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Bravo is helping blow out 20 candles for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy with an all-day marathon of the original Emmy-winning series.

From 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 13, the network will unspool fan-favorite episodes from the entire run of the show that inspired its latest incarnation, Queer Eye, culminating with the re-airing of the original’s 10-year reunion special.

Airing on Bravo from 2003-2007, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy starred the original “Fab Five”: Carson Kressley, Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia and Jai Rodriguez, who doled out advice and dolled up straight dudes badly in need of a makeover.

In its announcement, the network celebrated the show that “pushed boundaries for diversity and representation in reality television,” noting, “its legacy left a lasting impression on the media landscape.”

The Emmy and GLAAD Media Award-winning series also let us all know what zhuzhing is.

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Before Utkarsh Ambudkar appeared in the blockbuster Free Guy and starred in the hit CBS comedy Ghosts, like many others, he was trying to make a name for himself in the entertainment world.

However, unlike many others, he had a chance to show off his talents to all of Hollywood by rapping a recap of the 2020 Oscars in front of its A-list audience, with Questlove backing him up. 

Since the well-known bit launched his career, ABC Audio wanted to know what that moment was like for the the co-star, co-writer and co-producer of the Disney+ Original movie World’s Best.

“You know…You have 30 seconds,” he recalled of the performance he began by admitting, “You don’t know me.” 

Utkarsh adds, “I’m working with Questlove, who’s like a legend, a hero of mine…And the moment just met me, and…I just got blessed with like a clarity of mind, stillness of body, and… it came out well.” 

He joked, “It could have easily crashed and burned.”

Utkarsh likened it to an “out-of-body experience,” adding, “Brad Pitt smiled at me…I was like, ‘Brad’s in the front row. He obviously loves me and we’re best friends.’ And the rest kind of took care of itself…”

Ambudkar based his script for World’s Best — in which a mathlete of Indian descent (Manny Magnus) follows his late father’s footsteps as a rapper — on his own life. “I was the kid who was bused from middle school to high school to do math. I was going to the Leopard lounge to do rap battles….And I’m a father now, so it’s a deeply connected story.” 

World’s Best is now streaming on Disney+.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News. 

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Love, unfortunately, has taken an unexpected detour for Billy Porter and husband Adam Smith who have decided to go their separate ways. 

“I can confirm that Billy Porter and his husband Adam Smith have made the sad decision to end their marriage after six years,” the Pose actor’s rep Simon Halls tells People.

“The decision was an amicable and mutual one and was made after much consideration. They continue to love and support each other as they embark on this next chapter,” adds Halls. “There will be no further comment from either parties and it would be appreciated if their privacy be respected.”

Porter and Smith first crossed paths in 2009 at a dinner party, but after a year of dating, they went their separate ways. Fate had other plans in store, as five years later, they found themselves drawn back together, reigniting their love. The stars aligned, and on January 14, 2017, they exchanged vows, sealing their commitment just two weeks after Porter’s heartfelt proposal in London on December 29, 2016.

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School’s in session one last time. Netflix revealed news of Sex Education‘s fourth and final season with a raunchy trailer. The British teen sex comedy follows a teenage boy with a sex therapist mother who teams up with his high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic. The series stars Chinenye Ezeudu, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Aimee Lou Wood, Ncuti Gatwa, Gillian Anderson, George Robinson, Dua Saleh, Alistair Petrie and Samantha Spiro. Fourth season additions include Dan Levy, Thaddea Graham, Jodie Turner Smith, Lisa McGrillis, Marie Reuther and Eshaan Akbar. Sex Education returns September 21…(Trailer contains mature content and partial nudity.)

Food Network has renewed Summer Baking Championship, for a second season, according to Variety. The Baking Championship spinoff — hosted by Jesse Palmer, with Duff Goldman, Carla Hall and Damaris Phillips serving as judges — “features 10 talented bakers from around the country competing in unique summer-themed baking challenges featuring the flavors, ingredients and celebrations of the season for a chance to earn the title of Summer Baking Champion and win $25,000,” per the cable channel. Production on season 2 is scheduled to begin later this year…

A teaser trailer for the upcoming Stranger Things stage adaptation, The First Shadow, debuted on Wednesday. The trailer opens with a TV set showing a fast-moving montage of clips from the TV series’ early episodes, before exploding. Finally, a red ball of light appears on the stage of a theater, followed by a graphic that reads, “The beginning of the Stranger Things Story Might Hold The Key To What Comes Next.” The First Shadow opens in London’s Phoenix Theatre on November 17. As for a potential Broadway run, nothing has been revealed as of yet…

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Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena De Niro has reportedly blamed her son Leandro‘s death on pills laced with fentanyl, according to a report TMZ.

“Someone sold him fentanyl laced pills that they knew were laced yet still sold them to him so for all these people still f****** around selling and buying this s***, my son is gone forever,” Drena wrote in an Instagram comment on Tuesday, July 4, according to the outlet.

Drena, broke the news of Leandro’s death on Instagram Sunday, July 2.

“I have loved you beyond words or description from the moment I felt you in my belly,” the 51-year-old captioned a photo of her son.

“You have been my joy my heart and all that was ever pure and real in my life,” the post continued. “I wish I was with you right now. I wish I was with you . I don’t know how to live without you but I’ll try to go on and spread the love and light that you so made me feel in getting to be your mama.”

Drena concluded the tribute, “You were so deeply loved and appreciated and I wish that love alone could have saved you. I’m so sorry my baby. Rest in Peace and Eternal Paradise my darling boy.”

