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After its last show wasn’t broadcast — and went without stars — in the wake of a racism controversy surrounding the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes are back Tuesday evening.

The 80th annual event is back on NBC, which yanked the Golden Globes from its schedule in 2021, as stars including Tom Cruise and Scarlett Johansson flamed the organization in the wake of an L.A. Times expose about its inner workings, revealing the HFPA hadn’t included a single Black journalist.

Many mea culpas later, the Globes are back, after what the HFPA called sweeping changes to rehab its organization — and its image — in Hollywood. And with that, the stars are returning, as well.

Presenters will include Everything nominee Jamie Lee Curtis and Blonde‘s Ana De Armas, as well as Billy Porter, Euphoria Emmy winner Colman Domingo, Emmy winner Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Dahmer: Monster‘s Niecy Nash-Betts.

Going into Tuesday night’s show, the drama The Banshees of Inisherin, starring In Bruges co-stars and pals Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, has the most nominations of the film side with seven, followed by the madcap multiverse movie Everything Everywhere All at Once with six.

On the television side of things, ABC’s Abbott Elementary is at the head of the class with five nominations, followed by a string of shows tied with four: The Crown, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, Only Murders in the Building, Pam & Tommy and HBO’s Emmy-winning The White Lotus.

Hosted by Emmy-winning comedian Jerrod Carmichael, the Golden Globes begin at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, airing live on NBC and streaming live on Peacock.

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With more than 10,000 residents of Montecito, California ordered to evacuate their homes for fear of mudslides, Ellen DeGeneres is urging folks to “stay safe.”

As winter storms brought flooding rains, the former chat show host was one of the stars who evacuated the area in Santa Barbara County, which is also home to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few.

On Monday, more than eight inches of rain pounded the area in less than 12 hours, with more expected.

With a muddy, storm-swollen creek thundering behind her, Ellen tweeted Monday evening, “So, Montecito is under complete evacuation. The entire town. This is the five-year anniversary from the fire and mudslides that killed so many people and people lost their homes and lives.”

Mudslides then killed nearly two dozen people and flattened more than 100 homes.

Ellen added, “This is crazy that on the five year anniversary we are having unprecedented rain. This creek next to our house never flows ever.” DeGeneres said the creek has swelled “about nine feet up,” with two more feet expected. “We need to be nicer to Mother Nature: Mother Nature is not happy with us,” she said. “Stay safe everybody.”

She ended with a “Yikes!”

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Shemar Moore is prepping for daddy duty!

In a clip of the upcoming Jan. 26 episode of The Jennifer Hudson Show, the actor shared that he’s expecting his first child, who also happens to be due on a very special day.

“I’m Shemar Moore, 52-and-a-half years old. My mother is in heaven, right now it’ll be the three-year anniversary on February 8,” he shared. “And on February 8, I’m going to make one of her dreams come true because, in real life, Shemar Moore is about to be a daddy.”

Hudson immediately congratulated the S.W.A.T. star and said his mother was “smiling down on him from heaven” as the audience erupted into applause and cheers.

“I’m so excited. I’m sorry she can’t be here. I was worried for a while that it was a ‘that ship has sailed,’ kind of thing, but God had my back and things lined up,” Moore continued. “It’s going to be the best part of — my life is already pretty grand, but I know whenever God does call my name, once I get this experience, I’ll be able to go to heaven whole.”

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The cast of Workaholics are out of work. Adam DeVine, who stars in the film adaptation of the sitcom, revealed the project has been scrapped by Paramount+, sharing on Instagram that that he was informed the movie didn’t fit into the streamer’s “new global strategy.” DeVine added that the film is being shopped around to other streamers “and hopefully we will get to make this insanely fun movie somewhere else.” Workaholics ran for seven seasons between 2011 and 2017 on Comedy Central. DeVine starred opposite co-creators Blake Anderson and Anders Holm as three college dropout pals working at a telemarketing company in Rancho Cucamonga, California…

Penn Badgley returns as unassuming serial killer, stalker, and book enthusiast turned suburban dad Joe Goldberg in the season 4 trailer for the Netflix series YOU, released on Monday. Unfortunately, his attempt to bury the past and start a new life in London is complicated when he returns to his old ways and becomes obsessed with his new neighbor. The first three seasons of YOU are now streaming on Netflix. Part 1 of season 4 drops Feb. 10, followed by part 2 on March 10…(Trailer contains uncensored profanity.)

