The Property Brothers family just got a little bit bigger. Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan have welcomed their first child.
Taking to Instagram on Wednesday evening, the HGTV star shared two adorable snapshots. The first, a black-and-white photo of the couple with their newborn’s little hand, and the second a photo of the family of three in bed.
“Our lives are forever changed,” Drew captioned the carousel. “Welcome to the world Parker James.”
Also on Wednesday, Scott, 44, and Phan, 37, revealed on their podcast At Homethat they welcomed their baby boy on May 4, which also happened to be the couple’s four-year anniversary.
So, how are the new parents feeling?
“Other than pooped, I feel great,” the new mom shared. “Very happy that he’s finally here. I’m still in awe and in disbelief. I feel like every step of this pregnancy has taken me time to adjust. And then as soon as I almost adjust, it’s onto the next milestone or the next thing. I feel like I’m always playing catchup with my feelings.”
Scott shared that fatherhood so far is “amazing,” adding, “It’s this immediate love and this feeling you need to do everything you can to make them feel safe and make them feel loved.”
Baby number two is on the way for Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt.
On Wednesday, Heidi, 35, and Spencer, 38, who are already parents to 4-year-old son Gunner Stone, shared that they’re expecting.
“My heart is overflowing with joy! I’m excited to share that I am pregnant! I have been hoping and praying for this moment for so long,” The Hills alum gushed in an Instagram post alongside her Us Weekly cover photo showing off her growing baby bump.
“Once I saw the word “pregnant” I started hysterically crying, overwhelmed with joy and shock and I sprinted upstairs to show Spencer. I couldn’t believe I was pregnant again,” she continued. “Gunner asked me why I was crying and I told him I was so happy because he is going to be a big brother!”
“To say we are all thrilled is an understatement. I am so thankful I used We are so excited for the journey ahead. Miracle baby #2 is on the way,” the reality star concluded.
Tony nominated Glee alum Matthew Morrison was reportedly fired from Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance for sending “flirty” messages to a contestant, according to People.
The actor and recording artist announced last Friday that he was leaving the show, claiming he “did not follow competition production protocols.” However, a source tells the magazine that wasn’t the case, and that he was let go “after he had an inappropriate relationship with a female contestant.”
The source clarified, “They didn’t have sex, but he reached out to her through flirty direct messages on social media. She felt uncomfortable with his line of comments and went to producers, who then got Fox involved. He was fired after they did their own investigation.”
Morrison, 43, reportedly never met up with the unnamed contestant off set, but his messages, “crossed the line,” according to the insider. The Glee veteran has been married to Renee Puente since 2014, and has one child.
The 17th season of So You Think You Can Dance just got underway in May, with a new judging panel that also included Stephen “tWitch” Boss and YouTube star JoJo Siwa, with Cat Deeley back as host.
Thar be another season for Our Flag Means Death! The HBO Max pirate comedy from creator and showrunner David Jenkins and executive producer and star Taika Waititi has been picked up for a second season. It’s loosely based on the real life of Stede Bonnet — played by Rhys Darby — “a well-to-do gentleman farmer and child of wealth in the 18th century who suffers a mid-life crisis and becomes captain of the pirate ship The Revenge. Season one also starred Nathan Foad, Samson Kayo, Vico Ortiz, Ewen Bremner, Joel Fry, Matt Maher, Kristian Nairn, Con O’Neill, Guz Khan, David Fane, Rory Kinnear, Samba Schutte, Nat Faxon, Fred Armisen and Leslie Jones. A premiere date has yet to be announced…
The Suicide Squad‘s Daniela Melchior will have a small role in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Deadline reports. Melchior’s role has not been revealed, but as director James Gunn confirmed last year, she won’t be playing Moondragon, as previously speculated. Vol. 3 will be the last of Gunn’s series of Guardians films, which followed the half-human, half-alien Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord — played by Chris Pratt — and his gang of intergalactic criminals as they fend off various threats to their universe. The Portuguese actress, who portrayed Ratcatcher in The Suicide Squad, will next be seen in Fast X, currently filming…
Variety reports philanthropist and reality TV star Bethenny Frankel will receive the Reality Royalty Award at Sunday’s MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted. Frankel got her reality TV start as the runner-up in 2005’s The Apprentice: Martha Stewart. She went on to be part of Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New York City for eight seasons, last appearing on season 11 in 2019. Her many other shows include the RHONYC spinoff Bethenny Ever After, her own talk show, Bethenny, and the reality competition series Big Shot with Bethenny on HBO Max. She’s also written books and launched her B Strong: Disaster Relief initiative, which provides critical supplies to those in need, particularly families across the country affected by natural disasters…
Orlando Bloom is set to join Pete Davidson, Naomi Scott, Franz Rogowski and Sean Harris in the big screen comedy Wizards! Per Deadline, the film follows “two hapless pothead beach-bar operators — played by Davidson and Rogowski — who run into trouble when they stumble across stolen loot that they really should have just left alone.” Bloom will next be seen starring in season two of Amazon’s Carnival Row, which he executive produces…
Rosie O’Donnell marked the first day of Pride month on Wednesday by going Instagram official with her new girlfriend, Aimee.
