The Valley‘s Michelle Lally was finally told about the rumors swirling around about her sending “sexy” photos to other men while married to Jesse Lally — and she didn’t seem to shut down the speculation.

During the Tuesday, May 14, episode, Jax Taylor told Michelle, 36, he wanted her to know what was being discussed behind her back.

“Three or four months ago, there was a girls’ night at my house. You guys all had fun and I came home and Kristen [Doute] was hammered. Then she started talking about you,” Jax, 44, recalled. “I know the kind of person Kristen is. When she gets to the bottom of the barrel, she will do whatever she can to ruin people’s lives. I want you to get ahead of [the rumors].”

According to Jax, Kristen, 41, claimed Michelle was “texting guys” and a “particular person on the side.” Michelle didn’t appear shocked by the news, saying, “I did tell her, ‘Oh, I met this celebrity and I was texting with him and I had coffee with him one morning.'”

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Jax said the rumors didn’t stop there. “She told me that you were texting this man sexy pictures of yourself,” he added, to which Michelle replied, “She is right. I have been texting multiple people.”

As the episode came to an end, viewers got a glimpse at the fallout. The trailer for the next installment showed Jesse, 43, and Michelle addressing the drama.

“I told you I had coffee,” Michelle explained to Jesse. He wasn’t as receptive, firing back, “And you were sending sexy pictures.”

Jesse later got emotional while reflecting on the state of his marriage. “I am trying so hard. I think we are done — me and Michelle,” he admitted to his costars.

The entire first season of The Valley has centered around speculation into Michelle’s personal life. Kristen specifically was the one who claimed Michelle was having an “emotional affair” with a “secret boyfriend” while still being married to Jesse. (The pair called it quits and filed for divorce after production on The Valley ended.)

Jax, however, became involved when he was the first one to bring it up on screen. During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Michelle said she wasn’t aware how many claims were being made about her on the show.

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“I felt very attacked and it was just one thing after the other. You’ll see that it never really stops,” she told Us about not seeing a “path forward” with Kristen as a result. “Just so many things happen to me. It is just hard to see a future. I don’t know. But we are nowhere close to that yet.”

Michelle also weighed in on Jax questioning her friendship with an unnamed director in an April episode of the show. “It’s probably a combination of both of them. I really don’t know exactly how it all started,” she added at the time. “Watching that yesterday was the first time that I had heard or seen that part. I’m a little thrown off by it. My marriage is not a game. We have a child and it’s hard to watch.”

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After filming concluded, Michelle found love with new boyfriend Aaron Nosler. Jesse, meanwhile, has publicly moved on with Lacy Nicole.

“I’m super happy with her. We’ve been great friends and we newly started dating. She’s just an incredible personality and she’s such a loving soul,” he shared with Us earlier this month. “We’re just super happy right now to get back to a place of happiness. I just feel more grounded and she’s special. But it’s new, so we’re just taking it slow.”

The Valley airs on Bravo Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET and new episodes are available to stream on Peacock the next day.

From action adventure to heartbreaking romance, there is a summer blockbuster for every type of cinephile this year, and Us Weekly has your complete guide to all of them.

Potentially the most anticipated movie of the season, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, serves as the fifth installment in director George Miller’s post-apocalyptic franchise. The film follows a young Furiosa played by Anya-Taylor Joy — first made famous by Charlize Theron in 2015’s Max Max: Fury Road — as she finds herself snatched from her home and caught between two rival tyrants, Dr. Dementus (Chris Hemsworth) and Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme).

Creating a summer epic, however, isn’t always an easy feat. Taylor-Joy told The New York Times in May that she would go “months” on the movie’s Australia set without speaking a single line of dialogue, noting that she’s “never been more alone than making that movie.”

Taylor-Joy did clarify, however, that her grievances were less about Miller as a director and more about what was required of her to bring Furiosa to life.

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“I do want to 100 percent preface this by saying I love George and if you’re going to do something like this, you want to be in the hands of someone like George Miller,” she explained. “But he had a very, very strict idea of what Furiosa’s war face looked like, and that only allowed me my eyes for a large portion of the movie. It was very much ‘mouth closed, no emotion, speak with your eyes.’ That’s it, that’s all you have.”

Despite the challenges of the role, Taylor-Joy added that she was interested in playing the character because she is a “really strong advocate of female rage,” and demanded that Furiosa’s pain come across on screen.

“We’re animals, and there’s a point where somebody just snaps,” she continued. “There’s one scream in that movie, and I am not joking when I tell you that I fought for that scream for three months.”

Keep scrolling for the Us’ biggest summer blockbusters of 2024:

‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ 

Release Date: Friday, May 24

Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke

Synopsis: Expanding George Miller’s franchise, Mad Max’s fifth installment follows a young Furiosa (Joy) who, after being snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dr. Dementus (Hemsworth). As they sweep through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe (Hulme). As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.

‘The Garfield Movie’ 

Release Date: Friday, May 24

Starring: Chris Pratt, Nicholas Hoult, Samuel L. Jackson, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein

Synopsis: Garfield (Pratt) has an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father (Jackson), a scruffy street cat who draws him into a high-stakes heist.

‘The Crow’ 

Release Date: Friday, August 23

Starring: Bill Skarsgård, FKA Twigs, Danny Huston, Isabella Wei

Synopsis: A reimagining of the original 1994 film, The Crow follows soulmates Eric (Skarsgård) and Shelly (Twigs) as they are brutally murdered after the demons of her dark past catch up with them. Given the chance to save his true love by sacrificing himself, Draven returns to seek bloody revenge against the killers, traversing the worlds of the living and the dead to put the wrong things right.

‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’

Release Date: Friday, June 7

Starring: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens

Synopsis: The fourth film of the iconic franchise, Ride or Die follows wisecracking Miami cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) as they embark on a dangerous mission to clear their late captain’s name after he gets linked to drug cartels. In the process, the duo are framed and have to go on the run while attempting to clear their names.

‘The Watchers’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 14

Starring: Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, Olwen Fouéré

Synopsis: Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and written by his daughter, Ishana Night Shyamalan, The Watchers centers on a 28-year-old artist (Fanning) who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. Finding shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are stalked by mysterious creatures every night.

‘Inside Out 2’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 14

Starring: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Tony Hale, Ayo Edebiri, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Liza Lapira, Paul Walter Hauser, Kensington Tallman, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: Joy (Poehler), Sadness (Smith), Anger (Blake), Fear (Hale) and Disgust (Lapira) have been running a successful operation of Riley’s (Tallman) emotions by all accounts following Pixar’s original 2015 film. However, when Anxiety (Hawke) shows up in the sequel as Riley turns 13, they aren’t sure how to feel.

‘The Bikeriders’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 21

Starring: Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Mike Fast, Norman Reedus

Synopsis: After a chance encounter at a local bar, Kathy (Comer) is drawn to Benny (Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Hardy). Over the course of a decade, the club begins to evolve from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.

‘Kinds of Kindness’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 21

Starring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Joe Alwyn, Willem Defoe, Margaret Qualley, Hunter Schafer

Synopsis: While much of the story details are being kept under wraps, the film will follow three simultaneous and overlapping stories; a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 28

Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff, Eliane Umuhire

Synopsis: Serving as a spinoff and prequel to the first two Quiet Place films, Day One takes audiences back to the first day the world went quiet, following Sam (Nyong’o) and Eric (Quinn) as they team up in an attempt to escape the city — and stay alive.

