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Rumer Willis is a mom.

On Tuesday, the actress, 34, and her boyfriend Derek Richard Thomas, a musician, shared a joint Instagram post featuring a photo of their newborn baby.

“Louetta Isley Thomas Willis You are pure magic,” the couple wrote in the caption.

“Born at home on Tuesday April 18th,” they added. “You are more than we ever dreamed of.”

Rumer first announced she was expecting in December, posting a photo of her belly on Instagram.

Her sisters and mother Demi Moore have supported her on her journey to motherhood.

In December, Moore shared a photo of herself at one of Willis’ ultrasound appointments. Moore’s daughters Tallulah Willis and Scott LaRue Willis were also seen in the photo.

At the time, Demi wrote that it was an “honor to witness” her daughter’s journey to motherhood.

“Saying hello to the little nibblet!! Overjoyed for you, my sweet Rumer,” she wrote in the caption. “It’s an honor to witness your journey into motherhood, and can’t wait to welcome this baby into the world!”

Moore shares all three daughters with actor Bruce Willis. Bruce also has two daughters with his wife Emma Heming Willis, 8-year-old Evelyn Penn and 11-year-old Mabel Ray.

Louetta is Demi and Bruce’s first grandchild.

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Ted Lasso fans, halftime is over and the second half of the third season starts Wednesday.

We’ve seen six episodes, and just six are left in this season that’s going to mark a big change in the show in some way, shape, or form. Nick Mohammed plays Nate Shelley on the show — he started in season 1 as lovable, but turned villainous season 2. So how are fans treating him in season 3?

“I wouldn’t say it’s love. I would say less hate,” he tells ABC Audio. “I feel like whereas there was a real visceral reaction to what Nate did at the end of season two and, you know, maybe rightly so, I feel like people are now a bit more kind of intrigued as to whether we’re going to see some kind of accountability or a redemption or something.”

Fans will have to continue watching to see if that happens, but Mohammed did give a little hint about what to expect as the season goes forward.

“Narratively things sort of sort of step up … heading towards the season finale,” he shares. “And, you know, whether it’s the very end, very end forever and ever, who knows? We know that there’s quite a lot of unfinished business as far as Nate’s concerned.”

Brendan Hunt, who co-created the show and plays Coach Beard, also chimed in.

“Up through episode five, it’s been some real peaks and valleys. And, you know, the show is made of peaks and valleys, much like Earth,” he says. “But things got about as low as they can ever get in five. But then in six they all go to Amsterdam and everyone seems to have gotten something they need. So going forward, let’s see if those things bear fruit.”

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On Tuesday, CBS and free streamer Pluto TV announced they’ll both be taking part in this year’s Tony Awards, with the latter airing The Tony Awards: Act One.

The broadcast will be a preshow of “live, exclusive content” that will run up to the 76th annual Tony Awards airing live on CBS and streaming on Paramount+ on Sunday, June 11.

Act One will stream from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. ET before the main event begins at 8 p.m., hosted by Academy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Ariana DeBose, from the historic United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights.

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Writer/director James Gunn had teased his upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as an origin story for Bradley Cooper‘s beloved, bruising Rocket, and a new clip of the film exclusive to Collider shows just that.

For the uninitiated, Rocket was the subject of illegal animal experimentation that turned him into the character fans have come to love.

This clip shows Rocket in his youth, where he and other animals are being held — and experimented upon — by a character they call Sire.

The anthropomorphic animals have all been equipped with various implants and given the ability to speak, and one by one, they choose names for themselves as they dream of freedom.

An otter voiced by Linda Cardellini names herself Lylla, as opposed to her serial number, 89Q12. A walrus dubs himself Teefs (Asim Chaudhry), while a rabbit (Mikaela Hoover), cruelly retrofitted with spider legs and a metal speaker over her face, chooses Floor, as that’s where she finds herself.

The little raccoon known as 89P13 says, “Someday I’m gonna make great machines that fly. And me and my friends are gonna go flying into the forever and beautiful sky: Lylla and Teefs, and Floor and me, Rocket.”

As heart-wrenching as the scene is, Gunn insists to Collider that no real animals were harmed in the making of the film.

He commented, “I was very, very careful about what we see in terms of animals being hurt because it is something I’m incredibly squeamish about, and people are squeamish about. So I think the difficult stuff to watch in the movie … is because of the idea of what’s happening more than what you actually see.”

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 launches May 5 from Marvel Studios, which is owned by ABC News’ parent company, Disney.

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As the annual motion picture industry confab CinemaCon rolls on in Las Vegas, Warner Bros. Discovery dropped its cards on the table Tuesday morning, with sneak peeks of Wonka, The Color Purple, the sequel to Aquaman and a second trailer to The Flash.

According to Deadline, Oprah Winfrey made her first appearance at the expo to talk up the musical reboot of The Color Purple, with the producer calling it a “full-circle moment.” She earned an Oscar nomination for the Steven Spielberg-directed 1985 original.

She was joined by director Blitz Bazawule, calling his version “a celebration of sisterhood.” The movie, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Jon Batiste and Halle Bailey, opens December 25.

The studio also unveiled a peek at Wonka, starring Timothée Chalamet as the man in the hat and Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa. That musical film hits theaters December 15.

Chalamet was also on hand for a preview of the sequel to the Oscar-winning sci-fi epic Dune, with director Denis Villeneuve calling the first movie the “appetizer” to the sequel’s “main course.”

