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R. Kelly

Hedley’s Jacob Hoggard Facing Sexual Assault Charges

-Whoa. Hedley frontman Jacob Hoggard was just arrested and charged with two counts of sexual assault causing bodily harm and one count of sexual interference. It’s unclear whether these stem from the same allegations that surfaced in Feb, which he denied at the time.

-Guardians of the Galaxy’ stars Zoe Saldana, David Bautista, and Chris Pratt all jumped to James Gunn‘s defense on Twitter this weekend. I wonder if they all came to it separately or if this is a coordinated push?

-Meanwhile, Selma Blair and Sarah Silverman are supporting a petition to rehire him.

-Also, this is an interesting take on Disney’s bad faith argument. Of course people should face consequences for doing stupid stuff and I’m not convinced he should be rehired, but a lot about this smells funny.

–Pete Davidson reportedly proposed to Ariana Grande while smoking weed in bed. This just gets better and better…

-Tiffany Haddish and Common may be a thing, and I’m here for it.

-This pair surprises me: 2 Broke Girls star Beth Behrs married Mad Men’s Michael Gladis.

-I’m not sure that I believe this story about how Meghan Markle wanted to wear a Stella McCartney tuxedo-style suit to an evening event on the Australian tour, and it was vetoed by Prince Harry. That doesn’t sound very Harry-esque.

–R Kelly spends 19 minutes confessing that he is a terrible human being who does terrible things on his new song “I Admit It,” and his fans are still all “wow, great melody!” (The Onion’s take is the best take.)

-Meanwhile, could what he says in the song be considered evidence? It’s a grey area, but a lawyer says “If I was his lawyer I would have advised him not to write this song.” I’m guessing lawyers would advise him not to do a lot of the things he does…

-Jesus Christ. Charlamagne and his wife both admitted that the first time they had sex, he raped her.

–Lindsay Lohan‘s management style is something else.

-I love this praise for The Good Fight’s title sequence. It’s probably the only one that I never FF through.

-Ohhhh boy. A Buffy the Vampire Slayer series reboot with a black lead is in the works from Joss Whedon and Monica Owusu-Breen. I have a lot of feelings about this. On one hand, as problematic as Whedon is I still adore the original (I truly believe that watching Buffy Summers and Dana Scully kick ass every week when I was young and impressionable shaped who I am). But why retread old ideas? And if you HAVE to do a Buffy series, why not a sequel with new characters instead of a reboot? No series has ever ended with such a perfect sequel setup: Buffy’s actions prompted slayer powers to be awakened in girls all over the world. It’s *right there*!!

–Kanye West is “doing ok” after being hospitalized for the flu.

-Black-ish star Anthony Anderson is denying a woman who says he assaulted her after she catered one of his events.

-This is a good take on how Johnny Depp’s latest lawsuit reveals how Hollywood productions enable abusive behavior.

-Meanwhile, I was surprised that Warner Bros doubled down on Depp at the Fantastic Beasts panel during Comic-Con this weekend.

–This tweet about Chris Pine’s look at Comic Con pretty much sums it up for me: “Chris Pine styles himself like a middle aged woman who brunches and I’m profoundly into it.”

-The Halloween panel got surprisingly emotional when the Q&A portion started and a man stood up and told his story of survival during a home invasion. “I was scared out of my mind and out of nowhere this thought inside of me went, ‘Well, what would Jamie Lee Curtis do?’…To make a long story short, I’m here today because of the way that you portrayed Lauri Strode. I’m a victor today instead of a victim.”

-A young fan managed to out-sass a sassy Ryan Reynolds at Comic-Con.

-The Good Place didn’t show any new footage at their Comic-Con panel, but this cast interview is great. And they released bloopers!

-A ton of TV shows did release new TV footage though, including Arrow, The Walking Dead, Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Better Call Saul, The Gifted, Roswell New Mexico and Star Trek: Discovery. Click here for my roundup.

-On the movie side, we got new trailers for Aquaman, Glass, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, Fantastic Beasts and more. I can’t believe I’m saying this but the one that won me over the most is Shazam (with Godzilla coming in a close second, which was also a surprise).

Mindy Kaling Is Pregnant?

-Jeepers von creepers, Mindy Kaling is reportedly pregnant! A source tells E! News that the future arrival for the 38-year-old actress was “an unexpected surprise.” Part of me is super curious about the dad, part of me hopes she January Joneses it and reveals nothing, and all of me is super happy for her. She’s talked a lot in the past about wanting kids, so mazel.

–Mindy had a busy weekend. Before this news broke, she joined Oprah and Reese Witherspoon at the D23Expo to unveil the first trailer for A Wrinkle In Time, which looks amazing!

-Everyone at D23 lost their poo over the Avengers: Infinity War footage shown, but a good quality version has yet to leak and we’re not getting the first trailer until November.

-I really like this video of Don Cheadle and Mark Ruffalo at D23. You can see Don trying to pull Mark back from bad-talking Universal Studios, and then it just turns into a mutual lovefest.

-If you only read one thing today, read Buzzfeed’s exposé on R. Kelly. The parents of three young girls are claiming he’s holding them at his home against their will in a “cult.” The article is disturbing and certainly sounds like an older man grooming his victims.  The craziest thing about this is all the fans who came out to cape for him on Twitter today. How is this still happening?! Do we really care so little about young black women? People have known about him for 20 years now, and if anything, it sounds like instead of facing consequences he’s actually been escalating his behaviours. Everyone involved needs to be held accountable for this: his label, the people who still collaborate with him (looking at you, Gaga and Pitchfork), and everyone who still blindly stans him.

