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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)
Post-Love Is Blind reunion, many of the contestants have gone social media official with new relationships this week. Among them was Izzy Zapata, who went Instagram official with his new gal pal. On October 17, he shared a carousel of photos of him and his mystery girlfriend, who bears a striking resemblance to his former fiancée, Stacy Snyder. The couple shared a tender kiss in one image, with matching wrist tattoos reading, “Yes, chef.” Izzy captioned the post, “It all started with a cooking class.” In the season 5 reunion episode, Zapata and Snyder confirmed their separation.

Meanwhile, Jared “JP” Pierce went Instagram official with his new girlfriend after breaking things off with Taylor Rue on the show. The carousel of photos posted on Thursday, October 19, featured a photo of the couple in coordinating American flag shirts.

And the only couple to say “I do” this season, Milton and Lydia, revealed that they are a long distance couple now. Milton got a new job in Long Beach, California, while Lydia remains in Houston, Texas.

The Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo)
Former RHONY star and socialite Tinsley Mortimer is set to tie the knot with Robert Bovard in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 11, Page Six reports. Mortimer, who rose to fame in the early 2000s, has recently led a quieter life in the South. She turned down the chance to return to Bravo’s reality shows and has kept her relationship with Bovard discreet. Sources report an engagement with an emerald ring, but specifics about the couple’s dating timeline and proposal remain elusive.

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It’s not known if Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan is a dyed-in-the-wool Swiftie, but he’s sure a fan of how Taylor Swift shook off the limits of the old Hollywood system with her Eras Tour film.

On Thursday evening, during a literary event at the City of New York Graduate Center, Nolan and wife/producing partner Emma Thomas discussed their passion of preserving the cinematic experience in the age of streaming, and Nolan shouted out Taylor. 

“Taylor Swift is about to show the studios, because her concert film is not being distributed by the studios. It’s being distributed by the theater owner, AMC, and it’s going to make an enormous amount of money,” he expressed.

It already has: Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour had a worldwide opening weekend of $125 million.

Nolan continued by saying Swift’s gambit proved the cinematic experience “is a way of seeing things and sharing stories, or sharing experiences that’s incredibly valuable. And if they [the studios] don’t want it, somebody else will … that’s just the truth.”

Regarding that “enormous amount of money,” Deadline explains that since Taylor skipped the normal route of having a big studio get her movie into theaters, she’s cut out the middleman — and is being rewarded exponentially for the move: The trade says Taylor has earned a 57% cut on every $19.89 ticket.

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Deadpool may be pretty much invincible, but he’s no match for the SAG-AFTRA strike. Although official sources are mum so far, Deadline reports the ongoing strike has derailed release date plans for Ryan Reynolds‘ Deadpool 3.

As reported, the film, which also stars Hugh Jackman reprising as Logan/Wolverine, was to hit theaters May 3. However, production on the movie was halted on July 14 when the SAG-AFTRA strike was called. Sources told the trade that even if the union’s ongoing battle with studios is resolved in the next few weeks, there wouldn’t be enough time to ramp the movie back up and still hit its deadline.

The trade also speculates that if indeed the Merc with a Mouth’s first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe gets bumped, another comic hero might take his place. Captain America: Brave New World, the first film starring Anthony Mackie holding the spangly shield, could be shifted to May from its July 26 slot.

That film was further along in production than the Deadpool threequel was, and was initially set to debut May 3 anyway, Deadline explains.

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The album release party for the Rolling Stones‘ latest album Hackney Diamonds on Thursday evening had some major surprises for those in attendance at New York City’s venue Racket NYC: Mick Jagger and the boys took to the stage, along with Lady Gaga.

Questlove acted as house DJ for the event, which drew famous fans including Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Craig and his Oscar winning actress wife Rachel Weisz, Elvis Costello, Mary Kate Olsen, Diana Krall, Trevor Noah, and others.

The Stones played from the band’s first album of new material in 18 years — and Gaga joined them to perform their single “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” to boot.

The Stones played seven songs from the new album as well as classics. They shredded through “Shattered,” “Angry,” “Whole Wide World,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Bite My Head Off,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and their shared track with Gaga.

