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David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Harper’s Bazaar/Hearst UK(LOS ANGELES) — The Crown may have found its final Prince Charles.

Variety reports Dominic West is in talks to take on the royal role in seasons five and six of the Netflix drama. He’ll take over the role previously played by Josh O’Connor.

Elizabeth Debicki has already been cast as Princess Diana for The Crown’s final two seasons.

West has previously starred on shows like The Wire and The Affair. He’s been in the headlines recently after photos were snapped of him getting cozy with his The Pursuit of Love co-star Lily James.

After rumors of an affair swirled, West and his wife of 10 years, Catherine FitzGerald, put on a united front for photographers last week, saying their marriage “is strong” and they are still “very much together.”

Season four of The Crown debuts on Netflix November 15.

By Andrea Tuccillo
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Phillip Chin/Getty Images for Warner Brothers Television(LOS ANGELES) — After welcoming her first child last month, actress Melissa Benoist adorably opened up about being a first time mom and how much she adores motherhood.

Speaking to California Congresswoman Karen Bass via Instagram Live over the weekend, the Supergirl star gushed about her newborn son, Huxley Wood.

“He’s the best,” Benoist cooed. “I am loving being a parent. I love being a mom. He’s such a sweetheart!”

While the 32-year-old admits that her son brings her joy each day, she does admit that she does get choked up from time to time.

“He’s already so big and every day I’m, like, crying because he’s gained half an ounce,” laughed Benoist. 

Despite that her son is growing like a weed, the Glee alum proudly announced that she has found the perfect Halloween outfit for her little one.

Proudly declaring she found a “cute Halloween onesie,” Benoist admitted to Bass that her son’s first Halloween is a little bittersweet.

Not only will she not be able to show off her son’s adorable getup in person to friends and family, Benoist sighed that “It’s a bummer we’re not gonna get any trick-or-treaters.”

Despite the letdown, Benoist affirmed that “it’s for a good reason” that children are changing their Halloween traditions this year in order to keep their family and loved ones safe from possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.

Benoist welcomed Huxley alongside husband and fellow Supergirl costar Chris Wood last month.  The two shared the announcement of their son’s birth a few weeks after his arrival, with the actress gushing on September 25, “This little boy is everything.”

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Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) — During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night, Emma Roberts revealed her reaction to her mom accidentally revealing her pregnancy.

Roberts says she was trying to keep her pregnancy “low-key,” but her mom, Kelly Cunningham, spilled the beans while responding to fans’ comments on Instagram.

“It was a disaster,” Roberts said. “And I found it all out on a plane. So, I couldn’t get to her. Like, I couldn’t call her or attack her. I could just iMessage with her and DM her and ask her to please stop.”

When Roberts called her out, her mom couldn’t understand why she was so upset.

“When I said to her, ‘Mom, you revealed my pregnancy,’ she goes, ‘Emma, you announced it,'” the American Horror Story actress said. “I said, ‘No, I didn’t. That was a tabloid.’ She’s like, ‘Oh, that wasn’t clear.'”

Roberts says afterward that she and her mom “kind of laughed” about it and “kind got into a fight,” with Roberts actually blocking her mom on Instagram at one point.

“It’s been an Instagram war with my mother that I never saw coming,” she said. “It’s a good story to tell the baby.”

Roberts is expecting a baby boy with boyfriend Garrett Hedlund.

By Andrea Tuccillo
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Columbia/TriStar International Television(LOS ANGELES) — The beloved teen drama Dawson’s Creek is all set to make its Netflix debut in November, but not with its familiar theme song.

“Dawson’s Creek — one of television’s most beloved coming-of-age stories — is coming to Netflix in The US on November 1,” Netflix announced in a tweet on Monday, adding, “and before you ask, the episodes won’t have the original theme song (sorry).”

Paula Cole’s hit “I Don’t Want to Wait,” served as the show’s theme song for its entire six season run, but replaced the home video and streaming release with Canadian musician Jann Arden’s “Run Like Mad” due to rights issues.

As Dawson‘s executive producer, Paul Stupin, told the Huffington Post around the time of the show’s streaming debut in 2012, it was done as cost-saving measure

When Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released the first two seasons of Dawson’s Creek on DVD in 2003, it paid Paula Cole a fee for the song.  However, Stupin explained that Sony, disappointed with the sales from those first two seasons, cut the DVD budget for the remaining four seasons. Securing additional licenses for recorded music was among the first things to go

Cole, in a separate Huffpost essay, wrote, “Everyone keeps asking me, ‘Why won’t you let them have the song?’ Of course I would consider it! I’m right here! Come talk to me, Sony. Let’s negotiate! I’m an independent artist open for business! But I won’t give my music for free and I don’t think any artist should give their music for free unless it’s helping out another independent artist — and then you renegotiate once the project is successful.”

Added Cole, “I think giving one’s art for free to giant corporations hurts artists and musicians and society across the board.”

By George Costantino
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