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Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner have confirmed their split in an Instagram post, and addressed the various rumors as to why the two are divorcing.

In a statement from both Joe and Sophie, they write, “After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage. There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.”

As previously reported, Joe, 34, filed for a dissolution of marriage on Tuesday, September 5 in Miami, according to documents obtained by People. In the filing, Joe claims, “the marriage between the parties is irretrievably broken.” The couple does have a prenup, according to the filing.

Joe and Sophie, 27, wed in 2019 after dating for three years. They have two children: Willa, 3, and a 14-month-old daughter who is only identified in the divorce documents as D.

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Longtime The Price Is Right host Bob Barker’s cause of death has been revealed.

On Tuesday, the death certificate for Barker, obtained by KABC from the Los Angeles County Clerk, showed that the legendary TV star died from Alzheimer’s disease.

Other significant contributors to his death included hypertension, hypothyroidism and hyperlipidemia.

Barker died on Aug. 26 at his home at the age of 99, according to his longtime publicist Roger Neal. He was a few months shy of his 100th birthday.

Barker began hosting The Price is Right in 1972, and went on to host the show for 35 years before leaving in the late 2000s.

As the host of The Price is Right, Barker won 19 Daytime Emmy Awards, including 14 for Outstanding Game Show Host, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys in 1995.

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The View returned for its 27th season on Tuesday, but without its moderator, Whoopi Goldberg, who missed the premiere after coming down with COVID-19. “As you can see, Whoopi is not here. She has COVID,” Joy Behar, who took the moderator’s seat in Goldberg’s absence, explained to the audience. “Yes, it’s back. It’s back! But she’s on the mend. She’s on the tail end, and she’ll probably be back this week. But sorry she’s not here, for those of you who were looking forward to seeing her.” Behar’s fellow panelists — Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro — were also back for the ABC daytime talk show’s 27th season…

You can watch 2023’s top grossing movie, Barbie, in the comfort of your own home starting Tuesday, September 12 when it becomes available for digital purchase and rental. The Greta Gerwig-directed film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling will cost $29.99, with a 48-hour rental via PVOD priced at $24.99 on participating digital platforms, including Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu. Barbie, based on the Mattel doll, is the year’s highest-grossing-film with $1.38 billion worldwide…

CBS will launch its first-ever international edition of the NCIS franchise, NCIS: Sydney, beginning November 13, the network announced on Tuesday. The series, first announced in 2022, stars DC’s Legends of Tomorrow‘s Olivia Swann plays NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey and Spartacus: War of the Damned’s Todd Lasance leads as Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey. They’re joined by Sean Sagar as NCIS Special Agent, DeShawn Jackson, Tuuli Narkle as AFP Liaison Officer, Constable Evie Cooper, Mavournee Hazel as AFP Forensic Scientist, Bluebird “Blue” Gleeson and William McInnes as AFP Forensic Pathologist, Dr. Roy Penrose. NCIS: Sydney “will follow the eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), who are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet”…

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Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet were spotted packing on the PDA at Beyoncé‘s Renaissance World Tour in Los Angeles on September 4.

This marked a significant public appearance for the cosmetics mogul, 26, and the Oscar-nominated actor, 27, who had been at the center of swirling romance rumors that sparked in April.

In video snippets captured at the concert and obtained by TMZ, Kylie and Timothée could be seen striding into the grand SoFi Stadium, hand in hand with Kylie’s sister, Kendall Jenner.

Neither Timothée nor Kylie have commented publicly on their relationship.

Before linking up with Timothée, Kylie was in a long-term relationship with Travis Scott, with whom she shares two adorable children, 5-year-old Stormi and 19-month-old Aire.

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Stray, the award-winning action-adventure video game that lets you play as, well, a stray cat, is becoming a movie.

And no, it’s not a talking cat. It’s just a cat.

Annapurna Animation, the movie studio sibling of Annapurna Interactive, the company that released the BlueTwelve Studio game, is taking on a feature film starring the game’s nameless lost feline and its drone buddy, B-12, who helps the kitty navigate “a decaying cybercity” to “untangle an ancient mystery.”

Producer Robert Baird tells Entertainment Weekly, “This is a game that’s all about what makes us human, and there are no humans in it. It’s a buddy comedy about a cat and a robot, and there’s such a hilarious dynamic. So, there’s comedy inherent in this, but there’s not one human being in this movie.”

He adds, “I think it’s one of the reasons why the game was incredibly popular, that you are seeing the world through the point of view of an adorable cat. How did they pull that off, and how are we going to pull that off in the movie?”

He adds, “Even though sometimes it feels impossible … we know that’s the essence of the game and the key to telling the story.”

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Supermodel Linda Evangelista has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer twice in the past five years.

Speaking with WSJ. Magazine for the new Fall Men’s Style issue, Evangelista detailed her history with the disease, starting with her initial diagnosis in 2018.

“It was detected in my annual mammogram,” she said in the interview, which was published Tuesday. “The margins were not good, and due to other health factors, without hesitation, because I wanted to put everything behind me and not to have to deal with this, I opted for a bilateral mastectomy.”

Evangelista said she believed she was “set for life” and would achieve remission. In July 2022, however, she felt a lump in her breast and quickly learned the cancer had returned.

