Rick Diamond/Getty Images for ACM(LOS ANGELES) — Blake Shelton has become a staple of NBC’s The Voice for nine seasons now, but that spinning red chair he currently occupies was originally offered to another country superstar — Reba McEntire. “It is very true,” McEntire, told Andy Cohen Tuesday on his Bravo series Watch What Happens Live. So what made her turn down …
Just deux it — Netflix renews ‘Emily In Paris’ for a second season
Carole Bethuel/Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — It looks like Lily Collins will be spending another year in the City of Lights. Her hit Netflix show, Emily In Paris, has been renewed for another season. The series follows the story of her title character, a marketing executive who jets off to France for an unexpected job opportunity providing the American perspective to a …
COVID-19 shuts down ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ for two weeks
Milos Bicanski/Bravo(GEORGIA) — COVID-19 has done what nobody else ever could: It’s stopped the cast of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta from fighting. Deadline reports that after a member of the production tested positive for the virus, shooting on season 13 of the show was halted for 14 days, “out of an abundance of caution,” according to a …
‘Dating Amber’ stars discuss making a “hopeful” queer coming-of-age story
Courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films(NEW YORK) — In the new comedy Dating Amber, Fionn O’Shea and Lola Petticrew play gay classmates in mid-90s Ireland who pretend they’re dating in order to avoid ridicule from their peers. Along the way, they help each other come to terms with who they are. O’Shea and Petticrew, who became …
A recovered Hugh Grant tells ‘The Late Show’ that he and his wife had COVID-19
2020 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LONDON) — On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Tuesday night, Hugh Grant revealed that he and his wife, Anna Eberstein, contracted COVID-19 in February, and since have fully recovered. However, the battle wasn’t pretty, Grant joked to the chat show host. “It started as just a very strange syndrome where I kept breaking into a …
“We were starving” — Jason Momoa reveals his family struggled after ‘Game of Thrones’
ABC/Rick Rowell(LOS ANGELES) — Jason Momoa isn’t lacking for work these days, but the Aquaman star says it was a different story when he left HBO’s Game of Thrones in 2011. The 41-year-old actor, who played Khal Drogo during the show’s first season, tells In Style that he, wife Lisa Bonet and their two children, Lola and Wolf — now 13 and 11, respectively — “were starving.” “I couldn’t …
Rebel Wilson discusses why she committed herself to a “year of health” and set a strict goal weight
Wilson in 2019 – ABC/Rick Rowell(LOS ANGELES) — Australian actress Rebel Wilson started the year with an ambitious weight-loss goal and, now, she’s revealing why she wanted 2020 to be a transformative year. During her Tuesday appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show, the 40-year-old actress opened up about why she challenged herself to hit a goal weight of 165 pounds. “I was …
Wiping away the COVID-19 cobwebs: Hollywood production ramping up
iStock/gorodenkoff(LOS ANGELES) — Film permits for the Los Angeles area jumped by 24% in October versus September, Variety reports, in a sign that COVID-19’s grip on the entertainment industry may be loosening. With new safety protocols in place, many shows have already started production. But while the 2,565 film permit applications that were applied for in the past …
Rupert Grint officially joins Instagram to share the first photo of his daughter
Jun Sato/GC Images(LONDON) — Harry Potter star Rupert Grint finally joined the rest of his co-stars on Instagram. However, his debut on Tuesday was made all the cuter when he dedicated his first post to his newborn daughter. Grint, 32, gave fans their first glimpse of his little girl and, not only that, he finally revealed her name. “Hey Instagram….only 10 …
‘West Wing,’ ‘The Good Doctor’ star Richard Schiff tests positive for COVID-19
Earl Gibson III/Getty Images(VANCOUVER) — Richard Schiff, who stars as Dr. Aaron Glassman on the ABC series The Good Doctor, revealed on Tuesday that he and wife Sheila Kelley tested positive for COVID-19 on November 3. Taking to Twitter to reveal his diagnosis, Schiff openly admitted that contracting the novel coronavirus came at a very strange time for the …