January 29, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Disney(LOS ANGELES) — Ashley Tisdale opened up about the “traumatic” shaming she endured from critics after getting a nose job in 2007.

In a candid post on her Frenshe website, the 35-year-old actress admits she still doesn’t feel ready to talk about an incident that happened 15 years ago, but felt her fans deserved some honesty.

“I wasn’t ready to write or publish this post just yet, however, a question asked in an interview this week triggered some emotions,” Tisdale started. “The bottom line: it was a very traumatic experience for me and it makes me very emotional to this day.”

“As most of you might know, I had rhinoplasty 15 years ago. At the time, it didn’t feel like THAT big of a deal to me,” the soon-to-be mom explained, adding she elected for the surgery “based on serious health issues I was having.”

Tisdale furthered that doctors later offered to shave her “bump” down, admitting, “I was young and didn’t put much thought into it, so I decided, why not?”

“In the aftermath and the hardest part, was not the recovery but the media who constantly tried to paint a picture of me as someone who didn’t like their appearance,” The High School Musical alum disclosed. “I loved myself, but I was just a very unaware person at that time (as you all have seen my wardrobe choices LOL!)”

Tisdale lamented that “Plastic surgery wasn’t culturally accepted then like it is now” and “When I got [my nose] done I was scrutinized, judged, and made to feel ashamed over my decision.”

“At the end of the day, I’m having a daughter, and I hope her choices aren’t met with judgment or shame,” She closed, adding she feels zero judgement over what other people choose to do with their body.

By Megan Stone
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January 29, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Fox/Michael Becker(LOS ANGELES) — It looks like Nick Cannon will be able to fulfill his dream of having is own talk show after all. 

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury and Fox Television Studios have committed to a fall launch of a daytime talk show helmed by The Masked Singer host, according to a press release. 

“It’s been a longtime dream of mine to host my own daytime talk show and that I’m able to do this in New York City, bringing daytime television back to the place that has fostered generations of talent, is very special to me,” Cannon said in a statement.

“With this show, we’ll be uniting all aspects of entertainment in a unique way in the very place where a lot of what we know today as our culture started. I couldn’t ask for better partners than Debmar-Mercury and Fox and thank them for supporting me in this endeavor.”

The news comes just over six months after producers delayed the premiere after Cannon came under fire for making comments that were deemed anti-Semitic last summer. 

At the time, Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, “The Nick Cannon talk show will not debut this year.  After conversations with Nick, we do believe that his public comments don’t reflect his true feelings and his apology is heartfelt and sincere.” 

“We want to continue the healing process as he meets with leaders of the Jewish community and engages in a dialogue with our distribution partners to hear their views,” the statement continued. “We are standing by Nick in our hope that by fall 2021 he will be able to use his extraordinary talent and platform to entertain, enlighten and unite his audience on the Nick Cannon talk show.”

By Danielle Long
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January 29, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

HBO Max(LOS ANGELES) — HBO Max announced Friday that the anticipated “Snyder Cut” of Warner Bros. Pictures’ Justice League will premiere on the streaming service as a full-length feature on Thursday, March 18. 

The announcement came in the form of three post-apocalyptic looking teaser posters released on social media. One features a flag with a tattered “JL” logo, another shows two seemingly discarded film cans reading “Snyder,” and a third shows the “JL” logo made of stone and smashed.

There had been reporting that the film was being re-cut as a four-hour miniseries, but the new announcement appears to make it clear that the movie will be a single feature.  

Snyder was forced to step away from the project following a family tragedy in March of 2017. Avengers director Joss Whedon took over and substantially retooled the film, which delivered a disappointing $657.9 million worldwide and subsequently ignited disappointed fans’ curiosity as to what Snyder’s version would have looked like.

Their enthusiasm, and the viral hashtag #ReleaseTheSnyderCut — which was backed by Justice League‘s stars including Jason “Aquaman” Momoa and Gal “Wonder Woman” Gadot — led Warner Bros. to invest millions to allow Synder to re-cut the movie to suit his original vision.

