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LAS VEGAS — Celine Dion is hitting pause on her Las Vegas return to focus on her health.
The superstar singer will not begin her latest concert residency in Sin City on Nov. 5 as originally planned due to recurring severe muscle spasms, promoters said Tuesday.
“I'm heartbroken by this,” Dion said in a statement. “My team and I have been working on our new show for the past eight months, and to not be able to open this November saddens me beyond words.”
The announcement saw Dion, 53, cancel each of her concerts that were scheduled to take place at the Resorts World Theatre between Nov. 5 and Nov. 20, as well as her shows slated for Jan. 19 to Feb. 5.
“I'm especially sorry for disappointing all the fans who've been making their plans to come to Las Vegas,” Dion said. “Now, I have to focus on getting better … I want to get through this as soon as I can.”
Dion is still scheduled to begin a world tour in March.
The Canadian singer, who is known for hits such as “My Heart Will Go On” and “It's All Coming Back to Me Now,” has frequently headlined years-long residencies in Las Vegas, with her first beginning in 2003.
AEG Presents, the promotion company behind her upcoming residency, has not announced a new start date for the latest one.
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Veteran TV journalist Katie Couric's relationship with “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer “devolved and ultimately deteriorated,” she said in an interview that aired Tuesday about her new memoir.Asked where her relationship stands now with Lauer, who was fired in 2017 for what NBC called “inappropriate sexual behavior,” toward female colleagues, Couric said flatly, “We have no relationship.”While snippets from “Going There” leaked before the Oct. 26 publication date shed a light on her mean-spirited conduct over the years — especially when it came to a lack of mentorship toward some female colleagues — Couric said her goal was not to snipe, she told anchor Savannah Guthrie on NBC's “Today.”“I wanted to share the messy parts,” said Couric, who was dubbed “America's Sweetheart” while hosting “Today” show for 15 years.“I couldn't imagine writing something that wasn't honest and radically transparent,” Couric said. “I didn't want to do a victory lap, or my greatest hits. I've had an extraordinary life, incredible opportunities, I've had huge successes; I've had some pretty public failures, too.”As with many television personalities, “people have always said, 'I feel like I know you,'” Couric told Guthrie. “But as I say in my prologue, the box puts you in a box, the flat screen flattens.One of the messiest was the series of revelations about Lauer, whom she worked with for nine years.“That was really, really hard, and it took me a long time to process what was going on,” Couric told Guthrie. “Because the side of Matt I knew was the side of Matt I think you all knew. He was kind and generous and considerate, a good colleague.”But the emerging revelations made her wonder if she'd known him at all.“As I got more information and learned what was going on behind the scenes, it was really upsetting and disturbing,” Couric said. “I talked to people, I really tried to excavate what had been going on. And it was really devastating but also disgusting, and I think what I realized is there was a side of Matt I never really knew. And I tried to understand why he behaved the way he did and why he was so reckless and callous, and honestly abusive to other women.”Back then, she added, the issue of power imbalance was not understood when it came to consent.“I think our notion of what a consensual relationship is has changed dramatically, and you have to consider the power dynamics,” Couric said.In the book, she reproduced text messages between her and Lauer to illustrate “how our relationship devolved and ultimately deteriorated,” Couric told Guthrie.
