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3:20 PM ET, February 21, 2024

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Vanity Fair:
Vanity Fair's 2024 Hollywood Issue Unites 11 Spectacular Stars  —  Bradley Cooper, Natalie Portman, Pedro Pascal, and more talk about transformative times in our 30th annual Hollywood Issue.  —  Colman Domingo knows how unusual this moment is.  “I don't know anyone white or Black or other who has a career like mine,” he says.
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Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
Jenna Ortega Thinks We Need More Weird Stories Like ‘Beetlejuice’  —  The star of Wednesday and Tim Burton's highly anticipated sequel steps out of the shadows and talks about the future.  —  In the original Beetlejuice movie, people who die unexpectedly are given The Handbook …
Keziah Weir / Vanity Fair:
Natalie Portman on Striking the Balance Between Public and Private Lives  —  The May December star says Method acting is not her cup of tea (and her kids won't let her do “weird, scary” voices anyway).  —  Natalie Portman, who appears on our Hollywood 2024 cover, walked her first red carpet at 13.
Heidi Parker / Daily Mail:
Natalie Portman says having a public focus on her split from husband of 12 years Benjamin Millepied is ‘terrible’ as she covers Vanity Fair
People:
Wendy Williams' Family Break Their Silence on Her ‘Shocking and Heartbreaking’ Struggles Over the Past 3 Years (Exclusive)  —  The former talk show host's sister, niece and brother reveal the battle over her future in this week's PEOPLE cover story  —  It's been two and a half years since …
TMZ.com:
Travis Kelce On Private Jet to Sydney to Go See Taylor Swift  —  Travis Kelce is on his way to see his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, in Australia — in fact, he's currently en route ... and he'll be landing there bright and early, TMZ has learned.  —  Sources with direct knowledge tell us Travis is …
Daily Mail:
Tragic former Strictly dancer Robin Windsor was found dead in a London hotel - with friends detailing his brave battle against ‘mental health struggles and thoughts of suicide’ and revealing he suffered a ‘troubling incident’ over New Year  — For help, call Samaritans for free on 116 123 or visit samaritans.org
Discussion: The Sun, The Mirror and Metro.co.uk
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Jim Asker / Billboard:
Beyoncé's 'Texas Hold ‘Em’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart  —  Plus, her “16 Carriages” rolls in at No. 9.  —  Pop and R&B/hip-hop superstar Beyoncé makes her debut on Billboard's streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart (dated Feb. 24) …
Tim Grierson / Los Angeles Times:
How Jimmy Kimmel preps for the Oscars and why the end of his talk show may be near  —  It's 30 days before the Academy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel is in a hotel in Las Vegas, the town where he grew up.  The man who will host this year's Oscars speaks to The Envelope by phone on the Friday before the Super Bowl …
Angel Saunders / People:
DDG Says Halle Bailey's Pregnancy Wasn't Planned: ‘It Kinda Just Happened’  —  “Both of us have the same interest in being parents,” the rapper said  —  DDG and Halle Bailey knew they were destined to be parents.  —  In an exclusive preview of Wednesday's episode of The Jason Lee Show shared with PEOPLE …
TMZ.com:
Bobbi Althoff Says Deepfake Masturbation Video of Her is AI-Generated  —  Bobbi Althoff has been trending all week for all the wrong reasons — a video purporting to depict her in a sexual manner has been circulating ... but she's calling it out as fake as hell.
Discussion: Just Jared and The Mirror
GQ:
Mark Ruffalo Wants to Be Bad Too  —  He brought humanity to the Hulk and has played more than one crusader for justice, but it's the role of a villainous peacock in Poor Things that has earned him his latest Oscar nom: “I went to bed a leading man and woke up a character actor.  I'm a ‘daddy’ now.”
Discussion: People, Just Jared and Variety
Ali Daher / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift gets up close and personal with some Australian wildlife as the superstar enjoys a day off from her Eras Tour at Sydney Zoo  —  Taylor Swift got up close and personal with some Australian wildlife on Wednesday when she visited Sydney Zoo.
Discussion: Page Six and TMZ.com
Kat Pettibone / Us Weekly:
Taylor Swift 'Isn't Concerned' About Kanye West's Namedrop in New Song ‘Carnival’ (Exclusive)  —  Taylor Swift forgot Kanye West existed — so she has no bad blood when it comes to being name-dropped in his new song “Carnival.”  —  “[Taylor] has so much on her plate and isn't concerned …
Discussion: Suggest and StyleCaster
The Hollywood Reporter:
How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue  —  The studio's golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn't scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They're not going to give up,” says an insider.
Discussion: The Wrap, UPROXX, ComingSoon.net and Gizmodo
Kansas City Star:
Harrison Butker honored to help family of mom killed in Chiefs rally shooting  —  Last Wednesday's mass shooting at the conclusion of the Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade and rally at Union Station wounded at least 39 and killed one, identified as Johnson County mom and disc jockey Lisa Lopez-Galvan.
Julia Moore / People:
Camila Mendes Confesses It Was ‘Hard’ Working Alongside Ex Charles Melton on Riverdale After Split  —  The pair dated on-and-off from 2018 to 2021 while starring on the hit CW series  —  Camila Mendes is opening up about her relationship with her Riverdale costar Charles Melton …
Zara Woodcock / The Mirror:
Dan Wootton's statement in full as ex GB News host cleared after six-month investigation  —  Former GB News presenter Dan Wootton recently broke his silence to announce no further action will be taken against him by the Metropolitan Police and Scottish Police
Discussion: Daily Star
Rachel Burchfield / Marie Claire:
Malia Obama Drops Her Famous Last Name Professionally, Opting to Go by This Moniker Instead … When your parents are as well-known and history making as Barack and Michelle Obama, it would be difficult for anyone to live in that shadow.  The couple's eldest daughter, Malia …
Dave Quinn / People:
Tom Sandoval Sparks Backlash After Comparing Cheating Scandal to George Floyd and O.J. Simpson: ‘The Disrespect’  —  The ‘Vanderpump Rules’ star has issued an apology over comments he made to ‘The New York Times Magazine’  —  Tom Sandoval is apologizing, this time after clumsily comparing …
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Irina Aleksander / New York Times:
How Tom Sandoval Became the Most Hated Man in America
 
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From Mediagazer:

Kayla Cobb / The Wrap:
Nielsen launches The Media Distributor Gauge, showing TV usage ranked by company: Disney accounted for 11.5% of TV viewing in April, YouTube accounted for 9.6%

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B+ users by end of year

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast plans to launch StreamSaver, a bundle of Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV+, later this month at a “vastly reduced price”

 
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