November 28, 2024

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The ‘Divergent’ Cast Just Shared Their Personal Fear Landscapes: Watch

fans: Have you ever wondered what your fear landscape would include if you were lucky(?) enough to join Dauntless? Well, so have cast members Shailene Woodley and Theo James, and their deepest fears are rather... briny.

Woodley and James joined Ellie Goulding Wednesday night for the premiere of her "Beating Heart" music video — a jam from the "Divergent" soundtrack — as well as a Q&A with "MTV First."

After dropping the video, the cast and Goulding got a little deep, delving into what scares them the most. Don't expect your standard, run-of-the-mill answers like "the dark" and "falling in love again" — these three stars have some pretty bizarro bugaboos.

Check out the video below to see what gets them shivering — then head to the comments and let us know: What populates your fear landscape?

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Watch Fergie, Josh Duhamel And Baby Axl Be Adorable Down In Texas

When MTV News visited Josh Duhamel in Texas on the set of the upcoming thriller "Lost in the Sun," there was plenty he wanted to share about his latest role ... as a father, that is.

In August, Duhamel and his wife, Black Eyed Peas' star Fergie, welcomed their first child — a boy named Axl — into the world. And in the time since, the actor has discovered that parenthood is a lot more difficult that learning lines; for starters, there's no script to speak of.

"It's something that I always wanted to be, to be a dad, and finally it's here, and it's everything; it's every cliché everybody said it was going to be," Duhamel told MTV News' Josh Horowitz." And now he's starting to do stuff, it really makes it exciting. I come home from work and [Fergie's] taught him something new. He's breakdancing now; he's six months!"

Of course, Fergie and Axl were with Duhamel on the set of "Sun," something the actor was quick to point out, as he directed our cameras off into the distance, where the new mom and her baby boy were enjoying the Texas morning.

"Look at that! You won't see that every day. Pushing a stroller through a pasture, Ms. Fergie Ferg," Duhamel laughed. "She's fantastic. She's a wonderful mom, that's for sure. ... She'd never changed a diaper before this, she'd ever held an infant before this, I had because I have much younger sisters, and all my buddies have kids ... so it's been fun to watch ...

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That ‘First Kiss’ Viral Video May Have Spawned A Real Couple

Spring fever erupted bigtime this week when "First Kiss," a short film featuring 20 strangers kissing for the first time, hit the Web. Some outlets classified the video as "beautiful," others, like Slate, were quick to point out that the vid was essentially an ad featuring lots of pretty professional entertainers.

The woman behind the video, however — fashion designer Melissa Coker — opines that despite its commercial classification and dazzling cast, everything that happens in the ad is 100 percent real, which is why it has managed to racked up more than 25 million views since Monday.

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"Everyone was a volunteer," Coker said, adding that the 20 people in the video were friends of either herself, director Tatia PIlieva or her clothing brand, Wren. "It's kind of funny, the dialogue that sort of developed online and everything where people are like, 'This isn't real, there's actors in it!' It's like, 'Well, there's some people whose profession is actor, but it's L.A. after all, I can't help but have actor friends.' But everything that you see is 100% authentic and real and exactly as how the video explains it."

In the video, a series of couples — attired in Wren's Fall 2014 line — tentatively approach each other after being asked to kiss for the first time ever. The pairs circle each other awkwardly, then, for the most part, end up locking lips passionately — ass grabs and lip-biting included.

The cast includes the likes of Damian Kulash of OK GO, Z Berg of The Like and JJAMZ, models Natalia ...

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Freddie Gibbs Calls Jeezy A ‘Puppet’ For Backing Down To Rick Ross And Gucci Mane

When Freddie Gibbs split from Jeezy's CTE Records back in 2012 it wasn't on good terms, and during a recent show in Chicago, the Indiana rapper made it clear that he still has a lot more to say about it.

Gibbs signed to the label back in 2011, and told MTV News last year, "I believed in what CTE was and what Jeezy was doin,'" but that didn't last for too long.

When he performed the new song "Real" in Chicago last week, he had some scathing words for Jeezy, referencing his beef with Gucci Mane and his scuffle with Rick Ross backstage at 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards.

Though it's difficult to understand every word in the video footage, there are a few lines you can hear pretty clearly, beginning with, "You wanna be Jay Z, n----a you just a f-----g puppet."

"You say you're the realest, but Ross had you scared to drop a diss record," Gibbs spits, "You had the whole team looking weak, I guess that's why they ran up on you at BET."

And even, "Seen Gucci by himself when we were 30 deep at Magic and you didn't bust a brick." This marks the first time that Gibbs has put his resentment for Jeezy on a track, but last year he laid it all out in interviews.

"I started seein' the fake and the empty promises and all of that stuff and I just didn't wanna be around that no more," he told MTV News. "It's tough meetin' your heroes sometimes and kickin' with them because ...

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Why is Bill O’Reilly Mad At Obama And Beyoncé?

Bill O'Reilly has had enough, and it's only Wednesday.

The Fox News pundit has spent the first two nights of the week working himself into a lather — as he is wont to do — over a pair of perceived evils that threaten not only the future of our Republic, but our children (think of the children!): Beyoncé's and President Barack Obama's appearance on

On Monday's "O'Reilly Factor," Bill spoke to Russell Simmons about "harmful entertainment marketed to largely unsupervised children" (and also Simmons' new book, "Success Through Stillness") when abruptly banked right and brought up Bey's sultry "Partition" vid, which, in his opinion "Glorifies having sex in the back of a limousine."

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"Teenage girls look up to Beyoncé ... why on earth would this woman do that? When she knows [about] the devastation [of] unwanted pregnancies and fractured families," O'Reilly said. "I believe an entertainer like Beyoncé [has] an obligation to protect children, not put out exploitive garbage ... what she's done here is inexplicable."

To his credit, Simmons attempted to explain the inexplicable, pointing out that, in essence, Beyoncé was flipping decades-old gender stereotypes with the video — "There's research that says that a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds, so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music, it's a reflection of our reality," he said. "If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core." — but Bill was having none of it, incredulously calling into question Bey's art, and closing out the ...

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Coldplay Tell Four New <I>Ghost Stories</I> During SXSW Gig

Coldplay couldn't wait to perform some new material from their upcoming Ghost Stories album on Tuesday night during the kick-off to the iTunes Festival at SXSW.

In fact, they were so eager, they opened their 11-song set at the Moody Theater at "Austin City Limits Live" in downtown Austin with the first tune on Stories, "Always in My Head."

During the gig, singer Chris Martin told the crowd, "We've been away a long time and I can't think of a better way to come back into the world than in the intimate surroundings of Austin and just a couple of hundred people and the millions watching at home." The gig was streamed live on iTunes as part of the kick-off to a five-night event that will also feature concerts from Kendrick Lamar and Schoolboy Q, Soundgarden, Pitbull, Zedd and Keith Urban.

The band also gifted the crowd with the live debut of the recently released spare, Radiohead-like track "Magic" and previously unheard songs "Another's Arms" and the aforementioned "Always In My Head."


The set, which included crowd-pleasers such as "Paradise," "Clocks," "Viva La Vida" and "Fix You," ended with the Stories lead track,

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