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“Real Housewives” alum Brandi Glanville isn’t ready to make nice with Andy Cohen — despite the Bravo honcho’s apology Friday for sending what he admitted was a “totally inappropriate” video. Indeed, it appears that Glanville and her legal team are determined to use the ubiquitous media personality, Bravo host and executive producer of the “Real Housewives” franchise to show that powerful men in entertainment continue to get away with bad behavior. Five years earlier, the #MeToo movement exposed rampant sexism, harassment…

Steven Spielberg probably didn’t realize it at the time, but he dodged a bullet when he rejected the idea of casting Mel Gibson to star in his Oscar-winning 1993 film “Schindler’s List.” Turning down Gibson wouldn’t have been easy, even for Spielberg. In the early 1990s, Gibson was a major star, coming off the box office success of his first three “Lethal Weapon” movies and with plans to soon direct his Oscar-winning film “Braveheart.” “Mel Gibson’s name came up” for the role of Oskar Schindler, according to CAA…

If you live in Iran and recently bought an especially cheap iPhone that never arrived, then you too might be the victim of a scam that has cost residents of the country millions of dollars.The Financial Times called the scam a “multi-million-dollar fraud” that saw customers duped by a slick sales pitch, only to never receive the goods that they ordered. It’s led to picketing outside police stations, scrutiny over the kind of services that Iranian celebrities endorse, and “revealed the lengths that its consumers will go…

Zendaya is remembering her East Bay theater kid roots by donating $100,000 to the California Shakespeare Theater company, where the Oakland native received early training to become an actor and to pursue her career as a film and TV star, singer and model. The donation from the Emmy-winning “Euphoria” star comes as she and Timothée Chalamet have been promoting the March 1 release of the second part of the “Dune” film franchise. Cal Shakes, meanwhile, has been in the midst of a fundraising campaign to help it return to…

Wendy Williams has been dealing with more difficult news about her mental and physical health, with representatives for the talk-show host announcing Thursday that she has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia as well as aphasia. Doctors in fact concluded that her recent struggles were due to frontotemporal dementia, a group of neurodegenerative disorders that can affect behavior, personality, language and movement, her representatives said in a statement, Page Six reported. FTD occurs when nerve cells in the…

Before the age of cancel culture and celebrity apology videos characterized by neutral-toned clothing, pristine backgrounds, and an introductory deep breath, A-listers didn't pay much attention to their comments, often letting their impulsive behavior mandate what words came out of their mouths.Although many of the following offensive remarks were forgotten over time, they're still on the Internet, and people can judge for themselves whether the artist who made them intended harm or not.Below, Bored Panda presents a…

Tiffany Haddish is on her way to Israel to “have some fun” and find her “future man” in the “Holy Land,” as she shared in an Instagram Live video Tuesday, sounding nonchalant about her destination country being at war with a terrorist organization and the region being mired in violence and humanitarian crises. Inexplicably, the official social media account of the State of Israel promoted Haddish’s video on X, the Daily Beast reported. The Haddish video was shared amid posts that decried Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel…

It looks like Tom Cruise has settled very nicely into his new life in London, where the quintessentially American movie star is said to host Sunday tea parties, hang out with Prince William at swanky galas and has reportedly launched a serious romance with one of the Russian socialites whose extravagant lifestyles have helped turn the British capital into “Londongrad.” Filming the latest installments of his “Mission: Impossible” franchise brought the Cruise to the U.K., where he found “a place to call home” in London, a…

Just like the rest of us, celebrities are not perfect, and, just like the rest of us, they share a lot of their lives online. The difference is that no one will probably create new memes to make fun of us. Whew.The good thing is that for every bored celebrity, uploading their heartfelt and/or hilarious home-alone video during the lockdown, there's another star helping the world to fight against the coronavirus.For example, Angelina Jolie has donated $1m to fight child hunger during the outbreak of COVID-19. She has given…

Super Bowl LVIII was held at the Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, on Sunday, February 11. The NFL championship saw the Kansas City Chiefs secure a victory over the San Francisco 49ers by 25-22. Among other A-listers at the event, all eyes were on Taylor Swift, who flew all the way from Japan to Las Vegas after back-to-back Eras Tour shows at the Tokyo Dome. Taylor Swift reacts during the first quarter between Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers of Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium(USA TODAY…