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"4 weeks sober!" Chrissy Teigen taking a break from booze

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ABC/Tyler Golden(LOS ANGELES) — Chrissy Teigen revealed to fans that once again, she’s taking a break from booze. 

The model and mom was responding to a fan on her Instagram, after she posted a video of her dancing in a bathing suit while on vacation with her family in St. Barts. 

“I need whatever drugs you’re on!” a follower joked, to which Teigen replied, “4 weeks sober!”

The comment was met with support from her fans.

Incidentally, it’s not the first time Chrissy”s given up drink.  In 2017, she told Cosmopolitan that there’s a history of alcoholism in her family, and that at the time she thought she needed to cut back.

“I was, point blank, just drinking too much,” she confessed. “I got used to being in hair and makeup and having a glass of wine. Then that glass of wine would carry over into me having one before the awards show. And then a bunch at the awards show. And then I felt bad for making kind of an a** of myself to people that I really respected. And that feeling, there’s just nothing like that. You feel horrible. It’s not a good look for me, for [husband] John [Legend], for anybody.”

At the time of that interview, Teigen had just come back from a, alcohol-free wellness retreat.  She refrained from drinking for some time after, noting, “I have to fix myself.”

Chrissy also explained that she’s not the kind of person who can “have just one drink,” which experts say can be a slippery slope towards dependency.

By Stephen Iervolino
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As COVID-19 cases skyrocket, LA public health officials ask filmmakers to "consider pausing" productions

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iStock/seanL(LOS ANGELES) — While maintaining that “music, TV and film productions are allowed to operate,” the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has issued a memo asking producers to “strongly consider pausing work” amid the county’s “catastrophic surge in coronavirus cases.”

Despite strict lockdowns, California is experiencing one of the biggest infection spikes in the country.  The state has had more than 2.17 million COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, with at least 24,337 deaths reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Deadline reports the memo, from December 24, noted that the officials are asking those in the industry to, “Identify and delay higher risk activities, and focus on lower-risk work for now, if at all possible.”

On Sunday, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 13,580 new positive cases and 44 new deaths.

By Stephen Iervolino
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Reba McEntire calls 2020 a "booger bear of a year"

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ABCLeave it to Reba McEntire to summarize 2020 in the best way.

In a holiday video to fans thanking them for all their support throughout the year, the country legend urged her followers to stay safe and healthy heading into the new year as the U.S. continues to battle the pandemic. 

“Please stay safe and healthy so we can all get together in 2021. This has been a booger bear of a year and I’m very thankful and grateful that we got through it,” Reba declares. “It’s coming to a close and we can start looking forward and thinking positively for the next year.”

“I love you very much and thank you so much for everything. Your support, your love, your prayers, your comments. I love you,” says Reba, adding, “Take care of yourself, pretty please.” 

Reba’s mother, Jacqueline, passed away from cancer in March at the age of 93. Reba spent the first two months of quarantine with her family in Oklahoma. 

By Cillea Houghton
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Eric Church misses the "camaraderie" of live shows: "It’s what I was born to do"

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ABCWith the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, Eric Church feels hopeful that 2021 will be a better year than 2020. 

“I think, for me, the thing I’m looking forward to most next year is getting around the corner from this virus and getting some kind of normalcy. I’m confident that next year is when we’ll finally put this in the rearview at some point in time,” he says. 

“We’re all looking for a vaccine early in the year and the more we can take the cases down between January and May, I think the higher likelihood that we’ll be on a stage somewhere in the fall, late summer/fall, and then certainly into the fourth quarter,” Eric adds. “So, I’m looking forward to that.”

Like many of his peers, Eric has been longing for the stage ever since the pandemic led to the mass shutdown of live concerts and events. The 2020 CMA Entertainer of the Year was playing to audiences of thousands in 2019 and misses the vibrant energy of his fans and live shows. 

“I know there may be some early stuff where we can’t be at capacity. I get that, but I’m looking forward to being back at capacity and being, seeing people grouped up and arms around each other’s shoulders and just, I miss that. I miss playing. I miss the camaraderie. I miss going town-to-town and doing that,” he says.

“It’s just what I was born to do, and I miss seeing the fans. Next year, we’re all hopeful, I’m hopeful and quite confident, actually, that next year will be the year that we get to start doing that and then hopefully more and more as we go,” Eric declares. “That’s what I’m looking forward to.”

By Cillea Houghton
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Reese Witherspoon reflects on ex Ryan Phillippe's comment about her making more money

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Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Reese Witherspoon has an empowering message for financially successful women — don’t be ashamed. 

While appearing on a recent episode of the The HFPA in Conversation podcast, the 44-year-old actress reflected on a comment her ex-husband Ryan Phillippe made when they attended the 2002 Oscars. During the awards ceremony Phillippe told his then-wife that she should speak first because “you make more money than I do.”

“I forgot that ever happened. But you’re right, he did say that, and no, it wasn’t scripted,” Witherspoon recalled. “He didn’t tell me he was going to say that before it happened on air. So I was a little bit flummoxed in the moment, too.”

“There’s so few women that make a lot of money that sometimes they’re shamed for it, and sometimes they are expected to give more and do more and be more to others in the same position that maybe a male movie star may not be expected,” she added. “But I do think gender norms have changed quite a bit since that moment in 2000 or something.” 

Elaborating on the topic the Little Fires Everywhere star recalled a moment when her daughter Ava, 21, was in second grade and came home “so embarrassed” after classmates brought up that her mother was one of the highest-paid actresses. 

“I said, ‘Don’t ever feel ashamed of a woman making money.’ There are women all over this world who don’t have an opportunity or an education or the ability to make money,” said Witherspoon, who is also mom to sons Deacon, 17, and Tennessee, 8. 

“[I have] an interesting relationship with the word power,” she continued. “I just hope in my lifetime, I can help more women make more money. Financial stability is freedom.”

By Danielle Long
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