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Behind every good man is a good woman — just ask Michael Jai White. He wrote, produced and starred in the new movie Trouble Man, but not without his wife’s feedback. Gillian White tells ABC Audio she had a lot of input before the release.

“He talks to me about so many aspects of the film and asks for my advice or my ideas or anything that I can help with,” she says. “I think he thinks I’m a pretty smart woman, so I think he respects my ideas and my input. But yeah, we’re a team. So we tend to work together on every project.”

Michael cosigned, noting there’s “not even a little bit” of concern about mixing his professional life with his private one.

“If you have your best friend working beside you, somebody who is smarter than you in a lot of ways, I mean, it all is for the gain,” he says of working with Gillian. “In fact, if she weren’t with me, I’d have a lot more stress.” 

Now available on streaming platforms, Trouble Man follows the story of Michael’s character, Jaxen, a private investigator hired to help find a missing R&B star. Gillian plays his former flame Gina, with whom he later rekindles a relationship.

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Big Brother is taking over The Amazing Race.

CBS has announced the cast of season 38 of The Amazing Race, and every single one of the pairs includes at least one former Big Brother player.

Fourteen former Big Brother houseguests, including winners Taylor Hale, Chelsie Baham and Jag Bains, are competing on the season that is described to be a European adventure.

The rest of the former Big Brother contestants competing on the season are Angela Murray, Kat Dunn, Joseph Abdin, Hannah Chaddah, Enzo Palumbo, Izzy Gleicher, Natalie Negrotti, Tucker Des Lauriers, Rubina Bernabe, Kyland Young and Matt Turner.

Phil Keoghan returns to host the upcoming season of The Amazing Race, which kicks off in Amsterdam. They’ll also travel to Prague, Budapest and Romania.

In true Big Brother fashion, this season will include brand-new unexpected twists that contestants will have to face right away.

“For the first time in The Amazing Race history, teams face their first challenge before even lining up on the starting line – the first team to complete the task receives an express pass and the last team to complete the task faces the consequences of a Hazard,” according to a press release.

Season 38 of The Amazing Race premieres on a special night — Thursday, Sept. 25 — before continuing with weekly, regular episodes on Wednesdays starting on Oct. 1.

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I got a text! It says Love Island USA host Ariana Madix is coming to St. Denis Medical.

NBCUniversal has announced that Madix will appear as a guest star in season 2 of the comedy series. She will play Dr. Emerson on the show.

A video of Mekki Leeper on set and in costume as Matt announcing Madix’s casting news was shared to NBC’s Instagram.

“Ariana Madix?” Leeper says after answering a red cord phone. “Is coming to St. Denis Medical? That’s where I am right now!”

The video also has the sentence, “This just in: the queen is coming to St. Denis Medical,” written on top of it.

St. Denis Medical follows an underfunded and understaffed Oregon hospital and the people who work there. The mockumentary stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, David Alan Grier, Allison Tolman, Josh Lawson and Kahyun Kim.

St. Denis Medical returns for season 2 with back-to-back episodes on Nov. 3. Season 1 is available to stream on Peacock.

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Everybody wants to see the first look at season 2 of Nobody Wants This.

Netflix has released new details about the upcoming second season, as well as new photos of Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in character as Joanne and Noah in the romantic comedy series.

Season 1 of the show found Noah seemingly turning down the head rabbi position at his synagogue and choosing to be with Joanne. The season 2 photos show that the interfaith couple appears to still be together. Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster told Netflix she’s excited to explore how the couple’s relationship deepens throughout season 2.

“It’s such an interesting part of every relationship when you now have to see if you can make it work with each other’s friends, day-to-day routines, and how you handle the milestones that come in those first few months together from holidays, birthdays, and what you each think the future should look like,” Foster said.

Justine Lupe and Timothy Simons also return in season 2 as Morgan and Sasha, the main couple’s close-knit siblings. Joining the cast this time around are Brody’s real-life wife, Leighton Meester, as well as Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky and Arian Moayed.

Nobody Wants This season 2 will be available to stream on Netflix on Oct. 23.

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Much of the first part of the new season of Wednesday revolves around our pigtailed protagonist trying to figure out why her psychic powers are glitching, and there’s a lot of talk about how she needs a new “spirit guide” to help her solve the problem. Well, in the new trailer for the second part of the season, problem solved.

In the trailer we see that Wednesday’s in the hospital, in a coma following the events of part one. She wakes to find none other than Gwendoline Christie‘s Principal Weems — who died in the first season — in her hospital room. She’s not back from the dead but, surprise, she is Wednesday’s new spirit guide.

Also in the trailer, Wednesday finally tells her roommate Enid that she’s in danger from Tyler aka the monstrous Hyde, who escaped from the mental hospital in part one. There are also showdowns, explosions, dancing and even a little tease of the much-talked-about appearance of Lady Gaga.

Unseen in part one, the pop superstar is set to play Rosaline Rotwood, a “legendary teacher” at Nevermore, in part two. We don’t see her, but we hear her voice saying, “Beware. There will be a price to pay.”

The new episodes arrive Sept. 3. According to Variety, part one scored 50 million views in its first five days of streaming.

