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This week on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper profiled pop singer Dua Lipa.
In June, Lipa realized a long-standing personal dream of hers: she performed on the main stage, the Pyramid Stage, of the Glastonbury Festival on a Friday night.
“I’d dreamt about being on that stage my whole life,” she told Cooper in an interview.
“I had written down, ‘I want to headline Glastonbury on the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night,’ being very specific about the Friday night so I could party afterwards,” she said with a laugh.
Lipa’s personal connection to the Glastonbury Festival made the accomplishment even more significant and special for her.
Dua Lipa was born in London. Her parents were refugees from Kosovo who had fled after war broke out in Bosnia in 1992.
When she was 11 years old, the singer and her family moved back to Kosovo. Then, at the age of 15, she convinced her parents to let her move back to London alone to pursue her dream of becoming a pop star.
As a teenager and resident of the UK, Lipa attended the Glastonbury Festival. And as an aspiring artist, her experiences there were formative.
“Dua Lipa had come back to London to break into the music business. And Glastonbury was a big part of that,” Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.
“She started to go to Glastonbury just to be part of it, to hear the iconic performers to feel the energy of the crowd, to party, to meet people…it was a motivator for her.”
For this year’s Glastonbury Festival, Dua Lipa allowed 60 Minutes cameras to follow her before and after her headlining performance on the main stage.
The day before, she visited the Pyramid Stage, wearing sunglasses and a hood, so she could view the stage from the pit area and hopefully stay unrecognized.
“I just wanted to walk the field a bit and see the stage from different angles. And see what other people are going to see me on the next night,” she explained to Cooper.
“This mammoth dream of mine was about to come true. And I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t going to pass me by.”
60 Minutes cameras were also backstage before the performance with Dua Lipa, her dancers, family and old friends that had worked with her in the early days of her career.
Before heading out on the main stage, she psyched up her dancers with a motivational speech.
“You guys were born to do this…and I feel so lucky to share the stage with all of you. And tonight is just about being present, being yourself and enjoying that,” she said.
In a standout moment from the performance, Dua led a crowd of 100,000 people in singing the chorus to “Be The One.” The song had been released seven years ago, when she was relatively unknown and had yet to become the megastar she is today.
“And everybody knows the words, and 100,000 voices are singing it back to her. It gives me goosebumps to watch it,” Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.
After an incredible performance, Dua celebrated with her dancers backstage. They chanted her name and cheered while she danced in profound excitement.
“You could just see when she got off the stage just how thrilled she was. I mean, she knew she had killed it,” Cooper remembered.
And then Dua Lipa did exactly what she had envisioned in her dream: partied on the festival grounds all night long with her friends.
60 Minutes producer John Hamlin and a camera crew caught up with her again in her RV on the festival grounds the following morning to hear about her night out.
“I just kept going in and out from this really sweaty gay rave to, like, going’ outdoors and just, like, having’ a breather, and jumping’ back into the madness. And then we danced basically until about six in the morning,” she recounted.
Dua Lipa ended the night watching the sun rise from Stone Circle, a gathering spot that resembles a miniature Stone Henge. She said the moment was “really special.”
“Everybody has dreams and envisions things,” Cooper told 60 Minutes Overtime.
“They rarely come true exactly as you want it to be or exactly as you envisioned it. And I think, for her, that night at Glastonbury was exactly how she had dreamed it might be one day. And what a gift that is.”
The video above was produced by Will Croxton. It was edited by Sarah Shafer Prediger.
Video of Dua Lipa performing at Glastonbury courtesy of BBC / Glastonbury Festivals Limited
There’s still time to become a mega-millionaire for Christmas, but lady luck will have to be on your side.
No one matched Mega Millions‘ all six winning numbers last Tuesday, and the jackpot now stands at $862 million ahead of Friday night’s drawing.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won at $810 million in Texas on Sept. 10.
If there is a sole winner, they have a choice between an annuity, with an initial payment and then 29 annual payments, or a one-time lump sum payment. Most winners choose a cash payout.
For Friday night’s drawing, that would be an estimated $392.1 million before taxes.
If won at that level, it would be the largest prize ever won in December and the seventh largest in Mega Millions history.
According to Mega Millions, 13 jackpots have been won during December since the game began in 2002. Three were won in the days after Christmas, while the other 10 were won before Christmas. There has never been a jackpot win on Christmas Day, although over the years drawings have been conducted on Christmas six times – in 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018 and 2020.
Mega Millions drawings are held on Tuesday and Friday, tickets cost $2. The odds of winning the jackpot are about 1 in 303 million.
The IRS said Friday it is sending a total of $2.4 billion in “special payments” to 1 million people, part of an effort to ensure that Americans who didn’t receive all of their federal stimulus checks during the pandemic will get the money in their bank accounts.
The payments will vary by person, with a maximum amount of $1,400 per recipient, the agency said in a statement.
“To minimize headaches and get this money to eligible taxpayers, we’re making these payments automatic, meaning these people will not be required to go through the extensive process of filing an amended return to receive it,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement.
Who will get a payment from the IRS?
The tax agency said it’s disbursing the funds after reviewing internal data that showed many people had filed tax returns but yet didn’t claim what is known as the “recovery rebate credit” in 2021.
That credit was designed for people who didn’t get all or some of the stimulus checks when they were issued during the pandemic. Lawmakers authorized three stimulus payments, with two sent in 2020 and a third in 2021.
Most taxpayers who were eligible for the stimulus payments have already received them directly, or later through the recovery rebate credit.
Do you need to apply for the IRS payment?
No. The IRS said it’s sending the payments automatically to about 1 million people who filed tax returns and who qualified for the recovery rebate credit yet didn’t claim it. The agency will send a letter to recipients to let them know they will receive the payment.
When will the IRS send the payments?
The tax agency said the checks will be sent in December, with most of the payments arriving by late January 2025.
The money will either be automatically direct deposited to the recipient’s bank account or will arrive in the mail via a paper check.
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