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Kim Kardashian kisses Emma Roberts in trailer to 'American Horror Story: Delicate - Part 2'

FX has dropped the trailer to the second installment of American Horror Story: Delicate, complete with a quick introduction by star Kim Kardashian.

The teaser shows Emma Roberts' Anna getting increasingly creeped out — and creepy — as her pregnancy develops.

"Something's happening to me," she says as she bites into an animal bone at a restaurant, to the shock of Kim's character, Siobhan, a high-powered publicist.

Another moment has Roberts giving birth to a spider from her baby bump.

"I'm going to give you the life of your dreams," Kim later tells her. "What would [you] give up for it?"

"Anything," Roberts replies, to which Siobhan leans in and kisses Anna.

It only gets more intense from there, with Anna expressing of an Oscar, "I don't know if I can keep campaigning for this award," only to be answered with a smack across the face from Kim's character.

"I will never let you say another word about quitting," Siobhan says.

However, the statement is not all about her career: There's a cult after her unborn baby. Anna finds herself tortured by visions and surrounded by women dressed like witches, including Cara Delevigne's Nurse Ivy and Siobhan.

"You're a monster!" Anna tells her.

"Oh no, babe, I'm so much worse," Kim purrs.

American Horror Story: Delicate Part 2 premieres Wednesday, April 3, at 10 p.m. ET on FX.

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Renée Rapp visits 'Sesame Street': "I will always ... ride for Elmo”

Someone seemingly told Reneé Rapp how to get to Sesame Street.

The "Not My Fault" singer shared video and photo on Instagram showing that she recently got to visit the set of the iconic children's show. She's grinning and snuggling with Elmo in the post, which she captioned, "mom I was literally on Sesame Street."

Reneé also posted a photo of her as a toddler, wearing a pair of Elmo shoes. On her Instagram Story, according to Billboard, she wrote, "My dad had to repair the bottoms of those slippers 3 times because I insisted on wearing them out of the house as a kid."

"Let’s get it clear," she added. "I will always f****** ride for elmo.”

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Report: Justin Timberlake's new tour will be his biggest yet

Justin Timberlake's upcoming Forget Tomorrow World Tour is shaping up to be a big one.

Insiders tell Hits Daily Double that the tour, which kicks off April 29 in Vancouver and then returns to North America for another leg on October 4 in Montreal, has become the fastest-selling one of Justin's career. Dozens of dates are already sold out, and more than 1 million tickets have been sold in North America and Europe.

The tour is also expected to be Justin's highest-grossing tour of his career: It's expected to take in $140 million for the 70+ shows he has scheduled.

Justin's been previewing the tour with intimate free shows in various cities. His March 13 show in LA made headlines because he staged a *NSYNC reunion, bringing the rest of the group out to sing a few of their classic hits plus their new collaboration, "Paradise."

Justin's new album, Everything I Thought It Was, which came out on March 15, is expected to debut in the top five on the Billboard 200.

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Conan O'Brien "makes it weird" in trailer to travel show 'Conan O'Brien Must Go'

Having transitioned from late-night host to head of a podcasting empire, Conan O'Brien is stretching his long legs in the trailer to Max's new travel show Conan O'Brien Must Go.

The coming attraction features a voiceover from Werner Herzog, who intones, "Earth. To truly appreciate the outstanding grandeur, sometimes you must defile it. Behold the defiler," revealing O'Brien in full Viking regalia.

The streaming service says the four-episode series "will feature O'Brien visiting new friends he's met through his podcast, Conan O’Brien Needs a Fan, where he dives deep with listeners from across the country and the world."

To that end, Conan is seen taking part in some Muay Thai kickboxing training in Thailand, slinging some cod in Norway and finding out his fame hasn't translated to a "Conan" name boom in Ireland.

He also tangles about the proper pronunciation of "tango" with his former frequent Conan foil Jordan Schlansky in the dance's native home of Argentina.

