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What would Lindsay Lohan say to her younger self? The Falling for Christmas star answered that question in a video posted to her Instagram on Thursday.

In the clip, titled, “Conversations with Little Me,” the 36-year-old actress shares current and past photos and videos of herself, along with the answers to questions her younger self would want to know, adding that she loves her red hair.

Additionally, Lohan reveals that her freckles used to make her “feel uncomfortable as a kid,” but she now realizes “how beautiful they are.”

The Mean Girls star, who used to model as a child, notes she hasn’t lost the fashion bug “when the glam arrives,” adding that she still loves to “dress up and be girly.”

In response to whether or not she still likes to dance, Lindsay’s answer is yes, explaining, “I dance to celebrate life.”

Lohan continues that she’s “still silly” and still “best friends” with her siblings, adding they “love to laugh and spend time together.” She also describes her self as “a mommy and daddy’s girl.”

In response to the question, “Am I still smiling,” Lindsay writes, “life is beautiful” and that she’s “so grateful for my husband” and “everything life brings.”

The Parent Trap actress announced her engagement to Bader Shammas in November 2021. In July 2022, a rep confirmed she and Shammas tied the knot after she referred to him as her “husband” in a heartfelt Instagram post.

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The so-called “biggest bully” of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Lisa Rinna, is leaving the Bravo show after eight seasons.

Rinna told People, “This is the longest job I have held in my 35 year career and I am grateful to everyone at Bravo and all those involved in the series.”

The decision was reportedly a mutual one between the Days of Our Lives vet and the network. Rinna, who joined RHOBH in season five, added, “It has been a fun eight-year run and I am excited for what is to come!”

According to People, Rinna’s contract for the show expired after season 12, in which she repeatedly tangled with Kathy Hilton, the mother of Paris, who had recurring appearances on the show.

During the season, Hilton called Rinna as the “biggest bully” on the long-running series. Rinna, for her part, made the most of becoming something of a villain on the show, smiling and flipping off a booing crowd after making a surprise appearance at a Q&A panel last October during BravoCon in New York City.

One former RHOBH star, Lisa Vanderpump, seemingly reacted to Rinna’s exit with a Thursday-evening tweet reading simply “ding dong.” Some fans were quick to suggest a connection to The Wizard of Oz song “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead.”

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Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp has revealed he’s gay.

Schnapp, 18, made the revelation in a TikTok on Thursday by lip-syncing to another user’s sound that said, “You know what it never was? That serious. It was never that serious. Quite frankly, it will never be that serious.”

At the same time, text on the screen reads, “When I finally told my friends and family I was gay after being scared in the closet for 18 years and all they said was ‘we know.’”

The 18-year-old actor, who portrays Will Byers on the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, captioned the clip, “I guess I’m more similar to will than I thought.”

Last year, Schnapp confirmed that his character Will was gay in an July interview, telling Variety at the time, “Obviously, it was hinted at in season 1: It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?”

“Now that he’s gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing. Now it’s 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike,” Schnapp continued, referencing another of the show’s characters. “But before, it was a slow arc. I think it is done so beautifully, because it’s so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay.”

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Variety reports that AMC has decided not to move forward with its legal drama 61st Street or the series adaptation of Invitation to a Bonfire. The second season of 61st Street had already been shot, but AMC no longer plans to air it. Neither will it air four of the six episodes of Invitation to a Bonfire that had already been shot prior to AMC canceling the shows. The decisions were made as part of cost-cutting measures announced by AMC in December 2022. Invitation to a Bonfire showrunner Rachel Caris Love tells Deadline she’s already in conversations about finding “a partner who’s capable of giving us the support that we need”…

Lukas Gage has been added to the cast of Fargo‘s upcoming fifth season. Gage will play Lars Olmstead, opposite previously announced cast members Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Joe Keery, according to Variety. The FX limited series “has traveled through decades, cities and families, and the fifth installment will be no different,” according to FX, which adds the fifth installment will be “Set in 2019,” and asks, “when is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?”…

Loving‘s Ruth Negga is set to star in Apple TV+’s upcoming limited series Presumed Innocent, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, who is in final negotiations, according to Deadline. Inspired by Scott Turow’s courtroom thriller, the series, from David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, is a reimagining of the book, published in 1987, exploring obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together…

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In the new film Women Talking, which expands to a wider theatrical release Friday, Claire Foy stars as a woman coming to terms with the years of ritualistic abuse inflicted upon her small religious community.

It’s a role that tackles a lot of complex ideas. And while those serious moments were handled, Foy tells ABC Audio that the cast was also able to extract moments of levity out of the material.

“A lot of people believe that it would be incredibly heavy and intense, and the film is actually very hopeful and full of love and also humor,” Foy says.

According to Foy, this is due in part to the film’s director, Sarah Polley.

“She’s the most incredible filmmaker. She was able to hold enough space for all of us. She was able to make us all feel valued,” Foy says. “We just were all there for her, basically. We just wanted to support her in what she was trying to make.”

And they did just that. The film consists of a cast of nearly all women — something Foy describes as an “incredibly unique” concept.

“I’ve never had that experience before,” Foy says. “Judith [Ivey] and Sheila [McCarthy], who’ve been acting the longest out of all of us, have never had that experience either, so that says everything, doesn’t it?”

Even now, Foy says the special experience of making the film left a lasting impact on her life.

“It was so profound,” Foy says. “I think the relationships that we created on and off screen are really incredible, and also a testament to Sarah, who allowed the environment for us to do that and to be supportive of us in what we were trying to do.”

