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  • Jodie Sweetin to Put On Her Dancing Shoes For ‘Dancing With the Stars’

    Jodie Sweetin is ready to slip on her dancing shoes to join the cast of Season 22 of Dancing With the Stars.

    There has been much media speculation that Sweetin would join the cast, but the news was made official on Wednesday during her appearance on Good Morning America.

    Sweetin will be partnered with professional dancer Keo Mostepe.

    Sweetin has turned down requests to appear on DWTS in the past because of scheduling conflicts. A self-declared huge fan of the show, Sweetin said she is very excited to hit the dance floor.

    “I’ve always loved to dance, and Stephanie was a dancer on the show, and I danced growing up,” she said. “I have some experience. I have some rhythm.”

    In February, Sweetin told E! News that appearing on Dancing With the Stars would be “really fun,” but declined to share whether she was joining the cast.

    “I love dance and I think it would be really fun,” she said.

    This is the second Fuller House star to appear on the dance competition. Costar Candace Cameron Bure previously appeared on DWTS and couldn’t stop talking about Sweetin and her new dance adventure.

    “I am so ready; I am more than ready,” Cameron Bure told E! News. “I am just there. I will try not to take over for her because I might nudge myself back onto that dance floor.”

    Sweetin has previewed a few dance sequences in Netflix’s sequel series Fuller House. Maks Chmerkovskiy and Val Chmerkovskiy of DWTS both appeared in an episode of the sitcom.

    Sweetin told the GMA anchors her time with Val on Fuller House inspired her to commit to Season 22 of DWTS.

    Who thinks Jodie Sweetin has a chance of winning the coveted Mirrorball Trophy?

  • Rick Ross Indicted On Charges Stemming From Last June’s Alleged Pistol Whipping Incident

    Rick Ross was indicted Wednesday charges stemming from last June’s alleged pistol whipping incident involving his groundskeeper.

    According to Vibe magazine, the rap artists’s lawyer says he isn’t too concerned about the charges because he believes his client was acting in self-defense.

    According to TMZ, attorney Steve Sadow told the court the 40-year-old Black Market artist should be immune from prosecution because the groundskeeper, Jonathan Zamudio, was allegedly committing felonies while staying at Ross’ guest house at his Georgia estate.

    Ross alleges that Zamudio engaged in parties involving cocaine and drug paraphernalia, which Ross claims gave him reason to defend his home.

    Sadow said he will make the case that Ross was “acting in self-defense and in defense of his property when he encountered trespassers.”

    A grand jury handed down several charges including aggravated assault, kidnapping, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm while committing a crime.

  • Kelly Clarkson Opens Up About Absentee Father Who Inspired ‘Piece By Piece’

    Kelly Clarkson left everyone in tears after a moving rendition of her song Piece by Piece the final season premier of American Idol last week and the songstress opened up to Ryan Seacrest about her absentee father who inspired the son.

    In an interview with Seacrest on Monday, Clarkson told the radio and Idol host that she was inspired by her dad, but also by her loving husband, Brandon Blackstock, who is the father of their 20-month-old daughter, River Rose.

    “Watching my husband love on his daughter all the time, you know, go to her events and just be there and, like, be present is, like, hard to watch but beautiful to watch,” Clarkson told Seacrest. “I know that my kids are going to have that. Y’all are totally going to make me cry on this interview. I’m so glad you can’t see me.”

    The 33-year-old American Idol alum, who is expecting their second child, realized just how much her absentee father affected her when she became a mother herself.

    “I don’t even think I understood the gravity of [my relationship with my father] until I was pregnant with [River Rose],” she said. “I was like, ‘I cannot imagine not seeing this kid to his or her full potential and just seeing what she’s going to do, what she’s going to be like.’ … I don’t think I knew how much that affected me until writing [‘Piece By Piece’]. I definitely didn’t know how it would affect me like it does when I sing it live because that’s not fun. It’s awesome, but it’s kind of sad that so many relate to this song.”

