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    Meghan McCain Returns to 'The View' Following Maternity Leave

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    Announcing her return, the conservative hosts writes on Twitter, ‘It’s almost time…I’m so excited to take my spot as the conservative seat back at the Hot Topics table (virtually).’

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Meghan McCain is heading back to “The View”. After taking some time off the show in order to prepare the arrival of her baby, the conservative talk show co-host will soon return to the show to join other co-hosts including Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro.
    Announcing her return, Meghan took to her Twitter account on Wednesday, December 30 to write, “It’s almost time…I’m so excited to take my spot as the conservative seat back at the Hot Topics table (virtually) @TheView on Monday!” Alongside a GIF of Christina Aguilera saying, “Momma came to play,” on “The Voice”, the 36-year-old added, ‘Did I miss anything while on maternity leave?!?”

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    Meghan is set to return via Zoom on Monday, January 4. The week will feature a number of guests that include Lil Nas X, Ken Jeong, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Ralph Macchio and William Zabka.
    Meghan’s return to the show is actually obvious with her shutting down rumors that she would never be back to the show. “Why does everyone ask me if I’m getting fired or quitting every 20 seconds?” the daughter of late Sen. John McCain said during her appearance on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen” back in August. “No other host has to deal with this BS. Yes, I’m coming back. It’s an election cycle.”
    Meghan welcomed her daughter Liberty Sage McCain Domenech, whom she shares with husband Ben Domenech, September 28. The couple broke the exciting news in March, nine months after they revealed a heartbreaking miscarriage.
    “My husband Ben and I have been blessed to find out I’m pregnant. Although this isn’t how I expected to announce my pregnancy, both we and our families are excited to share the news with you all,” Meghan announced. “I consulted with my doctors and they advised me that for the safety of our baby and myself, I should be extra vigilant about limiting the amount of people we come in contact with. Starting immediately, I’ll be joining the millions of Americans who are self-isolating as a precaution to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”

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    Thomas Brodie-Sangster Credits 'Queen's Gambit' for Helping Improve His Chess Skills

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    The former ‘Phineas and Ferb’ star has the Netflix hit miniseries fronted by Anya Taylor-Joy to thank to for helping him to become a better chess player.

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Thomas Brodie-Sangster became a better chess player after starring in hit Netflix show “The Queen’s Gambit”.
    The actor stars as Benny Watts in the miniseries, which has exponentially increased the popularity of the game of chess. And in an interview with Chess.com about his role in the show, Thomas admitted that learning about the game for the show meant he learned how to play properly in real life.
    “I did (become a better player)! And I even learned a couple of openings, which are completely gone now,” he said. “But at the moment, yeah, we were playing with some great players and we were very much invested in that world. And I was excited by it, I loved it! I saw it as, you know, it’s a beautiful game that’s been played for hundreds and hundreds of years, and it’s infinitely complicated.”

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    “The knowledge that you have to understand and the memory of each game that’s been played in the past, and then kind of put that into a reflection of what you need to do in front of your board. And it’s just moving bits of wood around a board, that’s all it is, but I learned the beauty of it. That’s what I would say.”
    “The Queen’s Gambit”, also starring Anya Taylor-Joy, is available to watch on Netflix now.
    On October 28, the series became the most watched series of the day on Netflix and had been watched by over 62 million households by the end of November. It topped Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings for three consecutive weeks and deemed Netflix’s biggest scripted limited series to date.

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    Gemma Arterton Intimidated to Play Dusty Springfield in Movie

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    The ‘Clash of the Titans’ actress admits to feeling ‘terrified’ to portray the legendary ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ hitmaker in an upcoming ‘intimate’ biopic.

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Gemma Arterton is “a bit terrified” of portraying Dusty Springfield in a movie.
    The “Clash of the Titans” actress will play the late music legend in an upcoming biopic and while she’s excited about the “intimate” project, she admitted she’s daunted by the idea of stepping into the “Son of a Preacher Man” singer’s shoes.
    “It won’t be sort of like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman – it’s not that kind of film,” she told Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper. “It’s much more intimate. I am kind of a bit terrified by it but at the same time really excited.”
    “It’s about a specific moment in her life when she made Dusty in Memphis and went to America for the first time and did that amazing incredible album and defied everybody’s expectations.”

