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Bachelor alums Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon are having a baby boy!

The couple revealed the exciting news during an Amazon Live on Thursday. After giving a drumroll that consisted of him banging on the counter with his hands, Jared exclaimed, “We’re having…a boy!” as he pulled down a blue balloon that read “boy.”

Jared also shared that the pair, who wed August 2019, found out the sex in an email and that they already have a name picked out for their bundle of joy. While they didn’t reveal the name, they did assure their child’s name will not be Jack, Aladdin, Tom Brady, or Jared Jr. 

Ashley, 33, and Jared, 32 announced they were expecting last month.

“Baby Haibon is due Feb 10th!” Ashely said in an Instagram post. “We’re are very excited for that day to come! It’s so cool to think I’m creating a human that’s half me and half Jared!”

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Wedding bells are ringing for Norman Reedus, who reportedly proposed to actress Diane Kruger — and she said yes!

People reports that a source close to the ultra-private couple confirmed the upcoming nuptials.  However, requests for comment went unanswered by both actors and their representatives.

Reedus, 52, and Kruger, 45, met in 2015 when they starred in the drama Sky and, in 2017, confirmed that they were going steady.

The following year, the two welcomed a daughter but have kept details about their little one private.  The child, who turns three in November, is their first together.

Kruger previously told People in 2019 about her little one’s personality, saying her child is “kind of a dude” and raved, “It’s fun to have a girl, I will say. I like that, too.”

Reedus is the father of a 21-year-old son named Mingus, whom he shares with ex-partner Helena Christensen.

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He’s All That, the gender-bend Netflix reboot of She’s All That, stars several familiar faces who say they were happily surprised by their young co-stars.

Rachael Leigh Cook and Matthew Lillard — who respectively starred as Laney Boggs and the sleazy reality star Brock Hudson in the 1999 romcom — told ABC Audio about their initial concerns about the rest of the crew, which they say now makes them laugh.

Cook, who now plays star Addison Rae‘s mom, and Lillard, who plays the high school principal, admitted they thought their Gen Z colleagues would spend all their time buried in their phones.

“They weren’t, which is a miracle,” said Cook, “I thought they were just going to be, you know, ticking and a tacking.”

Lillard, who laughed at Cook’s new code word for TikTok, revealed how the cast gelled on set, adding, “We also shot in the middle of a pandemic… I think that there was like some semblance of normalcy. And people were super happy about that.”

He also revealed that he was shocked She’s All That was given the reboot treatment.

“It’s a little weird that this movie, you know, found such an audience that it’s worthy to be remade,” said Lillard. “That said, I think that they did a great job updating it. I think the social media aspect of it is really smart.”

TikTok star Rae, who plays queen bee Padgett Sawyer, chimed in that she never would have believed she would be the one starring in the reboot.

Rae, who was studying journalism when she downloaded the app and became a sensation, recalled that people used to say her dreams of making it big “wasn’t something that was realistic.” (AUDIO IS ABC 1-ON-1)

He’s All That is available now on Netflix.

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ABC’s family sitcom The Conners is going live again, this time for the show’s September 22 season premiere. 

The network announced during its Television Critics Association confab on Thursday that John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and the rest of the cast will perform the show twice, once for each coast, as they did on the night of the New Hampshire primary in February 2020.

This time, the show will be even more be of a high-wire act: As part of a “You Can Be a Conner” sweepstakes, fans will be given a chance to be a part of a show, when a cast member, in character, will call them live during the broadcast. 

The idea is to get viewers to share how they navigate their lives as the blue-collar Conners do. “It’s never been done before and it’s going to be something pretty special,” teased series executive producer and showrunner Bruce Helford during the presentation.

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Barry Jenkins‘ has found two of the leads for his upcoming The Lion King prequel.

Deadline has learned that Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jr. have been added to the voice cast for the  Disney live-action film, which will “explore the mythology of the iconic characters” as well as Mufasa’s origins. Pierre will play Mufasa, while Harrison Jr. will play Taka, aka Scar. Additional casting has yet to be announced.

In other news,  Sterling K. Brown and Mark Duplass have been tapped to star in Mel Eslyn‘s new sci-fi film Biosphere, Variety reports. Described as a “mysterious movie,” the forthcoming feature will be Eslyn’s directorial feature debut. Plot details are currently being kept under wraps.

Finally — ICYMI, Showtime has ordered a pilot for The Wood, a comedy series based on Rick Famuyiwa‘s 1999 cult-classic film of the same name, Deadline reports. Famuyiwa will direct the pilot and executive produce with The Chi showrunner Justin Hillian, who also will write the script. As you may recall, the original film followed two separate timelines in the three friends’ lives. It starred Taye Diggs, Omar Epps and Richard T. Jones as adults and Sean Nelson, Duane Finley and Trent Cameron as the teen version of the same characters. Meanwhile, the forthcoming The Wood series is described as “an honest look at friendship and dating from the perspective of three young Black males born and raised in the gentrifying L.A. suburb of Inglewood.” Casting details have not been announced.

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays a creepy cowboy in the forthcoming new film from Oscar-winning director Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog, the trailer for which Netflix just revealed. 

Based on the 1967 book of the same name by Thomas Savage, the 1925-set film has the Doctor Strange star playing Phil, a tough-as-nails cowboy “who stokes fear in those around him.”

