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1. First Time I Saw MeLast August, at a premiere party at the NeueHouse on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, the actor Brian Michael Smith was biting into a slider when he turned around and there was Oprah Winfrey. Several years before, as a black transgender man struggling to break into Hollywood, Smith saw no obvious trajectory to a meaningful career. Even a college acting teacher said no one would cast him. “I saw zero representation of transmasculinity,” he says, using an umbrella term that means different things to different people but often describes trans men and nonbinary people who identify more with masculinity. “It was very isolating to grow up and have these dreams. I didn’t see how I was going to be able to do it.”This is how dreams are murdered, but instead of succumbing, Smith told himself “to Oprah this situation” — meaning create his own path. And so he did. He now plays a trio of distinct trans characters on TV: Toine, the gentle cop on OWN’s “Queen Sugar,” whose 2017 coming-out episode coincided with Smith’s public coming out; Pierce, a political strategist on Showtime’s sequel to “The L Word,” which debuted in December; and a firefighter on Fox’s new “9-1-1: Lone Star.” At the premiere, Smith saw his opportunity to thank the woman whose name had become his own inspirational verb. He swallowed the slider, extended his hand — and you know what Oprah said? “I know who you are.”Smith, 37, tells me this story in a Los Angeles hotel lobby on a rare day off. He keeps his head shaved, his beard trimmed and a polished stone from a yoga retreat in his pocket. Something he talks about — something all the trans male and nonbinary actors I interviewed for this story talk about — is why visibility matters. “It’s necessary for people to see themselves onscreen,” says Shaan Dasani, who appeared in two 2019 web comedies, “These Thems” and “Razor Tongue.” “It’s necessary for people to see multiple versions of masculinity.”In 2014, Laverne Cox appeared on Time magazine’s cover with the headline “The Transgender Tipping Point.” Since then, trans women have been working in Hollywood in increasing numbers, but that tipping point is only coming now for trans male and transmasculine actors and story lines. “We’ve been invisible,” says Nick Adams, the director of transgender representation at Glaad. He keeps an unofficial tally of trans men in film and television, dating back to a 1987 episode of “The Golden Girls.” The next entries come in 1999: an episode of the CBS series “L.A. Doctors,” about a teenager who abuses masculinizing hormones, and “Boys Don’t Cry,” about the life and murder of Brandon Teena, played by Hilary Swank. “Five years ago, the kind of roles I’m doing would have gone to cisgender actors,” says Theo Germaine, 27, of their recent parts as young trans men on Netflix’s “The Politician” and Showtime’s “Work in Progress” (Germaine identifies as nonbinary and uses both male and gender-neutral pronouns). Germaine is correct, but the reality is starker: Five years ago, these roles mostly didn’t exist. When a transmasculine character did pop up, he was often a victim, his story limited to and by trans trauma; Smith describes seeing “Boys Don’t Cry” while in high school as both affirming and terrifying.But in the last year, we’ve witnessed more trans male and nonbinary actors onscreen than ever before. Even more important is what the actors and their roles represent. They are reflecting back the reality of trans male and nonbinary lives while mainstreaming long-marginalized characters and narratives. They are introducing multidimensional characters whose gender intersects with other facets of identity — race, class, sexual orientation, disability. Through their performances and social media, the actors are updating and expanding the very idea of the leading man.Why is this vital? Let me start with the most basic reason: survival. The actors are creating characters that audiences have never seen before at a time when right-wing politicians are trying to strip trans people of not only their rights (the military’s recent restrictions surrounding transgender troops and recruits, for example) but their humanity (think of all the so-called bathroom bills). A paradox of America 2020: There’s been a swift advancement of trans visibility and equality, even as anti-trans violence has become what both the Human Rights Campaign and the American Medical Association call an epidemic, and an unprecedented acceptance of trans folks, even as the Supreme Court considers whether someone’s gender identity is grounds for termination from employment. More than half of trans male adolescents have attempted suicide, according to a 2018 study published in the journal Pediatrics. “There’s a reason for that,” says Scott Turner Schofield, who stars in Amazon’s new “Studio City.” “We’re raised to believe there’s