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  • Late ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek shares message of hope in pre-taped episode

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: The legendary television host Alex Trebek recorded several episodes of ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2020, a few days before his death, and in one of the final episodes, the star shared a hopeful message for fans.

    According to Fox News, even after his death, the departed soul Trebek motivated his fans with several pre-taped episodes that he recorded in November.

    At the beginning of Monday’s episode, Trebek, who died at the age of 80 in November after fighting pancreatic cancer, offered up a traditional greeting monologue and urged viewers to be kind during the challenging time of the pandemic.

    “Hello, ladies and gentlemen, you’ll recall that about a month ago, I asked all of you to take a moment to give thanks for all of the blessings that you enjoy in your lives,” he began.

    Trebek continued, “Now today, a different kind of message; This is ‘the season of giving,’ I know you want to be generous with your family, your friends, your loved ones, but today I’d like you to go one step further,” reported Fox News.

    He emphasized on ‘open up helping hands and hearts’ to those who are still suffering’ as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and ‘people who are suffering through no fault of their own.’

    “We’re trying to build a gentler, kinder society and if we all pitch in just a little bit, we’re gonna get there,” Trebek continued.

    This week’s episodes of ‘Jeopardy!’ will be the final ones featuring Trebek before guest hosts beginning with champ Ken Jennings will fill his position until a permanent replacement is named, a report by Fox News told.

  • Beyonce shares soul-stirring birthday wish for mother

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Hollywood’s pop singer Beyonce shared a throwback picture with a heartfelt birthday note for her mother on Tuesday.

    The 39-year-old actor dug out a captivating throwback picture of her mother on social media that features the gorgeous her posing effortlessly in an animal print yellow jumpsuit.

    With the capture, the ‘Destiny’s Child’ star penned a gratifying note that reads, “Happy birthday to my beloved matriarch! You are my Queen, my heart, my strength, the bone in my spine. You are my inspiration. I hope you have everything in your life that your soul desires. Mama, I love you deep deep!”

    More than two million fans liked the post within a few hours of being published. Many fans left red heart emoticons and lovestruck emoticons and adored the photograph in the comments section.

    Earlier, while celebrating New Year, American singer-actor Beyonce reflected on some of the most memorable and uplifting moments of 2020, which included time spent with her children eight and a half-year-old daughter Blue Ivy and three-year-old twins Sir and Rumi.

  • Veteran talk show host Larry King hospitalised with COVID, moved out of ICU

    By Associated Press
    LOS ANGELES: Veteran talk show host Larry King, suffering from COVID-19, has been moved out of the intensive care unit at a Los Angeles hospital and is breathing on his own, a spokesman said on Monday.

    King was moved to the ICU on New Year’s Eve and was receiving oxygen but is now breathing on his own, said David Theall, a spokesman for Ora Media, a production company formed by King.

    The 87-year-old broadcasting legend shared a video phone call with his three sons, Theall said.

    King, who spent many years as an overnight radio DJ, is best known as host of the ‘Larry King Live’ interview show that ran in primetime on CNN from 1985 to 2010.

  • Robin Thickie to release first album in six years

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Singer Robin Thicke has announced that he will be releasing his first full-length album in six years, “On Earth, and in Heaven”, on February 12.

    According to Billboard, the album will be Thicke’s maiden project under his new partnership between Lucky Music and Empire.

    The record is dedicated to those the musician has lost and the people in his life who “made” him who he is, including his late father, Alan Thicke, who passed away in 2016.

    “I feel like I’m finally the person I set out to be. I’m able to laugh at anything, which I’ve realized is the greatest superpower. I’ve fully embraced it, and nothing has been better for my soul.”

    “When I saw the phrase ‘On Earth, and in Heaven’, I realized that’s what I’m singing about: the people who aren’t here and the people who are here that made me who I am. This music is the sunshine coming out after the rain,” Thickie said in a statement.

    The singer’s last studio album was 2014’s ‘Paula’, which was a tribute to his then-estranged wife Paula Patton.

  • Playing Mr Bean stressful and exhausting: Rowan Atkinson

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Rowan Atkinson may be recognized globally for his performance as Mr. Bean, but the actor-comedian says he finds playing the popular character “stressful and exhausting”.

    The British star developed Mr Bean while he was studying for his master’s degree at Oxford University and launched the character on television in 1990.

    The original sitcom, which aired from January 1990 to December 1995, comprised 15 episodes.

    The series has also been sold in 245 territories worldwide and has inspired an animated spin-off as well as two theatrical feature-length films, starring Atkinson.

    The 65-year-old actor, who is currently working on an animated Mr.Bean movie, said he doesn’t enjoy playing the character anymore as there is too much responsibility to deliver.

    “Having made an animated TV series, we’re now in the foothills of developing an animated movie for Mr.Bean – it’s easier for me to perform the character vocally than visually,” Atkinson told the Radio Times.

    “I don’t much enjoy playing him. The weight of responsibility is not pleasant. I find it stressful and exhausting, and I look forward to the end of it,” he added.

    The “Johnny English” star said Mr.

    Bean’s success never surprised him as he always believed that watching an adult behaving in a childish way, without being aware of his inappropriateness, was fundamentally funny.

