Michelle Obama

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama’s media company Higher Ground is ending its exclusive podcast deal with Spotify, Bloomberg reports and Pitchfork has learned. The Obamas are reportedly shopping around for a different podcasting partner to replace Spotify when the agreement ends in October 2022. Spotify…

Barack and Michelle Obama won’t be signing a new podcast deal with Spotify, Bloomberg reports, marking a major departure for the Obamas’ production company, Higher Ground Productions. “The company is instead talking to other distributors about a deal worth tens of millions of dollars, among the most-lucrative in the podcasting…

Michelle Obama Brother Craig Sues Private School ... Booted Sons Over Racism!!! 4/19/2022 7:30 AM PT UPDATE 11:54 AM PT -- The school that Michelle Obama's brother is suing is breaking its silence on the allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation -- and without explicitly saying it, they're suggesting the…

The Showtime series delves into the lives of Betty Ford, Eleanor Roosevelt and Michelle Obama Showtime Showtime Showtime’s 10-episode anthology series “The First Lady” premieres on April 17, taking us into the lives of three of the famous women who held the position in the past: Eleanor Roosevelt (Gillian Anderson),…

Viola Davis Michelle Obama Portrayal Mocked ... Non-Stop Pursed Lips?!? 4/17/2022 1:38 PM PT Viola Davis' turn as Michelle Obama for a new show is getting some early looks, and in the same breath ... some early ridicule too over an apparent character choice she's made. The Showtime series "The…

In a scene from Showtime’s new series “The First Lady,” Michelle Pfeiffer’s Betty Ford tells “60 Minutes” about her unlikely jump from Michigan homemaker to the woman behind the most powerful man in the U.S. in 1975. “Washington can be an awfully tough town for a political wife, would you…

Michelle Pfeiffer didn’t know much about Betty Ford before she signed on to play her in the new Showtime anthology series “The First Lady.” “I really only knew about, of course, the Betty Ford Center, which is I think what she’s the most famous for,” Pfeiffer told me at the…

Viola Davis has said growing up in poverty has given her more compassion and allowed her to “see the other side of life” from the Hollywood glamour. The Oscar-winning actress, 56, grew up in the town of Central Falls, Rhode Island, where her family often had no hot water, gas…

Viola Davis is not easily intimidated. But the formidable Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and SAG Award–winning actor says she is “terrified” about the reaction to her latest performance as Michelle Obama in the new Showtime series The First Lady, which tells the stories of Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford, and Obama, reinforcing…

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will officially be the first Black woman justice to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States, and Michelle Obama couldn't help but feel “a sense of pride.” On April 7, after the U.S. Senate voted 53 to 47 in favor of confirming Justice Jackson…