Leena Tailor

“This is insane. I’m losing my mind,” AJ McLean told a sold-out crowd at Sphere Las Vegas on opening night of the Backstreet Boys’ Into the Millennium residency. “I’ve cried at least four times since we’ve been up here.”
Nick Carter was meanwhile fighting tears before he even rose onstage for 1999’s anthem “Larger Than Life,” which had audience members seemingly dancing through space while dodging meteorites thanks to Sphere’s immersive visuals. Carter talked to THR in an exclusive interview after opening night.

“Are we still in Brisbane?” I asked myself. Within an hour of checking into The Calile Hotel, I became fixated on the motley fashion spectacle unfolding in the lobby, made besties with the spirited staff, hit a pool scene reminiscent of Las Vegas, and found an American rock star on the neighboring balcony.

You might expect an extroverted, spotlight-loving 9-year-old girl would only have eyes for one role in The Little Mermaid—the lead of Ariel. But not Indy Yelich.
“I was like, ‘I don’t want to be Ariel. I want to be Ursula the sea witch!’” the 26-year-old New Zealand musician recalls, about her first acting gig. “To this day, my mum always says she knew I’d become a performer because of that performance.”

Tina Dawn’s sitting in her Nashville home introducing her chatty red rescue parrot, Scarlet, to The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom — one of hundreds of animal and avian friends she has helped save. Meanwhile, Shannon Beresford’s just wrapped a nine-date New Zealand tour and Sarah Jessica Rhodes helped save the theater that sparked her love for performing.
The common thread? The musicians all credit becoming Taylor Swift tribute artists for such achievements.

Kunal Merchant still feels odd calling himself an artist. The Houston-born Gujarati musician is part of Indo Warehouse, a South Asian music collective and label that he formed with Armaan Gupta, a.k.a. Kahani. The house act led a dazzling Coachella set which blazed the desert alight with vibrant costumes, dancers, percussionists and music.
As their music and culture colorfully burst to life in front of thousands of festival-goers, it was only afterwards they realized the enormity of the moment..

Happiness, if you ask Rob Thomas, isn’t a right. Days out from kicking off his solo tour, the Matchbox Twenty frontman’s on a high from rehearsals in Nashville, where he’s so jazzed up about returning to the road that he’s contemplating hitting the streets of Music City to grab random pedestrians to serve as an audience.
After 32 years in music, the 53-year Grammy winner clearly still finds his greatest glee in performing...

From sipping lavender gin in a palatial hotel to spotting whales in the Salish Sea and singing along to the Backstreet Boys, a trip to Victoria, Canada is one of regal charm, coastal beauty, writes Leena Tailor.

Tyler Hilton shrugged it off when his 5-year-old daughter, Winnie, became obsessed with a series introduced by a nanny. “Uh, OK … a dog family,” he thought, doubting its appeal. But as the musician and actor became unable to escape listening to Bluey’s World in the background of his Canada home, he soon found himself chuckling, impressed and engrossed.
“The parents were so relatable and mirrored the parent I wanted to be,” says the One Tree Hill star.

It’s 3.44 a.m. in the Strait of Dover and I’m lying awake on the top bunk of a tour bus parked on a ferry headed from France to the U.K. It’s been a day my 16-year-old Backstreet Boys-loving self could only have dreamed of — lunching with Howie Dorough, watching Nick Carter perform 20-year-old solo throwbacks, enjoying manicures with AJ McLean, and witnessing the group’s DNA world tourspectacle front row in Germany, before heading to London to do it all over again. And while the larger-than-l...

Walk into the unembellished black building tucked away in Morningside, Auckland, later this year and there’s no telling what musical superstars one might find. Niall Horan could be leading songwriting camps for aspiring musicians, Taylor Swift could be next door working on her next big hit and maybe Lorde will stop by downstairs to play an intimate show marking 10 years since she recorded “Royals” nearby.
The possibilities are endless as Grammy-winning musician Joel Little unveils Big Fan...

From iconic television series and apocalyptic blockbusters to magazine covers and ad campaigns, there's a reason why Malibu has served as the backdrop to such a diverse array of productions.

Serj Tankian was just 7 when he crouched inside his trembling bedroom walls, protectively hugging his little brother Sevag, as bombs exploded outside. And while the Beirut-born Armenian escaped to California, his new life presented its own battles, from immersion challenges to family lawsuits and depression.
Today, there’s little sign of the hardships of Tankian’s youth as he lights up, sharing how his nine-year-old son, Rumi, just composed his first song, and eagerly quizzes me on the best ...

Where your favorite boy bands recorded, rehearsed, filmed, dined, performed and, of course, partied while living their best lives in Los Angeles

It takes a few moments, but I gradually feel a tingle linger at the tip of my tongue before it takes over my taste buds. Sitting at the Aft Cocktail Deck, overlooking the “Lake of Dreams” at Wynn Las Vegas with my color-changing cocktail “The Monaco,” I’ve curiously been awaiting the effects of the Electricdust garnish, made from buzz buttons (a.k.a. Szechuan buttons), an edible flower that stimulates salivary glands, creating tingling and numbness.
“It’s happening!” I enthuse to a friend as ...

Interview with Jennie Garth.