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    And Gemma confirmed she’s been working hard at improving her singing.
    “Her voice … you know. We will see! I have done a little bit of practicing. I am not ready to publicly out her yet. I really hope I get to do it justice,” she smiled.
    The movie will focus on a period where Dusty fled to Memphis to escape scrutiny over her sexuality, but damaged her voice with drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. Gemma admitted it was a really “bleak” time in the “Wishin’ and Hopin” singer’s life.
    “Her career just slid away from her in the 70s and didn’t come back until the 80s when she worked with The Pet Shop Boys,” Gemma said.
    “There was a really bleak time – she used to go into drag clubs and do Dusty Springfield acts and pretend to be Dusty in order to win $100 or $50. And sometimes she didn’t win!”

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    Alison Brie Recalls Accidentally Peeing in Her Underwear on 'Mad Men' Set

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    The ‘GLOW’ actress recounts an embarrassing incident at work, remembering how she struggled to pee while wearing a girdle when she was filming the AMC drama series.

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Alison Brie was left red-faced when she suffered a “peeing incident” while wearing a girdle on the set of “Mad Men”.
    The actress, who starred as Trudy Vogel on the much-loved show, told Justin Long on his “Life Is Short” podcast that the embarrassing moment happened while she was wearing the restrictive undergarment – which she described as like “biker shorts that go all the way up to your ribs (that also have a) small hole in them.”
    “I didn’t know for the first season that you weren’t supposed to wear underwear under them because they are underwear,” she sighed, before recalling one time when she’d rushed to the toilet before shooting a scene “and tried to pull the hole open, but I didn’t pull my underwear to the side so I’m peeing and not hearing it hit the bowl and then I just feel warmth.”
    “It was full pee,” she laughed. But when Justin asked how she moved on from the incident, Alison replied, “I went straight to set and just dabbed it with a bunch of toilet paper. Because they’re waiting on me … I don’t want to lose my job.”

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    “Mad Men” also starred Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, and Christina Hendricks. Set in the cutthroat world of advertising, the show premiered in 2007 and lasted for seven seasons before coming to an end in 2015. It won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards.
    Earlier this year, Elisabeth Moss teased that the cast may have had discussions about a potential reunion.
    When asked if the cast had considered reuniting via Zoom as other TV shows had done during quarantine, Moss answered, “Maybe we have! (Laughs) I don’t know. Maybe we have had some discussions about this.”
    “I don’t think I am in a position to officially share anything. But, yes, we are aware that people are doing reunions and we’ve never done one, which is so crazy. We really all haven’t been together in five years. So I’ll just leave you with that.”

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    Connie Nielsen Demands 'Zack Snyder's Justice League' Include Her Stunt Cut by Joss Whedon

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    The actress, who plays Amazon queen Hippolyta in the DC Extended Universe, only agreed to the ‘Justice League’ reshoots after director Zack Snyder said yes to her demand.

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Connie Nielsen only agreed to be part of Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” reshoots if he agreed to include a stunt she filmed which was cut from director Joss Whedon’s movie.
    Like many of the stars who shot scenes for “Justice League”, the actress was far from happy with the blockbuster, which was completed by Whedon after Snyder was forced to step down.
    But when Zack agreed to fan requests to rework his vision of the superhero movie, Connie was one of the first people he called.

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    The actress, who plays Hippolyta in the “Wonder Woman” films, reveals fans will see more of her and her fellow Amazons in the new project than they did in the original 2017 theatrical release of “Justice League”.
    “Zack called me to ask if I would be OK with a reissue of the film with changes,” Nielsen tells The Hollywood Reporter, “and I asked him, ‘Well, will you bring back the Amazon chapter the way you had written it and had filmed it?’ And he said, ‘Absolutely.’ And then I said, ‘And Zack, will you also bring back my quite incredible stunt, running up the walls?’ And he said, ‘You got it.’ So I said, ‘Yeah, definitely. You’ve got my blessing. Absolutely.’ ”
    Connie admits she was shocked to see little of what she filmed in the original “Justice League”, “What was really sad was how much stuff we filmed that wasn’t in the film. I think that’s part of what made Justice League less cohesive as a viewing experience. The intent was not the same during the editing as it was during shooting.”
    Snyder’s Directors Cut will arrive in four parts on HBO Max in 2021.

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    'Star Wars' Novelist Blocked From Writing Potential Romance Between Finn and Rey

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    The author hired to pen ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ novel reveals that Disney bosses blocked him from writing any potential romance between John Boyega’s and Daisy Ridley’s characters.

