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As fans of stand-up comedian and The Machine star know, Bert Kreischer is rarely seen onstage with his shirt, and such was the case last week when he introduced fellow comedian Natasha Leggero at Los Angeles’ Improv.

But then she turned the tables, and the moment has just gone viral, thanks to footage posted by TMZ.

Walking out to “Still D.R.E.” by Dr. Dre, Natasha vibed to the classic for a few seconds, and without a word, unbuckled her overall straps and took off her own top.

The crowd — and Kreischer — went wild.

Without acknowledging the very deliberate wardrobe malfunction, the 49-year-old scooped up the furry white jacket she’d dropped, put it on, and seamlessly hit her first joke: “I just had a baby, four years ago, and really, apart from the gingivitis, c-section scar, abdominal separation, hair loss, weight gain, and peeing when I sneeze, having a baby has been a truly amazing experience.”

Before the joke, Bert was spotted musing aloud, “I gotta take my pants off, now.”

To her Instagram on Sunday, Leggero posted censored photos of the moment, explaining, “bert took his shirt off so i did too. improv said not to post [the photos] but tmz already did so f it.”

She added, “Should female comics be able to do the same things as male comics?”

For the record, Natasha got many shout-outs about the stunt from fellow funny women.

Saturday Night Live veteran Melissa Villaseñor, commented, “This rocks! You rock!” Mrs. Maisel Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan added, “Funny way to propose, but yes,” and Leggero’s former boss on Chelsea Lately, Chelsea Handler, commented, “This is an important update!”

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Max has grounded The Flight Attendant after two seasons, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Sources tell the outlet the streaming service was considering a third season, but series star and executive producer Kaley Cuoco decided against returning to the role. The series, which centered on Cuoco’s character Cassie, an alcoholic flight attendant drawn into a world of espionage, earned two Emmy nominations for Cuoco, as well as a best comedy nom …

David Gail, the actor best known for playing Dr. Joe Scanlon on the daytime soap Port Charles and his recurring role as Brenda Walsh’s fiancé on Beverly Hills, 90210, has died, his sister, Katie Colmenares, revealed Saturday, January 20, on Instagram. He was 58. A cause of death was not revealed. Gail’s other credits include the TV shows Growing Pains, Doogie Hoswer, M.D., Murder, She Wrote and Matlock …

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are attached to star in the spy thriller Black Bag, from Steven Soderbergh, who’s also attached to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Neither Blanchett and Fassbender’s roles, nor a plot have not been revealed. The feature project is currently seeking finance and distribution deals from studios and streaming services …

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The Mean Girls movie musical topped the North American box office for the second week in a row, delivering an estimated $11.7 million, bringing its domestic total to $50 million. Its worldwide total is now at $66.2 million.

The Beekeeper held on to second place, collecting an estimated $8.4 million, bringing its domestic box office tally to $31 million in its second week of release. The Jason Statham-led action thriller’s global haul now stands at $75.3 million.

Third place went to Wonka, earning an estimated $6.4 million. Its five-week domestic gross now stands at $187 million and $531.7 million worldwide.

The rom-com Anyone but You landed in fourth place with an estimated $5.4 million, bringing its five-week domestic total to $64.2 million. Its global tally currently stands at $100.2 million, making it the highest-grossing R-rated film since 2016’s Bridget Jones’s Baby.

Rounding out the top five was the animated film Migration with an estimated $5.3 million weekend, bringing its North American haul to $94.6 million in its fourth week of release. Globally, the film, featuring the voices of Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Keegan-Michael Key, Awkwafina, and Danny DeVito, has earned $191.6 million.

The weekend’s new major release, the Ariana DeBose-led space thriller I.S.S., finished in seventh place with an estimated $3 million.

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In the end-credits scene of 2016’s Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds riffs in character about a possible sequel and who could play the character Cable.

Deadpool explains, “We just need a big guy with a flat top: Mel Gibson, Dolph Lundgren, Keira Knightley — she’s got range, who knows?”

While Josh Brolin eventually got the gig, Reynolds’ name drop apparently wasn’t just fan service to Lundgren. He just created a show on his Maximum Effort streaming channel around the Expendables star called Flip A Cöin.

The producers tease, “That’s right, for 30 minutes [the] iconic Swedish actor and filmmaker … will be flipping a coin for your enjoyment.”

They add, “Yes, this is a real show.”

Fellow Swede Malin Akerman also appears.

To ABC Audio, Dolph says, “I don’t know how it came about.”