But when his brother George, played by Jungle Cruise‘s Jesse Plemmons, falls for a single mother, played by Kirsten Dunst, things go sideways. Phil doesn’t trust her, but when he takes a shine to Rose’s teen son, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, the situation comes to a head.

Cumberbatch says nothing in the trailer, sharing only icy stares and mocking laughs toward his co-stars, but his creepy whistle punctuates the coming attraction.

The Power of the Dog will debut at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, before it hits theaters in limited release in select theaters on November 17, and ultimately on Netflix December 1.

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Gold medal Olympian Suni Lee and pop star JoJo Siwa will be among the new celebrity cast of Dancing with the Stars. ABC made the announcement Thursday during their Television Critics Association presentation.

Lee and Siwa will appear live on Good Morning America Friday, while the remaining celebrity dancers will be revealed on Wednesday, September 8. 

The gymnast and the pop star and influencer, and the rest of the TBA stars, will be hoofing it when DWTS returns for its 30th season on Monday, September 20 at 8 p.m.

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20th Century Studios has just released an action-packed, new red-band trailer to its pandemic-delayed prequel film, The King’s Man. 

As previously reported, director and producer Matthew Vaughn fleshes out the early days of his gentlemanly spy agency as seen in the two modern day-set Kingsman films. In the original, Colin Firth‘s Harry Hart tells  trainee Eggsy, played by Taron Egerton, about the Kingsman spy agency’s start in the wake of World War I, when powerful men pooled their resources to create Kingsman to “preserve peace and protect life.”

Here we see one of those powerful men, Ralph Fiennes‘ Duke of Oxford, meeting with Rhys Ifans‘ Rasputin, trying to get an audience with Russian Czar Nicholas II.

“I only make decisions when my stomach is full or my b***s are empty,” the bearded menace declares.

“Well, thank goodness dinner is being served,” the Duke quips in response.

The Duke recruits his son, played by Harris Dickerson, as an agent to stop the coming global conflict, which seems to have been set in motion by a cabal of evildoers, Rasputin among them.

“While government waits for orders, our people take action,” The Duke tells his son. “You’re going to need a suit.”

The trailer also shows co-stars Djimon Hounsou and Jemma Arteton getting in on the action in a big way.

The King’s Man, which also stars Stanley Tucci, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Daniel Brühl, opens December 22.

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NEON Films has released a teaser-trailer to Spencer, the film that has Kristen Stewart portraying Princess Diana.

Set to a choral version of Lou Reed‘s “Perfect Day,” the clip juxtaposes servants laying out royal finery for a sumptuous holiday dinner with Stewart’s Diana, tearfully looking at herself in a bathroom mirror.

“Ma’am?” a servant knocks at the door. “They’re waiting for you.”

Diana is shown hurrying down a hallway to dutifully make an appearance with the other guests at the table, looking unsteady as she does. 

As previously reported, Spencer takes place in the 1990s and will have Stewart playing Diana over a crucial Christmas holiday during which she plotted her divorce from Prince Charles and began charting a life away from the British royal family.

The snippets shown in the teaser get increasingly frantic, with Diana literally spinning out of control.

“They know everything,” a woman tells Diana.

“They don’t,” is her Stewart’s somber reply.

The synopsis from production company NEON reads, “December, 1991: The Prince and Princess of Wales’ marriage has long since grown cold. Though rumours of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. This year, things will be a whole lot different.”

Princess Diana was killed August 31, 1997 in a car crash in Paris that was caused in part by a high-speed pursuit by paparazzi. Her partner, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, were also killed. Paul was later found to have been driving drunk. A bodyguard survived the crash.

Spencer debuts November 5 from director Pablo Larrain, who previously called the shots on Natalie Portman‘s Oscar-nominated 2016 Jacqueline Kennedy biopic, Jackie.

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Tom Cruise recently paid an unexpected visit to a British family when he landed his helicopter in a family’s field in Warwickshire, England. But James Corden revealed it’s not the first time the Top Gun star wanted to drop in, literally, for a hang out. 

Corden explained on his Late Late Show Wednesday that his movie star pal wanted to get together while Cruise was in the U.K. where he’s working on the seventh Mission: Impossible film. 

“He sent me a text saying, ‘Whereabouts are you staying?'” Corden recalled to his audience. “And I said, ‘I’m staying in St. Johns Wood,’ which is pretty central in London…”

“And he said, ‘Cool, can I land my helicopter there?’ And I just presumed he was joking.”

He wasn’t, Corden found out, holding his phone to the camera as proof. “[Tom texted], ‘Can I land my heli in your yard?’ I sent back four crying emojis because who can land a helicopter in a yard? And he put, ‘Does that mean no?'” 

While Corden doubted he had the room for such a parking job, considering the small yard, he should have known not to doubt Maverick. “You’d be surprised where I can land,” Cruise responded.

As reported earlier this week, one of those who was surprised was Alison Webb, who had been informed that an “unnamed VIP” needed somewhere to land as Coventry Airport nearby airport was shut. She quickly learned it was Cruise, who not only greeted the gobsmacked family graciously, but gave rides to Webb’s kids and her partner’s children.

“It turned out to be an incredible day,” she told the BBC. “It was surreal, I still now can’t believe it happened.”

Mission: Impossible 7 is expected to open in theaters on May 27, 2022.

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