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Amy Sussman/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — After reports surfaced last month that Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara welcomed their first child together, the couple finally broke their silence about being first-time parents when speaking about the ongoing child separation crisis at the U.S. border.

“Last week, we learned that the parents of 545 children separated at the border by immigration officers have not yet been found. The weight of that number is staggering,” the couple decried in an open essay to People on Monday.

“As new parents, it’s unbearable to imagine what it would feel like to have our child taken away from us for a day, let alone years,” the pair furthered. “The policy of family separation continues to damage children and parents across the world, more than two years after it was ruled illegal by a federal judge.”

Mara and Phoenix encouraged citizens to have compassion for those that came to America.

“Some of those parents were fleeing threats from gangs or other forms of violence, and it is impossible to say what may have happened to them,” the couple lamented.  “For the children who remain separated from their parents, the damage will be lifelong.”

“How will it feel to explain to our son, when he asks us about this time and how we treated scared, defenseless children, some of whom may never see their parents again,” the two closed, asking readers if they support this version of America. “For the sake of our nation’s character, I hope we will be able to tell him that America unequivocally rejected this cruelty and demanded that our representatives did everything in their power to find those missing parents.”

Last month, Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky announced that Mara and Phoenix welcomed their son and revealed that the child was named after actor’s late brother, River Phoenix.

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Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2014 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved(LOS ANGELES) — The cast of CBS’ hit comedy Mom is addressing the exit of co-star Anna Faris, who surprised the cast and crew in September when she announced she was leaving the show after seven seasons. 

Allison Janney, who played Faris’ onscreen mom, tells Entertainment Tonight, “It’s a huge loss for the show to not have Anna because she was part of creating a character, Christy, that everyone fell in love with, who was so lovable and warm and gullible and funny and we will miss her so much.”

Mom centers on the pair and their friends, all of whom are all in recovery for addiction. Janney continued, “I think I’ll miss the most, for me, the relationship between Bonnie and Christy, even though that will still continue. But she won’t be present. That’s what I’ll miss.”

Janney and her co-stars insisted that while Christy is gone, she’s not forgotten. “I do want to say that it feels like she’s still here because we do talk about the character all the time,” said co-star Jaime Pressly. “And [Allison’s] character is always calling her or vice versa. We still hear the name, we still talk about her. She’s not gone as far as we’re concerned.” 

Pressly goes on: “[W]e all spent so much time together over the years and love each other and support each other and we all want each other to be happy, so we’re happy for her and we miss her no matter what.”

Faris said she was leaving the show, “to pursue new opportunities,” insisting her seven years on the Chuck Lorre-produced comedy were “some of the most fulfilling and rewarding of [her] career.”

The eighth season premiere of Mom airs Thursday, Nov. 5 at 9 p.m. Eastern time on CBS.

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Art Streiber/CBS @2020 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(LONDON) — After four seasons on The Talk, Eve is saying goodbye.

During Monday’s episode of the CBS talk show, the 41-year-old rapper and actress announced that she would be leaving the show at the end of the year. 

“I’ve known this weekend I was going to say what I’m going to say but it still doesn’t make it easier,” she began.

“It’s been a crazy year for all of us and I’ve been so grateful that I’m able to stay here in London and do the show but I can’t see, for me, the foreseeable future traveling back at the moment and have decided at the end of December this will probably be my last time on the show in this capacity as a host,” she shared. 

“This is one of the hardest decisions in the world. I wish I hated one of you but I don’t,” she joked, referencing the entire staff including her co-hosts Sharon Osbourne, Sheryl Underwood and Carrie Ann Inaba. “It would just make it so much easier.” 

For the current season of The Talk, Eve, born Eve Jihan Jeffers Cooper, has been fulfilling her hosting duties from London — where she and husband Maximillion Cooper are currently based —  due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and related travel restrictions between the U.S. and U.K. 

Aside from the global health crisis, Eve also expressed a desire to spend more time with her family, which includes her husband and her four stepchildren, and potentially some new additions. 

“Obviously, staying home has been such a blessing because my husband and I got to know each other in a different way, in a beautiful way, so I want to be closer to him,” she said. “I want to concentrate on expanding our family, being with my family.”  

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Murray Close/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Harrison Ford honored Sean Connery — who played his on-screen dad in the 1989 feature Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — following the legendary actor’s death on Saturday at the age of 90.

“He was my father…not in life…but in Indy 3,” Ford said in a statement to Variety.  “You don’t know pleasure until someone pays you to take Sean Connery for a ride in the side car of a Russian motorcycle bouncing along a bumpy, twisty mountain trail and getting to watch him squirm. God, we had fun — if he’s in heaven, I hope they have golf courses.  Rest in peace, dear friend.”

George Lucas, creator the Indiana Jones franchise, also paid tribute to Connery, writing in a statement, “Sir Sean Connery, through his talent and drive, left an indelible mark in cinematic history. His audiences spanned generations, each with favorite roles he played.”

“He will always hold a special place in my heart as Indy’s dad,” added Lucas. “With an air of intelligent authority and sly sense of comedic mischief, only someone like Sean Connery could render Indiana Jones immediately into boyish regret or relief through a stern fatherly chiding or rejoiceful hug. I’m thankful for having had the good fortune to have known and worked with him. My thoughts are with his family.”

The BBC reported Saturday that Connery died peacefully in his sleep in the Bahamas, having been “unwell for some time,” according to his son, actor Jason Connery.

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