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      Billie Eilish to Take Part in New Oral History Podcast With 'The Office' Cast

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      The 12-episode series, titled ‘An Oral History of The Office’, will be hosted and produced by Brian Baumgartner, who played accountant Kevin Malone on the beloved show.
      Jul 7, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Billie Eilish is set to join Ricky Gervais, Steve Carell and John Krasinski on a new Spotify podcast about iconic U.S. TV comedy “The Office”.
      The new 12-episode series, titled “An Oral History of The Office”, will be hosted and produced by Brian Baumgartner, who played accountant Kevin Malone on the beloved show.
      Fans can look forward to interviews and memories from his fellow cast members Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson and Angela Kinsey, and other celebrity devotees, like “Bad Guy” hitmaker Billie, according to People.

      Baumgartner, who is working with former “The Office” producer Ben Silverman on the new venture, will also chat to Greg Daniels, who created the American version of the hit, and Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who co-created, wrote, produced and starred on the BBC original, which aired from 2001 to 2003.
      The U.S. TV hit, which ran for nine seasons before ending in 2013, has proved a popular podcast subject – Brian’s co-stars Jenna and Angela currently host the top-rated “Office Ladies” audio series.
      “An Oral History of The Office” kicks off on 14 July.

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      Lesley Manville on Taking Over Princess Margaret Role in 'The Crown': I Find It Thrilling

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      The ‘Maleficent’ actress reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the final season of the hit series.
      Jul 6, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Lesley Manville can’t wait to start playing “wonderful woman” Princess Margaret in “The Crown”.
      The actress confirmed her casting as Queen Elizabeth II’s sister in the fifth and final season of the drama last week (ends July 03), and now she reveals she has had to keep the secret to herself for the past year, ever since showrunner Peter Morgan offered her the role in one of her own favorite TV “treats.”
      “It’s mind-blowing television,” the “Maleficent” star tells Deadline. “There was never any doubt that I would say yes. When they said, ‘Margaret’, I hadn’t really thought about it. Then I thought, ‘Yes, Margaret! That’s fabulous!’ She was so avant-garde. So naughty, delightful and funny. What a wonderful woman to play.”
      Manville will follow in the footsteps of Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter, who took on the role in the first four seasons of the hit show, and she can’t wait to pick up the baton.
      “I don’t find that daunting; I find it thrilling,” she adds. “I think, ‘Come on Manville, you’ve got to take that baton, and not let those two actresses think, ‘Oh we were great, shame about Manville’. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
      Lesley knows she’ll be working with old pal and occasional co-star Imelda Staunton, who will portray Elizabeth in season five, but she has no idea who else will make up the cast.
      “Not a single name has been dangled like a carrot to make me even more excited,” she tells Deadline.

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      Pharrell Williams Teams Up With Netflix for Gospel Series 'Voices of Fire'

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      The ‘Happy’ hitmaker makes a return to his Virginia hometown to find undiscovered talent to build ‘one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs,’ with the assistance of Bishop Ezekiel Williams.
      Jul 6, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Superstar Pharrell Williams is bringing gospel music from his Virginia hometown to Netflix on a new TV series.
      “Voices of Fire” will chronicle the “Happy” hitmaker’s recent return to the Hampton Roads community, where he teamed up with his uncle, fellow musician Bishop Ezekiel Williams, and other gospel leaders to find undiscovered talent to build “one of the world’s most inspiring gospel choirs.”
      Pharrell will co-executive produce the show, which will premiere on the streaming service later this year.
      He shared the news of the Netflix collaboration on Sunday (July 05) during an appearance at the virtual Essence Festival.
      The musician is also said to be in talks with platform bosses to develop a feature-length musical about the Juneteenth holiday (June 19), which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., along with “Black-ish” creator Kenya Barris.

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      The Nastiest Breakups in 'Bachelor' Franchise History

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      Several couples are indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witness that some of the couples end their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
      Jul 5, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “The Bachelor” and its spin-offs are TV shows that allow people to find love while being captured on small screen.. Several long-lasting couples were indeed born from the franchise, but fans of the series also witnessed that some of the couple ended their romantic relationship in the most brutal way possible.
      Fans of the ABC dating show might remember when authorities were involved in a drama between one couple as one of them physically assaulted the other. Another couple, meanwhile, blasted each other publicly in an infamous sitdown interview with the show’s host Chris Harrison. One nasty breakup that fans could never forget was when a bachelor also heartlessly broke up with his fiancee to be with the runner-up of his season.
      Taking a walk down memory lane of these scandalous moments, here are the messiest breakups in “Bachelor” franchise history.

