Ariana Grande to open 2018 Billboard Music Awards show
US POP star Ariana Grande is set to serve as the opening act for the 2018 Billboard Music Awards, which will take place in Las Vegas on May 20.
Grande, who fi rst revealed news of her Billboard Awards gig on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” will deliver a performance of music from her upcoming LP during the televised event.
The news comes shortly after Grande revealed the single “No Tears Left to Cry,” her fi rst new music since her 2016 album “Dangerous Woman.” Her Manchester show while on tour supporting that album became the site of a terrorist attack which she alludes to in the uplifting track.
Last week, the singer took to social media to tease another upcoming track, this apparently titled “R.E.M.”
At the awards ceremony, Grande will join already announced performers BTS, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa and Shawn Mendes.
Kelly Clarkson is set to host the Billboard Music Awards, which will be broadcast live on NBC in the US from MGM Grand Garden Arena beginning at 8pm Eastern time. — Relaxnews one lawsuit, and he sued fi rst.
The Eliases on Wednesday fi led a cross- complaint alleging breaches of written agreement, the covenant of good faith and fair dealing and fiduciary duty.
“After they had worked on the project for eight years, Gere decided he wanted to do the project himself — despite the 50/50 joint venture agreement,” attorney Jeffrey Valle said in a Wednesday statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Instead of working out a buyout, however, he fi led a lawsuit against them, falsely claiming that they were trying to extort money from him — when they were simply trying to negotiate a fair buy- out of their rights in the project.”
According to the crosscomplaint, Gere and the Eliases were to share creative control but the actor became “increasingly indecisive” and began cutting the producers out of the project. When the dispute “came to a head” last year, Gere offered to pay US$ 50,000 to buy the Eliases out, which they say is significantly less than their out of pocket costs and the value of the project.
“This case is about Richard Gere’s attempt to steal a project that he does not own, and does not want to pay for,” writes Valle in the fi ling.