    Clarkson told Seacrest that she has forgiven her father and is “not angry” with him.

    “I’m 33 years old, I’m a grown woman. But it’s more of that thing where you can try your hardest to salvage relationships — and I did — but at the end of the day, if you keep getting hurt by someone because they just don’t know how to properly love people, it’s just not worth it,” said Clarkson. “It’s not worth the strain in your heart and it starts to bleed into your other relationships and it becomes super dysfunctional.”

  • Carrie Underwood Sticks Up For Trainer After Cyber-Bullying Incident

    Carrie Underwood stuck up for her trainer, Erin Oprea, who was cyber-bullied after her son’s soccer game.

    According to People magazine, the country singer came to Oprea’s defense after the trainer decided to get in a cardio workout while watching her son’s soccer game. Apparently another parent at the match snapped a photo of her jumping rope and posted it to Facebook, along with the message, “Would it be wrong of me to tell her that every dad at the soccer field thinks her standing out front with her jump rope for two hours only screams she wants attention. And I can only imagine what the soccer moms are thinking.”

    Underwood, 32, didn’t waste a moment in coming to the defense of her friend.

    Carrie posted a screenshot of the original Facebook post, with the caption, “That man obviously has a big problem…with himself. I only hope he can learn to like himself someday so he can be an adult and stop bullying others for bettering themselves!

    “This guy felt the need to post this pic of my friend and trainer, Erin Oprea, along with some really insecure and mean comments. He was shaming her for getting in some exercise during her son’s soccer game. Not cool.”

    While Oprea must have been thrilled that Carrie Underwood stood up for her, it would seem that the personal trainer can take care of herself.

    “This is exactly why many people don’t embrace an active lifestyle in ordinary situations: They are worried that they will draw attention and, even worse, ridicule,” Oprea posted to social media.

    “Everyone has to find time in their busy schedules to get their workouts in. This is a time that works well for me and many other parents,” she continued. “I don’t want to see people getting bullied for doing what works best for their lifestyle.”

    She also took a moment to encourage others to stick with their program despite the negativity that might surround them.

    “So grab your jump rope, embrace that healthy lifestyle and keep on jumping if you hear whispering behind you,” Oprea said. “You’re the better person here in more ways than one.”

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  • Nicole Scherzinger Set to Star In ABC Reboot of ‘Dirty Dancing’

    Nicole Scherzinger Set to Star In ABC Reboot of ‘Dirty Dancing’

    Nicole Scherzinger is set to star in the ABC/Lionsgate TV’s reboot of the Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey classic movie Dirty Dancing.

    Deadpool >reports that the 37-year-old actress will take on the role of Penny, who was played by Cynthia Rhodes in the original 1987 film.

    According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cole Prattes will play Johnny, the role originally made famous by Patrick Swayze in the 1987 film. Abigail Breslin will take on Jennifer Grey‘s role as Baby in the three-hour production for television written and produced by Jessica Sharzer of American Horror Story and The L Word.

    Debra Messing will also star in the movie as Baby’s mother Marjorie.

    Nicole Scherzinger, the lead singer of burlesque troupe turned-girl group The Pussycat Dolls, is returning to ABC after she won season 10 of the network’s Dancing With the Stars. She is also currently in talks to return to her previous role of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway revival of Cats.

  • Derek Hough Will Not Return to ‘DWTS’ Season 22

    Derek Hough will reportedly not be returning to compete on Season 22 of Dancing with the Stars Season 22.

    Sources have told various news outlets that Hough, 30, is taking the season off to perform in Singin’ in the Rain on Broadway.

    “Derek will always love Dancing with the Stars and the friends he’s made through the show,” an insider told Us Weekly magazine. “And the door isn’t closed there. He’ll always be a part of the family.”

    Singin’ in the Rain producer Harvey Weinstein announced on Saturday that Hough will take the lead in the musical, which was followed by posts from Hough himself sharing the news on social media.

