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The Fox & Friends host Abby Huntsman apologised to viewers on Sunday, after referring to Donald Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un of North Korea in Singapore as “that meeting between the two dictators”. Huntsman, the daughter of US ambassador to Russia and former Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman, was discussing Trump’s arrival in Singapore with…
Earlier this month, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced plans to prosecute “100 percent” of migrants illegally crossing the Mexican border, it became official US policy to routinely separate children from their parents. Already, hundreds of children have been ripped from their families: 658 kids in the first 13 days of the program alone, Customs…
I interviewed Jeffrey Tambor on Tuesday, briefly, in a room with some of his fellow Arrested Development cast members, not including his co-star Jessica Walter. But it doesn’t matter what he told me. It doesn’t matter because Tambor said almost the exact same word-for-word statement — presumably crafted with help from publicists, lawyers, or both — that…
Image: ABC Meredith Phillips, the star of ABC reality series The Bachelorette’s second season in 2004 (production took place in 2003), claimed on Wednesday that she was sexually assaulted by a female masseuse during filming of the show. Phillips alleged during the course of a podcast with Steve Carbone (aka Reality Steve) that she was…
Image: Netflix There is a lengthy Q&A in the New York Times with the cast of Arrested Development ahead of the show’s fifth season premiering at the end of May. Because the show still includes Jeffrey Tambor, recently fired from Transparent after sexual harassment allegations, the conversation eventually turns to Tambor’s behavior on the set…
There’s always a debate raging in the world of animation, whether it’s the presence of women in the writers room or a cartoon geek’s constitutional right to Szechuan sauce (thanks to the rather rowdy Rick and Morty fandom), but this weekend saw fandom butting heads over a rare topic: college. Instigated by ThunderCats Roar, the…
A decade after scribes walked out over digital pay, The Hollywood Reporter gathers key players to reflect on the tension and “traitors,” strategies and solidarity, picket-line romances and the ultimate deal that still impacts how the town runs today. It was early 2006 when Damon Lindelof headed down to the Third Street Promenade in Santa…
David Letterman has hosted over 6,000 hours of a talk show, which means he should be good at talking. So I was surprised when he raised the issue of women in comedy with Tina Fey on his Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, and triggered an awkward conversation. Letterman’s history with “women in…
Every so often we must take a break from the real news, because something comes across Twitter that makes us scream at clouds about HOW THE FUCK did Chris Cillizza win the Failing Upward lottery to the point that he’s paid what must be multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, when you combine…
beep boop beep blorp Image: Getty We may never be free from the reanimated corpse of American Idol, which is more proof to me that hell is real. Deadline reports that ABC has renewed the cursed program for a second season, dragging judges Katy Perry, Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie along for the ride. Joining…