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Walt Disney Television/Yolanda Perez(NEW YORK) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) While his wife Hilaria Baldwin had the foresight to turn the comments off on the Instagram post she used to debut her family’s new addition, Alec Baldwin did not, and it didn’t go well. 

The fact that Baldwin captioned the picture “mi vida” — particularly after his wife’s Spanish heritage flap — certainly didn’t help.

Baldwin apparently went off on some commenters who wanted info about the family’s new bundle of joy, who appeared just six months after the couple welcomed their fifth child, Eduardo. 

What followed was a flood of negative comments, and lots of cucumber emojis — a reference to his Boston-born wife’s apparently feigned inability to remember the English word for the vegetable.

“CONFUSULATIONS!” one snarked.

“Mi vida? You all really didn’t learn from ‘pretend-gate’ did you,” another noted.

Another posted, “If it was a surrogate just say that. If the baby was adopted just say that…”

The poster added, “If you don’t want to say anything – why don’t you both stop constantly posting and…Just raise your 100 children in private.”

It was later revealed that the new baby’s name is Lucia; a source confirmed to People that she was born via surrogate.

According to E! and other outlets, Baldwin responded with an apparently now-deleted, “you should shut the f— up and mind your own business.”

Baldwin reportedly said of the trolls, “Basically, they’re not very smart. Americans are people who know less about how to live a peaceful, healthy life than most of the civilized world.”

One responded , “Congrats but don’t expect applause at your lecture on civility. You’ve been talking smack for so long, you had to know it would come back at some point.”

Another commenter tried to explain the vitriol by telling Baldwin, “it’s because you’re vague posting…It’s narcissistic. That’s all.”

By Stephen Iervolino
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ABC Press(NEW YORK) — Rachel Lindsay isn’t letting up on her criticism of The Bachelor franchise amid ongoing controversies involving seemingly racist comments.

Lindsay, the first Black Bachelorette, used the latest episode of her Higher Learning podcast, which she co-hosts with Van Lathan, to respond to newly resurfaced tweets from Taylor Nolan, who appeared alongside Lindsay on Nick Viall’s season of The Bachelor.

The tweets, posted between 2011 and 2012, contained insults aimed at minority groups, along with homophobic and fat-phobic slurs.

Nolan, 27, has since apologized for the tweets in a 30-minute video posted on Instagram, acknowledging they were “wrong and are hurtful.”

Alongside the clip she wrote, “I want to be clear that they don’t take away from the work I do today, they are literally how I got here to doing this work…I never deleted those tweets for a reason because they’ve been a part of my ~journey~ since way before going the bachelor.”

Lindsay, on Tuesday said she was “shocked and disappointed” by the old social media posts, especially given that Nolan has since been “very outspoken about all the inequalities and injustices within the [Bachelor] franchise.”

However, she stressed she has “the same energy with Taylor that I have with anybody who does something that’s wrong.”

“You’re never going to hear me say, ‘Cancel this person. This person is done. I’m done with them,'” she said, referring to her earlier comments about Bachelor host Chris Harrison and current Bachelor contestant Rachael Kirkconnell. “What you’ll hear my say is, ‘We have to hold this person accountable.'”

Lindsay also suggested the franchise put The Bachelorette‘s upcoming season on hold until it regroups and brings the show “back to us in a way that we can all enjoy it like we used to.”

By George Costantino
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Michael Loccisano/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Jahmil French, a star on Degrassi: The Next Generation, has died. He was 29. 

News of the young star’s death was confirmed by his agent, Gabrielle Kachman, who said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight, “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of a dear friend and client Jahmil French.

The statement continued, “He will be remembered by many for his passion for the arts, his commitment to his craft, and his vibrant personality. I ask that you keep his family and friends in your thoughts and prayers at this difficult time.”

French was best known for his role as Dave Turner in the teen drama Degrassi. He also had a recurring role in the 2019 Netflix series Soundtrack. His cause of death is currently unknown. 

Several of the Canadian actor’s co-stars paid tribute, sharing sweet moments they shared with him to social media. 

By Danielle Long
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Melinda Sue Gordon; ©2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.(NEW YORK) — For the first time since the pandemic delayed film openings in the U.S. in August, Christopher Nolan’s time-bending thriller Tenet is finally coming to theaters in New York City. 

The Big Apple has of late started reopening its theaters under strict COVID-19 rules, and on Friday, the film, which stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Kenneth Branagh, will finally screen for movie fans there. 

The movie will be unspooled at several AMC locations, including its Times Square flagship, as well as the Village East by Angelika downtown, as well as the Showcase Cinemas in Jamaica, Queens. 

The film, which earned more than $353 million worldwide despite the pandemic’s effects on theaters, was already available on streaming and Blu-ray/DVD — and for a limited time on HBO Max, to Nolan’s chagrin —  but Deadline reports the fillmmaker was among other “industry titans” to personally advocate embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to start getting theaters opened again.

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Freeform/Eric McCandless(LOS ANGELES) — (NOTE NATURE, CONTENT) Embattled comedian Chris D’Elia was hit with a new lawsuit, of which he faces additional accusations of exploiting a minor.

Deadline reports that a civil suit was filed against the comic Tuesday in California federal court, where an unnamed victim claims he solicited nude photos of her when she was 17 and also accused him of child sexual exploitation.

The victim claims she was exploited by the then 34-year-old D’Elia was aware of her age when he invited her to attend one of his shows in Connecticut.  She states that, before he went on stage, he asked her age and engaged her in sexual activities with her.

Connecticut law states the age of consent is 16.

The victim states that, after their encounter, “he constructed a manipulative, controlling, and abusive dynamic.”  She claims he demanded she send him inappropriate photos with her clothes off and, when she refused, D’Elia “psychologically punished her.”

She states he made her take over 100 sexually explicit photos and videos of herself, of which she claims is
“in violation of federal child pornography and sexual exploitation laws.”

This isn’t the first time the comedian has been accused of exploiting minors online.

In addition, two other women have come forward with misconduct allegations against D’Elia, of which were made public in September.

The accusers both claim the comedian exposed himself to them, with one saying her incident occured in 2011 and the other transpired in 2018.

In the aftermath, D’Elia’s agency, CAA, and management team, 3 Arts Entertainment, both dropped him as a client.  

The comedian apologized in a video statement, of which he released February 19, claiming he needed help and that “sex controlled my life.”

However, in the video, he maintains, “All my relationships have been consensual and legal.”

By Megan Stone
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