment is what the international games are all about,” said Tim Tubito, senior director of global game presentation and entertainment at the NFL.
Chappell Roan concluded the six-show U.S. leg of her Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday night (Oct. 11) with a transcendent set that helped cement her status as one of the greatest performers of her generation.
Drawing a star-studded crowd that included SZA, Pedro Pascal, Sarah Paulson, Kesha and Tove Lo, Roan — dressed in a sparkly green two-piece bikini paired with matching Wonder Woman-esque forearm cuffs and knee-high boots — plowed through a set that included the majority of songs from her star-making debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, along with standalone smashes “Good Luck, Babe!” and “The Subway” and a fierce cover of Heart’s “Barracuda.”
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Prior to Roan’s emergence on stage, fans were treated to a festival-like atmosphere at the Rose Bowl-adjacent Brookside Park, made up into what might best be described as “Chappellchella.” In addition to a plethora of food booths and merch stations, attendees were spoiled for choice in terms of Instagram-worthy photo opps, which included a giant pink pony and a backdrop pulled from “The Subway” music video, complete with taxi cab and long trail of Chappell-red hair. Guests were also treated to a spirited DJ set from drag star Trixie Mattel (“Thank you to all the straight people who drove us here,” she quipped) and a compellingly eccentric and dance-worthy opening performance from Hemlocke Springs, who showcased a droll sense of humor during her spirited set.
Saturday marked the second of two Los Angeles shows Roan performed on the tour — she also played two dates each in New York and Kansas City — but, as she noted while speaking to the riveted crowd, she almost didn’t make it there. “I wasn’t going to do a U.S. tour until, at the very last minute, I decided to do one,” she said. “And I’m so glad I did.”
You know who else was glad she did? All of the roughly 40,000 people who turned out to see her. Over the course of just a few years, Roan has cultivated a massive and passionate fanbase through the sheer force of her volcanic talent, and all of her gifts were on full display Saturday: sky-scraping vocals, the showmanship of a seasoned pro and a songwriting prowess that makes practically every track a sing-along worthy event.
Below, check out a rundown of five of the best moments from Saturday night’s show, along with the full setlist.
British police have arrested two men on suspicion of murder following the fatal prison stabbing of former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins.
Watkins, 48, was killed on Saturday (Oct. 11) while serving a 29-year prison sentence at HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, for a series of child sex offenses.
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Two male inmates — aged 25 and 43 — have been arrested in connection with the incident, according to a statement from West Yorkshire Police. A murder investigation is underway, though authorities have not yet released the suspects’ identities.
Watkins had been serving his sentence since 2013, when he was convicted on multiple child sex offenses. He pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including the attempted rape of a baby. At the time, the presiding judge said the case had “plumbed new depths of depravity.”
His death comes shortly after a report from the chief inspector of prisons highlighted a sharp rise in violence at HMP Wakefield, according to the BBC. The report found that many inmates, especially older men convicted of sexual offenses, reported feeling unsafe amid a growing population of younger prisoners.
This was not the first time Watkins was targeted behind bars. In August 2023, he was attacked by three fellow inmates, sustaining neck injuries that required medical treatment.
Lostprophets formed in 1997 and rose to prominence in the early 2000s with several U.K. chart hits. Their 2006 album, Liberation Transmission, topped the U.K. Albums Chart, and the 2004 single “Last Train Home” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart. The group disbanded in 2013 following Watkins’ arrest.
Good Morning America is teasing a big reveal involving Taylor Swift.
On Sunday (Oct. 12), the ABC morning show shared a “huge new exclusive announcement” on social media, hinting at news tied to the 35-year-old pop superstar’s 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl.
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“TOMORROW: We’re keep it 💯 with an exclusive Taylor Swift announcement! Tune in ONLY on GMA!” the show wrote on Instagram.
The post includes a clip from Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia” video, accompanied by a voiceover that says, “She’s at it again. Taylor Swift shattering records with the biggest album debut in history with over four million units. And now tomorrow morning, GMA has a huge new exclusive announcement on Taylor. So what’s next for her? Find out on Good Morning America.”
It was unclear at press time whether Swift herself will appear during Monday’s episode of GMA.
The Life of a Showgirl is off to a record-breaking start following its release on Oct. 3. After setting the single-week modern-era consumption record for an album, the project has also broken the modern-era record for the most albums sold in a week in the United States, according to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate.
Showgirls‘ full final first-week consumption figure (equivalent album units, which includes pure sales, streams and track sales) and pure album sales figure are both still being tabulated by Luminate. But the album already has more than 3.4 million in pure album sales (physical and digital purchases), marking the largest sales week for any album since Luminate began electronically tracking music data in 1991, when the modern era of weekly music tabulation began.
The previous record for modern-era record for single-week sales of an album was held by Adele’s 25, which moved 3.378 million copies in its opening week in November 2015.
