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Chad Michael Busto, who caused a scare during Drew Barrymore’s recent appearance at a 92nd Street Y event, was arrested in Southampton, New York, on Thursday, August 24.

Barrymore was whisked off the stage by fellow actress Reneé Rapp during a 92nd Street Y appearance on Monday night, after Busto called Barrymore’s name as he approached the stage. Busto was quickly removed from the premises, and the actresses returned.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Drew told Rapp onstage afterward, “I have a new definition of your sexiness. It’s that level of protectiveness. That went full Bodyguard. You are my Kevin Costner!”

Busto was subsequently spotted riding a bicycle Wednesday in Sagaponack, asking residents for directions to Barrymore’s farmhouse. She was not at home at the time.

East Hampton police located him the next day and took him into custody.

Busto is facing a misdemeanor charge of stalking in the fourth degree and will appear in Southampton Town Justice Court Friday morning for arraignment.

Busto, of Washington, D.C., has a lengthy criminal record of arrests from around the country, including for stalking, harassment and criminal trespassing.

Incidentally, videos of a man matching Busto’s description and identifying himself as Chad Michael Busto subsequently surfaced online, in which he’s focused on Amber Heard.

One video shows him identifying himself, declaring loudly at a Walmart that he “has proposed” to the Aquaman star. “I’m still waiting for a reply, and I would like everyone’s best wishes and luck in my endeavors,” he said in part, as an employee tries escorting him from the premises.

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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.

RuPaul’s Drag Race (MTV)

MTV and Paramount+ announced Monday its iconic shows, including RuPaul’s Drag Race, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars: Untucked, were all greenlit for new seasons. The groundbreaking RuPaul’s Drag Race is gearing up for its 16th season, bringing a fresh batch of fabulous queens into the spotlight, marking a remarkable journey since its 2009 debut.

Love is Blind (Netflix)

The trailer for Love Is Blind: After the Altar has been unveiled, offering a tantalizing preview of the upcoming reality series. A sequel to the hit show Love Is Blind, the series revisits the lives of the original contestants after their whirlwind romantic journeys. Set to premiere on September 1, the trailer hints at emotional reunions, fiery confrontations, and the complexities of post-altar relationships.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht (Bravo)

Below Deck Sailing Yacht cast member Gary King is facing serious allegations of sexual harassment, as reported by ET Online. Per the outlet, Samantha Suarez, who worked in the makeup department for Below Deck Sailing Yacht, claims that King tried to force himself on her during production of season 4, which took place in the summer of 2022 in Sardinia, Italy, according to an exposé by Rolling Stone. In a statement to ET, Bravo, the network that airs the Below Deck franchise, said it “is committed to maintaining a safe and respectful workplace for cast and crew on our reality shows.”

“We require our third-party production companies to have appropriate workplace policies and trainings in place and a clear process on how to report concerns,” Bravo said. “The concerns Ms. Suarez raised in July 2022 were investigated at that time and action was taken based on the findings.”

A spokesperson for Below Deck‘s production company, 51 Minds Entertainment, told Rolling Stone, “51 Minds is committed to providing an environment in which every member of the casts and crews on our productions feel respected and, most importantly, safe.”

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Warner Bros. confirmed on Thursday that Dune: Part Two, originally slated for November 3, is moving to 2024 because of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The follow-up to the Oscar-winning 2021 film, will again star Timothy Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Josh Brolin; Florence Pugh, Austin Butler. Christopher Walken and Javier Bardem will also star…

Suits has become the second most-streamed series ever recorded by Nielsen when considering viewership totals over six consecutive weeks, according to Variety. The USA drama racked up just over 20.3 billion minutes between June 19 and July 30 and trails only Stranger Things with 27.8 billion minutes watched over six weeks when season 4 debuted last summer…

Hersha Parady, best known for her role as Walnut Grove schoolteacher Alice Garvey on the 1980s NBC series Little House on the Prairie, died Wednesday in Norfolk, Virginia, her son, Jonathan Peverall, told The Hollywood Reporter. She had been dealing with a brain tumor, and he had set up a GoFundMe page to help with expenses. She was 78. Parody also appeared on Mannix, The Waltons, Unsolved Mysteries, Second Noah and Kenan & Kel, where she played Principal Dimly. Her film credits include Raw Courage and The Break…

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The new film Gran Turismo, out this weekend, is based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, a guy who was so good at the car racing video game that he was able to translate his skills to the real racing world.