    Hough’s announcement comes on the heels of news that his sister, former dancing pro Julianne Hough, won’t return as a judge on the new season. The 27-year-old Grease Live star said in February she “will miss” the show but has “a lot of exciting stuff coming.”

    “The pro dancers, producers and crew at DTWS will always be my family,” she said in a statement. “I promise it’s not the last you’ll see of me in the ballroom.”

    In January 2015, Hough said he would not return to the ABC dance competition’s 20th season because he was focusing on his role in Radio City Music Hall’s New York Spring Spectacular. A month later he decided to pull double duty and rejoined the cast as gymnast Nastia Liukin’s partner.

    Derek Hough joined Dancing with the Stars as a pro in Season 5 and has won the coveted mirror-ball trophy six times, most recently with his partner on Season 21, Bindi Irwin.

    Season 22 of Dancing With the Stars premieres March 21.

  • Erin Andrews Weeps, Leaves Courtroom, As Jurors Watch Nude Video

    Erin Andrews is certainly having a rough time as she endures testimony and the showing of a nude video that elicited a $75 million lawsuit against a Nashville hotel.

    According to CNN, Andrews is suing the Nashville Marriott hotel and the serial stalker, Michael David Barrett, who allegedly recorded her through a peephole during her 2008 stay there.

    During testimony on Thursday, a computer expert testified that nearly 17 million people have viewed the nude peephole video of the 37-year-old TV sports reporter.

    “Every minute, 1.5 people are watching that video,” Penn State Professor Bernard Jansen told jurors before showing seven clips of the 4½-minute video that stalker Michael David Barrett took and leaked online.

    “Right now, someone is watching that video,’’ Jansen said.

    According to Page Six, as Jansen described the adult websites the video has made its way onto, Andrews began weeping and left the courtroom minutes before the jurors watched the footage.

    Andrews is suing the owner and manager of the Nashville Marriott where she was staying when Barrett doctored a peephole on her door, allowing him to surreptitiously film the nude video.

    Page Six reports that Andrews was particularly “concerned” about how she would discuss the incident with the man she is dating in California.

    “She has this huge baggage that comes along with her that will have to become part of a dialogue in some way with a partner,” said Loren Comstock, a therapist that treated Erin between 2012 and 2013.

    Andrews’ lawyers allege the Marriott hotel was negligent when it allowed Barrett to request a room next door to Andrews without asking for her permission.

    Marriott International executive Renne Buonicontri testified that Barrett’s request to be placed next to Andrews room, which allegedly came via the 1-800 Marriott International system, was never communicated to the local hotel.

  • Alicia Vikander Called ‘Force of Nature’ By ‘Danish Girl’ Co-Star Eddie Redmayne

    Alicia Vikander has probably been called many things, but it was her Danish Girl co-star Eddie Redmayne who may have captured her true nature.

    The Oscar-winning actor said in a behind-the-scenes clip for the film that he credits Vikander, 27, for taking his performance to the next level.

    “She’s a force of nature,” he said. “She’s just the most extraordinary talent. She has this deep, visceral relationship with her emotions. She challenged me to step up my game continuously.

    Both Vikander and Redmayne have received high accolades for their respective roles in the film about a transgender woman who undergoes a sex-reassignment surgery and both have received Oscar nods for their emotional performances.

    Based on a true story, The Danish Girl tells the story of Lili, an artist torn by the societal norms and restrictions of the early 20th century while trying to transition from male to female.”

    Vikander, who plays Lili’s wife Gerda, told People magazine that she was drawn to the courage exemplified by the characters.

    “I was always just touched by the very, extremely, complex, difficult journey that they go on,” she said. “To be able to work so closely with Eddie and Tom [Hopper] was quite extraordinary.”

    Vikander took home a Screen Actors Guild Award for her turn in Ex Machina and is considered a frontrunner to go home with an Oscar for The Danish Girl on Sunday night.