Also among the teases was something non-attendees can watch: a second trailer to The Flash, starring Ezra Miller and two Batmen, Michael Keaton and Ben Affleck.

“I spent a lifetime trying to right the wrongs of the past, as if fighting crime could actually bring my parents back,” Keaton’s Bruce Wayne says to Miller’s time-skipping Barry Allen. “You actually did it.”

Barry’s playing with time sends him back to the events of 2013’s Man of Steel, and Michael Shannon‘s world-conquering General Zod. For the first time, both Batmen are seen kicking butt, with Keaton’s character calling back the 1989 original, saying, “You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts!”

The film hits theaters June 16.

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Vanna White is synonymous with Wheel of Fortune. However, she’ll be breaking new ground with a special appearance on an upcoming installment of ABC’s Celebrity Wheel of Fortune — as a contestant.

The game show mainstay, and Pat Sajak‘s letter-flipping ride-or-die since 1982, will be playing the game to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as part of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune‘s “Ultimate Host Night.”

Vanna better buy a vowel and bring her A game: Her competitors will be Jeopardy! champ-turned-host Ken Jennings, playing for the Equal Justice Initiative, and his fellow Jeopardy! host, actress and actual neuroscientist Mayim Bialik. She’s playing for the Mental Wealth Alliance.

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune‘s “Ultimate Host Night” will air Wednesday, May 10, on ABC.

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Expecto paturnum! ABC News has confirmed that former Harry Potter lead Daniel Radcliffe and longtime actress girlfriend, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel co-star Erin Darke, are now parents.

A rep for the actor passed along the good news, but didn’t provide any details about whether it was a boy or a girl.

Incidentally, the news comes as the couple, who have been linked since 2012 when they met on the film Kill Your Darlings, were snapped in photos published by the Daily Mail as they pushed a stroller along the sidewalks of New York City.

It is the first child for both 33-year-old Radcliffe and Darke, 38.

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Bridesmaids scene-stealer, former Mike & Molly star and the actress playing Ursula in the upcoming live-action Little Mermaid film, Melissa McCarthy, is the cover model for People magazine‘s latest “Beautiful” issue.

The magazine dropped the news Tuesday, ahead of the issue hitting the newsstand Friday. An “incredibly flattered” McCarthy said of the honor, “I felt like it was saying something really lovely to my younger self, to my 20-year-old self. And maybe to other people, too.”

The 52-year-old said she let her husband, Ben Falcone, in on the surprise announcement, but not their two daughters, 15-year-old Vivian and 13-year-old Georgette.

They have more pressing concerns: “They were trying to talk me into getting yet another gecko, so I haven’t gotten around to telling them yet,” Melissa said, adding she thinks the honor “might mean more to [them] as they get older.”

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) The annual movie industry confab Cinemacon is underway in Las Vegas, and Monday night’s presentations to insiders teased some of what will be the biggest movies to hit theaters.

Monday night belonged to Sony Pictures, with the announcement of an ambitious plan to release 23 movies in 2023.

Or as Sony Pictures Entertainment Chairman Tom Rothman said, according to IndieWire, “We are not f****** around here.” To that end, Sony unspooled the trailers for Denzel Washington‘s The Equalizer 3, a teaser for the follow-up to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, director Ridley Scott‘s Napoleon starring Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix, the animated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and its first R-rated Marvel Comics film, Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the poacher-hunting Spider-Man villain.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence kicked off the festivities with a recorded message to the attendees from the set of Bad Boys 4, with Will saying, “Back in the saddle. We hype, we excited.”

Taylor-Johnson appeared in person, as did Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon — wearing Ghostbusters jumpsuits, no less. Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence also made an appearance, in fine f-bomb-dropping form, to promote her upcoming R-rated comedy No Hard Feelings.

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Harry Belafonte, a groundbreaking actor and trusted confidante to fellow civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday morning at age 96.

He passed away of congestive heart failure at his New York home with his wife, Pamela, by his side.

Born in Harlem, Belafonte started out as an actor before switching to music. His breakthrough album, 1956’s Calypso, featured his iconic songs “Jamaica Farewell” and “Day-O (Banana Boat Song).” It was also the first LP record to sell over 1 million copies.

In addition to his own music career, Belafonte was instrumental in bringing African stars like Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba to a global audience.

Belafonte was also a prime mover behind the #1 all-star charity single “We Are the World,” which raised millions of dollars for African famine relief. In 2022, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Early Influence Award.

Belafonte’s film career included starring roles in Carmen Jones, Uptown Saturday Night and Island in the Sun. He also produced and scored the iconic hip-hop film Beat Street.

He eventually became an EGOT winner, nabbing an Emmy, three Grammys, an Oscar and a Tony over the course of his career.

A close friend and supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Belafonte was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement, helping to organizing the 1963 March on Washington and funding the Freedom Rides. King called Belafonte’s commitment to the cause “a powerful tactical weapon” in the fight for civil rights.

Belafonte devoted much of his life to philanthropy and humanitarian causes, serving as a Peace Corps advisor and a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, advocating for the end of apartheid in South Africa and founding The Gathering for Justice to end racial inequality in the justice system.

His many honors included the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors, the NAACP Spingarn Medal and the Nelson Mandela Courage Award.

Belafonte leaves behind four children — son David and daughters Shari, Adrienne and Gina; two stepchildren — Sarah and Lindsey; and eight grandchildren.

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