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Rihanna Is Pregnant

-There is no other news today that matters more than Rihanna‘s pregnancy. I adore the way she announced it too, with a DIY snow-themed photoshoot. Though I’m a little surprised she didn’t release the images on her own social media, or do a mag exclusive with proceeds going to charity. Instead, she used a paparazzo and the pics are on a photo agency’s site for $1,500 a pop.

–Nick Cannon sparked rumors that he is expecting his eighth child after he hosted pregnant Bre Tiesi’s baby shower.

-Is Cara Delevingne now dating Sienna Miller? Colour me intrigued.

–Andrew Garfield and Rachel Zegler are today’s Actors on Actors pairing, and she couldn’t handle his gushing about her performance in West Side Story: “I cannot even believe those words just came out of your face towards my face.”

-Party Down’s revival added some new cast members: Jennifer Garner, ZoĂ« Chao, Tyrel Jackson Williams, and James Marsden. I assumed they’d all be playing versions of themselves who hire the catering crew for their parties, but Garner is playing Adam Scott’s love interest! She’s no Lizzy Caplan but I’ll take it.

-Aw man, I knew the purity of Wordle couldn’t last. The NYT just bought it for seven figures. (I do love that the guy who invented it is getting paid so much, and that part of his agreement to sell was that they must keep it free.)

–Eric Dane sat down with THR to discuss “the absolute dumpster fire of a meltdown that is Cal Jacobs” in Euphoria season two. Despite episodes three and four giving viewers more insight into who Cal Jacobs is, Dane insists it doesn’t justify who he is — or the things he’s done. “You’re not going to walk away from this thinking, ‘Oh, Cal, what a great guy.”

-Netflix’s latest South Korean zombie drama All Of Us Are Dead has dethroned Euphoria from the top spot in this week’s Twitter TV buzz rankings.

-Hollywood’s obsession with making movies about toys has gone overboard.

-Vulture did a hilarious deep-dive into what Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers may have “agreed to disagree” on. “It’s my belief that the men who punched Miles Teller in the face while on vacation with Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers were sent back in time from the future, Ă  la 12 Monkeys, to save the world.”

–Tessa Thompson says the new Thor movie will include a romance for her character. “It’s totally exciting. We talk so much about representation and obviously, in terms of the LGBTQIA community, there’s still so much work to be done. But if you look at the comics in the canon, there are so many queer characters! It’s hard because Taika [Waititi] and I would’ve even liked to go further, but in the context of the movies, there’s only so much we can do.”

-Spotify said that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the pandemic (which doesn’t solve the problem at all). Meanwhile, Joe Rogan defended himself on IG, and promised to “try harder to get people with differing opinions on” and “do my best to make sure I’ve researched these topics.” Yes, because the “doing my own research” thing seems to be panning out so well for everybody who says it…

-Meanwhile, I wonder if Brené Brown removing her podcasts from the platform will hurt Spotify even more than the musician exodus?

–Drake asking his son a simple question about how big he’ll grow up to be, and his son getting all existential about how his dad is going to die and his body will wither back into the universe is quality content.

-This is interesting: new viewer data suggests that Netflix shows often start strong but fizzle out super quickly.

-Poor Zac Efron sounded like he had a crappy time on the set of 17 again.

–Quentin Tarantino is not only selling Pulp Fiction NFTs, he’s been accused of using stolen artwork to do so.

-Leatherface returns in the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre trailer.

–Jim Sturgess plays a man with an eye condition who suddenly starts seeing the true motives of those around him in The Other Me trailer.

Ryan Reynolds Rehabs Peleton

–Ryan Reynolds and his ad agency pulled together that Peleton ad in response to And Just Like That in only 48 hours. Reynolds did a quick Aviation Gin ad when that cringey holiday Peloton commercial went viral a couple years ago, so it makes sense that they would come to him for some instant brand rehabilitation. (Don’t watch if you’re not caught up with the Sex and the City revival, obvs.)

–Tom Holland and Zendaya are super cute here, talking about how they can’t be in the kitchen at the same time because her cooking style is haphazard, while he likes to precisely follow recipes.

–Britney Spears posted a bunch of screengrabs of her notes app which contained basically stream of conscious thoughts about hot chocolate and Christmas shopping, but she did make some pointed comments about her infamous 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer.

-I’m not sure what the baby bar exam is, but Kim Kardashian says she passed it.

-God, that Succession finale was so good. I kept thinking about how Kieran Culkin said he and Jeremy Strong disagree about whether the show is a comedy or a drama, and how that scene in the parking lot perfectly embodied that.

-Meanwhile, Jeremy Strong‘s celeb friends keep rushing to “defend” him over that completely innocuous magazine profile. Aaron Sorkin, Adam Mckay and Anne Hathaway weighed in over the weekend, which inadvertently kept it in the news cycle. Are stars really so far removed from the profiles of 10-20 years ago that they think any article that isn’t incredibly fawning is a hit piece? That New Yorker profile did more to humanize Strong than any other interview I’ve read with him. Does everyone in Hollywood forget when celebs weren’t media trained within an inch of their lives, and profiles weren’t just PR fluff pieces? They should all revisit Jennifer Lopez’s 1998 Movieline interview (in which she slams Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, and more) to remember how these things used to go.

