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    Demi Lovato 'Excited to Bring Frank Conversations' to Quibi Talk Show

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    The ‘Heart Attack’ singer has been tapped to host ‘Pillow Talk’ for a 10-episode series where she will interview celebrities and experts on issues ranging from body positivity to sex.
    Feb 7, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Demi Lovato has landed a new role as a talk show host.
    The singer and actress will interview guests for “Pillow Talk with Demi Lovato”, a show set for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new streaming site Quibi.
    The 10-episode series will feature Demi chatting to celebrities and experts on issues ranging from body positivity to sex.

    Demi Lovato announced new talk show on Quibi.
    Lovato, who will also executive produce the project, says, “I’ve always considered myself someone that speaks honestly about issues that face my generation. We’re excited to bring those frank conversations to a public forum, where people can have the opportunity to relate to the topics and guests, while finding room for laughter and learning.”
    Quibi is scheduled to launch in April, with over 50 scripted and unscripted series, news, sports and lifestyle programmes booked. Each show will last 10 minutes or less.

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    Jodie Turner-Smith to Miss 2020 Oscars Festivities Over Arm Injury

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    Posing a photo of herself sporting an arm sling, the pregnant ‘Queen and Slim’ star expressed her disappointment to miss out on the first year she is actually being invited to the event.
    Feb 7, 2020
    AceShowbiz – An arm injury has wrecked pregnant Jodie Turner-Smith’s Oscars weekend plans.
    The 33-year-old mum-to-be took to Twitter on Thursday, February 06 and posted a photo of herself sporting a sling.
    “So i have decided to sit my pregnant bum down and out of this weekends oscar festivities (sic)!” the “Queen & Slim” star wrote. “First of all, a b**ch needs to put her feet up after that delightful #QueenAndSlim uk press run. and second of all, this is me right now.”

    Turner-Smith is around seven months pregnant with her first child.
    The actress, who is married to “Dawson’s Creek” star Joshua Jackson added: “so while i’m sad that i’ll be missing out on my first year actually being invited & not having to scam my way into vanity fair, Madonna’s, & the jayzXbeyonce party, i don’t think this arm sling would have been cute w/ any of the lewks (looks) i was planning.”

    She didn’t expand on how she had injured her arm.

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    Jameela Jamil Accused of Lying About Her Role in New Vogueing Show 'Legendary'

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    The ‘Good Place’ actress says she’s just one of the judges on the show, but LGBTQ+ stars claim she’s also one of the executive producers along with two non-queer white guys.
    Feb 7, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Stars from LGBTQ+ TV shows “Pose” and “Transparent” have claimed Jameela Jamil is more heavily involved in HBO Max’s upcoming vogueing competition show than she is letting on.
    “Legendary” is inspired by the underground LGBTQ+ club scene which gained momentum between the 1960s and 1980s, and will feature divas battling on teams called ‘Houses’ in challenges involving fashion, dance, and voguing, for a trophy and cash prize.
    While “The Good Place” star Jameela has insisted she’s “just one of the judges” on the show, actress Trace Lysette, who stars in comedy series “Transparent”, called her out on social media, alleging she is also “the Executive Producer along with two cis (non-queer) white guys who produced (Netflix series) queer eye.”
    “I interviewed for this gig. As the mother of a house for nearly a decade it’s kind of mind blowing when ppl with no connection to our culture gets the gig,” the transgender star, who is the founding mother of the house of Gorgeous Gucci, wrote.
    While Jameela insisted the pair “weren’t up for the same thing,” Trace hit back, “I don’t have (to) audition to be a house mother… I am one… I never heard back.”
    And after Jameela came out as queer on social media, and simultaneously slammed the site as being “brutal,” Trace added, “Being queer does not make you ballroom… The only thing that makes you ballroom is if you are actually from it.”
    Meanwhile, “Pose” actor Johnny Sibilly also spoke out, as he retweeted a thread from writer and podcast host Ira Madison III, noting, “Jameela once said she turned down a role as a deaf character because she is not deaf. Announced this publicly to let us know she would never take up space. It is not illogical that many queer people of color yesterday then wanted to know why she, who had not come out as queer would allow herself to be a judge on a ballroom show, a culture she is not familiar with.”
    Johnny added, “Miss thing basically said ‘I can help it that I’m popular’ & I’m helping amplify something that otherwise wouldn’t be able to exist. BULLS**T!”
    “Pose” star and transgender rights advocate Angelica Ross also spoke out about Jameela’s casting, while “RuPaul’s Drag Race” judge Michelle Visage, who was prominent on the New York ballroom scene, also chimed in, insisting, “And I wasn’t even contacted. You know the T.”