‘Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1’

Release Date: Friday, June 28

Starring: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Abbey Lee, Jamie Bower Campbell, Sam Worthington, Jenna Malone, Ella Hunt

Synopsis: In part 1 of Costner’s Western epic — which he directed, cowrote, partially-funded and stars in — families, friends and foes discover the lure of the Old West through overlapping stories of American settlers and Indigenous people in the Civil War era. If you’re a fan, Chapter 2 drops on Friday, August 16.

‘Despicable Me 4’ 

Release Date: Friday, July 3

Starring: Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, Joey King

Synopsis: Round 4! Gru (Carell) welcomes a new member to the family, Gru Jr., who’s intent on tormenting his dad. However, their peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when criminal mastermind Maxime Le Mal (Ferrell) escapes from prison and vows revenge against Gru.

‘MaXXXine’ 

Release Date: Friday, July 3

Starring: Mia Goth, Halsey, Elizabeth Debicki, Lily Collins

Synopsis: In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx (Goth) finally gets her big break. However, as a mysterious killer stalks — yes, that Night Stalker — the starlets of Los Angeles, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past in this horror flick, the third installment of the X franchise.

‘Fly Me to the Moon’ 

Release Date: Friday, July 12

Starring: Channing Tatum, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Dillenburg, Anna Garcia, Jim Rash,

Synopsis: During the 1960s Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, sparks fly between a marketing executive (Johansson) and a NASA official (Tatum) as he makes preparations for the Apollo 11 moon landing.

‘Twisters’ 

Release Date: Friday, July 19

Starring: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Kiernan Shipka, Anthony Ramos

Synopsis: A standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister, Kate Cooper (Edgar-Jones) gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Ramos), to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures. As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.

‘Deadpool and Wolverine’

Release Date: Friday, July 26

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin

Synopsis: In the third installment of the Marvel franchise, Wolverine (Jackman) finally crosses paths with the merc with a mouth, Deadpool (Reynolds). The duo team up to defeat a common enemy, Cassandra Nova (Corrin).

‘Borderlands’ 

Release Date: Friday, August 9

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu

Synopsis: A movie adaptation of the famous video game franchise, Borderlands finds infamous outlaw Lilith (Blanchett) returning to her home planet and forming an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.

‘It Ends With Us’ 

Release Date: Friday, August 9

Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj

Synopsis: Based on Colleen Hoover’s novel of the same name, Lily (Lively) overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with neurosurgeon Ryle (Baldoni, who is also directing) sparks a connection, but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents’ relationship. Further complications arise when a mysterious figure from her past, Atlas (Sklenar), resurfaces.

‘Cuckoo’

Release Date: Friday, August 9

Starring: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Jan Bluthardt, Marton Csokas

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Gretchen (Schafer) reluctantly leaves America to live with her father at a resort in the German Alps. Plagued by strange noises and bloody visions, she soon discovers a shocking secret that concerns her own family.

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‘Alien: Romulus’ 

Release Date: Friday, August 16

Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced, Archie Renaux, David Jonnson

Synopsis: The eighth installment in the Alien franchise, Romulus follows a group of young space colonizers who, while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Bonus: ‘The Fall Guy’ 

Release Date: Friday, May 3

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham

Synopsis: A little bit of a cheat, The Fall Guy is technically a spring-not-summer blockbuster. However, it may be the most fun you have all year. The film follows Colt Seavers (Gosling), a retired and beaten-down stunt performer who gets pulled back into the game when he’s recruited to find the missing star of a film (Taylor-Johnson). He also comes back to face the lost love of his life, Jody (Blunt), who happens to be directing the movie.

Bonus: ‘Hit Man’ 

Release Date: Friday, June 7

Starring: Glen Powell, Gary Johnson, Adria Arjona, Retta, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman

Synopsis: Co-written by leading man Powell, Hit Man will stream on Netflix, not the big screen, but it’s still a major movie of the summer. Professional killer Gary Johnson (Powell) breaks protocol to help a desperate woman, Maddy (Arjona), who is trying to flee an abusive husband and finds himself falling for her.

The Vanderpump Rules cast reunited to hash out their season 11 drama — and all it did was create more division between everyone.

During the first part of the special, which aired on Tuesday, May 14, Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval, Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, James Kennedy, Tom Schwartz, Scheana Shay and Lisa Vanderpump sat down to address the issues that plagued their friend group throughout the recent season.

Sandoval, 41, was immediately in the hot seat as host Andy Cohen brought up the aftermath of his cheating scandal with Rachel “Raquel” Leviss. Despite the ongoing division between the costars, everyone agreed that Rachel, 29, was the problem after she continued to discuss the controversy without participating on the show.

Although the Vanderpump Rules reunion featured plenty of back and forth, viewers have been more interested in where the cast stands since filming the special. There is also the fact that Bravo allegedly pressed pause on season 12 of Vanderpump Rules. Multiple outlets reported the news, and some of the cast members have subtly confirmed since then.

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Keep scrolling for the biggest revelations from the first part of the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion — and what it hinted about the dynamics in the friend group:

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The reunion started out with the cast discussing Rachel’s claim that Sandoval groomed her. She repeated the comment after Lala, 33, was the first to bring it up on screen when they filmed Vanderpump Rules last summer.

“She used the word ‘groomed’ which is beyond f—king slander considering she is not underage,” Sandoval explained. “That implies pedophilia.”

Lala disagreed with Sandoval’s perspective on the situation, saying, “It is taking someone who is younger than you and more impressionable than you and someone who is at a higher level of power than the other person.”

While reflecting on the origins of his affair, Sandoval stood his ground that Rachel was just as to blame as him. “I was very impressionable when she took all her clothes off and jumped in my f—king pool,” he fired back.

Lala ultimately said she wasn’t going to pass judgment since she wasn’t involved. “I am a projector. And I still have to catch myself,” she noted about how she related Sandoval’s behavior to her ex-fiancé, Randall Emmett. “Only Raquel and Tom know what was going on. He is going to see it differently. I tend to lean toward the chick a little more.”

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After Sandoval called Rachel a “coward” for not returning to the show, his costars took turns throwing their own shade.

Schwartz, 41, who was aware of the affair before anyone else, put the blame on Rachel, adding, “I’ve witnessed it. She was just as conniving if not more so. She was ruthless in her pursuit of pleasure. She was not a victim in this.”

The topic subsequently changed to Rachel suing Ariana, 38, and Sandoval for revenge porn, eavesdropping, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Scheana clarified to Andy that neither Ariana nor Sandoval could weigh in on the legal drama since it was still ongoing.

“Ariana did not send that video to anyone. She wasn’t distributing it. It is so ridiculous that she is putting through this s—t again,” Scheana said as Ariana noted, “I have never done anything to her.”

Sandoval surprisingly showed support for Ariana as well. “It is one thing for her to come after me but to come after Ariana, I am questioning if she has a f—king soul,” he shared.

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One month after Sandoval made headlines for comparing himself to O.J. Simpson and George Floyd, he attempted to clarify his initial point.

“Do I have to do a sales pitch on myself? I am not defending anything I said. I was just talking about the absurdity of the scandal,” he explained. “I just thought of big things in the news. Obviously they are parts of movements.”

Sandoval continued: “I am seeing the scandal sandwiched in between the war in Ukraine and some other s—t. This is stupid. Why is CNN talking about a cheating scandal on a guilty pleasure reality show?”

Lala jumped in to try to offer Sandoval’s point of view, saying, “It is a joke compared to what happens in the world.”

Despite not reading the entire article, Scheana’s husband, Brock Davies, shared his thoughts on the matter. “It was a clickbait and that is the problem. I am not paying for a subscription to the New York Times. I am reading that thing and that is what everyone else read,” Brock noted before Sandoval added, “No one actually even read the f—king article.”

