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Bridgerton Cast Spills the Regency Tea

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-I devoured EW’s feature on the new season of Bridgerton, videos and all. I need it nowwwwwww!

–Gwyneth Paltrow‘s house is featured in Architectural Digest, and every time I look I see something new/weird. The hand-painted wallpaper! The ridiculously large oven hood! The fact that she’s barefoot and her husband wears shoes!

–Kim Kardashian is firing back at her ex-husband Kanye West after he publicly blasted the reality star about allowing their 8-year-old daughter to post on TikTok “against my will.” She posted on Instagram Stories, “Kanye’s constant attacks on me in interviews and on social media is actually more hurtful than any TikTok North might create.”

–Megan Fox isn’t the only one who’s moved on. Brian Austin Green is expecting a baby with girlfriend Sharna Burgess.

-Succession’s Jeremy Strong hanging out with rapper Big Sean just feels right.

–Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke have returned to the The Masked Singer after reportedly walking off set last week after a controversial guest was unmasked during a taping. (Click the link only if you don’t care about spoilers.)

–Sarah Jessica Parker explained why she wouldn’t be cool with Kim Cattrall joining the SATC revival. “I don’t think I would [be ok with it], because I think there’s just too much public history of feelings on her part that she’s shared…We didn’t go to Kim for this, you know. After we didn’t do the movie and the studio couldn’t meet what she wanted to do, we have to hear her and listen to her and what was important to her. It didn’t fit into what was important or needed for us.” She added, “There’s a very distinct line between Samantha and Kim. Samantha’s not gone. Samantha’s present, and I think was handled with such respect and elegance. She wasn’t villainized. She was a human being who had feelings about a relationship, so I think we found a way to address it which was necessary and important for people that loved her.”

-Meanwhile, poor Sara Ramirez had to address the negative responses to their character on And Just Like That. “I’m very aware of the hate that exists online, but I have to protect my own mental health and my own artistry. We have built a character who is a human being, who is imperfect, who is complex and who is not here to be liked…I’m also not in control of the writing.”

–Dua Lipa asked Stephen Colbert about his faith, and for an off-the-cuff answer, it was pretty great.

-Congrats to James McAvoy, who wed his long-time girlfriend, Lisa Liberati.

–Halsey is making their acting debut in a new film titled National Anthem alongside Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney.

-No surprise here: HBO has renewed Euphoria for season 3.

–Pamela Anderson is reportedly re-traumatized by Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, which she did not consent to. This piece makes a good point: “[The sex tape was] stolen and distributed at great profit to various men. And the story of that piracy is now being sold as a TV series… at great profit to the team who made it. Without the consent of the woman at its center.”

-Also, the show focuses on the time period surrounding the release of the tape, completely ignoring the reports of abuse later on in their relationship.

-Netflix’s amazingly named Tinder Swindler documentary is picking up so much steam, there’s talk about turning it into a movie.

–Seth Rogan reacting to his mom’s tweets about sex is perfect content.

-It looks like the rumours about Shia LaBeouf and ex-wife Mia Goth expecting a baby are true.

-This is a great piece about the surprise popularity of CBS’s Ghosts.

-CODA’ star Troy Kotsur’s reaction to his BAFTA nomination was hilarious. He deserves it.

-Speaking of the BAFTA nods, Kristen Stewart‘s Spencer continues to lose steam.

-This is fun: David Lynch has joined the cast of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans.

-Here’s our first look at Nicole Kidman and Cynthia Erivo in Apple TV’s Roar, which also stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Issa Rae and Merritt Wever.

-And here’s our first look at Conversations with Friends, the latest adaptation from Normal People’s Sally Rooney.

-A sixth installment in the Scream franchise is officially on the way, with the creative team behind the 2022 hit set to return,

-And now that thing with Renee Zellweger in a fat suit has a trailer. Sigh.

–Samuel L. Jackson fights for his memories in Last Days of Ptolemy Grey trailer.

 

Channing Tatum’s Return to Acting

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-Channing Tatum is on the new cover of Variety and talks about being back in the spotlight after stepping away from acting for a few years (“I felt like I was the fat kid at the buffet, just working and working and working. I took four movies back to back without any time off. I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be in those last two movies because I didn’t have the energy”), getting naked on The Lost City set (“We had a man gluing rubber leeches to my butt. That was my second day on set, and I had to be buck naked. I was like, ‘Hi, my name is Chan. I’ll be naked today.’ Everyone is trying to look up and away”), and losing the chance to make a Gambit superhero movie (“Once Gambit went away, I was so traumatized. I shut off my Marvel machine. I haven’t been able to see any of the movies. I loved that character. It was just too sad. It was like losing a friend because I was so ready to play him”).

-Yesterday, Page Six reported that Whoopi Goldberg was in “deep shit” and might get fired at The View because ABC board members wanted her gone following her comments about how the Holocaust had nothing to do with race, but I assumed that was an overreach because Meghan McCain was allowed to say awful shit on that show for years with seemingly no repercussions. But now comes news that Whoopi has been suspended from the show for two weeks. Huh.

-Of course, McCain just had to weigh in with how “deeply offensive” she found Whoopi’s comments.

–Jimmy Kimmel reunited Abbott Elementary creator/star Quinta Brunson with her beloved sixth grade teacher Ms. Abbott (who she named the show after), and happy tears were shed.

-This article asks the big question: what exactly are Kanye West and Julia Fox doing?

–Zooey Deschanel says that she wasn’t allowed to have too many scenes with Jake Johnson on the first season of New Girl — because the writers wanted to draw out the will-they/won’t-they. “That they were like, ‘Listen, you guys have such great chemistry. This is a series, we have to play this out over time, and we don’t want to put you guys in the same, like, story lines together.”

