Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA(LOS ANGELES) — Billie Lourd opened up to fans about something they didn’t know about her pregnancy — she had a bit of a health scare.
The Scream Queens alum, who is the daughter of the late Carrie Fisher and granddaughter of the late Debbie Reynolds, opened up in a candid Q&A on her Instagram Stories on Sunday.
When a fan asked about her pregnancy cravings, Lourd explained that she had a major sweet tooth until she was forced to grab healthier food items.
Saying she first craved “Ice Cream” and shared a photo of the Ben & Jerry’s flavor Mint Chocolate Cookie, the actress admitted, “But then I had a lil gestational diabetes scare” and became attached to beets.
“Random I know but that’s pregnancy vibes for ya,” she quipped.
Gestational diabetes affects between 2 to 10 percent of all pregnancies, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It occurs when an expecting mom cannot produce enough insulin to give her the energy she needs and could result in high blood pressure or a larger baby that has to be delivered via C-section. Other risks include an earlier birth for the child or the mother developing type 2 diabetes later on.
Lourd also admitted during her Q&A that she hated the first trimester the most “because hormones” before cheerfully adding, “But you get through it and it’s beyond worth every second of weird moods / acne / all that fun jazz when your little human arrives!!!!!!”
Lourd secretly welcomed a child, a son named Kingston, alongside fiance Austen Rydell in September.
Eric Charbonneau/WireImage for Disney Pictures(LOS ANGELES) — Evan Rachel Wood is continuing to speak out against disgraced rocker Marilyn Manson.
The actress, who came out last week with the bombshell abuse accusations, says she filed a police report against Manson’s wife Lindsay Usich who allegedly sent threats.
“On Dec. 19, I had to file a police report after I was alerted to threats made by @leslee_lane and @lindsayusichofficial,” Woods wrote in a Saturday statement via Instagram stories, alleging the photographer was “conspiring to release photos of me when I was UNDERAGE, after being given large amounts of drugs and alcohol after Brian performed on Halloween in Las Vegas to ‘ruin my career’ and ‘shut me up.'”
Manson’s real name is Brian Hugh Warner.
Wood included a snapshot of the alleged police report that had her personal information redacted.
The Westworld actress first started dating Manson when she was 19 and, in 2010, the two became engaged. Seven months later, they called off the wedding and went their separate ways.
Wood maintains the rocker “started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years” and furthered “I was called a jew in a derogatory manner.”
Added the 33-year-old actress, “He would draw swastikas over my bedside table when he was mad at me. I heard the ‘n’ word over and over.”
Wood also recalled, “Everyone around him was expected to laugh and join in. If you did not or (god forbid) called him out, you were singled out and abused more,” adding, “I have never been more scared in my life.”
Manson has denied the allegations from Wood and a multitude of women who have since come forward against him. The 52-year-old called the accusations “horrible distortions of reality.”
David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Suzanne Somers remained absolutely calm when a man slipped onto her property over the weekend and confronted her — all while she was hosting a livestream.
The Three’s Company star was chatting on Facebook live over the weekend alongside husband Alan Hamel when she noticed something was amiss.
Somers was teaching her followers how to contour when she heard something off camera and asked her husband, “Is somebody here?”
Hamel tries to assure his wife she only heard a frog, but the actress was adamant that she “heard a person.”
Somers then called over in the direction she heard the talking, asking if someone was “here” and the intruder, who police say was near-naked, approached.
The man, who identified himself as Aaron Carpenter, claimed he was “terrified” of something and tells the Ageless author, “I’m not even sure…there were ghosts following me.”
The intruder also told a rather calm Somers that a friend led him “up this hill” and came “down” into her property. The man also assured the actress that he was “not a scary person whatsoever.”
While Somers tells her intruder that he “doesn’t scare me” and that he “seemed like a nice person,” she politely insists he leave her residence and even offers to have her husband show him the door.
Hamel and Somers insist the intruder leave, who then claimed in response, “I brought a gift.”
With a smile, the actress rejects the offer, saying she “doesn’t want anything” and remains firm that the man is trespassing. Eventually, she offered to have one of her assistants escort the intruder off the property.
After Somers verified that the man was gone, she calmly continued her video.
According to Deadline, police caught up with the intruder and reprimanded him — but did not issue a citation.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company(TAMPA BAY) — The Super Bowl ended with Tom Brady adding his seventh championship ring to his impressive collection after he took the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a 31-7 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, some commercials scored big with the audience — and if it wasn’t part of the parade of infinite celebrity cameos, it was the teaser trailers.
