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Music video director Chris Applebaum recently opened up about the moment one of the most beloved celebrity romances came to an abrupt end. via: EW Britney Spears took the empowering lyrics of “Overprotected” literally when she received heartbreaking news on the set of the 2002 music video. After 20 hours of filming, the crew was ready to film the final sequence, but the pop star was holed up in her trailer. Unbeknownst to everyone, her boyfriend of more than two years, Justin

Róisín Murphy has criticized Madonna over her support for transgender people. via: Pink News Posting to Twitter on Tuesday (4 August), Murphy shared her reaction to an apology post from former Disney star Gino Segers, who was dropped from the Broadway production of Hadestown after sharing a series of anti-trans posts. Murphy pondered how artists had been “legally gagged”, stating: “I was told at the time that most major label contracts had the very authoritarian-sounding ‘mor

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized. via: Deadline Perez Hilton‘s self-harming TikTok livestream horrified viewers, prompting some to contact police and report the content. Despite the content going against the platform’s community guidelines, the stream was not immediately removed and persisted for about 15 to 20 minutes. A U.S. spokesperson for

Superman sequel Man of Tomorrow seems poised to get DC back on track in 2027, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told Wall Street analysts Thursday. via: THR Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was asked if he’s considered any “change of strategy” at DC during the company’s earnings call with Wall Street analysts Thursday morning. “You haven’t talked about DC for a while,” the analyst said. “I know with films, sometimes they perform, sometimes they don’t. But is ther

Amanda Frances will not be returning to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. via: Deadline The entrepreneur joined the reality series in Season 15 and took to social media to explain why she would not return for Season 16, as production ramps up. “My time on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is complete,” Frances wrote in an Instagram post along with a carousel of photos filming the show. “Saying yes to this show was one of the boldest, wildest, most clarifying things I’v

It’s time to return to Star’s Hollow. via: Deadline An untitled documentary about the series, which ran from 2000 to 2007, is currently in the works for HBO Max, the studio revealed on Wednesday. In Waves and War and Athlete A helmer Bonni Cohen will direct. The film marks the first-ever authorized doc about Gilmore Girls, more than 25 years after it premiered. Offering a rare insider view into the creation of Gilmore Girls, told straight from Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel

RuPaul's Drag Race and We're Here star Eureka O'Hara will take on trailblazing drag icon Divine in a new Off-Broadway solo play Divine: Beyond the Flamingos!, written and directed by Donnie (Make Me Gorgeous). The work will make its world premiere with a six-week engagement beginning December 3 at the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, with opening night set for December 8. via: Playbill The 90-minute performance will see O'Hara transforming herself into Harris Glenn Milstead,

Rumors are swirling that streaming platforms Netflix and Peacock are currently producing new Wendy Williams documentaries. via: US Sun Multiple sources told The U.S. Sun that two separate documentary projects are in the works about the star, who is battling dementia after The U.S. Sun had exclusively revealed she was diagnosed with alcohol-related brain damage. One source said that Peacock has signed with Wendy’s former executive producer, Suzanne Bass, to head up their proje

Plans to install a life-size statue of drag artist James Lee Williams, better known as The Vivienne, have been unveiled. via: Pink News The statue of the RuPaul’s Drag Race UK winner will stand at the junction of Victoria Street and Stanley Street, which marks the entrance to Liverpool’s LGBTQ+ district, Attitude reports. The Pride Quarter held particular significance to The Vivienne, also known as James Lee Williams, as it was the setting for the beginning of their drag care

A string of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars have pulled out of a birthday show for Kennedy Davenport after it emerged that Shangela was among the announced line-up. via: Them Several drag artists who were scheduled to appear at an event celebrating RuPaul’s Drag Race star Kennedy Davenport’s birthday, as well as her 30-year anniversary of doing drag, have dropped out of the performance following fan backlash due to the planned inclusion of Shangela, a fellow Drag Race queen who has

