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‘All My Children’ Movies in the Works at Lifetime: Will Susan Lucci Return?

When Ripa revealed the exciting news, she was sitting down with soap legend Susan Lucci. She asked Lucci if she would be open to reprising her role as the one and only Erica Kane.

“I would love to play Erica Kane again,” Lucci told Ripa. “It would be a lot of fun. Are you kidding? She was so much fun to play. My goodness, it was so much fun. I was serious when I said I would look at the scripts and go, ‘Really, I get to do this?’ This was a wonderful part, and I’ve been hearing good things about the writer, too, and that, of course, is so important, whose hands are you in.”

Lucci and Ripa have been longtime friends after crossing paths on the ABC soap. Ripa joined the cast in 1990 as Hayley Vaughan and met her now-husband, Mark Consuelos.

This All My Children revival has been years in the making. Back in 2020, ABC was in early development on a primetime reboot of the soap, with Ripa and Consuelos signing on as executive producers. That series never materialized, but Ripa and Consuelos have since segued to the Lifetime movies.

All My Children was canceled by ABC in 2011 after 41 years on the air. The soap was revived by Prospect Park in 2013, but only aired for a few months before being axed again.

The soap’s series finale left Erica Kane’s fate in jeopardy. Fans were left wondering who J.R. shot at the Chandler mansion, and Erica was one of the potential victims.

Lucci will look back on her incredible life and career in her upcoming second memoir, La Lucci. She’ll open up about pivotal moments on All My Children and the loss of her longtime husband, Helmut Huber.

‘Live’: Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos Announce Son Joaquin’s Broadway Debut

On the Wednesday, January 21, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, Ripa announced that both Consuelos and their youngest son, Joaquin, will be making their Broadway debuts this spring. “You see this man right here, Mark Consuelos, cohost of this here talk show? He’s going to Broadway. That’s right,” Ripa excitedly shared. “He’s going to be starring in Fallen Angels by Noël Coward, directed by the great Scott Ellis, starring the incredible Rose Byrne and Kelli O’Hara.”

Consuelos said that the news didn’t become “official in my mind” until they decided to announce it on Live. “I started sweating,” he joked. Ripa quipped, “Is the anxiety kicking in? Because when you agreed to do it months ago, my anxiety kicked in.”

Performing on Broadway has been a longtime career goal for Consuelos. “I love getting on stage. It’s been years since I’ve had a chance to do it because of travel and living here in New York City,” he stated. “I’m anchored here, now. I’m pretty much anchored here, [Michael] Gelman. I’m trapped. So, I thought it’d be a good idea.”

Ripa hilariously poked fun at her husband’s upcoming busy schedule, stating, “I can’t wait ‘til you start doing this show and eight shows a week.”

In addition to Consuelos’ theater news, Ripa went on to reveal that Joaquin, 22, “is also going to be on Broadway in Death of a Salesman at basically the same time.” Consuelos joked, “We’re going up against each other.” (The couple also share son Michael, 28, and daughter Lola, 24.)

Ripa said she is going to be seeing “hella theater” when Consuelos and Joaquin’s shows premiere later this year. “Every night, I’m going to have this choice, like, ‘Who do I see tonight? Do I go see my husband, or do I go see my beloved son?’” she said.

While Consuelos said Ripa should prioritize watching Joaquin perform over him, he suggested that she can see one show as a matinee and the other in the evening.

Consuelos will begin preview performances of Fallen Angels starting March 27. The play will run at the Todd Haimes Theatre from April 19 through June 7. Death of a Salesman begins previews on March 6 and will open at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 9.

Joaquin will make his Broadway debut alongside big names such as Nathan Lane, Laurie Metcalf, and Christopher Abbott. The production will be directed by Joe Mantello.

Death of a Salesman will mark Joaquin’s first professional acting gig since graduating from the University of Michigan’s School of Drama in May 2025. Joaquin is also set to appear in the upcoming Greg Berlanti TV pilot Foster Dade alongside Matt Bomer, Sam Trammell, Heather Burns, Jack Alldridge, Chloe East, and more.

Mark Consuelos, Tracee Chimo, Christopher Fitzgerald and Aasif Mandvi Join Fallen Angels Broadway Cast

The creative team includes set design by David Rockwell, costume design by Jeff Mahshie, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and sound design by John Gromada. Performances begin March 27, with opening night set for April 19. The limited engagement runs through June 7 at the Todd Haimes Theatre.

Consuelos has appeared off-Broadway in the New York premiere of Stuart Ross’ production of Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, Boy’s Life, Orphans and An Oak Tree.

Chimo’s Broadway credits include Noises Off, The Heidi Chronicles, Harvey and Irena's Vow. Her performance as Daphne in Bad Jews off-Broadway won her the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Lead Actress.

Fitzgerald is a three-time Tony nominee and two-time Drama Desk Award winner. His Broadway credits include Waitress, Young Frankenstein, Finian’s Rainbow, Company, An Act of God, The Merchant of Venice, Wicked (original Boq), Amour, Chicago, and the recent revival of Spamalot.

Mandvi appeared on Broadway as Ali Hakim in the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! Other stage credits include Lincoln Center’s premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced and Estragon in the Geffen Playhouse production of Waiting for Godot. Mandvi received the Obie Award for his solo show Sakina’s Restaurant at the American Place Theatre.

Sparkling, dizzying and deliciously potent, Noël Coward’s champagne-fresh comedy of bad manners shocked and delighted audiences in its 1925 premiere. Two upper-class wives, their husbands away for the day, share a few toasts to their pre-marital dalliances—with the same man, who just may be en route from France to visit. Old rivalries and past scandals bubble to the surface in this intoxicating romp from one of theater's comedy masters.

