Executive producers of “Empire” announced on Friday that they’re scrubbing Jussie Smollett‘s character from the final two episodes this season.
“The events of the past few weeks have been incredibly emotional for all of us. Jussie has been an important member of our EMPIRE family for the past five years and we care about him deeply,” several of the producers, including Lee Daniels, said in a statement released by 20th Century Fox Television.
“While these allegations are very disturbing, we are placing our trust in the legal system as the process plays out. We are also aware of the effects of this process on the cast and crew members who work on our show and to avoid further disruption on set, we have decided to remove the role of ‘Jamal’ from the final two episodes of the season.”
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Executive producers of “Empire” announced on Friday that they’re scrubbing Jussie Smollett‘s character from the final two episodes this season.
“The events of the past few weeks have been incredibly emotional for all of us. Jussie has been an important member of our EMPIRE family for the past five years and we care about him deeply,” several of the producers, including Lee Daniels, said in a statement released by 20th Century Fox Television.
“While these allegations ar...
Jordyn Woods isn’t waiting for her scandal to blow over.
Kylie Jenner’s maybe-former best friend stepped out at the launch event for her new Eylure false eyelashes line on Thursday night and thanked fans for their support as she attempts to navigate her feud with the Kardashian-Jenners.
“Thank you guys for coming out and supporting me through everything that’s going on,” she said, as captured by video on social media. “It’s been real …”
Woods, 21, allegedly hooked up with Tristan Thompson while he was still dating Khloé Kardashian. Khloé has since dumped Tristan, and Kim Kardashian even called her a “single mom” in the aftermath, seemingly confirming the split.
Khloé also hasn’t let her public breakup keep her down, stepping out with best friend Malika Haqq to attend the PrettyLittleThing LA Office Opening Party on Wednesday. The next day, Khloé critically addressed the scandal with quotes on her Instagram story.
“‘The worst pain is gettin [sic] hurt by a person you explained your hurt to,’” read the first quote, seemingly directed at Woods.
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Jordyn Woods isn’t waiting for her scandal to blow over.
Kylie Jenner’s maybe-former best friend stepped out at the launch event for her new Eylure false eyelashes line on Thursday night and thanked fans for their support as she attempts to navigate her feud with the Kardashian-Jenners.
“Thank you guys for coming out and supporting me through everything that’s going on,” sh...
The CW’s The Lost Boys pilot has cast most of its leads. Former Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey and Kingdom alum Kiele Sanchez have been tapped for two of the three central characters, with Medalion Rahimi (Still Star-Crossed) and Dakota Shapiro (Valley of the Boom) also landing lead roles in the series adaptation of the iconic 1987 Warner Bros horror comedy movie.
Catherine Hardwicke is set to direct the pilot, from Warner Bros TV, Spondoolie Prods and Gulfstream TV, in a return to the vampire genre after helming the first movie in the Twilight saga.
Written by Heather Mitchell, The Lost Boys is set in sunny seaside Santa Carla, home to a beautiful boardwalk, all the cotton candy you can eat…and a secret underworld of vampires. After the sudden death of their father, brothers Michael (Posey) and Sam Emerson move to Santa Carla with their mother, Lucy (Sanchez), who hopes to start anew in the town where she grew up. But the brothers soon find themselves being drawn deeper and deeper into the seductive world of Santa Carla’s eternally beautiful and youthful undead…
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The CW’s The Lost Boys pilot has cast most of its leads. Former Teen Wolf star Tyler Posey and Kingdom alum Kiele Sanchez have been tapped for two of the three central characters, with Medalion Rahimi (Still Star-Crossed) and Dakota Shapiro (Valley of the Boom) also landing lead roles in the series adaptation of the iconic 1987 Warner Bros horror comedy movie.
Catherine Hardwicke is set to direct the pilot, from Warner Bros TV, Spondoolie Prods and Gulfstream TV, in a return ...
Jordyn Woods is leaning on her loved ones amid allegations she cheated with Tristan Thompson, People.com is reporting.