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ prison release date has changed again. via: Page Six Last month, Page Six confirmed with the Federal Bureau of Prisons that the music mogul’s release date got moved up by one month from Feb. 23, 2028, to Jan. 24, 2028, following a brawl with another inmate. But now the agency’s website shows that the rapper won’t get out until Feb. 20, 2028. Page Six has reached out to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for additional information but has yet to hear back. Combs

After revealing on a podcast that Rosie O Donnell will be returning for The View‘s 30th anniversary celebration, word on the street is that the announcement caught some former The View alum completely off guard because clearly their invitations got lost in the mail. via: Page Six Rosie O’Donnell has sent “The View” alumni into a tailspin over missing invitations that didn’t exist in the first place. O’Donnell made headlines this week after announcing on a podcast that she had

Perez Hilton has been “safely recovered” from his Miami home and rushed to a local hospital after the celebrity blogger shared what appeared to be a video in which he self-harms. via: Page Six The 911 dispatch audio regarding Perez Hilton’s hospitalization revealed details of the gossip blogger’s self-harm. At 10:41 p.m. Tuesday night, a dispatch call came in for a “suicide attempt” at the 48-year-old’s Miami address. Multiple units — including fire — “responded” to the “acti

Ice Cream Man features a scoop of AI. via: Variety Eli Roth first promised that his upcoming horror release, “Ice Cream Man,” would feature an animated sequence he had initially drawn himself. Now, days ahead of the film’s Aug. 7 premiere, Roth admitted AI had a hand in the effort. The horror director said in a statement on Tuesday (via Polygon) that he used AI in “a very small portion of a few scenes in the film” after social media posts claimed the technology was used abund

Paramount $PARA 0.00% Skydance reported second-quarter results on Tuesday and raised its full-year profit outlook, as growth in streaming and film offset a continued decline in its cable television business. via: Variety Paramount Skydance said second-quarter profit fell, even as the company was boosted by its streaming media and studios operations, while its large TV division shed ad dollars and subscribers. David Ellison, the company’s CEO, vowed that its deal to acquire Wa

Heated Rivalry season two filming is upon us, and production has a plea for its devoted fans: Please don’t crash the set. via: Variety “Heated Rivalry” creator Jacob Tierney didn’t have to worry about fans visiting the filming locations for Season 1, since nobody had heard of the Canadian romance series before it blew up on HBO Max. Now, he’s asking super fans of the massively popular show to give the cast and crew space as they begin shooting Season 2. “To our incredible fan

Whoopi Goldberg is hinting at her massive payday for co-hosting The View. via: EW Whoopi Goldberg has revealed one thing she really, really likes about moderating The View. “The check,” Goldberg said on the Baby, This Is Keke Palmer podcast. “I love the check.” Just how big is that check, you ask? While the EGOT-winning Hollywood icon didn’t reveal specifics about how many zeros are in the number representing her total salary for the long-running talk show (which she’s modera

It looks like Sony's Spider-Man spinoff universe may have come to an end after films like Madame Web, Morbius, and Kraven the Hunter failed to satisfy audiences. via: JoBlo Although the Venom trilogy was a commercial success, the other spinoffs—Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven the Hunter—were significant misfires in nearly every aspect. While chatting with Variety about the enormous box office success of Brand New Day, Sony’s Tom Rothman was asked about the failed spinoffs. “U

Fans are not happy with Mario Lopez. via: Us Weekly Mario Lopez is raising eyebrows after he shared a truly bizarre AI video featuring his niece Kalia Wong eating hot dogs at a baseball game. “I can’t take my niece anywhere!” Lopez, 52, captioned the video, shared via X on Sunday, August 2. (The video has since been deleted.) In the video, Lopez and Wong, 19, can be seen sitting at Dodger Stadium. Two AI-generated hot dogs covered in mustard and relish appear in Wong’s hands.

A federal judge has set a March 2027 trial date for the antitrust challenges to Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company. via: Deadline A federal judge has set the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger trial for next March. The date is much closer to the timeline sought by state attorneys general and the Writers Guild America, who sued to block the transaction, rather than a trial start this fall favored by Paramount. U.S. District Judge Arace