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‘Power: Origins’ Adds Kelly McCreary & Hill Harper Among 5 Set To Recur, With ‘Raising Kanan’s Nadia Dajani To Reprise Original Role

They are Kelly McCreary (Grey’s Anatomy), Hill Harper (The Good Doctor), Damon Gupton (The Big Door Prize), and Tonya Pinkins (Sistas). The fifth person is Nadia Dajani, who will reprise the role of Teresa Boselli, which she originated in Power Book III: Raising Kanan‘s third season.

Starz has teased the new spinoff prequel Power: Origins will be lighter fare, describing it as “a fun, rambunctious exploration of a new time period in the ‘Power’ franchise.” The series will highlight “the unbridled audacity of young men on the rise, determined to become legends in the game.”

Power: Origins is centered around the early years of the two lead characters from the mothership series, James “Ghost” St. James (Power‘s Omari Hardwick) and Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora), who will be in their younger years by Spence Moore II and Charlie Mann, respectively. The character of Kanan Stark, originated by franchise executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, will be portrayed in Power: Origins by Mekai Curtis, in a continuation of his leading role in Raising Kanan.

The new story follows the trio as ambitious young entrepreneurs on the rise, determined to make their mark on the streets of New York City.

The show’s first season will consist of 18 episodes, an increase from all prior Power spinoffs, including Power Book II: Ghost, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and Power Book IV: Force, which have 10-episode seasons each.

In addition to Moore II, Mann and Curtis, the show also stars Jason Dirden, reprising the role of Traymont Stinson from Raising Kanan; Jennifer Ferrin as Tommy’s mom, Kate Egan; Lizzy DeClement local Queens nurse, Jill Wexler; Lenny Platt as finance bro, Lenny Seidell; Armani Gabriel as J-Boogs, one of Ghost and Tommy’s most trusted corner boys; and Everett Osborne as NY Jets tight end, Omay Moreau.

Jackson recently posted a photo of Moore II and Mann as Ghost and Tommy on the set of Power: Origins below. It’s a cool shot because it’s the past and the present, with the new Ghost and Tommy posing with the OG Kanan.

Learn more about the newly announced cast and who they will play below.

Dajani will play Teresa Boselli, the widow of Sal Boselli (played by Michael Rispoli in Raising Kanan), who is known to be tough and unsentimental. She had a tumultuous past with Kanan’s mother, Raquel Thomas (Raising Kanan’s Patina Miller), and is back to shake up Kanan’s operations.

McCreary will play Officer Melanie Rivers, a strategic and take-charge kind of woman who can be quite secretive and isn’t who she seems to be.

Harper will play Detective Burns, a speculative, curious, and relentlessly persistent cop who has a need to dig and insert himself in investigations that aren’t his own.

Pinkins will play Grandma Charlayne, Ghost’s loving grandmother, and a warm but unsteady presence whose neurological issues leave her slipping in and out of focus.

Gupton will play Detective Glover Archibald, who has seen and heard it all, a man who doesn’t like to be challenged and believes in solving cases the old-fashioned way.

Power: Origins is currently the only “Power” Universe show in production, following the conclusion of Power Book II: Ghost in 2024, and most recently, Power Book IV: Force, the Tommy Egan spinoff that just concluded its three-season run last week. Power Book III: Raising Kanan will end with its upcoming fifth season, expected to air later this year. The past timeline will continue via Power: Origins.

As we previously announced, a new present timeline series has been in development since last summer, from Power EP and Force showrunner/executive producer Gary Lennon and Force writer/producer Kendra Chapman (Power Book IV: Force). Both Lennon and Chapman serve as executive producers of the new project, with the former taking the reins as showrunner.

Power: Legacy (working title) would pick up following the events of the Force finale, and will reportedly be led by Sikora and Rainey Jr. We hear that things are looking good, but nothing official has been ordered as of yet. The final episode of Force really does a great job of setting up Legacy, with Tommy and Tariq ending the crime drama on the roof, discussing a future together as business partners, potentially back in New York.

After ending up as the King of Chicago’s seedy underbelly with a pregnant partner and new alliances ready to take a bullet for him, Tommy has a good thing going for him in the Windy City. However, who is to say they can’t make a pipeline from New York to Chicago and really blow up the business and take it to another level? P.S. This is all purely speculation, just dreaming big for the duo.

Sascha Penn (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) will showrun and executive produce Power: Origins from a pilot co-written by him and Courtney Kemp. The series is executive produced by Kemp, the creator and showrunner of the original Power, through her production company, End of Episode; Jackson, through his G-Unit Film and Television; Mark Canton, through Canton Entertainment; Chris Selak; Kevin Fox; and Pete Chatmon, who also serves as a director. Lionsgate Television will produce for Starz.

Irish Film & TV Award Nominees

INTERNATIONAL ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B Jordan – Sinners
James McArdle – Four Mothers
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Jesse Plemons – Bugonia

Queerties 2026 Nominations

Public voting opens Jan. 20, with fans able to vote once per day in each category through Feb. 17. Winners will be revealed at a Los Angeles ceremony in March. This year’s host and additional honorees will be announced in the coming weeks.

Badass
Doechii
Jeff Hiller
Jonathan Bailey
Onya Nurve
Paige Bueckers
Reneé Rapp
Ricky Martin
Tramell Tillman
Ts Madison
Vivian Jenna Wilson

Reality TV Star
Chrishell Stause, “Selling Sunset”
Emira D’Spain, “Next Gen NYC”
Ezra Sosa, “Dancing With the Stars”
Fraser Olender, “Below Deck”
Gabby Windey, “The Bachelorette,” “The Traitors”
Michols Peña, “Southern Hospitality”
Nany González, “The Challenge”
Pari Kim, “Love on the Spectrum”
Tiffany “New York” Pollard, “I Love New York”
Zelah Glasson, “Big Brother”

‘Star Search’: Netflix Unveils Trailer For Rebooted Talent Competition Ahead Of Live Launch

The streamer is launching the rebooted version of Star Search live on Tuesday, January 20 at 9pm ET. The five-week event will air new episodes on Tuesday and Wednesday before a live finale.

