Justin Bieber Finally Cuts His Hair & Fans Are Freaking Out: ‘This Is Not A Drill’ — See Makeover Pic - Hollywood Life

Justin Bieber hit the sweet spot between ‘buzzed head’ Biebs and ‘hair nearly as long as Hailey Baldwin’s.’ But the haircut isn’t the only change in Justin’s life, as his manager teased that ‘something is happening.’

Hailey Baldwin, 22, and Scooter Braun revealed Justin Bieber’s hair makeover to Instagram on April 17, and fans are loving the change of scenery. The 25-year-old heartthrob said bye-bye to his longer hair as he cropped the sides of his ‘do and opted for a tousled, almost spiky front. With his tie-dye shirt and tatted sleeve, JB looked like a punk rocker transported from the ’90s. His wife left a very loving message underneath the hair makeover post! “My love 😩😍😍,” she began. “You are an incredible man, you make me a better human being, you make me happier than I’ve ever been. Insanely proud of who you are and who you’re becoming.. I love you more every single day.”

Fellow celebrities left just as positive remarks. “Awwwww,” model Ashley Graham commented, while Winnie Harlow and Ashley Benson left heart emojis. Meanwhile, Justin’s manager teased that an exciting project is on the horizon. “This guy! Something is happening. Love it,” Scooter wrote underneath his own post, as he borrowed the photo from Hailey. The picture was snapped in front of a green screen in a photo studio, which made fans freak out over the haircut and the possibility of new music. So far, fans know that Justin was enlisted for Lil Dicky’s new song and music video for “Earth Day,” which drops on April 18.

Before cutting his hair, Justin was most recently seen dancing at Weekend One of Coachella with Hailey and her best friend Kendall Jenner, 23. Justin wore a baseball cap, but his sideburns were noticeably longer over the weekend. Seeing his freshly styled hair just days later was a pleasant surprise for fans. “JUSTIN BIEBER FINALLY CUT HIS HAIR THIS IS NOT A DRILL REMAIN CALM,” one fan tweeted, while another fan wrote, “Not only are we finally getting new justin music but he’s gonna SERVE HAIR and LOOKS in a music video after 726252 years im.” A third fan could barely process the news, writing, “THIS PIC KEPT COMING UP ON MY TL AND I KEPT SCROLLING PAST IT BECAUSE I DIDNT EVEN REALISE IT WAS JUSTIN CAUSE HIS HAIR HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DONE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS IS THIS REAL LIFE.”

Justin Bieber pictured here on March 7, before he cropped his sideburns. (SplashNews)

Justin shaved his head in Oct. 2018, and has been growing it out since. He rocked a mustache and long hair, a la young Brad Pitt, throughout the summer of 2018.

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2019-04-18 02:26:00Z
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Stream: Madonna and Maluma Pair Up On 'Medellin' - NPR

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The first single from Madonna's upcoming Madame X suggests that the doyenne of dance pop is making canny decisions in her 60^th year. "Medellin" is a carefully dosed combination of the coolly narcotic dance-pop she's often made with the track's producer, Mirwais, and the energetic reggaetón of the track's featured guest, the Colombian star Maluma, and suggests this global pop sound will be the foundation of her fourteenth studio album. Starting with a whispered "one, two, cha cha cha" from Queen Madge that lends the arrangement a witty vintage feel, the song proceeds to relate a fantasy that's both sexy and slightly nostalgic. "I took a pill and had a dream," Madonna murmurs, her voice artfully Auto-tuned. "I went back to my seventeenth year."

Madonna's reverie transports her to the Colombian mountain city where, in what some might consider the song's most dubious lyric, she and Maluma have "built a cartel just for love." The line, however, makes sense in the larger scheme of Madame X, due out June 14. The singer promises that the album will have the feel of a spy movie, giving Madonna the chance to inhabit many identities – a few she's listed on Instagram include "a teacher, a nun, a cabaret singer, a saint, a prostitute" and many more. Madonna as secret agent, assuming myriad identities but never settling into one? That's a brilliant way to deal with questions the pop superstar has faced in recent years about both cultural appropriation and her refusal to embrace her status as a mature woman and artist.

