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Monday 27 March 2023
Adele extends Las Vegas residency, plans concert film

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Adele The June performances will
announced Sunday that be recorded and released
she's extending her Las Ve- as a concert special.
gas residency with 34 more Adele ended speculation
dates between June and about her future at the Col-
November and also plans osseum, telling a sold-out
to release a concert film. crowd Saturday night that
Saturday night's show was she will be back in June
the last performance in and mentioning the con-
the British singer's original cert film, the Las Vegas Re-
"Weekends With Adele" se- view-Journal reported.
ries that covered 34 dates "Playing to 4,000 people for
since last November on the 34 dates is not enough, and
Las Vegas Strip. I know that," Adele said. "So
Her representatives said I am coming back for a few
Adele's shows will resume weeks in June, and I'm go-
at the Colosseum at Cae- ing to release it to make
sars Palace on June 16 and sure anyone who wants to
run through Nov. 4. see this show can see it."q

Mexican kid’s comic

Xavier López, ‘Chabelo,’

FILE - Adele appears at the Brit Awards 2022 in London on Feb. 8, 2022. Adele has announced that dies at 88

she’s extending her Las Vegas residency with 34 more dates between June and November and
also plans to release a concert film. Saturday night’s show was the last performance in the British MEXICO CITY (AP) —
singer's original “Weekends With Adele” series that covered 34 dates since last November on the Xavier López, a Mexican
Las Vegas Strip. children’s comic better
(Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
known by his stage name
“Chabelo,” has died at
Army pulls recruiting ads after 88, President Andrés Man-
uel López Obrador wrote
Jonathan Majors’ arrest Saturday.
López’s best-known work,
the Sunday variety show
WASHINGTON (AP) — The “En Familia con Chabe-
arrest of actor Jonathan lo”, ran for an astonish-
Majors has upended the ing 48 years from 1967 to
Army's newly launched 2015, Mexico’s longest-
advertising campaign that running TV show.
was aimed at reviving the The Mexican president Xavier "Chabelo" Lopez
service's struggling recruit- wrote in his Twitter ac- smiles during an event in
ing numbers. count that his own eldest Mexico City, Thursday, Aug.
Majors, who authorities said son, José Ramón, “woke 7, 2014. Lopez, a Mexican
was arrested Saturday in up early to see him (on children’s comic better
New York on charges of television) more than 40 known by his stage name
“Chabelo,” died at the
strangulation, assault and years ago.” age of 88, President Andres
harassment, was the narra- López, who was no rela- Manuel Lopez Obrador
tor of two ads at the heart tion to the president, usu- wrote Saturday, March 25,
of a broader media cam- ally performed dressed 2023.
paign that kicked off at the FILE - Jonathan Majors arrives at the premiere of "Creed III" on in kid’s clothing well into (Saul Lopez/Cuartoscuro
start of the NCAA's March Feb. 27, 2023, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. The arrest his 80s. He helped found via AP)
Madness college basket- of actor Majors on Saturday, March 25, 2023, has upended the a genre of adult com-
ball tournament. Army’s newly launched advertising campaign that was aimed ics dressed as kids that
Army leaders were hope- at reviving the service’s struggling recruiting numbers. became a staple for de- A U.S. citizen — he was
(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
ful that the popularity of cades on Mexican televi- born in Chicago to Mexi-
the star of the recently re- that we pull our ads until ing Majors and that the ac- sion. can parents — López re-
leased "Creed III" and "Ant- the investigation into these tor "is provably the victim of His longevity — he per- turned to Mexico with his
Man and The Wasp: Quan- allegations is complete." an altercation with a wom- formed in a child’s raspy family at a young age
tumania," would help them New York City police said an he knows." squeak throughout his ca- and trained as a doctor.
reach the youth audience. the actor was involved in The Army ads, titled "Over- reer — led to joking spec- But he found his calling in
In a statement Sunday, the a domestic dispute with a coming Obstacles" and ulation he would outlive acting.
Army's Enterprise Marketing 30-year-old woman. "The "Pushing Tomorrow," are everyone else in show The comic’s family wrote
Office said that the Army victim informed police part of the plan to revive business. on his fan page that
was aware of Majors' ar- she was assaulted," a po- the Army's "Be All You Can López’s agent, Jessica López “died suddenly of
rest and was "deeply con- lice spokesperson said in be" motto. They highlight- Nevilley, said he died Sat- abdominal complica-
cerned by the allegations." a statement. A lawyer for ed the history of the Army urday morning. A private tions.”
It added that while Majors Majors, Priya Chaudhry, and some of the many pro- funeral will be held for him He was survived by sever-
"is innocent until proven said in a statement Sunday fessions that recruits can later Saturday. al children and his wife.q
guilty, prudence dictates there was evidence clear- pursue.q