    The Danish Girl is available for digital download and arrives on Blu-ray/DVD March 1.

  • Kelly Clarkson Moves Everyone to Tears With ‘Piece By Piece’ Performance on ‘Idol’

    Kelly Clarkson because very emotional during her performance of Piece by Piece on Thursday’s episode of American Idol and she wasn’t the only one to break down in tears over the performance.

    The former Idol winner, who is also pregnant, wiped away tears was became so choked up that she missed a few lyrics as she performed as guest judge on the first live show of the farewell season of American Idol.

    As reported by Us Weekly, Clarkson wasn’t the only Idol judge to lose it. Keith Urban and Jennifer Lopez also became emotional as they watched Kelly struggle through the song.

    It’s no wonder the singer became as emotional as she did considering she owes her career to the show. Clarkson was the first-ever contestant to be crowned an Idol winner 14 seasons ago.

    Clarkson, despite being only weeks away until she gives birth to her second child, was bound and determined to be a part of the series’ final season.

    Following her performance, Clarkson told Ryan Seacrest she was sorry for letting her emotions get the best of her.

    “I’m pregnant and I’m nostalgic and I can’t believe it’s the last season, and I’m really sorry but I just bawled,” she said, as the audience applauded her efforts.

    Clarkson hinted before the performance that she might have trouble getting through the song, which she said is about being abandoned by her father as a child.

    “I actually wrote it pregnant with my little girl and now I’m pregnant with my little boy,” she said. “So if I don’t make it through and I start crying, just laugh. It’ll make me feel better.”

  • Mark Zuckerberg Takes a Stand Against Hate Posts On Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg Takes a Stand Against Hate Posts On Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, says there is “no place for hate” on the social media site, adding that there is more work to be done to police hate speech, especially in Germany.

    Answering a question Friday at a town hall event in Berlin, he had being instituting better controls on monitoring and removing hate posts.

    According to the Associated Press, German officials have raised concerns over the ever-increasing spread of far-right and other groups’ messages of racism and hate. Last year, Zuckerberg spoke personally with Chancellor Angela Merkel about the issue.

    Zuckerberg said “until recently in Germany I don’t think we were doing a good enough job, and I think we will keep needing to do a … better job.”

    According to Zuckerberg, migrants living in Germany are now considered a “protected class” of people and will be treated as such on Facebook.

    Meanwhile back home, Zuckerberg issued a companywide memo Thursday chastising employees who have been crossing out the phrase “black lives matter” and writing “all lives matter” on Facebook’s free expression walls at its Menlo Park, California, campus.

    According to Gizmodo, Zuckerberg notes in the memo that there are no rules about what can be written on the chalkboards, but he considered these acts “malicious.”

    “This has been a deeply hurtful and tiresome experience for the black community and really the entire Facebook community, and we are now investigating the current incidents,” he told employees in an internal company posting. He explained that “black lives matter” doesn’t mean other lives don’t. “It’s simply asking that the black community also achieves the justice they deserve.”

  • Angela ‘Big Ang’ Raiola of ‘Mob Wives’ Has Died of Throat Cancer At the Age of 55

    Angela Raiola of the VH1 reality TV series Mob Wives has died of throat cancer at the age of 55.

    According to the Associated Press, the raspy-voiced, 6-foot reality star known as “Big Ang” died early Thursday, at a New York City hospital.

    Series producer, Jennifer Graziano, said Raiola died while surrounded by friends and family.

    A statement posted to Raiola’s Twitter account said she had “peacefully ended her battle with cancer.”

    “YOU (Her fans) were some of the most special people in her world, and she loved you immensely,” said the statement. “Thank you for your love, prayers, and unconditional support of Angela right to the end.”

    Diagnosed in March 2015 with throat cancer, Raiola saw a quick decline as the cancer spread to her brain and lung.

    In September, Raiola told People magazine that she had smoked for over 40 years, but quit the day she learned the tumor in her throat was malignant.

