It’s reportedly over for Emily Ratajkowski and Sebastian Bear-McClard.
The pair, who were together for four years, “have split,” a source told Entertainment Tonight.
“They had been having issues as a couple for a bit,” the insider added. “Emily is focused on herself and their son. Emily is adjusting to this change and plans to file for divorce soon.”
News of the break-up comes just a few days after the model was spotted out and about without her wedding ring. She also does not appear to be wearing it in recent Instagram photos.
Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard were first romantically linked in early February 2018 and got hitched at New York City’s City Hall later that same month. They welcomed their son, now one-year-old Sylvester Apollo Bear, in March 2021.
Chelsea Handler has told her social media followers that she and fellow comedian Jo Koy have broken up — alongside a video message of the pair celebrating their almost-one-year anniversary.
The pair is shown goofing around in the video message, which Chelsea says they recorded “a little early,” and in which Koy accidentally clonks her on the tooth with a mannequin arm stuffed into his sleeve. And while the video explains what they’ve learned together in the past year, Handler’s caption says they’ve decided to part.
“In anticipation of celebrating our first year together, Jo and I recorded this video early, but…it is with a heavy heart to announce that we have decided together that it is best for us to take a break from our relationship right now.”
Chelsea continues, “I know many of you were invested in our love, and I wanted to express to you how much that meant to both of us. How much it still means. And how much I now believe in love for each one of us.’
The comic says Koi “blew my heart open with love,” adding, “because of him, my life experience has changed forever. To be loved and adored by @jokoy has been one of the greatest gifts of my life.”
“He renewed my faith in men, in love, in being 100% who I am, and I’ve never been more optimistic for the future,” Handler commented.
“This is not an ending. It’s another beginning,” she insisted.
“So, please continue to root for both of us,” Chelsea told her fans, following it with a plug for Koy’s upcoming movie, Easter Sunday.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, the model and celeb reflected on the past year and shared how she’s feeling these days.
“Not a drop of alcohol in 365 days! I miss feeling loopy and carefree sometimes, but to be honest toward the end, it didn’t give that fun feeling anymore anyhow,” Teigen, 36, wrote alongside a montage of videos featuring her with husband John Legend and their two children, Luna, 6, and Miles, 4.
“I drank to end crazy anxiety that later mostly went away when I – get this – quit drinking! sigh. anyhow I feel really good,” she continued. “Sometimes I get really frustrated looking back on days I should remember way better than I do because of alcohol.”
Teigen then recalled various events that she wished she could remember but couldn’t.
“Like when I drank cafe patron and fell asleep while an Outback Steakhouse chef taught me (my friends) how to make a bloomin onion at my house. I wish I was awake for that,” she expressed. “Wish I remembered really any awards show lol. There are pictures from huge moments in life where my eyes just look…gone. Some are from real work shoots, some just beach days with the family.”
Chrissy added that while she doesn’t know if she’ll never drink again, she does know that she doesn’t want to “be that way again… and for now, none is best.”
“I’ll let the bad dreams come up and try to sort them out in therapy, without booze. Prayers for a blooming onion redo, @outback??” Teigen concluded.
The post garnered support from fellow celebrities like Naomi Campbell, Katie Couric and Tinx, who spread love in the comments. Legend also cheered on his spouse, writing, “Soooooo proud of you, my strong beautiful wife!”
Game of Thrones alum Peter Dinklage has been tapped to play Casca Highbottom in The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, alongside Tom Blyth as young Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as tribute Lucy Gray Baird, and Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow. The film, per the studio takes place “years before 18-year-old Coriolanus would become the tyrannical President of Panem.” He’s alarmed to be assigned to mentor Lucy Gray. But after she grabs Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to “turn the odds in their favor,” leading to a “race against time to survive,” ultimately revealing who is a songbird, and who is a snake.” The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is due in theaters on Nov. 17, 2023…
Showtime announced on Monday that Desus & Mero, the late-night talk show hosted by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, won’t return, amid reports of a falling out between the two, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Desus Nice and The Kid Mero will be pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward,” Showtime said in a statement. “Showtime’s late-night talk show Desus & Mero will not be returning for a fifth season. Its final episode aired Thursday, June 23.” Desus & Mero premiered on Showtime in 2019 after several years on cable outlet Viceland. The Showtime series ran for 180 episodes across its four seasons…
Mickey Rooney Jr., an original Mouseketeer, actor and musician who was the eldest child of screen legend Mickey Rooney, “peacefully passed away” Saturday at his home in Arizona, Paul Petersen, a fellow Mouseketeer, announced on Facebook. Rooney Jr. was 77. The cause of death is unknown. Rooney Jr. also played in bands with Willie Nelson and appeared with the actor-musician in the 1980 film Honeysuckle Rose, among others…
After failing to talk to half of their 32 potential suitors and canceling the rose ceremony cancelation, Monday’s episode of The Bachelorette found Gabby and Rachel dealing with the difficult task of figuring out which of the remaining 29 men to invite on a group date.