something wrong with us. We’re raised to believe we’re the only one.” So when Smith’s character came out on “Queen Sugar,” Twitter lit up with the hashtag #FirstTimeISawMe. Progress — social, cultural, political — always begins with the self.2. SuperheroesTwo and a half years ago, Leo Sheng was in Ann Arbor, Mich., about to start a master’s in social work when a casting agent messaged him on Instagram. “Acting was not on my radar,” he says. Sheng flew to New York for an audition. As he boarded the plane back to Michigan, his phone rang: He got the part. In “Adam,” which premiered last August, Sheng plays Ethan, a young trans man so emotionally grounded that he becomes the ballast for the cis characters flailing all around him, thus flipping a trans narrative trope. Soon after, he was cast in “The L Word: Generation Q” as Micah, an adjunct professor of social work.Sheng, now 23, recognizes the potential for social and political change in acting: Through characters like Ethan and Micah, he’s helping Hollywood revise its depictions of trans men, catching up to trans lives as they’re actually lived. Story lines are moving past transition into love, friendship, work, family — the everything-ness of a man’s life. Sheng and the other actors are portraying men not defined by crisis or fear, or hormones and chest-binding, but in the midst of full and (mostly) happy lives — “a type of happiness a lot of people want to know is possible,” Sheng says.Sheng uses social media to further complicate the narrative, engaging in an ongoing deconstruction of who and what defines the male self. He posts about going to the gym and his evolving relationship to muscles. He wants people to see trans male bodies as they are, whether ripped or soft, hairy or smooth, boyish or dad-ish, scarred or not. Sheng recently posted about his period, a frankness that drew praise but also online attacks about his identity.Something we can’t forget: Even as the actors appear in more and more celebrated projects, some people continue to deny their existence. The English actor, writer and director Jake Graf, 42, says in the past trans men were invisible, both onscreen and in broader society, in part because many could choose whether to disclose their identity: “Largely due to our physicality, we’ve been afforded the luxury of living that unseen, under-the-radar, stealth life.” Their reasons were complex and understandable (personal safety, social and financial stability, for example), but one consequence has been that there is now far less awareness of trans men than of trans women. Society has a long and unfortunate history of gazing at and fetishizing trans women, but that has been less the case with trans men. That’s a generalization, of course, but only in service of sharing a point many of the actors made to me: They now want to be seen; they now want people to know they exist. “Trans women have historically been more visible,” Graf says. “Trans men have been out there doing things much more quietly, which is great for them, but not great for visibility.”Graf used to audition without disclosing his identity, and casting directors saw him as another guy in the gaggle. Only after coming out could he stand out, booking roles in 2018’s “Colette” and 2015’s “The Danish Girl” (based on a novel I wrote). With his square jaw and British charm, Graf embodies the classic leading man while also subverting the very notion. He started making short films, highlighting the fine-grain details of ordinary trans lives: a young man visiting his gynecologist; an older man recalling life before the queer and trans rights movements — a multiplicity of stories Hollywood is only now incorporating.“There’s no one version of a trans guy in Hollywood anymore,” says Elliot Fletcher, 23. From 2016 to 2018, Fletcher took on three consecutive trans roles that, viewed together, proved groundbreaking. On MTV’s “Faking It,” he played a high schooler navigating his gender identity and sexuality. On Freeform’s “The Fosters,” he was the sweetly rebellious boyfriend. On Showtime’s “Shameless,” Fletcher plays an L.G.B.T.Q. activist who is simultaneously insulting, raunchy and endearing. The role he’d really love, though, is the next Spider-Man. With the right glasses, he could pass for Peter Parker. When I asked the actors about their dream roles, most said they want to play a superhero. A superhero implies someone elite, a status long denied to trans and gender-nonconforming people.3. I Am My Own MasculinityIn “The Politician,” Germaine’s character, James, toggles between running the student-body campaign of his best friend, Payton, and sleeping with Payton’s girlfriend. