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Wendy Williams discussed the latest on her recent hospital visit and her guardianship with The View.

In an interview that aired Friday, Williams said she needed a “breath of fresh air” when, according to sources, she was taken by ambulance Monday from an assisted living facility in Midtown Manhattan to Mount Sinai West hospital.

“I just needed a breath of fresh air. I needed to see the doctors,” Williams told host Joy Behar about her decision to go to the hospital. “While I was at the hospital, I also got blood drawn for my thyroid, but most importantly, at the hospital, it was my choice to get an independent evaluation on my incapacitation. Which I don’t have it.”

Williams has been in a court-ordered guardianship since 2022. In February 2024, a press release from Williams and her medical team revealed that in 2023 she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, which according to the National Institute on Aging currently has no cure or treatments to slow its progression.

Williams spoke on Friday about her past struggles with substance abuse, saying she is “easily going on with my life alcohol free” these days.

After visiting the hospital on Monday, she said she had dinner with her niece, who had flown in to visit her, before returning to her assisted living facility. “Why am I here … where people don’t remember anything?” she asked, referring to her current living area on the memory unit floor. “I stay in the bedroom the majority of the time,” she said, adding that she is not permitted to have friends visit her without permission.

A statement from the lawyer for Williams’ guardian provided to TMZ on March 11 was read to Williams on The View. The statement said the guardianship was created by a judge who declared Williams legally incapacitated after the frontotemporal dementia diagnosis.

The lawyer claimed Williams has not been kept from her family and that she is receiving excellent medical care.

Ginalisa Monterroso, a health care advocate who joined the interview with Williams, explained that the guardianship first came about to protect Williams’ money.

“I didn’t mind it at that time … but at this point in my life, I want to terminate [the] guardianship and move on with my life, if that’s possible at all,” Williams added.

In response to Williams’ recent media appearances, in which she says she is not incapacitated, her guardian sent a letter to the court requesting that Williams have another comprehensive evaluation to assess her mental capacity. That request was granted by the judge in early March, and the results are expected sometime this spring.

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It’s about to get freakier.

Disney has released the teaser trailer for Freakier Friday, its sequel to the 2003 live-action comedy film Freaky Friday.

The film, which arrives in theaters on Aug. 8, stars Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, who reprise their roles as Anna and Tess Coleman.

The duo switch bodies again in this new film, now decades after the first go-around, but there’s a new multigenerational twist. Lohan’s Anna now has a daughter of her own, along with a soon-to-be stepdaughter.

As they navigate the challenges of merging two families together, the teaser trailer also reveals that this time around there’s a four-way body swap between Anna, Tess, Anna’s daughter and Anna’s stepdaughter.

“Oh, that’s interesting. Your lifelines, it’s like they’ve intersected before. You’ve walked in each other’s path,” a character played by Vanessa Bayer tells Anna and Tess in the trailer. “You learned a lesson. A lesson that may serve you again.”

Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Lucille Soong, Stephen Tobolowsky and Rosalind Chao are all reprising their roles from the first film.

Joining them are new cast members Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Sophia Hammons and Julia Butters.

The first Freaky Friday film was based on the 1972 Mary Rodgers novel of the same name.

Nisha Ganatra directs Freakier Friday, from a script written by Jordan Weiss.

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Season 4 of BMF is on the horizon, set to return to Starz in June. The season will pick up with the Flenory brothers still in Mexico, where they’d traveled to rescue their key supplier, who was arrested. While also there to secure and expand their business operations, they’re left fighting to survive amid several life-and-death situations.

The brothers’ “chaotic and relationship-altering mission in Mexico” is teased in a promo clip for the series, which starts with Terry holding Meech, who had just been shot, in the middle of a desert. As one clip finds their father, Charles, expressing concern about Meech and his whereabouts, others see Meech on the run in Mexico and in the middle of some shootouts. Meech then receives a prophesy about his rise in the game, before the infamous question of the season is asked.

The answer to “What the f*** happened in Mexico?” will be answered starting June 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada.

First-look images also show what fans can expect, including Meech and Terry’s expansion to St. Louis, Markisha’s quest to be taken seriously as Terry’s business partner, and the aftermath of Lucille and Charles’ divorce.

