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  • Zooey Deschanel Makes Huge Decision About Her Faith For Love of Hubby Jacob Pechenik

    Zooey Deschanel has made a huge decision about her faith, all out of love for husband Jacob Pechenik.

    According to Us Weekly, the New Girl, who was raised by a Catholic mother and Quaker father, has decided to convert to Judaism.

    In the past, Deschanel never identified with any particular faith.

    “I don’t attach myself to any one religion,” Deschanel told Vulture in 2011. “My family is liberal. I was raised in the ‘you can be whatever you want’ kind of way. And in the end, I was like, ‘Eh.’”

    But before marrying producer Pechenik in June, the 35-year-old mother of Elsie, 3 months, decided it was time to embrace her beliefs.

    “Zooey con­verted to Judaism for Jacob,” an insider told Us.

    And she reportedly is very happy with her choice to join her husband in his faith.

    “They’re loving the baby and marriage!,” another source revealed.

    Deschanel and Pechenik welcomed their first child together in July. Last month, the new mom told the Today show they chose to name their daughter Elsie Otter for very good reasons.

    “We just really liked the name Elsie and then we both love otters, they’re very sweet and they’re also smart,” she shared. “They use tools…they hold hands while they sleep…They’re wonderful animals.”

    Sounds about right! Any thoughts on Zooey Deschanel‘s decision to convert to Judaism?

  • Lindsay Vonn Vs. Her Dogs and A Frisbee Results In a Gruesome Injury to Her Hand

    Lindsey Vonn was just out having a good time with her pooches when a fight over a frisbee resulted in a gruesome injury to her hand.

    The star American skier required stitches in her right thumb after trying to break up a fight between her dogs the said Frisbee. Vonn took to Twitter Saturday to document the medical procedure. And warning, it’s a little graphic.

    “This is what I get,” Vonn said on her Instagram account, thanking U.S. ski team physician Dr. Randy Viola for stitching up her thumb.

    Seemingly injury prone, Lindsey Vonn is also nursing a broken left ankle suffered in a crash during training three months ago, although she recently announced that she is race ready.

    Other injuries on her list include a concussion that forced her to withdraw midway through the 2011 world championships. She also raced with a severely bruised shin at the 2010 Olympics and hurt her knee while training, missing a pair of races at the 2007 worlds. During the 2006 Olympics, Vonn took a scary fall while training but left the hospital to compete.

    She’s definitely one tough cookie.

    Dog bite is fine (snapchat: @lindseyvonnski)

    A video posted by Lindsey Vonn (@lindseyvonn) on

    Vonn told The Associated Press that despite her injury to her thumb, she still plans to ski Sunday and will be fine for a World Cup giant slalom in Aspen, Colorado, at the end of the month.

    Vonn has no ill-will towards her dogs, Leo and Bear. In fact, she adores them so much she created their own Instagram page, which depicts their life with the 31-year-old champion skier.

    Despite injuries, Lindsey Vonn is the all-time winningest female World Cup racer with 67 victories, surpassing Annemarie Moser-Proell of Austria last season.

  • Miranda Lambert Reacts to Ex-Husband Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani’s Dating News Like a (CMA) Champ

    Miranda Lambert is taking the news that her ex-husband Blake Shelton and his fellow Voice coach, Gwen Stefani, are dating like a (CMA) champ.

    Instead of getting all riled up, this year’s CMA Female Artist of the Year shared that she is “reflecting on this wonderful life.”

    According to Entertainment Tonight, a day after the awkward CMA awards show, in which both Shelton and Lambert performed and sat just a few seats from the other, the 31-year-old singer posted a sweet picture of herself snuggled up with one of her horses on Instagram.

    After taking home her sixth consecutive Female Artist of the Year award, Lambert pledged to take it easy with the hashtags “#nomakeuptillnextweek” and “#musicismedicine.”

    “Today was a day spent reflecting on this amazing life that Nashville and country music fans have given me,” the singer wrote in a Instagram post on Thursday. “And my friends. I’m so grateful #inspired.”

    “I’m still floating around on a cloud from last night,” she continued. “Thank you so much @cma for celebrating country music in a big way and for letting me be part of it.”

    Later in the day, Lambert posted lyrics from Lake Street Drive’s song Better Than. Some media outlets, including the Huffington Post, suggest the post is a subtle message about the media frenzy surrounding Shelton and Stefani’s newly-official relationship.

    “I could spend ages reading the news / I could spend days, singing the blues,” the lyrics read. “But I turn up the TV light / Give up without a fight / Better than pretending to know what’s wrong and what’s right.”

