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Everyone’s favorite football coach is back Wednesday, with the season 3 premiere of Ted Lasso on Apple TV+.

We’re told that this season will culminate in some kind of ending for the show; that the creators, including star Jason Sudeikis, always envisioned a three-season story arc; and this season will wrap up the story they wanted to tell.

Sudeikis, who portrays Ted Lasso in the series, tells ABC Audio that this show and character has been one of the highlights of his career, and he loves being recognized on the street for it. 

“It’s great because I get called coach all the time, which was always something that I just love,” he admits, adding, “My son gets a kick out of it too. He’s like, ‘People love this show.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah.'”

As for what fans can expect from the upcoming season, Brendan Hunt, who plays Coach Beard, teases, “Oh, you know, the usual. Guys hugging, friends apologizing, drinking, you know, the classics.”

Hunt also dishes that the third installment will dive deeper into Ted’s role and regrets as a dad, having left his son behind in the states to coach in England.

“…That’s a hard thing for Ted to continue to have to deal with, even though Henry [Ted’s son] doesn’t seem to mind,”  he explains. “But, you know, when you’re a dad, you know a little better. So that is something Ted will continue to wrestle with, like what’s going on back home while he’s not there.”

Hunt shares that despite the distance, he thinks Ted’s a “great dad”

“But yeah, the reality of it is you want to be with your kid. So yeah, he’s just at a bit of a crossroads there,” he says.

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Tuesday’s episode of The Bachelor: The Women Tell All ended with a franchise first, with host Jesse Palmer surprising Monday’s castoff Charity Lawson with an invitation to be next season’s Bachelorette, which she eagerly accepted.

The unsuspecting Lawson, thinking she was participating in a this-or-that game for the show’s social media, answered a series of questions from Palmer, ending with Bachelor in Paradise or The Bachelorette.

Lawson answered, “The Bachelorette,” to which Palmer replied, “I’m glad you said that… I want you to be our next Bachelorette.”

“Stop! Is this for real?” asked Lawson. “No way! Oh my god, I’m gonna cry.”

Palmer then followed with, “Is that a yes? Will you do it?”

“Absolutely!” Lawson said. “100 percent!” I’m shaking right now.”

Through tears, she shared, “I’ve waited forever to find the love of my life. It blows my mind that I could meet my person and be engaged and literally have my happily ever after.”

Charity, the 27-year-old child and family therapist from Columbus, Georgia who was sent home after Monday’s hometowns episode, said in a statement that she hopes to find “a life partner who loves dogs, thrifting and a good tailgate; but, above all else, is honest, empathetic and values her for who she is.”

The Bachelorette returns later this year on ABC.

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Another contestant from The Bachelor franchise was in the hot seat for posting racially insensitive remarks on social media. Tuesday’s installment of The Bachelor: The Women Tell All featured contestant Greer Blitzer apologizing for some tweets from 2016 in which she defended someone wearing blackface.

Blitzer deleted the posts ahead of the show’s premiere in January, but not before users grabbed screenshots of them, which they posted on Reddit. Greer apologized for the tweets on her own social media at the time, but the show had not addressed the controversy until now.

“I’ve been wanting to address this. I don’t want to sweep it under the rug,” Blitzer told host Jesse Palmer. “What happened was racist. It’s not about the intent; it’s about the impact.”

“This acquaintance of mine that I knew performing blackface was racist, me defending it was racist, my ignorance was racist and I’m just so ashamed.”

Blitzer went on to say she sought the help of Dr. Kira Banks, a professor and diversity, equity and inclusion consultant, explaining, “I really wanted to dive deep into the history of blackface and understand why it was wrong, why it was offensive. The research that I was able to do, I realized it was symbolism for dehumanizing the Black community.”

Blitzer allegedly tweeted in 2016 that the students involved “didn’t even know what blackface was so my point exactly. It wasn’t an intentional racist act.” Another allegedly read, “This previous incident was dumb not racist? She did not paint herself black because she felt superior to black ppl.” A final post read, “Putting white powder on your face isn’t okay either. That didn’t make the news did it?”

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Talk about fashion promoting an unrealistic body image: M3GAN, the killer android from the movie of the same name, is now modeling for Marc Jacobs.

Images of the doll, dressed up in Jacobs’ Heaven line, popped up on Instagram Tuesday. The photos were snapped by famed fashion shooter Harley Weir.

The doll is shown wearing a hoodie in one red-tinted snap; another shows her dressed in chunky knee-high boots, baring her silicone legs — quite a different look than the pleated skirt and black buckle shoes she wore in the hit horror-thriller.

If “likes” are any indication, she slayed … again. The post gained more than 45,000 likes in a matter of hours.

She may be artificial — insert plastic surgery modeling joke here — but she’s in good company. Previous stars who have modeled for Heaven by Marc Jacobs include Pamela Anderson, Doja Cat and Kyle MacLachlan.

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Break out the bongos.

Matthew McConaughey and his pal Woody Harrelson are getting back together again for a project that couldn’t be more different than their pairing on True Detective.