Their solution was to make them compete in a pageant, while wearing speedos, to earn one of six spots at the group date after-party. The winners were Aven, Logan, Brandan, Jason, Johnny and Colin.
That led to an awkward moment for the Bachelorettes when both zeroed in on Logan as the recipient of their roses. Rachel’s ultimately went to Logan, while Gabby settled on Johnny.
Rachel’s first one-on-one date, a once-in-a-lifetime Zero-G Experience with Jordan V. ended with the 27-year-old Georgia-based drag racer being sent home. He never made it to see country singer Brett Young and rising country star Ashley Cooke perform their romantic hit, “Never Til Now.”
Gabby’s one-on-one date with Nate, which included a helicopter tour of Los Angeles, followed by a steamy hot tub session, went much better, ending with her pinning the date rose on him.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Chris‘ premature talk of fantasy suites and his intention to leave the competition if either girl was intimate with another contestant, without letting them know in advance, ticked off some of the men, who brought it to Gabby and Rachel’s attention at the pre-rose ceremony cocktail party. He was ultimately sent packing. That led to a brief confrontation between Chris and his accusers, after which, he was escorted off the premises.
At the rose ceremony, Brandan, Colin, John, Justin B., Matt and Ryan were sent home.
Here are the remaining men after the rose ceremony:
Alec, 27, a wedding photographer from Houston, Texas
Aven, 28, a sales executive from San Diego, California
Erich, 29, a real estate analyst from Bedminster, New Jersey
Ethan, 27, an advertising executive from New York, New York
Hayden, 29, a leisure executive from Tampa, Florida
Jacob, 27, a mortgage broker from Scottsdale, Arizona
James, 25, a meatball enthusiast from Winnetka, Illinois
Jason, 30, an investment banker from Santa Monica, California
Johnny, 25, a realtor from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Jordan H., 35, a software developer from Tampa, Florida
Kirk, 29, a college football coach from Lubbock, Texas
Logan, 26, a videographer from San Diego, California
Mario, 31, a personal trainer from Naperville, Illinois
Michael, 32, a pharmaceutical salesman from Long Beach, California
Nate, 33, an electrical engineer from Chicago, Illinois
Quincey, 25, a life coach from Miami, Florida
Spencer, 27, an army officer from Chicago, Illinois
Termayne, 28, a crypto guy from Naperville, Illinois
Tino, 28, a general contractor from Playa Del Rey, California
Tyler, 25, a small business owner from Wildwood, New Jersey
Zach, 25, a tech executive from Anaheim Hills, California
The Bachelorette returns Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
The fourquel Thor: Love and Thunder kept on rumbling at the box office this weekend, and as most know by now Natalie Portman‘s Jane Foster comes back into the life of Chris Hemsworth‘s god of thunder.
There’s a love triangle afoot in the film, as well — but it’s between Thor and his two weapons, the mighty hammer Mjolnir and Stormbreaker, the giant ax he used in Avengers: Endgame to decapitate Thanos.
As any fan can tell you, Mjolnir was Thor’s trusted weapon for a millennia — until it was shattered like glass by Hela, Thor’s estranged sister and the goddess of death in Thor: Ragnarok.
In its stead, he’s given Stormbreaker, but when Mjolnir resurfaces — reformed, and in Foster’s hands as Mighty Thor — the ax doesn’t take it too well.
“All of a sudden, the weapon that he held so dear and so on for so many years now belongs to someone else. And then he has Stormbreaker, who just starts to sense a little jealousy there,” Hemsworth smiles.
“You know, that kind of evolved through the film[ing] didn’t I don’t think it was in the original script but it was fun,” the star laughs.
Writer-director Taika Waititi gets credit for pushing that thread in the film. “I don’t know if this was the way anyone else thought about it, but you’ve got to remember, Stormbreaker is made of Groot’s arm, the handle is, and so Groot was like a teenager when he [made it]. So we felt like Stormbreaker was a young weapon that [was] only just been born about five or six years ago. So it had to feel a little bit like an adolescent. It was going through changes and it was having mood swings.”
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The hit new FX series The Bear was just renewed for a second season, and star Jeremy Allen White tells Good Morning America that the show’s success is “overwhelming.”
White stars as James Beard Award-winning chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, who goes from cooking in the prestigious, high-pressure kitchens of The French Laundry and Noma to taking over his family’s chaotic, rundown Chicago sandwich shop.
