ABC/Mike Rosenthal(LOS ANGELES) — Justin Chambers, who played Dr. Alex Karev since the very first episode of Grey’s Anatomy, is hanging up his scrubs, 350 episodes later. In a statement to Deadline, Chambers said, “There’s no good time to say goodbye to a show and character that’s defined so much of my life for the past 15 years. …
Wendie Malick found her witchy “alter ego” on Disney Channel’s ‘The Owl House’
Disney Channel/Valerie Durant(NEW YORK) — Former Just Shoot Me! star Wendie Malick is lending her voice to a new Disney Channel animated fantasy series, The Owl House. In the show, which debuts tonight, she plays a rogue witch named Eda, who takes a teenage misfit named Luz under her wing. Malick says she sees Eda …
Amy Schumer begins IVF to “give Gene a sibling”
ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) — Amy Schumer is being candid about her path to a bigger family with husband Chris Fischer, and is looking for support from her social media followers. In an Instagram post Thursday, the comedian wrote that she’s going through the in vitro fertilization process and shared a photo of her stomach, replete …
Billy Porter praises his “maternal” ‘Like A Boss’ co-stars and dishes on his most “challenging” day on set
ABC News/Steve Iervolino(NEW YORK) — Billy Porter does a great job of flexing his acting chops in the new comedy Like A Boss. In the new film, starring Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, and Salma Hayek, Porter plays Barrett, a smart, but sassy employee who works closely with Haddish and Byrne’s characters of Mia and Mel …
Guy “hacks” ‘Sleeping Beauty’ to pop the question, putting all other proposals to shame
iStock/D_Zheleva(LOS ANGELES) — If you thought the way you popped the question to your significant other was creative, shelve that story: a guy named Lee Loechler has you beat. He spent months “hacking” his cardiologist girlfriend Sthuthi David’s favorite film, Sleeping Beauty, working with an animator to change heroic Prince Philip and snoozing Aurora to …
Michael B. Jordan says his star-studded ‘Just Mercy’ cast “cared about the story we were trying to portray”
ABC News/Steve Iervolino(NEW YORK) — Michael B. Jordan’s new legal drama Just Mercy is more than just a film with an important message. In the film, based on Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 New York Times best-selling memoir of the same name, Jordan stars as Stevenson, a civil right activist who founded the Equal Justice Initiative. Jordan stars alongside Jamie Foxx, who …
“Creative differences” make Scott Derrickson vanish as ‘Doctor Strange’ sequel director
Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney(LOS ANGELES) — Scott Derrickson, the horror director who turned Doctor Strange into a major Marvel Studios player, has left the director’s chair for the sequel. The filmmaker tweeted, “Marvel and I have mutually agreed to part ways on Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness due to creative …
Will Smith and Jimmy Fallon rap the history of Will Smith on ‘The Tonight Show’
Andrew Lipovsky/NBC(NEW YORK) — Will Smith was one of Jimmy Fallon’s guests on Thursday’s The Tonight Show, and to get us up to speed on what the busy actor/rapper has been up to over the last thirty-five years, the two gave us the scoop in a musical segment called, “Will Smith and Jimmy Fallon rap the History of Will …
‘Like a Boss’ leads this week’s new releases
Paramount Pictures(NEW YORK) — Opening nationwide on Friday: * Like a Boss — This comedy stars Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne as BFFs who create a trendy-but-struggling cosmetics company, which then is bought by a ruthless mogul, played by Salma Hayek. She soon swipes their ideas, setting up the underdogs to take down the makeup giant. Jennifer Coolidge, Natasha Rothwell and Billy Porter also star. Rated R. …
Gigi Hadid quietly deletes support for Justin Bieber after being called disloyal
Image Group LA/ABC via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — The day after Gigi Hadid sent a supportive tweet to Hailey Bieber, who took a stand against those bullying her husband Justin Bieber for announcing that he has Lyme disease, the model purged it from her Twitter after getting bullied herself. On Wednesday, Hailey Bieber tweeted a sincere thank you to the Hadid …