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

Real Housewives of Miami (Bravo)

Fans of Real Housewives of Miami got a peek at what’s in store when the show returns midseason. A new trailer teases a trip to Mexico, Guerdy Abraira and her husband fighting over a surgery she refuses to have, Larsa Pippen reacting to a jewelry gift from boyfriend Marcus Jordan, an explosive confrontation between Julia Lemigova and Adriana de Moura and lots more drama.

The Masked Singer (Fox)

The 10th season, yes 10th, of The Masked Singer came to a close, with Ne-Yo being crowned the winner. The R&B singer, who spent the season as the Cow, won with performances of Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” and Rihanna’s “Take a Bow.” Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider, who performed as Donut, was the runner up.

Survivor (CBS)

The 45th season of Survivor wrapped up after weeks of watching the contestants outwit, outlast and outplay each other on a secluded island in Fiji. Dee Valladares walked away with the $1 million prize, beating Austin Li Coon five votes to three.

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Peter Billingsley knows a little something about holiday movies — after all, he appeared in the holiday classic Elf and played Ralphie in the timeless A Christmas Story. 

So when he makes the case that Die Hard is definitively a Christmas movie, people should listen — and that’s just what Die Hard cinematographer Jan de Bont did as Billingsley made his case in an interview with the Speed director that was posted to Instagram.

“It opens with RUN-DMC‘s ‘Christmas in Hollis’, a great Christmas song, in the limousine,” Billingsley begins, to which de Bont agrees. 

“You have the iconic ‘Ho-Ho-Ho’ moment when he [Bruce Willis‘ John McClane] decorates the dead body, puts it in an elevator,” the actor and Iron Man co-producer continues.

“Production design put Santas everywhere. Its central location is a Christmas party … The film ends with the song ‘Let It Snow,’ it’s the end credits song,” Billingsley adds.

He closes by saying, “But I’ll leave you with this: I think it embodies the themes of Christmas: of acceptance, forgiveness, love and family.”

At this point, de Bont smiles and agrees: “Okay, I’m sold now.”

For the record, millions of fans may disagree, but back in 2018, during his Comedy Central roast, Willis, emphatically joked, “Die Hard is not a Christmas movie! It’s a g****** Bruce Willis movie!”

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept confirmed to ABC News Friday that there was an arrest made on December 20, after Charlie Sheen was allegedly assaulted by his neighbor.

The department is offering limited details, but sources confirm that deputies responded to Sheen’s home after he claimed his neighbor, identified by LASD as Electra Shrock, forced her way inside his home and allegedly attacked him.

TMZ was the first to report details of the incident, saying the suspect tried to “strangle” the former Two and a Half Men star. 

The department did confirm there was a struggle of some kind, and deputies identified Sheen as a victim of assault, adding that medical aid was called, but there were no serious injuries.

The two neighbors allegedly have a history of disagreements.

Shrock was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, force likely to create great bodily injury, and residential burglary. She is due in court later on December 22.

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Modern Family veteran Eric Stonestreet can be seen as the Mad Santa in the second season of the Disney+ series The Santa Clauses. And while Tim Allen has played Scott Calvin/Santa Claus for more than 30 years, Stonestreet tells ABC Audio he’d grab the bag if offered.

“Well, listen, I love playing in this world. And Tim Allen is Santa Claus for so many of us and will always be Santa Claus,” the actor says.

“But if [showrunner] Jack [Burditt], Disney and Tim or anyone asked if I was interested, my answer will always be yes to be in this world some way or somehow.”

Both seasons of The Santa Clauses are now streaming on Disney+, as are Allen’s three Santa Clause films.

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The December 15 premiere of Apple TV+’s The Family Plan, starring Mark Wahlberg, debuted with the most views for a movie on the streaming service and now stands as the most-viewed movie in Apple TV+ history, the streamer has announced.

The film has Wahlberg playing an assassin-turned suburban dad’s past catching up with him, so he takes his wife (Mission: Impossible player Michelle Monaghan) and their kids on the run, under the guise of a family road trip to Vegas.

As Apple TV+ closes out the year, its Jennifer Aniston/Reese Witherspoon-led The Morning Show, which kicked off a third season in September, saw a 20% audience increase over season 2.

The streamer’s Godzilla-co-starring series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters debuted as the #1 first season drama on Apple TV in November, while Lessons in Chemistry, starring Brie Larson, became the #1 limited series on Apple TV+, and Oscar winner Larson recently was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work.

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Robert Pattinson and Suki Waterhouse are engaged, a source tells People.

“They are engaged. They both want to be married. It’s important for them,” says the insider.

The Daisy Jones and the Six actress, 31, revealed in November that she and the 37-year-old The Batman star were expecting their first child together.