      1. Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton
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      Josh Murray and Amanda Stanton met in season three of “Bachelor in Paradise” and quickly hit it off as she accepted his proposal at the end of the show. However, their relationship ended in January 2017. They did rekindle in February only to dramatically break up again.
      Amanda exposed Josh in an exclusive interview with E! News, talking about the “red flags” she noticed while dating him and how the breakup affected her daughters. In response to that, Josh said in a statement, “I just want Amanda to stop lying about me, stop speaking to the press about me, and for Amanda and her friends to stop trying to cyber bully me.” Their nasty breakup didn’t only get the two of them involved as his personal assistant Hayley Watts spoke out against Amanda in a separate interview in which she claimed that Amanda accused her of stealing her iPad.

      2. Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst
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      The drama between on-and-off couple Michael Stagliano and Holly Durst, who appeared together in season 2 of “Bachelor Pad” back in 2011, started after Holly was wavered by fellow contestant Blake Julian. While Michael Stagliano won “Bachelor Pad” with his former fiancee Holly, he was left heartbroken when the latter dropped a bombshell revelation in the live finale.
      Michael and the viewers were stunned when Holly and Blake announced they were engaged during the episode. “I was caught off guard, humiliated,” Michael admitted to PEOPLE at the time. “I know neither Holly nor Blake wanted it to go down like that. I’m now even more thankful for the talk we had two weeks ago, which provided closure I didn’t have before. If we hadn’t had that, it would have been so much worse tonight. I might have just walked off stage.”

      3. Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
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      Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi might think they had the best experience from “The Bachelor” back in 2010. They seemed to think they were for each other with Jake proposing to Vienna at the end of the season. However, their romance was quick to take a nasty turn because they split in June of the same year and things were a downhill from there.
      In a special episode of “The Bachelorette”, the former lovers called each other names with Vienna telling Jake, “You are a fame w***e is what you are,” to which he responded, “I’m disgusted with you.” He also accused her of undermining him. Meanwhile, Vienne claimed that he treated her like a child and was mean to her.

      4. Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft
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      Jason Mesnick and Melissa Rycroft’s dramatic split unsurprisingly was among the messiest breakups in “The Bachelor” franchise history. In his season of “The Bachelor”, Jason decided to pick Melissa over Molly Malaney after asking his family for an input. However, he realized later on that he made the wrong choice.
      During the “After the Final Rose” special, he came clean about it. He told Chris that he “can’t stop thinking about Molly” and that he wanted a proposal do-over. Melissa was unsurprisingly pissed over the revelation and called him “a bastard.” The dramatic split aside, it all worked out in the end. Jason and Molly are married with two kids, while Melissa is happily married to Tye Strickland with whom she shares three children.

      5. Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray
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      His split from Amanda Stanton wasn’t the first time for Josh Murray to experience a bitter breakup in Bachelor Nation. Prior to being with Amanda, Josh was engaged to Andi Dorfman whom he proposed to in season 10 finale of “The Bachelorette”. However, nine months after making it official, the couple called off their engagement.
      Andi detailed her split from Josh in her book titled “It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Ever After” in which she said that Josh was sometimes “an emotional abuser.” “That one sexual escapade [with runner-up Nick Viall] would become a power play used by my fiance to justify his mistrust in me. It would be an excuse to call me a whore. And it would eventually lead to the demise of my engagement,” Andi wrote. Josh denied all of her claims when he was on “Bachelor in Paradise”.

      6. Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado
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      Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado got together in a November 2004 finale of “The Bachelor”, but instead of the moment of Byron proposing to Velvick, it was when Mary was arrested for assaulting Byron that most “Bachelor” fans would remember the most. The altercation took place the night after they appeared in a “Bachelor” reunion episode in November 2007.
      According to authorities, she punched Byron in the mouth and was under the influence of alcohol when she was arrested. Despite the assault, they managed to put their differences aside and stay together, but then called it quits for good in 2009.

