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Tom Holland is opening up about his mental health journey as it relates to his latest role.

The Crowded Room, which premieres June 9 on Apple TV+, and is inspired by a true story and the ensuing 1981 novel The Minds of Billy Milligan, stars the Spider-Man actor as Danny Sullivan, a man who is arrested following a 1979 shooting in New York City.

The real-life crime story dealt with dissociative identity disorder; Billy Milligan blamed his alternate personalities for his crimes. 

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Holland, who also executive produced the project, says it is “an insight into … the ways in which we can deal with trauma.”

“I’m no stranger to the physical aspects of the job doing the whole action-movie thing,” he told the outlet. “But the mental aspect, it really beat me up and it took a long time for me to recover afterwards, to sort of get back to reality.”

Holland said he had “a bit of a meltdown at home” because he felt the need to “get rid of this character.” “I was seeing myself in him, but in my personal life.”

Tom said, “It was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before.”

The interview mentions Holland is one year and four months sober, though it does not mention what substance he was using.

“Learning about mental health and the power of it, and speaking to psychiatrists about Danny and Billy’s struggles, has been something that has been so informative to my own life,” he said.

Holland said he’s made strides in “recognizing triggers” for himself and pinpointing “things that stress me out.”

The actor said he hopes viewers will “have more respect and more sympathy for people who are going through mental health issues” because of The Crowded Room.

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They’ve influenced a generation of musicians, and now Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem are getting their due.

All episodes of the fuzzy, funky rock group’s new show, The Muppets Mayhem, debut Wednesday on Disney+.

In the show, you’ll learn how the band — Dr. Teeth, Sgt. Floyd Pepper, Janice, Zoot, Lips and of course Animal — has influenced countless acts, from Chris Stapleton to Meatloaf. Indeed, the show’s trailer also features other famous fans, including Mötley Crüe‘s Tommy Lee and Lil Nas X.

Floyd Pepper tells ABC Audio, “You know, I just hope that folks see us for who we is – a bunch of hard rockin’, jam-playin’ groove machines who can’t help but make music that’s going to stick to your head like a, like a hat covered in honey.”

For his part, Animal says the show centers on “music, friendship, and album!” Pepper clarifies, “We finally get to record our first album, in the show, which is pretty awesome.”

In the new series, music executive Nora (Lilly Singh) works with the group to help them navigate the new music industry landscape in hopes of recording an epic first studio album.

Other guest stars slated to appear in the upcoming series include Paula Abdul, Steve Aoki, Sofia Carson, Charlamagne Tha God, deadmau5, Kesha, Morgan Freeman, Ben Schwartz, Ryan Seacrest, Kevin Smith, Zedd, Danny Trejo and “Weird Al” Yankovic.

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Quinta Brunson flaunted different fashion looks during awards show season, but says before meeting stylist Bryon Javar it wasn’t easy to find someone who understood her or was willing to dress her frame.

“Not only am I 4-foot-11, [but] I’m 4-foot-11 with breasts and a butt. And that’s just the cardinal sin: to be short and have the nerve to have any type of curve,” she tells InStyle. “Before working with Bryon, there were times where I would work with other stylists and I just have to be like, ‘I’m not this young,’ or ‘this feels too young for me.’ And it would be like, ‘No, you can pull it off.’ And I was like, ‘But it’s not about pulling it off. It’s about what I want to represent when I come to certain award shows or certain events I have to do.'”

“I want to make sure I can convey who I am through what I wear,” the star continued, adding fashion is a way for her to show who she is without talking.

Quinta learned to love her body thanks to her experience as a trained dancer. As a woman with curves, she thought it’d be fitting to include some others in her show Abbott Elementary.

“This is a mockumentary, I feel they do better when you have people who look more familiar,” she says. “I wanted to portray people who looked real. And that inherently comes with, in my opinion, women who have curves.”

Though she knows she may upset people, she embraces Beyoncé‘s “I was born free” lyric in “Church Girl,” noting, “This is starting to really be my ministry. I was born free. I can do what I want.”

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Tom Cruise and Shakira sparked dating rumors over the weekend when they were photographed together at the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Miami, according to Page Six.

“He is extremely interested in pursuing her,” and even sent her flowers, a source tells the outlet.

“There’s chemistry,” adds the insider.