Telling her oncologist to “dig a hole” in her chest, the model said she demanded her doctors remove the cancerous tissue regardless of the physical outcomes.

“I don’t want it to look pretty,” she recalled telling a surgeon. “I want you to excavate. I want to see a hole in my chest when you’re done. Do you understand me? I’m not dying from this.”

Evangelista said her numerical risk of cancer recurrence is “horrible,” and her prognosis was merely “good” rather than the “great” she had hoped for, according to her post-cancer care oncologist.

Despite this, Evangelista said she is committed to enjoying life to its fullest.

“I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode,” she told the magazine. “I’ve come through some horrible health issues. I’m at a place where I’m so happy celebrating my book, [a collaborative project with longtime photographer Steven Meisel], my life. I’m so happy to be alive. Anything that comes now is bonus.”

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Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick are celebrating 35 years of marriage.

The couple marked their wedding anniversary Monday by sharing sweet tributes featuring photos of them at the start of their relationship.

“35 years feels like a heartbeat. #Anniversary,” Bacon wrote in his tribute.

Rita Wilson commented on his post, writing, “You guys! Happy Anniversary! Can you believe it? It goes so fast!” She added of her marriage to Tom Hanks, “We are 35 soon to be 36!”

Sedgwick also shared a photo from the year she met Bacon in honor of their anniversary.

“It was 1987- on the set of ‘Lemon Sky’ – I met a man named Kevin,” she captioned her tribute. “Happy 35 my love.”

Bacon and Sedgwick previously opened up to People about their love story and the first time they met, with Bacon saying he was “knocked out.”

“I thought she was amazing,” he told the outlet, whereas Sedgwick said, “I remember thinking, ‘Oh, he thinks he’s really cool.'” However, the day after their first date, she realized he was on the one. “I remember waking up and going, ‘I feel like home,'” she told People. “I realized, ‘Oh, that was him.'”

Bacon and Sedgwick married in September 1988 and have two children together, 34-year-old son Travis Bacon and 31-year-old daughter Sosie Bacon.

Kyra and Kevin’s posts earned some “hearts” from fans and celebrity friends, too, including Chelsea Handler and Julianne Hough.

Rosanna Arquette added the praise hands emoji and the comment “Real love,” while Kate Bosworth added, “True love” and “congrats!!!”

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On his Instagram on Tuesday, Matthew McConaughey told his fans he is voicing the audio version of his new children’s picture book, Just Because.

The Oscar-winning actor said the book is for children, “but it’s also for the kid in all of us.” He said the idea for the book came to him in the middle of the night.

Taking the form of a “Bob Dylan ditty, a scat-rap song,” McConaughey said he wrote down the fruit of his nighttime Eureka moment, thinking it “would be good for my kids, a good conversation starter.”

They liked it, the New York Times-bestselling author said, as did other families he tried it out on before sending it to a publisher.

The book, with illustrations from Renée Kurilla, will be released to retailers on September 12.

According to the publisher’s description on Amazon, the book is a “soulful and irreverent collection of life lessons that empowers readers, big and small, to celebrate how we are all full of possibility. Why? Just because.”

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Angel Studios, the company behind the crowd-funded sleeper blockbuster The Sound of Freedom, has set March 8, 2024, as the release date for its next film, Cabrini.

The trailer to the film, which was directed by Sound of Freedom‘s Alejandro Monteverde, screened before the theatrical release of the hit child trafficking thriller that starred Jim Caviezel.

The new film centers on Francesca Cabrini, an Italian American nun who became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.

The “inspiring, true-life epic” has Cristiana Dell’Anna playing the title role of “an audacious young Italian woman who came to New York with nothing – and went on to become one the greatest entrepreneurs America has ever produced,” according to the movie’s website.

The film also stars Emmy winner John Lithgow and Emmy nominee David Morse.

“Through her willpower, courage, compassion and business skill, she overcame sexism and violent anti-Italian bigotry while fighting against an establishment seeking to hold her back,” the company continues.

Meanwhile, its modestly budgeted Sound of Freedom has rolled out in 30 more international markets.

To date, the thriller has grossed more than $172 million in the States alone — more than what the massive-budgeted Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One made here, and just below the $174 million Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny made domestically by comparison, all without a mega million-dollar marketing campaign.

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On Tuesday, September 5, Showtime announced that Oscar-winning director William Friedkin‘s final film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, will be coming to streaming the weekend of October 6.

The film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jake Lacy, Jason Clarke and the late John Wick franchise star Lance Reddick will first debut on streaming on Friday, October 6, via Paramount+ with Showtime, before it drops on Sunday, October 8, on Showtime’s linear network.

Friedkin died on August 7 after he completed the movie, which just had its premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny “follows a U.S. naval first officer (Lacy) who’s standing trial for orchestrating a mutiny after his captain (Sutherland) shows signs of becoming unhinged and jeopardizes the lives of his crew. “

Veteran character actor Clarke plays a skeptical naval lawyer tasked with defending Lacy’s character: Were his actions a mutiny or to save his fellow sailors in the charge of their possibly unstable Captain Queeg?

Friedkin’s film is set in modern times, but Wouk’s 1951 book has been adapted to both stage and screen many times over the years; a 1954 version starring Humphrey Bogart as Queeg was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including for Best Picture but sailed away empty-handed.

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