For All Mankind‘s Jodi Balfour has landed a major recurring role on Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning series Ted Lasso, according to Deadline. She’s the first known cast addition for the show’s upcoming third season. Balfour will play Jack, “a charming venture capitalist.” She joins Jason Sudeikis, Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, …
Warrick Page/HBO HBO Max’s new hit series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, airing Sundays, shines a light on the experiences of some of the often forgotten but essential players of the Showtime-era Lakers. One of them was Norm Nixon, played by his son DeVaughn Nixon in the series. He tells ABC Audio, “some of the players that …
ABC/Heidi Gutman Last night, as reported, Gilbert Gottfried‘s fans, both famous and not, took to social media to mourn the comedian’s passing. But he was applauded on Broadway, too, thanks to the cast of Disney’s Aladdin the Musical. After the performance of the show on Tuesday evening, Don Darryl Rivera, who plays Iago, stepped forward, still …
John Lamparski/Getty Images Chris Rock‘s younger brother Kenny Rock recently told TMZ that he signed a deal to participate in a celebrity boxing match and that he’d be willing to meet Will Smith in the ring. In the video clip, he revealed that the match is set for June 11, and while he hasn’t yet solidified an opponent, he says he’s looking to …
Thaddaeus McAdams/Getty Images for Ocean Drive In a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor forcible touching charge to resolve his forcible touching and sex assault case in Manhattan. The actor had been accused of forcibly kissing a woman at a nightclub in September 2018. He also admitted to subjecting two other …
Fernando Gutierrez-Juarez/picture alliance via Getty Images Amanda Bynes hasn’t said anything on her social media since her mother’s conservatorship of her affairs was terminated last month, but on her Instagram, she just posted that she and her fiancé, Paul Michael, have just dropped a single. “Diamonds,” a song on which Michael raps, and Bynes provides the chorus, is available on Spotify and …
“Dopesick” — Hulu/Gene Page The nominations are out for the 82nd Annual Peabody Awards, spotlighting 2021’s “most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media2.” Among the nominees this year are Questlove‘s Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul (…Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Hulu’s opioid crisis drama Dopesick, which previously earned …
Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Grassroot Soccer Tonight on CBS is another installment of the 42nd (!) season of Survivor. Way back in 2001, the winner of the third season, Survivor: Africa, was Ethan Zohn, and he’s still watching the show, so ABC Audio wanted to get his perspective on the current iteration of the Emmy-winning series. “I’m torn …
Phil Walter/Getty Images Serena Williams is one of the most celebrated, decorated and beloved tennis stars of all time. But her superstar status as an Olympic medalist doesn’t negate the fact that as a Black woman, she’s at times overlooked and undervalued. In a personal essay for ELLE magazine, the 40-year-old star shares the harrowing story of what happened …
Rich Fury/WireImage Jennifer Lopez is dishing more about her engagement to Ben Affleck. In her On the JLo newsletter, the superstar shared an update, titled “How It Went Down,” detailing how the actor popped the question. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” the Marry …