The show streams April 18 on Max.

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In teaser to 'Alien: Romulus', everyone can hear you scream

On Wednesday, 20th Century Studios released a teaser trailer to Alien: Romulus, the latest incarnation of the sci-fi franchise started by Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien.

Promising to get the franchise "back to its roots," the studio teases, "While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe."

The sneak peek begins with a creepy tracking shot inside that station along with the screams of its occupants. "Help me! Get it away from me!" a woman shouts. "I don't know what it is!" a panicked man replies.

The camera stops moving and focuses on one of the franchise's cryo-sleep tubes, broken and slathered with blood, before a voice says, "Run."

The teaser then cuts to frenetic clips of the salvagers trying to escape an infestation of facehuggers, the skittering life forms that can fatally impregnate an organism with a baby "chestburster" alien, as well as spooky, siren light-lit shots familiar to fans of Alien and its 1986 sequel Aliens.

Ridley Scott produced the new film, directed by Fede Álvarez, who called the shots on 2016's micro-budgeted horror blockbuster Don't Breathe.

The film's cast includes Priscilla's Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced from The Last of Us, Aftersun's Spike Fearn, and Shadow and Bone's Archie Renaux.

Alien: Romulus invades theaters August 16.

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Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus concert films to screen in theaters as part of new "Disney 2000" campaign

If your nostalgia for the Disney Channel back in the day is strong, then you'll be thrilled to find out about a new initiative that just launched: "Disney 2000."

The initiative celebrates all the music that the Disney Channel gave us back in the 2000s, from artists like Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Jessie McCartney, Hilary Duff, The Cheetah Girls, Corbin Bleu and more. In fact, Disney songs from the 2000s have racked up more than 30 billion streams. You can listen to a Disney 2000s playlist featuring many of these artists now -- it's one of three that are planned.

Plus, there will be a special three-day celebration at Hollywood's El Capitan Theatre on April 19, 20 and 21 with screenings of three major concert films: Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, Hannah Montana: The Movie and Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds. You can buy tickets for the screenings at elcapitantheatre.com/showings/disney-2000s.

The campaign also includes social media posts and multiple collectible vinyl releases, including Hilary Duff’s Metamorphosis, available at disneymusicemporium.com.

Disney is the parent company of ABC Audio.

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Captain America and Black Panther go retro and toe-to-toe in video game '1943: Rise of Hydra'

On Wednesday, Epic Games and Marvel Entertainment released a trailer for a forthcoming World War II-set video game starring Captain America and Black Panther.

1943: The Rise of Hydra has both super-powered heroes separately hunting for The Eye of Force, a fearsome development made by Hydra, the rogue Nazi deep science division headed by Red Skull in the comics and on the big screen in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.

However, Cap is also hunting for the "six-foot cat man with claws that can cut through vibranium alloy" -- that is, Azzuri, who wore the warrior-king mantel of Black Panther before his grandson, King T'Challa.

The cinematic trailer shows both heroes on the streets and on the rooftops above Nazi-occupied France until they come face to face on a bridge. "Stand aside," Cap warns the Wakandan hero. "I do not take orders from ANYONE!" Azzuri howls, before they leap at each other.

According to Marvel, the title features "an ensemble of four heroes playable at different points in the game," including Gabriel Jones, a U.S. soldier and member of Cap's Howling Commandos, and Nanali, an embedded Wakandan spy.

As their "worlds collide," the characters "must overcome their differences and form an uneasy alliance to confront their common enemy," the company teases.

The title from Epic Games is slated for a 2025 release.

Marvel is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

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Dua Lipa: No, Mermaid Barbie didn't inspire my new aesthetic

Dua Lipa's been promoting her new album, Radical Optimism, with a lot of videos and photos of her in and under the water, but believe it or not, none of this imagery has anything to do with the fact that she played Mermaid Barbie in the Barbie movie last year.

