Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato have split from manager Scooter Braun and his company SB Projects. Rihanna & A$AP Rocky have reportedly welcomed their second child together. Justin Timberlake is showing off his acting chops in the trailer for Netflix’s ‘Reptile’ as *NSYNC is rumored to reunite in ‘Trolls Band Back Together.’ And more!
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00:00 Scooter Braun loses some of his top clients. Rihanna welcomes baby number two.
00:04 Justin Timberlake flexes his acting skills.
00:07 Erika Jayne talks her new Vegas residency. And we learn five things about Killer Mike.
00:13 It's Tuesday, August 22nd and welcome to Billboard News.
00:20 Today is full of updates so let's jump right into our first story.
00:24 We learn Scooter Braun loses both Demi Lovato and Ariana Grande as clients on the same day.
00:30 Demi Lovato, who's been managed by Scooter Braun since 2019, and Ariana, who's been with Braun
00:39 since 2013, have decided to cut ties with Scooter and SB Projects. It's unclear what led to the pop
00:45 star's departures, but reps for Demi, Ariana, and Scooter all declined to comment. They aren't the
00:51 first to drop Scooter as a manager. J Balvin, who was also signed with Braun in 2019, left SB
00:57 Projects back in May. This all comes just days after rumors circulated online that Justin Bieber,
01:02 Scooter's most famous client, was also seeking new management. Last Friday, reps for both Justin
01:08 and Scooter said the rumors were not true. With Demi and Ariana's departure, Scooter is still left
01:14 with a stacked list of clients, including acts like Tori Kelly and Dan and Shay. And if you
01:19 thought that was interesting, you won't believe what we have next. Congratulations are in order
01:24 for Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, as the couple just welcomed their second child together.
01:28 Just months after announcing her pregnancy during her Super Bowl halftime show,
01:38 Rihanna has given birth. Sources told Entertainment Tonight Rihanna and A$AP
01:42 will spend the early days of parenthood out of the public eye and won't make any immediate plans
01:47 to debut the new baby. Since revealing her baby bump, RiRi's been rocking her signature maternity
01:52 style on red carpets, social media and more. She stepped out with A$AP at the 2023 Academy Awards,
01:59 baby bump on full display. And we cannot forget her Met Gala look of an all-white Valentino
02:04 wedding gown. Congratulations, you too. When everybody is talking about it, we bring you the
02:10 news. Check this out. Justin Timberlake flexes his acting chops in not one but two projects set
02:16 to release this year and one of them is sparking in-sync rumors. A new trailer for Netflix's
02:26 Reptile shows Justin Timberlake's serious side, while the Trolls trailer gives us the silly JT
02:31 we know and love. Reptile is a murder mystery thriller co-starring Benicio del Toro,
02:42 while Justin is one of the main suspects. It's set to debut at the Toronto Film Festival next year
02:48 and in November, Justin returns as Branch in the third installment of the Trolls movie.
02:52 Branch, we're out of sync. We've gone from boys to men and now there's only one direction for us
02:56 to go, the back streets. In Trolls Band Together, Justin's character tries to reunite his brother's
03:02 boy band and features music from Justin's real boy band in-sync. Fans are hoping for an animated
03:08 on-screen reunion between Justin, JC, Lance, Joey and Chris and there's even hopes of a new
03:14 in-sync track for the film. It would be the group's first new song since 2001's Girlfriend.
03:19 Listen, I'm no king of Housewife TV but I love me some Vegas and our very own Kat Johnson sat
03:33 down with Erika Jayne to talk about her new residency. Check it out. What was your reaction
03:37 when you found out that you were getting this residency in Vegas? Okay, well honestly, to be
03:41 really truthful, I was kind of like, really? I mean, it almost felt like this can't possibly
03:46 be happening. I've gone through such a rough patch and all I was getting was bad news
03:50 so that when actually good news came through the door, I seriously for a hot second was like,
03:55 is this real? So what can you tell us about the show? So the show is based around my six-word
04:00 mantra which is how I created Erika Jayne, which was fantasy, love, escape and then I added glitz,
04:05 glamour and fun some years later. So that's really what the Vegas show is about. So we'll have
04:10 my old stuff, new stuff and we'll do a Clevver cover too just for nostalgia purposes and it's
04:15 gonna be great. I'm super excited to get back out and perform. You're debuting new music for the
04:19 first time in five years. Yes. Like, what has the process been like? Are you excited about it? Are
04:24 you nervous? Of course, I'm excited and nervous and I've been in the studio and creating with
04:29 different people and it's fun. Look, I am a dance music person. That's what I like to do. That's
04:35 what I've done and so it will be there. It's not like I'm gonna take a left and do an acoustic set.
04:39 We're gonna have a good time. We're bringing the party and that's what these new songs are all
04:42 about. For the full interview, head to Billboard.com. I had so much fun when Killer Mike came
04:48 to the studio and you won't believe what he told us for Five Things. What's up? This is Michael
04:53 Santiago Render. You didn't know my name was Santiago but here are five other things you didn't
04:58 know about me. I'm a big guy so people think I'm short but I'm actually six foot three so I'm tall.
05:07 That's something people don't know about me. I'm an avid reader. I absolutely love reading books so
05:12 if you ever want to gift me something, you can gift me a book. It doesn't really matter what it's
05:15 about. I love reading so I'm always into that. I support unionizing. I support the sex workers
05:21 unionizing their services. Even though I said that on a rap, I was very happy to see a bunch of
05:26 dancers got the ability to form a union in the club out here somewhere as I supported the girls
05:30 that pent up for a number of years when they were trying to get unionized. I'm a union supporter
05:34 through and through. I have two dads. My mom gave me an amazing bio and a bio father. Michael and
05:40 Anthony are my dads. I'll let you guess which one is the bio but Mike has the advantage of having
05:45 two fathers, not just one. My fatherly advice comes in doubles usually. I'm not the business
05:50 half of my marriage. My wife is much smarter at business than me so whenever people are coming
05:55 up to me talking about real estate deals, restaurants and stuff like that, I always
05:58 just kind of defer them to her because I'm just a capital investor. She does the day-to-day stuff.
06:03 That's it. I'm sad I wasn't ready to be done but I will see you tomorrow for more with Erika Jayne
06:09 and a game with Echo Smith. I'm Tetris Kelly and this is Billboard News.