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Martin Scorsese‘s latest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, opens in theaters October 20.

Based on David Grann‘s bestselling book of the same name, the drama stars Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brendan Fraser, and is set in 1920s Oklahoma, depicting the real-life serial murders of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation.

Dozens of Osage Native Americans were killed between 1918 and 1931 in what became known locally as the Reign of Terror.

Osage Nation member Julie O’Keefe worked as the lead Osage wardrobe consultant on the film, making sure the clothing was historically accurate. She tells ABC Audio that the legendary filmmaker and others went to great lengths to include her people in the process.

“We had eight different consultants on there, and we had linguists and historians,” she explains. “You know, if something needed to be tweaked or wasn’t quite right or something was being said that didn’t quite make sense to us, our team of experts … were allowed to come in and to have a say in that.”

O’Keefe added, “We had so many Osages in our community that worked in it, that were acting, that were in the sewing rooms. And, you know, they really wanted the story told. And so they were bringing in family photos that they’d be showing that no one had ever seen.”

She expressed that Scorsese “set an extremely high bar on authenticity and he surrounded himself with legendary talent to help him achieve the goal. And then he brought us in and allowed us to have a voice.”

O’Keefe adds, “It honors us with a level of authenticity that has not been allowed to other Natives in the past and representation.”

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Jon Stewart‘s weekly Apple TV+ series, The Problem with Jon Stewart has been axed after two seasons, according to Variety — the reason for the cancelation depends on who you believe. The New York Times reports that the split between Stewart and the streamer was an amicable one, but sources tell Variety that the two sides had disagreements over the topics that were to be covered in the third season, including A.I and China. The Problem marked Stewart’s first TV project to make it to air since he left The Daily Show in 2015. A previously deal with HBO was ultimately scrapped…

Netflix has picked up Sweet Magnolias a fourth season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The romantic drama, based on Sherryl Woods‘ novels of the same name, follows three lifelong best friends — played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott and Heather Headley. Thus far, all three seasons of the series have ranked in Netflix’s Global Top 10 lists for 10 weeks across more than 60 countries, with season 3 landing at the top of Netflix’s English-language TV charts…

The official trailer for Saltburn, the latest feature from Academy Award winning Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell, dropped on Thursday, October 19. The “beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire” follows struggling Oxford University student Oliver Quick, played by Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan. He finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for the summer. Saltburn opens in select theaters November 17 and nationwide November 22… 

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On Thursday’s episode of The Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner was faced with difficult decisions as he came to terms with his feelings for each of the women in the mansion.

For this week’s group date, Gerry invited Ellen, Sandra, Susan, Nancy, April, Theresa, Kathy and Faith to play his favorite sport — pickleball, enlisting the help ofTrista Sutter and upcoming Bachelor Joey Graziadei for the date.

Ellen’s experience on the court paid off, as it led her and Kathy to victory, after a match against Susan and Nancy.

After the pickleball tournament, the women convened for the cocktail portion of their date. Sandra, who was missing her daughter’s wedding, was the first to have one-on-one time with Gerry. Gerry said he was flattered by this, and surprised Sandra with a phone call to her daughter, and later, the date rose.

Meanwhile, following last week’s drama between Theresa and Kathy, Theresa pulled Kathy aside again to make sure things were good between them.

Kathy reminded Theresa again to “please not tell me anything about what’s going on” between her and Gerry. “It’s a matter of being kind and thinking, ‘Gee, will that hurt her feelings?'” Kathy said, and added, “Zip it.”

During her time with Gerry, Theresa told him about all the drama happening between her and Kathy. Gerry got down to the bottom of it all with his one-on-one with Kathy, telling her he was “unhappy” to see a rift unfolding between her and Theresa.

Gerry also had several moments with some of the women, including Ellen, who told him she couldn’t remember the last time she felt this way about a man. She also didn’t want to let the opportunity pass her by and told Gerry she’s “falling in love” with him.

After his conversation with Ellen, Gerry realized how some of his connections with certain women were much further along than others. Nancy also had the same feeling in her conversation with Gerry, and the two came to a mutual understanding that they didn’t have one, leading to her departure from the show.