David Harbour co-stars and the Stranger Things actor says he just had to do the movie, telling ABC Audio, “It felt like this movie I loved grown up, Hoosiers.”

“It felt like this underdog story, this real sports euphoric thing,” he continues.”… I just had those moments where you feel in a movie where you’re like, ‘yes, yes, go, go.'”

When it comes to real-life racing though, Harbour will stick with videos. 

“Put me in a world with orcs and magic users and fighters and have me like run out onto the field of battle, like an RPG,” he says. 

Midsommar star Archie Madekwe plays Mardenborough in the film and admits he’s the complete opposite of his character, admitting he only got his driver’s license a week before filming and isn’t much of a gamer either.

“I just didn’t really play video games growing up because … I have a real addictive personality,” he shares. “So I’d find myself when you get into that mark where you’ve been playing so long, you see it’s dark outside. I can’t shake the shame that would then come with it.”

Regardless, Madekwe says he’d never seen a mixed-race character in a movie like this.

“I remember my nephew came to set one day and met Jann and … it was almost quite emotional seeing him sit in the car and thinking about him and the other kids that look like him watching the film and just being super inspired by anyone watching the film and being inspired.” 

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Padma Lakshmi is opening up about her decision to push her seat away from the judges table after 19 years on Bravo’s hit Top Chef.

The chef, author, model and TV personality recently sat down with Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast: “I had been on location for eight months out of the year. And when I wasn’t on location, I was … looking at edits of one show while on the set of another show [including Hulu’s Taste the Nation].”

She added, “It was just exhausting and untenable for me to continue that way.”

Lakshmi expressed, “Other complex factors went into me just being done with Top Chef … But I think I just thought, ‘If I’m feeling this way, then I’ve got to trust my gut.'”

She said it wasn’t an easy decision, adding her schedule topping two shows didn’t allow her to have a relationship.

“I don’t know when I think I was going to meet anybody. I’m surrounded by people I either employ or employ me,” she commented. “It was also about having a personal life, to be honest, and also being present for my daughter — she’s a teenager. In five years, she’s going to go off and have her own life, and hopefully go to college and stuff.”

The TV personality has the opportunity to cap her self-described “pause” with an Emmy. She’s been nominated twice for the forthcoming awards show: once for Top Chef and once for Taste the Nation.

As reported, chef and Top Chef season 10 winner Kristen Kish will succeed Padma.

Kish will join head judge Tom Colicchio and judge Gail Simmons — both executive producers of the show — for the Wisconsin-set 21st season when it airs next year on Bravo.

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It didn’t take a magic mushroom for Barbie to hop over The Super Mario Bros. Movie for the title of the biggest movie in North America in 2023.

It took money.

Lots of money.

Greta Gerwig‘s smash hit for Warner Bros. Pictures has made $575.4 million in U.S. theaters, besting the $575 million made by Universal’s Mario domestically — in just a little over five weeks in theaters.

Not only that, but Barbie is poised to beat Mario worldwide: While Chris Pratt‘s animated Super Mario Bros. Movie generated $1.35 billion globally, Barbie worldwide has made $1.3 billion to date — and it keeps making money.

In short, Barbie, like her namesake doll, has legs.

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The two-time Emmy-winning animated series Rick and Morty is returning to Adult Swim for its seventh season on Sunday, October 15, at 11 p.m.

However, while the show’s coming back, the show’s co-creator and voice behind the titular characters, Justin Roiland, won’t be.

As reported last year, Roiland was charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit in an incident with a woman he was with back in January 2020.

In February 2023, the charges were dropped for lack of evidence. But by then, three production companies had already severed ties with him: Adult Swim, which airs Rick and Morty; Hulu, which runs his show Solar Opposites; and 20th Animation, which produces his series Koala Man.

His roles of sociopathic genius Rick Sanchez and his nervous grandson Morty Smith are being recast with soundalikes.

In fact, the logline for the season seems to be a nod to the drama: “Rick and Morty are back and sounding more like themselves than ever!” it begins.

