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Angela Andaloro / People.com:
Maria Menounos Expecting First Baby with Husband Keven Undergaro After Decade-Long Journey  —  Maria Menounos and husband Keven Undergaro will become first-time parents in 2023  —  Maria Menounos is going to be a mom!  —  The TV host, 44, and husband Keven Undergaro are expecting their first baby …
Emma Baty / Cosmopolitan:
Madelyn Cline's Hot Streak  —  When you go from trying to find work to bona fide star in just three years, it might feel like you got a lucky break.  Unless you're her.  —  “I've always read other people's cover stories that start like this.  ‘Having lunch with so-and-so at somewhere.’ Like, ‘She sits across from me and....’”
Allie Jones / New York Times:
Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt's Picture-Perfect Life  —  The author has long been surrounded by fame.  Still, she keeps some things private.  —  LOS ANGELES — Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt has no complaints.  —  If you ask the oldest daughter of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger about her life …
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Alexandra Bellusci / E! Online:
How Katherine Schwarzenegger Really Feels About Critics of Her and Husband Chris Pratt
Discussion: Us Weekly and Insider
Anthony D'Alessandro / Deadline:
‘La La Land’ Broadway Musical In The Works  —  EXCLUSIVE: A Broadway musical take of the six-time Oscar-winning, $472 million worldwide-grossing movie La La Land is in development, Emmy- and Tony-winning producer Marc Platt said Tuesday.  —  The show, based on the Damien Chazelle-directed movie …
Discussion: Just Jared, UPI and POPSUGAR
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Christine Rendon / Daily Mail:
What Jennifer Lopez said to Ben Affleck in tense Grammys exchange  — Jennifer Lopez and her husband of six months, Ben Affleck, were caught on camera snapping at each other at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night  — Lopez, 53, can be seen telling a sour-faced Affleck to ‘look motivated’
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Charlie Thomas, a Drifter Nearly All His Life in Song, Dies at 85  —  He was heard on hits like “There Goes My Baby,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Up on the Roof.”  He kept singing them for decades.  —  Charlie Thomas, who recorded memorable songs like “There Goes My Baby” and “Under the Boardwalk” …
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Cori Murray / Ebony:
How Ant-Man and Creed III Star Jonathan Majors Became Hollywood's Most Wanted Actor … For actor Jonathan Majors, no matter how repetitive, mundane or grand life's tasks are, he completes each gesture with divine reverence.  “[With] a sense of occasion is kind of how I move through the world,” Majors says.
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Olivia Pym / British GQ:
How Salma Hayek Pinault got the last laugh  —  In reality, she pulled that trick decades ago  —  “Let me tell you something,” says Salma Hayek Pinault, leaning towards me.  The afternoon light filters into the glass box of her living room, so airy and luminous that it feels like we're floating in the trees above Bel Air.
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Angelina Chapin / The Cut:
Inside the ‘Horned Up’ Office Culture at ABC News “It felt like everybody was sleeping around,” says one former Good Morning America staffer.  —  Sascha didn't pay much attention to T.J. Holmes when he began working as an anchor for ABC News in 2014.  They were both pulling graveyard shifts …
Discussion: Page Six, HELLO!, Sandra Rose and RADAR
Angela Andaloro / People.com:
Brendan Fraser Gets Emotional as He Talks About Son with Autism: 'Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way'  —  Brendan Fraser's oldest son, 20-year-old Griffin, was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the actor shared in a conversation with Howard Stern  —  Brendan Fraser is opening up about what it's …
Discussion: Page Six
Daniel Trainor / E! Online:
Shailene Woodley's Three Women Finds a New Home After Being Canceled by Showtime  —  After Showtime made the surprising decision to cancel Three Women—the limited series set to star Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin and DeWanda Wise—another network has scooped it up.  —  Three Women has been given a second life.
People.com:
Paul Rudd Says His Kids 'Don't Care' He's' Ant-Man' : ‘Nor Should They’  —  The Marvel actor exclusively tells PEOPLE his son Jack and daughter Darby just see him as their dad  —  Paul Rudd's kids aren't impressed that he's Ant-Man.  —  The actor, 53, opened up to PEOPLE about what his son Jack …
TMZ.com:
'That's So Raven' Star Orlando Brown to Get Mental Evaluation After Arrest  —  “That's So Raven” star, Orlando Brown is going to get his head checked to see if he's fit to stand trial in his Ohio criminal case ... opening the door to a possible plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Discussion: Page Six, RADAR and ET Canada
Sarah Grossbart / E! Online:
Why Meghan Trainor Worried She Was Experiencing Pregnancy Loss With Baby No. 2  —  Dear Future Baby, you gave Mom Meghan Trainor quite the scare.  Now expecting her second child with husband Daryl Sabara, the singer shared with E! News why the first few weeks were so “tough.”
Discussion: Us Weekly, Insider, POPSUGAR and ET Canada
TMZ.com:
'America's Got Talent' Magician Scott Alexander Dead at 52  —  EXCLUSIVE  — 758 … Scott Alexander, a magician best known for his time on “America's Got Talent,” has died ... according to his wife.  —  Scott's wife Jenny — who appeared on the show as his assistant …
The Hollywood Reporter:
Inside the Implosion of Justin Roiland's Animation Empire  —  To legions of ‘Rick and Morty’ fans, co-creator Roiland was a quirky genius whose career was suddenly derailed by allegations of domestic violence.  But to colleagues, his behavior has been troubling for years.
Caitlin Lent / Interview Magazine:
Lea Michele on Glee, Growth, and “the Hardest Fucking Role in New York”  —  By Jeremy O. Harris arrives at New York City's August Wilson Theater, the site of his Tony-nominated production Slave Play.  He's there to interview Lea Michele, the showstopping star of the newly revived 1964 musical Funny Girl.
Discussion: E! Online and Just Jared
Nika Shakhnazarova / Page Six:
Armie Hammer rape accuser brands him ‘manipulative’: He's trying to ‘shut me up’  —  The woman who has accused Armie Hammer of rape her has now branded him “manipulative” after he broke his silence for the first time last week.  —  Effie Angelova, 26, accused Hammer of “violently” …
Discussion: TMZ.com, RADAR and Jezebel
Charmaine Patterson / People.com:
NE-YO and Crystal Renay's Divorce Finalized 6 Months After She Accused Him of Having Baby with Another Woman  —  NE-YO and Crystal Renay were married in February 2016 and share three children  —  NE-YO and Crystal Renay are officially ex spouses.  —  Court documents obtained by PEOPLE state that NE-YO …
Discussion: Bossip, Billboard, Insider and Just Jared
Marc Malkin / Variety:
‘80 for Brady’ Cut Out Gus Kenworthy's Gay Kiss Scene (EXCLUSIVE) … Welcome to this week's “Just for Variety.”  —  “80 for Brady” has plenty for LGBTQ moviegoers to be excited about.  Not only does it star icons Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno and Sally Field as friends who take a trip …
Discussion: Just Jared and The A.V. Club
 
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