“The greatest talent competition is back,” said host Anthony Anderson in the newly released trailer (see above).

Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Chrissy Teigen will serve as hosts on the show, which originally ran between 1983 and 1995 and was hosted by Ed McMahon.

It will feature singers, dancers, comedians and magicians battling it out to become the next Brad Garrett, Billy Porter or Loni Love. Other stars that appeared on the show before they were famous include the likes of Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Dave Chappelle and Adam Sandler.

The twist? Real-time voting with viewers helping to determine which contestants move forward. Those watching can vote with their remote or by tapping the screen if watching in the Netflix mobile app.

Jesse Collins Entertainment is producing the series with its eponymous boss telling Deadline, “If you saw any of the earlier incarnations, there’s somewhere between a nod and an easter egg to those older versions. But if you haven’t seen it, it’s fine. Everything will feel fresh and new. There’s a fresh twist on it. Part of the challenge was finding the balance of showing appreciation for the IP, the thing that people have such a close affinity for, but then still making it a show that works for people that are completely unaware and never saw an episode, and at most maybe saw a YouTube clip.”

Collins execs produces alongside Taraji P. Henson, who was responsible for kicking off the project by working with Village Roadshow, which owned the IP. Former Village Roadshow boss Steve Mosko also exec produces alongside Dionne Harmon, Madison Merritt and Elaine Metaxas.

Jason Raff, who worked on America’s Got Talent, and David Friedman, who worked on NBC’s Bring the Funny, serve as showrunners.

2026 Dorian Awards Nominations

FILM PERFORMANCE OF THE YEARRose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (A24)Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Focus Features)Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)Michael B. Jordan, Sinners (Warner Bros.)Dylan O’Brien, Twinless (Lionsgate, Roadside Attractions)Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value (Neon)Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)Tessa Thompson, Hedda (Amazon MGM Studios)

Soapy S2 EP10 | Susan Lucci on Her New Memoir and a Possible Reboot of 'All My Children'

Online Film Critics Society Award Nominations

Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo Di Caprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Actress:
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best Ensemble & Casting:
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

57th NAACP Image Awards Nominations

Entertainer of the Year
Cynthia Erivo
Doechii
Kendrick Lamar
Michael B. Jordan
Teyana Taylor

Outstanding Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special, or Movie)
Brian Tyree Henry – “Dope Thief” (Apple TV)
Giancarlo Esposito – “Please Don’t Feed The Children”( Tubi)
Idris Elba – “Heads of State” (Prime Video)
Taye Diggs – “Terry McMillan Presents: His, Hers & Ours” (Lifetime)
Tyler Lepley – “Ruth & Boaz” (Netflix)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Television (Series, Special, Movie)
Glynn Turman – Straw (Netflix)
Jay Ellis – All Her Fault (Peacock)
Rockmond Dunbar – Straw (Netflix)
Sterling K. Brown – Washington Black (Hulu)
Ving Rhames – Dope Thief (Apple TV)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
André Holland – Love, Brooklyn (Greenwich Entertainment)
Denzel Washington – Highest 2 Lowest (A24)
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Nnamdi Asomugha – The Knife (Relatively Media)
Tyriq Withers – HIM (Monkeypaw Productions).

Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture-Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo, Peter Dreimanis, Lola Kirke, Li Jun Li, Saul Williams, Yao – “Sinners” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
-Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Katt Williams – “One Of Them Days” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
-Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Coleman Domingo, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh – “Wicked: For Good” (Universal Pictures)
-Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky – “Highest 2 Lowest” (A24)
-Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabriel Basso, Jared Harris, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Moses Ingram, Jonah Hauer-King, Greta Lee, Jason Clarke – “A House of Dynamite” (Netflix)

AARP Movies For Grownups Award Winner

BAFTA Awards Longlists

LEADING ACTOR
Robert Aramayo, “I Swear”
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Russell Crowe, “Nuremberg”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
Harry Melling, “Pillion”
Cillian Murphy, “Steve”
Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia”.

Talk Show Appearance

Monday, Jan. 12

Michael B. Jordan (“Sinners”)

Talk Show Appearance

Guest 1: Amanda Seyfried

“Community Calendar” with Amanda Seyfried

PRESENTERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE “83RD ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES

Presenters for the 83RD ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES include: Amanda Seyfried, Ana de Armas, Ayo Edebiri, Charli xcx, Chris Pine, Colman Domingo, Connor Storrie, Dakota Fanning, Dave Franco, Diane Lane, George Clooney, Hailee Steinfeld, Hudson Williams, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Joe Keery, Judd Apatow, Julia Roberts, Justin Hartley, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Hart, Kyra Sedgwick, Lalisa Manobal, Luke Grimes, Macaulay Culkin, Marlon Wayans, Melissa McCarthy, Mila Kunis, Miley Cyrus, Minnie Driver, Orlando Bloom, Pamela Anderson, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Queen Latifah, Regina Hall, Sean Hayes, Snoop Dogg, Wanda Sykes, Will Arnett and Zoë Kravitz.

The Golden Globes, often referred to as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year®,” is the largest awards show in the world to celebrate the best of film, television and now podcasting. Multi-Emmy Award®-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment (WCE) will return as executive-producing showrunners for the 83RD ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES. Dick Clark Productions will plan, host and produce the 83RD ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES, which has been viewed in more than 185 countries and territories worldwide. This year’s votes were again tabulated by KPMG, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm.

*Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers will have access to stream live via the live feed of their local CBS affiliate on the service, as well as on-demand. Paramount+ Essential subscribers will not have the option to stream live, but will have access to on-demand the day after the special airs.