Here’s a look at some of the most talked about ads that debuted during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Movies
Disney uploaded another sneak peek of their upcoming animated fantasy adventure Raya and the Last Dragon, which stars Awkwafina and Kelly Marie Tran, which partially answered why the world is so broken. In addition, the trailer also showed more about Awkwafina’s… well… awkward dragon character, who wasn’t so sure about swinging across a large fissure on Raya’s back. The movie is due out March 5. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.
Disney unveiled the first look of its upcoming series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which tells the story of the two heroes adjusting after Captain America permanently hangs up his shield. The series, starring Anthony Mackie as Sam (AKA Falcon) and Sebastian Stan as Bucky (AKA Winter Soldier,) also gives the audience a glimpse of their team dynamic — or lack thereof — as they fight their way through a barrage of bad guys. The series is set to premiere on Disney+ on March 19. Marvel is owned by Disney, the parent company of ABC News.
After having its release bumped because of COVID-19, the audience enjoyed a sneak peek of the highly anticipated F9: The Fast Saga and showed off even more high-octane chases, death-defying stunts and some pretty spectacular special effects. Although the snippet doesn’t reveal a release date, the movie is said to hit theaters “soon.”
Fans earned a sneak-peek of M. Night Shyamalan’s horror flick Old, which tells the story of a beach with magical properties that age people — sometimes dramatically. Children turn into adults, a woman’s early pregnancy jumps into the third trimester and adults threaten to age out of existence. The movie is due out in July.
Coming to theaters on April 2 is Nobody, which tells the story of a family man (Bob Odenkirk) who harbors a dark secret. After he finds himself in the crosshairs of a powerful drug lord, he makes them wish they never learned the name Hutch Mansell.
Coming to the streamer Paramount+ is the Yellowstonespinoff, Y:1883. The series released its first teaser during the Big Game, which serves as the Dutton family’s origin story. The series is set to premiere later this year.
Celebrity-driven
M&M’s tapped Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy for their commercial, which shows people offering bags of the chocolate coated candy as a form of apology for doing something annoying, like taking too long at confession or “mansplaining.” However, when it comes to Levy, he offers a bag of apology to the Yellow and Brown M&M’s for “eating your friends.” The commercial ends with Red locked in Levy’s car, with the actor admitting he intends to eat him, too.
Dolly Parton updated her classic workplace anthem, “9 to 5,” in honor of those who get home from their day jobs just to spend their evenings working on their side hustle. The new song, “5 to 9,” is part of an ad campaign for website creation and hosting company Squarespace. The commercial featured the lyrics, “Working 5 to 9, you’ve got passion and a vision / ‘Cause it’s hustlin’ time, whole new way to make a livin / Gonna change you life, do something that gives it meaning / With a website that is worthy of your dreaming.”
Michael B. Jordan played a super-sexy Alexa for Amazon’s new Super Bowl commercial. The hilarious commercial takes place at Amazon’s headquarters, where several employees are admiring the new sphere-like Amazon Echo before a female employee thinks of the one way they could perfect the Echo’s vessel — if it was s built into this year’s People‘s Sexiest Man Alive.
Gwen Stefani, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton told an alternate story as to how Gwen and Blake became an item — teaming with T-Mobile to explain how a bad cell connection can lead to a misunderstanding from Adam, which leads to a disastrous blind date.
Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher teamed with Shaggy to bring his 2000 hit “It Wasn’t Me” to life for a Cheetos commercial. Mila was caught orange-handed stealing her husband’s beloved snack, who sings the reggae hit before Shaggy takes over with the updated lyrics. Meanwhile, Mila — whose face and fingers are covered in orange dust — continually says, “Wasn’t me” when asked repeatedly if she stole the Cheetos.
Tracy Morgan teamed with Dave Bautista and Liza Koshy for a Rocket Mortgage commercial, where the three showed why “pretty sure” sometimes doesn’t cut it — like if parachutes work or if murder hornets deliver a killing sting.
Matthew McConaughey, Mindy Kaling and Jimmy Kimmel teamed up to usher in the grand return of Doritos 3D snacks. Set to Queen’s “I Want to Break Free,” a two-dimensional McConaughey hilariously tries to get back to his old self. His current form is very prone to being blown away by a small breeze or sucked up by a Roomba.
