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The drama and romance of fantasy suites continued on Tuesday’s episode of The Bachelorette.

Picking up where they left off on Monday’s episode, Gabby, who sent Johnny home following his admission that he wasn’t ready for an engagement, and her relationship with Erich on the rocks after he expressed his discomfort with her potentially spending the night with the other men — found herself sending Jason home after his bombshell that he also wasn’t ready for a commitment.

Gabby would later pay Erich a visit, to let him know that he was that he was the only man left, and therefore go on to meet her family.

Meanwhile, Zach, who felt confident going into his date with Rachel, was “blindsided” by her sudden doubt as to whether or not he wasn’t ready for an engagement, citing their age difference — he’s 25 and she’s 26. After an emotional conversation with host Jesse Palmer, he planned to speak to her before the rose ceremony.

However, the results of that conversation, and the results of the rose ceremony will have to wait until next week’s season finale “to prepare ourselves for the shocking events that are about to take place — events that are going to change both Gabby’s and Rachel’s lives forever,” Palmer, standing in an empty studio, explained.

“Prepare yourselves for the most shocking finale of all time,” he concluded.

The Bachelorette season 19 finale airs Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

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In a new snippet promoting the upcoming 19th season of Grey’s Anatomy, ABC has released a clip showing Ellen Pompeo‘s Dr. Meredith Grey addressing a new slate of Grey Sloan medical interns.

“Congratulations, you made it,” she tells the five eager new faces. You’ll save lives with this equipment, she says, referring to an operating room — “and you will end them.”

The snippet switches between scenes from the forthcoming season to interviews with executive producer Pompeo and some of the new cast members discussing their characters, who Scott Speedman‘s Dr. Nick refers to as “diamonds in the rough.”

As reported, Adelaide Kane, Alexis Floyd, Harry Shum Jr., Niko Terho and Midori Francis join the cast for the latest installment of the long-running drama.

Incidentally, ABC Audio caught up with Shum, who plays Benson “Blue” Kwan, who told us about his character and how his rounds are going.

About that nickname? “He’s used to winning blue ribbons as a kid, so they gave him that nickname,” the actor explains.

“Throughout his life he’s — very competitive, used to winning. But a tragedy happened in his life that set him back a lot. He has to climb back up this mountain he thinks he deserves to be on.”

He says of all his co-stars, “Along with the new interns, they’re just — they picked a really good bunch … I think they have a skill, not just writing great stories, but at choosing great people to be part of it.”

He likens jumping onto the show to boarding a moving train, “but it’s one of those trains that kind of allow you to onboard pretty easily,” he laughs.

“You have people who’ve done this for a couple of decades, but at the same time, it’s still … feels like the energy is just so high, and everyone is just so energized to keep making this show and how iconic it’s been for so long.”

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The View is officially back for season 26.

The daytime show returned with new episodes – and new permanent co-host, former Trump staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin – on Tuesday. Longtime contributor Ana Navarro also joins as permanent co-host this season.

Returning co-hosts Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin are embracing the changes to the panel and say they can’t wait for the “robust conversations” ahead.

“People think that we don’t want to have anybody here with an opposing position,” Behar tells ABC Audio. “It’s not true. We just don’t want an attack dog, you know, at the table attacking us.”

This season also boasts a lineup of notable guests, kicking off with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on Wednesday to promote their new Apple TV+ show, Gutsy.

“We’ve got an awesome season ahead,” Griffin says. “So many good guests. It’s a good moment for the show, too, because we’re heading into the midterms. So tons of politics there … It’s going to be one to watch. And I’m so, so honored to be here.”

The View airs at 11 a.m. ET on ABC.

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The deadly Sunday floatplane crash into Washington State’s Puget Sound that took the lives of 10 people has struck the family of Smash star Megan Hilty particularly hard.

Hilty’s sister Lauren, brother-in-law Ross Mickel and nephew Remy were among the victims; Lauren was pregnant at the time of the crash, according to a statement.

Pilot Jason Winters and passengers Patricia Hicks, Sandra Williams, Luke Ludwig, Rebecca Ludwig, Joanne Mera and Gabrielle Hanna were also killed, according to the Coast Guard.