Andy advised Sandoval to “fire” his PR team for the “bad article” while Lala asked Sandoval to “stop talking to people” for the sake of Vanderpump Rules. Later in the episode, Lisa even admitted that there was talk of changing the TomTom restaurant name because of the constant backlash against Sandoval.

Katie, 37, was one of the only cast members to put Sandoval in his place, saying, “There is a concept called intent vs impact. It doesn’t matter how you meant it, the problem is the impact it made. This is why you need to think before you speak.”

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While talking about her second pregnancy, Lala confirmed her custody battle with Randall, 53, over 3-year-old daughter Ocean was still ongoing. She also said Randall was “not around very often” when it came to his kids spending time together. (Randall also shares daughters London and Rhylee with ex-wife Ambyr Childers.)

Lala, who is expecting her second baby via IUI, teased that her dating life has been more exciting since she got pregnant again.

“The men are knocking now that I am knocked up,” she quipped. “My boobs are not going to be like this when I am not pregnant. I get really horny when I am pregnant. No man or woman is safe.”

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In unseen footage played at the reunion, Scheana, 39, opened up about her postpartum OCD.

“I don’t know if it is an intrusive thought or fear. I don’t think you and I are going to be together forever. Because I feel like one of us is going to die,” she told Brock in the clip about her concerns.

Brock also offered an update on two eldest kids, who he is still estranged from. He clarified that his ex wasn’t “keeping” his children from him but she communicated to him that they didn’t show interest in working out their relationship with Brock yet.

James Kennedy Calls Out Ariana Madix’s Relationship With Daniel Wai

During the special, James, 32, recalled feeling on the outs after his split from Rachel, which they confirmed at the season 10 reunion.

“When that breakup happened, everyone chose her side instead of my side. She was the It girl and me and Ally [Lewber] were the people that were around. It is what it was. I am over that,” he noted. “The question is why did Ariana have an easier time getting with Dan ten days after her [breakup] while I got with Ally two months after.”

Ariana, however, clarified she “met” Daniel after 10 days but it took “months” for them to start dating.

After Schwartz tried to offer his thoughts on James’ personal life, the professional DJ threw insults at just about everyone involved in Scandoval.

“Dude, [Schwartz] was f—king Raquel at the time. None of you knew about it. Then here comes Ally, my new girlfriend,” James said. “But no, it was [Scheana’s] best friend and she was at [Ariana’s] house 24/7 and [Sandoval] was getting your wee wee sucked downstairs. And you f—king knew about it. It’s just the facts. That is the clear line that was drawn.”

Sandoval’s Connection to Leonardo DiCaprio

Andy brought up Sandoval’s new girlfriend, Victoria Lee Robinson, and how she was previously linked to Leonardo DiCaprio. In response, James mentioned the custom wallpaper in Ariana and Sandoval’s shared house.

“One of the wallpaper pictures is Leo leaving the Chateau with a model in it. A tall brunette,” he said. “It is legendary.”

According to Ariana, she was the one who “picked” out the wallpaper.

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Lala Kent Outs Katie Maloney’s Private Messages Toward Her

Later in the reunion, Katie and Lala attempted to explain what led to their falling out. Their versions, however, didn’t seem to line up.

“It started because her and Scheana got close and Scheana and I were not in the greatest place,” Katie said before Lala added, “Here’s the difference. I treat my enemies like my enemies. But Katie and I have come a really long way so I want to choose my words wisely when I communicate with her. In the initial DM when she was upset about Scheana, what she put in there was extremely hurtful.”

Lala followed up by accusing Katie of sending a cruel message, saying, “She just talked about my custody battle. You said, ‘Get rid of your lawyers because what you need is a f—king therapist. You are a f—king clown.”

According to Katie, she did call Lala a clown but didn’t suggest a lawyer. Katie also suggested a therapist for Lala as a show of support.

Lala Kent Creates Division Between Katie Maloney and Ariana Madix

As Lala and Katie continued to get into it, Ariana became a topic of conversation. “I felt abandoned by you this season,” Lala told Katie, who fired back, “Why because I didn’t want to jump on the Tom train?”

Lala, however, said her issue was with Katie’s decision not to address things on screen. “We both had conversations about this … It was that [Ariana] basically abandoned you in this sandwich shop. This time last year you said she wasn’t caught up on her rent for the sandwich show,” Lala noted. “I know what I am talking about.”

Katie, who denied Lala’s version of events, admitted she did have certain frustrations.

“[Ariana’s Broadway job] was the one time I wish I had gotten a little bit of a heads up because I didn’t find out about the Broadway thing. I was like, ‘That would have been nice to know,” she admitted. “The issues I was having was because of my own insecurities.”

Lala followed up by accusing Katie of not being honest. “You and I are truth tellers. We say s—t how it is. So why when the camera goes up am I suddenly the enemy when I am talking about the same s—t we said on the phone?” she asked. “There were a few people here that were sitting in the comments section all the livelong season. Katie is one of them. Scheana and James.”

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“It is no secret that Ariana is a fan-favorite,” Lala said about why she thought others didn’t speak out as much during season 11. “You don’t f—k around with that.”

Katie stood her ground that she wasn’t speaking badly of Ariana behind her back. “I came to you because I didn’t want to go to her with that drama. I didn’t want to guilt her so I went to one of my other friends to vent about it,” Katie explained. “But if you are not one of the people I can confide in then I will go to someone else. I didn’t want to take it to her.”

According to Lala, she was on the phone when Katie “lost her mind” on her. Katie, however, fired back with claims that Lala wanted her to throw Ariana “under the bus.”

“I wanted to film a show and suddenly the name of the game is different,” Lala shot back. “You said, ‘I am not going to say these things because I invested a lot of money in this sandwich shop. If you are going to f—k with my business then I will f—k with yours.'”

Looking Ahead

In the trailer for the next installment, Ariana and Lala didn’t seem to be on the same page.

“I have always known your situation is different and I have always supported it,” Ariana said while arguing with Lala. “You talk louder than everybody until you are right.”

Everyone goes through an awkward phase, even megawatt movie stars like Chris Pine.

Pine, 43, was dropped right back into one of the hardest and most uncomfortable periods of his life during the Thursday, May 9 episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. Host Josh Horowitz asked the Poolman actor to recount his bombed audition for Fox’s The O.C., which aired from 2003 to 2007. While Pine would go on to prove he has leading man chops, his acting wasn’t what got him eliminated from the casting call — it was his “awful skin.”

“I was going out for The O.C., a teenage melodrama. I can understand that they wanted to have pretty people doing pretty things,” he said, with the benefit of hindsight. “It’s no fun going out for roles when you have bad skin. It was one of the most traumatic points in my life.”

In Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History, released last fall, casting director Patrick Rush revealed that Pine’s acne was the reason he didn’t score the role of Ryan Atwood, which went to Benjamin McKenzie.

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“I hate saying this, but it’s the truth: Chris Pine was at the age where he was experiencing really bad skin problems. And it was at that point where it looked insurmountable,” Rush said in the book. “And as a kid who grew up with horrible skin, it just broke my heart.”

On Thursday’s podcast, Horowitz offered that not landing a role on the Fox soap might have been a blessing, giving the way his career turned out.

“I don’t want to say I’m grateful for not having landed The O.C., but …” Pine agreed.

Pine also took a moment to raise awareness that acne can be more than just a passing time in a young person’s life.

“Acne is regarded as this thing; it’s like what you go through as a teenager,” he said. “It can also be tremendously debilitating and, like, really seriously emotionally incapacitating.”

