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Sabrina Carpenter on “Short n’ Sweet”
At just over five feet tall, Sabrina Carpenter is one of the giants of the pop world. Her latest album, “Short n’ Sweet,” debuted at #1. But that’s not the half of it: Her first three singles – “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste” – all hit the top five of Billboard’s Hot 100 in the same week. The only other music act to do that was The Beatles back in 1964.
It’s a testament to her talent, and the will to keep going no matter what.
“Sunday Morning” met Carpenter at a rehearsal studio in rural Pennsylvania, not far from where she grew up – a place to practice her stage show in relative privacy away from the paparazzi. She said it feels like home to her: “The air is better, the water’s better, the bread’s better.”
Her new concert stage is a giant dollhouse, with a piano, a fireplace, a bedroom, and a long, curved staircase that she navigates in heels.
There’s also an army of support people behind the scenes, but the show itself is all Sabrina. Beneath all the frilly outfits is a backbone of steel.
Asked what might be the biggest misconception about her, Carpenter laughed, “How much time do we have? I think a misperception is that I don’t write my music. I think a lot of people think because I have, you know, a producer and co-writers that I love, that I’m sitting in the room on my phone, not writing songs.”
In fact, she wrote or co-wrote all of her recent songs.
At just 25, with her clever lyrics playing everywhere and her face on the image head to toe on the latest issue of Time magazine, Sabrina Carpenter seems to have just exploded on the music scene. But it took her more than a decade to get here.
She’s one of four girls born to Elizabeth and David Carpenter, and young Sabrina showed a love of music early on. “They never told me to ‘stop singing,’” she said. “And I think that, like, psychologically, really probably helped me.”
She started posting singing videos on YouTube, and then at 13 she earned a part in the Disney Channel’s “Girl Meets World.” She also kept making music, and by 2020 had already recorded four albums when she landed the lead role in Tina Fey’s Broadway hit, “Mean Girls.” It would be a turning point in her career, but not like she’d hoped.
“I rehearsed for about three months in New York, and we opened our first two nights, and then COVID humbled me – humbled me very quickly!” she laughed. “Like, I was sent home, and just was like, Wow. I feel like I could do eight shows a week, you know, and I’ve been training for it. And now it’s just, like, silence.”
But the silence was a blessing. Hunkered down at home, Carpenter crafted her deeply personal album, “Emails I Can’t Send.” And when it was released in 2022 it launched her to the next level of fame.
“Nonsense,” from the album “Emails I Can’t Send”:
She’s learned to live her life under the celebrity microscope. For the past year she’s been dating Irish actor Barry Keoghan, who made a splash in the Oscar-nominated “Banshees of Inisherin.” Last spring Carpenter cast Keoghan as her no-good boyfriend in the music video for her hit “Please Please Please”:
Please please please don’t prove I’m right
Please please please
Don’t bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice
Despite a wish to keep her personal life personal, Carpenter credited her “not-even-biased opinion” for casting Keoghan: “I was like, ‘Who’s the greatest actor that I can find for this music video?’ And he was next to me in a chair. And he was so excited about it, and he likes the song, which is great, he’s a fan of the song. He does like my music a lot, yeah.”
He’s not alone. Her shows now sell out night after night, something she got a taste of when she opened for Taylor Swift’s blockbuster “Eras” tour last year.
It’s a lot for any 25-year-old, and through it all she credits her mother for helping keep herself grounded. “She’s so selfless, and has been that way her whole life with me and my sisters,” Carpenter said. “I love her so much!”
Asked for the best advice her mom gave her, Carpenter replied, “Not to take everything so seriously all the time. So, that’s been really helpful. … My mom’s such a positive person. I don’t think she’s ever made me feel like what I was doing was too much, ever.”
Carpenter is now eight shows into an international tour, and as her profile keeps growing, so does the pressure. “There’s always gonna be stress, there’s always going to be anxiety, there’s always gonna be drama,” she said. “But for me, like, being able to laugh about it is really important. So, I would say that. And also caffeine. Because without caffeine, I wouldn’t be doing this interview right now!”
Sabrina Carpenter performs “Espresso”:
You can stream the Sabrina Carpenter album “Short n’ Sweet” by clicking on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):
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Story produced by John D’Amelio. Editor: Lauren Barnello.
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Emmerdale villager in tears as Zak Dingle’s heartbreaking death is finally confirmed in emotional scenes
AN Emmerdale resident broke down in tears as they had to reveal Zak Dingle’s heartbreaking death in tonight’s episode.
Actor Steve Halliwell previously passed away at the age of 77 in December 2023 after a period of ill health.
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On tonight’s edition of Emmerdale, his on-screen alter ego died off-screen, which left fans devastated.
It was up to Moira (Natalie J Robb) to break the news after she suffered a horrific burn that morning.
She was attempting to cook Matty (Ash Palmisciano) a hearty breakfast before she suffered from a small seizure.
Her wrist was caught on the side of the pan after her son warned her against potentially strenuous activity.
Cain (Jeff Hordley) unexpectedly returned to the village early from his trip to Scotland after he visited Debbie (Charley Webb) and Zak.
He revealed that his father was supposedly doing better before he went for a lie down.
Just after Cain left the kitchen, Moira then received a frantic call from Debbie, who revealed the tragic news.
When Cain awoke from his slumber, he noticed that Moira was slouching over the kitchen table in tears.
Although he initially thought it had something to do with her brain tumour, Moira told him it was something else entirely.