The plane took off from Friday Island and was headed to a Seattle suburb when it went down for as-yet-unknown reasons.

ABC World News Tonight aviation expert John Nance calls the aircraft in question, a de Havilland DHC-3 Turbine Otter, a “reliable, excellent” airplane. Nance said the National Transportation Safety Board will have to conduct an extensive investigation to see what went wrong.

The Coast Guard called off a search for survivors around noon local time Sunday after conducting 26 search sorties that covered about 2,100 square nautical miles, ABC News is reporting.

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Don’t worry, Harry Styles fans — your boy’s motto is still “Treat people with kindness.” In other words, the singer did not spit on Chris Pine at the premiere of Don’t Worry Darling in Venice.

As previously reported, Twitter’s been going nuts over a viral video that purportedly shows Harry spitting on Pine before he takes his seat at the movie screening and Pine looking confused, then bemused. However, other angles of the same event don’t appear to show anything out of the ordinary happening. But now we know for sure that Harry didn’t say it and spray it.

Pine’s rep told Variety, “This is a ridiculous story — a complete fabrication and the result of an odd online illusion that is clearly deceiving and allows for foolish speculation.” 

The rep added, “Just to be clear, Harry Styles did not spit on Chris Pine. There is nothing but respect between these two men and any suggestion otherwise is a blatant attempt to create drama that simply does not exist.”

Don’t Worry Darling can’t handle any more drama: It’s already been weighed down by reports of an alleged feud between star Florence Pugh and director Olivia Wilde, and a he said-she said between Wilde and actor Shia LaBeouf over whether LaBeouf quit or was fired from the film. Of course, there’s also the frenzy over Harry’s relationship with Wilde, which began on the movie’s set.

A source close to the Venice Film Festival further tells Variety that no one noticed the so-called spitting incident, and there didn’t seem to be any tension between Harry and the Star Trek star.

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Chris Rock is continuing to slam Will Smith for his Oscars slap, and now, Dave Chappelle is joining in.

Rock and Chappelle are touring together, and they commented about the Independence Day star’s attack during a performance over the weekend at the M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England.

“Did that s*** hurt? Goddamn right,” Rock said, according to Entertainment Tonight. “The motherf***er hit me over a bulls*** joke, the nicest joke I ever told!”

During Chappelle’s co-headlining set, he said that before the Oscars incident, Smith did “an impression of a perfect man for 30 years,” according to the British newspaper, The Telegraph. The 49-year-old comedian added that the actor from Philadelphia “ripped his mask off and showed us he was as ugly as the rest of us.”

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Jennifer Lawrence opened up to Vogue‘s October issue about motherhood and her new film Causeway in an article in which she also revealed the baby boy she had this past spring is named Cy.

According to the actress, the baby was named in honor of Cy Twombly, an American artist who is a favorite of her gallerist husband, Cooke Maroney.

“The morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over,” Lawrence expressed.

“Like, ‘Now is day one of my life.’ I just stared. I was just so in love. I also fell in love with all babies everywhere. Newborns are just so amazing,” she enthused. “Now I hear a baby crying in a restaurant, and I’m like, ‘Awwww, preciousssss.'”

Lawrence said it’s “scary” to talk about motherhood. “If I say, ‘It was amazing from the start,’ some people will think, ‘It wasn’t amazing for me at first,’ and feel bad,” she explained. “Fortunately I have so many girlfriends who were honest. Who were like, ‘It’s scary. You might not connect right away….'”

Lawrence miscarried twice in her life before Cy was born. The first time was when the now-32-year-old actress was 20. She said she was going to abort the baby before she lost it.

The second, which occurred while she was filming the Netflix apocalypse comedy Don’t Look Up, required a surgical procedure known as a D&C.

The latter “haunted” Lawrence during her pregnancy to Cy, she explained, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

“I remember a million times thinking about it while I was pregnant,” she said, lamenting many women won’t have the access she had to the medical procedures. “…[I]t would occur to me sometimes: What if I was forced to do this?”

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You might not be able to transform into a 7-foot tall rage monster, but you can still steal attorney’s Jennifer Walter‘s look, thanks to Urban Decay.