-A statement through his lawyer says he “unequivocally denies such allegations.”

-Look, I’m not sure I believe this story about Taylor Swift being smuggled out of her house in a box, but this has been the Monday-iest of all Mondays and I NEED it!

-Congrats to Kate Mara and Jamie Bell, who got married in a secret ceremony after two years of dating.

-If all goes as planned, the Wonder Woman sequel will be announced later this week at Comic Con.

-Yikes. Spider-Man: Homecoming suffered Marvel’s worst second-weekend drop ever. In happier box office news, The Big Sick expanded nation-wide this weekend and is doing really well.

-The Aladdin movie continues to make headlines — and not in a good way. After this weekend’s lukewarm response to the cast reveal comes news that Guy Ritchie’s script is being re-written — by a blonde white lady.

-I hate this nipple-y shot of Nicole Kidman on the cover of Love magazine. Hate it.

-It’s a big week for Attack the Block stars. Jodie Whittaker was announced as the first female doctor on Doctor Who (which of course made all the butthurt fanboys cry), and John Boyega landed on the cover of GQ, where he talked about getting relationship advice from Robert Downey Jr. and Orlando Bloom over waffles.

-Disney says it fired Kermit the Frog voice actor of 27 years over “unacceptable business conduct.”

–Alec Baldwin is set to play the Jack Nicholson role in NBC’s live production of A Few Good Men. Huh.

–Rainn Wilson wants you all to stop reminding him of the role that made him famous, ok?

-Yay for Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti, who welcomed their first child.

-The new Blade Runner 2049 trailer looks great.

-Atlanta breakout Lakeith Stanfield plays a young man from Brooklyn sent to prison for a murder he didn’t commit in the Crown Heights trailer.

Miley Cyrus Opens Up About Liam Hemsworth Split

Miley Cyrus tells Barbara Walters about her dramatic split from Liam Hemsworth
Miley Cyrus tells Barbara Walters about her dramatic split (and canceled engagement) with Liam Hemsworth in Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2013. (Photo: ABC)

–Miley Cyrus might not miss Liam Hemsworth, but she does miss that “fat rock” he gave her.

-Congrats to Fifty Shades star Jamie Dornan, who just became a new daddy.

-I love Anna Kendrick, so I’m just going to go ahead and pretend she didn’t just appear at an event with a shiny face and a velvet dress.

–Peter Berg says he had to convince Taylor Kitsch not to throw himself off a 20-ft. cliff for the sake of a movie stunt. We should all be erecting statues in Berg’s honour.

–Emily Blunt had a baby shower and half of Hollywood was invited. (But not you. Sorry.) Kristen Bell, Amy Adams, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are just some of the stars who showed up to play Baby Bingo, or whatever it is stars do at these things. (Do you think celebrities have to play the stupid games? I’d pay to see Aniston suffer through a round of “Guess The Diaper Smell.”)

-MTV just made People magazine irrelevant by naming Tom Hiddleson their Sexiest Man of 2013.

-Whoa whoa whoa. Have Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet split up? Why is he kissing a rando redhead? More importantly, if he’s into rando redheads, why isn’t he kissing me?!

-The Community cast talks about Donald Glover’s imminent departure. *sniff*

-I like that Hollywood has started casting Linda Cardellini in things again. She just signed on to play Jess’ sister in New Girl. Hopefully there’s lots of awkward dinner scenes with their parents.

–Lindsay Lohan is writing a book about the thing she knows best: rehab.

-In light of all of the praise being showered on R. Kelly thanks to his new album, it’s a good time to remind everyone that he’s been accused of interfering with dozens of underaged girls. The Village Voice has a disturbing interview with Chicago Sun-Times journalist Jim DeRogatis, who has reported on Kelly for years, and it’s stomach-churning. “The saddest fact I’ve learned is: Nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.”

-I like that the Huffington Post basically allowed Will Ferrell to troll them — on the Huffington Post.

-I’m guessing that Rebel Wilson and Melissa McCarthy haven’t actually “made a pact” about refusing to lose weight and are instead just equally kick-ass ladies who refuse to get sucked into the Hollywood machine, but I appreciate the sentiment. -Here’s the first promo for Britney Spears‘ new concert special.

-Is Blake Lively shilling for Nespresso now (while pretending not to)?

-I’m always surprised Katy Perry insists on singing live. I mean, at this point it’s not like anyone cares.

-Vulture is on a roll today with oral histories. I liked this one on the “Splat!” episode of Sex and the City (aka – the one where Kristen Johnson falls out a window). But I loved this one on Buffy’s evil trio of Andrew, Warren and Jonathan.

-The annual Hollywood blacklist of the hottest unproduced movies is out.

-Here’s the first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway. There’s very little actual footage, but it proves McConaughey should be in charge of all movie voiceovers from now on. I love how he makes the word “stars” like, three syllables.

-In other promising trailer news, here’s the first look at Parts Per Billion, starring Rosario Dawson, Teresa Palmer, Penn Badgley, Gena Rowland and (a maybe in-over-her-head) Alexis Bledel.