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    'Peaky Blinders' Creator Recalls How Jason Statham Lost Starring Role to Cillian Murphy

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    In a new interview, Steven Knight admits that he initially set his sight on having the ‘Mechanic: Resurrection’ star lead the cast as brutal Birmingham crime boss Tommy Shelby.
    Jun 4, 2020
    AceShowbiz – “Peaky Blinders” creator Steven Knight had his sights set on Jason Statham to lead the cast of his hit series before Cillian Murphy forced him to reconsider.
    The writer and director met both actors in Los Angeles and came away from the get togethers convinced Statham was the man to play brutal Birmingham, England, crime boss Tommy Shelby.
    He tells Esquire, “One of the reasons was because physically, in the room, Jason is Jason.”
    But Murphy helped to change his mind with a text, which read simply: “Remember, I’m an actor.”
    “Cillian, when you meet him, isn’t Tommy, obviously, but I was stupid enough not to understand that,” Knight adds. “He can transform himself. If you meet him in the street he is a totally different human being.”

    Production on the sixth season of “Peaky Blinders” was set to start as the coronavirus pandemic shut down the film industry in the U.K.

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    'RHOBH': Brandi Glanvile Offers Details About Her Alleged Hookup With Denise Richards in New Teaser

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    The other ‘RHOBH’ stars later confront Denise about the claims that Brandi tells them at a cast dinner, prompting Denise to cry and exclaim, ‘That is not true!’
    Jun 4, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Details about Brandi Glanville and Denise Richards’ rumored hookups are finally here. In a new teaser for “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, Brandi can be seen giving explicit details about her alleged affair with her former “RHOBH” co-star, who is married to Aaron Phypers.
    Speaking to Kyle Richards, Dorit Kemsley, Lisa Rinna, Erika Jayne and Teddi Mellencamp at a cast dinner, Brandi shares, “Denise and [her husband] Aaron [Phypers] have this whole open thing…I f***ed her, woke up the next morning [and] she said, ‘Aaron can never know this. He’ll kill me.’ ” Denise was absent from the outing.
    Later, the other Housewives confront Denise about the claims that Brandi tells them previously. “What the f**k?” she exclaims while crying. Denise then insists, “That is not true!” While the other ladies are still trying to process the whole thing, Dorit believes that Denise tells the truth. “I believe Denise,” she says.
    The ladies then become worried when Garcelle Beauvais reveals at a party that Denise is a “no show” to their planned meet-up. She tries to call the actress but she doesn’t pick up. “I hope to God she’s okay. My heart is racing. I’m really, really scared,” Dorit, who also tries to call Denise, anxiously shares.
    Unfortunately, Denise doesn’t seem to be okay. She’s featured engaging in an argument with the camera crew before the teaser ends.
    The hookup rumors started when the “RHOBH” cast went on a trip to Rome in late November 2019. The ladies confronted Denise about a possible affair with Brandi, and further fueling the speculations, Denise has not been wearing her wedding ring since the alleged Brandi hookup story broke.

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    NBC Reporter 'Safe' After Getting Hit With Flash-Bang Grenade While Covering Seattle Protests

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    Jo Ling Kent was live on air reporting the demonstration in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood when a flash-bang grenade likely thrown by police to protesters hit her arm.
    Jun 3, 2020
    AceShowbiz – An NBC News correspondent has given an update on her condition after she was seen in a video getting hit with a flash-bang grenade during a live broadcast on Monday night, June 1. Jo Ling Kent was reporting a protest in Seattle when it happened.
    Taking to her Instagram and Twitter page on Tuesday, Jo assured everyone that she and her team are “ok” and “safe” despite the incident caught on camera. “Hey everyone. Thankfully, our whole team is ok and safe. I’m totally fine,” she wrote, adding, “my jacket sleeve got singed and that’s it.”
    Jo expressed her gratitude to her team and people who expressed their concerns, saying, “Extremely grateful to my producer @ezra.kaplan, photographer @sammywinslade, audio @coryleibin and our two security guards. And thank you for the sweet texts, calls and tweets.” In her tweet, she also apologized for “the curse words” as some people were heard throwing expletives in the video of her reporting.

    Jo, wearing a mask to protect against tear gas, was reporting from a sports complex about the demonstration in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood when her left arm was hit by a fiery, orange burst. The network initially said that it was a firework, but after reviewing the footage the news channel determined that it was a flash-bang grenade mostly likely fired by police.
    In the video, Jo said police were approaching the demonstrators before they began throwing flash-bang grenades at the protesters. Jo and her crew quickly left the area, as protesters scrambled and ran to safety.

    Brian Williams, NBC’s in-studio anchor, said that the network has dispatched security details to accompany reporters covering the protests. A number of news reporters have been injured, arrested or harassed while on the job covering the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
    Meanwhile, the Seattle Police Department declared that the Capitol Hill protest had become a riot after demonstrators threw “rocks, bottles and fireworks at officers and is attempting to breach barricades one block from the East Precinct.”

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