“I was just … asked if I was interested in this concept, and … it came across as very funny. I didn’t quite understand it, but I guess it’s a, it’s a comedy show. And it’s also for people who like to bet on anything, I guess.”

He does know, however, “it was fun to shoot.”

To ABC Audio, Lundgren has a laugh about the meta full-circle moment, from Reynolds-as-Deadpool mentioning him to working with the superhero’s real-life Canadian alter ego.

“It’s interesting,” Lundgren laughed. “I have some other projects with him, too, maybe in the future.” 

As for the present, Wanted Man, the action movie Dolph directed and co-wrote, is now available to rent or own from Vudu and other streaming platforms.

The thriller, which also stars Kelsey Grammer, has Lundgren playing an American cop tasked with escorting two witnesses to a pair of DEA agents’ murders from Mexico to the U.S.

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A grand jury has indicted Alec Baldwin on an involuntary manslaughter charge in the deadly shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of Rust, months after prosecutors dropped their case against the actor over her death.

The indictment charges Baldwin, 65, with involuntary manslaughter (negligent use of a firearm) or, in the alternative, involuntary manslaughter (without due caution or circumspection), both fourth-degree felonies.

In response to Friday’s indictment, Baldwin’s attorneys, Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel, said, “We look forward to our day in court.”

Special prosecutors investigating the Rust shooting said in October 2023 that they believed Baldwin had “criminal culpability” in the deadly incident. They said at the time they planned to present the case to the grand jury to determine whether probable cause existed to charge him.

The actor was practicing a cross-draw on the Santa Fe set in October 2021 when Baldwin’s Colt-style Western revolver discharged, mortally injuring Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.

Baldwin was initially charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, before special prosecutors dropped the case against the actor in April 2023. At the time, they noted their investigation remained “active and ongoing.”

Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez was also charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.

She faces an additional charge of tampering with evidence, with state prosecutors claiming she handed off a small bag of cocaine following her interview with police the day of the shooting.

Jury selection in her trial is scheduled to begin on Feb. 21 in Santa Fe County. The trial is expected to start on Feb. 22 and last two weeks.

Gun enhancement charges initially filed in the case against Gutierrez and Baldwin were ultimately dropped last year.

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Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here’s a look at what happened in the world of reality television this week:

Love Is Blind (Netflix)
The cast for the sixth season of the reality show, based around falling in love without first seeing your partner, has arrived. This time around, the contestants are from Charlotte, North Carolina. Nick and Vanessa Lachey return to host the 10-episode season, which sees 30 new singles attempt to get engaged to people they meet while dating in separate pods. The first six episodes of the season drop on February 14, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Vanderpump Rules/The Valley (Bravo)
The Vanderpump Rules season 11 premiere party took place Wednesday night, and Bravo took the opportunity to announce a new spinoff series called The Valley. The spinoff will star Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright and Kristen Doute, along with some new faces. According to the show’s official description, the cast will “trade bottle service in West Hollywood for baby bottles in the Valley all while they navigate bustling businesses, rocky relationships and feisty friendships.” The Valley is set to premiere this spring.

Summer House (Bravo)
Sam Feher and Kory Keefer have called it quits after more than a year of dating. Sam confirmed the news on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast this week. “When I ended it, he was shocked,” she said. “He was, I think, floored that I was actually leaving.” The reason for the split? Sam said she never felt Kory took the relationship seriously. She said she told him she loved him, but he never said it back. Summer House season 8 premieres Thursday, February 22, at 9 p.m. ET.

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Joey Graziadei is ready to find love.

The new Bachelor star stopped by Good Morning America on Friday to discuss the upcoming season.

Graziadei is not new to Bachelor Nation, having made it to the final two on Charity Lawson‘s season of The Bachelorette. She chose Dotun Olubeko in the end, but Graziadei said he was ready to get down on one knee and propose.

“In that moment it felt like it was right. We created a great relationship and connection,” he recalled. “But I’m so happy for her and Dotun, and I’m really excited to get my chance now.”

Graziadei said handing out the roses this time is a “way different” experience.

“I will say that all day long. I felt like my story wasn’t finished. I felt the most ready in my life to find my person, and to get that opportunity now I’m just excited,” he said.

He continued, “I never would have thought I’d be in this position. I was just a normal dude in Hawaii teaching tennis about a year ago and how everything’s changed has been amazing.”

At just 28, Graziadei said he feels ready to find his wife — something he couldn’t say just a few years ago.

