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Ellen Pompeo admits her future on 'Grey's Anatomy' is "Undecided"

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ABC/Mike Rosenthal(LOS ANGELES) — Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo is flirting with a future without the long-running medical drama in her life.

The 51-year-old actress appeared on CBS Sunday Morning where the conversation gravitated toward her starring role as Doctor Meredith Grey and her future with the series.  The show’s pilot aired on March 27, 2005 on ABC, which makes it television’s longest-running medical drama.

It is currently unknown if the show will continue beyond its 17th season or if it is getting ready to hang up the scrubs and say goodbye to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital once and for all.

When pressed for answers, the acclaimed actress insisted, “I can’t say. Can’t say.”

“We honestly have not decided. We’re really trying to figure it out right now,” added Pompeo, who insisted that the show has to end on a high note — which is an extremely daunting task given its 16-year run. “To end a show this iconic, how do we do it? I just want to make sure we do this character and this show and the fans — I want to make sure we do it right.”

Pompeo, who is one of television’s highest paid actors, also admitted that she’s been kept in the dark about her character’s fate.

When asked if Meredith is alive or dead after being infected with COVID-19, the actress attested, “We don’t know.”

Despite not knowing how her story ends on Grey’s Anatomy, Pompeo isn’t sweating about what happens after the show wraps for good.

“Well, I can do anything I want. Or not do anything at all,” she laughed.

Grey’s Anatomy returns Thursday, March 11 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.

By Megan Stone
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Scotty McCreery features wife Gabi in "You Time" video

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John Shearer Scotty McCreery is looking for a little “You Time” in the video for his latest single. 

The clip follows the story of a young couple, beginning on their wedding day and following them as they move into a new home and settle into newlywed life. But a musician can’t stay off the road for too long, as Scotty pulls up to the house in a vintage VW van to pick up the husband, who’s a guitar player in his band. After days apart, the husband-and-wife pair reunite with a loving embrace.  

Scotty’s wife Gabi, who inspired the song, also makes a surprise appearance at video’s end, watching from the wings as her husband performs on stage, the two walking backstage hand-in-hand.  

“You Time” is the lead single off the American Idol season 10 champion’s forthcoming album. It follows three consecutive #1 hits from his 2018 album, Seasons Change, with “Five More Minutes,” “This Is It” and “In Between.” 

By Cillea Houghton 
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'Avengers: Endgame' director Joe Russo predicts movie-going will "swing back hard" after COVID-19

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Apple TV+(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame was the highest-grossing movie of all time, making more than $2.79 billion at the global box office.  The 2019 film was such a hit that even recordings of packed theater reactions to the movie’s scenes went viral.  However, that was the “before times.” 

Now, with the pandemic, more than half of movie houses in the U.S. are still shuttered, yet millions of movie fans are hungry to experience something like that again. YouTube comments show fans are re-watching the reaction videos now, just to remember what it was like.

Two lifelong movie fans who can’t wait to get back to theaters are Joe and Anthony Russo. The siblings directed Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, of course, Avengers: Infinity War and the climactic Endgame.

“I do think that it’s going to swing back hard,” Joe tells ABC Audio. “I mean, any time something is withheld and then you get an opportunity to do it, you’re going to do it a lot. And you look at the Chinese box office [where theaters are open]: from a week and a half ago, [it] broke all their records.”  

Looking back on the in-theater reactions to their films, Joe says, “We never been in a theater…with that much energy…[even at] the movies that we loved as children. It became, he says, “a global communal event.”

He added, “[E]veryone wanted to vocalize and participate…and cheer and gasp and jump up and down: We’d never seen anything like that.”

“And I hope we get to experience that again in another film that…we haven’t directed,” Joe notes. “That we can just be fans of and sit and enjoy with everyone else.”  

Joe and Anthony Russo’s new film, the drama Cherry, debuts on Apple TV+ on March 12.

Marvel Studios is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.

By Stephen Iervolino
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Carrie Underwood celebrates son Isaiah's birthday with Power Rangers cake

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ABCCarrie Underwood celebrated her son Isaiah turning “six whole years old” over the weekend with an epic cake. 

The powerhouse singer took to Instagram to share a photo of the awe-inspiring Power Rangers cake her friend and professional baker Ivey Childers made for the six-year-old. The three-layer cake features a red Power Rangers figurine posed on the top tier, adorned by a pair of swords, ninja power stars and shields made of frosting. 

Isaiah even got a “happy birthday” shout-out from the official Power Rangers account.

“Isaiah, you are kind, funny, smart, the best big brother, a lover of cuddles and crafts and you have the biggest heart and the best imagination!” Carrie writes, alongside another photo of her hugging her son.

“You love to make people feel good and you especially love to make them laugh!” she adds. “God has given you so many gifts and every day, I thank Him that I get to be your mom! I love you, Monkey! Happy birthday!” 

Fans flooded the comments section of the post with celebratory messages, including one from a woman who shared a personal story of how her son passed away at the age of 18 and was a “Power Ranger fanatic.”

“Your cake for Isaiah brings back a flood of memories! Thanks for posting Carrie…I never want to forget,” the fan reflects. 

Isaiah is Carrie and husband Mike Fisher‘s oldest child; his brother Jacob is two years old.

By Cillea Houghton 
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Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman appear at 2021 Golden Globes with their daughters

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NBCIt was a family affair for Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards. 

During the opening monologue by hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Poehler gave a shout-out to Kidman’s performance in the HBO crime thriller The Undoing.

“The Undoing was a sexy and dramatic mystery where Nicole Kidman’s coat is suspected of murdering her wig,” Poehler quipped from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The camera then cut to Keith and Nicole and their two daughters, 12-year-old Sunday Rose and 10-year-old Faith Margaret, on Zoom.

The family was stationed on the couch of their Australian home, Kidman in a gorgeous black gown and Urban in a classic suit and tie. Their daughters both wore white dresses, and the family of four all laughed at Poehler’s joke.

Kidman was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role as Grace Fraser, the wife of Hugh Grant‘s character Jonathan Fraser, in The Undoing. 

By Cillea Houghton 
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