Incidentally, it wouldn’t be the first time replacing Roiland was referenced: The season 4 trailer to Solar Opposites explained away Roiland’s former character, Korvo, now sounding like Legion‘s Dan Stevens due to a “voice-fixing ray.” Sean Giambrone‘s Yumulack comments, “Nobody’s gonna notice.”

Having become a global phenomenon after its launch in 2013, Rick and Morty‘s seventh season will roll out in more than 134 countries in 38 languages, Adult Swim says.

“It’s season seven, and the possibilities are endless,” the tease continues in part. “What’s up with Jerry? EVIL Summer?! And will they ever go back to the high school?! Maybe not! But let’s find out!”

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Deadline is reporting Jamie Foxx will be playing none other than God himself in the upcoming spoof Not Another Church Movie.

The film, which reportedly wrapped production before the SAG-AFTRA strike, also stars Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke as the Devil.

Joining Foxx when the movie hits theaters later in the year will be Kevin Daniels, Vivica A. Fox, Tisha Campbell, Jasmine Guy, Kyla Pratt and Lamorne Morris. Not Another Church Movie was directed and co-written by Real Husbands of Hollywood veteran Johnny Mack.

According to the trade, Daniels plays Taylor Pharry, “an ambitious young man given a holy mission from God,” only to find out that “the Devil has plans of his own.”

Executive producer Valerie McCaffrey tells Deadline, “The name talent that has come together for this … comedy is unprecedented. You see all the actors having fun, especially Foxx playing God.”

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Sex and the City fans were treated to Kim Cattrall‘s long-awaited cameo in the And Just Like That… season 2 finale.

The episode, which dropped August 24 on Max, starts off with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) preparing for a goodbye dinner for her legendary Upper East Side apartment — hilariously dubbed “The Last Supper” — when she receives a call from Cattrall’s Samantha.

Samantha is calling to tell Carrie that her flight from London to New York City has been delayed, meaning she won’t be able to make it in time for the party — a surprise to Carrie, who didn’t know her old friend was planning to come at all.

Turns out Cynthia Nixon‘s Miranda and Kristin Davis‘ Charlotte had told her about it.

“I was gonna surprise you,” Samantha says, to which Carrie says she is “very surprised.”

The reason for the flight’s delay? “The fog finally lifted, but the crew? Maxed out,” a “f****** furious” Samantha explains.

When Carrie suggests the two could just hang out the next day, Samantha informs her she was only flying in for the party and was headed out first thing the next morning.

“Wait a minute, you were flying all the way to New York for an overnight?” Carrie asks.

“Well, it is your apartment, and I have to pay my respects,” Samantha retorts, asking Carrie to put her on speaker so she can address the fabled digs directly. “Thank you for everything, you f****** fabulous, fabulous flat.”

Carrie then pokes fun at Samantha for having a British accent, to which Samantha says “ta and cheerio, and have a great night.”

And just like that … the cameo was over.

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“People thought I was a little crazy two years ago,” Brian Volk-Weiss tells ABC Audio about his “surreal” journey from TV producer and toy collector to successful toy company CEO.

The Nacelle Company had been seen in the credits to streaming hits like The Movies That Made Us and The Toys that Made Us, among many others. “You know … if people knew who we were at all, we were famous for two things: stand-up comedy specials and documentaries about pop culture,” he continues. 

However, Nacelle has expanded from a media company — with clients including Netflix, Hulu and Discovery — to cornering a particular part of pop culture: acquiring the IPs from beloved shows and toy lines familiar to Gen Xers, and creating toys and new shows from them. 

“People at first were like, ‘What do you mean you bought a copyright?'” Volk-Weiss says with a laugh.

His expanding, and soon to be interlacing, “Nacelleverse” now includes Robo Force, Sectaurs and Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesa, among others.

The company recently made headlines because one of those properties — an animated ’90s show called Biker Mice from Mars — caught the attention of Ryan Reynolds.

Volk-Weiss says Reynolds “loved” the cartoon. “He grew up on it, like many of us did.”

The producer explains another fan was a colleague who happened to become the head of television at the Deadpool star’s company, Maximum Effort.

“So he asked Ryan, like, ‘Hey, like, did you watch this?’ Ryan was like, ‘F*** yeah! Oh my God, this is great,” Brian said, before noting, “Something like that. I was not on the call.”  

Whatever Reynolds did say, however, led to him and Volk-Weiss collaborating on a new Biker Mice animated series for Fubo.

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