    “This song. This band. These lyrics,” Miranda Lambert added.

    Do you think Miranda is taking the news that must be difficult for her with grace and class? Share your thoughts!

  • Dementia Led to Robin Williams’ Suicide, Says His Widow, But What Is Lewy Body Dementia?

    Dementia may have been a contributing factor in beloved actor Robin Williams’ decision to take his own life last year.

    According to Williams’ widow, the actor was suffering from Lewy body dementia, which can lead to devastating symptoms that include vivid hallucinations and cognitive impairment.

    In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Susan Williams said she decided to speak out on her late husband’s condition to raise awareness about dementia and the devastating effects it had on her husband in the weeks before he died.

    “Lewy body dementia is what killed Robin,” Williams said. “It’s what took his life and that’s what I spent the last year trying to get to the bottom of, what took my husband’s life.”

    According to LifeScience.com, Lewy body dementia results after specific protein bodies cause problems with thinking, mood, movement and behavior.

    It is fairly common and currently affects about 1 million people in the United States, according to the National Institute on Aging. Typically, the disease strikes people at age 50 or older.

    An autopsy revealed last year that the beloved Dead Poet’s Society actor suffered from early-stage Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia. Susan Williams said the doctors who examined the autopsy reports said the disease progression was one of the worst they had ever seen.

    Dr. Dan Kaufer, director at the University of North Carolina Memory Disorders Program, told ABC News the disease can cause fear and extreme anxiety in the patient.

    “With many different presentations, you can see dramatic effects in thinking, emotions and behavior,” Kaufer said.

    Sufferers of this type of dementia can also have extremely graphic hallucinations that can include smell, as well as visual hallucinations.

    While it can be difficult to diagnose while a patient is alive, it can be detected following death, as was the case with Robin Williams. The autopsy of Williams’ brain showed Lewy bodies, as well as other brain changes that are the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, according to his autopsy report last year.

    Susan Williams said her husband also had depression, anxiety and paranoia, and that his dementia symptoms had begun to worsen shortly before his death in August 2014.

    “He was keeping it together the best that he could, but the last month he could not,” she said. “It’s like the dam broke.”

    As her husband’s dementia symptoms worsened, Susan Williams said she believes he just wanted to take control of his life and his future.

    “I think he was just saying no and I don’t blame him one bit,” Williams said of her husband’s suicide.

  • JonBenét Ramsey’s Father Talks In Depth About the Murder Of His Daughter With Barbara Walters

    JonBenét Ramsey, the child beauty pageant princess who was found murdered in her basement in 1996, would have been 25 this year. Many still vividly remember the scandal that erupted following her murder — which was never solved.

    As part of a Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals series, which aired on cable’s Investigation Discovery Nov. 2, JonBenét’s father, John Ramsey, opened up about those difficult days following her murder when he, his now-deceased wife, Patsy, and son Burke were the center of an intense investigation.

    Ramsey said his greatest priority was to shield his son from tabloid headlines that accused Burke of the murder of his six-year-old sister.

    “We tried to shield him from that,” John said. “Friends would ask us, ‘What can we do to help?’ We said, ‘Next time you go in the supermarket, call the manager over when you see our child’s photo on the front cover, and ask him to remove it.’ A lot of them did that.”

    For the first time since the death of JonBenét Ramsey, Burke, now 28, spoke about those horrifying days, saying that he has since moved on.

    JonBenét was found dead in her parents’ Boulder basement the day after Christmas 1996, an apparent victim of sexual assault. For months after the discovery of the body of the child beauty pageant contestant, her parents and her brother were investigated but never charged in the crime.

    In Walters’ sitdown with Ramsey, he said he believes law enforcement botched the investigation. He also spoke about the untimely death of his wife Patsy in 2006 from ovarian cancer. His new wife, Jan, talked about how she dealt with the controversy despite some people telling her that she was “marrying a killer.”

    Walters’ next installments in her scandal series with feature the trials of O.J. Simpson, the murder of John Lennon, Jim Bakker’s sex scandal and imprisonment for fraud, and the Menendez brothers.

  • Rachel McAdams’ Film ‘Spotlight’ Almost Didn’t See the Light of Day Due to Sensitive Subject Matter

    Rachel McAdams says her new movie Spotlight almost didn’t see the light of day because of it’s sensitive subject matter.

    The 36-year-old The Notebook actress joined costars Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton and Mad Men‘s John Slattery, along with director Tom McCarthy for an interview with the Hollywood Reporter to explain how difficult it was to address the shocking story of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.

    At one critical point in pre-production, it seemed the film would not be made when DreamWorks, which had enlisted Participant Media to co-finance the movie’s $15 million budget, pulled out.