“I knew while we were making the show that it was really good,” White says. “But I think it’s impossible to predict exactly how people are gonna react. And it’s been overwhelming for sure.”
The show boasts an intense recipe of family drama, loss and, yes, cooking. The suicide death of Carmy’s brother brings the chef home to Chicago, and the personal — and professional — boil over quickly.
“… Carmy — my heart really broke for him instantly, because he’s just gone through this incredibly traumatic thing,” White said.
“He doesn’t have much of an identity outside of his profession, and it allowed me to play him consistently with high, high stakes, because … he’s always thinking about the next thing. And that seemed like an exciting thing to play.”
And while Carmy and his spunky sous chef Sydney know their way around the kitchen, their real-life alter egos are picking things up quickly, too, thanks to training with world-renowned chefs.
“I could make scrambled eggs, toast … But that was really it,” White admitted.
“I have, like, a couple of things I can do now that I think are good. But I want to keep learning,” White said of his newfound culinary clout. “I really love it.”
Ayo Edebiri, who plays Sydney, added, “My knife safety is definitely much better than it was before.”
She joked that “people are asking me for dinner parties” in the wake of seeing her slice and dice in the kitchen on TV.
With a photo of the movie’s “clapper” posted to the film’s official social media channels, Dune: Part Two officially got underway Monday.
The follow-up to Denis Villeneuve‘s Oscar-winning sci-fi epic reunites much of the original cast, including Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Timothée Chalamet, and adds Black Widow‘s Florence Pugh, Elvis‘ Austin Butler, No Man’s Land star Souheila Yacoub, former Bond girl Léa Seydoux and Oscar winner Christopher Walken to the mix.
The anticipated sequel is due in theaters October 20, 2023.
Character actor and acting coach Joseph Reitman has been seen in hit movies like A Perfect Storm and shows including The Punisher. Now he’s in Netflix’s new hit vampire show First Kill.
In the latter, he plays Clayton, a grizzled vampire hunter. “I used to play guys who were like, ‘What are you going to do about it?!’ And now I’m like, ‘Hey, you know, there’s a better way,'” he tells ABC Audio with a laugh.
“And Clayton is a guy who definitely has been through … the wringer. He’s suffered. And he has not found peace or happiness in any way. And he still is trying to find a way to .. .fill this hole in his heart from a loss that he had years ago. So it was a lot of fun.”
But in a career of playing tough guys — and in The Punisher‘s case, a guy named Creepy Ed — Reitman found a new audience, thanks to a Georgia home search that ended up on an episode of House Hunters.
“It’s weird because I usually have someone walk up to me and, I can tell what you’ve watched … like, you know, whether you’ve seen The Punisher or Happy or whatever. But to have, like, 60-year-old women come up and be like, ‘Excuse me, I just want to say I love your house,’ … That was really the most humorous thing of the whole thing.
“It’s like this demographic that normally doesn’t talk to me was coming up and saying hi,” he laughs.
Any House Hunters watcher could tell, Reitman is an acting teacher, as well, and he explains he was asked to work with some of his young First Kill co-stars. He calls working with young actors is “one of the greatest joys” he has.
Jenifer Lewis, one of Black cinema’s favorite mothers, was honored with the 2,726th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday.
The 64-year-old actress, who starred in all eight seasons of black-ish, was humbled by the recognition. “I am grateful that I was acknowledged for my work because I never gave 100% — I gave 2,000,” she told ABC Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV.
Lewis now stars in the Showtime series I Love That for You. Over the course of her 43-year entertainment career, she has appeared in more than 400 episodic television shows, 68 movies, 40 animations and four Broadway shows. Her credits include Poetic Justice, What’s Love Got To Do With It, A Different World and The Preacher’s Wife.
Debbie Allen, who worked with Jenifer as a producer and director of A Different World, said Lewis is a star because she “emanates energy, light and mystery.”
The multi-talented actress, who became an advocate for bipolar awareness after being diagnosed with the disorder, talked about how therapy helped her cope with her condition.
“I’m just glad that I took care of myself so I would be in my skin to take this in,” she said.
The five-time NAACP Image Award nominee posted behind-the-scenes footage of the ceremony on Instagram, including a joyous Soul Train dance line.
Lewis’ memoir, The Mother of Black Hollywood, was published in 2017 and her new book, Walking In My Joy, will be published on August 30.
As she was applauded by the audience at the ceremony on Hollywood Blvd., Lewis commented, “This is a great day, but what are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do tomorrow? I’m going to be appreciative. I’m going to be grateful. I’m going to be joyful.