Meet Grayson on ‘Beyond the Gates’: Jordi Vilasuso Details Character With a ‘Good Heart’

Since getting his daytime start as Tony Santos on Guiding Light in 2000, Vilasuso has built an impressive résumé that includes playing All My Children‘s Griffin Castillo, Days of our Lives‘ Dario Hernandez, and, most recently, Rey Rosales on The Young and the Restless. Now stepping into his fifth soap role, the Daytime Emmy winner is keenly aware of how rare such opportunities have become. “I’m grateful to work in a time where jobs are few and far between,” he says. “It’s a privilege nowadays to work on a TV show, and I’m so encouraged by there being a fifth soap on the air. When I started 25 years ago, there were 10 soap operas. It shows you the viability. The people want these stories. There’s still an audience for them, and it keeps us actors employed.”

The timing of the new role has been especially fortunate for the Vilasuso family. Beyond the Gates films in Atlanta, and the family moved to Nashville last year, a change he says has been nothing but positive. “I left L.A. for a reason, because I knew I didn’t have to be there to work, and my family had an opportunity to go to Nashville, which we’re just loving,” Vilasuso explains. “It’s a three-and-a-half-hour drive to the studio, not bad at all. Sometimes my call time is at 2 p.m., and I’ll leave Nashville at 8 a.m., come here, finish, and then go back, and I get to see my kids.”

Upon arriving on the BTG set, Vilasuso says he was immediately embraced by his new castmates. “It’s just such a great group,” he enthuses. “And it’s so interesting to be on a show that’s just starting. Everybody’s here helping something grow and wanting it to do really well. There’s a lot of loveliness in this place. Sometimes you don’t feel that family dynamic, and on this show in particular, I feel like everybody is just so friendly and welcoming. That’s been really encouraging and just a positive work environment.”

Like AMC‘s Griffin, Vilasuso is once again donning scrubs. “He’s a lab tech, and he’s got a very good heart,” relays Vilasuso of Grayson. “He’s been raised by a single parent for some time, and now the roles have changed because he has to take care of his mother. And he goes to great lengths; I’ll just leave it at that.”

The role also places him in story with Jen Jacob‘s Ashley Morgan, a collaboration he was immediately excited about. “She’s super talented,” he praises. “When I did the chemistry read, I was like, ‘Wow, this would be so great. If I get to work with her, I’m going to be happy.’ And it worked out. She’s just such a pro, works very hard, and I’ll be honest, that hasn’t always been the case with costars, and that just makes the dynamic a lot of fun, and makes coming to work great. She’s reading the scripts and saying, ‘Okay, your storyline is getting so good.’ So, she’s excited, and that’s really what we should be. When you have that, and you’re all able to all be in that place, you’re like, ‘OK, cool.’”

Beyond the creative camaraderie, Vilasuso is enjoying the perks of the show’s production setup. “They actually have craft services here, too, which, by the way, is nonexistent on other shows,” he adds. “It’s a new studio, which is nice. The dressing rooms are great. It’s new sets, which are really nice, too. I’m shooting in Georgia, which I’ve never shot in Georgia, and it’s a beautiful place to shoot. It’s definitely a vibe.”

Outside of his Atlanta commute, Vilasuso has kept plenty on his plate. “It’s funny, when I got this role, I actually booked a movie, I booked a commercial, and I got funding for my project, all in the same week,” he marvels. “It was insane. It was such a blessing. And I had to say no to the commercial, and they moved the dates for the movie so I could do this show, which had never happened to me in my life. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, you can move the dates for me? That’s amazing.’”

Reflecting on the past year, the actor notes just how dramatically his circumstances have shifted. “This time last year, I was definitely in a much different place,” he says. “And I just have a lot of gratitude in my life. I’m feeling good. I’m feeling really, really excited. I feel like there’s an opportunity here for Grayson to go in a lot of different directions.”

Vilasuso also remains deeply appreciative of the viewers who have supported him throughout his career. “I have fans that have become like friends,” he concludes. “I feel so blessed for the fans that I still have that watch me, that are always asking me, ‘When are we going to see you on TV again?’ And I’m so grateful that I have a really great answer for them now and a really great show. So, I can’t wait, and I’m hoping that we can keep this audience growing and alive, and that this is just the beginning of bringing soaps back to TV and broadcast television.”

Beyond the Gates, Weekdays, CBS, Check Local Listings.

Kaley Cuoco’s celeb mom pals celebrate ‘ride or die’ group after Ashley Tisdale’s ‘toxic’ claims

Cuoco’s friend, actress Ashley Jones, shared pictures of their close-knit group Wednesday, which includes Lacey Chabert, Ali Fedotowsky and Amy Davidson.

The pictures included moments of the group getting together with their kids, solo shots of just the gal-pals, as well as throwbacks of when various members of the group were pregnant.

“Mom groups are having a real moment on the interweb this week,” Jones wrote. “Shoutout to my village, without whom I could be very lost and lonely.”

“Tag your supportive ride or die mom group!” she continued. “I miss them all this little, but so grateful we had each other during this stage —-and every stage. #lifteachother #womensupportingwomen **not all are pictured, but all who are pictured are loved #momgroup.”

Tisdale made waves when she criticized her former mom group in an essay for The Cut. While the “High School Musical” star didn’t name names, fans quickly zeroed in on past pics of her with Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor and Mandy Moore.

In Tisdale’s essay, she claimed she was excluded from hangouts from the group, which made her feel “not cool enough” and “lost” as to why she was being left out.

The actress, 40, said she eventually texted the group, “This is too high school for me and I don’t want to take part in it anymore.”

But a source familiar with the drama told Page Six that Tisdale is “insufferable,” and that the friend breakup “has been a long time coming.”

Members of the mom group have since publicly supported one another on social media.

Duff raved about fellow mom group member Janice Gott in an Instagram Story Wednesday, after her husband, Matthew Koma, savagely hit back at Tisdale in a more direct way.

Koma posted a fake mocked-up cover of himself on the cover of The Cut, with a headline that read, “A mom group tell all through a father’s eyes: When You’re the Most Self-Obsessed Tone Deaf Person on Earth, Other Moms Tend to Shift Focus To Their Actual Toddlers.”