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, people are going to hate me because I’m not playing a nice person,’” Germaine says. In fact, James represents an evolution of the trans male character beyond hero, saint or martyr to someone allowed to be ruthless and deceitful. The character breakdown describes James as trans, but his gender identity is never explicitly defined — it’s so unremarkable, it’s never remarked upon. It’s what makes the character so transformational; James refuses to take on the burdens of definition or explanation. If you look at him only through the lens of gender identity, he won’t engage. He transfers questions of identity from him to you. As a nonbinary actor, Germaine says they still feel some pressure to justify and self-explain but hope audiences are ready to move past fixed ideas of how a trans or nonbinary person should look.Viewers seem to be. Germaine’s James takes us to a place beyond “passing” — a word the actors don’t like but also acknowledge as a real factor in how trans men are depicted. Hollywood still mostly employs actors who can be perceived as cis. On the one hand, this represents progress: The actors want casting directors to see them for any relevant part, whether cis or trans. But it’s also a privilege that excludes many. “There are so many different ways to express gender,” Sheng says. “I would love to see more nonbinary, genderqueer and trans folks who can’t ‘pass’ be given opportunities.”Recently Chella Man, 21, joined the cast of DC Universe’s series “Titans,” playing Jericho, who is mute, biracial and bisexual. Soon after, Man, who identifies as genderqueer, modeled for Calvin Klein flexing his biceps in black boxer briefs. It’s a radical act, he says, “to showcase my flat-chested, penis- less body.” He says he received a lot of love and a lot of transphobia, neither of which surprised him. He posted on Instagram from the shoot with the caption: “No visible underwear bulge. Jewish and Asian history and representation in my DNA and on my skin. Top surgery scars out and proud. Visible cochlear implants paired with my DEAF AF tattoo.” Man followed this with an older image of himself — in track pants and shirtless, pre-top surgery. A bicep tattoo gives the photo its caption and meaning: “I Am My Own Masculinity.” Man is saying through image and ink that he can define his own masculinity, rather than let it define him.This, then, is what comes next: shifting from a past where gender was handed to us by society’s cues and prompts to a future of expressing who we are in terms we control. “Masculinity stems from gender, which is socially constructed,” says Man. “Anyone has the potential to unlearn social constructs and/or redefine what they may mean to them.” Collectively, the actors are engaged in this conversation about gender and identity, leading us to a day when those conversations are no longer necessary.4. The Gates of ParamountAt the beginning of 2019, Jill Soloway, the creator of Amazon’s “Transparent,” invited Schofield, who declined to give his age, for a hike in Griffith Park. In the chaparral above Los Angeles, they discussed organizing a new group under the umbrella of 5050 by 2020, a strategic initiative working toward gender parity across all Hollywood professions that Soloway helps lead. Soloway, 54, who identifies as nonbinary, says that many trans men and nonbinary people have a unique perspective on the issues of equality, opportunity and the post-#MeToo discussion of masculinity and its privileges. Smith agrees: As he transitioned, he had to ask himself what kind of man he wanted to be, “examining that earlier on and more intensely than cis men.” He believes the importance society places on masculinity might be more problematic than masculinity in and of itself. Dasani, who also declined to give his age, echoed that with a story from his time in film school, before transitioning: In a study group with three film bros, he found himself ignored. After transitioning, he noticed what he said wasn’t devalued in a way he felt it had been before. “I remember clocking this — be the guy who makes room for other voices at the table.”In April 2019, about 30 actors, writers, directors and editors met in a boardroom on the Paramount lot. They gathered around an imposing executive table, the kind that has long excluded them. The cohort’s goals are both practical (networking, professional development) and inspirational (support, friendship). For some, it’s the only time they’ve been in a space with so many like themselves. As far as anyone knows, it’s a first for Hollywood. “There’s so much tenderness in the room,” says Dasani of the now monthly meetings. The symbolism of the Paramount lot isn’t lost: For a long time, those gates have been closed to many communities. When I ask Dasani about this moment of increasing representation, he corrects me. “I hope it’s more than a moment. I hope it’s a cultural shift.” A shift to ensure the gates never close again.Grooming: Christina Guerra and Hailey Adickes at Celestine Agency. More

