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Now that longtime Super Mario voice actor Charles Martinet has announced he’s retiring from full-time voicing duties of the character and transitioning to his new role as Mario Ambassador, rumors are swirling over who will fill his larger-than-life brown plumber shoes. One name that quickly started swirling on social media is Chris Pratt, the A-list […]

For anyone who’s recently played their kids the 1978 Queen classic “Fat Bottomed Girls” and then while pondering the lyrics stopped to ask themselves huh, how is this still ok? we have an answer — apparently it’s not. The legendary rock band’s hit song was dropped from the band’s new greatest hits collection designed for younger […]

You must be suffering some serious FOMO today if you’re one of the few A-list celebrities who wasn’t invited to Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley’s wedding over the weekend. Good thing Taylor Swift was invited or it might have resulted in an entire album about the omission. As is, Swift showed up in style, in […]

In a dramatic recent episode of the hit Peacock reality dating show Love Island USA, dubbed the “red wedding” by actress/host Sarah Hyland — it was the host herself who ended up in the hot seat after a weird and contentious confrontation with one of the show’s contestants, Mike Starks. The situation already had fans […]

The rumor mill and finger pointing in the Britney Spears-Sam Asghari divorce saga is heating up. After sources reported rumors over the weekend trying to pin the blame on Spears as the cause for the split, now Spears’ camp is firing back — claiming earlier rumors about cheating and physical abuse by the pop star […]

Breakups are tough. Some of us curl up into bed and cry. Others seek consolation from close friends or loved ones. And Britney Spears dances to Janet Jackson’s “If” in neon green underpants and black boots. The pop star finally addressed her split from husband Sam Asghari on Instagram Saturday, with a provocative dance video […]

No, it wasn’t Kanye (mercifully), but Kim Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian did make a surprising and probably equally unqualified presidential endorsement this weekend — for their mom Kris Jenner. Lord knows having no political or public service experience hasn’t stopped reality television stars from running for (and winning) the presidency before — looking at you, […]

There was quite a bit of, er, excitement shall we say in an Austrian supermarket this week over a rare spider found in the store whose bite has been linked to death and in some cases… an hours-long erection. The spider was fittingly spotted in a banana box at Penny Markt in Krems an der […]

Four of the most iconic supermodels — Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell — are being called the Greatest of All Time by Vogue for its all-important September 2023 magazine cover. The group that defined the modeling industry for much of the 90s reunited to discuss their illustrious histories and present-day fabulousness. […]

Don’t you hate it when you accidentally sell your $15 million Santa Barbara mansion to Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom when you’re high on pain killers? I mean, who among us hasn’t been there before, am I right? In a timeless California real estate tale whose motion picture rights have probably already been sold to […]

Singer-songwriter and actress Katharine McPhee, known for her fifth season run as a popular contestant on American Idol and later as one of the stars of NBC’s Smash, just announced she has to cancel her performances in the final two shows of the David Foster & Friends Asia Tour 2023 due to an unforeseen family […]

The Writers Guild of America sent an email to its members on Thursday morning with a brief but hopeful message regarding the prospect of restarting negotiations with the AMPTP to resolve the WGA writers strike. The email reads: “Dear Members, Carol Lombardini has asked the WGA Negotiating Committee to meet with AMPTP negotiators on Friday. […]

Harry Styles was seen looking pretty cozy with Taylor Russell in London on Wednesday at press night for her new play The Effect, further fueling rumors that the two are dating. Styles seemed to be avoiding the spotlight to keep attention on Russell and her play, according to TMZ. However, cameras still spotted him hanging […]

Rebel Wilson took to Instagram on Wednesday to update her fans on how she’s doing after an on-set accident last week while filming her last scene of the independent action-comedy Bride Hard. Wilson, with a clearly bruised and injured nose, posted on her Instagram Story with the video message, “Hey everybody, what’s up? So I […]

Fans have tried all sorts of things this summer to get to see Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour but nothing quite like this exactly — TikToker Samantha Meany had the gumption to go up to the pilot of her Southwest Airlines flight during a layover and ask if he’d be flying over Inglewood, California, so […]

British pop star Dua Lipa might still be dancing the night away riding high from the success of her hit song and performance in Barbie, but a federal judge in New York just burst her pink bubble a bit. Dua Lipa has been ordered to face a lawsuit accusing her of copying her huge 2021 […]

Scoring isn’t something Russell Wilson did a lot of on the football field last season with the Denver Broncos but apparently it’s another story at home with — okay, I’m going to call an audible on this tasteless metaphor and just say that singer Ciara is expecting her fourth child (her third with husband Russell […]

For those not used to getting their gossip news from Running Wild with Bear Grylls, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t catch the recent truth bomb that Russell Brand dropped on a recent episode. The British actor and comedian opened up about his short-lived 14 month marriage to Katy Perry a decade ago, calling it […]

It’s been 100 days since WGA writers said “pencils down” and went on strike to protest the Hollywood studios’ unwillingness to negotiate an expansive new labor deal accounting for the rapidly changing media landscape. This was the exact point at which the last writers strike, in 2007-2008, ended. In the current strike, there is still […]

Actor and Hard Knocks narrator Liev Schreiber — better known to some as Ray Donovan — goes by a more holy nickname in Aaron Rodgers‘ mind. Recently dubbed the “Voice of God” by the new Jets’ quarterback, Schreiber dropped in for the show’s premiere episode in apropos fashion when he arrived by helicopter to training […]