“These last couple years have been really big for me and I’ve been working on myself,” he said. “I feel good.”

As for what fans can expect from the season 28 premiere when the 32 women arrive to meet him, Graziadei teased “a lot of cool entrances” and “a lot of tennis puns.”

The Bachelor season 28 premieres Monday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC, streaming the next day on Hulu.

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One classic scene in Martin Scorsese‘s Goodfellas saw the late Ray Liotta‘s locked-up Henry Hill happily cooking for his fellow wiseguys while they were behind bars — something Real Housewives vet Teresa Giudice can relate to.

Giudice served 11 months for various charges, including bank, mail and tax fraud, but per her interview with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn‘s Hollywood Raw podcast, she didn’t seem to mind.

“I have to say the food was really good,” the Real Housewives of New Jersey veteran said of the eats at Federal Correctional Institution Danbury in Connecticut, where she served her time. “What was my favorite was when I first got there, they had banana nut muffins. I would have a banana nut muffin every morning. It was so good!”

Hard time indeed.

The former inmate reminded the audience she’s a bestselling cookbook author and noted she “actually cooked … for everyone.” She said she made a “chicken stir fry” for “maybe like 200” guests of this particular pokey.

Since she and her fellow inmates mostly committed “white-collar crimes,” Giudice said her stint was like a “camp setting.”

“I was able to go outside and get fresh air. And I have to say the grounds were so beautiful. The scenery was beautiful,” she expressed. “I tell my daughter it’s like being at college, but the only thing is I just couldn’t leave.”

She also said she “met a lot of cool people” in prison, including her politician roommate.

Her husband, Joe Giudice, also took a plea deal in 2014. He spent 41 months at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey and another seven months in an ICE detention center before he was deported in 2019 to his native Italy.

Chances are his stays weren’t as pleasant.

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Ashley Park, the star of Emily in Paris and the recent Emmy-winning series Beef, has revealed she’s recovering from a serious medical scare.

Alongside hospital bedside photos on Instagram, the actress commented, “As I sit here processing and recovering from the first few weeks of 2024, the only word I can think of is grateful.”

She explained, “While on holiday in December into New Years, what started as tonsillitis spiraled into critical septic shock, which infected and affected several of my organs. I am grateful that my health has improved despite what we had initially been told.”

Park also confirmed that she and her Emily in Paris co-star Paul Forman are in fact together, as he’s pictured kissing her forehead and can be seen by her bedside.

Park continued, “Grateful most of all to [Paul] for being unconditionally by my side through all this. You calmed my fears and held me through ambulances, three foreign hospitals, a week in the ICU, scary ERs, countless scans and tests and injections, excruciating pain, and so much confusion all while we were alone on the other side of the world far from those we know.”

She added, “I love you Paul. More than I can ever say.”

After thanking her family, “every doctor and ICU nurse” who treated her and the staff at the Maldives resort where she apparently fell ill, Park expressed, “I hesitated to share what’s been happening as I’m still in the throes of recovery…but I now know I’m safely on the other side of the worst.”

She concluded by saying, “Im sorry for being so absent recently to so much and to people in my life. I love you all. I’m healing and I promise I’m gonna be okay.”

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Jeremy Renner posted a heartfelt video message on his Instagram, looking back at his near-fatal snowplow accident, on the day the album about his recovery journey was released.

The video was apparently taken during a break in a recording session, when someone off-camera asked him how he’s changed since the accident.

“I don’t think the core of any of who I am has changed at all. I don’t even think the principles of what I’ve always wanted in my life changed at all,” Renner says. “So the only thing that’s really shifted, to be honest, for me, is the fact is — which is difficult — is accepting, being seen and witnessed for who I am as a man as a father, as a brother.”

He adds, “And that’s it’s a powerful love and it’s overwhelming. I mean, that’s the biggest thing that I’ve changed. I, I personally shifted, so I had to learn to receive a lot of goodness, man … a goodness I didn’t believe existed in the world.”

The twice-Oscar nominated actor’s voice cracked with emotion as he concludes, “It’s f****** special to know that you’re not going to have a bad day for the rest of your life.”

The lead track of Love and Titanium reflects this: It’s called “Lucky Man.”

Renner captioned the video, “I am overwhelmed and astonished by the kindness of others,” adding in part, “I have nothing left to say except thank you all.”

The seven-track Love and Titanium is now available on Apple Music and other platforms. The album’s title is a callback to his ABC News interview, in which he said he’d been rebuilt with “love and titanium.”

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