    “We never knew why,” said producer Nicole Rocklin. “They never told us. But I can speculate. It’s a movie about pedophilia in the Catholic Church.”

    As reported by The Inquisitr, McAdams plays Sarah Pfeiffer, a real-life journalist who, as part of a team of investigative journalists, shook the Catholic church to its core in the early 2000s with a series of articles about the sexual abuse that was happening across the United States.

    The articles set off a series of events that eventually led to an apology released by the Pope to the victims and their families.

    According to McCarthy, they hoped the film production would capture the journalists drive to dig up the truth on behalf of those victims.

    “Investigative reporting can be tedious. It can be endless. But it can also be exciting. And that’s the drama we’re trying to capture in this movie,” said director Tom McCarthy.

    The most difficult aspect of making the film, said Ruffalo, was to share the dark story without driving away movie-goers.

    “No one wants to watch a priest molesting a kid. That’s very hard for an audience to watch,” Ruffalo said.

    Rachel McAdams took her role so seriously that she spent a great deal of time with the real Sarah Pfeiffer to learn every detail about the woman she would portray.

    “Rachel McAdams has asked me how long I kept my fingernails. What size Post-it Notes I preferred,” Sarah Pfeiffer wrote in The Boston Globe about her time with McAdams.

  • Anna Hathaway Honors Fellow People’s Choice Award Nominees With #TBT Collage of Their High School Pics

    Anna Hathaway Honors Fellow People’s Choice Award Nominees With #TBT Collage of Their High School Pics

    Anne Hathaway honored her friends and fellow People’s Choice Award nominees in her latest Throwback Thursday post by posting their high school pictures in a cute collage for Instagram.

    People magazine reports that the 32-year-old The Intern actress compiled the yearbook photos of Meryl Streep, Scarlett Johansson, Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock for a collage that is ridiculously awesome and adorable.

    “Uh, they were even cute in high school. Very proud to be nominated with these women for this year’s @peopleschoice award for favorite movie actress! #pcas,” Hathaway wrote on Instagram.

    The evening is proving to be slated as a powerful statement to these powerful women.

    Sandra Bullock, 51, and Scarlett Johansson, 30, have other nominations in Favorite Animated Movie Voice and Favorite Action Movie Actress, respectively, while Melissa McCarthy, 45, leads this A-list pack with two other nominations for Favorite Comedic Actress and Favorite Comedic Movie Actress.

    Who wants to see Anne Hathaway’s own high school yearbook photo? We got you!

    Hosted by Jane Lynch, the People’s Choice Awards 2016 will air live from the Microsoft Theater L.A. Live on Wednesday, January 6, 2016 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/delayed PT) on CBS.

    For a full list of nominees, check out the People’s Choice Awards website.

    In the meantime, International Business Times has reported that Anne Hathaway has joined Daniel Radcliffe and Keanu Reeves for the indie adventure-drama The Modern Ocean. The trio will be joined by fellow cast members Chloe Grace Moretz, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield, Abraham Attah and Jeff Goldblum for the ensemble flick.

  • Emma Watson, Nobel Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai Join Forces to Champion Equality For Women

    Emma Watson and the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai have used their powerful voices to champion equality for women.

    According to the Christian Science Monitor, the Harry Potter actress, 25 and Yousafzai sat down for an interview Tuesday at the premiere of the documentary, He Named Me Malala, which chronicles the 18-year-old Pakistani education activist’s fight for girls and stars Watson, who serves as the interviewer.

    The 23-minute video was posted on Watson’s Facebook page and has now been viewed nearly 4 million times.

    Today I met Malala. She was giving, utterly graceful, compelling and intelligent. That might sound obvious but I was…

    Posted by Emma Watson on Wednesday, November 4, 2015

    In the video, Emma Watson, a UN ambassador for women, and Yousafzai bonded over many topics, including their brothers, Hillary Clinton, their love for the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, and most importantly, the definition of feminism.

    “This word ‘feminist’ has been a very tricky word,” said Malala, to which Watson gasped in delight.

    When I heard it for the first time, Malala goes on, “I hesitated in saying ‘I’m a feminist.’”

    “Then after hearing your speech, when you said, ‘if not now, when? if not me, who?’,” Malala says, referring to Watson’s landmark UN speech about men participating in feminism, “I decided there’s nothing wrong with calling yourself a feminist. I am a feminist, and we all should be feminists because feminism is another word for equality.”

    Time magazine reports that Emma Watson said the most profound moment of their interview was when Yousafzai identified herself as a feminist, saying that she was surprised to hear the Yousafzai use the hot-button word.

