–Rachel Lindsay, the first black Bachelorette, officially ended her contract with Bachelor Nation in April, but now she’s sharing exactly what led to that choice. She delivered a powerful commentary in an essay for Vulture: “The (Bachelor) franchise has spent 19 years cultivating a toxic audience. They have constantly given it a product it wants: a midwestern/southern white, blonde, light-eyed Christian.” She added, “I’m no longer making myself available to The Bachelor universe. To the franchise, I am no longer a figurehead. I am no longer a spot-filler. I am no longer the face of what is diverse.”
–John Boyega, Regé-Jean Page, Jonathan Majors, Josh O’Connor and Chris Rock got together virtually for THR’s drama actor roundtable.
-HBO’s true crime series I’ll Be Gone In The Dark returns tonight with an update episode.
–Megan Thee Stallion slammed DaBaby for collaborating with Tory Lanez. She tweeted, “support me in private and publicly do something different…these industry men are very strange. This situation ain’t no damn “beef” and I really wish people would stop down playing it like it’s some internet shit for likes and retweets.”
–Nick Cannon is about to welcome his 7th child. He’s had 4 kids within 6 months from 3 different women.
-The new Ted Lasso trailer has arrived. It needs 80% more Roy, but I laughed really hard at “It’s like Dukes of Hazards. Or over here you probably call it Earls of Risk is very funny. Also, “Rom-Communism.”
-The Grammys were last night and they were…weird. The red carpet was strangely subdued, the show’s best moments were from women but they were generally overlooked as the trophies were being handed out, and Kesha’s performance was transcendentbut it highlighted just how much the music industry has ignored the Me Too movement. And then came the interviewwith Recording Academy president Neil Portnow who, when asked why there were so few female winners, had the gall to say that women have “to step up.” (Pink has already taken to Twitter to slam that comment.) He also said of the lack of Lorde performance: “There’s no way we can really deal with everybody.” Um, you had a Shaggy and Sting duet. But ok, then.
-The Grammys did, however, gift the world with this amazing GIF of Blue Ivy trying to get her parents to stop embarrassing her, and it was glorious. This photoof a bystander looking freaked out by being in Beyonce‘s presence is a close second.
-Oh god, squared. Julie Delpy reportedly implied that blackness is easier than womanhood. Nope, nope, nope.
-Former Charles In Charge star Nicole Eggert has accused Scott Baioof unspecified impropriety when she was a teenager. She tweeted “Ask @scottbaio what happened in his garage at his house when I was a minor. Creep” and then added “It started when I was 14. Wasn’t a one time deal.” He’s denied any wrongdoing.
-I keep forgetting that Kirsten Dunst is baking a baby Landry!
-The fact that Busy Phillips spent a large portion of her weekend trying to recreate the karma’s a bitch meme makes me love her even more.
-I only watched 10 minutes of Stana Katic‘s new show and though it seems good, the water tank scene freaked me out too much to continue. While doing press for the show, she broke her silence about ABC’s terrible treatment of herwhen Castle ended (after eight years as the female lead she was let go from the show at the end of the season, only for it not to get renewed anyway a month later). “I’m actually still not clear on the thought process behind the way that it went down… It hurt and it was a harsh ending.”
-The CW announced its Charmed reboot and original star Holly Marie Combs is not here for it. Shannen Doherty was a bit more positive, but hated that they’re calling it a “feminist” reboot as if the original wasn’t. She’s got a point.
–James Francowas photoshopped out of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood cover at the last minute.
-Mark your calendars: Game Of Thrones’ next season will premiere in April 2019.
-Wait, so Justin Timberlake has already released three singles from his upcoming album? How did I miss two of them?
-This article about Dawson’s Creek’s anniversary and how the show redefined teen romanceby moving away from the unquestionable belief that women belonged to men.
–Nicole Kidman‘s hidden talent is eating bugs (which isn’t really a hidden talent at all. I can eat bugs — and have. I can’t recite all the US presidents in order like Dakota Fanning. Or fence like Greta Gerwig. Vanity Fair is getting really lax with the criteria for this series…)
-Just when I thought that I couldn’t like Black Lightening any more comes news that Jill Scott is joining the show as a supervillain.
–Will Smith on YouTube is making my life. He buys fancy equipment for it! He spends his trip to Australia looking for Hugh Jackman and Margot Robbie (who aren’t there)!
-Speaking of Hugh Jackman, I haven’t seen The Greatest Showman because I once had to write an essay on PT Barnum for school and that guy was problematic af, but this video of Hugh crying during the rehearsal of the show’s big number is pretty swelling.
–John Krasinski and Anna Kendrickplay an expectant couple in their new movie and I want it in my eyeballs right now!
-Also, John talking about his love of Emily Blunt will make you dissolve into a puddle and evaporate.
–Michelle Williams is clearly the Sundance MVP this year. Between Manchester By The Sea (which everyone is RAVING about) and Certain Women, she’s a lock for award show chatter next season.
–Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom still might be a thing.
–Matthew Perry says he can’t remember three years of Friends because he was so “out of it.” (People of my generation call that “Tracy Gold-ing it”).
-Meanwhile, here’s the first photo from the (not really) Friends reunion, allowing us yet another opportunity to play ‘what the hell is Aniston wearing?!?’
–Robert Downey Jr. just revealed that the Avengers gang has a group text goingand I so want these to leak!
-Speaking of the Avengers, Mark Ruffalo lost his wallet and tweeted an adorable pic of the family who returned it.
–Chelsea Handler says her worst interview was Justin Bieber. Shocker.
-What do you do when a giant snowstorm cancels your fan convention? If you’re Stephen Amell and John Barrowman, you go to the hotel where most of your fans are stuck at and sing showtunes for them.
-Ok, so the first X Files episode was pretty bad (um, did they just throw out the entire series mythology? Really glad I did that rewatch, guys), but the ratings were solid. Tonight’s episode will be the real test — mostly because I don’t think they’ve done a good job of letting people know there’s a new one on tonight.
-I love this article on Dana Scully’s evolving fashion — and not just because it’s titled ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit.’
-It’s the dawning of the latest Batman v Superman trailer, which finally features Wonder Woman. Still not sold on this.