He was left in utter shock by her message as she relayed Debbie’s heartbreaking news.
But Cain was not the only person who was shocked by the news, as it seems that ITV soap fans were also left devastated.
Taking to X – formerly known as Twitter – one user wrote: “Zak will be missed always.”
Moira Barton’s biggest Emmerdale storylines
Played by Natalie J. Robb, Moira has become one of Emmerdale’s most prominent characters since her debut in 2009.
AFFAIR WITH CAIN DINGLE
In October 2011, Moira began an affair with Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley), whom she had previously loathed.
At the time, she was married to first husband and childhood sweetheart John (James Thornton).
JOHN’S DEATH
In the characters’ backstory, John and Moira had been married since 1990. They shared three children: Adam, Hannah (now Matty) and Holly.
While John struggled to forgive Moira’s infidelity, he also realised he couldn’t live without her.
Ultimately, the character of John was written out by having a car accident and fatal cardiac arrest.
Afterwards, Moira and Cain began a relationship and later married.
ADAM’S PATERNITY
It transpired that Cain was not the first man that Moira had an affair with.
She previously slept with John’s brother James (Bill Ward) – with the revelation that he is her son Adam’s biological father.
MURDER OF EMMA BARTON
James’ estranged wife Emma (Gillian Kearney) was introduced as a soap villain, reuniting with her clan after two decades.
In October 2017, Emma was killed off in a who-dunnit storyline after being pushed off a viaduct.
She reappeared one last time in December 2017 for a flashback, where her killer was revealed to be archenemy Moira.
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Saturday night’s episode of Strictly Come Dancing marked a major milestone for this season. Love Island star Tasha Ghouri, who is paired up with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec, received the first “10” score of the 2024 competition, clocking up a near-perfect total of 39 for her Coachella-themed, selfie stick-waving Charleston, a seriously impressive feat just four weeks into the live shows. And yet this victorious moment has been overshadowed by two brief interactions that took place away from the dance floor – and they were so fleeting that you might well have missed them the first time around. The storm of conjecture they have prompted is perhaps the first sign that Strictly’s post-scandal era will prove very tricky indeed to navigate.
Towards the end of the show, the celebrities and their professional partners gathered in the “Clauditorium” – the upstairs area where host Claudia Winkleman chats to the contestants in between performances – before the voting lines opened, just as they do every week. This time, though, dancer Katya Jones was captured on camera as she appeared to move opera singer Wynne Evans’s hand off her midriff and onto her hip. Earlier in the programme, she seemed to reject a high five from her partner. Seeing these two incidents in quick succession moved viewers to start speculating about whether Jones was feeling uneasy. Social media was soon awash with comments from Strictly fans: “Something is off,” one Twitter/X viewer claimed, while others described the interaction as “uncomfortable”.
The pair quickly moved to shut down the rumour mill, sharing an Instagram video in which they said they were “just messing around”. In his post, Evans wrote the high fives were a “running joke” between them. Jones, a Strictly veteran of eight years, later doubled down with another video on Sunday, describing the row as “quite absurd” and asking fans to focus their attention on Evans’s “amazing” progress in the competition. “Even the idea that it made me feel uncomfortable or offended me in any way is complete nonsense,” she said. And this morning, Evans discussed the matter on his BBC Radio Wales show, revealing he had been left “heartbroken by the things that have been written about [him]” and again referring to the moment as “a stupid joke that went wrong”, one which “has been totally misinterpreted”. Reports have suggested that the show’s welfare team have checked in on the pair, and no further action is planned.
In the wake of the backstage drama that has gripped Strictly this year, it seems inevitable that viewers will be on high alert for any whisper of behind-the-scenes strife, real or imagined. Last month, the BBC published the results of its probe into past contestant Amanda Abbington’s complaints levelled at former-pro Giovanni Pernice. The corporation upheld complaints relating to verbal bullying and harassment, but found that Pernice had not been physically aggressive, and also issued an apology to Abbington. Before that, over the summer, dancer Graziano Di Prima left Strictly, later admitting to having kicked his celebrity partner Zara McDermott during a rehearsal.
Although the long-running investigation may have wrapped up, it has cast a definite shadow over the usually sparkling proceedings. This shadow has proved hard to shake off, despite the fact that Strictly seems to have adopted a business-as-usual approach (the row hasn’t yet been alluded to on the show, although chaperones are now present during dance rehearsals and welfare protocols have been bolstered). Against this backdrop, it’s hardly surprising that fans are perhaps reading into any unusual onscreen interactions more closely than they might have done a few years ago: right now, everything that happens on air is being viewed through the prism of past scandals.
Perhaps because we didn’t see the tension brewing last season before it exploded into the press, we’ve become obsessed with sleuthing on any purported signs of discontent. In the wake of such controversy, this 20th anniversary season of Strictly was always going to be a difficult one for the show, for precisely this reason: both the media and the fans are more highly attuned to any potential cracks in the glittering facade. Whereas once we might have scrutinised each dance pairing for any proof of explosive romantic chemistry that could lead to a “Strictly curse” scenario – look at that eye contact during the Argentine tango! – our new default is to search for discord instead.
As the competition rolls on and fans remain hyper-vigilant, contestants, pros and the show’s bosses will need to be braced for more scrutiny, and be ready to carefully manage any possible fallout. The way we watch Strictly, it seems, has changed – and it will probably take more than a few smiling reassurances to build back viewers’ trust.
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