    “It’s hard to just put down the cigarette and never look back,” she said at the time. “I enjoy smoking. I miss it so much. But it’s over. Now I do the e-cigarette. It helps me, just to hold it in my hand.”

    Raiola joined Mob Wives during the show’s second season in 2012 and became a fan favorite. Her own spin-off series, Big Ang, premiered later that year.

    According to Fox 411, Raiola’s uncle, Salvatore “Sally Dogs” Lombardi was a captain in New York’s Genovese crime family.

    She is survived by her two children and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are pending.

  • Calvin Harris Celebrates ‘Beautiful Girlfriend’ Taylor Swift’s Grammy Awards In Adorable Instagram Post

    Calvin Harris celebrated girlfriend Taylor Swift’s Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as two other awards, with an adorable photo posted to Instagram.

    “Congratulations to my beautiful girlfriend,” he captioned the shot.

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    Swift also posted several photos from her night on Twitter. In one shot, the star is pictured looking down lovingly at her her three Grammy awards. Several others were posted of her partying the night away with her gal pals, including Ellie Goulding, Lorde, Fifth Harmony’s Camila Cabelo, and her brother Austin.

    Taylor Swift walked away with Album of the Year (1989), Best Pop Vocal Album (1989) and Best Music Video (“Bad Blood” feat. Kendrick Lamar).

    Swift’s acceptance speech for Album of the Year, where she promoted girl power and slammed Kanye West who recently put Swift in his new song “Famous,” where he raps, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous,” was perhaps the most memorable of the evening.

    “And as the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame,” she said.

    “But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.”

    While Selena Gomez served as Swift’s date for the big night, Harris reportedly linked up with his girlfriend and her posse later that night.

    At the Republic Records after party held at Hyde in Los Angeles, Harris and Swift — who have been dating for nearly a year – was seen in some sexy PDA moments.

    “She was sitting on his lap and they were super affectionate,” onlooker told People magazine. “There was a mob of people around them.”

  • Alexa McAllister, Former Contestant on ‘The Bachelor,’ Dies of an Overdose That Appears to Be Suicide

    Alexa McAllister, a former contestant on The Bachelor, died Tuesday of an overdose that appears to be a suicide, according to reports.

    TMZ reports that a 911 was received by law enforcement Saturday in Columbus, Ohio from a panicked friend who had found McAllister, 31, unconscious with an empty bottle of prescription medication by her side.

    McAllister was hospitalized in stable condition on life support. Her condition reportedly deteriorated and her family decided to take her off life support, according to E! Online.

    McAllister competed on season 14 of The Bachelor in 2010 — Jake Pavelka’s season — and was eliminated in the first episode.

    Some might claim it is a cursed season as another contestant from season 14, Gia Allemand, who made it into the finals, died in 2013 at the age of 29 after hanging herself. She, too, was taken off life support by her family.

    Alexa’s fellow cast mates remembered her fondly on Tuesday.

    “I am honestly in shock that another beautiful soul would take their life,” the season’s runner-up Tenley Molzahn told E! News. “She was only on our first episode but she seemed like such a vibrant soul. This is just shocking news no matter how well you know someone.”

    “I would like to express my sincere condolences,” the season’s winner Vienna Girardi also told E! News. “My heart goes out to Lex’s family during this difficult time. I remember her being such a positive young lady who could light up any room.”

  • Sue Kelbold, Mother of Columbine Killer Dylan Klebold, Speaks Out For the First Time

    Sue Kelbold, Mother of Columbine Killer Dylan Klebold, Speaks Out For the First Time

    Sue Klebold, the mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold, spoke out about the 1999 killing that left 13 dead for the first time Friday in an interview with Diane Sawyer for the ABC show 20/20.

    Klebold told Sawyer that following the tragic shooting that left the community of Littleton, Colorado, and the country reeling, she couldn’t stop thinking about the victims and their families.

    “I just remember sitting there and reading about them, all these kids and the teacher,” Klebold said.