Elsewhere, Leslie was the recipient of Thursday’s one-on-one date and got the date rose. 

At the rose ceremony, At the very end, Gerry sent April and Kathy home.

“I am who I am and people either like me or they don’t, but I mean, look at this, who can say no to this?” Kathy said in her final interview before leaving the mansion. “Rejection’s not fun. I mean, I might burn the house down before I leave, but you know…”

Here are the women who remain: Ellen, Faith, Sandra, Leslie, Susan and Theresa.

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By now, most people are aware that Hollywood actors can’t make the rounds to promote a movie or TV show they’ve worked on — rare exceptions notwithstanding — because of SAG-AFTRA strike rules.

However, in a new development, the union is apparently clamping down on what Halloween costumes are allowed in an effort for members to show their “solidarity” with the strike this year.

Long story short: If you’re a SAG-AFTRA member, you better put away your Barbie pink or your Iron Man suit for this spooky season. Ditto other popular choices this year, like get-ups from Netflix’s Wednesday or Top Gun: Maverick.

In a post to its members, SAG-AFTRA offered “guidance” on this year’s festivities, noting that suiting up in a costume promoting a major studio property and posting pictures of it to social media breaks strike rules.

They’re advised instead to “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures,” such as ghosts and zombies, according to the message.

Failing that, they can “dress up like characters from non-struck content like animated shows.”

Seeing as celebrities’ Halloween outfits often go viral, this is scary stuff. Last year, the Casamigos Tequila party drew scores of celebs, including Rebel Wilson as a Barbie — before the film came out, however — and Henry Golding as Tom Cruise‘s Maverick, down to his helmet.

Paris Hilton would have been OK in SAG-AFTRA’s eyes, however, thanks to her Sailor Moon outfit.

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On Thursday, Amazon’s Prime Video announced its well-reviewed, college-set spinoff of The Boys is getting a sophomore season.

The show that centers on the supes-in-training at Godolkin University — and the dark secrets hiding within its ivy-covered walls — launched on September 29.

The renewal news comes ahead of the eight-episode first season’s finale, slated for November 3 on Prime Video.

Vernon Sanders, head of television for Amazon MGM Studios, enthused that the show has been “an incredible journey,” adding, “From our first conversation with showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, along with [executive producers] Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen, we knew Gen V would push the boundaries.”

Sanders credited their “unapologetic approach” with helping Gen V become the No. 1 series on Prime Video in over 130 countries.

Fazekas and Kripke added, “The writers are already working on the new season — sophomore year is gonna be wild, with all the twists, heart, satire, and exploding genitalia you’ve come to expect from the show.”

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Director Matthew Vaughn had wanted to direct a James Bond movie but couldn’t get the gig, so he famously created his own spy franchise with the Kingsman movies. 

His upcoming movie Argylle also sees him playing in the spy movie genre.

To the Happy, Sad Confused podcast, Vaughn explained he landed the job directing Daniel Craig as Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale, at least according to MGM.

He had a lunch with that franchise’s guardians, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and then got a call that he didn’t get the job after all.

Nowadays, “I’ve got more chance at being cast as Bond then directing Bond,” he joked to host Josh Horowitz.

“Ask them, they’re not keen on me,” he noted of the Bond franchise’s gatekeepers, adding, “Kingsman is my Bond…everything I do in Kingsman, I would’ve done in Bond.”

Vaughn is also a massive Star Wars fan, but he doesn’t want to play in that galaxy far, far away, either — except on one condition: “For me, doing a Star Wars movie is to play with the characters I love. If they said to me they’d reboot Star Wars and actually have Luke Skywalker, Solo and Vader and do your version of it…that would excite me,” he said.

“Star Wars is the Skywalker family and that’s where I think they’ve gone wrong. They’ve forgot,” he continued, adding the franchise “needs an epic new film.”

He added, “That’s what I would do [reboot Luke and the other characters]. Everyone is going to go bats*** crazy, but let’s bring it on…”

Vaughn’s star-studded meta spy adventure Argylle hits theaters February 2 from Apple and Universal Pictures.

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