Selena Gomez hints at end to music career
Actor and singer Selena Gomez told the hosts of the “Smartless” podcast that she wants to focus on her acting career and hinted at concluding her music career with a final album.
“I do feel like I have one more album in me,” she told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.
The “Only Murders in the Building Star” shared that, since a young age, she wanted to be a “serious actress” and added that “the older I get the more I’m kind of like, I would like to find something to just settle on.”
Gomez also spoke openly about the toll that juggling acting and music careers has had on her mental health — struggles that she talked about in the 2022 docuseries “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.”
“I’m going to want to chill because I’m tired,” she said during Monday’s episode.
Gomez began making music in the late 2000s, when Disney approached her to create an album during her time on the Disney Channel sitcom “Wizards of Waverly Place.”
“I thought it would be fun and I thought more than anything it would be a hobby that I really enjoyed,” she said of the career pivot. “I wanted to be an actress. I never really intended on being a singer full-time but apparently that hobby turned into something else.”
Since 2013, Gomez has released three studio albums and earned two Grammy nominations, including one for best Latin pop album in 2022 for her Spanish-language EP “Revelación.”
She’s also received two Emmy nominations as an executive producer for her Hulu series “Only Murders in the Building.”
She has also appeared in movies including “Spring Breakers” and “A Rainy Day in New York.”
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NEW YORK — Longtime Fox News host Sean Hannity has left New York for Florida.
The 62-year-old pundit announced Tuesday he was “broadcasting from [his] new home, the great free state of Florida.”
Hannity, a Long Island native who started at Fox News in 1996 , cited warm weather, the lack of a state income tax, “law and order,” and “more freedom” as reasons for his decampment.
While Hannity didn’t say exactly where his show is now based, he reportedly purchased a $5.3 million townhouse in Palm Beach — very close to former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate — in 2021.
The right-wing pundit shares a close relationship Trump, which includes advocating for him on TV and radio as well as joining him on the campaign trail.
However, Hannity admitted in a sworn deposition that he knew conspiracy theories being pushed by Fox News about rigged voting machines, which they claimed led to Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential election, were untrue. The network paid nearly $900 million to settle a lawsuit with one of the technology companies it falsely blamed and currently still faces litigation with another.
Palm Springs is a conservative stronghold in South Florida. Right-wing broadcaster Rush Limbaugh lived there until his 2021 death. Former Fox News boss Roger Ailes also died there in 2017.
The Weather Channel forecasted a Wednesday high of 43 degrees in Midtown, where Fox News is headquartered. The mercury meanwhile hit 72 in South Florida Wednesday.
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NEW YORK — Former New York Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams will make his New York Philharmonic debut on April 24 when future music director Gustavo Dudamel leads the orchestra's spring gala at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall.
Common, a rapper whose actual name is Lonnie Rashid Lynn, will also make his philharmonic debut in a program with soprano Hera Hyesang Park, the orchestra said Wednesday. The philharmonic will perform alongside high school musicians chosen in auditions.
Williams, 55, was a five-time All-Star while playing for the Yankees from 1991 to 2006 and won the 1998 American League batting title. He released a pair of guitar recordings, in 2003 and 2009.
Dudamel, 42, has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he starts in New York for the 2026-27 season. He will have a rehearsal with the students on April 22 and will lead the youth orchestra in a concert on April 26 at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. There also will be a rehearsal on the morning of April 24 open to music teachers, families of the youth orchestra and the orchestra's community partners.
The program is still being planned.
From combined wire services
