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Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell are addressing rumors that they’re involved in the swinger lifestyle.

During the August 14 episode of Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, the couple delved into the unusual headlines they’ve encountered.

“There was one that said we hosted orgies or swingers parties,” Shepard, 48, recalled.

Bell, 43, was quick to pinpoint the root of the speculation, attributing it to Shepard’s penchant for key party jokes.

“It’s because you frequently make key party jokes,” she explained. “We’ll have a dinner party or something, and as we’re sitting down, you’ll say, ‘Everybody leave your keys.’”

Shepard agreed, acknowledging that he had extended similar humor to some podcast guests, realizing afterward that not everyone shared his comedic wavelength.

“A lot of people don’t get jokes,” Bell said in agreement. “That’s actually something I have been thinking about lately, because it’s such a bummer that everything you say has to be taken so literally that there’s no room for fun in expression or language anymore when you’re telling a story, because you better have the facts right. It’s just such a lame way to communicate.”

The actress added that she feels bad for people who take everything so seriously.

“For the most part when those comments come in, I think, ‘What a bummer that you’re not playful,’” she shared.

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Ashley Olsen‘s house just got little fuller!

The 37-year-old fashion mogul, has entered motherhood alongside her 34-year-old husband, Louis Eisner, with the arrival of their son, Otto, according to People.

While linked since October 2017, Olsen and Eisner have maintained a discreet stance on their relationship, seldom sharing details publicly. Despite their privacy, glimpses of their connection have emerged, such as a candid 2018 photograph of them walking arm-in-arm in Los Angeles.

Rumors of engagement arose in July 2019 when Olsen was spotted wearing a noticeable dark band on her left ring finger during a movie and dinner date with Eisner. In 2021, Eisner offered a rare glimpse into their lives by sharing a photo of Olsen on his Instagram. The same year marked their red carpet debut as a couple, a moment that briefly brought their relationship into the spotlight.

Olsen and Eisner secretly exchanged vows in an intimate ceremony in December 2022, with just “50 people or so” sources told Page Six at the time.

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As Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem moves closer and closer to the $100 million mark at the global box office, sources tell Deadline that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brand is heading toward $1 billion+ in global retail sales. Since 2012 and not including 2023, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles global merchandise sales have amassed $8 billion, per industry sources…

The Masked Singer will return for its 10th season a little sooner than expected, according to Entertainment Weekly. A special kickoff premiere episode will air Sunday, September 10, immediately following the NFL Double Header. The episode will feature the return of some beloved all-star members of The Masked Singer family — including Michelle Williams and Rumer Willis, Joey Fatone and Bow Wow, and Victor Oladipo and Barry Zito — paired up to perform all-new duets, unmasked. The season 10 competition will officially begin in the previously announced premiere, airing on Wednesday, September 27. Season 10 will once again be hosted by Nick Cannon, alongside panelists Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke…

Reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced last year to a combined of 19 years in prison for crimes including tax evasion and wire fraud, and now, their kids, Chase, Savannah, Chloe and Grayson, and Todd Chrisley’s mother, “Nanny” Faye Chrisley are set to star in a new reality series from the producers of Queer Eye, according to Deadline. The docuseries is still in development and does not have a broadcaster attached…

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The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner made his franchise debut at the end of the Monday, August 14 episode of The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All and shared his hopes for the journey ahead. 

Referring to a fan’s social media post calling him “the Grandzaddyyyyy,” the 71-year-old retired restaurateur from Indiana told host Jesse Palmer the woman he’s looking for will “just have that look in their eye like, ‘Oh gosh, I found my own Grandzaddy.'”

In response to the big question of whether or not there will be a fantasy suites, Gerry said, “I would say yes, but what they would look like might be a little different.”

“That’s a long way down the journey,” he continued. “And I think there’s a lot of steps that I and a potential partner would have to go through to get to that to make it a comfortable situation.”

Turner married his high school sweetheart, Toni, in 1974 and lived a full and happy life with their two daughters, and later two granddaughters, for 43 years until Toni’s sudden death in 2017.

When Palmer asked him if it was possible to find a love like that twice in a lifetime, Gerry replied, “I don’t think that’s what I’m looking for.”

“What I look for at the age of 70 is different than what I looked for when I was in high school and college. So, I believe I’ll find … the new person that will make me whole again. And I think we’ll knit a wonderful relationship, but I don’t think it will look like the relationship I had with Toni. And I don’t think it would be right to do it that way,” he explained.

The Golden Bachelor premieres in September on ABC.

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After dating for four years, Property Brothers star Jonathan Scott is now engaged to New Girl star Zooey Deschanel.

People reports Scott popped the question during a family trip to Scotland and Zooey‘s two children from her previous marriage, 8-year-old daughter Elsie and 6-year-old son Charlie, “played a role in the special moment.”

The happy couple shared a photo on their Instagram accounts: It shows them smiling set against the backdrop of a Scottish castle, with Zooey showing off her sparkler, a ring set in a flower pattern of colorless, pink and purple stones.

“Forever starts now,” the caption reads.

The pair met in 2019, when they took part in an episode of James Corden‘s Carpool Karaoke: The Series. Jonathan and his twin brother, Drew Scott, harmonized with Zooey and her own famous sibling, Bones veteran Emily Deschanel.

Jonathan and Drew share Scottish heritage, and both sported kilts for Drew’s 2018 wedding to Linda Phan.