The romance rumors follow Shakira’s split from her longtime boyfriend Gerard Piqué last June amid allegations he was cheating on her with his now-girlfriend, Clara Chia Marti.

“Shakira needs a soft pillow to fall on, and that could be Tom,” says the source, adding that the 60-year-old Top Gun: Maverick star is “a nice-looking guy, and he is talented.”

“And she isn’t taller than him,” joked the source, noting that Cruise is 5-foot-7, while the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer is 5-foot-2.

Shakira, 46, and Piqué were together for 12 years and share two children: Sasha, 8, and Milan, 10.

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Another Sex and the City vet is joining the cast of the HBO Max sequel, And Just Like That… for season 2. Candice Bergen, who played Carrie Bradshaw’s Vogue editor Enid Frick on the original show and in one of the Sex and the City movies, is officially reprising her role, showrunner Michael Patrick King tells Entertainment Weekly. When last we saw her, Enid was trying to recruit bride-to-be Carrie — played by Sarah Jessica Parker — as a model for Vogue‘s “The Last Single Girl” feature in the bridal issue. King also teased trailblazing feminist Gloria Steinem as a guest star, playing herself. And Just Like That… season 2 launches in June…

MTV News is signing off after a 36-year run as part of larger layoffs at the channel’s parent company Paramount Global, according to The Hollywood Reporter. MTV News launched in 1987 as The Week in Rock, hosted by correspondent Kurt Loder. It eventually expanded to a bona fide news outlet geared towards Gen X and older millennials, adding other correspondents, including Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart. Along the way, MTV News held town halls with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Bill Gates and others…

Fox has pulled the plug on its reboot of that ’70s classic Fantasy Island after two seasons, according to a press release from the network. The show starred Roselyn Sanchez as Elena Roarke, a descendant of Ricardo Montalban‘s iconic and mysterious host, Mr. Roarke. In a statement, Fox said in part, “We were very pleased with Fantasy Island’s fun and escapist creative, which we had hoped would gain strong traction among viewers.”…

Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Never Have I Ever‘s upcoming fourth and final season, Mindy Kaling‘s coming-of-age dramedy that follows the life of an Indian American teen. The clip opens with Maitreyi Ramakrishnan‘s Devi, who’s just “done the deed” with Ben — played by Jaren Lewison — avoiding him at all costs, until she spots him with a new love interest. Meanwhile, her former crush, Paxton — played by Darren Barnet — suddenly returns, though Devi is more interested in the suddenly “clawable” Ethan — portrayed by Michael Cimino. Poorna Jagannathan, Richa Moorjani, Lee Rodriguez and Ramona Young co-star, along with John McEnroe, who narrates. Never Have I Ever, The Final Episodes, premieres June 8…

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Jonathan Majors appeared in court via Zoom on Tuesday regarding the status of his ongoing assault case.

According to an updated complaint unsealed on Tuesday, Majors, 33, allegedly pulled his girlfriend’s finger, grabbed her arm and struck her with his hand.

While the complaint updates the underlying basis for the charges, the charges themselves remain the same. They include assault, attempted assault and aggravated harassment.

Majors has not entered a plea, though in a statement issued by his lawyer, Priya Chaudhry, he clearly disputes the charges.

“We have provided the District Attorney with irrefutable evidence that the woman is lying, including video proof showing nothing happened, especially not where she claimed,” Chaudhry writes in the statement. “We did this with the explicit promise from the DA that they would not ‘fix’ their case and change it as we proved the woman is lying.”

“Yet this false case continues, the woman’s claimed location shifts, and her story morphs. This is a witch hunt against Jonathan Majors, driven by baseless claims,” the statement continues. “Instead of dismissing the allegations in the face of the woman’s clear lies, the DA has adjusted the charges to match the woman’s new lies. To be clear, there are no new charges against Mr. Majors.”

Chaudhry goes on to claim they have obtained “even more video evidence of his innocence, but we are hesitant to share it, for fear the DA will tip the woman off to change her story again.”

Chaudhry also accused prosecutors of racial bias in the case and reiterated that her team has provided investigators with video evidence that allegedly exonerates Majors.

The next court hearing for this case is scheduled for June 13.

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Warner Bros. has apparently summoned Beetlejuice back to the land of the living.