According to Deadline, it’s not clear if season 4 of BMF will be the final one. While sources close to production say Starz “is pleased with Season 4 creatively” and is “looking forward to sharing new action-packed episodes with fans,” the future of the show has yet to be determined. 

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Break out the biscuits and the hot brown water, because football is life … and Ted Lasso is back.

The beloved Apple TV+ comedy will return for a fourth season, with Jason Sudeikis returning as Coach Ted Lasso. Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard, is an executive producer for the new season, as is Brett Goldstein, who plays Roy Kent. Goldstein will also be a writer on the new season. It’s not clear who else from the cast is returning.

In a statement, Sudeikis said, “As we all continue to live in a world where so many factors have conditioned us to ‘look before we leap,’ in season four, the folks at AFC Richmond learn to LEAP BEFORE THEY LOOK, discovering that wherever they land, it’s exactly where they’re meant to be.”

The third season of the show, billed as the last one, saw Ted returning to Kansas to be with his son, while AFC Richmond owner Rebecca, played by Hannah Waddingham, sells 49% of the team to fans and Roy becomes the new coach. Also in the finale, Juno Temple‘s Keeley suggests to Rebecca that they start a women’s AFC Richmond team.

Ted Lasso‘s first two seasons won back-to-back Emmys for outstanding comedy series, while Sudeikis, Goldstein and Waddingham also won Emmys for their performances during the show’s run.

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When Michael Fassbender auditioned to play James Bond, he ended up promoting a different actor for the role.

In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Fassbender said he suggested Daniel Craig might make a good James Bond during his own audition for the film Casino Royale.

“I met with Barbara Broccoli just, you know, through passing, and I actually went in to an audition phase before Daniel [Craig] was cast, but I don’t think I was ever in the mix,” Fassbender said. “But I remember going into that room and meeting with her and [Michael G.] Wilson, and I think I was like, ‘Daniel Craig is …’ — I don’t know why I was promoting him, I should have been promoting myself.”

Fassbender said the flub is par for the course, admitting he was an hour late to his Mad Max: Fury Road audition. “This is what I was saying, I was terrible at auditions,” Fassbender said.

Even though he ended up not getting the role, Fassbender still gave Craig his flowers.

“Obviously Daniel did a fantastic job and went on to be I think the most successful Bond in history, but that was it really, there was never a conversation after that,” Fassbender said.

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Daniel Radcliffe is joining the cast of the upcoming Tracy Morgan comedy pilot at NBC. The show, which is currently untitled, comes from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, as well as writer Sam Means. In the new show, Morgan stars as a disgraced former football player who is looking to fix his image. Radcliffe will play Arthur Tobin in the show, an award-winning filmmaker who sets out to make a documentary about the former football star …

Time for a tall of glass of milk. Babygirl will make its streaming debut on Max on April 25. The A24 film will premiere on HBO the following day, April 26, at 8 p.m. ET. Nicole Kidman stars alongside Harris Dickinson, Sophie Wilde and Antonio Banderas in the film, which was written and directed by Halina Reijn …

Phoebe Dynevor is in talks to join Jake Gyllenhaal in M. Night Shyamalan‘s upcoming supernatural romantic thriller, which is based on an original idea he co-created with Nicholas Sparks, according to Deadline. Shyamalan and Sparks are both individually writing a screenplay and a novel based on said concept …

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Brian Tyree Henry stars in the just-released Apple TV+ series Dope Thief, in which his character, Ray, poses as a DEA agent to steal money and drugs from small-time drug dealers. It’s different than the characters he’s previously portrayed, which is exactly why he found it appealing.

“I think every actor worth their weight in salt wants to stretch themselves and really explore all these different parts of them. And for some actors, it’s harder to find people who will write those things and want to see you in those different spaces,” he tells ABC Audio. “So when I got the script for Dope Thief, [director Peter Craig‘s] writing immediately just drew me in because I was like, ‘They really gonna put Ray on? They gon’ put Ray on television? They ain’t gonna do that.'”

