Photo by Tara Ziemba/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Television personality Montel Williams is recovering in a New York City hospital where he was taken after feeling unwell during a workout. His spokesperson, Jonathan Franks, tweeted a statement on Friday, explaining that the 61-year-old former talk show host, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, "overdid it" at the gym and was taken to the hospital "out of an abundance of caution." The "exercise […]
STXfilms(LOS ANGELES) -- The following movies open nationwide on Friday: * Adrift -- Shailene Woodley stars in this action adventure drama based on the true story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft, who found herself in a race against time to save her fiancé Richard Sharp -- played by The Hunger Games' Sam Claflin -- who was badly injured after a massive hurricane left their boat in ruins. Rated PG-13. * Action Point -- This comedy features Jackass star Johnny Knoxville as the owner of Action Point, a minimum […]
TBS(NEW YORK) -- Samantha Bee issued an apology Thursday for using an expletive to describe first daughter Ivanka Trump on her TBS show Full Frontal Wednesday night. The host referred to Trump as a "feckless c---" during her taped broadcast, which has resulted in sponsors State Farm and AutoTrader suspending their advertising. "I would like to sincerely apologize to Ivanka Trump and to my viewers for using an expletive on my show to describe her last […]
Netflix - 2017(NEW YORK) -- As Cheo Hodari Coker gears up for the second season return of his hit Netflix series, Luke Cage, the director-producer is also reflecting on the first season's successes and challenges. In season one, the now Oscar-winning actor Marhershala Ali played villain Cornell "Cottonmouth" Stokes. Coker says because of Ali's outstanding performance, some fans were upset and somewhat turned off of the show when his character […]
Photo by Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Danish actress Brigitte Nielsen is expecting a baby, she revealed Wednesday. The 54-year-old TV personality and model took to Instagram to unveil two photos of her pregnant belly and tell her nearly 86,000 followers: "family getting larger." "happy time positive vibes #happyness [sic] #positivevibes," she captioned one shot. This will be the fifth child for Nielsen, who has been married to her current husband, Mattia […]
ABC/Kelsey McNeal(LOS ANGELES) -- For her next acting gig, Hailee Steinfeld is getting literary. The singer and Oscar nominaed actress will star as real-life 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson in a new Apple series called Dickinson. The show will be a comedic coming-of-age story told from Emily’s point of view, which shows the budding writer trying to break free from the societal constraints of her time. Dickinson's most famous poem is […]
ABC(LOS ANGELES) -- As the Roseanne cancellation saga continues to unfold on Twitter, those who knew the comedian long before the show returned to ABC this year are speaking out.Stan Zimmerman was a writer on the original Roseanne run on ABC in the 1980s and 1990s. He says he doesn't recognize the Roseanne Barr who made the racist comment on Twitter that got her show cancelled, and who's continued to fan social media flames since.Zimmerman told ABC News that the […]
ABC/Craig Sjodin (LOS ANGELES) -- When Garrett Yrigoyen stepped out of the minivan on Monday night's season premiere of The Bachelorette, Becca Kufrin seemed to instantly be smitten. In fact, she gave him the first impression rose, making him an early front runner. But, reports about his social media practices have been called into question, sparking a controversy. Yrigoyen has "liked" photos on Instagram that mock feminism, transgender people, and […]
ABC/Heidi Gutman(LOS ANGELES) -- Julia Roberts will present her Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12 co-star George Clooney with the American Film Institute's prestigious Life Achievement Award at its 46th annual gala taking place at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on June 7, the Institute announced on Wednesday. In addition to the Ocean's movies in 2001 and 2004, Roberts co-starred with Clooney in 2016's Money Monster. She also starred in his directorial debut, Confessions […]
