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Catherine Zeta-Jones

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Dwayne Johnson is not joining the non-bathing celeb cult. He says he showers three times a day because he usually works out twice and then goes to work.

-Here we go: a woman named Virginia Giuffre is suing Prince Andrew. She says Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with the royal three times between 1999 and 2002, when she was underage. “I am holding Prince Andrew accountable for what he did to me.”

-A judge has denied a request from Britney Spears’ attorney to expedite her next hearing regarding the suspension and removal of the singer’s father from her conservatorship. The hearing date will remain Sept. 29.

Dev Patel discussed his acting career in an interview with The Guardian, and talked about how he expected to be offered more roles after his success in Slumdog Millionaire — but it didn’t happen. “I was dating my co-star at the time, Freida [Pinto], and she went on to do all of these amazing things. But in a way, she, too, was being type-cast, as this exotic beauty next to all these Caucasian leading men.”

Kanye West has delayed his Donda album twice – leading some to think he’s setting up a release-date battle with Drake. Or maybe it’s just because — like past releases — someone will have to pry it from his grip and convince him to finally release it.

-Yet more proof that “getting cancelled” is not actually a thing: Johnny Depp will receive the San Sebastian Film Festival’s top honour.

-This a good piece on how Ted Lasso seems almost determined to remain unsexy, and yet it’s expertly attuned to the romantic and the sentimental. “You don’t discuss what the show is about but, rather, how it feels to watch it.”

-Meanwhile, poor Harry Styles can’t grow a mustache without being compared to Jason Sudeikis.

Catherine Zeta-Jones will play Morticia in Netflix’s Wednesday Addams series.

Renee Zellweger is dating a reality star, which leads to hanging out with other reality stars, granting them an instant level up.

-30 Rock is back on US Netflix, and the episodes featuring blackface have been omitted (though they don’t make that clear).

-In a memo to staff, Jeopardy! EP (and possible new host) Mike Richards addressed the pregnancy discrimination lawsuits filed against him when he was at the Price Is Right. They still can’t be going ahead with this guy, right?

-Sorry Beyonce. Even you can’t make me want to wear denim chaps.

-There’s lots of chatter about how DC’s The Suicide Squad “underperformed” this weekend at the box office by earning $26.5 million. I don’t really get how people are seeing this as a failure when a) it was simultaneously released on HBO Max, b) the fourth wave of Covid is scaring people away from theatres again, and c) the entire industry has changed and we can’t still be measuring success using the old goalposts.

-Meanwhile, comic book writers and artists are speaking out about their struggles for fair payment at Marvel and DC. “They sent a thank you note and $5,000 – the movie made $1B.”

Cardi B is teasing a new collab with Lizzo that’ll drop on Friday.

-Following his health scare, Bob Odenkirk tweeted, “I’ve had my very own “It’s a wonderful life” week of people insisting I make the world slightly better. Wow! Thank you, I love everyone right now but let’s keep expectations reasonable!”

Taylor Swift and Simone Biles joined forces to tug at our heartstrings.

DaBaby has deleted his Instagram apology, because of course he did.

-This is a great profile on Luke Kirby, who is playing one of the olds in the Gossip Girl reboot. (I’m so glad he’s in a good place. I saw him to a Q&A once for Take This Waltz and it ended with him lying on the stage…)

-The Good Fight is having a flawless season and not enough people are talking about it.

-Here’s our first glimpse of season 4 of Stranger Things, a show I completely forgot existed. I’m glad they shot this soon after the last season so the kids still look like kids.

Drake’s Yacht Makes Waves

-The world is falling apart and most of us don’t want to leave our houses, but at least Drake is having a good time on his giant yacht.

-According to Us Weekly, Kim Kardashian wanted to control the PR campaign surrounding her divorce and figure out a settlement before filing and making it public, but she was blindsided by yesterday’s leaks. People also reports that she’s been preparing to file papers.

-Meanwhile, the bizarre rumour that Kanye West is dating YouTube makeup star Jeffree Star was shot down pretty quickly, but that was a wild 20 minutes.