Paramount+ on Monday released the first teaser trailer for Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, a prequel to the classic 1978 film musical Grease. The 10-episode series is set in 1954, four years before the events of the Grease movie, and centers on the titular young women who sparked “a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.” Marisa Davila stars as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy, Shanel Bailey as Hazel and Madison Thompson as Susan. The cast also includes Feud: Bette vs. Joan‘s Jackie Hoffman as Assistant Principle McGee. Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies streams April 6, exclusively on Paramount+…

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Paul Rudd‘s Scott Lang/Ant-Man is no stranger to trouble, but in the new trailer for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which debuted during the College Football Playoff National Championship, he faces the battle of his life.

In the clip, Lang cuts a deal with Kang the Conquerer — played by Jonathan Majors — to recoup the five years he lost during the blip caused by Thanos’ snap, during which his daughter Cassie has grown into a teenager. It’s not clear what Kang wants in return, but somehow the deal goes south, and Scott ends up tangling with the MCU’s most powerful villain. We also get our first look at the live-action version of M.O.D.O.K. a metallic floating head.

“You thought you could win?” asks Kang during the fight, to which Lang replies, “I don’t have to win, we both just have to lose.”

Quanumania features the return of Evangeline Lilly‘s the Wasp/Hope van Dyne, along with Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer reprising their roles as Hope’s parents, Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne. Kathryn Newton has been re-cast as Cassie Long, Scott’s daughter.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opens Feb. 17.

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Melissa Rivers understands fans want to see a revival of Fashion Police, a show her late mother, Joan Rivers, launched in 2002, but she says it’ll never happen.

“It’s impossible to bring it back now,” she told ABC Audio. Rivers explained the show’s humor, where the co-hosts shared their brutally honest opinions when critiquing red carpet outfits, likely wouldn’t be well received in 2023.

Rivers said the hosts would have to ensure their commentary wouldn’t be taken out of context and misconstrued as an attack on someone’s physical appearance or character.

“What are you going to do? Say, ‘Well, I’m not saying that the actress isn’t beautiful and amazing and nice to small children and animals and gives back daily’ after saying, ‘I’m not sure that this is my favorite thing she’s ever worn,'” she quipped. “That’s not fun to listen to.”

Melissa, who served as the show’s executive producer, took over Joan Rivers’ spot on Fashion Police following her 2014 death. The show ended in 2017. 

Rivers looked back at Fashion Police with happy memories and recalled, “It was comedy and it was fun and it was light.” She also recalled how the cast found it amusing when a celebrity was offended they didn’t appreciate their red carpet look — because they were most likely either paid to wear the outfit in question or they got it for free.

Rivers also revealed an unnamed “actress friend” of hers would “actively try and either be the best or the worst [dressed] because she’s like, ‘Either way, I’m going to get talked about.'”

With the Golden Globe Awards set for Tuesday night and officially kicking off the award season, all eyes are on what outfits this year’s red carpet will bring.

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In a chat with the titular host of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on HBO, Hugh Jackman shed some light on his next appearance as Wolverine, this time in 2024’s Deadpool 3.

The Tony-winning actor had vowed to hang up the claws after 2017’s Oscar-nominated Logan, but thanks to the actor’s bestie Ryan Reynolds joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the threequel — and the multiverse — Jackman will be able to pick the claws up for a 10th time.

But first, he’s gotta pick up some weights to once again bulk up as the adamantium-skeletoned X-Man.

The actor, now 54, explained to Wallace: “I’ve learned you can’t rush it. I’ve learned that it takes time … So, we have six months from when I finish [The Music Man on Broadway] to when I started filming. And I’m not doing any other work. I’m going to be with my family and train. That’s going to be my job for six months.”