Previously living at her longtime BFF Kylie Jenner‘s house, Woods, 21, is now “moving back to her mom’s house,” says one insider. “It’s been a difficult time and she’s broken up about it. She’s heading home to be with her mom.”
Multiple sources previously confirmed to PEOPLE the KarJenners were “blindsided” by reports Woods was seen cozying up to Thompson over the weekend.
“When they first started hearing on Monday that Tristan made out with Jordyn, no one really believed it,” said one source. “That Tristan would be inappropriate, yes everyone knows that he can’t behave, but that Jordyn would make out with him, it first seemed like a made up rumor.”
“It wasn’t anything they wanted to drop,” the source added. “So several family members reached out to people they believed had been at the party. And they were told it was true.”
On Tuesday, TMZ and Hollywood Unlocked reported that Kardashian, 34, and the Cleveland Cavaliers player, 27, split after he was unfaithful with her youngest sister Kylie Jenner’s best friend Woods, who is also a member of the Good American squad, representing Kardashian’s clothing brand.
Woods has remained silent since the reports first broke, but Thompson tweeted, “FAKE NEWS” before deleting his post.
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Jordyn Woods is leaning on her loved ones amid allegations she cheated with Tristan Thompson, People.com is reporting.
Previously living at her longtime BFF Kylie Jenner‘s house, Woods, 21, is now “moving back to her mom’s house,” says one insider. “It’s been a difficult time and she’s broken up about it. She’s heading home to be with her mom.”
Multiple sources previously confirmed to PEOPLE the KarJenners were “blindsided” by reports Woods was seen cozying up to Thomps...
Just four days before the 2019 Oscars, social media is abuzz with speculation that “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg has secretly been tapped to emcee the (currently hostless) broadcast.
Goldberg has been missing from “The View” for the past several weeks, due to an alleged battle with pneumonia. But alternative theories have since cropped up on Twitter, with several users suggesting that Goldberg is actually in Los Angelesto prepare for the Feb. 24 ceremony.
An ABC spokesperson, however, tells TVLine that the rumor is “absolutely false.”
“The View” co-host Joy Behar kicked off Wednesday’s show by addressing the “conspiracy theories on the internet” that Goldberg will host the Oscars. After joking that Goldberg is actually away “on maternity leave,” Behar reiterated that her colleague is indeed recovering from pneumonia and that “she’s not even well enough to host this show, much less the Oscars.”
Of course, if Goldberg did show up as the Oscars’ surprise host, it wouldn’t be her first rodeo. An Oscar winner herself for “Ghost” in 1990,Goldberg has previously emceed the ceremony four times, most recently in 2002.
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Just four days before the 2019 Oscars, social media is abuzz with speculation that “The View’s” Whoopi Goldberg has secretly been tapped to emcee the (currently hostless) broadcast.
Goldberg has been missing from “The View” for the past several weeks, due to an alleged battle with pneumonia. But alternative theories have since cropped up on Twitter, with several users suggesting that Goldberg is actually in Los Angelesto prepare for the Feb. 24 ceremony.
An ABC spokesperson...
An extravagant mansion long owned by Metallica’s co-founder and drummer Lars Ulrich, in the posh San Francisco suburb of Tiburon, has come to market at $12 million. Property records indicate the Danish heavy metal maestro has owned the spectacularly sited manse since 1993, when it last changed hands for an unrecorded amount.
The place is stunning with views to match. And check out that insane master bathroom. Never seen anything like it!
13,000 square feet, 5-6 bedrooms, 6 full and 3 half bathrooms
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An extravagant mansion long owned by Metallica’s co-founder and drummer Lars Ulrich, in the posh San Francisco suburb of Tiburon, has come to market at $12 million. Property records indicate the Danish heavy metal maestro has owned the spectacularly sited manse since 1993, when it last changed hands for an unrecorded amount.
The place is stunning with views to match. And check out that insane master bathroom. Never seen anything like it!
13,000 square feet, 5-6 bedrooms, 6 full and ...
