The former AKB48 music idol Miki Nishino has announced her second pregnancy. Nishino shocked fans by marrying the comedian Keiichi Yamamoto in 2022 when she was 23 years old. Yamamoto is 31 years older than her. She gave birth to their first child in October 2024. Their second is due in May. Yamamoto looks particularly smug in a YouTube announcement video, though we guess you would do if you were 57 and your much-younger wife was still happy to let you impregnate her. Further proof, if any were needed, that if you're funny, it doesn't matter what you look like, because you can always ...

This week came the news that Nana Okada would graduate AKB48 after she was found to have -- shock horror! -- a boyfriend (actor Hiroki Ino). The supergroup's numbers of music idols are vast and most disappear without a trace. While it's well known that some work in porn after graduating, a luckier few go on to forge careers as models, actors, or tarento (talents) -- general dogsbody celebrities. Nishino seems to fall into the latter. Since leaving AKB48 in 2017, she has continued to appear sporadically on TV, such as one show in which she flaunted her cute but out-of-shape body (in contrast ...

On the NTV show Inu mo kuwanai, former AKB48 idol Miki Nishino competed with the actor Kazusa Okuyama to see whose body is the "best." Whereas Miki Nishino has a slightly curvy butt (by Japanese idol standards, at any rate), Kazusa Okuyama is athletic and sporty -- a very popular type among Japanese models and female actors right now, perhaps influenced by all the 2020 hype. She shares selfies of her toned body on social media -- something we also spotted the gravure idol Yume Hayashi do this recently. Miki Nishino left AKB48 in spring 2017 and, possibly due to her body, was not apparently ...