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    Gayle King 'Embarrassed' Amid Backlash Over Question About Kobe Bryant's Alleged Rape

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    The CBS anchor breaks her silence following the outrage over question about Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case, ‘if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too.’
    Feb 7, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Gayle King has hit out at executives at CBS over a promo clip of an interview with the late Kobe Bryant’s friend, former WNBA (Women’s National Basketball Association) star Lisa Leslie, about his rape trial.
    The NBA legend was killed in a helicopter crash at the age of 41 last month, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.
    He had previously been embroiled in a sexual assault case, which was dismissed as a criminal complaint but settled as a civil case in 2005, an episode which came up in the chat.
    “It’s been said that his legacy is complicated, because of a sexual assault charge that was dismissed in 2003, 2004. Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?” King asked.
    Leslie then replied, “It’s not complicated for me at all… I just never see – have ever seen him being the kind of person that would be – do something to violate a woman or be aggressive in that way. That’s just not the person that I know.”
    “But Lisa, you wouldn’t see it though. As his friend, you wouldn’t see it,” King responded.
    The snippet was part of a wider interview, but was the only part released online, with fans attacking King over the apparent ill-timed question.
    Taking to Instagram, she responded, “I’ve been up reading the comments about the interview I did with Lisa Leslie about Kobe Bryant, and I know that if I had only seen the clip that you saw, I’d be extremely angry with me too.”
    “I am mortified. I am embarrassed and I am very angry. Unbeknownst to me, my network put up a clip from a very wide-ranging interview – totally taken out of context – and when you see it that way, it’s very jarring. It’s jarring to me. I didn’t even know anything about it.”
    Honouring Bryant as “warm and friendly,” the broadcaster insisted there will be “a very intense discussion” between her and the network.
    However, she also said she pushed the network to keep the segment in the interview, “because I thought it put a nice button on that part of the conversation.”

    She concluded, “I wanted you to hear exactly where I’m coming from and how I’m feeling, and to let everybody know that no disrespect intended … I thank you for listening.”

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    Ice Cube to Portray Boxing Coach in 'Flint Strong'

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    The film itself will be Universal Pictures’ adaptation of a 2015 documentary about Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields, who won the gold medal for women’s boxing at the London Olympic Games in 2012.
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Ice Cube’s next film will be a knockout – he has signed on to play a coach in real-life boxing tale “Flint Strong”.
    The rapper/actor has joined the cast of Universal Pictures’ dramatic adaptation of “T-Rex”, a 2015 documentary about teenage boxing prodigy Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields, who won the inaugural Olympic gold medal for women’s boxing when the sport was first introduced as a competitive event at the London Olympic Games in 2012. Ice Cube will play her coach, Jason Crutchfield.
    Actress Ryan Destiny, best known for musical drama series “Star”, will play Claressa, a Flint, Michigan native, who was 17 when she won gold in the middleweight division and repeated the feat at the 2016 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
    Ice Cube, a huge boxing fan, has an impressive team in the ring for the project – “Flint Strong” will mark the directorial debut of “Black Panther”‘s director of photography, Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first female cinematographer ever nominated for an Academy Award in 2018 for “Mudbound”.
    The script will be written by Barry Jenkins, the writer/director of Oscar-winning Best Picture “Moonlight” and 2019 hit “If Beale Street Could Talk”.

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    Director Stephen Poliakoff Denies Pressuring His 'Close to the Enemy' Actress to Do Nude Scene

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    The ‘Close to the Enemy’ director is accused of throwing tantrums when the BBC drama actress Emily Berrington asked for the details of a potential nude scene.
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – British director Stephen Poliakoff has denied actress Emily Berrington’s claims that he tried to pressure her into doing nude scenes for BBC drama “Close to the Enemy”.
    The 34-year-old screen star, who has also appeared in shows such as “Humans”, “Outnumbered”, and “Sons of Liberty”, told Britain’s The Guardian newspaper that Poliakoff became enraged when she asked for details of a potential nude scene – such as how long she’d have to be naked for and whether she would have a say in which parts of her body were exposed.
    Upon asking Poliakoff, Berrington told The Guardian that he “started shouting really aggressively and saying I was being precious, and it was too difficult to work with actresses like me.”
    The BAFTA and Emmy award-winning director and scriptwriter is also said to have told Berrington that he “shoots what he wants” and “shows what he wants.”
    However, in response to Berrington’s claims, Poliakoff told The Guardian in a statement, “I am sorry to hear Emily is upset. This is not my recollection of the conversation and, as I recall, my main purpose of the discussion – which took place a couple of months before the actual shoot – was to reassure her in a supportive way about the role.”
    “I have always been very conscious that nude scenes are extremely stressful for actors, male or female, and never want them to feel uncomfortable in any way.”
    A spokesperson for the BBC added of the allegations, “We take the greatest care when including intimate scenes in any drama, and we expect all our productions to work to the highest standard of integrity in this regard.”

