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Carrie Underwood partners with Bodyarmor sports drinks

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ABCCarrie Underwood is expanding her fitness empire.

Carrie has inked a new deal with Bodyarmor sports drinks as the company’s latest endorser. “Hydration is one of the most important things in all that I do. That’s why I’m partnering with @DrinkBODYARMOR LYTE!” Carrie reveals on social media.

Additionally, the powerhouse singer stars in a new advertisement for the drink line alongside Houston Rockets player James Harden. After finishing a round of pull-ups, Carrie takes a swig of Bodyarmor Peach Mango as James asks, “calling it a day, Carrie?” “Oh no, there’s more,” she answers, leading into a series of shots of her on the elliptical, cleaning up her children’s toys around the house and signing copies of her book, Find Your Path.

“More hustle, more grind,” Carrie says, stepping up to the mic with her hair blowing in the wind. The ad concludes with Carrie back in the gym doing sit-ups. “And I should wrap by midnight,” she says, prompting James to reply, “Impressive.”

The ad will make its TV debut tonight during The Bachelor, airing on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. 

According to the official Bodyarmor website, Carrie’s favorite flavors are Strawberry Lemonade and Tropical Coconut.

By Cillea Houghton
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Marvel movie boss Kevin Feige talks about how 'The Mandalorian' inspired 'WandaVision'

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Marvel Studios/Disney+(LOS ANGELES) — In a press conference on Sunday, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige talked about Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ show WandaVision, and what it has to do with that other Disney+ show: the Emmy-winning The Mandalorian.

Feige explained, “We were all underway long before we saw The Mandalorian [but] there is lots and lots of [it] that has inspired us at Marvel Studios, not the least of which is the [set technology] that we’re using on some upcoming projects.”

He also admired Disney’s “event-izing” The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars TV series, by releasing it on a week-to-week basis, rather than all at once.

As its name suggests, WandaVision reunites Elizabeth Olsen’s Avengers character Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch with her onscreen android love, Paul Bettany’s Vision. 

On its surface, WandaVision is tribute to classic TV sitcoms, which is one reason why Family Matters‘ Jaleel White was the moderator at the press conference. But there’s something darker behind why and how Wanda and Vision find themselves on sets similar to Betwitched and The Brady Bunch. 

That will become apparent as the series unfold. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Olsen appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America Monday, and confirmed that her character will appear in the upcoming big-screen sequel Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. 

“There’s never much we can talk about in Marvel, but I do think that WandaVision is a natural progression into what happens in Doctor Strange 2,” she said.

She added, “I think Kevin Feige’s doing a really amazing job intertwining the television format with the films so that we can tell more interesting stories moving forward.”

The Sam Raimi-directed Dr. Strange sequel hits theaters on March 25, 2022; WandaVision debuts on January 15. 

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By Stephen Iervolino and Carson Blackwelder
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Luke Combs shares experience with anxiety: "It's something I've been able to get ahold of"

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ABCLuke Combs is opening up about his history with anxiety. In an interview with Dan Rather, he reveals that he experienced anxiety from middle school through the end of college.

Luke says he has Purely Obsessional OCD, what he calls “a unique form of [obsessive compulsive disorder].” While he largely has it under control, Luke admits he still has moments “here and there.” 

“It’s something that I’ve learned about and it’s something that I’ve been able to get ahold of, so it’s been great to felt free from those things for a long time now,” he says.

The singer states that Purely Obsessional OCD occurs in the form of obsessive thinking about specific issues.  For him, those issues include his health, such as constantly worrying that he’s going to have a stroke or heart attack.   

“It becomes this very obsessive thing that you literally can never have an answer to, and so that’s kind of the awful part of it that you…have to teach yourself to becoming comfortable with the fact that you’ll never get an answer, and that it is a super uncertain thing,” he explains of the bouts of anxiety that “comes in waves.”

“That’s particularly what I have struggled with. Sometimes that’s tough, but it’s something that you learn about yourself and arming yourself with the knowledge of exactly what’s going on is the most important thing I’ve found,” he adds.   

Luke is one of the 40 million Americans who live with an anxiety disorder, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. 

Luke’s full interview on The Big Interview with Dan Rather airs on January 13 at 8 p.m. ET on AXS TV.

By Cillea Houghton
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Tiffany Boone, Kyle Chandler and Demián Bichir share the "motivation" behind their 'Midnight Sky' characters

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Philippe Antonello/NETFLIX(LOS ANGELES) — In the George Clooney-directed Netflix sci-fi drama The Midnight Sky, a group of astronauts are warned to stay in space after a global catastrophe makes Earth inhabitable. The cast says that even with their uncertain future, their characters all have a personal motivation to return home.

Tiffany Boone, who plays Maya, an astronaut on her first mission, tells ABC Audio that her character’s reason to “rush back” was based on love.

“For me, I created even more of a motivation that she fell in love with her best friend right before she went off,” Boone says. “She has to get back to her to tell her she loves her. So that’s the motivation to return to those people that she loves.”

Kyle Chandler, who plays Maya’s fellow astronaut, Mitchell, agrees and adds that he even “visualized” a scene of his last time on Earth as a reference point. 

“My motivation was the same thing,” he says. “I wanted to get home to my wife. And my little secret was also a promise [to] her, saying, “Yes, I’ll come home. And this was my last flight I was going to make.”

“And she gifted me that in a sense,” Chandler continues. “And I want to get home to my boys in my old life. Two years is an awful long time to ask people to wait for you.”

Meanwhile, Demián Bichir, who serves as one of the senior astronauts on the mission, says he saw a common thread in all of the astronauts’ desire to return to Earth.

“It’s always family and the closest love that you have around you and all that — that keeps you connected,” he says. 

The Midnight Sky, also starring David Oyelowo and Felicity Jones, is now streaming on Netflix.

By Candice Williams
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Anna Paquin gives us the bright side of her 'True Blood' reboot tweet controversy

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Steve Iervolino/ABC News(NEW YORK) — When it was announced last month that there was going to be a True Blood reboot, the former HBO show’s star, Anna Paquin, went viral when the actress who played Sookie Stackhouse tweeted, “Well, this is the first I’m hearing about this.”

The tweet kicked off a Twitter storm, with Paquin’s fans flipping out on her behalf because she wasn’t involved.  But Paquin insists to ABC Audio she wasn’t shading the new project.

“No!” she laughed. “Someone was kind of like, ‘Go queen, go off!'”

The Oscar-winning actress, who also won a Golden Globe for the vampire series, explained, “I got some really… amazing fans who…have my back. And trust me, I love it. I’m so grateful. But I was like, ‘No, no no, guys, guys, this is not a thing!'”

She added, “Literally, every single cast and crew member there was like text chains going back and forth, like, ‘Did you guys know about this?'”

“And literally none of us, even Charlaine Harris, knew anything about it,” Anna says, referring to the author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series on which the show was based.

“So we were all just kind of learning about it in real time. And then as things do, the Internet kind of explodes, but — which is all very flattering!” Paquin admits, saying there was another silver lining to the situation: “What was kind of nice is that a few quite long…chat groups got together of some of our peeps. It was just like, nice to catch up.” 

Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is reportedly in talks to write the new show, with original series creator Alan Ball producing.

Paquin will be seen next as a PR wizard in Flack, which hits Amazon Prime on January 22.

By Stephen Iervolino
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