The star also denied rumors that his comic book physique could be found in a bottle. Jackman laughed and shook his head when asked about rumors he took steroids to bulk up. “No, I love my job. And I love Wolverine. I got to be careful what I say here, but I had been told anecdotally what the side effects are of that. And I was like, ‘I don’t love it that much.'”

Instead, Jackman has to once again rely on some fine feathered friends, as he did in the past. “I tell you, I’ve eaten more chickens — I’m so sorry to all the vegans and vegetarians and to the chickens of the world. Literally, the karma is not good for me. If the deity has anything related to chickens, I’m in trouble.”

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It looks like Bumper Allen will sing on: Peacock has renewed its spin-off series Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin for a second season.

The show, starring Adam Devine as Bumper, as well as Sarah Hyland, Flula Borg and Jameela Jamil, enjoyed the biggest premiere in the history of the streaming service at the end of last November, and it was watched by more subscribers in its premiere weekend than any Peacock original.

In the announcement, Pitch Perfect movie series star Elizabeth Banks, who also directed Pitch Perfect 3, joined her fellow Bumper executive producer Max Handelman in saying, “We are thrilled that audiences continue to enjoy the Pitch Perfect universe with Bumper in Berlin on Peacock. We look forward to even more hilarity and relentless mouth music in Season 2.”

Showrunner and executive producer Megan Amram told ABC Audio she was a “die-hard fan” of the Pitch Perfect movies, starting with seeing the 2012 original in the theater.

She explained of the fans, “I really wanted to make sure that they felt that I respected them and tried to give them a continuation of everything they loved.”

Jamil, who plays the heavy in Bumper, credited her former Good Place writer Amram with making Bumper in Berlin so fun. “I love this exact type of comedy. I love spoof, I love satire, I love Megan Amram. I think she did a phenomenal job on The Good Place. And so I would go anywhere with her. [If] she writes a porno, I am there. OK? So when she called me and asked me to join the cast, it was a no-brainer. And I had the time of my life.”

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Chris Harrison, whose tenure as The Bachelor franchise host came to an end in 2021 following his defense of contestant Rachael Kirkconnell over her 2018 attendance of an Antebellum party, is opening up about his fall from grace.

Harrison apologized profusely for the comments he made on Extra with Rachel Lindsay, The Bachelorette‘s first Black lead, but ultimately parted ways with the long-running reality series in June 2021.

In a new relationships podcast, the title of which teases an oft-repeated Bachelor phrase, The Most Dramatic Podcast… Ever, Harrison opened by saying, “I think it’s time we finally had that chat,” noting, “I think I needed time.”

He later revealed, “I was heartbroken. I was gutted. I was embarrassed. I was mad at myself. I was disappointed in myself.”

He added, “The last thing in the world I ever wanted to do was be an agent of anything negative — whether it had to do with race or anything.” Harrison admitted, “I was sick to my stomach. I lost 20 pounds. I didn’t sleep, I didn’t eat.”

Harrison also said he stands by his comments to Lindsay about cancel culture that landed him in hot water in the “infamous,” interview, though he admits, “The way I did it was messy and disappointing.”

Harrison allowed, “If I had a regret, it would be that I didn’t do this sooner.”

The former TV host also said people have approached him to say how much they missed him.

That said, Harrison struck a defiant tone regarding the industry that canceled him. “I am sure there are a lot of people that are sitting in Hollywood right now that are nervous as hell that I am doing a podcast,” he said.

“Maybe you should be, because you probably know that I know.”

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While the film comes out on Disney+ on February 1, fans of physical media will get a chance to own one of the biggest movies of 2022 just a week later. Marvel Studios has announced Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will arrive on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD February 7.

The home video release will come packed with supplemental material not available on streaming, including audio commentary by director and co-writer Ryan Coogler, his writing partner Joe Robert Cole and more. Also including will be deleted scenes, making-of featurettes, and a gag reel.

Best Buy will also continue its limited-edition collector’s Steel Book packaging of the movie, with two options to choose from — or both, for the completist: One featuring the heroes and heroines of Wakanda that was designed by artist Dorothea Taylor, and the other boasting the handiwork of Orlando Arocena featuring Namor and his people of the undersea nation of Talokan.

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