Co-star Diane Lane, who played Clark Kent/Superman’s adoptive mother, Martha, recently applauded the fans’ efforts as “fantastic.” She told ABC Audio, “A one-way street became a two-way street in terms of the fans responding to the material, and then it takes on its own life.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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January 29, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

LR- Hammer, Guadagnino, Chalamet — Karwai Tang/WireImage(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE LANGUAGE, CONTENT) As allegations against Armie Hammer continue to mount, accusing him of having sordid fantasies involving cannibalism, some Internet users are crying foul over a new project reuniting his former film collaborators.

The Hollywood Reporter noted that Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino and Hammer’s co-star in that film, Timothee Chalamet, were in talks to reunite for Bones and All, based on Camille DeAngelis’ novel about a young woman who “has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her,” which has been described as a “cannibal love story.”

While Hammer wasn’t involved in the film, gossip site Just Jared’s Instagram posted a picture of Guadagnino, Chalamet, and Hammer together, and one of the first comments happened to be from Hammer’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, who wrote, “No. Words.” 

While Chambers’ brief, cryptic comment can be interpreted any number of ways, it earned thousands of likes.

Recently, Hammer’s 22-year-old ex-girlfriend, Paige Lorezne, made new and disturbing claims to the Daily Mail, and displayed a photo of a small “A” she claims he carved into her. She also said he was “obsessed” with the idea of “taking a piece of me…and consuming it.”

The initial allegations, reportedly culled from leaked and unverified sexting DMs, led Hammer to drop out of the Jennifer Lopez& film Shotgun Wedding. In a statement to Entertainment Tonight, Hammer later called the first allegations “bulls***…” and “…vicious and spurious online attacks…” 

In a statement to DailyMail.com, Hammer’s lawyer said of the latter allegations, ‘These assertions about Mr. Hammer are patently untrue. Any interactions with [Lorenze], or any partner of his, were completely consensual in that they were fully discussed, agreed upon, and mutually participatory.'”

By Stephen Iervolino
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“Firefly Lane” – Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) Grey’s Anatomy alum Katherine Heigl reflected on her turbulent time in Hollywood after she began speaking her mind about her career.

In a candid interview with The Washington Post, the 42-year-old actress opened up about the time she was branded “difficult” and Hollywood started “shunning” her — which she says was punishment for advocating for herself.

“I may have said a couple of things you didn’t like, but then that escalated to ‘she’s ungrateful,’ then that escalated to ‘she’s difficult’ and that escalated to ‘she’s unprofessional,'” explained Heigl. “What is your definition of difficult? Somebody with an opinion that you don’t like?”

The Firefly Lane star wouldn’t shy away from discussing what she liked and didn’t like about her current projects, most famously when she called Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up “a little sexist” for making certain women appear as “shrews.” 

She also famously took herself out of the running for Emmy consideration one season when she was on Grey’s Anatomy, criticizing the show’s writing as not being up to snuff for her character. She eventually left the show for a movie career that saw diminishing returns. 

In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Grey’s creator Rhimes said of her shows: “I don’t put up with bulls**t or nasty people, I don’t have time for it.” She added that there were “no Heigls” working on her current shows, which also included Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder.

Heigl said she wasn’t deterred from speaking her mind back then, adding, “You can be the most awful, difficult, horrible person on the planet, but if you’re making them money, they’re going to keep hiring you… But then my films started to make not quite as much money.”

Heigl says her deteriorating reputation caused her mental health to spiral.

“I think my family, my mother, my husband, my friends were scared. And I regret deeply that I scared them like that. But I just couldn’t control it. I had no tools,” the 27 Dresses star confessed, adding, “I asked my mom and my husband to find me somewhere to go that could help me because I felt like I would rather be dead.”

Heigl, who was recently diagnosed with anxiety and is now regularly seeing a therapist, is unafraid to return to Hollywood and speak her mind.

As for what she hopes for Firefly Lane?  That it’s renewed for three seasons.

By Danielle Long
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