“I’m deeply distressed by the passing of my beloved grandson Leo,” Robert De Niro said in a statement to ABC News. “We’re greatly appreciative of the condolences from everyone. We ask that we please be given privacy to grieve our loss of Leo.”

Leandro, 19, was the only child of Drena. Robert, who is the father of seven children, adopted Drena while he was married to his first wife, Diahnne Abbott.

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The Mean One, an R-rated look at The Grinch in the vein of the kids story-based slasher pic Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey, has gotten a home video release date.

The movie was spawned from a trailer that had been viewed some 45 million times before getting a brief theatrical release in 2022. It centers on Cindy, who comes back to hunt the green guy who killed her mother and stole Christmas 20 years before.

Like Blood and Honey, the low-budget film was possible because the filmmakers cleverly skirt copyrighted characters; that said, The Mean One didn’t fare as well with audiences and critics as the former.

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While Seth Rogen‘s 2016 animated Sausage Party made the most of its R rating, he’s teasing that an upcoming sequel is going to be even more controversial.

The movie was a potty-mouthed anthropomorphic adventure centering on what your food is up to when you’re not looking. It was written by Rogen, his producing partner Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill, and starred the voices of Rogen and Hill, as well as Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Paul Rudd, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek and more.

To the U.K. movie magazine Empire, Rogen recalls one “unbelievably shocking” scene in the upcoming Sausage Party: Foodtopia.

“There’s one specific scene that had a special screening for the Amazon PR people.” He recalls advising them, “You should all just start wrapping your heads around this now. You’ll probably have to talk about this a lot.'”

He then explained Wiig — who returns as the hot dog bun Brenda to Rogen’s hot dog, Frank — said of the scene in question, “Oh my God?! This is insane!'”

Sausage Party: Foodtopia should be released in 2024.

Incidentally, pushing the envelope has become something of Rogen’s stock-in-trade. He recently told ABC Audio of the upcoming season of his show The Boys, “there’s one set piece in this new season that is, like, ‘I’m disturbed that I work with the people who conceived of it.'”

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Diane Kruger is celebrating seven years with partner Norman Reedus.

The National Treasure actress, 46, took to Instagram on Tuesday, July 4, to mark the milestone, sharing a selfie of her and the Walking Dead actor, 54, on the beach.

“Seven,” she wrote alongside a heart emoji. “I love you,” she added with another heart for good measure.

Kruger and Reedus met on the set of the 2015 film Sky and share a child together, having welcomed daughter Nova Tennessee in 2018.

Reedus is also dad to son Mingus, whom he and supermodel Helena Christensen share from their time together.

Kruger recently posted about Reedus and Nova’s relationship on Father’s Day, sharing a video of him pushing his little girl in a swing.

“Happy Father’s Day @bigbaldhead. seeing you show up for Nova and the family again and again makes you so sexy,” the German actress wrote.

Reedus will next be seen this fall on AMC in The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, his character’s forthcoming, France-set spin-off.

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Take this with a boulder of salt for now, but rumor around the geek-o-sphere says Robert Downey Jr. was spotted on the set of the forthcoming fourth Captain America movie.

So, could Tony Stark be making a return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time since the character’s death in Avengers: Endgame? Well, that’s the rumor, thanks to an author who claims Downey was spotted around the Washington, D.C., set of Captain America: Brave New World.

In her post on LinkedIn of all places, Nawar Shora said a security guard on set tipped her off that Downey was there the night before, and there were “supercars” all around.

You know, like what Tony Stark would drive.

As reported, Harrison Ford succeeds the late William Hurt as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross in Captain America: Brave New World. Ross has tangled with Stark both in Marvel Comics and in the MCU, starting with Marvel’s One-Shots.

Before the MCU had access to tell small-screen stories as it can now via Disney+, the One-Shots served as bridges between movies as the MCU began stitching its cinematic universe together.

The first one, 2011’s The Consultant, took place after the events of 2008’s The Incredible Hulk and had Downey’s Stark meeting up with Hurt’s Ross at a bar and telling him about the Avengers Initiative.

Ross has gone from a general to the secretary of state in the MCU. Now, with Ford playing the character as president in Brave New World, it’s plausible, but by no means certain, that a flashback could bring both characters together.

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On Wednesday, July 5, Paramount and Apple dropped a trailer to Killers of the Flower Moon, the drama from Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese starring Oscar winners Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Brendan Fraser.

Based on David Grann‘s bestselling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the real-life serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a murder spree, known locally as the Reign of Terror, that lasted from 1921 to 1926.

The new trailer sets the stage. “They had the worst land possible,” Robert De Niro‘s William Hale drawls in voiceover. “But they outsmarted everybody. The land had oil on it. Black gold. Money flows freely there now.” 

Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Ernest Burkhart answers him, saying, “I do love that money, sir.” 

“That money” didn’t sit well with the white folks living there, leading to betrayal, corruption and murder.

“That wealth should come to us,” De Niro says, trying to convince DiCaprio’s character. “Their time is over.”

Burkart was convicted of taking part in the murder conspiracy; his native sister-in-law was among the victims.

The film also stars Lily Gladstone as DiCaprio’s Indigenous onscreen wife Mollie, who narrowly escaped death herself, Oscar nominee Jesse Plemons and Tony and Emmy winner John Lithgow.

Flower Moon debuts in limited release from Paramount Pictures on October 6; wide release comes October 20. It comes to Apple TV+ after it goes wide.

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