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Rachel Recchia, who co-starred alongside Gabby Windey on season 19 of The Bachelorette, showed her support for Gabi Elnicki following her emotional breakup with Zach Shallcross on Monday’s season 27 Bachelor finale.

“Showing emotion like this takes so much vulnerability, gabi you are a queen!” Recchia tweeted while watching Gabi and Zach’s confrontation aired on After the Final Rose.

Elnicki said she felt “ashamed” after Zach told Kaity Biggar — and “the whole nation” — that they’d been intimate during their overnight date.

“It was consensual and it was what we wanted. We decided that it was going to be between us,” the 25-year-old Vermont native told Shallcross. “We said that that night. And I remember I was brushing my teeth, you came up behind me, you kissed me on the back of my head, you said, ‘This is just between us.’ And I said, ‘Yes, this is just between us.'”

“I thought it was love. I thought it was more than a TV show,” Gabi continued, choking back tears. “I get it, sex sells, but now I’ve become a narrative.”

Zach offered his apology, explaining, “In my mind, it was just the secret that I had to not have. The last thing I wanted to do was hurt you like that… From the bottom of my heart, I’m sorry.”

Rachel also liked The Bachelorette season 14 contestant Jason Tartick’s tweet nominating Zach’s runners-up, Gabi and Ariel Frenkel, as the next bachelorettes, following previously announced season 20 star, Charity Lawson. “Go back to back to back bachelorettes, Charity to Gabby to Ariel … put the guys on the back burner #TheBachelorFinale,” he shared.

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A day after The Bachelor season 27 ended with Zach Shallcross proposing to ER nurse Kaity Biggar, Entertainment Weekly reports creator Mike Fleiss is leaving the long-running ABC franchise after 21 years. Bachelor executive producers Bennett Graebner, Claire Freeland and Jason Ehrlich will take over as showrunners. “I want to thank WBTV and ABC for 21 extraordinary years,” Fleiss said in a statement on Tuesday. “They’ve found the perfect creative team for me to entrust The Bachelor franchise and keep this lightning in a bottle bold and moving forward. Let the journey continue.” Season 20 of The Bachelorette premieres Monday, June 26 at a new time, 9 p.m. ET on ABC…

Paramount+ has picked up Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks for a third and fifth season, respectively, the streamer announced on Tuesday. Strange New Worlds follows the USS Enterprise crew in the decade before the original Star Trek series took place and stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The animated series Lower Decks follows the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the USS Cerritos, and features the voices of Jack Quaid, Noël Wells, Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman. The new seasons of both shows will premiere this summer…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever writer and director Ryan Coogler is rebooting The X-Files. Original series creator Chris Carter revealed the news during an interview with the CBC’s On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko, saying, “I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount The X-Files with a diverse cast. So he’s got his work cut out for him because we covered so much territory.” The X-Files originally aired on Fox from 1993-2001 before being revived at the network for two more seasons in 2016 and 2018. There’s no information at the moment on which network or platform will carry the show…

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Are you living up to your true potential in life? And what is your true potential anyway? Those are some of the big questions asked in the new Apple TV+ series The Big Door Prize, debuting Wednesday.

In the series, Chris O’Dowd and Gabrielle Dennis play a husband and wife who live in a small town, when a mysterious machine appears that can print out a card telling you who you’re supposed to be.

“This machine arrives in the small town with the promise that it’s going to tell everybody what their true life potential is,” O’Dowd tells ABC Audio. “And for me, the conceit of the show is that we can so easily be led by a big idea, whether it be good or bad.”

“It’s not destiny, it’s potential,” he explains. “So you have to make it happen, being the difference.”

O’Dowd adds that people who reevaluated their lives during the pandemic may find the show especially relevant, noting, “the idea that let’s just have another go at it, folks. It didn’t work out the first 40 years, let’s do something entirely different.”

As for whether the show’s stars feel about the machine, Dennis shares that she’s wanted to be an actress since she was 4, and doesn’t really need a machine to tell her that.

“Of course, if I were to pull a card and it said something completely different, it would throw me so out of whack,” she admits. “And I think that is the struggle that a lot of people are going to ask that question when they watch…but if for nothing else, it just makes for great conversation in like you’re in this dream space of like the coulda shoulda woulda’s of life, right?”

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Emmy-winning Euphoria lead and Spider-Man franchise co-star Zendaya has gotten a big thumbs-up from the people who likely own that theater near you.

She’s been named this year’s recipient of the Star of the Year award from CinemaCon, the annual convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners.

The event’s managing director, Mitch Neuhauser, said in the announcement, “In just a few short years, Zendaya has captured audiences’ attention with her compassionate performance on the small screen as Rue in Euphoria and has drawn audiences in on the big screen with her performances in Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Greatest Showman and Dune.” He added, “We could not be more honored to present Zendaya with this year’s … award.”

On August 11, Zendaya will return to theaters in MGM’s romantic sports drama Challengers. On November 3, Zendaya again will be seen as Chani in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ Dune: Part Two.

Zendaya will receive her trophy at CinemaCon’s Big Screen Achievement Awards ceremony, held at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Thursday, April 27.

According to the event organizers, the annual expo attracts upward of 6,000 motion picture professionals – “from exhibition and distribution to the equipment and concession areas – all on hand to celebrate the movie-going experience and the cinema industry.”

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Matthew Macfadyen, who won an Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy in 2022 for his portrayal of Tom Wambsgans in HBO’s acclaimed Succession, has reportedly been tapped by producer and star Ryan Reynolds for Deadpool 3.

