January 20, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

ABC/Craig Sjodin(LOS ANGELES) — After driving away and into the sunset midway through her season of The Bachelorette, Clare Crawley’s engagement to Dale Moss has come to an end.

The former NFL star confirmed Tuesday that their fairytale romance is over.

Taking to Instagram, Dale explained, “I wanted to share with you all that Clare and I have decided to go our separate ways. We appreciate the love and support we’ve received from so many people, but this is the healthiest decision for both of us at this time.”

“We strongly believe in leading with love and always remaining true to oneself – something our families have taught and instilled in us throughout our lives. We only hope the best things for one another,” he concluded.

The announcement comes after Clare, 39, and Dale, 32, began sharing cryptic messages on social media that alluded to a possible heartbreak.

For Clare, she shared a photo of her holding her mother’s hand last week and wrote in the caption, “She has good days and bad, Just like we all do. Well today I couldn’t hide my hard day. A mother always knows. Without saying a word, she reached in her pocket and pulled out this tissue and just squeezed my hand.”

Sparks flew for Clare and Dale the second they locked eyes on the first episode of The Bachelorette, with Clare gushing to the cameras after their initial meeting, “I think I may have just met my husband.”

Their whirlwind romance eventually “blew up” season 16, as stated by host Chris Harrison when the two decided to leave the show halfway through and start their new lives together — ushering in new Bachelorette Tayshia Adams.

Dale has requested fans to respect his and Clare’s privacy “as we work through this together.”  Clare has not yet addressed the breakup.

By Megan Stone
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January 20, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Walt Disney Television/Yolanda Perez(NEW YORK) — Alec Baldwin has put the breaks on Twitter, permanently.

The 30 Rock star has repeatedly vented his frustration over how the internet has reacted to the cultural appropriation controversy surrounding his wife, Hilaria Baldwin.  The lifestyle influencer was accused by a Twitter user in December of a “decades long grift in which she impersonates a Spanish person.”

The accuser, LeniBriscoe, backed up the claims by including interviews where Hilaria speaks in a Spanish accent and opens up about her parents, who are natives of Massachusetts.

The fallout was immediate and Alec has threatened to quit Twitter multiple times because his wife is continuously harassed, he says.

On Monday, the 63-year-old actor said he is closing up shop on Twitter, saying the website “is like a party where everyone is screaming. Not much of a party.”

“Goodbye for now,” he added.

Hilaria has repeatedly tried to clear the air since the scandal broke in December.  She first took to Instagram to share her side of the story, confessing that she was born in Boston “and grew up spending time with my family between Massachusetts and Spain.”

Hilaria added that she’s “really lucky I grew up speaking two languages” and is also raising her children to be bilingual.

The fitness model also confessed that she is a “white girl” born “Hillary,” not Hilaria, which she said is what her Spanish relatives called her and which she eventually adopted professionally. 

Mrs. Baldwin continued to ward off accusations of cultural appropriation and opened up about her contested heritage in a lengthy piece in The New York Times. 

It is unknown when or if Alec intends to return to social media.

By Megan Stone and Stephen Iervolino
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January 20, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Walt Disney Television via Getty Images/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(LOS ANGELES) — It’s official — Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham-Luyendyk are having a boy and a girl!

The former Bachelor stars, who announced they were pregnant with twins back in December, revealed the sex of their unborn babies in adorable social media posts on Tuesday. 

Alongside a series of photos which both blue and pink cotton candy sticks, Lauren, 29, shared, “Alessi is getting a baby BROTHER & a baby SISTER we couldn’t be more excited!”

Arie, 39, made a similar post and wrote, “BOY! & GIRL! How did we get so lucky @laurenluyendyk?! So excited to meet the @luyendyktwins.”

The duo, who are already parents to 19-month-old daughter Alessi, also shared a YouTube video showing behind the scenes of their gender reveal photo shoot, as well as, their candid reactions to finding out what they will be welcoming. 

Arie and Lauren met on season 22 of the ABC reality TV series and wed last year. The twins are due in July. 

By Danielle Long
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January 20, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

January 19, 2021 • No Comments • Entertainment News

Steven Ogg in “Snowpiercer” – Courtesy TNT(NEW YORK) — Snowpiercer, TNT’s adaptation of the 2013 Bong Joon-ho sci-fi film, will stay on the tracks into season 3.

The network announced that the post-apocalyptic show, starring Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly, Hamilton Tony winner Daveed Diggs, Sean Bean, and Steven Ogg, has been renewed before the show’s second season debuts on January 25. 

The series is set onboard a 1,001-car train that can never stop, which houses the only human survivors of a climate catastrophe that left the earth an arctic wasteland. The train is divided by class — because, well, people — and there’s a rebellion from the regulars who eke out a living in the back against the elite living high on the hog in the front cars.

Steven Ogg, a veteran of The Walking Dead, and known to a generation of gamers as Trevor from Grand Theft Auto V, plays survivalist Pike in Snowpiercer. He tells ABC Audio he wasn’t expecting the show’s train sets to be so realistic. “The train’s moving — it shakes. It’s awesome,” he laughs.

“It was funny: at first we were told there was going to be movement on the train, but that first time when you have your first words to say, and ‘Action’ is called, and all of the sudden the train starts going back and forth a bit — I forgot all my lines.”

Ogg adds, “You sort of have sea legs. I certainly found myself always holding on to either side. You remember in the old days when we used to fly in planes?” the actor asks sarcastically, “when you walk down the aisles, you sort of hold on to each side? That’s how it feels in the train — you sort of feel at the end of the day like you’re still on a ship, that movement…It’s pretty amazing, that world, truly.”

Snowpiercer returns Monday, January 25 at 9 p.m. ET on TNT

By Stephen Iervolino 
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