Hopefully, the third engagement’s a charm for Lady Gaga.
The “A Star Is Born” actress and her fiancé, Christian Carino, have called off their engagement, her rep confirmed to People on Tuesday.
Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, and Carino got together in February 2017, just months after she called off her engagement to actor Taylor Kinney. Carino was — and appears to still be — working as Gaga’s CAA agent when they coupled up.
In September 2017, Gaga, 32, gushed during one of her concerts that she was “in love” with Carino, who is nearly 20 years her senior.
Although rumors of an engagement between Gaga and Carino swirled for a while after she debuted a pink diamond ring in late 2017, the couple didn’t confirm the news until October 2018, when she thanked “my fiancé Christian” during her speech at Elle’s 25th Annual Women in Hollywood Celebration.
However, only a few months later, fans began to speculate that all wasn’t well with the couple. Rumors began to swirl that Gaga and Carino split when she didn’t wear her engagement ring to the Grammys and he didn’t go as her date.
Although she won’t be getting married yet, she’s hardly far from the shallow now.
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Hopefully, the third engagement’s a charm for Lady Gaga.
The “A Star Is Born” actress and her fiancé, Christian Carino, have called off their engagement, her rep confirmed to People on Tuesday.
Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, and Carino got together in February 2017, just months after she called off her engagement to actor Taylor Kinney. Carino was — and appears to still be — working as Gaga’s CAA agent when they coupled up.
In September 2017, Gaga, 32, gushed d...
Kjell Rasten, singer Charo’s husband of more than 40 years, has killed himself with a shot to the head, according to numerous reports.
Police were called to the couple’s home in Beverly Hills around 2 p.m. and took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, reported the celebrity news website TMZ.
Someone in the house called 911, the news outlet reported, saying that Charo was home at the time.
The former television producer had one child with Charo after their 1978 marriage — actor and producer Shel Rasten.
Charo’s real name is María del Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, according to Entertainment Tonight. She, Rasten and their son appeared on Celebrity Wife Swap in 2015, and Charo appeared on Dancing With the Stars in 2017.
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Kjell Rasten, singer Charo’s husband of more than 40 years, has killed himself with a shot to the head, according to numerous reports.
Police were called to the couple’s home in Beverly Hills around 2 p.m. and took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, reported the celebrity news website TMZ.
Someone in the house called 911, the news outlet reported, saying that Charo was home at the time.
The former television producer had one child with Charo after their 1978 marriage...
Meghan Markle attempted to keep a low profile as she stepped out in New York City on Monday evening, looking chic, but inconspicuous, in a long black overcoat and a gray newsboy cap pulled down over her dark brown hair.
The 37-year-old royal, who returned to the Big Apple over the weekend in order to spend some quality time with her girlfriends before the arrival of her first child this spring, was seen being escorted by a royal protection officer into an SUV parked that was parked on a city street.
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Meghan Markle attempted to keep a low profile as she stepped out in New York City on Monday evening, looking chic, but inconspicuous, in a long black overcoat and a gray newsboy cap pulled down over her dark brown hair.
The 37-year-old royal, who returned to the Big Apple over the weekend in order to spend some quality time with her girlfriends before the arrival of her first child this spring, was seen being escorted by a royal protection officer into an SUV parked that was parked on a cit...
The Rev. Al Sharpton believes Jussie Smollett should face “accountability to the maximum” — if it’s found that he made up the hate attack against him.
The outspoken civil rights leader addressed recent reports that the alleged assault on the black, openly gay “Empire” actor may have been staged with two bodybuilding brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo.
“I, among many others when hearing of the report, said that the reports were horrific and that we should come with all that we can come with in law enforcement to find out what happened and the guilty should suffer the maximum,” Sharpton said Sunday night on his show “PoliticsNation” on MSNBC.
“I still maintain that,” he continued. “And if it is that Smollett and these gentlemen did in some way perpetuate something that is not true, they ought to face accountability to the maximum.”
When news of the Jan. 29 attack against Smollett broke, Sharpton immediately spoke out to say he was “outraged.”