The cosmetics brand has just unveiled its She-Hulk Eye Shadow Palette, a Marvel Studios licensed collectible eyeshadow palette containing “13 silky-yet-strong vegan eyeshadows,” including “supercharged shimmers, mega-impact mattes, and duochromes. Plus an extra large HULKED-OUT shade for layering over any look.”

The shades all bear fun, She-Hulk: Attorney At Law-themed names like Gamma Glow, Thunder Clap, No Further Questions, and naturally, Hulk-Out.

And best of all, you won’t have to rip open your favorite outfit to get in on the fun.

The kit retails for $45.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is now streaming on Disney+.

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Olivia Wilde was strictly business while promoting her new film Don’t Worry Darling at the 2022 Venice Film Festival Monday.

Wilde, who directed the film, was joined by its stars Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan. Florence Pugh also stars in the film, but was not in attendance for the press conference. Noticing Pugh’s absence, a reporter asked Wilde to “address if there’s been a falling out” between the two actresses, but Wilde director responded with nothing but compliments for Pugh.

“Florence is a force, and we are so grateful that she’s able to make it tonight despite being in production on Dune,” Wilde replied, according to Entertainment Tonight. “I know, as a director, how disruptive it is to lose an actor even for a day, so I’m very grateful to her, to Denis Villeneuve for helping us. And we’re really thrilled we’ll get to celebrate her work tonight. I can’t say enough how honored I am to have her as our lead. She’s amazing in the film.”

Wilde added, “As for all the endless tabloid gossip and all the noise out there, I mean, the internet feeds itself. I don’t feel the need to contribute. It’s sufficiently well nourished.”

If you haven’t been keeping score, reports are Pugh was reportedly upset about the marketing focus on the sexual content of Don’t Worry Darling, as well as other issues. Some of those are said to involve Pugh and the film’s former star, Shia LaBeouf, whom Wilde recently said she fired — LaBeouf countered that he quit — and replaced with Styles, with whom Wilde’s now in a romantic relationship.

When another journalist attempted to get clarification regarding LaBeouf, the panel moderator reportedly stepped in, saying, “I think this question has been answered when she talked about the internet.”

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(NOTE CONTENT) Tiffany Haddish has broken her silence when it comes to the child sexual abuse lawsuit lodged against her and fellow comedian Aries Spears.

The pair have been accused of hiring two then-children to appear in a past Funny or Die sketch called Through a Pedophile’s Eyes.

The two plaintiffs in the suit, identified as Jane Doe, now 22, and her now-14-year-old brother, John Doe, were respectively 14, and 7 years old at the time they were paid by family friend Haddish to appear in the sketch, the suit alleges. One reportedly had the female eating a hero sandwich while moaning and simulating sex acts she was coached to perform; the other had the boy playing and bathing as Spears’ character leered and interacted with him suggestively. 

For its part, Funny or Die insists the video in question was user-uploaded, and the website found it “disgusting” and removed it immediately in 2018.

Taking to Instagram Sunday, Haddish wrote, “I know people have a bunch of questions. I get it. I’m right there with you.”

“Unfortunately because there is an ongoing legal case, there’s very little that I can say right now. But, clearly, while this sketch was intended to be comedic, it wasn’t funny at all — and I deeply regret having agreed to act in it,” she continued. “I really look forward to being able to share a lot more about this situation as soon as I can.”

Court documents also claim that Haddish told John Doe that he would be taping a reel for Nickelodeon at Spears’ home. She then allegedly witnessed the alleged incident “and aided, abetted, and watched Spears sexually molest a child,” according to the filing.

Haddish and Spears are being sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress, gross negligence, sexual battery, sexual harassment and sexual abuse of a minor.

Haddish’s attorney, Andrew Brettler, insisted to Vanity Fair that the suit is baseless, saying in a statement of the plaintiffs’ mother, Trizah Morris, “Every attorney who has initially taken on her case — and there were several — ultimately dropped the matter once it became clear that the claims were meritless and Ms. Haddish would not be shaken down.”

Brettler added, “Now, Ms. Morris has her adult daughter representing herself in this lawsuit. The two of them will together face the consequences of pursuing this frivolous action.”

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