LOS ANGELES — Disney reported mixed quarterly results on Tuesday, with per-share profit declining by 17 percent and revenue climbing by 36 percent. Costs associated with building its Disney Plus streaming service occupied much of the gap.But investors and Disney’s Hollywood competitors were interested in only one number: Disney Plus subscribers. There were 28.6 million as of Monday, the company said, an astounding number for a service that is less than three months old. Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, told analysts on a conference call that the response to Disney Plus had “exceeded even our greatest expectations.”Disney unveiled its flagship streaming platform on Nov. 12 amid a thundering marketing campaign and found immediate success with “The Mandalorian,” a live-action “Star Wars” series that introduced a blockbuster character known as Baby Yoda. Within a day of its introduction, Disney Plus had 10 million subscribers, including an unspecified number of accounts for customers who signed up free under a promotion with Verizon, blowing past analysts’ estimates. Disney Plus costs $7 a month for those paying the sticker price.Average monthly revenue per paid subscriber in the quarter was $5.56. Mr. Iger said popular offerings included the 2016 musical “Moana” and old episodes of “Hannah Montana” and “The Simpsons.” And, of course, “The Mandalorian,” which Mr. Iger said would return for a second season in October.“It’s often challenging for a company to pivot in a new strategic direction, particularly when it involved navigating between established and emerging business models,” Mr. Iger said. “We have made an extraordinary amount of progress.”Another focus of the call was the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has sickened more than 20,000 people in the country and killed at least 425. As a result, the Shanghai Disney Resort and Hong Kong Disneyland have been closed for more than a week.Christine M. McCarthy, Disney’s chief financial officer, told analysts that “the precise magnitude of the financial impact is highly dependent on the duration of the closures and how quickly we can resume normal operations.” She estimated that the closing of the Shanghai Disney Resort could drag down second-quarter operating income by $135 million, “assuming the park is closed for two months.” Hong Kong losses could add up to $145 million over a similar period.For the most recent quarter, Disney’s theme park division had operating income of $2.3 billion, a 9 percent increase from the same period a year earlier. The results were dented by costs associated with the introduction of new “Star Wars” rides and higher wages for union employees.Attendance at Disney’s domestic parks increased by 2 percent in the quarter.Walt Disney Studios delivered $948 million in operating profit, an increase of more than 100 percent from a year earlier. Contributing were “Frozen II,” which has taken in $1.4 billion, and “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” which has taken in $1.1 billion. Those films, which are still playing, and “Toy Story 4” boosted Disney’s consumer products business by 25 percent, Ms. McCarthy said.Media Networks, a vast part of Disney that includes ESPN and ABC, reported operating income of about $1.6 billion, a 23 percent increase. Disney credited its recently purchased National Geographic and FX networks for that rise. Profit declined at ESPN because of an increase in programming costs and lower advertising revenue as a result of lower viewership.Disney’s streaming division, which includes Hulu and the sports-oriented ESPN Plus, posted an operating loss of roughly $693 million, which was not as bad as most analysts had anticipated. (Ms. McCarthy said losses could total $900 million in the current quarter.) Disney said that Hulu had 30.6 million paying subscribers as of Monday, a 33 percent increase from a year ago. ESPN Plus had about 7.6 million, up from 1.4 million.The successful introduction of Disney Plus in North America has prompted Disney to accelerate the service’s rollout overseas. It will arrive in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and a handful of other European countries starting on March 24. Disney Plus will become available in India on March 29.Mr. Iger told analysts that he was pleased with Disney’s ongoing efforts to digest the entertainment assets it bought from Rupert Murdoch last year for $71.3 billion. Those efforts have included dropping the word Fox from the 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight movie divisions. (Mr. Murdoch retained ownership of Fox News and the Fox broadcast network.) Emma Watts, the top executive at 20th Century, quit last week. She was primarily responsible for shepherding James Cameron’s four upcoming “Avatar” sequels. Hulu’s chief executive, Randy Freer, also resigned. More

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The Netflix series, created by former competitive figure skater Samantha Stratton, revolves around an ambitious skater who is forced to team up with a bad boy.
