Headlines: Jennifer Hudson March Live Stream, Lionel Richie Defends Katy Perry

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Jennifer Hudson is set to perform amid speakers and more as activists bring attention to gun control. This in the wake of the school shooting at Parkland in Florida earlier this month.

FremantleMedia Reports U.K. Gender Pay Gap of 32% in Salaries, 84% in Bonuses – FremantleMedia in the U.K. pays its male employees 32% more than its female employees on average, with the gap rising to 84% when it comes to bonuses. The stark disparities were revealed Friday when the production and distribution giant became the latest British entertainment company to report gender pay figures as legally mandated. The data relate to employees working in Britain at FremantleMedia U.K., FremantleMedia Kids & Family, and FremantleMedia International. Figures were not issued separately for parent FremantleMedia Group, which employs fewer than 250 people, including several of the company’s top-earning women. If the parent group’s British-based employees are factored in, the pay gap between men and women working for FremantleMedia in the U.K. eases to 16% and the bonus gap to 54%. – Read more at Variety.com

Maroon 5, Miguel, Elle King Find New Management Following Jordan Feldstein Death (EXCLUSIVE) – Three months after the unexpected death of Career Artist Management (CAM) founder Jordan Feldstein, acts on the roster, including Maroon 5, Miguel, Robin Thicke and Elle King, as well as their managers, are finding new homes. Maroon 5 and frontman and “The Voice” coach Adam Levine are expected to stay with a restructured CAM, a management firm run by Levine, Adam Harrison, Feldstein’s longtime deputy, and Irving Azoff. The name remains in memory of Feldstein, who died on Dec. 22, 2017, and Maroon 5 will be CAM 2.0’s first act signed. – Read more at Variety

Lionel Richie defends Katy Perry’s controversial American Idol kiss – Richie, who judges the US show based on Pop Idol with Perry and Luke Bryan, said he felt like their “babysitter” because they have “no filter”, but said he believed she did no wrong. “Katy is one of those phenomenons, she can do things and get away with it. It’s all in fun, it’s all in jest,” he told the Press Association in Los Angeles. “I was there, I’m a witness to it. She was hamming it up, then it was nothing more than that. Of course when you do it to the public you’re going to get two different views of what’s happening, but trust me it was all in fun. “Everybody’s having a good time – including the contestant.” – Read more at MSN.com

Cape Coral’s Ricky Manning talks about American Idol, what he’s been doing since The Voice – He’d done “The Voice,” he says, and he figured that’d be enough. But then Manning’s musical career started growing in Los Angeles. And suddenly he had a chance to appear on TV again — this time with the rebooted “American Idol.” So why not, he thought. Let’s try it one more time. “I feel like I’m a little bit more realized as an artist now,” says Manning, 23, a Cape Coral native who moved to Los Angeles in 2015. “It just felt like a good time to try something like this again. And luckily it worked out.” – Read more at News-Press.com

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