According to a report in Us Weekly, Natalie Portman and her husband, Benjamin Millepied, are separating. The two have been married for 11 years as of last Friday. The report follows news that came out in June of Millepied having an alleged affair with a 25-year-old climate activist, Camille Étienne. At the time of that […]

Well either Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are taking a page from Taylor Swift and Beyoncé and getting into a competitive charitable giving battle like I first suggested here earlier today, or charitable beefing is just becoming a bona fide thing. Either way, the prospective cage match between tech moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg […]

If Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expected to be greeted warmly by a hometown crowd at the annual Kentucky “Fancy Farm Picnic” on Saturday, he was sadly mistaken. In video clips that have quickly gone viral online, McConnell is seen attempting to give a speech at the rowdy but generally light-hearted affair but he […]

It’s the summer of giving on the concert tour trail… well, at least if you’re one of the two biggest female pop stars of your generation. First, it was reported on Thursday that Taylor Swift had given $100,000 bonuses to every trucker on her trucking staff as a show of appreciation for all their hard […]

Beloved star of Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet — who memorably played Cameron Tucker for eleven seasons on the hit ABC sitcom — took a few minutes to speak with ClutchPoints on the Universal picket lines Friday morning. Stonestreet was picketing with his friend, fellow comedic actor (and writer) Jerry Lambert to add some heart and […]

It was a mini-reunion on the Universal Studios picket line today for two fan-favorite stars of the hit Ryan Murphy Fox show Glee, Josh Sussman and Patrick Gallagher. Sussman, who played school gossip reporter Jacob Ben Israel on the show, and Patrick Gallagher, who played Coach Ken Tanaka, spotted each other in the throngs of […]

On an important and hopeful day for writers and actors on the picket lines, the turnout amongst WGA writers and SAG-AFTRA actors couldn’t have been higher in the first joint strike picket at Universal Studios Hollywood. WGA members have been picketing at the Universal lot since the start of their strike 95 days ago, but […]

Well the tissue industry is certainly going to be happy about this. Fans of The Notebook, already prone to weeping, are shedding tears of joy today for the news that their favorite Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-Ryan-Gosling-Rachael-McAdams-romance-movie-classic is headed to Broadway as a musical. The Notebook, told in flashbacks and centered on a lifelong romance between two […]

Really? Is it not enough that Mattel and Hasbro are building out media empires centered on their toy lines? At least they have a diverse array of games, dolls and action figures to draw from. But do we honestly need a new movie studio devoted to content arising from the leading crayon manufacturer? Apparently so, […]

Before she married Prince Harry and became the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle was most widely known for her breakout television role in the hit USA show Suits. Now Netflix has obtained the streaming rights to the series and it’s been hugely successful on the platform — a stalwart of the top 10 streamed series […]

When you hear the names Bill Cosby, Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen, Chris Brown, Brett Ratner and Jonah Hill, that’s generally not a list of celebrities you want to be associated with these days. But Lizzo decided she wanted to share one thing in common with this group of notorious individuals involved in high-profile lawsuits in […]

Well, it seems the one ring (card) to rule them all is going to be owned by musician Post Malone, who just dropped an undisclosed amount to buy the highly sought-after, ultra-exclusive, one-of-one Magic: The Gathering trading card called “The One Ring.” The card, even harder to come by than a golden ticket to Willy […]

A group of creative climate-change activists have seized on the current Barbie-mania gripping the world to successfully draw attention to the large carbon (and now flat) footprint that the dolls make on the planet. Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah, working with the long-standing political prankster group the Yes Men, pulled off a pretty epic […]

Olivia Rodrigo loves to sing about her ex. Now she’s dropping a major update about her new album on X, the annoying new name there’s no getting used to for Twitter (thanks Elon Musk!). Rodrigo posted the first pic of her new album’s back cover on Wednesday, which features a close up of her open […]

They’re still going steady you guys, don’t worry! I mean, maybe they didn’t put it in such Saved-By-The-Bell-y terms, but apparently Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet are still dating, despite rumors springing up on Wednesday that they had broken up. Phew, I for one can breathe a sigh of relief now. According to TMZ, who […]

As the 100th day of the WGA writers strike looms, there’s a faint glimmer of hope as the AMPTP, which represents the major Hollywood studios, has finally expressed their willingness to reopen negotiations with the Writers Guild of America. The talks are set to resume on Friday to try to hammer out a satisfactory resolution […]

What better way is there to celebrate the end to an epic, nearly-two year world tour if you’re a rock star than on a boat along the beautiful Italian Lake Bolsena with a Victoria’s Secret model and… James Corden? Any doubts about James Corden really being Harry Styles’ bestie have been put to rest after […]

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea and is set to appear in the Super Bowl this year? SpongeBob SquarePants! The NFL and CBS Sports have announced that for the first time ever, the Super Bowl will have an alternate telecast this season — a kid-centric version on Nickelodeon, in addition to the regular […]

Beloved Euphoria actor Angus Cloud‘s sudden death on Monday sent shockwaves across social media and beyond. The 25-year-old’s passing was announced by his family, just days after Cloud buried his father at a funeral in Ireland. Cloud had been struggling with his mental health since his father’s passing. TMZ reported that Cloud “had been battling […]