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    Billy Porter Reacts to Accusations He'll 'Sexualize Children' With 'Sesame Street' Appearance

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    The ‘Pose’ star is facing criticisms after he’s announced to make an appearance on the popular children’s show wearing his dress from the 2019 Academy Awards.
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Billy Porter has slammed critics of his appearance on “Sesame Street”, after he announced he’ll be appearing on the show in the dress he wore to last year’s Oscars.
    The “Pose” actor, who is a vocal member of the LGBTQ+ community and renowned for his flamboyant style and red carpet attire, will wear the black Christian Siriano tuxedo gown on an instalment of the popular children’s show later this year, prompting critics to slam the star.
    Trolls, including the state senator of Arkansas, Jason Rapert, tore into Porter, asking on Facebook, “Do you approve of your taxpayer dollars being used to promote the radical LGBTQ agenda?”
    A petition circulated to have the episode pulled and even accused the program of trying to “sexualise children using drag queens.”
    However, the Broadway star clapped back in a chat with the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six, insisting, “If you don’t like it, don’t watch it.”
    Adding that it’s unusual to make the mental leap from his dress to “perverted demon sex,” he continued, “Like, what about me singing with a penguin (puppet, on the show) has anything to do with what I’m doing in my bedroom?”
    “The really interesting thing for me is that that’s what it’s all about when it comes to LGBTQ people – the first thing everyone wants to talk about is how we having sex.”
    He concluded, “Stay out of my bedroom and you will be fine – that is none of your business.”
    “Sesame Street” has always been at the forefront of promoting key cultural issues on the educational series, and notably featured one of the first televised scenes of breastfeeding, when presenter, singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, demonstrated the act onscreen back in 1977.

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    Amber Heard's Possible Firing From 'Aquaman 2' Is Actively Discussed

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    Warner Bros. is reportedly considering about replacing the actress in the ‘Aquaman’ sequel after people launched petition to remove her from the movie amid her ongoing legal drama with ex-husband Johnny Depp.
    Feb 6, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Amber Heard’s ongoing legal drama with her ex-husband Johnny Depp may cost her an acting gig. The actress, who starred as Mera a.k.a. Aquaman’s love interest in the 2018 movie, may lose the role in the upcoming sequel.
    Words are Warner Bros. is actively discussing about possibly replacing the 33-year-old star in “Aquaman 2”. While there’s still no final decision on the matter, several execs at the studio want to recast the role of Mera due to the bad press surrounding Heard and the huge number of fans who are now turning against her, We Got This Covered reports.
    Heard has been embroiled in a legal drama with her former husband Depp, whom she accused of domestic violence during their marriage. Depp paid Heard a settlement of US$7 million, which she donated to the ACLU and the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
    Later in 2019, Depp sued Heard for defamation after she wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which she made a claim about being a victim of domestic abuse and alluded to allegations she made against Depp in their explosive 2016 divorce.
    Recently, a leaked audio recording surfaced from one of the couple’s therapy sessions, in which the “Machete Kills” actress admitted to hitting the “Pirates of the Caribbean” actor. “I’m sorry that I didn’t, uh, uh, hit you across the face in a proper slap, but I was hitting you, it was not punching you. Babe, you’re not punched,” she can be heard saying in the audio. “I don’t know what the motion of my actual hand was, but you’re fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you.”
    Following the leak of the audio, people demanded “Justice for Johnny Depp” and launched a petition on Change.org, requesting the removal of the actress from “Aquaman 2”. More than 190,000 people have signed the petition.
    Previously, WB was also considering to replace Depp in the “Fantastic Beasts” franchise due to the domestic abuse allegations against him by Heard. The studio, however, made the controversial decision to keep him for the 2018 sequel, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald”.

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