The as-yet-untitled project comes from Emmy-winning Schitt’s Creek alum David West Read. The half-hour comedy, slated for 10 episodes, is reportedly “a heartfelt odd couple love story revolving around the strange and beautiful bond between Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.”

Apple TV+ continues, “Matthew and Woody’s friendship is tested when their combined families attempt to live together on Matthew’s ranch in Texas.”

As most know, the pair have been tight for decades, with Woody recently referring to McConaughey as “my weed guy” in a promo for his Saturday Night Live hosting stint.

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Citadel, the spy series from Avengers directors Joe and Anthony Russo, is reportedly getting a second season, even before its launch on Amazon’s Prime Video.

While the studio and the filmmaking sibs’ production company AGBO are still mum, The Hollywood Reporter says a season 2 is a go — ahead of its April 28 premiere on the streaming service.

The show stars Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as a pair of spies who worked for the secretive agency known as Citadel until a shadowy agency known as Manticore destroyed it. The pair escape with their lives, but their memories were erased and their past lives were forgotten. However, they reunite, and they “embark on a mission that takes them around the world … all while contending with a relationship built on secrets, lies, and a dangerous-yet-undying love.”

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Paris Hilton is loving her new role as a mom.

“My heart feels so full,” Hilton, who announced the arrival of her and husband Carter Reum‘s son, Phoenix, via surrogacy in January, told Good Morning America on Tuesday.

“My little Phoenix is my angel. I’m so obsessed with him,” she added. “He is just everything to me.”

Hilton is tapping into a more serious side of herself, and reflecting on her life’s ups and downs in her new book, Paris: The Memoir, out now.

“This book was like a diary. I put everything in there, so many really traumatic experiences that I endured, especially as a teenager, and so many just memories I didn’t want to remember — but also a lot of the good, exciting times,” she said. “I’ve lived such an amazing life.”

Hilton, who has opened up in recent years about her negative experience in a youth treatment center for troubled teens, called writing the book cathartic and therapeutic.

Hilton, 42, also said she has recently spent time with friend Nicole Richie and her teenage kids, daughter Harlow, 15, and son Sparrow, 13. She said they watch the pair’s reality TV show, The Simple Life — the first season of which premiered 20 years ago this year — and “love it.”

The Simple Life took Hilton and Richie out of their glam lives and hilariously had them doing farm work or working in a fast-food restaurant. The show, which ultimately ran for five seasons, catapulted both socialites to fame.

“It’s so amazing just how timeless that show is and generation after generation just love it,” Hilton smiled.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Sure, he was the butt of an Oscars night joke from Jimmy Kimmel, but Pauly Shore is taking it all in stride, for the sake of giving flowers to newly minted Academy Award winners Ke Huy Quan and Brendan Fraser.

The pair appeared alongside Shore in 1992’s hit comedy Encino Man, which Kimmel poked fun at during his monologue. “Two actors from Encino Man are nominated for Oscars. What an incredible night this must be for the two of you, and what a difficult night this must be for Pauly Shore,” Jimmy joked.

For his part, Shore posted a video of the bit Monday, noting, “If you haven’t checked it out, watch this clip. Very funny — I really loved it.”

Shore added, “But what I REALLY loved is that my old buddies from back in the day, Brendan Fraser and @KeHuyQuan, took home the Oscars. What a story. I mean really guys, what a f*****’ story.”

Pauly added, “If we can all learn something from this, never quit on your dreams. Keep dreaming, work hard, and put in the time, and if your stars line up and you’re in the entertainment business, one day Hollywood will hit you in the head with the pixie dust like it did for Brendan and Ke.”

However, Shore also told Page Six on Monday, “We love to hate people when they’re on top. People wanted to smash me down and they did. I was always nice to everyone, always cool, I put my heart into my all my films.”

He added, “Human beings have feelings, it’s not like selling real estate.”

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With a shot of a baby’s onesie, on which was written “coming soon…” Lindsay Lohan announced to 12.4 million Instagram followers Tuesday that she’s expecting.

“We are blessed and excited!” the Mean Girls star wrote, speaking for herself and her financier husband Bader Shammos, who she tagged in the post, which also included praying hands emoji, a baby, and a baby bottle.

ABC Audio has also confirmed the good news through the 36-year-old’s publicist.

The couple were engaged in November of 2021, and she announced on social media they tied the knot in July. “I am stunned that this is my husband,” she said in a now-deleted post. “My life and my everything. every woman should feel like this everyday.”

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Paramount Pictures has released the first poster for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and perhaps not surprisingly, it highlights one of Tom Cruise‘s most death-defying stunts.

Cruise is shown in mid-free fall from a mountain, tailing his motorcycle, from which he sped off the precipice in Norway.

The motorcycle gag lead to a BASE jump from that height, a stunt the filmmakers say was the most dangerous Cruise ever performed.

Dead Reckoning – Part One stars Cruise, as well as returning M:I players Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Czerny and Vanessa Kirby, and series newcomers Esai Morales, Guardians of the Galaxy vet Pom Klementieff and her fellow Marvel movie star Hayley Atwell.

Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh adventure in the blockbuster franchise, opens July 14. Part Two debuts in July 2024.

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