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US music stars Ashanti and Nelly have revealed they are engaged and are expecting their first child together.
The award-winning performers – who first dated over 20 years ago – rekindled their romance last year.
They first met at the Grammy Awards in 2003, and dated for a decade before going their separate ways.
The stars pictured in 2011, during their first relationship. Pic: AP
Ashanti shared a video on Instagram, saying she’ll need “about nine months” to prepare for her next big gig.
Nelly also shared the post, which was captioned, “Baby baby baby baby”, on his official Instagram feed.
In the video, Ashanti’s mother, Tina Douglas, asks her how much time Ashanti will need to get ready for the show.
We see the Foolish singer, who is wearing a glittery outfit trimmed with fur, grabbing a pregnancy test and disappearing backstage, before replying: “I’m going to need about nine months.”
The 43-year-old later confirmed she is engaged to the Hot In Herre and Ride Wit Me rapper Nelly, 49, whose real name is Cornell Haynes Jr.
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‘Sharing this with my family, fiance’
“This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipation,” Ashanti told Essence magazine.
“Motherhood is something that I have looked forward to, and sharing this with my family, fiance, and loyal fans, who have been so supportive of my career, is an amazing experience.”
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The baby will be Ashanti’s first child and Nelly’s fifth.
Nelly has a daughter and a son with his former partner, Channetta Valentine, and he adopted the two children of his late sister, Jackie Donahue, after she died of leukaemia in 2005.
The rapper’s family starred in the reality TV show Nellyville in 2014 alongside his then girlfriend Shantel Jackson.
Samantha Davis, the wife of Star Wars and Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis, has died aged 53.
Samantha co-founded the dwarfism charity Little People UK and featured in the final Harry Potter film, alongside Warwick.
Warwick announced the news in a statement shared to the BBC, revealing she had died on 24 March.
“Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs.
“She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life she had a wicked sense of humour and always laughed at my bad jokes.”
He added that she was his “most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”.
Their two children together, Annabelle and Harrison, also paid tribute to their mother, saying: “Her love and happiness carried us through our whole lives.
“Mum is our best friend and we’re honoured to have received a love like hers.”
The couple met on the set of George Lucas’s film Willow and married three years later in 1991.
(L-R) Harrison Davis, Warwick Davis, Samantha Davis and Annabelle Davis at the screening of Disney+ series Willow in 2022. Pic: PA
Samantha also played a goblin in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 while her husband played both Professor Flitwick and the goblin Griphook in all eight films in the franchise.
Annabelle, 27, has followed in her parents’ acting footsteps, starring in CBBC’s The Dumping Ground and Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks.
Warwick starred as the titular hero Willow Ufgood in the 1988 original film Willow and reprised the role for the 2022 sequel.
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He also played several characters in the Star Wars film series.
Samantha and Warwick co-founded Little People UK in 2012 to help individuals with dwarfism and their families.
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New ‘Drake song’ causes confusion as listeners question whether AI or the rapper is behind it
A new ‘leaked’ song thought to be by Drake is causing confusion among fans, with some questioning whether it is him or an AI clone.
The new song appeared on the internet over the weekend, supposedy after being leaked.
In it, the Canadian rapper seems to hit out at other musicians including Kendrick Lamar and Metro Boomin.
However, fans aren’t sure if it is actually him.
“This is clearly AI,” posted one user on X.
The song hasn’t been officially released and some listeners say they can hear small glitches in his vocal track that suggest it could have been generated by artificial intelligence.
Drake’s AI clone has history.
In 2023, an AI-generated track that recreated the voices of Drake and artist The Weeknd went viral on TikTok.
The song, called Heart On My Sleeve, was created by an artist known as Ghostwriter.
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It racked up more than 230,000 plays on YouTube, with more than 625,000 plays on Spotify, according to industry news website Music Business Worldwide, before it was removed from streaming platforms.
At the time, Universal Music Group, which publishes both artists through Republic Records, said songs like Heart On My Sleeve “represent both a breach of our agreements and a violation of copyright law”.
Drake isn’t helping the current confusion.
He hasn’t claimed the track but has been posting about it on Instagram.
He even posted an AI deepfake of rap producer Metro Boomin in a clip from the 2002 film Drumline, which appears to be a reference to one of the lines in the song, “Metro, shut your h*e ass up and make some drums”.
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Sky News approached Universal Music for confirmation of the song’s authenticity but is yet to receive a response.
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