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Pine went on to say that he hopes people dealing with persistent, long-term skin issues know that it does eventually get better.

“Anyone out there who’s experiencing that, I get you. I hear you. I’ve been there. I know it. I know how depressing it can be and the kind of depths of sorrow it can drag you to but there is a brighter day,” he said.

Pine’s career is proof of that. Shortly after The O.C. first aired, Pine’s career got a jump-start with a role in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The 2004 movie offered him $65,000 to play one of lead Anne Hathaway’s potential suitors, an amount of money he said was “earth-shattering” at the time.

Since then, Pine has taken on two of the most iconic characters in all of nerdom with roles as Captain Kirk in three Star Trek films and Wonder Woman love interest Steve Trevor. His attitude toward everything from negative reviews to his own outfits proves that he’s learned to let incidents like one bad casting call roll off his back.

Take it from actor-director John Krasinski: peer pressure works.

During a stop on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Friday, May 10, Krasinski, 44, said he used “emotional blackmail” to add Blake Lively to the ranks of his star-studded cast of IF, which already included her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

“I was like, ‘Everybody’s doing it,’” Krasinski said of his pitch.

In addition to Reynolds, with whom the Gossip Girl alum shares four children, Lively, 36, joined the likes of Krasinski’s former Office costar Steve Carrell, Bradley Cooper and George Clooney in the movie about the world of imaginary friends. She plays Octopuss, a cat that dresses up like an octopus to will herself past her fear of water.

Krasinski says he came up with the idea almost a decade ago while watching his kids play and felt a newfound urgency to complete it during the coronavirus pandemic.

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“I used to just stand in the doorway and watch my kids disappear into this magical world that we as parents aren’t allowed in,” he shared. “It actually wasn’t until the pandemic when genuinely I saw their lights starting to go out … I went, ‘That’s it, I’m writing this movie right now to prove to you that magical world is always there. You can always go back.’”

The idea resonated with Hollywood A-listers, as Krasinski said he received “the most ‘yeses’ of my career” for the movie. Clooney’s decision to take a role in the movie is particularly resonant for Krasinski, as he was the first person who saw the one-time sitcom star moving into the director’s chair.

“He was the first person who ever thought I would direct. He would take me to dinner while we were shooting Leatherheads, and he would show me a drawing. ‘This is what I’m going to shoot tomorrow. This is where I’m going to place the cameras,’” Krasinski told Fallon. “I said, ‘That’s amazing. Why are you telling me this?’ He said, ‘Well, you’re not just going to be an actor, are you?’”

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Krasinski said that Clooney, 63, saw the desire to direct in him before he did, joking that he only “takes 10 percent” for his mentorship. The Clooney team-up was far from the only emotional reunion brought on by the film. A video shared by Paramount Pictures captured Carrell and Krasinski reuniting for the first time in years while making the movie. Krasinski told Total Film Magazine that Carrell’s speech to him soon after brought on the waterworks.

“As much fun as it was to work with him, the most powerful part about it was he came in with the most heartfelt speech about how proud he is of me to be making movies. He said in reading the script, ‘I’m just so honored to be a part of it. I’ll do whatever it takes,’” the director shared last month. “So when I thought that I would be laughing all day, I was crying all day.”

IF hits theaters on Friday, May 17.

After a six-year romance with Taylor Swift, Joe Alwyn is used to internet stans being a little bit catty toward him. Maybe that served as the inspiration for his feline-centric promotion for his new movie with Emma Stone?

Alwyn, 33, shared a still via Instagram on Friday, May 10, from their upcoming film, Kinds of Kindness. He followed the official still with a parody photo of himself and Stone, 35, as cats. The film is Yorgos Lanthimos’ follow-up to 2023’s Poor Things, which also starred Stone and netted her a Best Actress Oscar earlier this year.

Alwyn and Stone are long-time friends, having worked together on another Lanthimos picture 2018’s The Favourite. That relationship hasn’t soured in the wake of Alywn’s split from Swift, another close friend of the actress (and famous cat lover). Speaking about their time on set, Stone called Alywn “one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet” in press production notes for the movie.

“I love Joe,” she shared. “We had to do some pretty dark stuff on this one, so it was extremely comforting to be with him.”

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Alwyn and Swift called it quits in 2023. Their separation and a subsequent fling with The 1975’s Matty Healy inspired much of her most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department. The album held equal venom for Healy’s alleged pretensions as for fans who criticized Swift’s choice of partner. A reference to London pub The Black Dog — along with the insinuation that Alwyn is a regular — caused Swifties to swarm the bar looking for her ex.

“I don’t want to give too much away, We do have a certain blond regular who frequents, let’s just say that,” proprietor Lily Bottomley told Sky News.

The reported haunt of Alwyn became decidedly less conducive to a quiet pint, as Bottomley began to sell Swift-themed items (and reported the highest foot traffic the bar has ever seen).

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While Alwyn and Swift were together, they kept their relationship as buttoned-up and close to the vest as possible. A source close to the couple told Us Weekly that the intense scrutiny of Swift’s fans was a sticking point in their relationship. “Joe is very shy and never liked all of the attention that came with dating one of the most popular singers in the world,” the insider said.

The spotlight-averse actor has remained mum about the breakup in the wake of TTPD, even while working with one of Swift’s collaborators on the project. Stone is credited with contributing “oddities” on “Florida!!!,” featuring Florence and the Machine.

The Fire Country cast is excited to get started filming season 3 — and they already have their dream story lines.

During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly at the CBS Fall Schedule Celebration, Billy Burke, Jordan Calloway and Jules Latimer shared where they want to see their characters go in the upcoming season.

“I would like to see these people sitting around in the firehouse perhaps playing charades,” Burke, 57, who plays Vince, quipped. “There’s been a lot of talk about it. We’re gonna try to deal with [and] see what these people do when there’s no tragedy going on.”

Latimer, 30, meanwhile, expressed excitement at how more episodes will let everyone evolve, adding, “With a third season we’re gonna dive into character[s] or character development and what we do outside of the incidents. At least that’s what Billy wants to have happen!”

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The CBS series follows inmate Bode (Max Thieriot) as he gets a chance to shorten his prison sentence by volunteering for the California Conservation Camp Program. Bode gets assigned to his hometown, where he reconnects with his family, former friends and continues to make attempts to redeem himself.

When season 2 premiered in February, Bode was now back in prison after taking the fall for drugs that weren’t his. Jake (Calloway), meanwhile, took over as Cal Fire captain while Eve (Latimer) is now leading at Three Rock.

Eve definitely has a lot on her plate but Latimer still has more plot line ideas on her wishlist.

“I want a little bit more money. Maybe a little cutie,” Latimer told Us. “Maybe go on a date or two or five? As much as [Eve has this] authority — I’ve been telling the men what to do [on the show] — Eve needs a little cutie.”

Meanwhile, Calloway would love to share the screen more with Latimer.

“I want to have some more scenes with my little sis over here because I want to be able to check [on] her and make sure she knows what’s right and what’s wrong,” the actor noted. “However, I do want that [Division Chief]. Like that’s the goal.”

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Burke jumped in to throw one more idea into the mix, adding, “I’m going to pitch a midlife crisis for Vince.”

Fire Country viewers are familiar with Burke’s hot takes on the show. Before season 2 premiered, Burke offered his insight on Vince and wife Sharon’s (Diane Farr) marriage as they dealt with a rough patch due to Bode going back to prison.

