The Live With Kelly & Ryan host took to his Instagram Stories on Tuesday to reveal that he tested positive “a few days ago.”
“I don’t know how I avoided it for so long but unfortunately I tested positive for COVID-19 a few days ago and I’m currently in quarantine,” he revealed.
“While I’m feeling the usual symptoms, I hope to make a quick recovery,” Seacrest continued, before asking his followers for television recommendations.
“I’ll be in bed watching tv this week so please let me know if you have any recommendations (especially for any foodie shows!),” he concluded.
Ryan Murphy‘s Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story continues to be a ratings monster for Netflix.
The streaming giant is reporting the show remained at #1 on its English TV list for the third week in a row.
The series, which stars Evan Peters as the notorious serial killer and suspected cannibal, has bested the viewership for the first three weeks of seasons 1 and 2 of Bridgerton, racking up more than 701.3 million hours viewed since it debuted on September 21.
Only the fourth season of Stranger Things, which earned more than 1.3 billion hours viewed in the 28 days following its May 27 debut, topped Dahmer‘s performance on Netflix’s English language TV title chart.
Incidentally, the Murphy-produced teen horror flick Mr. Harrigan’s Phone debuted at #2 on Netflix’s film chart.
Amid reports of a “secret” six-figure settlement from Bill Murray regarding allegedly harassing behavior that caused the suspension of a film called Being Mortal, Geena Davis is weighing in on working with Murray on 1990’s Quick Change.
Davis was discussing new memoirDying of Politeness when she told England’s Sunday Times she was on the receiving end of bad behavior from Murray, as well.
Davis said she met the Ghostbusters star in a hotel suite. He insisted on using a massager called The Thumper on her, despite her protestations.
“That was bad,” Davis said. “The way he behaved at the first meeting … I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldn’t have got [sic] the part.”
Now 66, Davis said she regrets blaming her younger self for not standing up to Murray. “I could have avoided that treatment if I’d known how to react or what to do during the audition,” she continued. “But, you know, I was so nonconfrontational that I just didn’t.”
She added, “There’s no point in regretting things, and yet, here I was regretting.”
In another incident, Murray reportedly publicly lambasted the Oscar winner for being late to set, even though the delay was the fault of the wardrobe department.
As reported back in April, the 72-year-old actor said he regretted his actions with a female co-worker on the set of Aziz Ansari‘sfilmBeing Mortal.
Murray told CNBC, “I did something I thought was funny, and it wasn’t taken that way.”
Murray said, “The world’s different than it was when I was a little kid — what was funny … [then] isn’t necessarily … what’s funny now …[T]he times change. It’s important for me to figure it out.”
British actress Angela Lansbury, whose career spanned seven decades and earned her an honorary Academy Award, has died. She was 96 years old.
Her family announced her passing in a statement on Tuesday.
“The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” the statement reads. “In addition to her three children, Anthony, Deirdre and David, she is survived by three grandchildren, Peter, Katherine and Ian, plus five great-grandchildren and her brother, producer Edgar Lansbury. She was preceded [sic] in death by her husband of 53 years, Peter Shaw. A private family ceremony will be held at a date to be determined.”
Lansbury, born in 1925, was the daughter of Irish actress Moyna Macgill and British politician Edgar Lansbury. In fact, her paternal grandfather was George Lansbury, a founder of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.
At age 9, Lansbury’s father died — a moment that she’s said in interviews shaped her life. The actress’s family then fled England in 1940 during World War II, moving to the United States, where she began her acting career.
After signing to MGM in 1942, Lansbury’s first acting gig was Gaslight in 1944, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination. The actress went on to earn two other Oscar nods for roles in The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1945 and The Manchurian Candidate in 1962. Lansbury was eventually awarded an honorary trophy in 2013.
Thanks to roles on both sides of the pond, Lansbury went on to amass five Tony Awards and six Golden Globes. She was also nominated 19 times for Emmy Awards. In 2014, she was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II.
Lansbury is best known for her role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in the popular TV series Murder, She Wrote. Four years into the series, which started in 1984, Lansbury’s company Corymore Productions began to co-produce the series with Universal. Lansbury owned the series and became its executive producer during the show’s last four seasons. The show ended its run in 1996 after 12 seasons on TV.