Moore then gushed of Koma in an Instagram Story post just hours later, “@matthewkoma happens to be one of the most talented and generous humans I’m lucky to know.”

Meanwhile, Trainor humorously shared her surprised reaction while reading the drama online in a TikTok video set to her 2025 track “Still Don’t Care.”

“Me finding out about the apparent mom group drama,” she wrote over the clip she posted Thursday.

Fire Country’ star Leven Rambin accuses ex of infidelity, being a ‘sex addict’

“Guys, I just went on Live and I dropped the most diabolical lore about my entire like, life, my story, my tea” the actress said in a clip shared Saturday, while sitting at a table.

“I dropped all of the piping hot tea about my ex, my divorce,” she continued. “How I got cheated on by a sex addict who cheated on me with like eight hundred million people and then married the assistant we had together.”

Rambin, 35, continued, “When I asked them if they’d done anything, she said no,” adding that she’d been told “no” even after allegedly finding “all the emails, all the texts, all the DMs and such.”

She added, “I was like, ‘Did he ever try anything with you?’ She was like, ‘No, oh my god this is terrible.’”

“Cut to they’re married now” Rambin continued with a brief scream. “They got married. I haven’t spoken to either one of them obviously, but that was a tough pill to swallow.”

Though Rambin did not name the person she accused of cheating on her, Rambin was previously married to “True Blood” actor Jim Parrack, 44 — a fact fans noted in the comments thread.

“Nooooo not Hoyt,” one person speculated, referring to Parrack’s “True Blood” character. “Dayum girl. Spill that tea."

“You were way too pretty for him,” gushed another, with a third adding, “So what I’m hearing is he played himself on supernatural.”

Others simply offered sympathy. “I’m so sorry you had to deal with this. But as an extremely nosy person THANK YOU for spilling this juicy tea!!” a fourth person remarked.

Parrack remarried in 2022, while Rambin tied the knot with photographer Dawson Smith back in July.

A rep for Parrack did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment.

The “Hunger Games” actress and “9-1-1: Lone Star” actor married in Texas in 2015 and split two years later, in 2017.

In an Instagram post marking six months since her nuptials to Smith, the “Forever Purge” actress gushed over her marriage.

“Happy six months of marriage to this sweet guy / my favorite source of entertainment/ donkey trainer @dawsonproductions,” she captioned the PDA-packed upload, adding, “don’t worry, I’ll always be here to remind you of your age”

Actor Awards Nominations 2026 (Formerly SAG Awards)

Cast Ensemble in a Motion Picture
“Frankenstein” (Netflix)
“Hamnet” (Focus Features)
“Marty Supreme” (A24)
“One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.)

Male Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme” (A24)
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia” (Focus Features)

Cast Ensemble in a Drama Series
“The Diplomat” (Netflix)
“Landman” (Paramount+)
“The Pitt” (HBO Max)
“Severance” (Apple TV)
“The White Lotus” (HBO Max)

Cast Ensemble in a Comedy Series
“Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
“The Bear” (FX)
“Hacks” (HBO Max)
“Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)
“The Studio” (Apple TV)

Female Actor in a Drama Series
Britt Lower, “Severance” (Apple TV)
Parker Posey, “The White Lotus” (HBO Max)
Keri Russell, “The Diplomat” (Netflix)
Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus” (Apple TV)
Aimee Lou Wood, “The White Lotus” (HBO Max)

Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Ike Barinholtz, “The Studio” (Apple TV)
Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)
Ted Danson, “A Man on the Inside” (Netflix)
Seth Rogen, “The Studio” (Apple TV)
Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)

Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Kathryn Hahn, “The Studio” (Apple TV)
Catherine O’Hara, “The Studio” (Apple TV)
Jenna Ortega, “Wednesday” (Netflix)
Jean Smart, “Hacks” (HBO Max)
Kristen Wiig, “Palm Royale” (Apple TV).

‘Star Search’ Adds Jelly Roll, Sarah Michelle Gellar & Chrissy Teigen as Judges

Sarah Michelle Gellar, country music star Jelly Roll and Chrissy Teigen are joining the show, a new iteration of the talent competition that first aired in syndication in the 1980s. The trio will join host Anthony Anderson on the show, which is set to premiere Jan. 20 and will stream live on Tuesday and Wednesday nights (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) for five weeks.

All three judges have been involved (if sometimes only briefly) with talent competitions in the past. Gellar has been a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Food Network’s Chopped Junior, while Teigen judged the 2010s MTV food show Snack Off and NBC’s 2019 comedy competition Bring the Funny. Jelly Roll served as a mentor and artist in residence on the past two seasons of American Idol.

Produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment, Netflix’s Star Search will feature performers in music, dance, variety, comedy, magic and juniors categories vying for a yet to be announced prize. Viewers will be able to vote in real time during each live show, either by using their TV remotes or tapping their screens if they’re watching on the Netflix mobile app.

The show is a new take on the Star Search format, which debuted in 1983 in broadcast syndication. That version, hosted by Ed McMahon, ran for 12 years. CBS revived the format in 2003-04 with Arsenio Hall as host in the wake of American Idol’s runaway success.

Gellar is coming off Dexter: Original Sin and a reprisal of her I Know What You Did Last Summer role in the 2025 reboot of the horror franchise. She’s also executive producing and reprising her on-screen role in Hulu’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer update. Jelly Roll is a seven-time Grammy nominee — and is up for three awards this year — and topped the Billboard 200 album charts with Beautifully Broken. Teigen is a former model, best-selling cookbook author, TV host and entrepreneur.

Jason Raff (America’s Got Talent) and David Friedman (Bring the Funny) are the showrunners for Star Search. They executive produce with Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, Madison Merritt, Elaine Metaxas, Taraji P. Henson and Steve Mosko.