“I think regardless of what happens between Vince and Sharon, I think people will still root for it,” he told Us about the fictional couple’s “idealistic” relationship. “What we try to do is make it more relatable to people who are in a similar relationship. Who do have undying responsibility to each other and to those around them. So I think that’s the dynamic that people can invest in.”

Burke added: He teased, “In terms of what will happen, again, don’t know, I just kind of go along for the ride like everybody else does.”

Fire Country airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.

With reporting by Kevin Zelman

Jinkx Monsoon is already a two-time RuPaul’s Drag Race champion and a Broadway star, but now she can add “terrifying sci-fi villain” to her résumé.

Monsoon, 36, stars as Maestro on the Friday, May 10, episode of Doctor Who, and she had an absolute blast diving into the role.

“As a character actor who likes to work in the absurd and the over-the-top, to get to play a godlike demonic embodiment of music — I mean, roles like this do not come along often,” Monsoon exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of her Doctor Who debut. “I’ve gotten to play some really cool roles, but this has everything all in one character. So it was just a dream job. I still can’t believe I got asked to do this job. It was incredible.”

The character of Maestro wasn’t written expressly for Monsoon, but the part has all the campy charm that made her a fan favorite and two-time winner on Drag Race. She landed the gig after showrunner Russell T Davies attended one of her stage shows.

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“He saw my show Together Again, Again! … I played myself in my 80s in this show that I wrote, and I play a bit of a monstrous version of myself,” Monsoon told Us. “I think he saw something in [there] that he wanted for this villain. Some of the character existed before me and some of it was added to incorporate my strengths.”

Monsoon is a longtime Doctor Who fan, but she was particularly thrilled to appear on the show this season as Ncuti Gatwa takes the helm as the first openly LGBTQIA+ actor to play the Doctor. Monsoon’s character, Maestro, is also nonbinary — and pointedly corrects another character on their pronouns during their first scene.

“Doctor Who has always had a big queer fan base, and the fact that this season is really leaning into the inherent queerness that has always existed in Doctor Who, it feels like it’s very much a new iteration of Doctor Who that is very much for the fan base,” Monsoon told Us. “I feel so lucky that this is the season I get to join because I’ve been a fan of Russell’s writing for so long, and I find his work so prolific and impactful.”

She continued, “Now that it’s giving the fresh perspective of Ncuti as the Doctor and inviting people like me to play guest stars — that’s how we keep these things alive. We have to embrace fresh perspectives, because that’s what audiences want. We want truth. We want authenticity. We want the stories to have meaning because the performers telling the stories care, and the representation matters. It improves everything for everyone really — everyone gets to bring their best self.”

Maestro being nonbinary was written into the script, and Monsoon thinks that gender identity makes perfect sense for the character.

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​​”Why would a god care about gender? Why would a god adhere to gender rules that we created?” Monsoon asks. “They don’t care. And getting asked to play a character that gets to be a rebel in that way? Like, ‘I don’t care about human standards and societal norms. Why? Because I’m so much more powerful than all of that.’ That’s a strong message. Even though I was playing a villain, that’s a very strong message to send to your audience.”

In addition to making a splash on Doctor Who, Monsoon is currently starring as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors at New York City’s Westside Theatre through May 26. She’ll also return to Chicago next month as Matron “Mama” Morton after making her Broadway debut in the role last year. Asked which role she identifies with more, Monsoon chose Mama — but she still loves Audrey.

“I guess I don’t actually identify with Audrey. I’ve always loved the character, but I’ve always seen other women I know in Audrey,” she explained. “So, I honestly actually feel like I’m more in line with Mama Morton. I’m very much the matriarch of my chosen family. And even though I’m not the oldest femme person in my blood family, my mom and my aunt have pretty much relented to me being the matriarch. It’s an Encanto situation.”

Doctor Who streams on Disney+ Fridays at 7 p.m. ET.

Vanderpump Rules star Jo Wenberg claimed Tom Schwartz blocked her after she spoke about his girlfriend, Sophia Skoro, during an Instagram Live.

Jo, 35, took to Instagram Live once again on Friday, May 10, and read alleged text messages from Schwartz, 41.

“Please don’t mention me or my girlfriend anymore. Why would you waste another second of your life chasing someone who doesn’t want to be with you,” one alleged message from Schwartz said, according to Jo, who was reading off of her cell phone.

While Schwartz said he wasn’t trying to “gaslight” Jo, he asked that she “let [him] go,” adding, “Respectfully blocking you so whatever you say will fall on deaf ears.”

Jo said she would continue to talk about the reality star because he was a “massive part” of her life, and she now “can kind of relate to” Schwartz’s ex-wife, Katie Maloney.

“She probably wasn’t wrong,” Jo said of Katie, 37, before bringing up their dynamic during season 11. “However, she was mean to me, but if you really think about it and break it down … you know what, I really learned my lesson.”

Jo’s IG Live comes one day after she called Schwartz’s girlfriend “a fan” on the platform.

“I think Tom Schwartz is dating a fan. Sorry, I mean, I just know that for a fact,” she said of Sophia, who first sparked romance rumors with Schwartz in March. “And I think that that’s amazing. … Like, let’s just let him do his thing.”

Following Schwartz and Katie’s split in March 2022 after 12 years together, the TomTom co-owner was romantically linked to Jo the following December. In February 2023, Schwartz said he and Jo were living together but claimed their relationship was platonic.

While Jo didn’t receive a warm welcome from Schwartz’s Vanderpump Rules castmates, Katie said her ex showed a “bit of a F-boy behavior” after hearing Jo’s side of things during the season 11 reunion.

“Seeing their dynamic and seeing how they were together and getting kind of Jo’s perspective on the whole thing was very eye-opening,” Katie exclusively told Us Weekly in April. “And I kind of did feel for her because he was giving her the runaround and breadcrumbing her a bit, and it made me feel a little sad because she did have an investment in him and real feelings there.”

Camryn Manheim will leave Law & Order following the season 23 finale.

Manheim, 63, portrays Lieutenant Kate Dixon, joined the cast when NBC revived the series in 2021. The May 16 season finale will be her 48th and final episode.

“I thank Camryn for her three wonderful seasons helping us relaunch Law & Order,” creator Dick Wolf said in a statement on Friday, May 10. “She is a class act, and I wish her nothing but the best for her next chapter.”

Though Manheim became known on the series for playing Dixon, the commanding officer of the Manhattan North Homicide Squad, that wasn’t actually her first character in the franchise. She appeared in a guest spot during the show’s first season in 1991 and returned playing other characters in 1993 and 1994.

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“I had the most incredible experience being a part of the Law & Order Universe, and more importantly the Wolfpack,” Manheim wrote via Instagram on Friday. “I’m so thankful for the three wonderful seasons that I spent with this wildly talented cast of merry pranksters. Mehcad Brooks, Reid Scott, Connie Shi, Anthony Anderson, Jeffrey Donovan, Hugh Dancy, Odelya Halevi, Tony Goldwyn and Sam Waterston. Not to mention the stellar guest stars that came in and out of the studio doors.”

Manheim’s departure follows that of Waterston, who played District Attorney Jack McCoy in 405 episodes from 1994 to 2024. His final appearance came in February, and Goldwyn, 63, has since replaced him, playing new DA Nick Baxter.

“Greetings, you wonderful people. It’s a pleasure to talk directly like this to the backbone of Law & Order’s absolutely amazing audience,” Waterston, 83, told The Hollywood Reporter at the time of his departure. “The time has come for me to move on and take Jack McCoy with me. There’s sadness in leaving, but I’m just too curious about what’s next. An actor doesn’t want to let himself get too comfortable. I’m more grateful to you than I can say.”