Feb 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Kaya Scodelario and January Jones’ ice skating drama has been axed by Netflix bosses.
Kaya replaced Emma Roberts in “Spinning Out”, which revolved around an ambitious skater who is forced to team up with a bad boy when an injury ends her solo ice dance dreams.
The series launched on the streaming site at the beginning of the year (2020), but failed to score high marks in the ratings.
“Spinning Out” was created by Samantha Stratton, a former competitive figure skater.

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Through a letter, editor-in-chief Jessica Piels explains why the Cosmo team has decided to pull cover featuring Victoria Fuller who competes on Peter Weber’s season of the ABC show.
Feb 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Peter Weber’s season of “The Bachelor” aired a new episode on Monday, February 3. During the episode, contestant Victoria Fuller won a chance to grace Cosmopolitan cover with Peter after winning a game during a group date in Costa Rica. However, the magazine has recently announced that the cover will no longer be published digitally.
Through a letter that was posted on Cosmo’s website on Monday, editor-in-chief Jessica Piels explained that the Cosmo team has decided to pull Victoria’s cover after photos of her surfacing of posing in “White Lives Matter” clothing surfaced online.
“As you probably know, the details about upcoming plot points on The Bachelor are as closely guarded as nuclear codes,” she wrote in the letter which was titled “Why We’re Not Publishing the Cosmo Bachelor Cover”. “When my team and I flew down to Costa Rica for our challenge, we weren’t told who our models were going to be. We didn’t even meet them until we were all on camera on-set, ready to start our shoot.”
“So when it came time for me to choose the winner of the challenge–whose prize was a digital cover of Cosmo–all I knew about the contestants were their first names and the energy they conveyed through the camera lens,” she went on saying.
“In my view, the nature of the organization is neither here nor there–both phrases and the belief systems they represent are rooted in racism and therefore problematic. Unequivocally, the White Lives Matter movement does not reflect the values of the Cosmo brand. We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, and any cause that fights to end injustices for people of color,” she added.
Concluding the letter, Piels wrote, “My team and I had many long discussions about how we wanted to address this issue. We’d already printed the fashion shoot in our March issue, complete with an inset of the cover, and of course the episode had already been filmed. Ultimately what felt right was choosing not to publish the digital cover on our website or social feeds, and simply being honest with you, the audience we respect, about what happened and where we stand.”
Nor Victoria and ABC have yet to comment on the matter.

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People, however, don’t take Brittney’s lengthy Instagram rent towards her former ‘Love and Hip Hop: New York’ co-star as they troll Brittney for her spelling errors instead.
Feb 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Brittney Taylor wants everyone to leave her alone after she accused Remy Ma of attacking her in April 2019. That’s why when the rapper brought the issue back in the latest episode of “Love & Hip Hop: New York”, Brittney quickly took to her Instagram account to vent.
Sharing footage of the Monday, February 3 episode of the VH1 show, Brittney accused Remy of “deformation of character.” She later wrote a lengthy message in a separate post, explaining why who was disappointed to see her case being discussed on the show while she tried to move on.
“I’m in such a better place and space in my life,” Brittney wrote. “It’s a shame I have to watch this bs on TV. The Sad part is I’ve completely moved on. I left it alone. But Them people know what they did. It’s sad af that they’re really Making it seem like I did things for clout.”
“You people Still Bashing my name on national Television is crazy,” she continued. “I went through enough over that situation. I’m literally traumatized! I’m a bigger and better person. I’ve been violated enough. Stop milking it. And Just let a young n***a be.”

People, however, didn’t take her anger seriously and rather trolled Brittney for her spelling errors. “If you can’t spell it, you shouldn’t be able to sue for it,” one said, referring to Brittney writing “deformation” instead of defamation. “still stuck on “deformation,” one other added.
