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Bachelor in Paradise alums Brandon Jones and Serene Russell have ended their engagement.

Taking to Instagram on Monday, May 8, the pair, who met and got engaged during season 8 of the dating show, made a joint post announcing the end of their relationship.

“After many months, today we have ultimately decided to end our engagement,” they captioned the post. “We have tried to work privately on our relationship which has been incredibly challenging in the public eye. This has been immensely hard to accept and painful, as there is a lot of love between the two of us.”

They added, “We are deeply hurting and can only ask that there be no hate. The best path for us at this time is to try and move forward and heal from this as individuals.”

Included in the post were several photos and videos of Brandon and Serene’s time together. 

The break up news comes six months after their engagement aired during the Bachelor in Paradise season 8 finale. 

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Scarlett Johansson revealed to Variety that she and her fellow Avenger Chris Evans assembled at the home of their superhero ally Jeremy Renner as he recovered from his near-fatal snowplow accident.

The April visit was kept private, but she and longtime friend Evans told the trade about it in her new cover article.

“I was honestly so f****** happy to see him,” Scarlett said. “I didn’t know if I was ever going to see him again.”

ScarJo’s Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow and Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye shared a special bond in the Marvel movies and it transferred offscreen, too.

She added, “To not only see him again but to see him thriving and in such an amazing space, mentally. He’s a very spiritual person in general and a very soulful person. And you can see that in his work. … He has such a depth to him. And I just was so happy to see that he is full of life and light, and he’s also hilarious. We laughed a lot.”

Evans added there were, “No tears at all. A lot of laughs and smiles and hugs. Leave it to Jeremy to take something this potentially tragic and turn it into something so inspiring.”

Renner suffered more than 30 broken bones and blunt trauma injuries when he was pulled under the vehicle in an attempt to stop it from sliding into his nephew near his home outside Reno, Nevada.

His recovery has been called miraculous.

Johansson tells the trade she and the others on the still-active Avengers text chain — including Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth and Robert Downey Jr. — rallied for their fallen comrade.

“We’re like, ‘OK, you beat us all. That’s it. You won,'” she says, adding of his recovery, “That’s like real superhero stuff. It’s unbelievable.”

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Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak-Biermann has filed for divorce from her husband, former NFL player Kroy Biermann, after 11 years of marriage.

According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Kim has cited the marriage as “irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation” as the reason for the split. She is seeking primary physical custody of their four minor children — Kroy Jr., 11, Kash, 10, and 9-year-old twins Kane and Kaia — as well as joint legal custody.

The Don’t Be Tardy star is also requesting spousal support and the legal restoration of her maiden name.

The filing comes amid the couple’s financial struggles, including $1.1 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS from 2013, 2017, and 2018, as well as $15,000 in unpaid taxes to the state of Georgia from 2018.

Kim and Kroy first met at a charity event in May 2010 when he was playing with the Atlanta Falcons. Their relationship was featured on RHOA and they tied the knot on Nov. 11, 2011, at their former estate in Roswell, GA.

Kim is also mom to Brielle, 25, and Ariana, 21, who Kroy legally adopted in 2013.

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Freeform dropped the trailer for Cruel Summer season 2 on Monday. The Jessica Biel-produced thriller series “follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three different timelines surrounding Y2K, the season twists and turns as it tracks the early friendship between Megan, Isabella and Megan’s best friend Luke, the love triangle that blossomed, and the mystery that would impact all of their lives going forward,” per the network. Sadie Stanley, Lexi Underwood, Eloise Payet, Griffin Gluck, KaDee Strickland, Lisa Yamada and Sean Blakemore star, with Paul Adelstein and Braeden De La Garza appearing in recurring roles. Cruel Summer premieres June 5, at 9:00 p.m. EDT on Freeform, with a special two-episode premiere before moving to its regular 10 p.m. time slot…

We’re getting our first look at Meg 2: The Trench, a sequel to 2018’s The Meg, which followed a group of scientists whose submarine was attacked by a Megalodon — a giant shark thought to be extinct. Jason Statham, who reprises his role from the first film, now faces three giant sharks. Wu Jing co-stars, along with Cliff Curtis, Sienna Guillory, Skyler Samuels, Page Kennedy, Shuya Sophia Cai and Sergio Peris-Mencheta. The first movie grossed $530 million worldwide. Meg 2: The Trench opens in theaters August 3…

CBS has canceled True Lies and East New York, both after a single season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. True Lies, a reboot of James Cameron‘s spy-action comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, will air its series finale May 17, while procedural East New York, which centers on the officers and detectives of the NYPD’s 74th precinct in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, will wrap May 14…

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Angelina Jolie took to Instagram on Monday to pay tribute to her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died of breast and ovarian cancer in 2007, at age 56.

“Tomorrow would have been my mother’s 73rd birthday. She passed away 15 years ago, after a long struggle with breast and ovarian cancer,” the post, accompanied by a photo of Jolie as a young girl posing with her mother, began.

“In June, I will be a month away from the age when she was diagnosed,” Jolie, 47, continued. “I have had preventive surgeries to try to lessen chances but I continue to have check ups.”