“I decided to wear something particularly sparkly today ’cause I thought it might distract you from something else that’s going on,” a fan video captured her saying at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico City, gesturing to her belly.

“I’m not sure if it’s working,” she joked.

It is the first child for both.

The pair have been together for five years, but the private couple only made their pairing official in December of 2022, at a fashion show in Egypt for Dior, for which Twilight veteran Pattinson models.

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HBO has renewed The Gilded Age, the period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, for a third season. Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon and Christine Baranski star in the series, set in “a period of immense economic change, of great conflict between the old ways and brand-new systems, and of huge fortunes made and lost,” according to the premium cable channel, which reports total premiere-night viewing for the second season grew for six consecutive weeks, culminating in a series high for the season 2 finale …

The Critics Choice Association announced on Thursday, December 21, that the location for its 29th annual Critics Choice Awards has been moved from the Fairmont Century Plaza — where it’s been held for the past two years — to The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica due to a labor dispute. Chelsea Handler will once again host the show, which will be carried live on The CW on Sunday, January 14, at 7 p.m. ET …

Sony announced on Thursday, December 21, that the Scarlett Johansson/Channing Tatum Apple Original Films production, formerly titled Project Artemis, is set for a July 12 premiere, according to Variety. Additionally, Wolfs, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, also from Apple Original Films, will open September 20 in IMAX and premium large formats …

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The new film American Fiction touches on an array of things — race in America, family drama, personal and professional satisfaction. Jeffrey Wright stars as an author who makes a morally compromising choice with his work, and also a man dealing with the declining health of his mother.

The Critics Choice and Golden Globe-nominated film expands into theaters nationwide December 22, and Wright tells ABC Audio he wanted to take on the role because he felt a strong connection to his character’s personal journey.

The things that “struck an emotional cord” between Wright and his character, Monk, include “his being a man who has reached that point in his life where all of a sudden his family turns to him at once and asks him to be the adult in the room,” he says.

He also finds it interesting “When [Monk] is tasked with being caretaker to she who was his caretaker.”

“I knew that well,” he adds.

Sterling K. Brown, who plays Monk’s surgeon brother, says he too, finds the film relatable. 

“I think across the board in this film, I saw Black people who were allowed to be people. They did not have to be noble or they did not have to be ignoble,” Brown says. “They got a chance to be all of what humanity allows itself to be expressed as. And that’s not something that we see all the time with every character and with so many of them looking like me.”

Brown notes joining the film, which satirically explores Black stereotypes in America, was a no brainer. 

“I think [comedy] was the spoonful of sugar that helped sort of, the medicine go down in terms of pointing out to Hollywood the narrowness of the stories that they’ve allowed us to tell,” he says.

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A report in Vanity Fair says a former assistant to Vin Diesel is suing the star, claiming he sexually battered her in the fall of 2010.

The incident reportedly happened in Atlanta while she was working for Diesel when he was filming Fast Five, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles.

According to the legal documents obtained by Vanity Fair, Asta Jonasson claims she was asked to wait in Diesel’s suite at the St. Regis Hotel while he entertained hostesses from a club he’d visited. Once they left, Diesel is accused of pulling Jonasson onto the bed. She managed to “escape,” and asked him to leave, the accusation continues.

And instead, the documents claim, he began groping and kissing her chest against her will, “and molested her body, running his hands over Ms. Jonasson’s upper legs, including her inner thighs.”

VF quoted the suit as saying, “Ms. Jonasson was afraid to more forcibly refuse her supervisor, knowing that getting him out of that room was both crucial to her personal safety and job security.”

Diesel’s camp has yet to comment about the accusations.

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On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced more potential Oscar nominees.

Among them are hopefuls in the categories of Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects.

Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 11, and runs through Tuesday, January 16.

The nominations for the 96th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, with the ceremony taking place live on ABC Sunday, March 10, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood.

Fifteen films made the cut for the Original Score category. These include:

American Fiction
American Symphony
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Elemental
The Holdovers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

The shortlist for Best Original Song also includes 15 nominees with Barbie, The Color Purple, and Flora and Son represented by multiple songs:

“It Never Went Away” – American Symphony
“Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)” – Asteroid City
“Dance The Night” – Barbie
“I’m Just Ken” – Barbie
“What Was I Made For?” – Barbie
“Keep It Movin’ – The Color Purple
“Superpower (I)” – The Color Purple
The Fire Inside” – Flamin’ Hot”
“High Life” – Flora and Son
“Meet In The Middle” – Flora and Son
“Can’t Catch Me Now” – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
“Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)” – Killers of the Flower Moon
“Quiet Eyes” – Past Lives
“Road To Freedom – Rustin
“Am I Dreaming” – Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:

Beau Is Afraid
Ferrari
Golda
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

Best Visual Effects:

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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