“For Jussie, who’s not only a superb actor and singer but an activist who has fought against homophobia and racism and sexism, to be a victim is something that is totally unacceptable,” he told TMZ last month. “I challenge the Chicago law enforcement to do all within their power to find out those that are guilty and they should face the maximum penalty of law.”
Sharpton is no stranger to racially charged hoax cases. In the late 1980s, the then-firebrand local political activist served as the spokesman for Tawana Brawley, a black 15-year-old who claimed she had been raped by six white men upstate. They scrawled racial epithets on her chest and smeared feces in her hair, she alleged.
The stunning case eventually went before a grand jury — which ruled after seven months that Brawley’s story was a total fabrication.
Chicago police said this weekend that their interviews of the Osundairo brothers — who were arrested on Wednesday but released two days later without charges — “shifted the trajectory” of their ongoing investigation.
The latest twist in the case comes as reports emerged that Smollett paid the budding actor-models $3,500 to stage the 2 a.m. attack.
Smollett has maintained that two strangers shouted racist and anti-gay slurs and “This is MAGA country!” before dousing him in a “chemical substance,” likely bleach, and throwing a noose around his neck.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton believes Jussie Smollett should face “accountability to the maximum” — if it’s found that he made up the hate attack against him.
The outspoken civil rights leader addressed recent reports that the alleged assault on the black, openly gay “Empire” actor may have been staged with two bodybuilding brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo.
“I, among many others when hearing of the report, said that the reports were horrific and that we should come wit...
That spunky shithead, Tekashi 69, was facing a MINIMUM of 46 years and a max of life for crazy list of charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, firearms offenses, narcotics trafficking and other crimes.
Now it's looking like he'll get way less after cutting a deal with feds, and possibly get released at some point only to be stashed away in Boise or Fargo.
"It is understood that the defendant's cooperation is likely to reveal the activities of individuals and that witness protection may be required at a later date." It sounds like that may be necessary, because 69's testimony implicates hardened criminals accused of extremely violent crimes.
It's ultimately up to the judge to determine sentence, but the prosecutors say if Tekashi keeps talking, he'll get a gigantic break, "should the defendant successfully cooperate, the government agrees that it will file at the time of sentencing a motion ... for a sentence below any mandatory minimum."
It's unclear how much time prosecutors will ask for, but it appears the number of years may be in the teens ... maybe even less.
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That spunky shithead, Tekashi 69, was facing a MINIMUM of 46 years and a max of life for crazy list of charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, firearms offenses, narcotics trafficking and other crimes.
Now it's looking like he'll get way less after cutting a deal with feds, and possibly get released at some point only to be stashed away in Boise or Fargo.
"It is understood that the defendant's cooperation is likely to reveal the activities of individuals and that witness protectio...
Bravo’s first ladies of Manhattan have invaded Miami.
On Friday, “Real Housewives of New York City” personalities Ramona Singer and Luann de Lesseps reunited with former co-star Jill Zarin for an afternoon of fun in the sun.
“Just like old times,” Zarin, 55, posted to Instagram.
Singer, 62, also shared a photo as she sunbathed on a boat with Zarin, captioning the shot, “I think I can get used to this….”
On Saturday night, Singer and Zarin supported de Lesseps, 53, at her “Countess and Friends” cabaret show at the Fillmore Miami Beach, where they were joined by “Real Housewives of Miami” alums Marysol Patton, Adriana de Moura and Alexia Echevarria.
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Bravo’s first ladies of Manhattan have invaded Miami.
On Friday, “Real Housewives of New York City” personalities Ramona Singer and Luann de Lesseps reunited with former co-star Jill Zarin for an afternoon of fun in the sun.
“Just like old times,” Zarin, 55, posted to Instagram.
View this post on Instagram Just like old times ?? A post shared by Jill Zarin (@mrsjillzarin) on Feb 16, 2019 at 5:40am PST
Singer, 62, also shared a photo as she sunbathed on a...