Variety says the studio will reunite Michael Keaton with director Tim Burton for a sequel to the 1988 classic — and Burton will be directing the star of his hit Netflix show Wednesday, Jenna Ortega, in the lead role, to boot.

The trade also notes that Winona Ryder will be back to reprise her role as onetime goth girl icon Lydia Deetz, with Ortega playing her daughter.

The project will hit theaters September 6, 2024, and Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar will be writing the script, according to the trade.

The 1988 film had Keaton playing the horny human haunter who is summoned by a recently deceased couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to rid their beloved country home of a yuppie family from the city.

But they get more than they bargained for with Keaton’s character, who unfortunately takes a shine to the still-living family’s depressed teen daughter Lydia, who befriends the friendly ghosts.

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Normally, you have to watch a reality show to see who becomes the baddie, but E! has taken the legwork out of the equation with an upcoming series called House of Villains.

Joel McHale will host the Big Brother-style “outrageously sinister competition elimination series,” which E! says “brings 10 of reality television’s most iconic and infamous villains under one roof.”

“They must outsmart, out-manipulate and out-scheme each other through a series of challenges in order to win a cash prize and the title of ‘America’s Ultimate Supervillain.'”

The show was part of NBCUniversal’s announcement of its upcoming unscripted shows on Tuesday.

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The jury members for the 83rd annual Peabody Awards have made their picks, and the Star Wars Disney+ series Andor, ABC’s Emmy-winning Abbott Elementary and Apple TV+’s workplace dramedy Severance are among this year’s winners in the Entertainment category.

The organization spotlights “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media.”

Others included Donald Glover‘s Emmy winner Atlanta, AMC’s Better Call Saul, and HBO’s quirky and mostly Spanish-language comedy series Los Espookys, starring Fred Armisen.

Of Andor, the organization says it “tackles that familiar galaxy with … a keen-eyed commitment to mirroring our own mundane trials and tribulations as it follows scavenger Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), who unwittingly becomes radicalized in the wake of a police state intent on crushing any and all signs of the Rebel Alliance.”

The jury says of Abbott, “The show isn’t content to present funny scenarios absent any social context; Abbott Elementary insists on surfacing the structural issues that make its teachers work so hard.”

Previous “groundbreaking” Peabody winner Atlanta “transcended its original success by introducing an anthology-style structure … allowing the final two installments of Atlanta to display a wealth of creativity and insight.”

All the winners will be celebrated on Sunday, June 11, at a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles — Peabody’s first in-person ceremony since 2019 and the first time the event will be held in LA.

Here’s a list of the winners in the Entertainment category. A full list across all genres can be found here.

Abbott Elementary – (ABC)

Andor – (Disney+)

Atlanta – (FX)

Bad Sisters – (Apple TV+)

Better Call Saul – (AMC)

Los Espookys – (HBO Max)

Mo – (Netflix)

Pachinko – (Apple TV+)

Severance – (Apple TV+)

We’re Here – (HBO Max)

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Nick Cannon‘s multiple jobs are essential to taking care of his 11 children. In an interview with Los Angeles Times, he revealed he needs to earn at least nine figures to maintain his lifestyle.

“When you think about my lifestyle, I have to generate at least $100 million a year,” Cannon said. He reveals he had children with six women because of their desires to be mothers and the belief that he could manage them all.

“A lot of them are in the same age group,” he said. “And I just wanted to give them what they desired. I kept saying, ‘I can handle it.’” His decisions, however, have resulted in him being “villainized” and called a deadbeat by those who think he can’t be present for all his children.

Nick says he has calendars for each child, brings his kids to meetings and drives them around, focusing on the quality of their dates rather than the amount of time he spends with them.

“It’s not about what I do for you or what I say to you, it’s about how you feel when I’m with you,” he said. “If you feel loved when you see your dad, that’s what’s gonna resonate.”

Nick is father to Moroccan, Monroe, Golden, Powerful Queen, Zion, Zillion, Legendary, Onyx, Rise, Beautiful and Halo; his son Zen passed away from brain cancer at five months old. The actor was recently criticized for struggling to remember all their names, but his ex-wife and mother of their 12-year-old twins, Mariah Carey, often checks on his well-being.

“She’s high frequency. She always asks me, ‘You aight? How you doin’?’ he said in an upcoming episode of The Jason Lee Show. “When we talk daily, she’s just checking in on my spirit.”

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