The anticipated movie, the first official Marvel Cinematic Universe entry for Reynolds’ motormouthed mercenary since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in 2019, will also star with Ryan’s bestie Hugh Jackman, playing Wolverine for the first time since hanging up his adamantium claws with 2016’s Oscar-nominated Logan.

It’s not known who Macfadyen will play, according to The Wrap; the same goes for The Crown‘s Emma Corrin, save that she’s reportedly the heavy in the film.

Deadpool 3 is slated to hit theaters on November 8, 2024, helmed by Stranger Things vet and Reynolds’ Free Guy and The Adam Project director Shawn Levy.

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If you can’t stop the feeling that we need another Trolls movie, well, we’ve got good news for you.

Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick are back with a new chapter in the animated franchise, Trolls Band Together. In this installment, Anna’s Poppy and Justin’s Branch are officially a couple, and Poppy learns of his secret past: He was once part of her favorite boy band, BroZone, with his four brothers — because of course he was. 

The group disbanded when Branch was very young and he hasn’t seen his brothers since, but the movie finds a way for them to reunite. When brother Floyd, played by Australian pop star Troye Sivan, is kidnapped, Branch and Poppy must reunite the other brothers — played by Daveed Diggs, rapper/actor Kid Cudi and Eric André — and rescue him.

Camila Cabello joins the cast as a character named Viva, while RuPaul is coming onboard as Miss Maxine.  Zosia Mamet, Amy Schumer and Andrew Rannells round out the newcomers, while most of the original cast is returning, including Zooey Deschanel, Silk Sonic‘s Anderson .Paak and Kenan Thompson.

You can watch the first trailer now. The movie hits theaters November 17. There’s no word yet on the soundtrack, but the trailer features such beloved ’70s hits as Sister Sledge‘s “We Are Family,” Van McCoy‘s “The Hustle” and The Bee Gees‘ “Stayin’ Alive.”

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Actress Melissa Joan Hart took to Instagram to vent about yesterday’s Covenant School shooting in Nashville, explaining that she and her husband Mark Wilkerson helped children flee the scene.

The shooter, identified by police as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, was shot and killed by police officers after murdering three students and three adult staff members at the Christian school Monday morning.

New Nashville resident Hart explained her children attend a nearby school, and she and Wilkerson were in the area to attend parent teacher conferences when the chaos unfolded.

“We moved here from Connecticut where we were in a school a little ways down from Sandy Hook, so this is our second experience with a school shooting with our kids being in close proximity,” the actress told her followers.

The former Sabrina, The Teenage Witch star pointed out her kids “luckily” didn’t have class on Monday.

“We helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway,” Hart said, her voice quavering. “They were climbing out of the woods; they were trying to escape the shooting situation at their school. So we helped all these tiny little kids cross the road, and get their teacher over there. We helped a mom reunite with her children,” she continued.

“I just don’t know what to say anymore,” Hart said, clearly emotional. “Just enough is enough. And pray. Pray for the families.”

The actress captioned the video, “This was too raw to post yesterday but wanted you to hear this story.”

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World Down Syndrome Day was on March 21, but a little Avenger’s photo made it all the way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and back on Tuesday.

Both Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth, and Captain America, Chris Evans, responded to a photo of a little boy with Down Syndrome, dressed as Evans’ spangly hero, wielding Thor’s hammer, as Cap did at the end of Avengers: Endgame.

Adam Morris had tweeted the picture last Tuesday, @ing the Marvel movie stars, along with the hashtag #worthy — as only those who are worthy can hold the mighty Mjölnir.

“Definitely worthy, right @ChrisEvans?” Hemsworth replied — getting 1.7 million likes in a matter of hours. Evans responded Tuesday afternoon, “100%. Making it look easy,” adding a heart emoji.

According to U.N. estimates, each year approximately 3,000 to 5,000 children are born with the chromosome disorder. The United Nations General Assembly declared March 21 World Down Syndrome Day in 2011.

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Now these are numbers even Logan Roy could smile about: HBO’s Emmy-winning drama Succession debuted its fourth season Sunday night with a series record.

The cable network touted some 2.3 million people watched the first episode of the fourth and final season — a 62% jump compared to last season’s premiere.

The audience, from streamers of HBO Max as well as linear viewers, was 51% ahead of the season 2 premiere of The White Lotus and trailed only House of the Dragon, The Last of Us and Euphoria among HBO’s best launches.

The first three seasons of the show starring award-winning Brian Cox as the icy business titan Logan Roy have garnered 48 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, including Outstanding Drama Series, during its run to date.

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The new trailer for Disney and Pixar’s upcoming film Elemental is here.

The film, which will take audiences to Element City, a world that centers around the four elements — fire, air, earth and water — will explore what happens when fire, air, earth and water residents live together.

In the new trailer, one of the film’s characters, Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis), whom Disney describes as a “fire woman with a great sense of humor who loves her family but can be hot-headed at times,” shares what each element is and what sets them apart.

The new trailer also introduces audiences to Wade (Mamoudou Athie), an observant, empathetic, 20-something water guy; Clod (Mason Wertheimer), a young, street-smart earth kid; and Gale (The Goldbergs‘ Wendi McLendon-Covey), an air element with a big personality.

Things get … steamy when Ember and Wade meet, and come into each other’s worlds, despite her warning him that “elements don’t mix.”

Schitt’s Creek Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara voices Wade’s mom, Brook.

The Peter Sohn-directed film will open in theaters on June 16.

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