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August Alsina

More Avengers Assemble for Bridger

–Robert Downey Jr. sent a message to Bridger, the little boy who saved his sister in a dog attack, promising him a surprise on his next birthday.

–Tom Holland did a Facetime call with him and invited him to the set of the next Spider-Man movie.

–Ellen DeGeneres just took another hit. In a new article, current and former employees tell Buzzfeed they faced racism, fear, and intimidation.

-The show’s producers released a statement saying they’re taking the allegations “very seriously” and adding “We are truly heartbroken and sorry to learn that even one person in our production family has had a negative experience. It’s not who we are and not who we strive to be, and not the mission Ellen has set for us.”

–Princess Beatrice married Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi in a private ceremony on Friday morning, Buckingham Palace confirmed. It’s believed that around 20 people attended the scaled-down event including The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Andrew.

–Megan Thee Stallion posted on Instagram that she wanted to “set the record straight” and revealed that she “suffered gunshot wounds, as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me.” New reports allege that the crime against her was committed by Canadian rapper Lanez, from Brampton, Ont. TMZ reports that Lanez opened fire in their chauffeur-driven SUV and shot Megan in the foot twice after an argument broke out in the vehicle and the rapper and her friend, Kelsey Nicole, said they wanted to get out of the vehicle.

–Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are teaming up for a new Netflix thriller directed by the Russo Brothers.

-In a new interview, August Alsina clears up lingering questions about his “entanglement” with Jada Pinkett Smith and how it figures into his path to wellness.

-Look, if Jamie Dornan wants to post videos of him working out to Abba, who are we to judge?

-Producers of The Bold Type made a last minute change to last night’s season finale after the actress who plays Kat expressed frustration over her storyline.

-Speaking of The Bold Type, I love this roundup of every terrible article shown in the show.

–The Chicks‘ new album is filled with glorious burns. Most importantly, we finally found out what Adrian Pasdar did on that boat.

–Aishwarya Rai and her daughter have been admitted to the hospital just days after they both tested positive for COVID-19.

–Keanu Reeves is now writing comic books because there’s nothing this magical unicorn can’t do.

–David Tennant and Michael Sheen interview Judi Dench in the latest episode of Staged. This looks delightful — wish we got full episodes here.

-The Tiger King stars are on Cameo, and the videos they’re sending fans are as unhinged as you’d expect.

-HBO is eyeing an In Treatment reboot and yes, please!

-This interview with Helen Hunt on Twister is great, but at the very end with the interviewer is about to ask her a question about Jodie Foster and accidentally calls her “Jodie”? I felt that.

-Fox released a Bob’s Burgers short of how the Belchers might react during quarantine — and it’s geoblocked. Yeah, that feels about right these days.

-Quarantine isn’t hurting all businesses: Netflix announced a blowout quarter: it added 10.09 million subscribers during its second quarter, boosting its global base to nearly 193 million.

-Netflix also put out calls for Canadian TV and film pitches, likely because production has started to open back up here.

–Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes are turning their decades-long friendship into podcast called Smartless.

-Briarpatch has been cancelled after only one season. I’m bummed for Andy Greenwald.

–Rosamund Pike plays Marie Curie in the Radioactive trailer.

Jada Pinkett Smith Is Ready for “Healing”

-It’s been a busy week for Jada Pinkett Smith. First she called out Youtuber Shane Dawson for talking about masturbating to a poster of Willow Smith when she was 11. And now she’s once again denying those long-standing rumours of an open marriage after singer August Alsina gave an interview in which he seemed to confirm he’d had an affair with her — with Will Smith‘s blessing. Alsina said: “I actually sat down with Will and had a conversation … due to the transformation from their marriage to life partnership they’ve spoken on several times…He gave me his blessing.. And I totally gave myself to that relationship for years of my life, and I truly and really, really, deeply loved and have a ton of love for her, I devoted myself to it…I just always stayed silent because I never want to be the person that causes confusion, I love these people. I have literally never been in love in that kind of way so much so that being intertwined in that way, walking away from it butchered me.” The age difference (she was in her 40s and he was 21 when this rumoured relationship allegedly started), plus the fact that she’s previously said she mentored him, is giving people pause.

-Today, Jada seemed to imply that she’ll be talking about this on Red Table Talk, tweeting “There’s some healing that needs to happen…so I’m bringing myself to The Red Table.”

–Christina Ricci was granted an emergency protective order against her husband, film producer James Heerdegen.

-According to court documents filed for her lawsuit against the Mail, Meghan Markle felt “unprotected by the Institution [the royal family], and prohibited from defending herself” during her pregnancy with Archie.

-Meanwhile, in a new video Prince Harry says institutional racism is “endemic” and is “committed to being part of the solution.”

–Brie Larson filmed a socially distanced episode of Hot Ones.

-This is a good look at CBC Gem, the best streaming service in Canada that no one seems to know about. It’s free and has shows like Normal People, Pen15 and Freaks and Geeks.

-A bunch of people in the industry — both supporters and detractors of Mel Gibson — talk to Variety about how his career in Hollywood seems to survive.

-Justice League’s Ray Fisher expanded on his thoughts on Joss Whedon, tweeting “Joss Wheadon’s on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.” This is a very good recap of all the Justice League bts drama, including reports that Gal Gadot refused to film a scene Joss wrote where The Flash falls into her boobs. It also touches on other problematic Joss stories, like Charisma Carpenter saying he fired her from Angel for getting pregnant, and his ex-wife accusing him of using her as a “shield” so no one would question his feminism or relationship with women.

–Khloé Kardashian is potentially back together with Tristan Thompson.

–Ricky Gervais, Ramy Youssef, Kenan Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani and Dan Levy are featured in this year’s THR comedy actor roundtable. Levy says of Schitt’s Creek’s total lack of homophobia: “My feeling was if I were to include homophobia or bigotry of any kind in the show, it would be giving power to those people who see themselves on TV…I don’t ever consider our show to be very political, but I suppose that decision to just say, ‘We’re never going to show the dark side,’ is the quiet politics of our show.”

-Variety’s latest Actors on Actors video is with Homeland’s Claire Danes and Damien Lewis. Why did he take this call in his car?!

–Alicia Keys did Vogue’s 73 Questions  and her house is gorg (it was filmed back in Feb).

-Welsh singer Duffy, who earlier this year revealed she had been drugged, kidnapped, trafficked and raped, has publicly called out Netflix for showing Polish feature film 365 Days, because it “glamorizes the brutal reality of sex trafficking, kidnapping and rape.”

-Netflix is shifting $100 million to Black-owned banks.

–Jeffrey Epstein’s confidante and alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested by the FBI. It’ll be very interesting to see if she names names.

-Hulu has renewed The Great for a second season. I’m still not done the first but am loving it!

-This is such a good piece on the Golden Girls on why it’s weird the mudface scene is what the show is getting criticized for when the entire series is mired in racism and rape culture, and how it’s important to critically unpack all the messages we receive every day in pop culture and think deeply about how to reduce the harm in them.

-The Hamilton movie drops on Disney+ tomorrow and the reviews are glowing. It’s 100% fresh on RottenTomatoes with 82 reviews counted.

–Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Marwan Kenzari, and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the new trailer for The Old Guard.