-Everyone’s guessing Adam Mckay and Will Ferrell for this blind item, which seems crazy.

-Any movie that isn’t a superhero flick seems to be struggling at the box office (and we are, after all, still in a pandemic) but West Side Story’s returns were bad enough to surprise people.

–Olivia Colman inadvertently mocked Jack Whitehall’s acting when they both appeared on the Graham Norton Show. God, I love her.

–Keanu Reeves also appeared on that episode of GNS — and forgot the name of the movie he was promoting.

-Meanwhile, Keanu Reeves and his Bill & Ted costar Alex Winter has a double date this weekend.

–Armie Hammer’s lawyer told People: “I can confirm that Mr. Hammer has left the treatment facility and is doing great.”

-The Ben Affleck/Ana de Armas erotic thriller Deep Water is being released after all. It’s coming to Hulu in the US and Amazon Prime elsewhere. Does this mean they get to skip the awkward press tour?

-I missed this video of Adele doing a makeup tutorial with NikkieTutorials. I love this as a promo tour stop!

–Elon Musk was named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ and nobody is happy about it.

–Drake and Kanye West put their beef aside to forces for a much-anticipated benefit concert in Los Angeles last week — and everyone was talking about how Ye outshined Drake.

-It’s interesting to see Station Eleven make some Best of 2021 TV lists, seeing as it just debuts this week.

-I watched The Hating Game this weekend and was pleasantly surprised, given the buildup I had in my head. And the reviews are good!

–Susan Sarandon is the queen of country music in the trailer for Fox’s Monarch.

-The gang returns to Hogwarts in the first full trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore.

Tom Holland and Zendaya’s Height Difference

–Tom Holland and Zendaya continue to be adorable together on the Spider-Man promo tour. They appeared together on the Graham Norton Show and talked about the difficulty of joint stunts due to their height difference.

-Meanwhile, Tom Holland says he’ll play Fred Astaire in a film, which sounds like perfect casting.

-After receiving two nominations for the 2022 Grammy Awards, Drake has withdrawn his nominations, and now are not visible on his artist page on the Grammys’ website. No one is really sure why, but he spoke out about The Weeknd’s snub last year.

-NY magazine’s profile on Succession star Jeremy Strong is an interesting read — mostly because everyone who’s quoted sounds like they don’t like him very much, which is unusual in a big profile like this. Usually you get some non-critical words from costars, even if it’s just about their talent or dedication if they don’t want to get into their personality. But it sounds like everyone thinks he’s a miserable presence on and off set. Is that why he’s so good in this role — because he’s just playing a version of himself?

-Meanwhile, I can’t quite believe that the ending of last night’s Succession is to believed, but if that turns out to be true, it’s gonna be a WILD finale this weekend.

-In his new GQ profile, Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus talks about accidentally revealing his cancer diagnosis on social media, renewing his faith, healing his old friendships, and being reminded of what makes life worth living.

–George Clooney says he once turned down $35 million for one day’s work on an airline ad over because of its country’s “questionable” practices.

–Charlie Cox, who played Daredevil on Marvel’s Netflix show, might transition over to the film universe, according to Kevin Feige.

–Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Three 6 Mafia got into a brawl onstage at Verzuz.

–Jennifer Lawrence looked amazing during a rare red carpet appearance.

-Um, is Ariana Grande’s new look cultural appropriation?

-In a new Vulture essay, Colton Haynes says that before he came to Hollywood, he was confidently queer, but years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.

–Grimes wrote a breakup song about Elon Musk.

-For Vanity Fair, Mo Ryan talked at length with Jeff Garlin about his HR investigations on The Goldbergs, and power imbalances. It’s rare to have a celeb be confronted with these types of questions and not walk away (though there were times he clearly wanted to), but I don’t love how often he dismissed the allegations as “my silliness” or “my process.”

-This is a very good piece questioning why Hollywood is still hiring raging anti-Semite Mel Gibson?

–Chris Noth weighed in on Kim Cattrall’s rumoured feud with Sarah Jessica Parker — and it sounds like he’s on Team Parker. “I do know that I’m very close with SJ and [Cattrall’s] descriptions of her don’t even come close. I liked her, I thought she was marvelous in the show and some people move on for their own reasons. I don’t know what hers were. I just wish that whole thing had never happened because it was sad and uncomfortable…I just don’t like to see anyone talking down about SJ because she’s a target and people can be nasty. I feel very protective of her and I was not happy about that.”

-Its xmas pop song time: Ed Sheeran and Elton John released a new festive track and video, while John Legend unveiled his new holiday single.

–JLo released a new video for “On My Way.”

-Here’s the trailer for Peacock’s MacGruber series. Will Forte, Kristen Wiig and Ryan Phillippe star in the 8-episode revival.

-Here’s our first look at the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, called (confusingly) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One).