    Dec 31, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Novelist Alan Dean Foster has claimed he was told to remove a potential romance between John Boyega’s Finn and Daisy Ridley’s Rey in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.
    The writer, who was brought on to pen the official novelisation for the 2015 movie, also known as “Episode VII”, by J.J. Abrams.
    But in a new interview with Midnight’s Edge, Foster has alleged his initial idea for a budding romance between Finn and Rey was shot down by bosses at Disney.
    “There were a couple of things in there, and a couple of things that happened subsequently that bothered me,” he said. “I’m going to tell you one thing they made me take out because enough time has passed, I don’t think it matters. There was obviously the beginnings of a relationship between John Boyega’s character and Daisy Ridley’s character. I expected to see that developed further in Episode VIII (The Last Jedi), and zero happened with it.”

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    Instead, the movies tried to develop a romance between Finn and Kelly Marie Tran’s Rose Tico – but the plot was abandoned in 2019’s “The Rise of Skywalker”.
    LucasFilm has yet to comment on Foster’s allegations.
    John Boyega previously slammed Disney bosses for allegedly using the black characters in the new “Star Wars” movies as tokens. The “Attack the Block” star alleged his character was marketed as “much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side.”
    He later revealed that one of the producers reached out to him following his complaint, “I got on a phone call with Kathleen Kennedy and she verbally showed support and we got to have a really nice, transparent, honest conversation that is beneficial to both of us.”

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    Steven Soderberg Admits to Working on 'Philosophical Sequel' to 'Contagion'

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    During an interview on on the ‘Happy Sad Confused’ podcast, the ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ director reveals he has reteamed with the 2011 thriller film’s screenwriter Scott Z. Burns to develop its follow-up.

    Dec 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh is working to fast-track a “philosophical sequel” to “Contagion” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    The “Ocean’s Eleven” director reveals he’s reteamed with the 2011 thriller’s screenwriter Scott Z. Burns to develop the follow-up.
    “I’ve got a project in development that Scott Burns is working with me on, that’s a kind of philosophical sequel to ‘Contagion’ but in a different context,” Soderbergh explained on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.
    “You’ll kind of look at the two of them as kind of paired but very different hair colours. So, Scott and I had been talking about, ‘So, what’s the next iteration of a ‘Contagion’-type story?’ We have been working on that. We should probably hotfoot it a little bit.”

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    The news emerges months after “Contagion”, which starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a woman who brings home a mystery viral illness during a business trip to Asia, soared in popularity on streaming services as people tried to make sense of the coronavirus crisis.
    At the time, Burns insisted he wasn’t surprised by the pandemic, because during his research for the movie, he learned such a global outbreak was inevitable.
    “The scientists I spoke to, and there were a lot of them, all said that this was a matter of when, not if,” he told Slate in March. “So, I guess my feeling as someone who believes in science is that when scientists tell us those things, we would do well to listen.”

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    Adam Levine on Returning to 'The Voice': 'No Thank You'

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    The Maroon 5 frontman shockingly announced his exit from the NBC show in 2019 after season 16 in which all of his team members were eliminated prior to the semifinals.

    Dec 30, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Adam Levine seemingly isn’t interested in returning as one of the coaches on “The Voice”. The Maroon 5 frontman, who exited the NBC singing competition show nearly two years ago, responded to a fan’s question about whether or not he would return to the show.
    On Tuesday, December 28, the “Memories” singer held a Q&A session on his Instagram account with one of his followers asking, “Come back to the Voice?” Adam decided to answer the inquiry with three interesting words. “No thank you?” so the musician wrote on the photo-sharing site.

    Adam Levine responded to a fan’s question about returning to ‘The Voice’.

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    Adam shockingly announced his exit in 2019 after season 16 in which all of his team members were eliminated prior to the semifinals. He opened up about his decision during his appearance in an October episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in the same year.
    “I really do miss it,” the husband of Behati Prinsloo admitted. “I love the people that I met and worked with, and you all obviously know how i feel about [fellow coach] Blake [Shelton]. … I do miss it but I don’t miss how much I had to work.”
    He went on to tell host Ellen DeGeneres, “I was constantly working for so many years — very lucky, very fortunate, very blessed and all that — but to just be able to stop in this moment to spend time with my new young family and just have the greatest time ever. Now I’m a stay-at-home dad. I just stay at home and do very little.”
    “[“The Voice”] went on to be a life shaping experience that will be close to my heart forever. Thank you NBC for signing me up. I am truly honored to have been a part of something I’ll always cherish for the rest of my life,” Adam wrote on Instagram at the time. However, he thought that “it was time to move on,” before adding, “To all of the loyal Voice fans, there’s literally no show without you guys. For me, it was time to move on. Your support has meant EVERYTHING… What an amazing ride. Thank you all so much.”

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