    “I think this gesture is so emblematic of what Malala and I went on to discuss. I’ve spoken before on what a controversial word feminism is currently,” Emma Watson wrote on Facebook. “I want to make it a welcoming and inclusive movement. Let’s join our hands and move together so we can make real change. Malala and I are pretty serious about it but we need you.”

  • Melissa Mathison, Former Wife of Harrison Ford and ‘E.T.’ Screenwriter, Dies at 65

    Melissa Mathison, the former wife of Harrison Ford and the screenwriter of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, has died at the age of 65.

    According to the Associated Press, Mathison was known for her family friendly films, which also includes The Black Stallion.

    Mathison died Wednesday at her Los Angeles home after a bout with neuroendocrine cancer, confirmed her sister, Melinda Mathison Johnson.

    “Mathison’s stories were rich with symbolism, adventure, depth, and darkness. With their intricate plots and grown up themes of loneliness and loss, her films enchanted a generation of kids, and their parents,” said Lindsey Bahr, for her AP article on Mathison.

    E.T. has remains a classic film and continues to charm children of all ages.

    “Melissa had a heart that shined with generosity and love and burned as bright as the heart she gave E.T.,” Steven Spielberg said in a statement.

    Mathison’s first credited work was in assistant roles on The Godfather: Part IIApocalypse Now.” Her break out project was 1979 classic, The Black Stallion, which was directed by Carol Ballard.

    Mathison met Harrison Ford on the set of Apocalypse Now in 1976, and the couple married in 1983. They remained married until 2004 and had two children, Georgia and Malcolm.

    According to the Los Angeles Times, Mathison often collaborated with producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall under their Amblin Entertainment banner and worked with directors like Frank Oz on The Indian in the Cupboard and Martin Scorsese.

    Mathison left her lasting legacy with E.T., which became the highest grossing film of all time. According to the Associated Press, Spielberg and her then-boyfriend Harrison Ford reportedly convinced Mathison to write the screenplay on a 207 mile-drive through the Tunisian desert during the shoot for Raiders of the Lost Ark.

    Mathison was honored with her first and only Oscar nomination for E.T. but lost out to John Briley’s Gandhi screenplay.

    Melissa Mathison’s last credited work is on Spielberg’s big screen adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel The BFG, which comes out next year.

  • Emilia Clarke of ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the New Face For Dior Fine Jewelry

    Emilia Clarke, the mother of dragons on Game of Thrones, has been named as the face of high-fashion label’s Rose des Vents fine jewelry collection.

    According to People magazine, the 29-year-old British actress best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO hit series dazzles in the first ad campaign for the jewelry line.

    In her debut campaign for the French fashion house, which was shot by renowned fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, Emilia Clarke stuns in a black turtleneck. The minimal makeup only accentuates the delicate blue-and-green Dior jewels accessorizing the look.

    “Demarchelier captures the young actress’ natural, timeless beauty — a true reflection of the Rose des Vents stunning line of long and short necklaces in yellow and rose gold, diamonds, white mother-of-pearl, and pink opal,” the French brand said in a statement.

    In a second shot, Emilia Clarke sports an opened, white button-down Oxford shirt and is draped in beautiful baubles, confirming that she is Esquire magazine’s sexiest woman alive.

    “Rose des Vents, the wind rose, is also a metaphor for creation,” Victoire de Castellane, Dior Joaillerie’s creative director, said in a statement. “Creating is about searching, turning things over, and then finding ones cardinal point and setting off on a journey. Creation is the product of a stationary voyage.”

    This is Emilia Clarke’s first luxury campaign ad and will most certainly not be her last. Clarke joins the ranks of other gorgeous Dior faces, including Jennifer Lawrence, Natalie Portman, Rihanna and Marion Cotillard.

  • Alan Alda Issues Latest Scientific ‘Flame Challenge’ — What is Sound?

    Alan Alda is back at it, challenging the scientific community to answer what some would say are simple questions. But, are they?

    The 79-year-old actor has been challenging scientists to answer questions that would satisfy an 11-year-old child since 2011.

    This year, Alan Alda is asking the question: What is sound?

    Known as the “Flame Challenge” contest, which offers a $1,000 prize, the challenge asks scientists to explain complicated concepts in ways young people can understand.

    “I came up with this contest as a fun challenge for scientists to explain a complex thing like a flame in a way that would make it clear to an 11-year-old,” Alda said in a statement. “The idea was to urge scientists to communicate more clearly. I didn’t realize what an extraordinary learning experience it was going to be for the 11-year-olds. By now, tens of thousands of kids from all over the world have excitedly delved into the mysteries of nature as they’ve judged the scientists’ entries.

