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Ex-Kep1er members Mashiro and Yeseo look likely to join LIMELIGHT, following the launch of their personal Instagram accounts.
Back in May, WAKEONE confirmed that seven out of nine Kep1er members had extended their contracts to continue group activities. The remaining two, Mashiro and Yeseo, did not extend their contracts, which ended earlier this week. The singers have now returned to their agency 143 Entertainment.
The two K-pop idols have since launched their personal Instagram accounts. Their posts have since been reshared onby the official LIMELIGHT account, a girl group under 143 Entertainment, hinting that the duo could be joining as members of the K-pop act.
In June, Kep1er released their first studio album ‘Kep1going On’ and its title track ‘Shooting Star’, which also marked their last release as a nine-member act. The group will continue their activities as a seven-member group with Yujin, Xiaoting, Chaehyun, Dayeon, Hikaru, Huening Bahiyyih and Youngeun.
Meanwhile, LIMELIGHT debuted as a three-member act last February with their debut EP ‘Love & Happiness’. At the time, the group comprised members MiU, Suhye and Gaeun. Notably, member MiU had been a contestant on Girls Planet 999, the show through which Kep1er was formed.
This January, the girl group released their EP ‘Last Dance’ and its lead single ‘Ta-Da!’, announcing that it would be their last release as a trio. At the time, their agency shared plans to reorganise the group with additional members.
In other K-pop news, ex-(G)I-DLE singer Soojin has announced a new date of her 2024 ‘Summer Daze’ fan concert tour in Singapore. Starting later this month, the idol will also perform in Tokyo, Taipei and Macau.
Madonna revealed that she saw her late mother "on the other side" while she was in a medically induced coma in 2023.
In a conversation on the On Purpose with Jay Shetty podcast on Monday, the Queen of Pop explained that she was treated in intensive care and remained in a coma for two days after doctors discovered a "serious bacterial infection" that developed after a mild fever.
Thinking back to the health scare, Madonna shared that she experienced a vision of her mother, also named Madonna Ciccone, who lost her life to breast cancer in December 1963.
"I was almost there on the other side, and I had a conscious moment," she said. "My mother appeared to me, and she said, 'Do you want to come with me?' And I said, 'No.'"
She added that her assistant was present in the room and heard her say the word, "No."
"And then, when I did eventually wake up, I realised that the 'no' was about me needing to forgive and make good with people that I still held grudges against," the 67-year-old explained.
One of the long-standing conflicts she chose to release was her troubled relationship with her brother Christopher Ciccone.
The artist passed away from pancreatic cancer at 63 in October 2024.
"For my brother, I didn't speak to him for, you know, for years, years, and years. And it was him being ill (and) reaching out to me and saying, 'I need your help.' And me having that moment like, 'Am I going to help my enemy?' You know, that's how it felt. And I just did," the Ray of Light singer said. "And I ended up (helping) and I felt so relieved. And it was such a load off my back, such a weight that was removed, baggage that I could put down to finally be able to be in a room with him and holding his hand, even if he was dying and saying, 'I love you and I forgive you.' That was really important."
