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Todd and Julie Chrisley of Chrisley Knows Best reported to prison on Tuesday to begin serving their respective sentences after being convicted of a multimillion dollar bank fraud and tax evasion scheme, according to People.

Todd, 54, reported to Federal Prison Camp Pensacola to begin his 12-year prison sentence, while 50-year-old Julie arrived at the Federal Correctional Institution and Federal Prison Camp Marianna to serve her seven-year sentence.

The couple, who will also serve an additional 16 months of probation following their release from prison, are currently in the process of appealing their convictions.

In a statement previously obtained by People, their attorney said, in part, “Their trial was marred by serious and repeated errors, including the government lying to jurors about what taxes the couple paid. Based on these issues, we are optimistic about the road ahead.”

Chrisley Knows Best, which premiered in March 2014 on USA, follows the lavish lifestyle of Todd, a wealthy real estate developer, and his family. It also spun off a series, Growing Up Chrisley, starring two of his children.

Chrisley Knows Best had been renewed in May 2022, a month before they were convicted by a federal jury. Multiple episodes of the 10th season were reportedly shot before the trial and are still scheduled to air in this year.

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Class is officially back in session with Grown-ish returning tonight for the second half of season five.

So what’s in store for the students at Cal U this semester? Marcus Scribner, Trevor Jackson, and Diggy Simmons, who portray Junior, Aaron, and Doug on the show, respectively, all agree it’s going to be stressful. 

“But that’s what life is, right?” Jackson tells ABC Audio. “It’s about the journey, trying to figure it out. And it’s about finding the peace within that. You know, you’re not always going to be happy. And so on the journey to that, being happy within that, if that makes sense.” 

Another theme for the season is relationships, says Scribner.

“It’s going to be a lot of relationship drama,” he shares, explaining, “Junior’s got his five star reputation, he’s really out there. He’s outside. And he’s still dealing with his stuff with Annika. He’s got all of these other females. So we’ll see how Junior deals with it.”

When it comes to Doug, Simmons describes him simply as “broke.” 

“Broke and he’s trying to find his way out of that,” he adds. “I think that’s what can happen when you’re fresh out of college, right? And you think that you are you have the answers and then life shows you that you just don’t.”

As for what the semester looks like for the rest of the gang, viewers will have to tune in. 

Grown-ish airs Wednesdays on Freeform and is available on Hulu the next day. 

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In a behind-the-scenes post to Instagram, Selena Gomez revealed that none other than Oscar winner Meryl Streep has joined the cast of Hulu’s hit Only Murders in the Building.

The bit opens with Selena flanked by cast members Steve Martin and Martin Short. “What are we shooting?” she asks, smiling, before answering: “Season 3!”

“The gang is back,” she continues, panning her selfie video to reveal fellow cast member Andrea Martin waving her hellos.

“Can this honestly get any better?” Selena asks, to which another pan reveals Paul Rudd, who says, “Well, I do think it can get a little bit better.”

Selena answers, “What do you mean?” before Streep pops up behind her.

“Steve, do you need a pillow?” she asks Martin, who graciously accepts some support behind his back. “Marty, do you need anything?” the legendary actress asks, to which Short replies, “Just the tea I asked for a half hour ago.”

Selena says she’s fine, then finishes the video with a genuine OMG face.

There’s no debut date yet for the third season of the Emmy-nominated show, but it should drop later this year.

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Zachary Levi opened up to fans on social media about his father’s battle with thyroid cancer.

The Shazam! actor, 42, took to Twitter on Monday to respond to a fan who had asked where he was. He said he was at his dad’s side in a hospital room.

“He’s not doin so hot right now. The thyroid cancer just won’t quit, and is slowly overtaking his trachea,” Levi shared, adding, “Papa D is not long for this world.”

The Tangled actor told a fan who inquired about his own well-being that he was “doin just fine” and spoke frankly about the reality of his father’s situation.

“Death does not sadden or frighten me,” he wrote. “It’s actually an incredibly powerful part of life. One that we’ll all reach one day. Where we get to go back to God, the source, and be surrounded by the highest vibration of energy, love.”

In a separate tweet, the Chuck alum asked fans to send prayers for his family, especially his dad.

“But for anyone out there that feels like rollin up some spiritual sleeves and prayin, send some up for my pops,” he tweeted. “Pray that he be as comfy and at peace as a man could get. And that he head home with no fear or regrets, knowing how loved he is.”

Levi’s tweets drew support from fans, as well as The Vampire Diaries co-creator Julie Plec, talk show host Sherri Shepherd, Glee favorite Jane Lynch and more.

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An ant-sized hero is getting a spot in the big game. Ad Age reports Paul Rudd will appear in character as Scott Lang/Ant-Man in what will be “the first non-alcoholic adult beverage to run a Super Bowl ad.”

The 60-second spot for Heineken 0.0 is apparently a follow-up to a campaign that started with a 15-second ad that ran on January 9, during college bowl football games.

The ad features one of Scott Lang’s six-legged friends bellying up to a bar, and looking at the bottle of the non-alcoholic bev and then the hero. “Oh, don’t judge me, Anton,” Rudd says in character, adding, “Look: Alcohol free.” He’s then distracted by an urgent email from the original Ant-Man, Hank Pym, and rushes off, saying, “Back to work!”

The campaign is of course tied to the February 17 release of Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and features the legend: “Now You Can, Before Saving the Day!”

Scores of people are taking part in a so-called Dry January, but data shows the trend is expanding past this month. According to data from beverage industry analysis firm IWSR recently cited by Molson Coors and quoted by Ad Age, the non-alcoholic beverage category is expecting nearly 28% growth in the 21- to 24-year-old demographic by 2025.