    “There are so many ways in which sounds affect us, so many ways that different animals use sound, and so many kinds of sound,” Alda said. “I can’t wait to see how creatively scientists will explain exactly what sound is. The kids and I are all ears.”

    This year’s challenge was announced by Long Island’s Stony Brook University on Monday. The actor currently teaches at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at the school.

    In years past, Alan Alda asked scientists to explain time, color, and of course, what is a flame.

    The Flame Challenge is sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the AAAS.

    “The ingenuity of the Flame Challenge is that participating students bring a new source of creativity and take away the lesson that science is fun,” said 2016 ACS President Donna Nelson in a statement.

    Keziah Job, an 11-year-old sixth grade student from Lynbrook South Middle School in Lynbrook, New York, was one of the students who came up with this year’s question.

    “I hope that they tell me what sound is,” said Keziah, when asked what she hopes the contest’s scientists will tell her about her question. “I’m speaking and I want to know what makes up the sound.”

    Scientists have until Jan. 19 to submit entries in either written or video form. Eleven-year-olds will judge the entries.

    Do you think Alan Alda‘s question is a good one for this year’s Flame Challenge?

  • Rachel Dolezal Concedes She Was Born White, But Says She Identifies As Being Black

    Rachel Dolezal shocked the world five months ago when it came to light that the former Spokane, Washington, NAACP leader was a white woman posing as an African-American.

    During an appearance on The Real on Monday, Dolezal explained that while she may have been born biologically white, she self-identifies as being black.

    “I acknowledge that I was biologically born white to white parents, but I identify as black,” Dolezal told cohosts Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Adrienne Baillon and Jeannie Mai.

    Dolezal said she has identified as being black since she was “really young,” adding that “sometimes how we feel is more powerful than how we’re born, and blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological, you know, it’s a lot of different things to a lot of different people.”

    This reiterates what Dolezal said during an appearance on the Today show soon after the news broke in June and she lost her position as the president of the Spokane, Washington, chapter of the NAACP as well as a part-time teaching job at Eastern Washington University as a result of the misrepresentation. She noted then that she identifies racially as “human” and culturally as “black.”

    “I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon,” she said in June. “That’s how I was portraying myself.”

    In July, she also told Vanity Fair that she identifies as being black.

    “I’ve had my years of confusion and wondering who I really [was] and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I’m not confused about that any longer,” she told the magazine. “I think the world might be – but I’m not.”

    She added, “I wouldn’t say I’m African American, but I would say I’m black, and there’s a difference in those terms.”

    Dolezal has been scrutinized and criticized but she has also found some high-profile support. In the November issue of Vanity Fair, Rihanna, 27, said she thought Dolezal was a “bit of a hero” because she “kind of flipped on society a little bit.”

    “Is it such a horrible thing that she pretended to be black?” Rihanna asked in the interview. “Black is a great thing, and I think she legit changed people’s perspective a bit and woke people up.”

    What are your thoughts? Is this any different than Bruce Jenner identifying as a woman?

  • Jennifer Lawrence Laments That She Is Working So Much That She Is ‘Aging Like a President’

    Jennifer Lawrence is the highest paid actress for so many reasons, and one of those is her work ethic.

    The 25-year-old actress, who topped the Forbes 2015 highest paid actress by banking $52 million, has maintained a busy schedule since The Hunger Games first premiered in 2012. Her initial turn as Katniss Everdeen made her a megastar, but it was her hard work that has kept her as the A-list actress in Hollywood.

    However, Jennifer Lawrence concedes that the intense work schedule has its own set of pitfalls.

    “I try to keep working so people can see other characters and other things I can do instead of taking vacation time, and now I’m aging like a president,” Lawrence said at a press conference for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on Saturday. “I hate waking up without a goal or going to sleep without achieving nothing.”

    Lawrence said her popularity has allowed her the privilege of being picky when it comes to roles and she made a plat to prioritized taking on diverse roles in the wake of The Hunger Games to broaden her appeal.

    That decision led Jennifer to a slew of roles of late, including her upcoming role in Joy, her third collaboration with director David O. Russell in four years.

    “I remember there have been a few times where I would have loved time off,” she said. “But I was very aware of how overwhelming these movies and this character was, and that was a big fear of mine signing on to these movies.”

    In Joy, Lawrence plays a single mother and inventor in the film, and ages through 40 years old. “David gets visions,” she told the New York Times of the casting. “He’s in his own beautiful, amazing world. Those kinds of silly questions [about age] don’t really matter to him. It’s not like I was old enough for American Hustle. And I was way too young for Silver Linings Playbook. That’s why I almost didn’t get it.”