    “And I keep thinking– constantly thought how I would feel if it were the other way around and one of their children had shot mine,” she continued. “I would feel exactly the way they did. I know I would. I know I would.”

    Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, killing 12 students and one teacher. Another 24 were wounded before the killers took their own lives.

    “There is never a day that goes by where I don’t think of the people that Dylan harmed,” she said.

    “You used the word ‘harmed,’” Sawyer noted.

    “I think it’s easier for me to say harmed than killed, and it’s still hard for me after all this time,” Klebold added. “It is very hard to live with the fact that someone you loved and raised has brutally killed people in such a horrific way.”

    Klebold told Sawyer the tragedy changed her own perspectives about why she didn’t notice anything amiss in her son.

    “I think we like to believe that our love and our understanding is protective, and that ‘if anything were wrong with my kids, I would know,’ but I didn’t know,” she said. “And– it’s very hard to live with that.”

    “I felt that I was a good mom… That he would, he could talk to me about anything,” Klebold added. “Part of the shock of this was that learning that what I believed and how I lived and how I parented was– an invention in my own mind. That it, it was a completely different world that he was living in.”

    According to CNN, Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was paralyzed after being shot in the massacre wrote a Facebook post directed to the mother, saying “I have forgiven you and only wish you the best.”

    The interview, her first, coincides with the Feb. 15 release of Klebold’s new memoir, “A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy.”

    The profits of Sue Klebold’s book will go towards research and charitable foundations focusing on mental health issues.

  • Meryl Streeps Faces Backlash After Commenting ‘We’re All Africans Really’

    Meryl Streeps Faces Backlash After Commenting ‘We’re All Africans Really’

    Meryl Streep dismissed questions about the all-white panel at the Berlin Film Festival Thursday by commenting that “we’re all Africans really,” which has ignited a furor on the internet.

    According to CBS News, Streep, who heads up a seven-member jury, said she was committed to equality and inclusion “of all genders, races, ethnicities, religions.”

    “This jury is evidence that at least women are included and in fact dominate this jury, and that’s an unusual situation in bodies of people who make decisions,” Streep said. “So I think the Berlinale is ahead of the game.”

    In response to a question asking whether she understood films from the Arab world and North Africa, Streep said that while she didn’t know much about the region, “I’ve played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures.”

    “There is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture, and after all we’re all from Africa originally,” she said. “Berliners, we’re all Africans really.”

    Social media posts were strewn with expressions of disbelief and anger over Streeps’ comments.

    The festival opens Thursday with the jury’s other members, German actor Lars Eidinger, British film critic Nick James, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, British actor Clive Owen, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska, deciding who goes home with the coveted Golden Bear.

    The Coen brothers’ comedy “Hail, Caesar!” starring George Clooney, Josh Brolin and a slew of other A-list celebrities kicked off the festival on Thursday.

  • Tyler Posey of ‘Teen Wolf’ Is Ready To Move On After An ‘Awful’ Year

    Tyler Posey of Teen Wolf says he is ready for a better future after the death of his mother and his broken engagement.

    It’s been a little more than 12 months since Tyler’s mother died in a year that he has described as “awful.” That loss was compounded when his engagement to his childhood sweetheart ended just a few months later.

    “This has been the hardest year of my life,” Posey, 24, told People magazine.

    Posey’s engagement to childhood sweetheart Seana Gorlick, who he proposed to in 2013, ended last year. Posey did not disclose the reason for the breakup.

    “I still really miss her,” he said of his former girlfriend, whom he dated for more than a decade. “I can’t believe I have an ex-fiancée.”

    Losing his mother, Cyndi, after a four-year battle with breast cancer when she was only 55 was beyond devastating for the actor.

    “She was my best friend,” Posey said.

    The two were extremely close, especially considering she had homeschooled him and served as his business manager when he was a child actor.

    “She was the glue that held our family together,” he noted.

