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NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Noelle Sheldon, who played Ross and Rachel’s baby Emma on Friends alongside her twin sister Cali, rang in 2020 with a nod to a joke from the show about the date -- then a long way off. In the season 10 episode entitled “The One With the Cake,” Chandler and Monica -- played respectively by Matthew Perry and Courtney Cox -- who scrapped a planned romantic getaway […]

Barcin/iStock(ST. CHARLES, Illinois) -- An IHOP waitress started off the new year with an epic surprise from New Kids on the Block member Donnie Wahlberg.  Instead of tipping his waitress the normal 20 percent on his $78 check, the Blue Bloods actor gave her a whopping $2,020. This gesture is part of a new viral challenge -- called The 2020 Tip Challenge -- which asks people to pay it forward to their waiters or waitresses.  Wahlberg's wife, Jenny McCarthy, tweeted about […]

ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(LOS ANGELES) -- As it does every year, the world of entertainment saw its share of scandals in 2019. From Jussie Smollett's alleged racial bias attack to the Varsity Blues college admission scandal that ensnared Lori Loughlin and landed Felicity Huffman behind bars, to the the sex charges slapped against Cuba Gooding Jr. and R. Kelly, let's take a look back at the days some celebrities would rather forget. Jussie Smollett's alleged attackOn January 29, the entertainment […]

"Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins - © 2017 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. AND RATPAC ENTERTAINMENT, LLC(LOS ANGELES) -- Female directors had a banner year in 2019, but Hollywood still has a long way to go in the quest for gender parity, a new study found. Women were at the helm of 12 of the top 100 films of 2019 and comprised 10.6% of those directing feature films -- the highest percentage […]

Photo by PictureGroup/Walt Disney Television(LOS ANGELES) -- (NOTE LANGUAGE) Actress Busy Phillips explained on her Instagram that she thought all was going well with her E! talk show Busy Tonight -- until she was "blindsided" by a text declaring that it had been cancelled.  In a series of Instagram posts she titled "almostgrams," because she only published them over the weekend  and not when she snapped them back in May, Phillips illustrated the emotions she was […]

Photo by: Todd Antony/NBC(LONDON) -- In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ricky Gervais says while hosting Sunday's Golden Globe awards for a fifth time, he won't hold his tongue -- too much. The outspoken comic and The Office creator admits the show was tough for any comedian -- even before today's sensitive times. "Everyone's...getting drunk...And as the night goes on, there are more losers," notes Gervais.  "If that was a comedy club, you'd go, 'I'm […]

Photo: Francis Specker/CBS ©2016 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) -- "It’s just us now," is how former That '70s Show veteran Wilmer Valderrama captioned an Instagram photo of him proposing to his model girlfriend, Amanda Pacheco, on New Year's Day.  The couple is seen on the beach, with NCIS star Wilmer on bended knee on a rock jutting into the ocean. The pair have been linked since April of last year, People reports.  Valderrama, 39, has been linked to […]

Lucasfilm(LOS ANGELES) -- While it's trailing its two 'sequel trilogy' predecessors, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and The Last Jedi, the ninth Star Wars film, The Rise of Skywalker, is still cleaning up at theaters worldwide.  The New Year's holiday box office saw the film repeat at the top of the theatrical heap, with a $16.9 million New Year's Eve haul, pushing its domestic gross to more than $407 million in its coffers.  Variety notes the J.J. […]

Nicole Harnishfeger-Pool/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- A lawsuit accusing Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting a now-deceased Los Angeles County massage therapist in 2016 has been dropped, according to court documents obtained by The New York Times. The documents, filed in Federal District Court in California on Monday, state the lawsuit against Spacey has been "voluntarily dismissed with prejudice," meaning it cannot be brought back before the court.  No further details were provided. “Mr. Spacey paid […]