The fantasy of "Medellin" could belong to a woman of any age, race or social status. Its dreaminess makes it accessible to all without making any claims on authenticity. Grounded in a minimalist take on reggaetón's ubiquitous tresillo rhythm, "Medellin" lets Madonna lay back in the groove while giving the waggish, husky-voiced Maluma plenty of room to spin out his rhymes in Spanish. Madonna and Mirwais are clearly thinking of "Despacito" here, integrating English and Spanish seamlessly in a song meant for a global marketplace.

Intended to be a celebration of the connections among musicians across borders, Madame X features several other collaborations, some intriguing (the Brazilian singer Anitta) and others possibly a bit on the nose (Diplo, Migos). Madonna has said that the album's global perspective was inspired by her life in Portugal, where she's lived since 2017, but of course, the Latin connection has been a major aspect of her work since her earliest days. "Medellin" is, in some ways, a return to her happy place, definitively portrayed in her 1986 single "La Isla Bonita" — only this time with a woozy feel more redolent of a time when synthetic drugs and virtual realities dominate the cultural conversation. Let's hope the rest of Madame X is this playful and charming.

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2019-04-17 17:41:00Z
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Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere was pirated almost 55 million times - The Verge

Game of Thrones returned to HBO with some of its highest ratings yet last Sunday, but even those numbers were dwarfed by an even bigger audience. The season 8 premiere had almost 55 million pirated views across illegal streams, downloads, and torrents in the first 24 hours, according to analytics firm MUSO.

Of those 55 million pirated views, MUSO says that the vast majority (76.6 percent) came from unofficial streams of the episode, with web downloads accounting for 12.2 percent of views, public torrents for 10.8 percent, and private torrents for 0.5 percent.

For comparison, HBO saw a total of 17.4 million viewers across its three platforms (the premium cable channel and its two internet streaming services, HBO Go and HBO Now), split between 11.8 million for the traditional TV channel and 5.6 million on the company’s official internet streams. Those numbers will likely go up in the coming days as more viewers watch the episode, but, presumably, so will the pirated views.

According to MUSO’s data, the most pirated views by country came from India (roughly 10 million views), which MUSO speculates is due to the difficulty of accessing the show there, and China (with roughly 5 million pirated views), which only airs a censored version of the show through official channels. On the other hand, the United States — which perhaps has the easiest legal means to access HBO — came in third on the charts with nearly 4 million illegal views, so it’s also possible people just don’t like to pay for HBO.

If past seasons are any indication, enthusiasm for the show is only going to grow as the final season progresses. That’s good news for HBO’s ratings, which will likely continue to break its own record. Looking at the massive piracy figures, you have to wonder what those numbers would look like if the series was even more accessible to users.

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2019-04-17 16:37:50Z
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‘Game of Thrones’ star Kit Harington claims he almost lost a body part while filming dragon scene - Fox News

“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington says he nearly lost his manhood — well, at least a part of it — while filming a wild scene in the Season 8 premiere.

Harington, who plays Jon Snow in the popular HBO show which began it’s eighth and final season on Sunday, revealed in a behind-the-scenes clip that almost lost his right testicle while filming the scene where his character rides one of Daenerys Targaryen’s (Emilia Clarke) dragons.

The actor, 32, explained he had to ride a mechanical bull-type machine that the show’s CGI professionals would later transform into a dragon. While Clarke has become accustomed to riding on the “buck," Harington, on the other hand, has not.

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“Buck work is not easy,” he began. “I think what sums up the buck for me was there was a bit where Jon almost falls off. The dragon swings around really violently, like this, and my right ball got trapped, and I didn’t have time to say ‘Stop!’ And I was being swung around.”

“In my head, I thought, ‘This is how it ends, on this buck, swinging me around by my testicles, literally.’”

“Sorry. Probably too much information,” Harington added with a grin as people behind the camera began to giggle.

Thankfully, Harington remained intact.

In a separate interview, the actor revealed he was blown away by Clarke when he first met the "Mother of Dragons."