    Despite the fact that Posey remains close to his father John Posey, 60, and brother Jesse, 21, he still feels as if he has “lost my sense of family.”

    The losses has left Tyler Posey in a fragile mental state and he says he has struggled with depression.

    “Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad,” he said.

    While he is moving on, Tyler Posey said he’s just yet ready to date.

  • Adam West, the ‘Original’ Batman, to Make An Appearance On 200th Episode of ‘Big Bang Theory’

    Adam West, the ‘Original’ Batman, to Make An Appearance On 200th Episode of ‘Big Bang Theory’

    Adam West, the original Batman from the campy-classic 1960s series, will make an appearance during Big Bang Theory‘s 200th episode.

    According to UPI, West, 87, will play himself in the episode alongside fellow guest stars Christine Baranski, John Ross Bowie, Sara Gilbert and Wil Wheaton, who will play himself as well.

    The plot of the episode on CBS is being held tightly under wraps.

    According to Yahoo News, West and his Bruce Wayne character has been the subject of many discussions on the show. Sheldon (played by Jim Parsons) often mimics the voice and Howard (Simon Helberg) has dressed up as the character. West was mentioned when Penny (Kaley Cuoco) revealed that she has no idea who he is, much to the disappointment of her nerdy friends.

    Other notable guests to have made an appearance as themselves on Big Bang Theory include Stan Lee, Bob Newhart, George Takei, Katee Sackhoff, Leonard Nimoy, Stephen Hawking and Summer Glau, among others.

    The landmark episode of the Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady and Steve Molaro series will air Thursday night on CBS.

    Who’s totally psyched to see Adam West come to The Big Bang Theory?

  • Stephanie Seymour Faces Leaving Scene Of Crash Charges On Top Of DUI

    Stephanie Seymour Faces Leaving Scene Of Crash Charges On Top Of DUI

    Supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who is already accused of driving under the influence in a Greenwich, Connecticut, crash last month, is facing separate charges for a second crash on the same night.

    According to People magazine, state police filed charges against Seymour after she allegedly backed up her black Land Rover into another vehicle at a stop sign on Jan. 15.

    Subsequently, police connected Seymour’s SUV to damaged utility pole at a second site. Police announced on Monday that she was being charged with leaving the scene of the incident.

    When arrested on Jan. 15, Seymour’s eyes were reportedly bloodshot, she was “unsteady on her feet” and her breath smelled like alcohol. Refusing a field sobriety test, the 47-year-old former supermodel was taken into custody.

    Damage was noted on the front of Seymour’s Land Rover from a prior crash, according to Greenwich police and an hour later the utility pole was found with extensive damage near her home in Stamford.

    The investigation revealed that a black Land Rover was involved in the incident with the pole near Seymour’s home and damage was consistent with the damage to Seymour’s car, according to a news release from Bridgeport police.

    Seymour is scheduled to appear in Stamford Superior Court on Feb. 2 on the state police charges and on Feb. 7 for the charges Greenwich Police filed.

    According to CBS News, Seymour asked to go to a rehabilitation center after being arrested for two drunk driving incidents last month during a court appearance on Tuesday.

    Seymour is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 7 to answer to the charges against her, which include evading responsibility and failure to drive in a proper lane.

  • Deborra-Lee Furness and Hubby Hugh Jackman Going Strong After 20 Years of Marriage

    Deborra-Lee Furness and hubby Hugh Jackman are still going strong after 20 years of marriage.

    With their 20-year anniversary just around the corner, Jackman, 47, says his marriage to Deborra-Lee, 60, is better than ever.

    “It gets better and better, I can honestly say that,” he said during an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres show on Monday. “She’s the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”

    According to E! News, Jackman noted that since the couple, who have two children together, Oscar, 15, and Ava, 10, met before he became a mega-star, she knew him long before all of hype.

    “I’m kind of really grateful that I met her before anything kind of happened,” he said. “Everything that’s happened in my career and onscreen, offscreen, we’ve always done it together.”

