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Love Actually star Thomas Brodie-Sangster recently shared news of his engagement to actress Talulah Riley with a reference to the iconic romantic comedy.

The actor, who played Sam, the stepson of Liam Neeson‘s character Daniel in the 2003 hit, shared a photo with Riley on Thursday, July 27, which he captioned, “Happy to announce that Talulah and I are engaged. Love is all around X”.

Many felt the last line of his post was a subtle reference to Hugh Grant‘s monologue in the film, in which his character famously says, “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around.”

Riley also shared their engagement news on her social media. “Very happy to share that after two years of dating, Thomas Brodie Sangster and I are engaged!” she tweeted.

This will be Brodie-Sangster’s first marriage; Riley was previously married twice to Elon Musk.

Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, replied to Riley’s engagement announcement shared on the platform, writing, “Congratulations!”

Brodie-Sangster and Riley reportedly met in 2021 while they worked as costars on FX’s Pistol.

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Michelle Yeoh is now a married woman.

The actress married ex-Ferrari CEO Jean Todt on Thursday, July 27, in Geneva, Switzerland, after a 19-year engagement. 

Former Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa shared the wedding’s program on Instagram, noting Todt proposed after knowing Yeoh for less than two months.

“We met in Shanghai on 4th June 2004,” the program reads. “On 26th July 2004, J.T. proposed to marry M.Y. and she said YES!”

“Today after 6992 days on 27th July 2023 in Geneva, surrounded by loving family and friends, we are so happy to celebrate this special moment together,” the program continues.

Massa also shared other images from the ceremony, including a selfie where Yeoh smiles while holding her Academy Award for Best Actress, which she won in March for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once.

“Happy marriage #JeanTodt & #michelleyeoh,” Massa captioned his Instagram carousel. “Love you so much.”

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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.

The Kardashians (Hulu)

Kylie Jenner confirmed plastic surgery rumors in The Kardashians‘ season finale, admitting to undergoing breast enhancement at 19, before having daughter Stormi. Reflecting on the decision the makeup mogul expressed, “I just wish, obviously, I never got them done to begin with. I would recommend anyone who is thinking about it to wait until after children.” Thinking of her daughter she added, “I would be heartbroken if she wanted to get her body done at 19. And she’s the most beautiful thing ever. I want to be the best mom and best example for her. And I just wish I could, like, be her and do it all differently, because I wouldn’t touch anything.”

Real Housewives of Atlanta (Bravo)

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star and Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross is pregnant with her second child with husband Aaron Ross, she confirmed to People. However, it’s not the pregnancy teased in the season 15 trailer. Cameras for RHOA captured her emotional journey to conceive baby No. 2, including the joyous moment of discovering her pregnancy, but she revealed that she suffered a miscarriage nearly two months later. Richards-Ross, who also shares son Aaron Jermaine, 6, with her husband, was able to get pregnant again a month later and is now expecting her rainbow baby on December 25.  

Vanderpump Rules (Bravo)

Ariana Madix is reportedly refusing to film scenes with her ex Tom Sandoval, who had an affair with castmate Raquel Leviss (now Rachel). According to an Entertainment Tonight source, “She’s made it clear she doesn’t want to film with Tom, saying she is in a good place mentally, and filming with him will only cause disruption.”

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(SPOILERS AHEAD) Marvel’s Secret Invasion wrapped up Wednesday, July 26, and executive producer and director Ali Selim is ready to spill some secrets. 

The show saw some fan favorites die, like Cobie Smulders‘ Maria Hill, and others whose apparent heel turns were due to being impersonated by shape-shifting aliens in disguise. 

For Selim, however, the “boots on the ground” show also gave the veteran of grounded shows like Jack Ryan and The Path to 9/11 a chance to capture some stunning acting, thanks to Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Oscar and Emmy winner Olivia Colman and Kingsley Ben-Adir. 

“I was really thrilled to step in and be able to dive down into Nick Fury’s inner life, Nick Fury’s fears and doubts and vulnerability. And I think for Sam Jackson, that was an interesting place to be because he is a bada** in the MCU. He’s a bada** everywhere he goes. But I think playing vulnerability and exposing your inner self is really difficult and rewarding work for an actor.”

Selim also praises the “brilliant” Colman for her portrayal of British spy Sonia Falsworth. “She likes to sort of get a feel for it and go,” he enthuses.

In the finale, Ben-Adir’s Skrull extremist Gravik and Emilia Clarke‘s heroic Skrull Giah are infused with the DNA of dozens of Marvel Cinematic Universe heroes and villains, giving them all their powers for their final faceoff.

Selim called it a fun battle to map out. “Like what superpower would Giah have that would trump Gravik in the moment? And then what superpower would Gravik use that would dominate Giah in the moment?”

He called it “a little bit of ‘paper, scissors, rock.'”

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Vendors for the 75th Primetime Emmys have been informed that the ceremony, originally slated to take place on September 18, has been postponed due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, according to Variety. While the move was expected, the TV Academy and Fox had been holding off on making an official announcement. However, with the ceremony just two months away, vendors involved with the event needed to be informed now that their services will have to be put on hold. Same for the Creative Arts Emmys originally set for September 9 and 10. A new date has yet to be announced. The last time the Emmys were postponed was in 2001 after the 9/11 terrorist attacks…

Donald Glover and his brother Stephen Glover have stepped in to develop the Lando Calrissian series Lando for Lucasfilm and Disney+, replacing Justin Simien, who recently parted ways with the series, according to Deadline. Glover and his brother will reportedly write the series with an eye towards Donald reprising his role from Ron Howard’s 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story…

Drag Race fans wanted more, and they’re finally getting it. Full 90-minute episodes of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 15 are headed to Paramount+, according to Variety. Drag Race moved from VH1 to MTV for its 15th season and went from a 90-minute format to 60 minutes. In addition to the extended episodes, Drag Race Mexico is also headed to Paramount+ later this Fall…

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Jamie Lynn Spears is reflecting on the public outcry that happened after getting pregnant at 16 while filming her Disney Channel series Zoey 101

“[T]hat was something that I took responsibility for the way that made sense for me,” Spears recalled during the Wednesday, July 26, episode of the Better Tomorrow With Hannah Brown podcast. “That doesn’t make sense for everyone else, but it made sense for me, and the whole world came down and told me I was the worst human alive for doing so, and that every young girl who ever watched my show was going to be ruined because of me and my personal decision.”