Dr. Dre has issued a statement after being hospitalized for an apparent brain aneurysm. “I’m doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.”

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry just got another fawning People cover story about how happy they are since the move.

-While most movie stars jump to TV via prestige limited cable series, Catherine Zeta-Jones is joining the back half of Season 2 of Fox’s Prodigal Son — and she’s playing a medical resident.

-I really hope Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are in the same bubble, seeing how they’re visiting each other while LA’s cases are surging.

-I’m glad that Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist saw a ratings jump when it returned last night. It’s so, so good. But it sucks that Lauren Graham has had to be written out of this season because she committed to another show that was supposed to be done filming, but the pandemic delayed it.

-Of course Kylie Jenner is cashing in on covid by releasing a luxury hand sanitizer. Of course she is.

-Promising Young Woman is coming to VOD next Friday. It’s worth the rental. Trust me.

Sterling K Brown posted a TBT video of him getting on stage during the Magic Mike live show and it’s what the world needs to heal right now.

The Weeknd‘s creepy plastic surgery fail in his new video is going to haunt my dreams.

-The Grammy Awards’ new tentative dates puts it at the same time as the SAG Awards, which seems dumb.

Julia Fox plays a cam girl in the trailer for PVT Chat.

-A drone pilot teams up with a robot super solider, played by Anthony Mackie, to locate a doomsday device in the trailer for Netflix’s Outside the Wire.

Beyoncé and Channing Tatum Are Going to Lip Sync Battle

-No, YOU squealed so loudly at your desk that you scared your coworkers when you read that Channing Tatum and Beyonce are going to duke it out on Lip Sync Battle.

-Meanwhile, her staring contest with Nicki Minaj is all kinds of adorable.

-Also, Bey dressed up as Storm for Halloween and now everyone’s whining about how she’s “appropriating” nerd culture because fanboys are THE WORST.

-The preview of Leah Remini’s 20/20 interview is lit! “Being critical of Tom Cruise is being critical of Scientology itself. You are evil.”

-I’m really surprised that they’re bringing Ricky Gervais back to host the Golden Globes again. Although I guess if it’s not Tina and Amy, it’s all meaningless anyway. They might as well just have a cardboard box do it.

Jimmy Fallon injured his remaining good hand falling with a bottle of Jägermeister. Remember a couple of months ago when I wondered if we should be worried about him? Um, yeah.

-Arrow’s Colton Haynes (Speedy!) always does up Halloween big, but this year he topped himself by dressing up as Ursula.

-Also winning Halloween, Nina Dobrev as Victoria Beckham.

Jared Leto says playing The Joker in the Suicide Squad was “very painful.” Or, you know, as painful as a job that pays you millions to play make believe for a couple of weeks can be.

Adele‘s ‘Hello’ video just broke Taylor Swift’s record for single-day views. I only contributed 354 of those…

-Uh oh. There’s renewed rumours of trouble between Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.

-According to new reports, the Gilmore Girls revival will consist of 4 90-minute episodes. with each episode covering one year. I’m scared, guys.

Xavier Dolan and Jessica Chastain had a hilarious Twitter convo in which they talked about their love of Sebastian Stan and now I want to BFF them so hard!

-I really didn’t like what happened on The Walking Dead last night, but if they take it back I’ll hate it even more. Nihilistic storytelling and rushed character moments make for bad writing, but cowardice is worst.

-Speaking of TV, I don’t know how this happened but I caught up on Leftovers and now I’m back in. This season is kind of insanely good. Dammit.

-I love both of these shows, but if Vulture hadn’t declared Buffy the winner I would have flipped some tables.

-God, I hate this dress on Gwyneth Paltrow. Cutouts are so tough to make work. I tried on a dress this weekend that made my friend tell me she wanted to feed me sandwiches, but if I turned another way it looked like I had rib rolls. How?

Catherine Zeta Jones is starring in a WWII comedy? Didn’t see that one coming.