Celebrity Scoop – 10/31/2019

TAYLOR SWIFT TO PERFORM, RECEIVE ARTIST OF THE DECADE AT AMAS; SCORES FIFTH BILLION-VIEW VIDEO – (10/31/2019)

Taylor Swift will be honored at the 2019 American Music Awards.

Producers announced that Swift, 29, will perform and receive the Artist of the Decade award at the awards show November 24th in Los Angeles.

“She’s won more #AMAs than anyone this decade… She’s a five-time 2019 #AMAs nominee… AND she’s performing at this year’s #AMAs LIVE on Nov. 24… @taylorswift13 is our ARTIST OF THE DECADE,” a twitter post reads.

Swift has won 23 AMAs throughout her career, one less than Michael Jackson, who holds the record for AMA wins. Her awards include the Dick Clark Award for Excellence, which she accepted at the 2014 AMAs.

Swift is nominated for five awards, including Artist of the Year and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist, at this year’s ceremony. Her performance will celebrate the biggest hits of her 13-year career.

“Taylor’s impact on music this decade is undeniable and her performances on the American Music Awards have truly been spectacular,” Dick Clark Productions EVP of programming and development Mark Bacco said. “We’re thrilled to honor her as our artist of the decade and can’t wait for her to blow everyone away with an epic, career-spanning performance unlike any other!”

The 2019 AMAs will air live on ABC. Ariana Grande and Post Malone are also nominated for multiple awards.

Swift released her seventh studio album, Lover, in August. She thanked fans for their support last week on the 13th anniversary of her debut, self-titled album.

Meanwhile, Swift’s 2009 video for “You Belong With Me” has finally racked up one billion views. She now has a total of five videos that have reached that milestone, tying her with Sia as the female artist with the most billion-view clips.

The other Taylor videos that have reached a billion views or more including “Blank Space,” “Shake It Off,” “Look What You Made Me Do” and the star-studded “Bad Blood” ft. Kendrick Lamar. Of those four, “Shake It Off” has the most views – 2.8 billion – followed by “Blank Space” with 2.5 billion. “Bad Blood” is next with 1.3 billion views, and “Look What You Made Me Do” has racked up 1.1 billion.

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Full Story: Billboard

KATY PERRY SUED BY A PHOTO AGENCY FOR POSTING A PICTURE OF HERSELF ON HER INSTAGRAM: Katy Perry is being sued for posting a picture of herself. The 35-year-old singer has been hit with a lawsuit by photo agency Backgrid for posting a paparazzi picture of herself in her Halloween costume as Hillary Clinton in 2016. Three years later, she’s been hit with a lawsuit for $150,000 according to paperwork filed on Tuesday, which claims that she violated federal law by posting the picture. The lawsuit also states that they attempted to contact Katy’s reps about the “infringement” multiple times from 2017 to the beginning of this month, and Katy’s camp did not pay for the licensing of the photo.

HOUSE OF DRAGON ORDERED: Shortly after the news dropped that Naomi Watts’ toplined Game of Thrones spinoff got killed, fans learned that House of Dragon is set to go to series on HBO. The action wil be set 300 years before the time of Kit Harington and will focus on “the beginning of the end” of House Targaryen. George R.R. Martin is writing the script with Ryan Condal, and will be based on Martin’s book, Fire & Blood. 

ARIANA GRANDE PROVES BEAUTY IS IN THE ‘EYE OF THE BEHOLDER’ WITH ‘TWILIGHT ZONE’ HALLOWEEN COSTUME – (10/31/2019)

Ariana Grande has revealed her terrifying Halloween costume, a pig-faced version of herself inspired by an episode of The Twilight Zone titled “Eye of the Beholder.”

“Happy halloween’s eve 🖤,” she captioned a black-and-white video of a herself with a pig face, along with the famous Twilight Zone intro playing in the background. Ariana’s costume is from the classic episode “Eye of the Beholder,” in which doctors with the same pig face attempt to “fix” a woman who meets humans’ standards of beauty.

“Eye of the beholder 👁 🖤,” Ariana captioned another photo, adding with another, “Final procedure was a success.”

She had previously shared images and videos from the episode itself, declaring the series – the original version – to be one of her favorites.

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Full Story: People

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