“[People were] having the conversation of young girls my age were having sex. And I think people didn’t want that … Of like, this is going on, but a lot of them aren’t getting pregnant,” she added, explaining, “If I would’ve had an abortion, no one would have known about it, but it wouldn’t have changed the fact that I had sex. So I think that was really the bigger conversation, like, ‘Now, young girls are going to want to have sex, or they are.’”

Spears calls returning for her new film, Zoey 102 — which premiered Thursday, July 27 on Paramount+ — a “full-circle moment,” sharing that when her daughter Maddie, now 15, visited set, she said, “‘Wow, Mom, I can’t believe all of these people are here because of your show, and you did that, I’m so proud of you.’”

“And I swear to you that was like the moment that I said, ‘Thank you, God. Thank you so much, that moment makes it all worth it,’” adds Jaimie Lynn.

Spears also shares daughter Ivey, 5, with husband Jamie Watson, whom she married in 2014.

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While the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes continue to boil, the unions say the summer heat is too hot to handle in New York City.

The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists let its members know that picket lines will be canceled for a second day in a row in New York City on Friday, July 27.

According to a tweet from the union, picketing at various corporate headquarters — including HBO and Amazon on 33rd Street, Paramount at 1515 Broadway, Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix, elsewhere on Broadway and NBCUniversal at historic Rockefeller Center — were called off for an “Extreme Heat Alert.”

“Stay safe, stay cool, stay #SAGAFTRAstrong,” the union advised.

Similarly, the Writers Guild of America East is canceling its picket lines for Friday and made adjustments to a planned meetup on Thursday morning, in an effort to beat the heat.

As reported back on June 7, the writers union canceled its demonstrations due to poor air quality from the Canadian Wildfire that choked New York City with smoke.

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With fans, both famous and not, mourning the death of 56-year-old Sinéad O’Connor, Oscar winner Russell Crowe added his memories on X, formerly Twitter, of a chance meeting with the “Nothing Compares 2 U” star.

“Last year, working in Ireland, having a pint in the cold outside a Dalkey pub with some new friends, a woman with purpose strode past us,” Crowe began in the thread Wednesday, July 26. “Puffy parker zipped to the nape and her bowed head covered in a scarf.”

He explained someone in his party who apparently recognized the singer jumped up and ran over to O’Connor. They embraced “and he waived me over. There under streetlights with mist on my breath, I met Sinéad. She looked in my eyes, and uttered with disarming softness ‘oh, it’s you Russell,'” the Oscar winner recalled.

Crowe explained O’Connor joined them at their table and had tea. Their conversation touched on various topics important to them, he explained, including politics, her “warm memory” of his native New Zealand, “faith, music, movies and her brother the writer.”

Crowe added, “I had the opportunity to tell her she was a hero of mine.”

He expressed, “When her second cup was taking on the night air, she rose, embraced us all and strode away into the fog-dimmed streetlights. We sat there the four of us and variously expressed the same thing. What an amazing woman.”

“Peace be with your courageous heart Sinéad,” Crowe signed off.

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Fans of The Righteous Gemstones have seen their prayers answered: HBO has renewed its acclaimed original comedy series for a fourth season.

Created by costar Danny McBride, the show about a greedy televangelist family centers on the family members’ jockeying for control of their dollar-grabbing dynasty. It also stars John Goodman, Adam Devine, Edi Patterson, Walton Goggins, Steve Zahn, Iliza Shlesinger, Sturgill Simpson and Casey Wilson, and wraps up its nine-episode third season on Sunday, July 30.

The network notes the series’ audience — an average of “4.9 million an episode and growing” — beats McBride’s other HBO efforts, the beloved Eastbound & Down and the short-lived Vice Principals.

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Apple TV+ released a teaser to the anticipated third season of its Emmy-winning drama The Morning Show on Thursday, July 27.

According to Apple TV+, “In season 3…the future of the network is thrown into question and loyalties are pushed to the brink when a tech titan takes an interest in UBA.”

The streaming service continues, “Unexpected alliances form, private truths are weaponized, and everyone is forced to confront their core values both in and out of the newsroom.”

The new footage sets the stage for the drama to come with a series of voiceovers from the characters.

“I wanted to make a difference,” executive producer and star Reese Witherspoon‘s Bradley laments in voiceover in the opening moments of the sneak peek, which is set to H.E.R.‘s hit “Glory.”

“I need to have a say in the future of this place,” Jennifer Aniston‘s Alex laments off camera as she walks stone-faced through a crowded conference room.

“I need to win,” says Billy Crudup‘s cocky producer Cory. “It’s time to burn it all down…”

The coming attraction also introduces Emmy winner Jon Hamm as a tech titan stepping off a helicopter. “You need a miracle. I’m offering you a lifeline,” he says.

Later, there’s a scene between Alex and Bradley. “Honestly, let all the secrets come out!” the former exclaims. “They didn’t protect me!”

Bradley replies, “They didn’t protect you. I did.”

The 10-episode third season of The Morning Show will premiere with two episodes on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. New episodes will subsequently drop every Wednesday through November 8, 2023.

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