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Oscar and Emmy winner Sally Field has been tapped for another honor: The Screen Actors Guild has announced the Forrest Gump star, about to be seen in February’s 80 For Brady, will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award.

The honor is bestowed upon a performer who upholds “the finest ideals of the acting profession,” and according to SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher, Field certainly does that.

She enthused, “Sally is an amazing actor with an enormous range and an uncanny ability to embody any character. I joyfully watched her early career when she portrayed Gidget and the Flying Nun and then, in ever more challenging roles, as Sybil and Norma Rae. She never stopped being extraordinary.”

The Nanny alumna continues, “Sally is a massive star with a working actor’s ethos – just keep doing the work, being as good as you can. Every stage of an actor’s life brings different opportunities, and you just need to keep working. Sally does not stop and we hope she never does.”

The 29th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be held at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 26, at 8 p.m. and be broadcast live on Netflix’s YouTube channel.

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After a potentially deadly accident on January 1, Jeremy Renner has revealed he’s home from the hospital.

In a reply to a tune-in post from the official Twitter account for his Paramount+ show Mayor of Kingstown, the 52-year-old Marvel movie star noted Monday evening, “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home,” followed by a pair of prayer emojis and a heart.

Renner was run over by his 13,500-pound Snowcat plowing vehicle, suffering “blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries” that required emergency surgery and a stay in intensive care.

When he posted earlier Monday to his Instagram Stories a picturesque photo with the caption “missing my happy place,” it was assumed he was still in hospital; it’s possible, considering the tweet, that the outdoor enthusiast was referring to just being out and about around his Reno/Lake Tahoe spread.

The actor had just towed free a loved one’s car before the accident occurred; his Washoe County community was blanketed with 3 feet of snow. On an Instagram Story Tuesday, he posted a photo of a snow-covered road, advising, “It’s a rough ride over the pass. Be safe out there. Reno/Tahoe.”

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Channing Tatum is featured in the new issue of Vanity Fair, which delves into his growing resume as a producer and his life following his divorce from Jenna Dewan.

Along the way, the actor/producer dropped news that he and his producing partner “actually have the rights … to Ghost.”

Tatum would play the role made famous by the late Patrick Swayze, whose character comes back to his love after he was murdered in the Oscar-winning film. “[W]e’re going to do something different,” he explains. “I think it needs to change a little bit.”

Tatum also gets into his relationships — his former one with Dewan, the mother of his daughter, Everly, and his current one with Zoë Kravitz.

He says he fought for his marriage to Dewan for a long time, noting that becoming parents to Everly highlighted their very different approaches: “How you parent differently, how you look at the world, how you go through the world.”

Despite calling their split scary and terrifying, he concedes it was “probably exactly what I needed.”

He adds, “I don’t think I would’ve ever done the work … that I had to on myself to really try to figure out what next. … I just dropped everything and just focused on [Everly]. And it was truly the best possible thing that I ever could have done. Because in the alone time that I have with just me and her, we’ve become best friends.”

Calling himself a serial monogamist, Tatum says he’s not sure if he will get married again.

He adds, “In business, I have no real fear of anything being destroyed. But heart things, when it comes to people I love, I have a really hard time.”

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The Last of Us, HBO’s adaptation of the hit post-apocalyptic PlayStation game video series, is off to a smashing start.

The show, which stars The Mandalorian‘s Pedro Pascal and his former fellow Game of Thrones veteran Bella Ramsey, posted the cable network’s second-largest debut ever on Sunday night. The first episode, which ran around an hour and 20 minutes, 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.

As in the game, the series has Pascal playing Joel, a mourning father tasked with taking a special girl named Ellie, played by Ramsey, out of the Quarantine Zone and through an America devastated by a fungal pandemic that essentially turns people into zombies.

HBO also touted that The Last of Us scored on social media as well, trending at #1 on Twitter Sunday night. Moreover, teasers and trailers scared up more than 100 million viewers globally. The show is also currently enjoying a 99% score on the ratings aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

“Our focus was simply to make the best possible adaptation of this beloved story for as big an audience as we could,” said Executive Producers Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann in a statement. “We are overjoyed to see how many fans, both old and new, have welcomed The Last of Us into their homes and their hearts.”

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On Monday night, Lucasfilm dropped a trailer to its forthcoming third season of the Emmy-winning Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian.

When we last saw Pedro Pascal‘s titular character in The Book of Boba Fett, he had reunited with Grogu, aka ‘Baby Yoda,’ after he chose to leave behind the Jedi tutelage offered by Luke Skywalker.

The new trailer shows the pair traveling the stars, as Pascal’s Din Djarin heads back to the Empire-sacked home planet of Mandalore, so that he can be “forgiven for his transgressions” — that is, removing his helmet.

“Being a Mandalorian isn’t just about learning how to fight,” he apparently advises Grogu in voiceover. “You also know how to navigate the galaxy. That way you’ll never be lost.”

To that end, Din is seen reuniting with other Mandolorians, who he says have been “scattered like stars in the galaxy.”

Carl Weathers is seen reprising as magistrate Greef Karga, on in a now-bustling city on the planet Nevarro, seen in the original seasons.

There’s also “something dangerous” afoot, returning Rebel Carson Teva, played by Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, who warns Djarin, “[B]y the time it becomes big enough for you to act, it’ll be too late.”

The final sequence shows that Grogu’s Force powers have grown, when he subdues an attacking alien.

The Mandalorian‘s third season drops March 1 on Disney+.

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