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Manheim and Waterston’s exits come on the heels of Donovan, who played Detective Frank Cosgrove, leaving the show last season. In season 21, Anderson left, with his character being replaced by Brooks.

When Manheim first joined the cast as a series regular during Law & Order’s revival, she came in to replace S. Epatha Merkerson. Merkerson, 71, played Lieutenant Anita Van Buren from 1993 to 2010, when the show was originally canceled.

Law & Order has already been renewed for a 24th season amid a 56 percent viewership bump from season 22.

Whether it’s drama, comedy or something in between, TV show writers have never been afraid to surprise audiences with a memorable character death.

Back in March 1975, M*A*S*H became a TV death pioneer when Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) died in the season 3 finale. The character was headed home after being honorably discharged from the army, but before he could make it, he was killed by enemy fire.

Some 21st-century shows, however, make M*A*S*H‘s surprise death look tame.

Lost, which ran from 2004 to 2010, became known for its shocking twists before the first season was even finished. In the April 2005 episode “Do No Harm,” viewers were devastated when Boone (Ian Somerhalder) died after a plane fell on him in the jungle, and his passing was just the beginning.

Manifest, You, Game of Thrones and more hit series have also thrown fans for a loop by killing off fan favorites.

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The Conners is gearing up to take its final bow.

ABC renewed the series for a seventh season on Friday, May 10, which will serve as its last. The final season will reportedly be shorter than previous installments and consist of six episodes, according to Variety.

ABC declined to comment on season 7’s episode order.

“You’ve been part of this family for years. After 6 seasons, be there to say goodbye,” ABC captioned a trailer sharing the announcement on YouTube Friday.

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The sitcom premiered in October 2018 as a replacement for the Roseanne continuation that began that March. The show was forced to pivot after nine episodes when series star Roseanne Barr exited the series after receiving criticism for racially insensitive social media posts. Barr, 71, has since apologized for making a “bad joke” about White House aide Valerie Jarrett’s appearance and politics.

After Barr departed the show, The Conners focused on the rest of the family as they faced life after the matriarch’s on-screen death. The series stars John Goodman as Dan Conner, Laurie Metcalf as Jackie Harris, Sara Gilbert as Darlene Conner, Lecy Goranson as Becky Conner-Healy, Emma Kenney as Harris Conner-Healy, Ames McNamara as Mark Conner-Healy and Jay R. Ferguson as Ben Olinsky. The Conners was renewed for a second season in the spring of 2018.

“While we wish the very best for the cast and production crew of The Conners, all of whom are deeply dedicated to their craft and were Roseanne’s cherished colleagues, we regret that ABC chose to cancel Roseanne by killing off the Roseanne Conner character,” Barr and her rabbi, Shmuley Boteach, told Us Weekly in a statement after the premiere in 2018. “That it was done through an opioid overdose lent an unnecessary grim and morbid dimension to an otherwise happy family show.”

Six years after her exit, Barr opened up about the sitcom continuing without her, telling The Los Angeles Times in February 2023 that she “just can’t bear” to watch, so she doesn’t tune in.

“When they killed my character off, that was a message to me, knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues, that they did want me to commit suicide,” she told the outlet. “They killed my character. … And all of that was to say thank you for bringing 28 million viewers, which they never had before and will never see again. Because they can kiss my a—.”

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The rest of the cast, meanwhile, have often expressed their gratitude that the show has been able to continue despite the drama.

“I was really excited, and I did not know what to expect in the sense of everyone coming back together,” Kenney, 24, gushed exclusively to Us on the subject of returning to The Conners for a second season. “I’m really grateful that it came together the way it did, and I’m really excited for the stories that we’re telling this season. … It was a happy moment seeing everyone again, and I’m really happy that we’re all back together, and I know everyone has each other’s backs.”

She continued, “Everyone is very professional. Everyone is very kind, and it’s just a very good group of people working together. We all have very similar kinds of motives and agendas. And, we know the stories that we want to tell this season, and this is the same family – the Conner family – and I’m really looking forward to telling more of their stories and their lives.”

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Season 6 of The Conners premiered in February, with the series celebrating its 100th episode last month. At the time, showrunner Bruce Helman told Deadline that there have been “no long-term contracts” for the show, as the cast and crew have continued to go season-by-season and “see what happens after that.” He added that he was crafting the end of season 6 to work as a series finale, if necessary.

“We’ve got a final episode that may be one or the other. We love it,” he told the outlet. “Well, we can promise you this, whatever it is, it will not be what people expect, because we pride ourselves on doing that. And so it will be unexpected, and it will be emotional.”

The Conners airs on ABC Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET.

Taylor Swift officially changed her Eras Tour setlist to include The Tortured Poets Department in her first concert since the album’s release.

The singer, 34, resumed the international leg of her tour at Paris La Défense Arena in France on Thursday, May 9. During the show, she added six songs to the already packed lineup: “But Daddy I Love Him” with a snippet of “So High School” as the outro, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me,” “Down Bad,” “Fortnight,” The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” Swift also played “loml” during the acoustic set, right after the Midnights song “Paris.”

The following night in Paris on Friday, May 10, Swift played an acoustic version of “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys” as one of her surprise songs.

The Tortured Poets Department set began with Swift’s background dancers slowly progressing onto the stage dressed all in white. Swift then emerged in a white dress with black ink writing on the skirt. She also donned a black choker necklace similar to the one she wore to the Grammys in February, the night she announced TTPD. Swift later removed the dress to reveal a black, sparkly bralette and matching high-waisted underwear. She added a gold jacket to the ensemble to perform the final song of the TTPD set, “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.”

Swift has been on a two-month hiatus from her tour since performing in Singapore in March. During her time off, she released her 11th studio album in April, which she described in an Instagram post at the time as “an anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.”

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She continued: “This period of the author’s life is now over, the chapter closed and boarded up. There is nothing to avenge, no scores to settle once wounds have healed. And upon further reflection, a good number of them turned out to be self-inflicted. This writer is of the firm belief that our tears become holy in the form of ink on a page. Once we have spoken our saddest story, we can be free of it. And then all that’s left behind is the tortured poetry.”

Two hours after the album’s release, Swift dropped 15 additional songs. “It’s a 2 a.m. surprise: The Tortured Poets Department is a secret DOUBLE album,” she wrote via Instagram. “I’d written so much tortured poetry in the past two years and wanted to share it all with you, so here’s the second installment of TTPD: The Anthology. Fifteen extra songs. And now the story isn’t mine anymore … it’s all yours.”

The Tortured Poets Department broke a multitude of records upon its debut, with its first-week total sales coming in at 2.61 million units. Swift celebrated the accomplishment in an April Instagram post.

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“My mind is blown. I’m completely floored by the love you’ve shown this album,” she gushed. “2.6 million ARE YOU ACTUALLY SERIOUS?? Thank you for listening, streaming and welcoming Tortured Poets into your life. Feeling completely overwhelmed.”

Swift then shared her enthusiasm over returning to the Eras Tour after the album’s success. “I was already so fired up to get back to the tour but you doing THIS??” she concluded. “May 9th can’t come soon enough.”

The Eras Tour kicked off in March 2023 and will run through December, and it already had a massive three-and-a-half hour setlist that highlighted hits from throughout Swift’s career. Still, fans speculated in April that she was planning to add The Tortured Poets Department after she shared a YouTube Shorts video of her tour rehearsals, where Swifties spotted several hints that changes were in the works. In one clip, Swift posed in front of a sign that appeared to feature the album’s logo, and in another segment, her backup dancers seemed to be practicing with new props.

