Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — Mark Wahlberg is giving back to schools. The actor’s wellness company Performance Inspired has partnered with Accelerate360’s lifestyle brand LifeToGo to donate 1.3 million disposable masks to schools across the country. “As you know this has been a year of change and stress for everybody but today I want …
Liv Tyler not returning to ‘9-1-1: Lonestar’ due to COVID-19 concerns
©2020 Fox Media LLC. (LOS ANGELES) — Liv Tyler has departed 9-1-1: Lone Star due to concerns surrounding COVID-19. The 43-year-old actress, who starred as EMS Captain Michelle Blake for one season, will not return for season two of Fox series, according to Deadline. Tyler currently resides in London with her partner and two of her children. The uncertainty of the …
‘Black Widow,’ ‘West Side Story’ among major films seeing delayed release to 2021
Walt Disney Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — Here we go again: yet more major films have been delayed due to COVID-19. Variety reports the release of Black Widow, West Side Story and Death on the Nile are being pushed to 2021. The Scarlett Johansson-fronted Black Widow was slated to open November 6, but will now debut next spring on May 7, while Steven Spielberg’s remake of …
Hallmark Channel announces Christmas movie about a gay couple looking to adopt
Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Hallmark Channel and its parent company, Crown Media Family Network, are delivering on their promise to diversify their holiday movies. Mean Girls actor Jonathan Bennett will star in The Christmas House, which is about a gay couple looking to adopt their first child, according to Michelle Vicary, executive vice president of …
Netflix releases trailer for horror series ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’
Eike Schroter/Netflix © 2020(LOS ANGELES) — Netflix is about to get real spooky. The streaming giant released the official trailer today for its new thriller, The Haunting of Bly Manor, the follow-up to the popular 2018 series The Haunting of Hill House. Creator Mike Flannagan gives Henry James’ 1898 horror story The Turn of the Screw a modern update in Bly Manor, which follows young au pair Dani …
Teddi Mellencamp confirms exit from ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’: “It feels like a breakup”
Bravo(LOS ANGELES) — It’s official. Teddi Mellencamp will not return to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for Season 11. The now former housewife and daughter of rocker John Mellencamp confirmed the news in an Instagram video shared on Tuesday with the caption, “You heard it here last… Yes, it’s true, I am not coming back to #RHOBH.” “Thank you …
Reese Witherspoon proves she’s been snapping selfies — and hasn’t aged — since 1996
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — Move over Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton, Reese Witherspoon has submitted fool-proof evidence that she invented the selfie after posting an adorable snap she took over two decades ago. Not only that, Paul Rudd even joined her for the 24-year-old shot and it appears The Morning Show star is having a hard time processing the discovery. “Wait a second…,” she …
Drew Barrymore gifts $10,000 to fire chief who lost home in Oregon fires
ViacomCBS(LOS ANGELES) — It was a historic fire season on the west coast, with blazes decimating countless properties as they consumed millions of acres across California and Oregon. For one fire chief, she watched in horror as her entire town went up in flames. Christiana Rainbow Plews, 50, says the Holiday Farm Fire destroyed everything, including her home. Actress …
Kerry Washington shares how she approaches conversations with her kids about race and injustice
Jason Kempin/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Kerry Washington is opening up about how she has conversations about race and injustice in her home. The 43-year-old actress, who is a mother to 6-year-old Isabelle Amarachi Asomugha and Caleb Kelechi Asomugha — who is almost two, appeared on Tuesday’s episode of Ellen and revealed that when it comes to having …
Jussie Smollett once again seeks to have charges against him dismissed
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images(CHICAGO) — Jussie Smollett has filed another motion to dismiss the charges against him, arguing the grand jury testimony that led to his second indictment is invalid, according to documents obtained by the New York Post on Tuesday. The motion, filed by Smollett’s legal team, contends the actor’s second indictment was based on …