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Pro wrestler, '90s TV star get the boot on 'Masked Singer' Country Night
With the Axolotl and Fairy riding off into the sunset, Season 9's new reigning champ is the Macaw... and he just might be someone who's competed on a past Fox TV singing show.
Maren Morris introduced son, 3, to drag queens weeks after Tennessee's new bill: 'Arrest me'
The country star performed at a Nashville benefit concert supporting trans and drag rights after state's controversial new statutes.
Blake Shelton gets 'emotional' as he hits 'Voice' button for last time ever: 'When I said that out loud, it became real'
On his 600th button-whack, Blake recruited his final team member, Grace West, who'll go down in history as the answer to a 'Voice' trivia question.
Blake Shelton gives 'The Voice' with his 'huge middle finger'
The retiring "King of 'The Voice'" still has a way of wrapping contestants around his finger, so to speak, but rookie coach Niall Horan thinks it's time for him to "pass the baton."
'No. Go put it back': Awkward, heartbreaking 'Idol' moment as toddler hands rejected mom Golden Ticket
“It’s not fair, but that’s what life is,” said Lionel Richie, as struggling single mom Fire Wilmore, who'd hoped that 'American Idol' would turn her family's life around, stood humiliated in front of her child.
How this rock star once won Sassy magazine's 'Biggest Cure Fan' contest — with an entry signed in blood
"Sassy was a magazine that spoke to me because Seventeen did not," says Eagles of Death Metal's Jennie Vee, who was 'determined' to impress the groundbreaking teen mag's editors at any cost.
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Dave Letterman on the sweet song Bono and the Edge wrote for him: 'Makes the first 35 years of being in television well worth the effort'
"U2 started with utter earnestness, and discovered irony along the way. And Dave Letterman started as an utterly ironic person, and discovered sincerity along the way," director Morgan Neville says of the two journeys in his unique rockumentary, "A Sort of Homecoming."
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Damar Hamlin makes surprise 'Masked Singer' appearance for little brother: 'I put family first'
This 'Sesame Street'-themed episode was brought to you by the letter A, for A-DORABLE, when the football hero who "brought the whole world together" showed up with his kid brother, a huge 'Sesame' fan.
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Kelly Clarkson pulls a Maury Povich, gives 'master of lying' Blake Shelton a polygraph test on 'The Voice'
Kelly claimed she was "sick of Blake lying," but later said of her rival, who's leaving the show after this season: "Don’t tell him I said this, but he is 'The Voice.' ... He will be missed by everyone."
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Peter Gabriel on the future of AI: 'We might as well just grab the algorithms and dance with them, rather than fight them'
"When an intelligent species is so smart that it can destroy itself, it very often does," says Gabriel. "I hope we don't fall into that trap, but we can have a wonderful party on the way to jumping over the cliff."
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Deaf singer Ali triumphs with 'Voice' Blind Audition: 'I can feel the music. … That's my superpower.'
If you had lined up all the singers that we've heard so far and then said, 'Pick which one is hearing-impaired,' you would be the probably the last one that I would say," said Blake Shelton. "That vocal was just incredible!"
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Late 'AGT' and 'Voice' veteran Nolan Neal's daughter honors dad with 'Idol' audition: 'It could have been so different. He didn’t mean to die.'
"Doing this has given me a chance to honor my dad and walk a path that my dad didn’t get to walk," said Cay Aliese, whose father died of a drug overdose last year.
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Stevie Nicks performs surprise duet with Billy Joel, pays teary tribute to Christine McVie at first 'Two Icons, One Night' tour date
“I have to imagine she’s still here. It’s all I can do,” Nicks said through tears, after dedicating "Landslide" to her late Fleetwood Mac bandmate.
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Michael Jackson video director recalls smashing MTV's color barrier with 'Billie Jean': "I thought, 'When people see this, the world is going to change'"
"I just felt this absolutely wasn't right," says director Steve Barron. "What do they mean, it 'isn't their audience'? Obviously, I was filled with suspicion about the real motives behind the nonacceptance of the video."
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Latest 'The Masked Singer' reveal is adult-contemporary heartthrob in Wolf's clothing
Robin Thicke and Nicole Scherzinger immediately recognized this two-time Grammy-winner's "velvety" "sexy," and "iconic" howl.
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Japanese-British pop star and 'John Wick 4' actress Rina Sawayama on changing awards show rules with Elton John's support: 'Either I get blacklisted for speaking out, or I get nominated'
Sawayama, who plays Elton's Oscar party this Sunday, recalls a controversy that led not only to a friendship and duet with the rock legend, but to sweeping reform of several awards shows in her country.
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'Wildest Blind Audition ever': Superstar surprises 'Voice' viewers with 'biggest performance of their entire life'
“We have an artist backstage preparing for the biggest performance of their entire life. You’re not gonna want to miss this!” Carson Daly declared Tuesday.
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Toni Basil on coaching Austin Butler for his breakthrough role: "A guy is auditioning for 'Elvis'? Cool. I know exactly what to do."
“There were no instructions. But I didn't need instructions," says Basil, who long before "Mickey" was the choreographer and "girl with the red dress on" for Presley's film 'Viva Las Vegas.'
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New Order's Peter Hook on how the best-selling 12-inch single in music history managed to lose $100,000
"Every time we sold a copy of ‘Blue Monday,’ we were losing 10p," says Hook of the new wave classic that came out 40 years ago. "I suppose it really seals its place in history as a mythical being for that reason."
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'I'm on Blake’s last team and all I got was this lousy T-shirt': Shelton bids farewell to 'The Voice,' takes on new coaches Chance the Rapper and Niall Horan
Blake mentioned this was his final season so often, new coach Niall Horan speculated it was a PR stunt and "fake retirement" — until NBC pays him "more money to come back next year!"
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Gary Rossington said emotional documentary finally told Lynyrd Skynyrd's true story: 'I cried a few times'
Many films have been made about the beleaguered Southern rock legends, but Rossington, who died March 5, said 'If I Leave Here Tomorrow' got it right.
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'God brought you back nine times for you to do something amazing': 'Golden Child' Elijah McCormick flatlined, had multiple surgeries to get to 'American Idol'
After a terrible accident, Elijah McCormick flatlined nine times, had 10 surgeries, and was hospitalized for 79 days... but he finally made it to his 'Idol' audition.
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Grandmaster Flash on shooting 'Wild Style' in his kitchen, how Blondie's 'Rapture' changed his life and why he once 'looked at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a place that would never accept us'
"People call me ‘legend’ and it scares me, because a lot of times when you are the builder of something, either you pass away or you go into obscurity,” says the hip-hop pioneer. “But here we are, 50 years later."
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Saved by the bell: Contestant ordered to keep mask on, in historic 'Masked Singer' first
“For the first time ever on this show, we got to save someone!” shouted Nicole Scherzinger, as Nick Cannon told the shocked, sobbing Medusa not to remove her scaly headdress.
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And the winner of 'America's Got Talent: All-Stars' is…
There were some shocking, even "brutal" results Monday, but in the end, this was a champion that all of America could get behind.
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'Our country has f***ing failed us!': Katy Perry emotionally reacts to school shooting survivor's story on 'American Idol'
After Trey Louis opened up about the Santa Fe High School shooting of 2018, Perry let rip a from-the-heart, expletive-riddled tirade about gun control, shouting, "This is not OK!"