Someone else, meanwhile, wondered if Brittney knew if the episode wasn’t filmed in the recent days. “anybody gonna tell her that it’s not like they filmed it yesterday or something…,” a fan commented. Another comment read, “If she’s not bothered, why is she sitting at home watching the show??”
Brittney made headlines back in 2019 after she called out Remy, claiming that her former “LHH: New York” co-star assaulted her at a New York City Cancer benefit concert for no reason at all. She also shared an image of her sporting an apparent painful black eye.
Remy insisted that the said incident never happened. Fat Joe, who was also performing at the concert, backed her by saying that Remy never touched Brittney. Still, Remy was charged with assault though it was dropped in early December 2019.

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What’s on TVCONTACT (1997) 7 p.m. on Ovation. Based on the 1985 science-fiction novel of the same title by Carl Sagan, “Contact” yearns to bridge the gap between humanity and technological advancement. Jodie Foster plays Ellie Arroway, a scientist devoted to finding extraterrestrial life, who picks up a radio signal from another planet. This garners national attention, and as Ellie decodes the aliens’ message, she must protect her work from those trying to steal or discount it. Ellie and a young minister named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) engage in a debate throughout over science and religion — and Palmer also becomes a love interest. “But try as it might to convey a humanist, mystical message and to equate the search for extraterrestrial life with religious faith,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The New York Times, “‘Contact’ is much more convincing when worshiping at the cold shrine of technology.”STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 8 p.m. on CNN; 9 p.m. on CBS, ABC, NBC and FOX. President Trump will deliver his third State of the Union Address — the last of this presidential term. Mr. Trump’s first State of the Union Address focused on immigration policy, and his second — which was rescheduled because of a government shutdown over funding for a border wall — touched on looming Congressional investigations into his conduct. This year, the speech comes a day ahead of a final vote on his impeachment. What’s StreamingTOM PAPA: YOU’RE DOING GREAT! Stream on Netflix. The film, TV, radio and podcast comedian Tom Papa makes his Netflix debut with an hourlong routine filmed in his home state, New Jersey. In this special, Papa covers life’s simple pleasures: getting married, having two daughters, and living with the notion of being a parent. With asides about pets, climate change, social media and Staten Island, Papa assures viewers that we’re all just doing our best.BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY (2001) Stream on Hulu. Rent on Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. If Bridget Jones just loses 20 pounds and cuts down on alcohol, cigarettes and carbs, she’ll probably find (and land) the man of her dreams. At least, that’s her hope. Luckily, her current suitors — her charming boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), and her former childhood friend, the earnest Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) — assure our heroine that they like her for exactly who she is. Renée Zellweger, who adopts an unassuming British accent to play Bridget, was nominated for an Academy Award for her role. “Ms. Zellweger accomplishes the small miracle of making Bridget both entirely endearing and utterly real,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The Times. The movie’s sequels, BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON (2004) and BRIDGET JONES’S BABY (2016), will also be available for streaming. More

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The three-hour episode of season 24 of the long-running NBC dating show features Peter Weber and his ladies heading to Costa Rica for some fun and romantic moments.
Feb 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – “The Bachelor” season 24 will air two episodes this week. The first episode aired on its regular time Monday, February 3 before it continues on Wednesday. The Monday episode was surely big as it offered fans a three-hour episode featuring Peter Weber and his women heading to Costa Rica.
The episode picked up where things were left off last week as Peter was torn as he should make a decision about Alayah and Victoria P. Even though Alayah had a rose, Peter could still send her home and that was exactly he did. While Alayah was cool with it, the other ladies were shocked by Peter’s decision.
During the rose ceremony, Peter presented roses to Madison, Kelsey, Sydney, Natasha, Lexi, Hannah Ann, Victoria P, Victoria F, Mykenna, Shiann and Tammy. That meant Kiarra, Savannah and Deandra were eliminated.
