“I really love love songs. I feel like they’re the best way to have a human express true emotion,” Cynthia Erivo says, so she’s built a whole concert set list around them. “I love ballads. I love music that allows people to feel emotion. My intention was to use the night to tell love stories. I wanted to find pieces that were wonderful representations of how we as human beings love.

Derek Hough. Less than a day after taping the semifinals of Dancing With the Stars, judge Derek Hough tested positive for COVID-19. Hough, who is in his second season judging the show, announced the news in an Instagram video on Tuesday, November 16. Hough said he is vaccinated and currently in quarantine. “I feel okay, I feel strong, but I am currently taking advice from medical professionals, doing everything I can to get better as fast as I can,” he added in the video.

Bobby Cannavale gamely took the stage with a homeless dog at the Broadway Barks adopt-a-thon on Saturday, but had no plans to take home a pooch himself, even though event co-founder Bernadette Peters told the New York Post that he just might. “She’s wrong. I’m not going to adopt a dog,” he insisted to us at the afternoon event, sandwiched between the matinee and evening shows of his play, Motherfucker With the Hat.

“I don’t have a house, but I’m looking for one. I just want to make sure it’s not haunted. I’m not just saying this to try to sound crazy, like, ‘Oh, I’m such a crazy pop star, I’m haunted,’ but actually, almost every night I have some psycho dream of the same ghost, either in my face, strangling me, smacking me, shoving me, or just hanging out. Sometimes he’s just there, scaring me, being an asshole.

You might think that Kelly Clarkson, queen of Kellyoke covers, would be good at Name That Tune, or at least specifically at naming her own tune, or at the very least at recognizing the opening riff of her most famous tune, “Since U Been Gone.” But no! She is not as good as Anne Hathaway. In fact, watching the above clip, it seems that nobody will ever be as good as Anne Hathaway at naming that tune because there are just a few things that are certain about Anne Hathaway: She actually goes by Annie, she loves to sing, and she loves to win.

And on this day, we thank the gods of platonic relationships on TV for realizing that The Bear’s Carmy and Sydney (Carmney?) are not destined to be. In a recent Variety profile of the two actors, both the cast and the creators of the show kiboshed the idea of a romantic relationship between the two characters. “I know there are people who are very invested in that, and I understand and I appreciate it, but it was not that for me,” Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney, said of the relationship.

Drake and 21. Drake and 21 Savage have finally served what they’ve been cooking up with the release of their joint album, Her Loss. The album comes after a week’s delay, due to Drake’s producer 40 catching COVID-19 while mastering, and a brief promotional cycle involving fake press opportunities. It’s the latest in a string of collabs from the rappers, after 21 stole the show on Drake’s “Jimmy Cooks” earlier this year and joined Drake on 2021’s “Knife Talk.

Drake & Josh’s Drake Bell is publicly coming forward in a new documentary and alleging that he was sexually abused as a child star by Nickelodeon dialogue coach Brian Peck. A recent teaser confirms that Bell was interviewed for the upcoming Investigation Discovery series Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV, which focuses on conditions of shows created by Dan Schneider in the ’90s and early 2000s.

At the world premiere of the The Adjustment Bureau at the Ziegfeld Theater, Vulture caught up with Emily Blunt, who plays a ballet dancer in the movie, and asked about her training. “It was really intense,” Blunt explained. “I did two hours in a dance studio and two hours in the gym every day for two months before the movie, and then during the movie whenever I could. And then a really tedious diet, which was the worst part for me.

According to Variety, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton will be releasing a new “anti-lockdown” song next month, at precisely the moment many cities are shutting down once again to stave off a climb in COVID-19 cases, to support Morrison’s “Save Live Music” campaign. The track, titled “Stand and Deliver,” was written by the “Brown-Eyed Girl” singer and will be performed by Clapton. Morrison also previously released three “anti-lockdown” songs earlier this fall, including “Born to Be Free,” “As I Walked Out,” and (in case you weren’t clear on the message of the musician’s most recent work) “No More Lockdown.