    After Joy, Jennifer Lawrence will star with Chris Pratt in the sci-fi film Passengers, in another X-Men movie out next summer and is attached to star in Darren Aronofsky’s next film.

  • Cara Delevingne Makes Badass Cameo in ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 3’ Trailer

    Cara Delevingne has made a badass cameo in the new Call of Duty: Black Ops III trailer.

    The trailer, released on Sunday, takes viewers through the latest version of the popular video game with “Kevin.” Playing on the video game’s slogan, “There’s a soldier in all of us,” the trailer shows Kevin appearing to be “unstoppable” until he meets up with Cara Delevingne, which would surely stop any soldier in his tracks for sure.

    Narrated by The Wire and Friday Night Lights actor Michael B. Jordan, the trailer also features an appearance by Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch.

    According to UPI, Call of Duty: Black Ops III takes place in 2065, some 40 years after Black Ops II. Staring Christopher Meloni as Commander John Taylor, Katee Sackoff as Sarah Hall, Sean Douglas as Jacob Hendricks, Rachel Kimsey as Rachel Kane and Tony Amendola as Dr. Youself Salim, the new game should keep every Call of Duty fan busy for months to come.

    Debuted in 2003, the original Call of Duty game was so popular is inspired two other World War II sequels. Three Modern Warfare installments followed, in addition to two Black Ops games and a prequel, and other installments, including Call of Duty: Ghosts.

    Cara Delevingne, 23, models for Chanel and Burberry, and has pursued acting in recent years, including a role in Pan with Hugh Jackman. She is slated to star in London Fields with Margot Robbie and Suicide Squad with Robbie and Jared Leto.

  • Kellie Pickler Lands ‘Drama-Free, Family Friendly’ Reality Show

    Kellie Pickler has landed her own reality show.

    The country singer is not new to reality television. She began her career on American Idol and soon found herself showing off her dancing skills in Dancing With the Stars. So, it’s not surprising that Pickler would agree to a new CMT reality show about her marriage to songwriter-producer Kyle Jacobs.

    What may be surprising is the show, I Love Kellie Pickler, is being touted as a drama-free, family friendly romp.

    “You definitely have to set boundaries from the start with anything you do,” Pickler said of her new show. ”And keep things sacred for you and your marriage.”

    Produced by Ryan Seacrest, the 13-episode series will premiere this Thursday at 10 p.m.

    Unlike many other reality shows — anything Kardashian comes to mind — the series will not feature a designer lifestyle, nor will it feature the raucous, drunken carousing of CMT’s signature reality show, Party Down South.

    Instead, Kellie Pickler and her husband, will offer fans a peek at their wholesome, family-oreinted lifestyle.

    “We want to keep it light and positive,” Pickler told The Associated Press. “There’s enough darkness out in the world. And there’s enough negativity on television.”

    “There’s no drama crazy,” Jacobs concurred, who has been married to Pickler for five years.

    “No,” Pickler said. “Definitely not. There are no cat fights. We don’t have cats. … He’s allergic.”

    The series follows the couple through a busy summer touring season, taking trips with friends and renewing their vows.

    “People know what we do in front of the curtain,” Kellie Pickler said. “They know what we do onstage or what he does in the studio. This is about who we are when we clock out.”

  • Suri Cruise Left ‘to Cry on Bathroom Floor’ by Parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, So Says Leah Remini in Blistering Tell-All

    Suri Cruise was left “to cry on the bathroom floor by her parents, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. At least, that’s what Leah Remini claims in her new tell-all book.

    According to the New York Daily News, Leah Remini, who takes on Scientology in her book Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood And Scientology, alleges that Cruise and his ex-wife left daughter Suri, who was just 7-months-old at the time, crying on the bathroom floor during a dinner that was held just prior their wedding.

    According to Remini, she and several other women responded to the infants cries during the dinner. But, instead of assisting the baby, the three women just watched the baby cry.

    Remini claims that she finally convinced the women to pick up the upset child from the floor, and they eventually gave her a warm bottle of milk to drink.

    Remini further claims that the older children of Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Bella and Connor Cruise, never saw their mother because she was shunned by the Church of Scientology.

    Remini writes that after asking if she’d seen their mother recently, Bella reportedly told her, “Not if I have a choice. Our mom is a f****** SP.” SP is a term used by Scientologists to describe an enemy of the church, and it is an acronym for Suppressive Person.

    The Church Of Scientology quickly responded to Leah’s recent interview with ABC, insisting, via the Daily Mail, that the King Of Queens actress is lying.

