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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni will star in the film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, It Ends with Us.

Hoover announced the news in a video shared on TikTok. “I think that Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively have what it takes to bring these characters to life and I cannot wait for you guys to see that happen,” she said.

Baldoni is also set to direct the film, which is in development with Wayfarer Studios and Sony Pictures. Deadline first reported the news.

Lively will play the book’s main character, Lily Bloom, and Baldoni will play Ryle Kincaid, the man Lily falls for. The book touches largely on domestic abuse, which Hoover has previously said was inspired by her mother’s escape from her own abusive relationship.

In her TikTok video, Hoover showed her fans the house she grew up in “from the age of probably 4 to 18.”

“I just want everyone to know how appreciative I am to my mother, who got us out of a scary situation when I was little and brought us here to this house,” she explained.

“This house was full of love and joy,” she continued. “So thank you, Mom, for making that very difficult decision. This house holds nothing but wonderful memories for me because of her.”

Lively and Hoover are also executive producers for the film based on the viral “BookTok” sensation.

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The science is settled: Regé-Jean Page is the most handsome man in the world.

Specifically, Metro.Uk reports a cosmetic surgeon has taken what’s known as the Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty, otherwise known as Phi — a measurement of physical perfection — and applied it to a host of Hollywood hunks.

The Golden Ratio goes back thousands of years, according to the Victorian Cosmetic Institute. It’s “the ratio of line segments that occur when an object is divided so that the ratio of B to A is the same as the ratio of C to B.”

While that’s on the technical side, it comes down to facial symmetry: The more symmetrical the face, the more attractive a person is.

With that in mind, Dr. Julian De Silva, a London-based facial cosmetic surgeon, used computer mapping to track some famous faces.

The Gray Man star Page’s competition included Thor‘s Chris Hemsworth, Creed III and Black Panther‘s Michael B. Jordan, and Harry Styles.

Of those, with a score of 93.65%, Regé was deemed the top.

Hemsworth was second, with a score of 93.53%; Michael B. ranked a very close third, with 93.46%; and Styles scored 92.3%.

Let’s face it: Every star cited scored an A in this particular experiment.

You can’t argue with science.

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After just two episodes, HBO has renewed its PlayStation video game adaptation The Last of Us for a second season. As reported, the show, which stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as two survivors fighting their way through an outbreak-ravaged United States, had an impressive debut for HBO.

The first episode drew 4.7 million viewers on both the network and its streaming service, HBO Max — an audience second only to the opener of its Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.

Neil Druckman, who created the Naughty Dog game for PlayStation and now executive produces the show, noted in the announcement, “I’m humbled, honored, and frankly overwhelmed that so many people have tuned in and connected with our retelling of Joel and Ellie’s journey. The collaboration with Craig Mazin, our incredible cast & crew, and HBO exceeded my already high expectations.”

He added, “Now we have the absolute pleasure of being able to do it again with season two! On behalf of everyone at Naughty Dog & PlayStation, thank you!”

New episodes of the series, which also stars Anna Torv, Nico Parker, Nick Offerman and Storm Reid, debut Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and are available to stream on HBO Max, leading up to the finale on March 12.

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Alan Cumming revealed in a message celebrating his birthday that he recently returned his Order of the British Empire award.

“Today is my 58th birthday and I want to tell you about something I recently did for myself. I returned my OBE,” the two-time Tony Award-winning actor shared Friday on Instagram.

Cumming said he was grateful to have received the distinction from Queen Elizabeth II in 2009.

He recalled being “shocked and delighted” when receiving the honor, adding that it “makes me very proud to be British, and galvanised as an American.”

Cumming said the award was given to him not just for his job as an actor, but for his activism for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. He referenced the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy and the Defense of Marriage Act, both instituted during Bill Clinton‘s presidency, as being issues at the time.

Both have since been repealed by President Barack Obama in 2011 and President Joe Biden in 2022, respectively.

Cumming noted that the queen’s death in September “and the ensuing conversations about the role of monarchy and especially the way the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples across the world really opened my eyes.”

He also said the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States has made the “great good” the award stood for 14 years ago “now less potent than the misgivings I have being associated with the toxicity of empire.”

“So I returned my award, explained my reasons and reiterated my great gratitude for being given it in the first place,” the Traitors host said. “I’m now back to being plain old Alan Cumming again. Happy birthday to me!”

ABC News has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.

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If you’re a Star Wars fan, Wheel of Fortune wants to meet you. The long-running game show has announced it’s looking for “superfans” for a “special week of Wheel for your chance to win cash, Disney vacations and restore order (to the alphabet).”

So if you know “Gundaark” has three vowels and the plural of “Jedi” is also “Jedi,” you might want to check out the application website, where you can submit a video to producers.

They offer these helpful hints: “Choose a place where you can speak up and get excited about your Wheel of Fortune and Star Wars fandom,” adding, “If you have any fun Star Wars gear or attire, feel free to wear it.”

The show notes, “We’re looking for Star Wars‘ biggest fans, so, ‘Don’t hold back. Show us your Star Wars fan personality.'”

After all, fear is a path to the Dark Side.

Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

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As Michael B. Jordan was working on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, he learned a slightly embarrassing fact: For the past 10 years, staffers at the sketch show have been sleeping with him.

Sort of.

As Jordan explained to SNL vet Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, “I walk into the office, and they said, ‘This might be weird. This might be a little weird, but we actually have been living with you for the past 10 years.'” 