    “The fact the comedy is visual rather than verbal means it has been successful internationally, too.”

  • James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel resume remote late-night filming amid LA COVID-19 spike

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: James Corden and Jimmy Kimmel have once again started remote filming for their nightly shows ‘The Late Late Show,’ and ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ respectively amid the surging COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County.

    “With Los Angeles back on lockdown, we’re once again taping the #LateLateShow in @JKCorden’s garage until it’s safe to return to our studio,” tweeted ‘The Late Late Show.’

    No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu.With Los Angeles back on lockdown, we’re once again taping the #LateLateShow in @JKCorden’s garage until it’s safe to return to our studio.So mask up, stay safe, and we’ll see you tonight at 12:37 on CBS pic.twitter.com/jK3YNt0ElY
    — The Late Late Show with James Corden (@latelateshow) January 4, 2021

    According to Variety, while Corden is setting up shop in his garage, Kimmel’s late-night talk show will be filming remotely from his home — instead of his usual digs at the El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. — for the first two weeks of the year.

    Most of the major studios have extended their production hiatus with the increasing number of COVID-19 cases.

    Although over two dozen TV shows from Warner Bros. TV, Sony Pictures Television, CBS TV Studios, Universal TV and Walt Disney’s 20th Television and ABC Signature are currently scheduled to return into gear in mid-January, a continuing surge may alter those plans.

  • Hilary Duff says she got eye infection after too many COVID-19 tests

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor Hilary Duff says she developed a painful eye infection from taking too many coronavirus tests while filming for her TV series, ‘Younger’.

    The former Disney star took to Instagram on Monday to share details of her holidays and opened up about her trip to the hospital on Christmas.

    “Then my eye started to look weird and hurt a lot. So took a little trip to the emergency room. I got an eye infection from all the COVID tests at work cuz you know, 2020 and all,” Duff wrote.

    “PS My eye is fine, needed antibiotics,” she added.

    Duff had announced in November that she was in quarantine after COVID-19 exposure.

    The’ Lizzie McGuire’ star is currently pregnant with her third child.

    She shares son Luca Cruz Comrie, eight, with ex-husband Mike Comrie, and daughter Banks Violet Bair, two, with husband Matthew Koma.

  • Tiffany Haddish to star in sci-fi pic ‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actor-comic Tiffany Haddish is in final negotiations to star in the big-screen adaptation of “Landscape With Invisible Hand”.

    The film is based on National Book Award winner MT Anderson’s novel of the same name, reported Deadline.

    Cory Finley, director of the Emmy-winning feature drama “Bad Education”, is writing and helming the sci-fi picture.

    “Landscape with Invisible Hand” depicts a near future in which an alien species known as the Vuvv has taken over Earth.

    Plan B and Annapurna Pictures landed the rights of the book in 2017, developed together and brought the project to MGM Studios.

    Haddish’s breakthrough role came with the comedy film, “Girls Trip”, released in 2017.

    She has earned an Emmy as a guest host on “Saturday Night Live” and her Netflix special “Black Mitzvah” received Emmy and Grammy nominations as well.

  • She is still alive: Bond girl Tanya Roberts mistakenly reported dead; representative retracts statement

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Actress Tanya Roberts, best known for James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” and TV series “That ’70s Show”, was mistakenly announced as dead late Sunday night, her representative Mike Pingel said a day after he confirmed her demise to multiple outlets.

    Pingel told The Hollywood Reporter that although her partner, Lance O’Brien, originally thought she had died, the hospital called Monday morning to report she was still alive.

    Pingel, however, said Roberts, 65, remains in the ICU of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center here and her condition is still “not looking good”.

    “I did get confirmation (of her death), but that was from a very distraught person (O’Brien).

    “And so yes, this morning at 10 am the hospital did call to say that she was still alive but it’s not looking good. We will hopefully have information (soon). It’s upsetting,” the representative added.

    During a video interview on Monday, Inside Edition captured O’Brien receiving a call telling him that Roberts had not passed.

    “The hospital is telling me she is alive. They are calling me from the ICU team,” he told Inside Edition.

    TMZ, who broke the news of Roberts’ alleged death, was also the first to report that she was still alive.

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center would neither confirm nor deny any information due to “patient privacy laws”.

    The LA County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner said that Roberts is not a case in their department.

    On Sunday, Pingel said Roberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on Christmas Eve, then was admitted to the hospital.

    The Hollywood Reporter was unable to speak with O’Brien.

  • ‘La La Land’ actress Emma Stone expecting first child with husband Dave McCary

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: Oscar winner Emma Stone is expecting her first child with husband and “Saturday Night Live” scribe Dave McCary.

    A source confirmed the news of Stone’s pregnancy to E! News.

    Stone, 32, was photographed last week here sporting athleisure and revealing her baby bump.

    “Emma is pregnant and just loves married life,” the insider told the outlet.

    The actor and the 35-year-old writer tied the knot last year, People magazine confirmed in September 2020.

    The couple became engaged in December 2019 after dating for two years.

    They met when Stone hosted the NBC variety sketch series near the end of 2016.

    Stone’s representative could not be reached for comment on her pregnancy news.