    “Leah Remini knows the truth she conveniently rewrites in her revisionist history.”

    “The real story is that she desperately tried to remain a Scientologist in 2013, knowing full well she was on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by the high level of ethics and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain.”

    “Her repeated ethical lapses and callous treatment of others led to an ecclesiastical review which resulted in her being expelled.”

    “She now regurgitates the tired myths the Church has repeatedly debunked, circulated by the same tiny clique of expelled former staffers bitter at having lost the positions they enjoyed before their malfeasance and unethical conduct were uncovered.”

    “Ms. Remini is now joined at the hip with this collection of deadbeats, admitted liars, self-admitted perjurers, wife beaters and worse.”

    Leah Remini knew this response was coming from the church.

    “I know what my former Church — how they deal with people who tell their story,” Remini said. “And so I wanted to be the one to say it.”

    Neither Tom Cruise nor Katie Holmes have responded to the claims that Suri Cruise was left in a bathroom to cry when she was just a baby.

  • Sandra Bullock Shares ‘Inappropriate’ Halloween Costume Son Louis Chose For Her and It’s Va-Va-Voom

    Sandra Bullock and her son, Louis, don’t seem to see eye to eye when it come to Halloween costumes.

    During an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night, Bullock, 51, shared what she and her 5-year-old son Louis were planning for the Halloween weekend.

    The Our Brand is Crisis actress shared that Louis planned on going trick-or-treating as a Ninja Turtle, which she deems a “classic” costume. On the other hand, he had very different plans for his momma’s costume.

    “We usually match, but this year he sort of deviated off the matching,” Bullock said, adding that Louis chose a “Slutty Batgirl” costume for Sandra.

    “It was like the most inappropriate thing,” she explained. “You know how there’s regular Batgirl, and then there’s the ones for those moms that like to really turn it out? Like a little leather skirt, and the boots that go over the knee, and a bustier?”

    “I’m not going to be wearing that,” she said adamantly.

    The costume apparently caught Louis’ eye as the two looking through a costume catalog.

    “He went, ‘Mama, you hasta wear this!’” Bullock says. “And I went, ‘No, mama doesn’t want to. I’m not wearing that around your friends.’”

    Instead, Bullock has other ideas for a costume.

    “Either a pirate wench, covered head to toe, or just the basic mime,” Bullock said with a laugh.

    Fallon and Bullock went on to take a moment to reminisce about working together on a Canadian soap opera called Jacob’s Patience, in which Bullock owned an ice cream store. Bullock seemed to remember that time of their lives fondly. However, Fallon had a very different take about working with the actress.

    “You were a little difficult to work with,” he says. “You refused to use your own arms.”

    Fallon explained that in order to make Bullock feel more comfortable, the director made everyone on set use mannequin arms as well.

    Fallon put up a hilarious clip from the fake show, showing Bullock trying desperately to scoop ice cream using only fake arms. In keeping with the modus operandi of any Jacob’s Patience sketch, the two managed to get food everywhere as Sandra Bullock dipped her fake hands into hot fudge, broke every cone and ultimately lost one of her fake hands in the process.

  • Emilia Clarke Predicts The End of ‘Game of Thrones’ and Thinks Dany Will ‘Win the Whole Damn Thing’

    Emilia Clarke, the mother of dragons on Game of Thrones, has made a prediction about the end game of the highly successful HBO series.

    Currently filming the sixth season, the 29-year-old “sexiest woman alive” told Entertainment Tonight that she is very proud to have portrayed Daenerys Targaryen from a timid girl to a fearless ruler.

    “I think I was lucky because in season one, there was such a lovely arc. You saw her as this naïve young girl, and then I was able to find her strength, so there was that development,” Clarke said. “It wasn’t as though I was just thrown in and expected to be this strong warrior. And then, with each season, it’s just kind of grown and it’s kind of wonderful.”

    Game of Thrones will likely end after eight seasons, according to HBO. Clarke is fine with the decision, but noted that there could be an extended seventh season.

    “I’m all about leaving the party when it’s still kicking,” she said. “So I think that maybe [season] seven will get split into two, or maybe it will just be straight to eight.”

    All Emilia Clarke really seems to care about is who comes out on the throne in the end.

    “What I would hope for Dany is that she wins the whole damn thing,” she said with a laugh. “That she wins, and she wins all of it — and she wins. That’s what I think is going to happen!”

    Clarke was honored on Wednesday at The Wrap‘s annual Power Women Breakfast in L.A. for her unwavering beliefs in gender equality.

