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Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, and Jimmy Fallon’s Holiday Surprise

-Well, this is unexpected. Ariana Grande, Megan Thee Stallion, and Jimmy Fallon came together for a festive single.

–Zendaya chats with her Euphoria costar Colman Domingo in the latest issue of Interview Magazine. She talks about her interest in photography, how she wants to direct “a simple love story about two Black girls,” and meeting Michelle Obama (“I always say it’s like meeting your auntie, like you know her already”).

-Awful news: Nick Cannon and Alyssa Scott’s 5-month-old son has passed away from a brain tumor.

-This is a good piece on how New York rom-coms don’t actually make sense. Maid in Manhattan, for instance, tricks us into forgetting a rich assemblyman gives a press conference about how a maid lied to him about being rich.

–Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Hart are previewing being in the upcoming Facts of Life live, which airs tonight.

–Tristan Thompson is having a baby with a personal trainer, which has reportedly blindsided Khloé Kardashian.

–Rihanna says new music is coming “soon soon soon”.

–Mindy Kaling‘s HBO show The Sex Lives of College Girls has been renewed.

–Billie Eilish released her self-directed video for “Male Fantasy.”

-The reviews are in for Being the Ricardos, and while they’re mixed, it seems like Nicole Kidman as won most critics over.

-Every time a major publication like the NYT writes about what’s happening in the book world, it just comes off as so out of touch compared to what’s happening on BookTok. Yes, of course social media followings do not translate into book sales. Yes, Billie Eilish and Justin Timberlake’s fans of their music don’t automatically want to buy their books. No one can predict what’s going to blow up and what’s not. That’s why that book about a woman milking a centaur came out of nowhere to become the most buzzed book on socials this year.

-Neo and Trinity reunite in the latest trailer for Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections.

 

The Sex and the City Ladies Are Back (Most of Them, Anyway)

-Here’s our first look at the SATC reboot. Ah man, this might have got me. Just when I think I’m out…

–Justin Bieber teamed up with The Kid LAROI for the video for new single “Stay.”

–Paris Hilton is defending Britney Spears after the singer mentioned her in the conservatorship hearing.

–Angelina Jolie no longer wants to own Miraval with Brad Pitt. Ok, but can somone keep producing their delicious rose?

–Matt Damon got emotional during Stillwater’s five-minute standing ovation at Cannes. “I was a little overwhelmed last night. I’m really glad that we’re here this year. I never would have appreciated it in that way had we not gone through what we went through.”

-This is an interesting article about the world of celebrity assistants.

–Nick Cannon insists he meant to get so many women pregnant. “Trust me there’s a lot of people that I could’ve gotten pregnant that I didn’t. The ones that got pregnant are the ones that were supposed to get pregnant.”

-Excitement quickly turned to hurt when iCarly’s Laci Mosley became the target of racist viewers shortly after the announcement of her casting in the revival this spring. She was inundated by racist messages on social media from toxic viewers. In a new interview, she said “I look forward to the point where being Black and getting a job in Hollywood is not a political statement. We are talented. We work very hard, a lot of times much harder to get where we are and we don’t deserve to be punished for that.”

–Diplo is being sued by a woman who claims he pushed her into a sexual assault and filmed it.

-I’m surprised a sequel to Chris Pratt’s Tomorrow War is in development. Everyone who watched it seemed to hate it.

-Sweet Home Alabama is a comfort movie for me — but I don’t want a sequel.

-Peacock ordered Pride And Prejudice-style dating show and I am here for it! There was one like that a few years ago called Regency House that I devoured one summer.

-Watch the new trailer for Disney’s Encanto, featuring songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Carlos Vives.

Rihanna Introduces Fenty Skincare

-Welp. Do you want to take all my money now Rihanna, or wait until the products hit shelves? I’m flexible.

–Megan Thee Stallion says she’s “incredibly grateful to be alive” after suffering multiple gunshot wounds Sunday morning. Wait, what?!?  I thought she was injured by glass.

–Nick Cannon is speaking out against ViacomCBS after the company fired him yesterday for making anti-Semitic comments. He’s demanding an apology and the rights to Wild ‘N Out.

–Diddy and Dwayne Wade are some of the celebs showing Cannon support.

-Interestingly, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a piece in The Hollywood Reporter earlier this week calling out anti-Semitic rhetoric by Black entertainers and sports stars.

-It looks like Kanye West is abandoning his (fake) presidential bid.

–Elizabeth Chambers officially filed for divorce from Armie Hammer, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Meanwhile, he trended today because of some shady looking screenshots of DMs that I don’t actually believe are real.

-A bunch of celebrities and politicians’ twitter feeds have been hacked to promote a bitcoin scam.

-Maroon 5 co-founder Mickey Madden has taken a leave of absence from the band following an alleged domestic violence arrest.

-2020 continues to be the weirdest: Ghislaine Maxwell is reportedly being moved from ‘cell to cell’ in prison to avoid assassins.

-Here are all the celebrities in Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s inner circle that are probably really nervous right now.

-You know what’s weird? When the Parks and Rec reunion episode was happening there was so much build up and buzz, but I have barely heard a peep about tomorrow’s 30 Rock episode. NBC isn’t doing screeners for critics, and a bunch of affiliates are refusing to air it — they see it as an ad for their streaming competitor Peacock and NBCU cable networks like Syfy and USA.

-Meanwhile, this is an interesting look back at 30 Rock’s product placement and how they pretended to be above it.

–Dakota Johnson once mused about bisexuality in a 2017 interview and Twitter has jumped on it today as if it’s a new quote for some reason. Time is a flat circle.

-I can’t imagine why Hayden Christensen would agree to revisit the Anakin Skywalker role after all the hate he got from Star Wars fans, but I guess mortgages don’t pay themselves.

–Gracie Cox, a former Hollywood costume designer, is speaking out about an alleged 2005 sexual assault by Entourage’s Kevin Connolly during the wrap party for his directorial debut, The Gardener of Eden. The film’s lead costume designer recalls Cox telling her of the incident right after it happened, and says she immediately confronted him, which witnesses confirmed to the Daily Beast. Four of Cox’s friends also confirmed she told them about the incident in the following days. He’s denied it, saying the encounter was consensual.

–Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in the trailer for Netflix’s latest action movie, Project Power.