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March 19, 2024

Celebrity Sightings

  • Usher performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.
    Usher’s Super Bowl encore? Marrying Jenn Goicoechea at Las Vegas chapel
    Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea married in Las Vegas just hours after the R&B superstar's headline appearance at the Super Bowl halftime show, according to officials and documents. The officiant who wed the pair is ...
  • Two time Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins poses for photo with the cast of Awakening at the Wynn Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
    Anthony Hopkins basks in the afterglow with cast at Wynn Las Vegas’ ‘Awakening’
    Sir Anthony Hopkins is the unseen narrator of the show, which opened about a year ago at the Wynn.
  • Britney Spears appears at the 29th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on April 12, 2018, left, and San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball first round draft pick Victor Wembanyama speaks during a news conference in San Antonio on June 24, 2023.
    Las Vegas incident involving Spears, Wembanyama prompts battery probe
    San Antonio Spurs rookie Victor Wembanyama said Thursday he believes Britney Spears grabbed him from behind as he was walking into a restaurant at a Las Vegas casino ...
  • Frankie Valli performs on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at the Rosemont Theatre in Rosemont, Ill.
    Four Seasons singer Frankie Valli, 89, marries in Las Vegas
    Oh what a night! Frankie Valli is a married man once again. The Four Seasons singer, 89, tied the knot with former CBS executive Jackie Jacobs at a private ceremony Monday in Las Vegas, according to People. “It’s terrific to ...
  • Usher performs on opening night of his residency, July 15, 2022, at Dolby Live at Park MGM. The residency continues at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with additional dates in August, September and October.
    Venue changes, but Usher continues to wow and woo his Las Vegas audiences
    Usher is now five shows into his new residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas.
  • Guy Fieri is seen on camera during a recent shoot for “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”  in Northern New Jersey. TV’s spike-haired rhapsodist of roadside eats is still playing it for laughs. But he’s also winning food-world respect as a sort of graying eminence.
    Guy Fieri is now the elder statesman of Flavortown
    In the 15 years since he began “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” his Food Network flagship, UNLV graduate Guy Fieri, 54, has become perhaps the most powerful and bankable figure in food television, the éminence grise of the eminently greasy. And by dint of that show’s success — and Fieri’s runaway celebrity, and that golden porcupine of hair, and maybe that one review of his Times Square restaurant a while back — certain perceptions have attached to him through the years, perpetuating the caricature he still often seems eager to play.
  • Radio host Chet Buchanan checks messages on his phone during the KLUC 98.5-FM toy drive in the NV Energy parking lot Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. During the 12-day drive, Buchanan lives and broadcasts from atop the platform.
    From radio host’s annual vantage point, Las Vegas is an amazingly generous city
    Chet Buchanan sitting atop a 30-foot-tall scaffold for 12 consecutive days has become a tradition synonymous with Christmas for many Las Vegans — and it’s all to raise awareness for the station’s annual toy drive, now in its 23rd year. Buchanan has been involved for all but …
  • Lady Gaga performs during her 'JAZZ & PIANO' residency at Park Theater at Park MGM on January 20, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
    Glitz, glamour and Gaga: ‘Jazz & Piano’ provides quintessential Vegas show experience
    For more than two hours Thursday, Gaga — backed by a full orchestra and the Brian Newman Quintet — entertained with standards from the Great American Songbook, including numbers from Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Bart Howard and Frank Loesser. Gaga also delivered stripped-down versions of four of her own hits — “Is anyone here a fan of my old records?” she asked shyly — including “Born This Way” and “ Poker Face.”
  • Caitlyn Jenner speaks Jan. 18, 2020, at the 4th Women's March in Los Angeles. A former Olympian, Jenner is running for governor of California.
    Celebrity politicians test voter interest in post-Trump era
    In California, former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner is running for governor. In Texas, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey has said he is considering a run for governor. In New York City, Andrew Yang, a businessman who gained fame during his quixotic 2020 presidential run, is …
  • Mayte Garcia of Mayte's rescue gives a kiss to Jojo, a 14-year-old Pomeranian, in the lobby of Boogie Time Las Vegas, a doggie daycare, boarding and grooming business, Wednesday, May 13, 2020.  Garcia adopted the special-needs dog from a rescue in Tampa, Fla.
    Jojo arrived at a Tampa shelter nearly dead; now she lives here with a reality-TV star
    Jojo didn’t look like the sick dog from the photos. “She looked like a little teddy bear,” said Mayte Garcia, a professional dancer and actor from Las Vegas. “She doesn’t even look …
  • In this March 11, 2019, photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex leave after the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to no longer use their HRH titles and will repay £2.4 million of taxpayer's money spent on renovating their Berkshire home, Buckingham Palace announced Saturday, Jan. 18. 2020.
    Harry, Meghan to quit royal jobs, give up 'highness' titles
    Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are quitting as working royals and will no longer use the titles "royal highness" or receive public funds for their work under a deal …
  • UK media: Prince Andrew’s sex claims rebuttal a PR disaster
    In a rare interview with BBC Newsnight that was broadcast late Saturday, Andrew categorically denied having sex with the woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. But Britain’s newspapers and social media commentators criticized him for …
  • This April 20, 2019 file photo shows Kanye West performing at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. West told parishioners at Joel Osteen's Houston megachurch that because of his recent spiritual awakening, he's no longer in the service of fame and money but "in service to God."
    Kanye West talks about serving God during visit with Osteen
    During a 20-minute interview on the church’s stage with Joel Osteen, rapper Kanye West talked about his recent conversion to Christianity and how God has …
  • Carlos Santana and Buika take part in a news conference to introduce the song "Yo Me Lo Merezco" from his yet-to-be-released album "Africa Speaks" Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay.
    On new album ‘Africa Speaks,’ Buika is a worthy partner for Santana
    "In today’s world, if there’s ever a place where something that’s purely good could find its audience, now is the time for that.”
  • “You must live! And you must watch out for the people you love,” says Charo, pleading for people to be aware of the suicidal thoughts of those around them.
    Forever Charo: One-of-a-kind performer finds purpose after husband’s suicide
    Maria Rosario Pilar Lorenza Emilia Eugenia Martinez Molina Baeza De La Osa Rasten — you know her as Charo — was walking through her home, looking for her husband, singing, “Good morning, good morning,” when she found him. He had …
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