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Michael Bezjian/Getty Images for Maddox Gallery Los Angeles(CANADA) — Pamela Anderson got married in a private ceremony in her native Canada on Christmas Eve, and as part of her new life, she’s shutting down her social media accounts.

Anderson’s fifth marriage was to her bodyguard boyfriend Dan Hayhurst, on the picturesque property she bought from her grandparents 25 years ago, the former Baywatch star told the Daily Mail.

“This is where my parents were married and they are still together. I feel like I’ve come full circle,” she added.

“I’m exactly where I need to be — in the arms of a man who truly loves me,” she told the paper.

Anderson also announced she was shutting down her social media accounts, and urged her followers to do so, too.

“I’ve never been interested in social media And now that I’m settled into the life…I am free,” she posted to her followers.

After wishing “love” and “blessings” to her fans, Anderson said, “Let’s hope you find the strength and inspiration to follow your purpose and try not to be seduced by wasted time…”

“That’s what THEY want and can use to make money Control over your brain,” she said of social media companies.

Pamela Anderson was previously married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee in 1995; the pair had two sons, Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger, and split in 1998.

In 2006 she was married to — and divorced — Kid Rock. She also tied the knot to, and was divorced from, Rick Solomon in 2007, and 2013.

In 2020, she and longtime friend and movie producer Jon Peters got hitched, but they parted ways eight days later.

By Stephen Iervolino
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FOX/Guy D’Alema(LOS ANGELES) — Actor Morris Chestnut plays arrogant, and unethical neurosurgeon Dr. Barrett Cain on Fox’s The Resident, and he’s so good at the smarm that the affable actor says he’s now getting confronted by fans. 

“When people come up to me about this show, I know they’re really watching because they come up to me and [say], ‘Oooh, I can’t stand your character. Why did you lie to those people?’ Yeah, they admonish me,” he laughed on a recent episode of PeopleTV’s Couch Surfing.

“It’s kind of like being able to play the villain, something that people don’t really expect from me.” 

However, just as the series had been doubling down on Chestnut’s character’s unethical behavior — he tricked a patient into undergoing an unnecessary procedure during the pandemic just to pad the hospital’s bottom line, endangering the man’s life — the producers threw fans a curveball. 

Tuesday night’s episode showed Chestnut’s character doing something selfless for a change — pulling a woman from a burning car — only to see him struck by a car and seriously injured, meaning the staff of Chastain Memorial has to save the career, and the life, of a guy we’ve all come to love to hate.

Executive producer Andrew Chapman tells PeopleTV partner Entertainment Weekly, “…[H]e’s arrogant and a bad guy, but yet at the same time he’s only human. So even if Cain survives the accident, would he change his core personality? Would he ever become a good guy? That’s more iffy.”

The Resident airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. 

By Stephen Iervolino
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Photo courtesy Integrated PR(LOS ANGELES) — Cloris Leachman, the versatile Oscar and multiple-Emmy winning actress whose career on stage, television and film spanned more than seven decades, has died at age 94.

She passed away Tuesday of natural causes in Encinitas, California, her longtime manager Juliet Green tells ABC News.

“There was no one like Cloris,” Green said, calling the performer, “one of the most fearless actresses of our time.” 

The first celebrity to react to her passing was her Mary Tyler Moore co-star Ed Asner, who tweeted a picture of her laughing as he kisses the side of her head at a black tie event. “A picture from the last time I saw you,” he captioned the photo.

“Always beautiful. Nothing I could say would top the enormity of my love for you,” Asner wrote, adding, “Until we meet again darling” and the hashtag “#clorisleachmanrip”

Leachman, equally adept at comedy and drama, was perhaps best known for her TV roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Phyllis, as well as The Facts of Life, Malcolm in the Middle and more recently, in Fox’s Raising Hope.

She won eight Primetime Emmy Awards — a record that stood for decades, until it was matched in 2017 by Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Leachman, however, also won one Daytime Emmy Award.

On the big screen, she won the Academy Award for her role as a gym teacher’s neglected wife in 1971’s The Last Picture Show. She also appeared in three Mel Brooks films, Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety and History of the World: Part I. And she played Daisy May Moses in the 1993 film version of The Beverly Hillbillies.

Leachman was introduced to a new generation of fans when she became the oldest contestant on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars in 2008. Paired with professional dancer Corky Ballas, she was 82 at the time. Her appearance led to a surge of new TV and film roles, including playing Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope from 2010-2014.

Leachman was born April 30, 1926, the oldest of three sisters, in Des Moines, Iowa. She began acting as a youngster and later studied drama at Northwestern University in Illinois, alongside friends Charlotte Rae and Paul Lynde.

After graduating from high school, Leachman enrolled at Illinois State University to study drama, and later, Northwestern University, where she was a member of Gamma Phi Beta. After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, she moved to New York City to study acting under director Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio and was immediately cast on Broadway and in film.

Starting in the 1950s, she appeared in many TV programs, including a brief stint as Timmy’s mother in the original Lassie. Her role as Mary Tyler Moore’s nosy and manipulative landlady, Phyllis Lindstrom, made her a star.

In addition to her busy acting career, Leachman raised five children — four sons and a daughter — with film director George Englund. Leachman and Englund were married for 26 years, before divorcing in 1979.

Leachman never remarried and is survived by four of her children as well as several grandchildren whom, “she loved fiercely,” according to her rep.

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Netflix(LOS ANGELES) — It has already been reported that Bridgerton had the biggest ever debut for a Netflix original series when it dropped late last year, but now that the numbers are officially in, the bodice-ripping romantic drama has become the biggest show in the streaming service’s history. 

Its launch was bigger than even Netflix projected: the company says the series was watched by 82 million people — or a whopping 41% of Netflix’s global audience of 200 million — in its first 28 days online, Deadline reports.

Based on Julia Quinn’s beloved book series, the latest hit from Shonda Rhimes centers on Phoebe Dynevor’s character, Daphne Bridgerton, and her marriage to the Duke of Hastings, played by heartthrob Regé-Jean Page.

As a “thank you” to those 82 million people, Netflix posted to social media a video compilation of fans who’ve gone all-in on the so-called “Bridgerton Effect” — wearing period frocks, reenacting scenes, buying frilly finery, and even affecting posh British accents — to celebrate their new favorite show. 

Bridgerton‘s performance bested its former viewership champ The Witcher, which attracted 76 million viewers within its first 28 days of launch; Lupin, which attracted 70 million, and The Queen’s Gambit, which debuted with an audience of 62 million. 

By Stephen Iervolino
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