Jason Kelce’s former teammate, Jake Elliott says the former center has been in the Eagles building “almost every day” since retiring in March.

“It’s always gonna be impossible to replace guys like [Jason] Kelce and Fletcher [Cox], we’re definitely sad to see them go,” the Philadelphia Eagles kicker, 29, said during a Friday, May 10 episode of NFL Total Access. “The breadcrumbs that they left behind and the leadership roles that they’ve passed on to the other guys, you see little hints of them throughout the locker room now.”

He continued: “They’ve made a huge impact that’s gonna last a long time. Those guys aren’t gonna be far. I know Kelce has been in the building almost every day already. They’re always gonna be a big part of our organization.”

When Elliott was asked if there was a chance of Kelce, 36, coming out of retirement, he replied: “That’s not my deal, you can talk to Jason about that.”

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Elliott and Kelce were teammates from 2017 to 2022. (Elliott was cut by the Cincinnati Bengals before being picked up by the Eagles.) Elliott and Kelce and their respective wives, Annie and Kylie, are good friends off the field too.

Earlier this month, Kelce opened up about the “next phase” of his career at ESPN during an episode of his “New Heights” podcast with Travis Kelce.

“Nothing’s been officially inked yet or announced yet,” Jason said at the time. “But obviously there’s been a lot of reports out there about me going to ESPN and I think time will kind of take care of that.”

The Athletic reported in April that Jason signed to be an on air talent for ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown alongside host Scott Van Pelt and analysts Ryan Clark and Marcus Spears.

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During that period, the outlet reported that Kelce was being pursued to appear on sports shows by NBC, Prime Video and CBS.

Jason announced his retirement on March 4 during a press conference.

“Stepping on the field was the most alive and free I had ever felt,” Jason told the crowd. “There was a visceral feeling with football, unlike any sport. The hairs on my arms would stand up. I could hit somebody, run around like a crazed lunatic and then get told, ‘Good job.’ I love football.”

Jason, along with 25 other football players, attended the Broadcasting and Media Workshop to hone their craft in becoming studio analysts in April 2023.

“This is all new territory for me. I have even more respect for it now,” Jason told the Associated Press about the workshop. “It’s very hard to do something live, reactive of stimulus that just happened and having something clever and meaningful to say.”

After being spotted filming with the group, Rebecca Minkoff is playing coy about reports that she’s the newest Real Housewives of New York City cast member.

“Maybe,” Minkoff, 43, teased to Us Weekly exclusively when asked about the RHONY rumors at the Accessories Council Excellence Awards on Tuesday, May 7.

“There’s a side of me that’s very lighthearted, funny and very dorky,” Minkoff continued. “If I were to be on the show, I would want people to see that side of me.”

Reports regarding Minkoff’s stint on the show started swirling last month after Deadline revealed that the designer joined RHONY in an unspecified role. Production sources later confirmed to Us that Minkoff had “been shooting with some of the ladies for the upcoming season.”

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Further details about her role are being kept under wraps for now, the insider added.

RHONY premiered via Bravo in March 2008 and aired for 13 seasons before being put on pause. In July 2023, the revamped RHONY officially aired its 14th season with an entire new cast, including Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield.

As season 14 came to an end in October 2023, the future of the franchise was up in the air. Bravo officially announced season 15 in March, revealing all of the women were set to return.

Initially, there were rumors that Lyons, 55, would be handing in her apple, but the fashion industry mogul was the one “to dispel the rumors” in the season 15 teaser.

Lyons revealed on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in October 2023 that her “thorn” from her inaugural RHONY season was “the whole show.” The Bravo star was quick to backtrack, adding that “realizing how hard it was” came as a shock.

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“I really thought I was going to have an easier time. It was hard,” she admitted. “It’s shocking when you actually have cameras on you. I thought I could handle it, and I cried.”

While speaking to Us exclusively at the time, Lyons admitted she doesn’t “understand” how she became a fan-favorite cast member, noting that it was “100 percent” a surprise.

“I do find the passion and the loyalty from the fans really incredible,” she continued. “It makes the process more fun.”

Lyons added: “After my first couple of days filming with big personalities like Ubah and Brynn, I didn’t think anyone would even remember my name. Let alone fangirl and fanboy on the street.”

Bravo released a sneak peek of the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion, and it didn’t take long for Rachel “Raquel” Leviss‘ name to come up.

During the first seven minutes of next week’s Bravo special, host Andy Cohen asked the cast for their thoughts on Rachel’s exit and subsequent transition to podcast host.

“All this nonsense on a podcast and her denigrating everyone — it’s absolutely ridiculous,” Lisa Vanderpump said before Tom Sandoval asked whether she actually listened to the “Rachel Goes Rogue” podcast.

“I don’t listen to it,” Lisa, 63, replied. “I mean, from what I’ve been told.”

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Sandoval, 41, recalled initially not being sure whether Rachel, 29, would return to the show, adding, “I always encouraged her to take some time away from everybody, including myself, and come to her decision that way.”

The rest of the Vanderpump Rules cast was asked whether they had “any regrets” about their final conversations with Rachel. In March 2024, Rachel, Sandoval, Ariana Madix, Katie Maloney, Lala Kent, Scheana Shay, James Kennedy and Tom Schwartz sat down to address Scandoval mere weeks after the cheating scandal made headlines.

At the time, Rachel was ripped apart by her costars for being friends with Ariana, 38, while secretly hooking up with Sandoval. Rachel later checked herself into a mental health facility and announced she wouldn’t be appearing on Vanderpump Rules again.

Season 11 of Vanderpump Rules picked back up three months after the drama, with some people willing to give Rachel another chance. Despite Lala, 33, calling Rachel on-air to try to make amends, she had different thoughts after Rachel’s August 2023 tell-all interview with Bethenny Frankel.

“As time passes, there’s healing that happens. And I think had she come back, we would have had a very productive conversation,” Lala noted in the sneak peek. “But I stand behind everything that I said at that reunion.”

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Meanwhile, Ariana stood by her decision to call Rachel out, saying, “I mean I had the courage to stand up to my perpetrators. I can’t believe I even showed up that day.”

Lala, however, argued that showing up to the season 11 reunion was more difficult for Rachel — and Sandoval.

“Well, I think credit needs to be given to her with that. Because I’m very proud of Ariana for coming and facing something that was very difficult. She had a solid support system physically in the room and outside, right?” Lala pointed out. “For Tom and Raquel to show up — now that was like, ‘Damn, I consider myself a tough bitch, I don’t think I could have. I don’t think I would have.'”

That’s when Sandoval chimed in with his criticism of Rachel, whom he briefly dated before her 90-day stay at a facility resulted in their offscreen split.

“Looking back, I think she’s a f–king coward. Like, I’m sorry to say it,” he fired back. “And I think her sitting here preaching to everybody that she’s moving on but still talking relentlessly about me and everybody is just f–king ridiculous.”

Sandoval’s frustration comes after Rachel made countless references to their fling on her podcast. She notably claimed that Sandoval mocked her choice to seek treatment for her mental health.

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Rachel admitted she didn’t have fond memories of Sandoval, adding, “The amount of times that Sandoval called me selfish while I was in the Meadows and [said] that I’m running away from my problems. And [said] that I’m dependent on this place that’s basically an assisted living facility.”

The former reality TV star thought Sandoval was “guilt-tripping” her for working on herself.

“That just reveals the type of person that he is,” she continued. “Knowing how important mental health has become in my life and how much of a priority that is to me, there’s no question that Sandoval and I will never be friends again.”