    Jackman and Furness became romantically linked during his “first job” on the Australian drama Corelli, but the actor did have some competition for her attention.

    “She was the star and I had this major crush on her,” he said. “Everyone did. The whole crew had a crush on her and I was so embarrassed by that, I didn’t talk to her for about a week.”

    Jackman conceded that a little nip from the bottle helped give him the courage to make a move on Furness.

    “I had a dinner party and I invited her over and about 20 other people,” he explained. “And she said, ‘What’s a matter, have I annoyed you? You’re not talking to me anymore. What have I done wrong?’ and I said – I’d had a couple – and I said ‘oh look, I’ve got a crush on you, I’ll get over it.’ And she went, ‘Oh really,’ ” and I was like, ‘Oh, this is bad.’ And she goes, ‘Yeah, I got one on you. too.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, great!’ So that was it.”

    “Twenty-one years later,” he added with a smile.

  • Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal, the Stars of the Iconic ’70s Film ‘Love Story’ Swap Stories At Harvard University

    Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal who proved that “love means never having to say you’re sorry” swapped stories at the university that served as the setting for their iconic film, Love Story.

    According to Page Six, one revelation shared was just how little MacGraw was paid — $20,000 — for playing Jenny.

    The actress shared this while reminiscing with O’Neal about the movie at Harvard University on Monday.

    MacGraw said she didn’t complain because the pay was a “lot of money” for her in those days. O’Neal joked that his salary didn’t even cover his alimony payments to Leigh Taylor-Young, whom he divorced in 1973.

    The film chronicles the love story of a rich boy and a girl from the other side of the tracks, from their collegiate days at Harvard University to her tragic death to cancer at the age of 25. The film made grown men weep.

    MacGraw and O’Neal visited Harvard some 45 years after the film was released and spoke with students about their memories of their time on campus filming the classic movie.

    MacGraw said being at Harvard brought back fond memories that few of her subsequent experiences in film ever matched.

    “It was a wonderful, wonderful adventure that was followed by some pretty dramatic stuff in my private life,” she noted,

    MacGraw, who dealt with addiction for years, walked away from acting in the years after her breakout role in Love Story, which was a huge box office success that received seven Academy Award nominations.

    O’Neal shared that cancer has played a big part in his life – as it had for his character in the movie. He recently battled leukaemia, but the disease is now in remission.

    He also alluded to the death of his long-time companion, actress Farrah Fawcett, who died of cancer in 2009.

  • Chelsea Handler Gives Hallucinogenic Drink Ayahuasca a Try For Her Netflix Docuseries

    Chelsea Handler gave the hallucinogenic drink Ayahuasca a try for her upcoming Netflix docuseries Chelsea Does.

    Handler said she tried the controversial beverage as an educational demonstration for her docuseries which will premiere Saturday on Netflix.

    “It’s supposed to be like this spiritually awakening drug, transformative, transcendent in certain ways,” she told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show earlier this week. “I want to show people what happens when you get f–ked up.”

    Ayahuasca is a controversial beverage that is considered a spiritual medicine among the indigenous people of Peru.

    In a clip from the series, Handler, 40, travels to Peru to try the drink, which is said to give users an out-of-body experience. After sipping meekly on the tea, she promptly throws up into a bucket on-camera.

    “We went down to Peru and we did it,” she told Fallon. “You vomit out of your mouth and out of … And Netflix paid for it, thank you guys.”

    Chandler told Ellen DeGeneres on Thursday that she did experience visions during her experiment.

    “I had all these beautiful imageries of my childhood and me and my sister laughing on a kayak, and all these beautiful things with me and my sister,” she said. “So [my experience] was very much about opening my mind to loving my sister, and not being so hard on her.”

    According to Us Weekly, Handler will also discuss topics like racism, marriage and Silicon Valley on the series.

    Chelsea Handler left her late night talk show, Chelsea Lately, in 2014. She is also set to host a new talk show set to premiere in May on Netflix.