Though interested, Brian says he wasn’t “quite sure” if he was ready to be Ray, knowing it’d “be incredibly hard,” and would require him to be vulnerable and transparent in his life.

“But I was like, if I have that feeling, then I know that it must be something I should lean into,” he says. “And at the end of the day, it was the most cathartic thing I’ve ever done.”

In Dope Thief, Ray is seen surviving various life-or-death situations while dealing with trauma from his past. Despite the difficulty that came with bringing that to life onscreen, Brian says his job was to usher Ray “through his generational trauma, trying to find all the different layers of how he can survive and live with the choices he’s made and the relationships he’s built.”

“That was incredibly exciting to me. I was like, ‘Oh, this will be cool,'” he says. “I don’t think anyone has ever seen me like this, and I just wanted to push myself.” 

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Dakota Johnson was spotted on the streets of New York City filming for the upcoming movie Verity.

Johnson was spotted on the streets of Manhattan on March 12 surrounded by film crews while shooting the film adaption of Colleen Hoover‘s popular novel of the same name.

In photos and a video from the shoot, Johnson dons a long beige peacoat and headphones while walking down 41st Street.

In another photo Johnson can be seen getting splashed with what appears to be a red substance on the street.

Also spotted in the photographs is Josh Hartnett, who is slated to star alongside Johnson in the film.

As previously announced, Anne Hathaway is set to star in the film as the movie’s namesake character, bestselling author Verity Crawford, with Hartnett playing her husband, Jeremy Crawford, and Johnson playing a struggling writer named Lowen Ashleigh.

The official synopsis reads, “Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson) is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford (Hartnett), husband of best-selling thriller author Verity Crawford (Hathaway), has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series that his wife is unable to finish after a mysterious accident.”

“Upon arrival at the lavish Crawford estate, Lowen slowly learns that things are not exactly as they seem with the discovery of a secret, unfinished manuscript that may divulge chilling admissions about the family’s past,” the synopsis continues. “As Lowen ingratiates herself with Jeremy and his young son Crew, she must discern if Verity’s writings are merely lurid works of fiction or an ominous warning by a deranged psychopath.”

Michael Showalter is slated to direct the project for Amazon MGM Studios.

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Black Mirror is coming back for more.

Netflix has released the trailer for season 7 of the sci-fi anthology series. The show returns to the streamer on April 10.

Notably, season 7 finds Black Mirror revisiting characters from a past season for the first time. The seventh season will mark the return of characters from the popular season 4 episode “USS Callister.” This means Cristin Milioti and other key actors from that episode will return to continue their virtual voyage.

Milioti returns to her character Nanette Cole, a computer programmer who was sucked into a video game. Billy Magnussen, Milanka Brooks, Osy Ikhile and Jimmi Simpson will all also reprise their roles.

As for new actors joining the show, Michele Austin, Ben Bailey Smith, Asim Chaudhry, Josh Finan, James Nelson-Joyce, Will Poulter, Jay Simpson and Michael Workéyè are being added to the Black Mirror family.

Previously announced season 7 cast members include Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Patsy Ferran, Paul Giamatti, Lewis Gribben, Osy Ikhile, Rashida Jones, Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G. Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross and Harriet Walter.

Black Mirror was created by Charlie Brooker. He executive produces the show alongside Jessica Rhoades and Annabel Jones.

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The Golden Globes are doubling down on Nikki Glaser.

The comedian will officially return to host the 83rd annual awards ceremony in January 2026. It will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+ in the U.S.

Glaser became the first woman to host the Golden Globes solo as she took on the role of host at the 2025 ceremony, which was broadcast on Jan. 5.

“Hosting the Golden Globes this year was without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career,” Glaser said in a press release. “I can’t wait to do it again, and this time in front of the team from The White Lotus who will finally recognize my talent and cast me in season four as a Scandinavian pilates instructor with a shadowy past.”

Helen Hoehne, the president of the Golden Globes, expressed excitement at the thought of Glaser returning to host.

“Nikki Glaser brought a refreshing spark and fearless wit to the Golden Globes stage this year. Her sharp humor, and bold presence set the tone for an unforgettable night, making the ceremony feel vibrant and most of all fun,” Hoehne said.

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