Amy Schumer needed more mayo in a commercial for Hellmann’s, where she just buys an obscene amount of the condiment before bagging them in her special Hellmann’s bag.
Timothée Chalamet and Winona Ryder teamed for a Cadillac commercial that offered up a potential continuation of Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands — by literally asking what happened if the two had a son, named Edgar.
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey reprised their respective roles as Wayne and Garth in a Wayne’s Worldspot for Uber Eats, which also featured Cardi B while DoorDash tapped Hamilton and Snowpiercer star Daveed Diggs along with The Muppets to show off how much easier the apps can make life.
Don Cheadle stumped for Michelob ULTRA to advertise their new organic seltzer brand by hosting a challenge over who can spot the celebrity and who is a lookalike — spoiler, Cheadle is the only celebrity to star in the commercial rife with very convincing doppelgängers.
Will Ferrell explained how much he hated Norway in an ad for General Motors, which also starred Kenan Thompson and Awkwafina in a race to lay the smackdown on the green-energy country. The issue is everyone travels to a country that ISN’T Norway, like Finland or Sweden.
Budweiser tapped stars from commercial past, such as Post Malone, Cedric the Entertainer and the Bud Light Knight to clean up a major Bud Light spill on the freeway.
Terry Bradshaw, Jerome Bettis, Marshawn Lynch, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Peyton and Eli Manning, and Deion Sanders all appeared for Frito-Lay for a “Twas the Night before Super Bowl” commercial.
John Travolta, Martha Stewart, The Office star Leslie David Baker, The Mandalorian‘s Carl Weathers NASCAR star Kyle Busch and fitness instructor Emma Lovewell teamed for Scotts Miracle-Gro Super Bowl commercial. The 45-second spot, which features Travolta dusting off his moves from Grease, advertises the company’s “The Dream Lawn and Garden Giveaway,” where one lucky person will win exactly that.
Nick Jonas aged himself up for Dexcom’s Super Bowl commercial. The commercial advertises a new technology that allows diabetics like Nick to check their blood sugar levels without having to prick their fingers and test their blood.
Nine Inch Nails’ Atticus Ross also starred in an uplifting Anheuser-Busch commercial, which celebrated “life’s most meaningful moments” that happen over a beer.
Serena Williams teamed for Michelob ULTRA for their commercial about having a “happy” Super Bowl. The ad explores what comes after the big win and why joy should be the whole game.
Notable ads
The Internet has awarded Huggies for their innovative Big Game commercial because the company opted to go-real time and share images of babies born on February 7, 2021. The commercial was their welcome into the world.
As for the funniest, Samuel Adams managed to give the Internet a good “tee hee” by parodying the Budweiser Clydesdales — who were noticeably absent from this year’s commercial roundup — to which the commercial explains how “Your Cousin from Boston” accidentally turned them loose.
John Lamparski/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — Following the announcement of Christopher Plummer’s death on Friday, many stars took to social media to pay tribute to the Hollywood legend.
The actor, who famously played Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, died at the age of 91 at his home in Connecticut with his wife of 53 years, Elaine Taylor, by his side, his manager confirmed to ABC News.
Julie Andrews, who starred opposite Plummer in the classic 1965 film, called Plummer a “cherished friend” in a statement.
“The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend,” she said in a statement obtained by ABC News. “I treasure the memories of our work together and all the humor and fun we shared through the years. My heart and condolences go out to his lovely wife Elaine, and his daughter Amanda.”
The official Twitter account for The Sound of Music also shared a note on Plummer’s everlasting legacy: “We’re saddened to hear of Christopher Plummer’s passing. His legacy as our Captain will live on in THE SOUND OF MUSIC forever. Our thoughts are with his loved ones during this time.”
Chris Evans, who starred with Plummer in Knives Out, tweeted his condolences. “This is truly heartbreaking. What an unbelievable loss. Few careers have such longevity and impact. One of my favorite memories from Knives Out was playing piano together in the Thrombey house between set ups. He was a lovely man and a legendary talent.”
Actor and producer Daniel Dae Kim noted, “We watched the #SoundOfMusic so much when I was a boy that he and the Von Trapps felt like family. Rest In Peace, legend.”
Rosie O’Donnell tweeted a clip from her old talk show during which she reunited Plummer and Andrews, writing “rest in peace captain von trap [sic].”
Stefanie Keenan/Getty Images for LACMA(LOS ANGELES) — Billie Lourd opened up to fans about something they didn’t know about her pregnancy — she had a bit of a health scare.