“Ten years, what are you talking about?” he reportedly replied. Jordan explained he met the producer who reportedly received a life-sized body pillow printed with his sweaty, shirtless image as a gift; the actor-director showed Fallon and the studio audience a photo of him standing next to his downy doppelgänger.

“She was like, ‘Listen, our hours here are so crazy, everybody takes naps at some point during the day,'” MBJ recalled. “And I said, ‘So wait: Every lady in here has slept with me at some point for the last 10 years?!'” 

“And they were like, ‘Actually yes,'” Jordan said to hoots and applause from the audience. 

Saturday Night Live‘s Instagram posted a photo of the meet-up for your viewing pleasure.

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After leading all of the competition with 11 Academy Award nominations earlier this week, the madcap multiverse movie Everything Everywhere All At Once is headed back into theaters.

In an Instagram post, one of the movie’s two directors, Daniel Kwan, informed followers the movie will screen in 1,400 theaters nationwide starting Friday.

He wrote, “To all the people who: Regret missing it in theaters, fell asleep watching it on an airplane, accidentally left at ‘THE END’, want to hate-watch the film like CATS style with your friends, now is your chance!”

Incidentally, Kwan has also posted an extensive collection of behind-the-scenes pictures and videos from the film in his Instagram Stories, showing how the acclaimed movie came together on a shoestring budget.

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He recently suffered serious burns in a garage mishap, but Jay Leno isn’t giving himself a break: He revealed to the Las Vegas Review Journal that he had a pretty gnarly motorcycle accident just last week.

In an interview with the paper, which was covering his March stand-up return to Sin City, a reporter asked the 72-year-old former Tonight Show host how he was recovering from the serious burns he’d suffered in November.

“It’s so funny you should say that,” Leno replied. “That was the first accident. OK? Then just last week, I got knocked off my motorcycle. So I’ve got a broken collarbone. I’ve got two broken ribs. I’ve got two cracked kneecaps.”

The latest accident apparently happened on January 17.

Leno added, “But I’m OK! I’m OK, I’m working. I’m working this weekend.”

As was the case with the November incident, the Jay Leno’s Garage host’s love for vintage vehicles was at the center: A classic Indian bike he was driving suffered a fuel leak mid-ride.

The comedian recalled, “So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it. So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike. The bike kept going, and you know how that works out.”

As in the November accident, Leno’s sense of humor wasn’t injured. “You know, after getting burned up, you get that one for free. After that, you’re Harrison Ford, crashing airplanes. You just want to keep your head down,” he added, laughing.

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James Cameron’s Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, is now the fifth highest-grossing movie of all time, collecting $2.054 billion as of Thursday. It moves past 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, which grossed $2.052 billion. Only Avatar ($2.92 billion), Avengers: Endgame ($2.79 billion), Titanic ($2.19 billion) and Star Wars Episode VII — The Force Awakens ($2.07 billion) rank higher on the all-time list. Avatar: The Way of Water has also topped Spider-Man: No Way Home‘s $1.92 billion), to become the highest-grossing movie of the pandemic era…

Netflix has renewed The Recruit for a second season. The spy drama follows a young CIA lawyer — played by Black Adam‘s Noah Centineo — who becomes entangled in the dangerous world of power politics. “I know I speak for our entire cast and executive team at eOne and Netflix when I say that we are thrilled to be returning to The Recruit for a second season. I’m looking forward to seeing what [series creator] Alexi Hawley has in store for us all,” Centineo said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. Laura Haddock, Fivel Stewart, Vondie Curtis Hall, Kristian Bruun, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn and Daniel Quincy Annoh also star…

NBC will pay tribute to Carol Burnett on her 90th birthday with the two-hour special, Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love. The evening will feature appearances from Aileen Quinn, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Bob Mackie, Cher, Ellen DeGeneres, Julie Andrews, Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Lily Tomlin, Marisa Tomei, Sofia Vergara, Steve Carell, Susan Lucci, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Vicki Lawrence, along with musical performances from Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter, Jane Lynch, Katy Perry, Kristin Chenoweth and many others. Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love airs April 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, and streams the next day on Peacock…

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Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday celebrated the 20th anniversary of his ABC late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with a primetime special featuring George Clooney, Snoop Dogg and Coldplay — the same lineup that appeared on the show when it premiered January 26, 2003.

“Right out of the gate, we were an immediate hit,” Kimmel joked during his monologue, before reading a list of reviews, calling it a “dead-on-arrival talk show with a charisma-free host” and another that compared it to the “kind of mess created by a sick infant with a leaky diaper.”

Kimmel, 55, also used a bit of 2023 technical wizardry to update his younger self on everything that has happened over the past 20 years.

The guest segments featured Clooney and Snoop Dogg reminiscing about that first show, in which Clooney recalled they “got the audience drunk” and ended up with one woman vomiting on the studio floor.

“By the way, we assumed she was vomiting because she was drunk, it may have just been the show,” quipped Kimmel.

The final guest of the night was Coldplay frontman Chris Martin who, after explaining that they weren’t called to appear until the last minute, gifted Kimmel with a music box that played the band’s hit, “Clocks.” Martin began singing to the music box, joined later by a string section, followed by a choir, and eventually the rest of his band — and Kimmel, who played a bass clarinet.

Many celebrities, including Carol Burnett, Matt Damon, Julia Louis Dreyfus and Michelle Obama, also congratulated Kimmel on his anniversary, appearing in pre-recorded messages during the special. 

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