The cover of the album shows her standing in an ocean with a shark approaching, and in the album trailer, there's video of her swimming underwater. She also posted photos of herself swimming underwater with the caption, "Sometimes you gotta be in deep waters to find yourself."

Speaking to Rolling Stone about whether or not all this watery stuff is a call back to Barbie, Dua says, "No, but I feel like I’m never going to let go of these mermaid allegations, it seems!"

"I just love to be underwater. That wasn’t the inspo, but I love that it all trickled into it together, all these different parts of me and my journey that have brought me to this point," she adds. "If that’s mermaid Barbie, then so be it!"

Fans also wonder if the album cover is a reference to the fact that Harry Houdini -- the legendary magician who inspired the title of her hit "Houdini" -- once had plans to fight a shark. Nope, says Dua.

"It actually wasn’t intentional," she explains. "I do love the little connections that all the fans make because, to be honest, it sometimes surprises me."

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Former Nickelodeon producer responds to 'Quiet on Set' docuseries: "I am so sorry"

Dan Schneider is responding to the allegations against him in the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

The four-part series on Max includes interviews with former child stars from Nickelodeon shows like All That and The Amanda Show and explores claims about Schneider fostering a toxic work environment.

In an interview with former iCarly actor BooG!e, the former television creator said the docuseries made him feel "awful and regretful and sorry."

"I wish I could go back ... and just do a better job and never, ever feel like it was OK to be an a****** ever," Schneider professes.

Another allegation he addressed was his alleged use of inappropriate jokes on his many shows.

"Every one of those jokes was written for a kid audience because kids thought they were funny," Schneider insists. "Now, we have some adults looking back at them 20 years later through their lens, and ... saying, 'I don't think that's appropriate for a kid show.'"

"The last thing I want to ever do is put any content in a show that's going to upset my audience and make them want to turn off the TV," he added.

One of the biggest revelations from the docuseries was that former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell said he was the John Doe minor in the 2003 child sexual abuse case against his former dialogue coach Brian Peck.

Peck was arrested in 2003 and charged with 11 counts, including lewd acts with a child and sexual abuse of a minor. He pleaded guilty to two of the counts, was sentenced to 16 months in prison and was ordered to register as a sex offender.

Schneider said he spoke to Bell and was "devastated by that more than anything that ever happened to me in my career thus far."

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Travis Kelce sings "Bad Blood," raves about Justin Timberlake concert on new podcast episode

While Taylor Swift doesn't talk to the public much -- except for what she says onstage -- her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, does every week on his New Heights podcast. On the latest episode, which dropped March 20, Travis decided to show off his, um, musical talents by singing a line from one of Taylor's hits.

On the podcast, Travis and his brother, Jason Kelce, were discussing the fact that quarterback Kenny Pickett has been traded from the Pittsburgh Steelers to Jason's former team, the Philadelphia Eagles. While talking about how Pickett wasn't happy during his time with the Steelers, Travis said, "Kenny and the Steelers — their relationship ended in a little bad blood.” Of course, he sang the words "Bad Blood" to the tune of Taylor's hit song of the same name -- and he was actually pretty much in tune.

And in other Travis Kelce pop music news, he also talked about attending his pal Justin Timberlake's March 13 show in LA, during which JT brought out *NSYNC for a few numbers.

"Everybody knows I'm a huge JT fan. ... JT always makes unbelievable music," said Travis. "He was playing a bunch of renditions of his old classics, absolute bangers, it was so cool to see him play some of my favorites, man, and then on top of that, a handful of his new stuff, as well as his new hit single with *NSYNC."

"It was a fun evening ... anytime you can see Justin Timberlake perform, I suggest you buy the ticket," Travis added. He said he'd try to join Justin at his upcoming golf outing in Las Vegas in a few weeks.

Travis likely recorded the podcast before he and Taylor took off on a well-deserved vacation. Sources tell US Weekly that the two are in The Bahamas.

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