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“I remember the first time I ever saw her,” Harrington told Esquire for the magazine's cover story. “She came into the Fitzwilliam bar. I had been talking to Rich Madden at the bar and he went, ‘I’ve just met the new Daenerys. She’s gorgeous.’ And I was like, ‘Really? I haven’t met her yet.’ And then she came in and I saw her and was like, ‘Wow.’”

“She takes your breath away when she walks into a room, Emilia,” he added.

The first episode of the final season of was a record-breaker for the series and HBO. The 17.4 million viewers who watched Sunday's episode either on TV or online represent a season-opening high for the fantasy saga.

Fox News' Ann W. Schmidt and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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2019-04-17 15:27:18Z
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Lori Loughlin felt she had 'no choice' but to plead not guilty - CNN

Loughlin and her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded not guilty Monday to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Each of the charges is punishable by up to 20 years in prison.

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"Lori doesn't understand why she's getting so much criticism for pleading not guilty," the source said. "People must not realize that she had no choice. The plea deal has been taken off the table, and this is the only way they've been told she and Mossimo can avoid jail time and get another plea (deal). They are hoping justice will prevail."

However, a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told CNN last week that neither Loughlin nor her husband have engaged in substantial plea discussions. And the same source has said prosecutors will be seeking jail time for every defendant, regardless of their plea.

Prosecutors say Loughlin and Giannulli paid $500,000 to a fake charity to get their two daughters accepted into the University of Southern California, falsely designating them as crew team recruits.

"She is focused on repairing her relationship with (her daughter) Olivia," the source added. "Things are very tense."

Loughlin is among 15 other wealthy parents who did not initially plead guilty in the federal investigation and were slapped with the secondary charge of conspiring to launder bribes and other payments to Rick Singer, the mastermind behind the scam, in a superseding indictment earlier this month.

Actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to paying $15,000 to facilitate cheating for her daughter on the SATs. In a statement, she expressed "deep regret and shame over what I have done." She has a plea hearing set for May 21 in federal court in Boston, prosecutors said on Twitter.

Despite Loughlin being dropped from her Netflix TV show "Fuller House" and multiple shows on the Hallmark Channel, including "When Calls The Heart," she is still hoping that she has a future in Hollywood following the scandal.

"(Lori) is hoping she can move past this and get back to work and doing what she loves," the source said.

CORRECTION: This story has been updated to correct the date of Felicity Huffman's plea hearing.

CNN's Mark Morales contributed to this report.

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2019-04-17 14:01:00Z
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Watch the final trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix - The Verge

20th Century Fox has released the final trailer for the upcoming (and likely final) installment of its X-Men franchise, Dark Phoenix, showing off Jean Grey’s struggles to contain the vast powers she acquires after an accident in space.

The film is adapting the classic Dark Phoenix storyline, first published in the 1980s, in which mutant Jean Grey is struck by a solar flare and transformed, returning to earth as the Phoenix, a being of pure thought. We’ve seen a couple of trailers for the film that show off this transformation for the film’s titular character (played by Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner) and how the X-Men struggle to contain her powers.

This new trailer twists what we’ve seen so far, showing how Jean struggles with her new abilities. The team is dispatched on a rescue mission in space after a shuttle accident (a Dark Phoenix / Gravity mashup video seems inevitable), and after the solar flare, Jean is left behind to be transformed. She returns home and deals with suspicion as she begins to realize that she’s changed. “When I lose control, bad things happen,” she says, but “it feels good.” It looks as though that leads to a showdown between the X-Men who want to save her, and Magneto who wants to eliminate her as a threat.

The film is likely going to be the final installment in the long-running X-Men franchise following Disney’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox earlier this year. The merger will bring together the two sets of properties, which have famously been separated as Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe has taken off. What that future looks like remains to be seen, but it’s widely expected that the X-Men appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at some point. Hopefully, Dark Phoenix will be a good send-off for the series.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix will hit theaters on June 7th.

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2019-04-17 15:09:26Z
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Black Game of Thrones Fans Have Built Their Own Universe Around Westeros (HBO) - VICE News

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2019-04-17 12:50:18Z
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