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Antony Starr is saying goodbye to The Boys. The actor, who portrayed Homelander in the Prime Video series, shared a lengthy tribute to Instagram on Wednesday, giving his first comments about the show ending since it wrapped production in July. “Difficult to put into words what an incredible ride this has been. How much life and growth has occurred. How amazing the team is. It’s truly been the highlight of my career,” Starr wrote on Instagram …

Dan Levy‘s upcoming Netflix series now has a title. The new comedy series will be called Big Mistakes. Taylor Ortega and Laurie Metcalf also star in the show, which follows two deeply incapable siblings who are blackmailed into the organized crime world …

Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley are teaming up for a new Hulu series. The actresses are set to star in and executive produce the limited series Count My Lies. The show is based on the novel of the same name, which follows compulsive liar Sloane (Woodley) who fibs her way into a nanny position for the charismatic Violet (Lohan) …

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Sarah Jessica Parker isn’t reading what you’re writing about Carrie Bradshaw.

The actress told People in a recent interview that she doesn’t keep up with the fan reactions to new episodes of And Just Like That…, the Sex and the City sequel series.

“Never,” Parker said. “I don’t have the constitution for that, because I think you’re going to perhaps read things or hear things that don’t always feel great.”

That being said, she does understand that fan communities will have their own feelings about the shows they love.

“When you’re part of a community, people are going to have a lot of feelings. And it doesn’t mean that a feeling can’t change, it’s a reaction. We want very much for people to have all those feelings, and it’s not for us to police or try to correct them,” Parker said.

The actress said this has all added up to make her “a very inexperienced troller.”

“I think that conversation is better left not in any way witnessed or babysat by me,” she said.

The series finale of And Just Like That… airs Thursday on HBO Max.

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Cillian Murphy is the head teacher at a reform school in the official trailer for Steve.

Netflix released the trailer for the upcoming film on Wednesday. Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter‘s bestselling novel, Shy. Tim Mielants directed the film from a script that was also written by Porter.

Steve is set in the mid-’90s. Its trailer finds Murphy in character as the titular head teacher, who fights to protect the school’s integrity, prevent it from impending closure and grapples with his mental health.

“These are extraordinarily complex young people,” Steve says of his students in the trailer.

Steve’s story is told in parallel to one of his students, Shy. The teenage boy, played by Jay Lycurgo, is caught between his past and future as he struggles with his violent impulses.

“Follow one pivotal day for a headteacher and his students, at a last-chance reform school in mid-90s England,” the film’s official description reads.

Tracey Ullman, Emily Watson and Simbi Ajikawo also star in the upcoming film.

Steve arrives in select theaters on Sept. 19 and hits Netflix on Oct. 3.

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“I’m off my meds for five months now,” Ye begins in the new trailer for In Whose Name?, a documentary that shows the “raw, unfiltered” side of his life with bipolar disorder, according to the film’s YouTube description.

The trailer released Wednesday shows Ye’s mental decline and its effect on his marriage to ex-wife Kim Kardashian, who tells him, “Your personality was not like this a few years ago.”

The preview also shows Ye experiencing a few mental breakdowns, and discussing his faith and his anti-medication stance.

In Whose Name? marks the directorial debut of 18-year-old Nicolas Ballesteros, who followed Ye over the last few years as he coped with mental health struggles, capturing 3,000 hours of raw footage.

“What began as a silent observation evolved into a profound journey of artistic and personal growth,” the synopsis of the documentary reads. “In the end, Ballesteros captured not just a portrait of Ye but a reflection of the human condition in all its contradictions.”

The film also gives a “rare insight into the realities of mental illness and its impact on identity, perception, and power,” as well as the way it’s “handled – or left unspoken – among the weight of visibility and vulnerability.”

It “reveals a side of Ye the world was never meant to see – raw, unfiltered, and suspended in the complexity of fame, faith, mental health, and power,” the synopsis concludes.

The trailer for In Whose Name? is now available to watch on YouTube; the film arrives on Sept. 19.

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Taylor Swift and Zoë Kravitz are pals, but we bet when Taylor invited Zoë and her mom, Lisa Bonet, to stay at her place, she didn’t expect it would result in the destruction of her bathroom.

Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Zoë explained that when people were being evacuated due to the LA wildfires in January, Taylor invited her and Bonet to stay at her home in the area, because she wasn’t there at the time. When Bonet arrived, Zoë noted that she’d brought along her pet snake, Orpheus. 

After two weeks there, Zoë said she was packing up to leave when her mom called her in a panic and asked her to come upstairs. It turns out the snake had disappeared into a hole next to a built-in banquette in the bathroom. Bonet grabbed the snake’s tail and tried to pull her out, but couldn’t.

“The snake is getting further and further in. … I was panicking so much,” Zoë told Seth. Finally, the house manager came to the rescue, with a crowbar.

“[He] starts having to tear apart this banquette, we’re ripping up the tile, we’re scratching the walls,” she continued. “Me and my mom are both holding the snake, completely destroyed Taylor’s bathroom.” Meyers actually showed a photo of the comical scene.

Zoë told the house manager she’d pay for everything and asked him not to say anything to Taylor.

“I remember calling her and saying, ‘Hey … I wanted to talk to you about something,'” said Zoë.

To which Taylor replied, “Is it the fact that you almost lost a snake in my house and destroyed my bathroom?”

Meyers cracked, “I feel like that snake’s gonna get at least three songs on the next album.”

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