Following her hit TV series, Lansbury made many appearances in films, such as voicing Mrs. Potts in the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast. She also appeared in the 2005 film Nanny McPhee and the 2011 film Mr. Popper’s Penguins. Lansbury also returned to Broadway in 2007 after a 23-year hiatus by starring in Deuce. Among her last roles before her death were the 2017 TV mini series Little Women and 2018’s Buttons, A New Musical Film.
Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali may be ready to go as the vampire hunter, but his Blade reboot for Marvel Studios just got a cold splash of holy water.
Variety reports that as the movie was prepping to start shooting in November, Bassam Tariq stepped down as a director.
While the Disney-owned studio remains characteristically mum, the trade reports that the producers of the film plan to take their time finding a replacement. Blade was to debut in 2023, but will now debut Sept. 6, 2024.
But the trade reports other major projects are also on the move, including the just-announced Deadpool 3 starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. That film has moved from Sept. 6, 2024, to Nov. 8, 2024; a new Fantastic Four film has shifted from Nov. 8, 2024, to Feb. 14, 2025; and Avengers: Secret Wars will now open May 1, 2026, instead of Nov. 7, 2025.
Actor Anthony Rapp took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday morning and compared one of Kevin Spacey‘s most famous roles to the real-life sexual advances he claims Spacey made on him when he was just 14.
According to Variety, Rapp said seeing Spacey’s American Beauty character obsessed with his daughter’s high school-aged friend in the film was “unpleasantly familiar” to him.
In 2017, the Star Trek: Discovery actor told Buzzfeed that he was at a party at Spacey’s New York City apartment in 1986 when an inebriated Spacey, then 26, picked him up, took him to a bed and pinned him down. The younger actor was able to escape.
Rapp filed a civil suit against Spacey in 2020, and is seeking up to $40 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
For their part, Spacey’s lawyers claim Rapp, who originated the role of Mark in Broadway’s RENT, is manufacturing the story because he’s jealous of Spacey’s career.
Two-time Oscar winner Spacey was fired from his Netflix series House of Cards after the Rapp allegations surfaced.
At the time, Spacey claimed not to remember Rapp’s encounter, but added, “But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior.”
Since then, other young men have come forward — including at least 20 at London’s famed Old Vic Theatre alone — accusing Spacey of acting inappropriately and worse.
Scarlett Johansson is getting candid about her career in Hollywood.
As a guest on Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast, the Marvel movie veteran opened up about being “hypersexualized” as a young actress.
Johansson said, “I kind of became objectified and pigeonholed in this way where I felt like I wasn’t getting offers for work for things that I wanted to do and I remember thinking to myself, ‘I think people think I’m 40 years old.’ It somehow stopped being something that was desirable and something I was fighting against.”
The Academy Award-nominated JoJo Rabbit actress made her film debut at 9 years old in Rob Reiner‘s 1994 film, North.
At 17, she starred alongside Bill Murray in Sofia Coppola‘s Oscar-nominated Lost in Translation, playing a character who was five years older than she was at the time.
Johansson said, “I think everybody thought I was older and I had been doing it for a long time, I [was] kind of pigeonholed into this weird hypersexualized thing. I felt like it was over kind of — like that’s the kind of career you’ve had, these are the kind of roles played, and I was like, this is it.”
ScarJo added, “So it was scary at that time…And I attributed it to the fact that people thought I was much, much older than I was.”
Johansson said actresses now aren’t pigeonholed in the same way she felt she was when she was younger. “Now, I see younger actors that are in their 20s. It feels like they’re allowed to be all these different things,” she said. “It’s another tie, too. We’re not even allowed to really pigeonhole other actors anymore, thankfully, right? People are much more dynamic.”
The Bachelorette alum Claire Crawley is engaged to businessman Ryan Dawkins.
“He has held me in my darkness, loves me through my healing, and we now celebrate the light together!” Crawley, 41, announced on her Instagram, alongside a photo of the 45-year-old Mascot Sports CEO getting down on one knee. “The easiest YES of my life.”