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Paramount+ has announced that Oscar winner Nicole Kidman has joined Zoe Saldaña and Laysla De Oliveira in Taylor Sheridan‘s spy series The Lioness.

According to the streaming service, the show from the Yellowstone and Tulsa King creator is “based on a real-life CIA program and follows Cruz Manuelos (De Oliveira), a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from within.”

According to the streamer, Kidman will play CIA senior supervisor Kaitlyn Meade, “who has had a long career of playing the politics game. She must juggle the trappings of being a woman in the high-ranking intelligence community, a wife who longs for the attention she herself can’t even give, and a mentor to someone veering suspiciously close to the same rocky road she’s found herself on.”

For her part, Avatar series star Saldaña will play Joe, “the station chief of the Lioness program tasked with training, managing and leading her female undercover operatives.”

Kidman will also serve as an executive producer on the series.

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More revelers have joined Eddie Murphy‘s holiday comedy Candy Cane Lane, which is bound for Prime Video.

A day after it was announced that black-ish alumna Tracee Ellis Ross and 22 Jump Street‘s Jillian Bell have joined the cast, came word from the streaming service that A Black Lady Sketch Show creator Robin Thede, former Saturday Night Live star Chris Redd, and Parks and Rec veteran Nick Offerman have also signed up.

Other cast additions include Reasonable Doubt’s Thaddeus J. Mixson, Would it Kill You to Laugh?veteran Madison Thomas and BlackAF‘s Genneya Walton, according to the streamer.

Plot details for the film are still under wraps, but the project was said to be based on the real-life holiday experiences of writer Kelly Younger.

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Being an assistant for a famous, powerful person is tough — but it’s even worse if your boss is Dracula. That’s what Nicholas Hoult is going through in the trailer for the action comedy Renfield, starring Nicolas Cage as the infamous bloodsucker.

As the title character, Renfield is shown at a group therapy session trying to unpack his “toxic relationship” without actually saying what he does for a living — seeing as his job entails tending to a vampire’s day-to-day needs, such as gathering his victims.

“I want a handful of nuns. A busload of cheerleaders,” Cage requests through his fangs.

“And I just want a normal life again,” Renfield laments.

Awkwafina plays a cop whose life is saved by the beleaguered, super-powered assistant. “You’re the guy who gets him people to eat? You’re like the guy who gets the villain’s Postmates!” she exclaims.

Cage himself is fully revealed at the end of the trailer, levitating in the group session. “I am Dracula,” he proclaims dramatically. “OK, obviously we’re dealing with something a little more than narcissism here,” a therapy friend offers.

The movie from The LEGO Batman Movie and The Tomorrow War‘s Chris McKay opens in theaters April 14.

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Dave Bautista, now starring in Netflix’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, tells GQ he’s relieved to be done playing Drax The Destroyer in Marvel’s The Guardians of the Galaxy movies.

The former pro wrestler-turned-actor told the magazine the story of his rags-to-riches career, from broke wannabe wrestler to WWE superstar who gave it up to be a struggling actor.

After appearing in November’s The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as the gray-skinned, overly literal alien, Bautista has one more go-round as Drax, in May’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which has already wrapped.

“I’m so grateful for Drax. I love him,” the actor says. “But there’s a relief [that it is over]. It wasn’t all pleasant. It was hard playing that role. The makeup process was beating me down. And I just don’t know if I want Drax to be my legacy — it’s a silly performance, and I want to do more dramatic stuff.”

That said, Bautista fondly recalls how he learned he landed the role that helped launch his career: A phone call from Marvel Studios as he was on his way to the gym. “I had to pull over because I was crying so hard,” Bautista says. “I turned right back around and walked into my house shaking to tell my wife I had gotten the role, and we were both standing there freaking out.”

Bautista followed the Guardians movies with more dramatic parts, like director Denis Villenueve‘s 2017 film Blade Runner 2049. He worked with the Oscar-nominated director again in 2021’s Dune reboot.

He’ll soon be seen in the next film from another acclaimed director, M. Night Shyamalan, in the thriller A Knock at the Cabin, which debuts in theaters February 3.

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Jeremy Renner is still in the ICU following his New Year’s Day snowplow accident, but his latest post to social media shows his sense of humor certainly survived the ordeal.

In a short Twitter video Thursday morning, a bruised and battered Renner is smiling through an oxygen mask as his sister washes his hair in a shampoo cap, used in hospitals for patients who can’t get to running water.

“So sexy,” she teases as she washes his hair, noting that she’s washing blood out of his hair.

“It’s my first shower in definitely a week or so,” a woozy Renner says, adding, “Gross.”

The Oscar-nominated Hurt Locker actor captioned, “A ‘not no [sic] great’ ICU DAY, turned to amazing spa day with my sis and mama❤️. Thank you sooooo much.”

Renner suffered what were described as blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries when he was accidentally run over by his Snowcat near his Nevada home. He remains in critical but stable condition.

Meanwhile, his Hawkeye protégé Hailee Steinfeld posted well wishes on an Instagram Story. “Come on partner!!!” she wrote in the now-vanished post, according to People. “Thank God you’re healing. We are sending you love and prayers for a speedy recovery.”

Steinfeld played Kate Bishop, an archer and fan of Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye; Hawkeye reluctantly takes the young woman under his wing in the Disney+ show.

As reported Tuesday, Renner’s other Marvel co-stars sent their own messages to the 51-year-old actor when he posted a photo to Instagram. “Thank you all for your kind words. Im too messed up now to type. But I send love to you all,” he wrote.

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