They later jetted off to Costa Rica and that was where Peter informed the ladies that he was in a golf cart accident and got 22 stitches in his forehead. The first one-on-one date went to Sydney. The two took a helicopter ride over the amazing scenery before enjoying a picnic. They bonded as they talked about their respective heritages and things escalated with a makeout session. They continued their date with a lovely dinner and had some time alone a really fancy hot tub with a waterfall, where they once again sharing a heated moment.
Kelsey, meanwhile, was crying to Tammy because she didn’t like Peter spending time with Sydney. “I like Sydney, she’s cool. But she’s a dramatic b***h,” she told Tammy, who was shocked.
Later, Shiann, Kelsey, Victoria F., Madison, Natasha, Victoria P., Lexi, Hannah Ann, Tammy and Mykenna were picked for a group date. They did a swimsuit photoshoot for Cosmopolitan, and the winner would get actually be on the cover of Cosmo with Peter. The ladies went in pairs and Victoria F. stole the show as she made out with Peter during their trio scene. Eventually, Victoria F. won the prize.
During the night portion of the date, Kelsey told Peter that she’s falling in love with him and that made it so hard for her to see him with others. Peter then assured her, saying that he felt strongly for her and that was when they made out.
Meanwhile, Victoria F. filled in Tammy about Kelsey declaring herself as the realest b***h among the other ladies, who she deemed fake. That surprised Tammy because she had been comforting her. The revelation prompted Tammy to tell Peter that Kelsey had been drinking excessively and it didn’t take long before Peter confronted Kelsey about her “emotional breakdown.”
Kelsey was upset and confronted the other ladies. At the end of the group date, Peter gave the rose to Hannah Ann.
Peter then had a solo date with Kelly where they got to do a cleansing ritual and meditation as they light some candles. They had a good time together and she got a rose from Peter.
Later Kelsey went to Peter to tell him about the rumors that Tammy was allegedly spreading about her. She said that Tammy spread rumors saying that she was drinking too much and that she was popping pills, the latter of which was shocking because Tammy didn’t say anything about pills on camera. Peter believed in Kelsey and gave her a rose right away.
Host Chris Harrison then appeared to tell the ladies that there wouldn’t be a cocktail party that night as they headed straight to the rose ceremony. But before that, Tammy asked Kelsey about what she told to Peter and Kelsey eventually told the truth.
Tammy denied saying anything about pills, but the other ladies claimed that Tammy did. However, Tammy insisted that she was just repeating what Victoria P. said. After some crying moment, Peter handed roses to Victoria F, Madison, Natasha, Victoria P, Mykenna, and Tammy. Shiann and Lexi were sent home.
Season 24 of “The Bachelor” airs on Mondays, with a special episode airing Wednesday, February 5 at 8 P.M. ET/PT on ABC

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Jerry Jacobson swindled more than $24 million out of a major fast food promotion over 12 years. His trick: stealing and selling McDonald’s Monopoly game pieces.Jacobson’s fortune, and his downfall, came from gaming the twice-a-year promotion, which promised anything from a free sandwich to a million dollars to the customer who revealed the lucky game piece — a property, a railroad — when they peeled off the sticker attached to their hash brown wrapper or soda cup or the inside of a magazine.He was in charge of keeping the promotion secure, delivering the most lucrative game pieces to McDonald’s packaging plants. Instead, through most of the 1990s, he pocketed and sold them to a vast network of friends and distant relatives. In the end, more than 50 people were convicted in the scheme.“McMillions,” a six-part HBO documentary series premiering Monday, chronicles the scam and its unraveling. Here’s what to know before you watch.Who was involved?It was Jacobson who watched the winning pieces being printed, who locked them away in a vault, who sealed them up and tucked them in his vest and flew from factory to factory to hide them in McDonald’s packaging, according to The Daily Beast, which looked back on the case years later.Jacobson went into private security work after having served briefly as a police officer in Hollywood, Fla. His connection to the Monopoly game began when he and his wife at the time, Marsha, moved to Atlanta, where she began work as a security auditor. She helped her husband get a job with one of her clients, Dittler Brothers, which printed the McDonald’s game pieces. He later moved to Simon Marketing, a company in the same area, that produced the pieces.Soon, he started slipping