Clare began dating Ryan in 2021, but only revealed the romance a month ago via Instagram, sharing, “Him,” along with a video of them singing in the car together, before adding that she found her “perfect fit.”
Party of Five alum and Bachelor fan Jennifer Love Hewitt responded to the news of Crawley’s engagement, writing, “Congrats!!!!! Yes! Love is beautiful!!!” while Queer Eye‘s Jonathan Van Ness replied, “So cute honey!!”
Bachelor Nation also chimed in, with Trista Sutter, a runner-up on season 1 of The Bachelor, writing that she was “so happy” for the hairstylist.
Bachelor in Paradise star Michael Allio also expressed his excitement, commenting, “You deserve it!”
Crawley previously got engaged to Dale Moss during season 16 The Bachelorette in 2020, leaving the reality series early after hitting it off with the 34-year-old former football player. Tayshia Adams took her place as the season 16 lead.
Crawley and Moss called it quits in January 2021. They reconciled a month later, before splitting for good in September 2021.
Kelly Rizzo is remembering her late husband Bob Saget.
Taking to Instagram, Rizzo shared a tribute to her late husband alongside a lighthearted video of the two doing the viral TikTok couples challenge.
“9 months without him. It feels like forever and also one day all at the same time,” she began.
“I love looking back on these videos to see how much joy and silliness and fun and love we shared,” Rizzo continued. “The pain and grief ebbs and flows and I still have some days that just suck and there are days that are lighter now too. But every day there is a palpable hole where he used to be. But at the same time he left behind SO much residual love and laughter that he still feels so near and present. It’s all quite an enigma.”
Rizzo concluded, “As our anniversary nears later this month, I’ll share more thoughts, but for now I’ll leave you with this silly video. We had a blast making these. Miss you and love you so much, honey.”
Saget died unexpectedly in his hotel room hours after performing a stand-up comedy set in Orlando, Florida back in January.
Amazon Freevee has ordered the half-hour scripted pilot Open Book, based on the memoir by reality TV and pop star Jessica Simpson, according to Variety. The series stars Ballers‘ Katelyn Tarver as Sadie Sparrow, “a young singer based on Simpson,” alongside Big Shot‘s John Stamos as Butch, “an older musician who’s tasked with writing songs with Sadie — but soon their connection is much more than that.” Open Book, per the streamer, “follows Sadie’s unexpected journey as she ultimately comes to embrace herself and the fact that her heart inevitably wants what it wants at every stage of life”…
HBO Max on Monday dropped the first teaser for Doom Patrol‘s fourth season. Doom Patrol stars Brendan Fraser as Cliff Steele, Matt Bomer as Larry Trainor/Negative Man, Diane Guerrero as Jane — a.k.a. Crazy Jane, April Bowlby as Rita Farr/Elasti-Woman and Joivan Wade as Victor Stone/Cyborg. Together, they make up what Warner Bros. calls, DC’s “strangest group of heroes.” Season 4, per the streamer, “opens with the team unexpectedly traveling to the future to find an unwelcome surprise. Faced with their imminent demise, the Doom Patrol must decide once and for all which is more important: their own happiness or the fate of the world?”…(Trailer contains censored and uncensored profanity.)
Eileen Ryan, a Broadway, film and TV actress who performed in collaborations with her late husband, actor-director Leo Penn, and her son, two-time Oscar-winner Sean Penn, died Sunday at her home in Malibu, a publicist tells The Hollywood Reporter. She was 94. Ryan gave up acting career to become a full-time mother, but eventually returned for projects such as 1986’s At Close Range, where she played the grandmother of characters portrayed by Sean and her youngest son Chris, that latter of whom died in 2006. She also had another son, composer-songwriter Michael Penn…
Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey, Michelle Yeoh, Jude Hill and Kelly Reilly have been tapped to star in his latest Agatha Christie adaptation for 20th Century Studios, A Haunting in Venice, according to Deadline. The studio describes the adaptation as an “unsettling supernatural-thriller” that follows a now retired Hercule Poirot “living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city.” He “reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo… [where] “one of the guests is murdered” and “the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.” Production is set to begin Oct. 31…
