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February 9, 2023

Rihanna Teases New Music

–Rihanna had a press conference ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show, and talked about why she agreed to do it: “When you become a mom, there’s something that just happens where you feel like you could take on the world — you can do anything. And the Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world, so as scary as that was … there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. It’s important for my son to see that.” Amid rumours that she’s going to announce a tour during the show, she also teased being open to “creating things that are new, things that are different, things that are off, weird.”

-Oh no: TMZ and Entertainment Tonight are reporting that Britney Spears‘ friends and family (including her husband and her manager) are so worried about her mental health and substance abuse issues that they tried to organize an intervention this week.

-This is a fun profile on Lukas Gage, who’s in the new season of You. “I got to stop going viral. I got to just lay low.”

-Meanwhile, this review of the new season of You (which just dropped today on Netflix) says “Joe is the new Benoit Blanc.” You have my attention.

–Halyna Hutchins‘ parents and sister are suing Alec Baldwin and the Rust producers.

–Jamie Lee Curtis has no time for actors or directors who don’t want to do press to promote their movie. “The bullshit is that we’re all in this together. We cannot exist without you [the press], you cannot exist without us. That makes us partners.”

–Harrison Ford remains his prickly self in his new THR profile. Is this the only time he’s ever had fun in an interview?

–Steven Soderbergh didn’t get into specifics about what happened, but said of the press reports about Thandiwe Newton‘s exit from Magic Mike’s Last Dance after she’d already started filming: “Everything I saw publicly was wrong.” Rumours at the time were that she and Channing Tatum got into an argument about the Oscar Slap.

–Amy Robach reportedly scored a better severance package from ABC than T.J. Holmes.

-Meanwhile, The Cut takes a look at the “horned up” office culture at ABC News where “it felt like everybody was sleeping around.”

–Jessica Biel posted a video of her doing a workout while Justin Timberlake was trying to distract her with bad dancing. Honestly, I would make it less than two minutes with this man.

-Emily in Paris star Lily Collins recalled being in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship in her 20s. “He would call me ‘Little Lily.’ You should be ‘Little Lily’ and he’d use awful words about me in terms of what I was wearing and would call me a whore and all these things…[I became] quite silent and comfortable in silence and feeling like I had to make myself small to feel super safe.”

–Elizabeth Banks says she wanted to direct Thor: Ragnarok, but Marvel didn’t respond to her request. But now she’s directed Cocaine Bear so who can complain?

-Damn. Canada is one of the four markets that Netflix just rolled out its password sharing lockdown to.

-I guess I’m going to have to watch the last season of The Flash: the cast of Legends of Tomorrow will guest star in an episode, which will hopefully afford their arc a wrap up after their show was cancelled on a cliffhanger.

-Here’s Owen Wilson as Bob Ross in the Paint trailer.

-The Strays trailer actually made me laugh, which was unexpected.