Rosie reposted a photo of herself and Aimee from her girlfriend’s Instagram account, which is private. The pic shows a smiling Aimee with her arms wrapped around Rosie’s neck.
“Happy PRIDE!!” Aimee captioned the shot. Rosie did not add a comment of her own to the photo’s caption.
Rosie shares four children — sons Parker, 27, and Blake, 22, and daughters Chelsea, 24, and Vivienne, 19 — with her ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter, whom she divorced in 2004.
O’Donnell was married to Michelle Rounds from 2012-2015. The couple shared a 9-year-old daughter, Dakota, until Michelle’s death in 2017.
King Richard star Aunjanue Ellis is living her true, authentic life, revealing in a new interview with Variety that she’s bisexual.
Although the news isn’t news to those close to the actress, her sexuality wasn’t something that had been in the media before and the answer for why that was is simple.
“Nobody asked,” Ellis, 53, shared.
The Oscar nominee even recalled wearing a Dolce & Gabbana suit jacket with the word “Queer” in rhinestones back in March at the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards.
“I was thinking, ‘Why didn’t more people pay attention to that? And I was like, they probably thought it said ‘Queen,'” she said with a laugh.
As for why she never brought up the topic herself, Ellis explained, “How do you work that into the conversation, in the middle of me talking about this movie? I’m not that chick.”
“My job was to talk about King Richard, the Williams family, these wonderful young women I worked with, Will Smith’s incredible work in that movie,” she continued. “I wasn’t going to be like, ‘And by the way, in case you ain’t heard yet…’ Because that’s artificial.”
Ellis said she’s “very clear about being bisexual,” noting, “I have a sweatshirt that says ‘Girl Bi’ that I wear everywhere, however she added that Black women in the entertainment industry fail to recognize her as part of the LGBTQ community.
“There is an assumption made of me, a presumption made of me. Is it because I’m a Black woman from Mississippi? Is it because I’m older? I don’t know what the mechanics are that goes into them not processing, or them not just being able to believe that in the same way I am Black, I am queer. This is who I am,” she said.
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When veteran voiceover actor John DiMaggiorefused to sign onto new episodes of Futurama for Hulu earlier this year, he mentioned it was a matter of money and respect.
When the alter ego of the show’s hard-drinking robot Bender agreed in March to come back, he got lots of the latter, but none of the former.
In a new interview with SlashFilm, DiMaggio said, “People are like, ‘I’m so glad you got more money!’ I didn’t get more money. But what I did get was a lot of respect and a lot of head nods from people who are like, ‘Yo bro, I see you and thank you.'”
The actor, who is also a veteran of Adventure Time, likened his standoff to “David vs. Goliath,” with the latter being Disney, ABC News’ parent company and a controlling partner of the streaming service.
“… trying to get money out of Disney is like trying to get blood from a stone — you ain’t gonna get it!” the actor jabbed.
That said, he called his showdown ultimately rewarding. He said weighing his decision to rejoin his castmates, including Katey Segal, Phil LaMarr and Billy West, was like being “in the house having a nice Thanksgiving dinner, or … standing across the street in the freezing rain watching everybody eat stuffing.”
DiMaggio’s brinksmanship at one point had Hulu reportedly searching for a soundalike for the beloved character, which apparently didn’t sit well with show creators Matt Groening and David X. Cohen.
New Futurama episodes are expected to hit Hulu in 2023.
Moments after a Virginia jury handed Johnny Depp an overwhelming victory in his defamation suit against his ex-wife, Amber Heard, both sides weighed in.
Depp wasn’t present in the courtroom Wednesday, due to “previously scheduled work commitments” overseas, but his reps tell ABC News he watched the end of the headline-grabbing trial from the U.K.