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Margot Robbie is seriously in the black from all that pink.

The Oscar-nominated actress, who co-produced and starred in what’s shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of 2023, Barbie, will reportedly take home $50 million for her efforts, Variety says.

As a producer of the movie through her LuckyChap company, Robbie is entitled to a cut of the blockbuster’s profits — and they’ll put anyone into a very respectable Dream House, according to the trade.

For that matter, director and co-writer Greta Gerwig will also be rewarded handsomely for her efforts, thanks to a worldwide box office take that works out to be $1.18 billion globally and still climbing.

Gerwig has also become the highest-grossing female director in history, now that the Warner Bros. film has overtaken Disney’s Frozen II, which was co-directed by Jennifer Lee.

Incidentally, Robbie told Collider before the movie’s release that she told studio execs that Barbie would “make a billion dollars,” but admitted, “maybe I was overselling.”

If Barbie — the doll version, that is — has taught us anything, it’s that “dreams can come true.”

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While it’s not quite Saw, Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building has inspired an escape room in Los Angeles. It’s proven to be so popular its organizers have extended its run.

While initially launched to promote the return of the Emmy-nominated comedy on August 8, The Escape Game’s attraction at Los Angeles’ Westfield Century City was to wrap on Sunday, August 13.

However, its promoters have bumped the deadline to August 21, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and have plans to open up shop in Las Vegas, too, August 18-20.

If you can’t get to either place, however, there’s still hope: there’s an online version, too. According to the game’s website, players can book an appointment to play on Zoom. You’ll be given log-in info and meet up with a host to guide you through your game.

“It’s opening night of Oliver’s new show, Death Rattle, but something very important has gone missing,” the online attraction teases. “Follow clues and solve puzzles throughout The Arconia to find it and save the show.”

From there, you’ll have 60 minutes’ worth of sleuthing to solve the mystery.

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who appeared in Avengers: Age of Ultron and more recently the hit Bullet Train opposite Brad Pitt, already has a filmography most actors would dream about.

But not him.

The 33-year-old tells Esquire, “There was Kick-Ass [in 2010] and then there was [2014’s] Godzilla and Avengers [in 2016], and all those things lined up for me. But I didn’t really care for them.”

He added, “I wanted, purely, to be with my babies. I didn’t want to be taken away from them. I battled with what that would be like.”

Taylor-Johnson and his director wife, Sam, are co-parents to four daughters, two from her previous marriage.

The actor went from playing the lead in the Spider-Man adjacent Kraven the Hunter for Sony to The Fall Guy for his Bullet Train director David Leitch, then into a remake of Nosferatu “with only twenty-four hours between each thing,” he explains.

“In my opinion, the actor that goes job to job becomes f****** boring,” the English actor says. “You know that someone’s going to pick you up, take you to work, do your makeup, tell you, ‘Here’s your mark. These are your lines. You’re f****** great!’ And on to the next job. F*** off.”

The former child actor says, “I’m sure people dream of that. If this is what you want to do, that’s great. It doesn’t feed my soul. I enjoy … the everyday stuff. Getting my kids ready in the mornings, taking them to school and activities … That feeds my soul.”

That said, there’s another potential job out there that could have Aaron’s number, or more accurately, the number 007. He’s rumored to be on the short list to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond.

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The fifth and final Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, is coming to digital August 29 via platforms including Prime Video, Apple TV and Vudu.

The movie, Ford’s last go ’round as the swashbuckling archeologist, comes packed with special features for its digital debut, including making-of documentaries centering on the movie’s stunts, costuming and production design and the digital wizardry that was used to de-age Ford by three decades for the movie’s prologue sequence.

Also included will be features on shooting in the James Mangold-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced film, to which cast and crew traveled to Morocco, Sicily and New York.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was produced by Lucasfilm, which, like ABC News, is a subsidiary of Disney.

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While there’s no official news on whether there will be a reboot of the former USA legal drama Suits, the show’s surprise resurgence, thanks to a run on Netflix, has the rumor mill buzzing.

A big part of that scuttlebutt centers on the series’ paralegal-turned law student Rachel Zane, played by a then-newbie actress by the name of Meghan Markle, who eventually left the show to marry Prince Harry.

Markle played the love interest of Patrick J. Adams‘ Mike Ross, whose photographic memory lands him a job with a high-profile law firm, despite his fudging his Harvard Law bonafides.

The show’s executive producer Gene Klein recently told TV Line he was shocked the show that ran from 2011 until 2019 suddenly broke Nielsen records, noting it wouldn’t surprise him if he got a call that a reboot is coming.

That said, he said he assumed getting Markle back “would not be possible.”

However, some insiders are now weighing in.

Kieran Elsby, director of Media PR Global, points out to the U.K. Mirror the $100 million deal Meghan and her
runaway royal husband made with Netflix. “I do wonder if the top spot is genuinely determined by viewership metrics at all. Or it is essential for Meghan to remain relevant to Netflix, hence the unaudited top spot. After all, they have invested heavily,” he muses.

While Markle’s new agents at WME stated acting wasn’t on her docket, a senior studio executive told the UK’s Sunday Express, “All that has changed on a dime with her second coming on Suits. The Netflix figures are the talk of Hollywood and, with respect to the rest of her co-stars, Meghan is, without doubt, the driving force behind that.”

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