-Everyone’s talking about Janet Jackson with the release of her new documentary. Meanwhile, she seems to be living her best life with her young son.

–Bright Eyes announced a catalog companion series, featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee, and more.

-CNN Chief Jeff Zucker has abruptly resigned after failing to disclose a relationship with a close colleague, which was discovered as part of the network’s investigation into Chris Cuomo.

-Of course Gwyneth Paltrow has a whole spa in her house.

–Michael K. Williams‘ fatal overdose has led to four people being arrested.

-The reviews for Murderville, the Netflix show in which Will Arnett makes a bunch of celebrities do improv while solving a silly murder, is getting good reviews. And by “good” I mean critics seem to think it’s incredibly stupid while also being incredibly entertaining.

–Craig Robinson goes from rags to riches in the trailer for Peacock’s Killing It.

-Here’s the Starstruck S2 trailer. Adorable!

–Julia Roberts is Watergate whistleblower Martha Mitchell while Sean Penn is unrecognizable in prosthetics in the trailer for Starz’s Gaslit.

Shonda Rhimes Doesn’t Think Regé-Jean Page Will Ever Return to Bridgerton

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-Variety named Shonda Rhimes the Show Woman of the Year. The highest paid showrunner in TV talked about moving from ABC to Netflix (“Creatively, I feel very fulfilled in a way that I haven’t felt fulfilled in a long time”), the success of Bridgerton (“What I loved was we were going to create this powerful, exciting, amazing romance. And then for once in television, they were going to get to have their happily ever after versus — well, you know! In network television, you have to come up with 15 years of why a couple has to be apart”), and whether Regé-Jean Page will ever return to the show (“I don’t think so! And here’s why. He’s an enormous star now. As I like to say, the idea that we would write Regé to stand around in the background doesn’t make any sense at all to me. ‘What would he do?’ is what I like to say”).

-So those sources claiming Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are “just friends” may be rethinking things…the pair were spotted enjoying a private dinner last night. And it must be love, because she traveled to Staten Island for him.

-Wait, is Pete Davidson the Warren Beatty of his generation? I don’t buy it; Beatty had huge hits, not just BDE.

–Jamie Spears has requested the end Britney Spears‘ conservatorship immediately.  However, the singer’s lawyer questioned whether Jamie was “motivated by a desire to bolster his reputation or to avoid his deposition or responding to the outstanding discovery served on him in August.”

-Meanwhile, in a since-deleted Instagram post, Spears blamed her mother for the conservatorship. “What people don’t know is that my mom is the one who gave him the idea. I will never get those years back… she secretly ruined my life. You know exactly what you did. My dad is not smart enough to ever think of a conservatorship, but tonight I will smile knowing I have a new life ahead of me.”

–Sofia Vergara will lead Netflix’s six-part limited series about real-life Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco from the exec producer of Narcos.

-In his new memoir, Will Smith says he dreamed about killing his father after witnessing him abuse his mother when he was a boy. “As a child I’d always told myself that I would one day avenge my mother. That when I was big enough, when I was strong enough, when I was no longer a coward, I would slay him.” He also talked about how his method acting on the set of Six Degrees of Separation caused him to fall “in love” with his costar Stockard Channing during his first marriage.

-Hmmm…not really sure that Salma Hayek comes off the way she intended in her interview with The Guardian. When asked about being bullied by Harvey Weinstein and if she thinks the reason he never assaulted her was that she was friends with Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney, she replied, “Also I was very strong…I didn’t just say no. I’m a force to be recognized. He never saw me weak. It’s not that I’m not afraid, but you’re not going to see it. I can be almost intimidating in my calm strength, you know?”

–Dakota Johnson is dating Gwyneth Paltrow‘s ex-husband Chris Martin, and the ladies seem to genuinely like each other. Paltrow caught a lot of crap for her “conscious uncoupling” announcement — but it seems like it actually worked?

–Ryan Reynolds announced that he’s taking a break from movies. “I’m just trying to create a little bit more space for my family and time with them. You know, you don’t really get that time back.” Stay home with the kids so Blake can make A Simple Favor 2!

-Jeez. Dean Winters, a character actor who’s best known from 30 Rock and Oz, has undergone multiple amputations since contracting a bacterial infection in 2009.

–Tom Hanks paid tribute to his Bosom Buddies costar Peter Scolari on Jimmy Kimmel‘s show: “We were molecularly connected in a way that we started speaking the same language.”

-Speaking of late night, David Byrne taught Stephen Colbert some aging entertainer dance moves.

-Buzzfeed had Ben Barnes read some thirst tweets about himself, and he was very shy and polite about the whole thing.   “Noooo! You’ve got parents!” “Someone from Buzzfeed has just come in and told me why Bussy means, and that’s why my face is going red.”

–This is the kind of TV criticism that should be used as a framework for all reboot reviews: “Dexter: New Blood is worse than Seasons 1-4 and better than the last few seasons, which should be enough for many/most/some fans.”

-Starz has renewed Heels for season 2. I have to finish the last few episodes but I was really getting into it.

–Leah Remini has guest-hosted the majority of the Wendy Williams Show’s premiere week episodes while Williams is off with health issues — and the ratings have gone up.

-I can’t imagine Alec Baldwin‘s lawyers are happy about his reposting stuff like these these days.

-I’m late to the Dune party, but this is a very good piece on how Denis Villeneuve’s Part One ignores the influence of MENA cultures and Islam.

–Jared Leto becomes a vampire in the trailer for Morbius, the next film in Sony’s Marvel Spider-Man universe.