      7. Juan Pablo and Clare Crawley
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      Juan Pablo broke Clare Crawley’s heart on “Bachelor Winter Games” with the meanest thing a man could ever say to a woman. In the season, Juan chose Nikki Ferrell over Clare after Andi Dorfman left the show. As if being dumped wasn’t enough to hurt Clare, Juan told him why he didn’t choose her.
      Despite basically having sex with him in the ocean, it wasn’t enough to make Juan to say that he loved Clare. However, he did say to her that he “loved f***ing” her.” What a way to crush someone’s heart.

      8. Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul
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      Marcus Grodd and Lacy Faddoul found love on “Bachelor in Paradise” season one in 2014 and got married in the season two premiere. It might look like a fairy tale, until it was actually revealed that they never legally wed. Marcus said that Lacy “changed” after they came back from the show and “stalled” things when they “were supposed to start the paperwork.”
      He then accused Lacy of ghosting him, saying she became “a runaway bride.” He shared in an interview in 2016, “It became a toxic relationship at times. She was very controlling. I was more of an appeasing person. I wouldn’t want to fight. There were a lot of barriers that we couldn’t overcome. I think that that made her change her mind.”

      9. Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton
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      Robby Hayes and Amanda Stanton might be loving each other at some points, but they failed to end their relationship nicely. The former “Bachelor in Paradise” couple came at each other’s throat with Robby humiliating his ex by sharing on Twitter her private texts in which he praised Amanda for her “new tits.”
      Additionally, Robby dragged Amanda in a lengthy statement on Twitter. “History is repeatedly showing that some people thrive off of using the media and their ‘army’ to manipulate viewers to place one-sided blame, constantly play the ‘victim’ and use their friends to try and assassinate one’s character. Your story-line is getting OLD; at some point it’s just on YOU to stop living a double-life, and at this point, everyone sees through it,” so he wrote in the 2018 tweet.

      10. Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Becca Kufrin
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      The way Arie Luyendyk Jr. broke up with his then-fiancee Becca Kuffrin was really something else. The leading man of season 22 of “The Bachelor” proposed to Becca after sending runner-up Lauren Burnham home, only to later realize that his heart was actually for Lauren instead of Becca.
      Rather unsurpringly, Arie opted to dump Becca on-camera just weeks after filming the finale to pursue his love for Lauren. Becca later confronted the realtor in “After the Final Rose”, asking him why he proposed to her if he wasn’t fully sure of his own feelings. Arie blamed “the pressure of being The Bachelor,” explaining, “[The pressure of] knowing there’s a timeline and having to make the decision on that day.”

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      Penn Badgley Finds It Uncomfortable Watching Himself on 'Gossip Girl'

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      The Dan Humphrey depicter opens up on his experience of experimenting with drugs during his younger years and reveals he didn’t enjoy watching himself on ‘Gossip Girl’.
      Jul 5, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Actor Penn Badgley has opened up about experimenting with drugs in his youth.
      The 33-year-old spoke with his former “Gossip Girl” co-star Chace Crawford for an interview with Variety where, among other topics, the pair touched on dabbling in hallucinogenics.
      The topic of conversation arose as the pair talked about the LSD trip taken by Penn’s character in season two of “You”.
      “On the LSD trip, did you do some research?” Chace asked. “Your performance was amazing.”
      Penn admitted, “In my early 20s, I did plenty of research.”
      Despite speaking candidly of his experiences, Penn hinted he wasn’t in the best headspace at the time and called revisiting his classic series, which also starred Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, with his wife, Domino Kirke, “very hard to watch.”
      “It must’ve been six months after we met,” he said of the last time he saw the show. “She had never seen it, and that’s the last time I can remember seeing an episode.”
      “These snapshots of yourself when you’re 20, 21, 22 years old. Who can enjoy that? Sometimes it’s just uncomfortable,” he added.
      The popular teen drama is to be revived for the HBO Max streaming service, with its premiere pushed back to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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      Bill Murray's Classic Movie 'Groundhog Day' Gets Rebooted for New TV Series