La Lucci by Susan Lucci

The moving follow-up to Susan Lucci's New York Times bestseller, All My Life, this stunning new memoir includes nearly one hundred never-before-seen photos.

Emmy Award-winning actress and legendary television icon Susan Lucci--affectionately known as "La Lucci" since her early days on All My Children--is set to captivate audiences once again with her second memoir, entitled La Lucci. This deeply personal and compelling new book explores Susan's journey through love, joy, reinvention, and resilience in the face of profound loss--both personal and professional.

With her signature warmth and honesty, Lucci shares the pivotal moments that have shaped her perspective and ability to move forward with gratitude, hope, and grace. La Lucci is a heartfelt, at times humorous, and always inspiring reflection on strength, perseverance, and the power of embracing life's unexpected turns. In addition to intimate stories from her remarkable career and personal life, the book features a special chapter entitled "Thank You for Asking" where she answers the most frequently asked questions from her devoted fans across the world. La Lucci is a celebration of life, love, and the courage to embrace new beginnings.

Written in collaboration with New York Times bestselling author Laura Morton, La Lucci promises to be a remarkable book that will resonate with readers everywhere.

Susan Lucci is the most famous face in daytime television history, and held audiences spellbound for over forty years as the iconic Erica Kane, on ABC's award-winning daytime drama All My Children. In May of 1999, on her nineteenth nomination, she won the Emmy for Best Actress, a historic moment for all of television, receiving the longest standing ovation in television history. Beyond daytime drama, Lucci also starred in Lifetime's Devious Maids, and Hot in Cleveland, played a role in the film Joy, and hosted Investigation Discovery's Deadly Affairs. A versatile performer, she has appeared on popular shows like Dancing with The Stars and Saturday Night Live and made her Broadway debut in Annie Get Your Gun. Her first memoir, All My Life, was released in 2011 and immediately topped the New York Times bestseller list.Among her numerous honors and accolades, Susan was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2006, received the Disney Legends Award in 2015 and has a star on the prestigious Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was named one of E! Entertainment's Top Entertainers of the Year and one of the late broadcast legend Barbara Walters' Ten Most Fascinating People. VH-1 has also named Lucci one of its 200 Top Icons of all Time, and in 2023 she received the Daytime Emmy's prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Currently, she is appearing on stage off-Broadway in Joy Behar's hilarious new comedy, My First Ex-Husband. Coming up, Susan is set to appear alongside Keanu Reeves in the upcoming Apple Original Film, Outcome.

La Lucci by Susan Lucci * Pre-Order Now * Release date: February 3, 2026.

Jordi Vilasuso Poised For Daytime Comeback on Beyond The Gates!

Vilasuso burst onto the soap scene 25 years ago when he was cast as Tony Santos on Guiding Light. He exited the show in 2003, the same year he nabbed a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor. His next daytime gig was on All My Children, where he portrayed Griffin Castillo from 2010-11. After AMC’s cancellation, it was revived online for a spell in 2013, and Vilasuso returned as Griffin for the reboot. Next, from 2016-17, he played the role of shady Dario Hernandez on DAYS. On Y&R, his Rey was in a popular romance with Sharon, played by Sharon Case, when the character was unexpectedly killed off.

When Soap Opera Digest broke the news of his exit, the actor told us exclusively, “Playing Rey Rosales on The Young and the Restless for the past 4 years has been an incredible experience that has brought me immense joy as an actor,” and he voiced his gratitude tot he show’s head writer/executive producer, Josh Griffith, for “the opportunity to sink my teeth into storylines that were some of the highlights of my career in this genre.”

That the actor has landed on BTG was revealed in the promo for the soaps’ second season, which is premiering on January 2, 2026. In the trailer, the actor can be seen — albeit briefly — interacting in an amorous way with Jen Jacob’s Ashley. A rep for the show confirmed that Vilasuso does appear in the promo, but stayed mum about the name of the actor’s new character or his exact first airdate.

Black Reel Awards Nominations

‘Best Medicine’ Trailer: Josh Charles Has A Big Secret In Fox’s U.S. ‘Doc Martin’ Remake

In the extended trailer we find out Josh Charles‘ Doctor Best (or Doc Martin as the townspeople insist on calling him), is trying to keep a secret from everyone in town. But it’s getting harder to do so.

Best Medicine premieres Tuesday, January 6, on Fox.

Check out the new trailer above.

Amanda Seyfried To Star In ‘Skinny Dip’ As Carl Hiaasen Series Adaptation

Amazon is now developing the series, which comes from Once Upon A Time creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, as well as Bill Lawrence. Earlier this year, HBO Max was developing the book but passed.

Seyfried, who is coming off Peacock miniseries Long Bright River and is currently promoting Paul Feig feature The Housemaid, will star as Joey Perrone in the adaptation of the book, which tells the story of a woman who is pushed off a cruise liner by her marine scientist husband but survives and plots revenge with a former cop.

Per the logline, Perrone’s second anniversary didn’t go quite as planned. She expected earrings, but instead, her husband Chaz had alternate plans. After unexpectedly finding herself on the other side of those plans, she vows to get revenge. Teaming up with a disgraced ex-cop, Joey sets out to make Chaz pay.

The one-hour dramedy is produced by Warner Bros. Television with Lost exec producers Horowitz and Kitsis writing and exec producing. Lawrence is exec producing via his Doozer shingle, which has an overall with the studio, alongside Jeff Ingold and Liza Katzer. Seyfried and Hiaasen also exec produce.

It’s been a long road for Skinny Dip. In 2011, HBO was developing an adaptation with Michael Keaton as an exec producer. The CW piloted it in 2018, from Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner with Parks and Recreation’s Sarah Wright Olsen as Joey but it was not picked up to series. A year later, Quibi took a crack with the same creative team. Earlier this year, Max was developing the series with Horowitz, Kitsis and Lawrence attached.