the prize-winning pieces to people he knew, sometimes for profit. His stepbrother. His local butcher, who paid $2,000 for a stolen $10,000 piece. His nephew, who received a $200,000 piece in exchange for $45,000.Over the years, the fraud grew beyond his circle as he found other conspirators, usually by chance — which made them more difficult to pin down during the F.B.I.’s investigation years later. Jacobson, according to The Daily Beast story, said he met Gennaro Colombo, who claimed to be a member of New York’s Colombo crime family, at the Atlanta airport in 1995. Jacobson was waiting to board a cruise ship several years later when he met Don Hart, who in turn introduced him to Andrew Glomb at a dinner party. They became Jacobson’s accomplices, the middlemen who would sell the pieces Jacobson had swiped to various “winners.”How did it work?Jacobson came across the materials he needed by accident, according to The Daily Beast article. A supplier sent him a package by mistake, filled with the metallic tamper-proof seals — the ones used to secure the envelopes filled with game pieces that Jacobson was charged with delivering.In airport bathrooms — en route to packaging plants — Jacobson would remove the envelope’s original seal, swap out winning pieces for regular ones and resecure the envelope with one of the new seals he was sent.He would then pass the winning pieces on to Colombo and his other “recruiters,” who tracked down willing buyers and coached them through claiming their winnings. Colombo sold a $1 million piece to Gloria Brown, a friend of his wife, on the side of the highway for $40,000 in cash, Brown said in an interview with The Daily Beast. He then drove her to a McDonald’s, walked her through what to say and helped her lie about where she lived to avoid drawing suspicion — a surplus of winners was popping up in Jacksonville, Fla., where she and others connected to Colombo resided.How were they caught?In March 2000, according to The Daily Beast, the F.B.I. received an anonymous phone tip: Someone named “Uncle Jerry” was rigging the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion, stealing game pieces from the inside and selling them.Special Agent Richard Dent, based in the F.B.I.’s Jacksonville office, contacted a McDonald’s spokeswoman, Amy Murray, who began trying to verify the winners. One winner — Colombo’s father-in-law, who claimed $1 million from the contest — told Murray that he lived in New Hampshire, but property records in Jacksonville proved otherwise. Gloria Brown, Murray found, was also having her annual checks delivered to a Jacksonville address.Dent launched an investigation that would rope in 25 agents nationwide. He found his big lead in 2001, when he mapped out the addresses of three winners — all of whom lived within miles of Jacobson’s South Carolina lake house.Dent convinced McDonald’s to run one more Monopoly promotion, so the F.B.I. could track down the final evidence it needed. The move was fraught with legal risks — the corporation, in its collaboration with federal investigators, already knew at this point that its game was compromised.The decision paid off, allowing Dent to pin down Andrew Glomb for the first time. Colombo, though, died after a car accident in 1998. The F.B.I. arrested eight major suspects on Aug. 22, 2001, and charged Jacobson with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.What’s happened since?There’s a reason the scheme didn’t last long in the public’s memory: The trial, in Jacksonville, started on Sept. 10, 2001, and was quickly overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11.Jacobson, who declined to speak to The Daily Beast and did not respond to a request from The Times, said at his trial that he had stolen as many as 60 game pieces. He served 37 months behind bars and agreed to pay $12.5 million in restitution. Now in his late 70s, he still lives in Georgia.McDonald’s, through an instant million-dollar giveaway, tried to quietly make amends with customers.It was not the first time, or the last, that someone had gamed a competition supposedly decided by luck. In 1998, several years before Jacobson’s trial, an agent with Nevada’s Gaming Control Board was sentenced on a racketeering charge after designing a computer program that rigged slot machines in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe.And in 2010, the director of information security at the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the game in 33 states, wrote a computer code to manipulate the association’s random-number generators — producing winning lottery numbers that he could predict in advance.McDonald’s still runs similar promotions to the Monopoly sweepstakes, but the corporation has since created an “independent promotions task force” to prevent future copycats. More