Sandoval, for his part, has claimed he showed support for Rachel before she cut off all contact. He has since been dating Victoria Lee Robinson, while Rachel sparked romance rumors with businessman Matthew Dunn.

The first part of the Vanderpump Rules season 11 reunion airs on Bravo Tuesday, May 14, at 8 p.m. ET and is available to stream on Peacock the next day.

One Taylor Swift fan is living his wildest dreams after the superstar commented on his TikTok interpretation of one of her songs.

TikTok user Giacomo Benavides posted an overly dramatic clip of himself acting out 30 seconds of “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” from Swift’s latest album, The Tortured Poets Department.

Swift, 34, found the video and commented, “This is the official music video .”

Benavides’ all-caps reply probably didn’t do his true reaction justice, but he added, “MOTHER?!???!? SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UPPPPPPP .”

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That exchange has since garnered more than 1,600 additional replies, ranging from envious Swifties to influencers like Tana Mongeau and brands like skincare company Mario Badescu.

The part Benavides decided to act out comes when Swift sings, “Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? / Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed? / Were you writing a book? Were you a sleeper cell spy? / In 50 years will all this be declassified?”

To go with it, Benavides mouths the words and pulls out a toy gun and later a book to correspond with the lyrics. After that, two friends grab him by the arms and haul him toward a waiting police van.

Since The Tortured Poets Department’s April 19 release, fans have regarded “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” as one of the 31-track double album’s best songs. It peaked at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and currently sits at 30th.

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“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” is believed to be about Swift’s ill-fated relationship with Matt Healy.

Right down to the name itself, the song is a brutal takedown and, though Swift obviously hasn’t said outright that it’s about Healy, the hints throughout are less than subtle.

“The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” feels like a knock on Healy’s short stature. The 1975 frontman told The Fader in 2018, “Everyone in [The 1975] is 6-foot-4 and I’m 5-foot-10, so everyone thinks that I’m 5-foot-5.

Healy also told a fan in a 2022 video, “I am a big boy!”

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The first line of the song hints that Healy is the main target as Swift sings, “Was any of it true? / Gazing at me starry-eyed / In your Jehovah’s Witness suit.” Healy, 35, is known to wear a close-cut suit and tie, resembling the go-to look for many Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Swift tactfully follows “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” on her album with “The Alchemy,” which Today called “one of the only pure love songs” of The Tortured Poets Department. The track is filled with sports references that tie it to her current boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Swift and Kelce, also 34, have been together for nearly a year, first starting to date prior to the 2023 NFL season.

Andy Cohen is offering his thoughts on how the Real Housewives franchise has changed over the years — and how he feels about Bethenny Frankel and Leah McSweeney’s claims about the network.

Cohen, 55, said he has “a lot to say” about former friend and The Real Housewives of New York City alum Frankel’s “reality reckoning,” which has become a buzzword as she attempts to unionize reality stars.

“If you look at shows like American Idol, Survivor, The Bachelor or the Below Deck people, 90 percent or more of the reality stars on them are on for one season or less,” Cohen explained in his The Hollywood Reporter profile, published on Wednesday, May 8. “Also, acting is a full-time profession. You don’t go to school to be a reality star. Reality stars typically have other jobs.”

The Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host made it clear that he was speaking “as an independent producer” and his thoughts no way crossed with Bravo’s.

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“I think the way that Bravo pays people is that it’s a buyout — they’re buying them out for a show that can be distributed in certain ways, and the longer you stay on, the higher your salary gets. And salaries for people who have been on a long time are really high. Look, you’re not drafted into the Real Housewives. You either want to be on the show or not, and you either see it as having some greater benefit for you or not.”

While he didn’t slam Frankel — or anyone for that matter — in THR profile Cohen did get candid. Keep scrolling for the biggest Bravo-related takeaways:

1. Where He Stands With Disgraced Housewives

Cohen called himself “a nostalgic person” who is “proud” of the close relationships he’s made over the years on Bravo. While not naming anyone specifically, Cohen said it’s “hurtful” when he becomes targets for the former stars.

“I think most people involved with these shows have been very grateful for the platform, but there will always be a few with complaints,” Cohen said. “But I have no regrets about the way I’ve handled anything. I think everything that happens in your life informs the next thing that happens in your life. That’s the way I look at all this. I know what the truth is, and I know how I’ve conducted myself, and I walk tall every day on that.”

2. Subtle Response to the Various Allegations

Former Real Housewives of New Jersey star Caroline Manzo sued Bravo in January over an alleged incident with Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville while they were filming Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip season 4. Glanville also accused Cohen of sexual harassment in February, which he’s since denied.

Former RHONY star McSweeney, for her part, sued Cohen and Bravo in February, claiming that they exploited her struggles with alcoholism. During his THR profile, Cohen reacted to the various allegations with one short and sweet sentence.

“Unfortunately, I can’t talk about some of these things,” he said, seemingly referring to them being ongoing legal matters.

3. Sobriety and Bravo

One thing Cohen did speak about, however, is the relationship between Bravo and alcohol. While he didn’t name McSweeney, these comments appeared to be directed toward her claims.

“What I’ll say about the alcohol is that we have so many sober people and people who have gotten sober on the show, like Countess Luann [de Lesseps]. We have people who’ve never had a drink during the entire run of the show,” he said. “Jill Zarin. Kandi Burris. Heather Dubrow will just have an occasional glass of champagne.”

Cohen noted that Bravo doesn’t “force anyone to do anything.” He added, “No one is secretly hiding liquor bottles on set. That’s ridiculous. We’ve been very supportive of people’s sobriety.”

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The producer also made it clear that with some of the colorful characters in the Real Housewives franchise they don’t need liquor “to gin up drama” among the women.

“Have you seen Ramona Singer on a random Tuesday at 1 p.m.? Have you ever run into Lisa Rinna at noon? Lisa Rinna does not need a glass of rosé in order to tell you exactly how she is feeling,” Cohen joked. “Margaret Josephs only drinks Diet Coke, and she is a truth cannon wherever she goes. I don’t think Teresa Giudice would say that it was the red wine that caused her to flip that table! We start filming the reunions at 6 a.m. for God’s sake!”

4. Why There’s No BravoCon in 2024

The official BravoCon announcement was made last month — but the three-day convention is skipping this year’s event and going back to Las Vegas for 2025. When asked why, Cohen admitted the convention is “a massive undertaking” overall, noting the 160 Bravo stars, 30,00 people in attendance and five live WWHL episodes.

“It was just a tremendous amount of effort. And when it ended, I remember saying to [NBCU chairman] Frances Berwick, maybe we should skip next year or do it in a year and a half. It will be more special that way,” he recalled. “Also, the space we wanted was only available nine months after we had already done it. And that seemed way too soon. But ultimately it was a Bravo decision, not mine.”

While the decision was recently announced, Bravo made the call “eight months ago,” per Cohen. “People tied it into what’s been happening. But it had absolutely nothing to do with that,” he added.

5. Will Tori Spelling Be on ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’?

Spelling has been making a case to join RHOBH for years. Her most recent attempt was on an episode of her “Misspelling” podcast last month. At the time Spelling wondered if she wasn’t on the show “because I’m broke.”

Cohen, for his part, told THR it’s nothing personal against Spelling.

“Tori Spelling has made a lot of noise about wanting to be on the show. She’d definitely bring great drama, but we’ve never really had a serious conversation about her for some reason,” he said. “I actually have mixed feelings about having stars on the show. When Lisa Rinna was trying out for season one of Beverly Hills, I was very much against the idea. Like, she’s already a celebrity! But then she came, and it made perfect sense.”