It is one of a number of Hiaasen projects currently on air and in the works. Lawrence produces Bad Monkey, an adaptation of Hiaasen’s eponymous 2013 novel, for Apple with Vince Vaughn starring that has been renewed for a second season. ABC is also set to premiere RJ Decker, starring Scott Speedman from Elementary creator Rob Doherty, based on Hiaasen’s 1987 novel Double Whammy, in midseason.

Lawrence has talked up his love of Hiaasen’s books. He told Deadline last year, “Carl Hiaasen is a hero of mine, I started reading his books when I was like 15.”

2026 Critics Choice Awards Nominations

BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme (A24)
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Joel Edgerton – Train Dreams (Netflix)
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (Warner Bros.)
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (Neon)

BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet (Focus Features)
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Chase Infiniti – One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value (Neon)
Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
Emma Stone – Bugonia (Focus Features)

BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Kathy Bates – Matlock (CBS)
Carrie Coon – The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Britt Lower – Severance (Apple TV)
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us (HBO Max)
Keri Russell – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Rhea Seehorn – Pluribus (Apple TV)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES
Patrick Ball – The Pitt (HBO Max)
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show (Apple TV)
Ato Essandoh – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Wood Harris – Forever (Netflix)
Tom Pelphrey – Task (HBO Max)
Tramell Tillman – Severance (Apple TV)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA SERIES
Nicole Beharie – The Morning Show (Apple TV)
Denée Benton – The Gilded Age (HBO Max)
Allison Janney – The Diplomat (Netflix)
Katherine LaNasa – The Pitt (HBO Max)
Greta Lee – The Morning Show (Apple TV)
Skye P. Marshall – Matlock (CBS)

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES
Adam Brody – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Ted Danson – A Man on the Inside (Netflix)
David Alan Grier – St. Denis Medical (NBC)
Danny McBride – The Righteous Gemstones (HBO Max)
Seth Rogen – The Studio (Apple TV)
Alexander Skarsgård – Murderbot (Apple TV)

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES
Kristen Bell – Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face (Peacock)
Rose McIver – Ghosts (CBS)
Edi Patterson – The Righteous Gemstones (HBO Max)
Carrie Preston – Elsbeth (CBS)
Jean Smart – Hacks (HBO Max)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jessica Biel – The Better Sister (Prime Video)
Meghann Fahy – Sirens (Netflix)
Sarah Snook – All Her Fault (Peacock)
Michelle Williams – Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu)
Robin Wright – The Girlfriend (Prime Video)
Renée Zellweger – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (Peacock)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A LIMITED SERIES OR MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Erin Doherty – Adolescence (Netflix)
Betty Gilpin – Death by Lightning (Netflix)
Marin Ireland – Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (Peacock)
Sophia Lillis – All Her Fault (Peacock)
Julianne Moore – Sirens (Netflix)
Christine Tremarco – Adolescence (Netflix).

83rd Golden Globe Award Nominations

Best Performance By a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams
Oscar Isaac - Frankenstein
Dwayne Johnson - The Smashing Machine
Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent
Jeremy Allen White - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked: For Good
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti - One Battle After Another
Amanda Seyfried - The Testament of Ann Lee
Emma Stone - Bugonia

Best Performance By a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
George Clooney - Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
Lee Byung-Hun - No Other Choice
Jesse Plemons - Bugonia

Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Kathy Bates - Matlock
Britt Lower - Severance
Helen Mirren - MobLand
Bella Ramsay - The Last of Us
Keri Russell - The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn - Pluribus

Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Kristen Bell - Nobody Wants This
Ayo Edebiri - The Bear
Selena Gomez - Only Murders in the Building
Natasha Lyonne - Poker Face
Jenna Ortega - Wednesday
Jean Smart - Hacks

Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Claire Danes - The Beast in Me
Rashida Jones - Black Mirror
Amanda Seyfried - Long Bright River
Sarah Snook - All Her Fault
Michelle Williams - Dying for Sex
Robin Wright - The Girlfriend

Best Performance By a Female Actor in a Supporting Role On Television
Carrie Coon - The White Lotus
Erin Doherty - Adolescence
Hannah Einbinder - Hacks
Catherine O’Hara - The Studio
Parker Posey - The White Lotus
Aimee Lou Wood - The White Lotus.

Michael B. Jordan Lands First Golden Globe Nom; Talks “Childhood Trauma” In ‘Sinners’ Twins; How His ‘Thomas Crown Affair’ Stands Apart

Jordan tells us today, “When Ryan (Coogler) first called me about the role, it was a little bit of a shock. It caught me off guard. I was a little anxious, but sometimes those nerves are a good thing. I had an equal amount of excitement about playing that role. I knew it was going to be a challenge for me and Ryan wanted to push me out of my comfort zone.”

As actor and director, Jordan and Coogler’s relationship extends across from five films, including the latter’s 2013 feature directorial debut, Fruitvale Station, which was also a leading star launchpad for Jordan.

“Ryan knew I wanted to grow and evolve as an actor, and this was definitely an opportunity for me it the space, to show a range for me to develop two distinct characters,” adds the Santa Ana, California native.

Breaking down his process, Jordan told us, “As I was developing Smoke and Stack, a lot of it had to do with childhood trauma. All of us as humans have a bit of childhood trauma that we carry with us, and theirs was a tragic one,” says Jordan about the World War I vets turned Chicago gangsters who journey back to their home in Clarksdale, MI to start a juke joint. The two encounter, and their friends around them, wind up encountering a greater horror in the 1932 South.

“Smoke is more of the caretaker, the father figure of the two. Stack is the younger brother, a little more charismatic and free spirited, but equally as dangerous. There was a bit of heaviness, but also lightness. They are two different characters but they make up one person. Their dynamic is so special and cultivated.”

At the Sinners juke joint night two weekends ago, Jordan told us that I Am Legend 2 is still happening, but a bit farther off. He’s currently in post on his second directorial after the $276M-plus grossing Creed III, the Thomas Crown Affair.