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      The 1993 feature film about the same day happening over and over again is being adapted for the small screen with at least one of its original stars returning.
      Jul 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Classic comedy film “Groundhog Day” will be rehashed in a new TV series.
      The beloved 1993 movie starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell about the same day happening over and over again, is now being developed for the small screen, according to Stephen Toblowsky, who played insurance agent Ned Ryerson in the original.
      “There’s talk about a Groundhog Day series in the works,” he told The Production Meeting Podcast on Thursday (02Jul20).
      Stephen has already accepted his old role in the new show, which will be set 30 years after the original film, noting he only learned about the project by happenstance.
      “One of the producers – I was working on The Goldbergs (series) or (the spin-off series) Schooled, one of those shows over on the Sony (studio) lot, and one of the producers saw me and goes, ‘Oh, Stephen! Stephen! We’re working on a Groundhog Day TV show. Could you be Ned for the TV show?,’ ” he recalled. “I go, ‘Sure. Yeah. No problem.’ But it’s Ned thirty years later. What has his life become?”
      It has not yet been confirmed whether Bill Murray or Andie MacDowell will also reprise their roles for the new show.

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      Diane Guerrero’s Crazy Role on DC Superhero Series ‘Doom Patrol’ Sends Her to Therapy

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      Diane Guerrero's Crazy Role on DC Superhero Series 'Doom Patrol' Sends Her to Therapy

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      The ‘Orange Is the New Black’ actress feels the need to see therapist for playing a crazy young woman with 64 different personalities on the DC Comic adaptation.
      Jul 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Actress Diane Guerrero enrolled herself in therapy while filming the second season of “Doom Patrol” to deal with the stresses of playing a kooky character with multiple personalities.
      On the TV adaptation of the DC Comics series, about a group of misfits with superhuman abilities, the “Orange Is the New Black” star portrays Crazy Jane, a young woman who develops 64 different personalities as a result of childhood trauma, and she jokes it’s a part she was born to tackle.
      “It’s like, ‘Of course I’m doing this role. It’s because I am’ – and this is a word I used to use to apply to myself – ‘I am crazy,’ ” Guerrero quipped on The Big Ticket podcast.
      “I know what all of these emotions mean and I know what these emotions are on a heightened level.”
      Exploring each personality for TV led Guerrero, who had previously seen a counselor, to seek out some mental health treatment of her own. “I needed to be in therapy anyway,” she said. “And I just had to go back. The show and the role let me know that it was time.”
      “We absolutely have to acknowledge our past – talk about it, normalize it, and use it as our strength, not as our weakness,” she continued. “That’s what the show does. It shows you that our weaknesses can be our greatest strengths.”
      And it appears Guerrero will need to continue therapy for as long as she is on “Doom Patrol”. “My character just keeps getting darker and darker,” she added.
      The series also stars Matthew Bomer, Brendan Fraser and Timothy Dalton.

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      Jeremy Kyle's TV Guest Died of Morphine Overdose After Failing Lie Detector Test on His Show

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      Steve Dymond’s death has prompted ‘The Jeremy Kyle Show’ to get axed and now it’s revealed the cause of his death is morphine overdose and heart trouble.
      Jul 4, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Steve Dymond died of a morphine overdose and heart trouble one week after failing a lie detector test on Britain’s “The Jeremy Kyle Show”.
      The long-running British tabloid talk show, hosted by 54-year-old Kyle on U.K. network ITV, was axed last May (19) after Dymond was found dead after filming the show.
      A pre-inquest review hearing took place on Friday (03Jun20) before Portsmouth and South East Hampshire Area Coroner Jason Pegg, who opened by stating the registered cause of death.
      “(Dymond) died at his home address in Portsmouth,” he told the court. “The medical cause of death given is an overdose of morphine and left ventricular hypertrophy.”
      Officials at Portsmouth Coroner’s Court are scheduled to begin looking into the circumstances surrounding his passing, however, the pre-inquest review hearing, which took place remotely, was adjourned due to technical troubles.
      The inquest had previously been scheduled to begin in April, but was postponed due to the coronavirus crisis. It is now slated to go ahead on either 29 or 30 October.
      “The Jeremy Kyle Show” first aired in July 2005 and has long been controversial as well as popular, as guests are invited to thrash out conflicts and relationship problems in front of a studio audience. Critics have claimed producers exploit the vulnerable and their personal problems for entertainment.

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