To Instagram, Depp posted the following statement:
“Six years ago, my life, the life of my children, the lives of those closest to me, and also, the lives of the people, who for many, many years have supported and believed in me were forever changed. All in the blink of an eye,” the actor began.
“False, very serious and criminal allegations were levied at me via the media, which triggered an endless barrage of hateful content, although no charges were ever brought against me.”
He continued, “It had already traveled around the world twice within a nanosecond and it had a seismic impact on my life and my career.”
Depp added, “… six years later, the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled.”
“My decision to pursue this case knowing very well the height of the legal hurdles that I would have to be facing and the inevitable, worldwide spectacle into my life, was only made after considerable thought,” he maintained.
“From the very beginning, the goal of bringing this case was to reveal the truth, regardless of the outcome. Speaking the truth was something that I owed to my children and to all of those who have remained steadfast in their support of me. I feel at peace knowing I have finally accomplished that.”
For her part, Heard, who was in the courtroom Wednesday, said she was “heartbroken” by the jury’s decision.
“The disappointment I feel today is beyond words,” she said in a statement to ABC News. “… the mountain of evidence still was not enough to stand up to the disproportionate power, influence, and sway of my ex-husband.”
The Aquaman star added, “I’m even more disappointed with what this verdict means for other women. It is a setback. It sets back the clock to a time when a woman who spoke up and spoke out could be publicly shamed and humiliated. It sets back the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously.”
The jury unanimously agreed that Heard’s allegations in the Washington Post op-ed, which were at the center of the case, were false and intentionally defamed Depp. He sued for $50 million, claiming the article hurt his career.
The jury awarded him $10 million and $5 million in punitive damages, but Judge Penney Azcarate reduced the latter to $350,000, the maximum allowed by Virginia law.
Heard counter-sued Depp for $100 million, claiming statements made by Depp’s former attorney Adam Waldman defamed her. However, the jury rejected all but one of her counterclaims, awarding her $2 million in compensatory damages and nothing for punitive damages.
Depp outside the courthouse last month — Cliff Owen/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images
Jurors in Johnny Depp‘s defamation trial have awarded him a major legal victory against Amber Heard, agreeing she defamed Depp with a controversial 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December of 2018.
After a third day of deliberations, Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages, though Judge Penney Azcarate clarified Virginia law caps the latter at $350,000.
Depp, 58, sued Heard, 36, for $50 million, claiming the article obliquely — and falsely — accused him of abuse, which in turn devastated the Pirates of the Caribbean star’s career.
Heard filed a $100 million countersuit against Depp, claiming Depp’s former attorney defamed her in response to the article. However, the jury did not agree to most of her claims, awarding her just $2 million in compensatory damages — but no punitive damages.
The decision from the five men and two women in the jury was handed down in the Fairfax, Virginia, courthouse where the civil trial has grabbed headlines for weeks, as the two stars lobbed accusations of abuse against each other.
The couple met while filming 2011’s The Rum Diary and were married from 2015 to 2017.
BET announced the nominees for the 2022 BET Awards Wednesday, naming Summer Walker, Chris Brown, H.E.R, Nicki Minaj, Yung Bleu and Mary J. Blige, among many others.
Leading the pack with six nominations is Doja Cat, who’s in the running for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist, Best Female Hip Hop Artist, Album of the Year for Planet Year, BET Her for “Woman,” Video of the Year and Best Collaboration for “Kiss Me More” featuring SZA.
Also up for Best Female R&B/Pop Artist and Video of the Year for “Pressure” is AriLennox,who nabbed four total nominations. Drake is also nominated for four awards, including Best Male Hip Hop Artist and Best Collaboration.
Tied for third most nominations is Baby Keem, Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak), Chlöe, Future, H.E.R., Jazmine Sullivan, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Baby, Mary J. Blige and Tems.
In the non-music categories, King Richard, Summer of Soul and Respect are nominated for Best Movie, while Jennifer Hudson, Issa Rae, Quinta Brunson, Will Smith and Denzel Washington are up for Best Actress/Best Actor.
The full list, which can be found on the BET Awardswebsite, follows the announcement of Taraji P. Henson as this year’s host. Henson returns for another year after hosting the 2021 awards show, which she kicked off with a tribute to iconic Black women.
The 2022 BET Awards will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, Sunday, June 26, at 8 p.m. on BET.