    “I think we should just see more equality across the board really, and see more inclusiveness between men and women,” Clarke said to Sharon Waxman, The Wrap‘s CEO and Editor-in-Chief during a Q&A. “Hopefully we can educate a new generation of guys that are coming up that there is no difference.”

    Emilia Clarke donned a black knit Valentino dress adorned with unicorns for a very specific reason.

    “It’s to celebrate that there’s a new unicorn emoji,” she said on the red carpet. “So I thought that I would wear this today to celebrate that — and women.”

  • Bindi Irwin Opens Up About How Her Father’s Tragic Death Changed Everything

    Bindi Irwin was just a little girl when her father, Steve Irwin, tragically died.

    It seemed as if the whole world mourned the loss of the Crocodile Hunter when he died after being attacked by a stingray in northern Australia in 2006, but none more so than eight-year-old Bindi.

    Steve’s death left Bindi, her mother Terri and her younger brother Robert, 11, without their “superhero.”

    “Dad was the strongest person I’ve ever known,” Irwin, 17, told People magazine. “And when the strongest person is taken away, you kind of go, ‘Oh my goodness. What are we going to do?’”

    The loss left a hole in their family, but also created a tight bond between Terri, 51, and her kids.

    “As a family, we’ve gotten so close. The three of us, no matter where we are in the world, we’ll always stick together,” says Irwin. “We can count on each other on the good days and bad days.”

    Currently, the family temporarily moved to Los Angeles in August so they could live together as Bindi Irwin competes with Derek Hough on season 21 of Dancing with the Stars.

    Bindi says having the support of her mother and brother is a game-changer as she enters adulthood and begins to live in the spotlight, much like her father did.

    “I think everyone is given those couple of people in life, whether they are related to you or not, that will stand by you no matter what,” she said. “You have to treasure them because they come into your life for a reason. Sometimes you do just have to let go and be supported.”

    The teen told People her family gives her strength.

    “And that’s what’s great about my family, I’m a strong individual, but I know I can always just lean on them and know that I have their love and support,” said Bindi Irwin.

  • Scarlett Johansson Makes the Old Testament Sound Sexy

    Scarlett Johansson sure knows how to bring on the sex appeal, even while reading the Bible.

    Johansson was just one of several stars enlisted by Saturday Night Live writer and performer Mike O’Brian to lend her sexy voice for a reading of the Old Testament for his new comedy album, Tasty Radio, according to Rolling Stone magazine.

    The Avengers: Age of Ultron star, 30, brought her sexy on for a track entitled Sexy Bible, which features Johansson vocalizing some passages from the Book of Deuteronomy for the fictional WSEX, Sexy Talk Radio.

    “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son…his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town,” reads Johansson in a breathy, sexy tone.

    O’Brien said he has been wanting to satirize the Old Testament for quite some time, but knew his vocalization just wouldn’t cut it. Hence, the enlistment of sexy Scarlett Johansson.

    “I wasn’t sure what the comedic take would be when I first became obsessed with Deuteronomy, but I knew a female should be delivering most of it because a lot of the quotes are very misogynistic and who wants to hear a guy make fun of that,” he told the magazine. “I was so thrilled that Scarlett said she’d do it.”

    Joining Scarlett Johansson for the project are Cecily Strong, Jason Sudeikis, Fred Armisen, John Mulaney, and Seth Meyers.

    Tasty Radio will be released today, Friday, Oct. 30.

  • Mila Kunis Joins Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate in Untitled Comedy Penned By ‘The Hangover’ Writing Team

    Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate prove that stars do align.

    The threesome have all signed on to star in an untitled STX comedy, which was formerly under the stewardship of Judd Apatow.

    According to Us Weekly, the romp was originally titled Bad Moms, was set to be released by Paramount and produced by Apatow, with Leslie Mann on board to star. All of that has changed. What does remain is The Hangover writers, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who have stayed on to write and direct. Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland) and Bill Block will produce.

    “Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are masters at creating relatable characters that audiences instantly embrace, and then putting them in hilarious real-life situations for great comedic results,” STX president and CCO Oren Aviv said in a statement. “This film provides the rare opportunity for a half-dozen strong female lead roles, and we are thrilled to have assembled an exceptional cast led by Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate, Kristen Bell. We can’t wait to start production and be part of the magic this team will bring to the screen.”

    The film with Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Christina Applegate will reportedly focus on three overworked mothers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The stressed out mommas decide to switch up their lives a bit to free themselves from the responsibilities of everyday life. Needless to say, that decision leads to problems with the “perfect” clique of mothers, led by the head of the PTA.

    Who thinks this new Mila Kunis — who will likely relate as a new mom — romp will be just a little be awesome?