As for whether a The Life of a Showgirl tour is on the horizon, Swift recently shut down that speculation. “No,” the singer told BBC Radio 1 on Oct. 3. “I’m going to be really honest with you — I am so tired.”
“Like, when I think about doing it again …,” she continued. “Because I would want to do it really well again.”
Her exhaustion is understandable. Swift’s blockbuster Eras Tour ran from March 2023 through December 2024, spanning 149 shows across five continents. It ultimately became the highest-grossing tour of all time, earning over $2 billion and selling more than 10 million tickets, according to Billboard Boxscore.
Good Morning America airs weekdays from 7-9 a.m. ET on ABC. Check out the show’s Swift teaser on Instagram below.
Chappell Roan is facing criticism from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security following comments she made during a recent concert in Los Angeles.
During the first of two performances at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Friday (Oct. 10), the 27-year-old pop star paused her hit-filled set to reflect on her appreciation for her adopted hometown.
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“L.A.’s my favorite city in the world, to be honest,” Roan told the crowd, according to Variety. “I’ve been living here nine years. I’m originally from Missouri and I had a really, really tough time the first five years.”
She went on to speak about the recent wildfires in the Los Angeles area and the community’s response.
“I’m not gonna be eloquent about this,” she continued. “I loved L.A. more than ever than when I saw how the community came together in Altadena to help, same with the Palisades, I just realized that I’m so lucky to be able to live here and to play here, and the city has taken care of me, and it’s my duty to take care of it back.”
She then concluded her remarks with a pointed political statement. “F—k ICE forever,” the singer said. Roan repeated the phrase, prompting members of the crowd to chant along.
The Department of Homeland Security quickly responded. “‘Pink Pony Club’ is good. Pedophiles are bad. That’s who we’re getting off of our streets. Get a grip,” DHS assistant secretary for public affairs Tricia McLaughlin told TMZ.
Roan’s comments come at a particularly tense moment for immigrant communities in the U.S., who have increasingly found themselves the target of aggressive ICE operations. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently described them as “military-style” raids. President Donald Trump has made mass deportations a central part of his second term.
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall, The Godfather films and Father of the Bride, whose quirky, vibrant manner and depth made her one of the most singular actors of a generation, has died. She was 79.
People first reported Saturday (Oct. 11) that she died in California with loved ones, citing a family spokesperson. No other details were immediately available, and representatives for Keaton did not immediately respond to inquiries.
The unexpected news was met with shock around the world. Keaton was the kind of actor who helped make films iconic and timeless, from her “La-dee-da, la-dee-da” phrasing as Annie Hall, bedecked in that necktie, bowler hat, vest and khakis, to her heartbreaking turn as Kay Adams, the woman unfortunate enough to join the Corleone family.
Her star-making performances in the 1970s, many of which were in Woody Allen films, were not a flash in the pan, and she would continue to charm new generations for decades thanks in part to a longstanding collaboration with filmmaker Nancy Meyers.
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She played a businesswoman who unexpectedly inherits an infant in Baby Boom, the mother of the bride in the beloved remake of Father of the Bride, a newly single woman in First Wives Club, and a divorced playwright who gets involved with Jack Nicholson’s music executive in Something’s Gotta Give.
Keaton won her first Oscar for Annie Hall and would go on to be nominated three more times, for Reds, Marvin’s Room and Something’s Gotta Give.
In music, Keaton starred in Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” music video in 2021.
Beyond acting, Keaton also occasionally directed, with one-off episodes of Twin Peaks (1991) and China Beach (1990) and two music videos for Belinda Carlisle on her résumé: “Heaven Is a Place on Earth” (1987) and “I Get Weak” (1988).
“She was such a talent and a big part of my career,” Carlisle wrote on Instagram on Saturday. “She directed two videos of mine – Heaven Is A Place on Earth and the video for I Get Weak. She was kind and eccentric and I was blessed to know her. This is such a big loss… RIP Diane you will be missed.”
First Wives Club co-star Bette Midler also remembered “the brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton.”
“I cannot tell you how unbearably sad this makes me,” Midler said on Instagram of Keaton’s death. “She was hilarious, a complete original, and completely without guile, or any of the competitiveness one would have expected from such a star. What you saw was who she was…oh, la, lala!”
Mandy Moore, who portrayed Keaton’s daughter in the movie Because I Said So, shared in an Instagram post: “They say don’t meet your heroes but I got to work with one of mine and even call her ‘mom’ for a few months. An honor of a lifetime. What an incandescent human Di is and was. I am so sad she’s gone for all the reasons but also because it felt like she’d be here forever, dazzling us with her talent and charm (and her style, c’mon)!!! One of the very best to ever do it. All my love to her children and loved ones.”
Singer P!nk also remembered Keaton, whom she said was “a muse for me in every way,” by paying tribute to “her humor, wit, charm, fashion, and laugh.” “She will be so missed,” she wrote.