She went on to write, “My mom loved [Jimi] Hendrix. And would always sign her letters Kiss the Sky. It took on new meaning after she passed. Sending my love to those who have also lost loved ones and strength to those who are fighting at this very moment for their lives and the lives of those they love.”

“And to other women, please take the time to look after yourself and go for your mammograms and blood tests or ultrasounds, particularly if you have a family history of cancer,” the Maleficent star added.

Jolie elected to have a double mastectomy in 2013 after being diagnosed with the BRCA1 gene, which put her at high risk for developing breast cancer.

Following an ovarian cancer scare two years later, she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in a hysterectomy procedure.

“I simply feel I made choices to improve my odds of being here to see my children grow into adults, and of meeting my grandchildren,” Jolie wrote in a 2019 Time magazine essay. “My hope is to give as many years as I can to their lives, and to be here for them.”

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While news that Kevin Costner‘s wife of 18 years, Christine Baumgartner, had filed for divorce came as a surprise to fans, People reports it wasn’t a surprise to those closest to her.

The Yellowstone patriarch had been pivoting away from that hit show — in fact, it was just announced Yellowstone will be ending when season 5 finishes — to another Western he directed and starred in, called Horizon.

While the former show is shot in Montana, the latter was filmed in Utah.

“She wasn’t happy about it,” a source tells the magazine. “Christine wants them to spend family time at their Santa Barbara home. During filming, Kevin is not around very much. His absence has been very hard for her.”

The Dances With Wolves Oscar winner was described as “obsessed” with Horizon, even though he knew the location time was causing static at home.

Another source tells People the “in demand” Costner has been known to be particularly driven when it comes to his passion projects like Horizon, and Yellowstone‘s “success and excitement over the new project probably took his attention away from his family more than he realized.”

The 68-year-old Costner, a father of seven, had three children with Baumgartner, 49: sons Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and 12-year-old daughter Grace. He was previously married to Cindy Silva from 1978 to 1994, and the pair had three children: Annie, 39, Lily, 36, and Joe, 35.

After his first divorce, Costner had son Liam, now 26, with former girlfriend Bridget Rooney.

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On Monday, the American Film Institute announced its 49th AFI Life Achievement Award gala, which was to honor Oscar and Emmy winner Nicole Kidman on June 10, will be postponed because of the Writers Guild of America strike.

In a statement obtained by ABC Audio, the organization noted, “For nearly half a century, the AFI Life Achievement Award has convened artists and audiences in celebration of excellence in the art form. Due to the division in our community at this time, AFI has decided to postpone this year’s event with the goal to offer a celebratory environment worthy of our recipient.”

Kidman is the first Australian actor to be feted for the lifetime achievement honor. Previous winners include her fellow Oscar-winning recipients Jane Fonda, Shirley MacLaine, Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas.

The AFI said a new date for Kidman’s event will be announced soon.

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On social media, FX revealed that its acclaimed series The Bear will be cooking again on Hulu on June 22.

The show stars newly minted Golden Globe winner Jeremy Allen White as chef and restaurateur Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, who ended the show’s first season by shuttering his beleaguered family-run eatery and fulfilling his goal of opening a new dining establishment in its place that bears his nickname — and shares the title of the show.

The reveal came with a poster for the series, with Carmy using a pair of tweezers to apply a garnish. He’s surrounded by the other cast members, including scene stealer Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Carmy’s cousin Richie; Ayo Edebiri as Carmy’s driven chef Sydney; and Abby Elliott as Carmy’s sister Natalie aka Sugar.

Fans will be able to gorge themselves: All episodes of the second season will drop on its aforementioned debut date.

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James Gunn took to Twitter Sunday to confirm that fans who spotted Pete Davidson‘s name among the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 weren’t seeing things.

Writer-director Gunn, who cast the SNL veteran for the ultimately doomed character Blackguard in 2021’s The Suicide Squad, posted a photo of Pete on the GOTG 3 set, smiling with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña and some of the movie’s kid actors, all in costume.

Gunn explained, “my friend Pete not only voiced but actually came to visit us in Atlanta for a day and played Phlektik on set.”

The alien gunman is part of a group that Pratt’s Peter Quill/Star-Lord and Vin Diesel‘s Groot deal with during one of the movie’s action scenes. Thanks to prosthetics, you’d never know it was The King of Staten Island star inside the big-eyed, green-skinned alien mask.

For his part, Gunn explained why he was also listed in the credits, adding, “I voiced the beautiful Lambshank. I don’t want to show her here because she’s too gorgeous & I don’t want folks to feel bad about themselves in comparison.”

He’s being facetious: The character is one of the hideous animal hybrids created by Chukwudi Iwuji‘s cruel High Evolutionary in the movie.

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TMZ has reportedly obtained the death certificate for Goodfellas star Ray Liotta. According to the gossip site, his death last May was caused by heart and lung issues.

The Emmy-nominated star, 67, reportedly died from natural causes: Specifically, acute heart failure, respiratory insufficiency and pulmonary edema, or fluid in his lungs.

Liotta died in his sleep on May 22 in the Dominican Republic, where he was shooting the thriller Dangerous Waters. After his death, he appeared in the drama Black Bird and the slasher comedy Cocaine Bear.

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