Jordan promises that the art heist movie will have the same sexiness and thrills as the original 1968 Steve McQueen movie and 1999 Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo features. But, “there’s greater stakes, twists and turns” promises Jordan.

Thomas Crown Affair, which also stars Adria Arjona and Aubrey Plaza, comes out in theaters via Amazon MGM Studios on March 5, 2027.

‘My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman’ Sets Season 6 Premiere; MrBeast, Michael B. Jordan & Jason Bateman Join Show

The former late-night host recently sat down with Jay Kelly star Adam Sandler for a special episode. That December 1 episode was not part of Season 6, which will premiere on December 16.

It comes after Netflix renewed My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman for Seasons 6 and 7 during the summer.

The new season will feature interviews with Sinners star Michael B. Jordan, Beast Games star and content creator MrBeast aka Jimmy Donaldson and Black Rabbit star and EP Jason Bateman.

The Season 6 run is similar to Season 5 with only three episodes. The show has had a fluctuating episode order in the past: Season 1 consisted of six episodes, Season 2 was five, Season 3 was four episodes, and Season 4 was six.

Previous guests have included Barack Obama, Tina Fey, Jay-Z, Robert Downey Jr., Dave Chappelle, Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish.

The series is produced by Jax Media and Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Inc. Executive producers are Tom Keaney and Mary Barclay for Worldwide Pants, and Justin Wilkes, Michael Steed, Isabel Richardson and Yolanda T. Cochran for Jax Media/Imagine Entertainment.

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards: Amanda Seyfried To Receive Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress

“In The Testament of Ann Lee, Amanda Seyfried delivers a masterful performance—one that is haunting in its emotional intensity and profoundly human in its truth,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “Across her remarkable career, she has continued to evolve, take bold risks, and elevate every story she inhabits.”

The festival runs January 2-11 in the desert city east of Los Angeles, and its film awards will be handed out January 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Soapy Season 2 Ep 5 | Kelly Ripa on Her Meteoric Rise from 'All My Children' to 'Live'

Talk Show Appearance

Tonight Show - NBC

Tuesday, December 2: Amanda Seyfried

Michael B. Jordan Looks Back at His Soap Opera Past That 'Opened So Many Doors' in His Acting Career

On Thursday, Nov. 20, the 38-year-old actor was honored at the 39th American Cinematheque Awards. While chatting exclusively with PEOPLE at the event in Beverly Hills, Jordan reflected on his success in Hollywood, admitting that he "didn't expect" just how much his time on All My Children would impact the trajectory of his career.

Jordan starred in the since-cancelled ABC soap from March 2003 to June 2006, replacing Chadwick Boseman in the role of troubled teenager Reggie Montgomery. The Creed star told PEOPLE one of the biggest surprises of his Hollywood journey is "my time that I spent on soap operas."

"I never knew how many casting directors and executives in Hollywood would tell me, 'Oh man, my wife really loves you.' Or like, 'Oh, she watches you all the time on the stories. … Come in for this and read for that,' " he said.

Jordan continued: "It opened up so many doors in the most unexpected places for me, and that was... I think looking back at it, that was something that definitely caught me off guard. I didn't expect that one. So that and The Wire were the two projects that really opened up a lot of doors for me in that sense."

Jordan also recalled how starring in a soap helped shape his discipline and work ethic as an actor. He said he had to show up every day knowing his lines or "get embarrassed one way or another because it's going to be airing the next day."

"I think soap operas, we're doing a hundred-plus pages a day," he explained. "The work ethic, the grind of that definitely gave me a built-in work ethic and helped me refine that discipline at an early age. Yeah, definitely."

Looking ahead to the next chapter in his career, Jordan said he wants to continue to "tell stories" that resonate with people.

"I just want to do honest work, man, and be true to myself and inspire as many people as I can and just tell stories that people can connect with," he told PEOPLE. "I love movies and I love storytelling, I love acting, so just being able to tell stories that I connect with, and hopefully people will feel that passion and that love and connect with it also."

While accepting his American Cinematheque Award, Jordan recalled having "a lot of years" between doing The Wire and his movie career taking off when he was "waiting for the phone" to ring about another job.

"I was hungry for more, curious about my limits," he said. "Who could I be? Was I a leading man? Did I have what it takes? Those are all questions and doubts and things a young actor has."

"I didn't have those answers yet," he continued, before sharing the mindset that drove his rise in the industry. "When you don't have those answers, you keep your head down and you do the work. That's it. That's the only thing you can really control. So I did. I re-auditioned, I prepared. I already booked it. Every small role, I studied it like it was the lead. I trained. I showed up ready, not just hoping something would happen, but making sure when it did, I was ready to receive it."

Jordan concluded his speech by telling the audience, "It's a blessing to wake up and do what we do every day for a living."

"Toni Morrison said, 'If there's a book you really want to read that hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.' So to the artists, plant your seeds, find your people, build with them. And to the people making decisions about what stories do get told, be bold, take the risk," he said, adding, "These stories matter."

Morning Show Appearance

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Morning Show Appearance

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AARP Movies for Grownups Award Nominations

The annual MFG Awards ceremony will take place January 10, 2026, at the Beverly Wilshire. Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Emmy-winning host of the The Traitors, will return to host.

Best Actor
George Clooney - Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton - Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
Dwayne Johnson - The Smashing Machine

Best Documentary
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover Up
My Mom Jayne
Riefenstahl
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost

Best Actress (TV)
Kathy Bates - Matlock
Kathryn Hahn - The Studio
Catherine O’Hara - The Studio
Parker Posey - The White Lotus
Jean Smart - Hacks

Michael B. Jordan & Juno Temple Join Animated Feature ‘Swapped’

The film’s screenplay was written by John Whittington, Christian Magalhaes, and Robert Snow. The story is by John Whittington, Adam Karp, Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow, and Nathan Greno.

The official synopsis reads: A buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple)—natural sworn enemies of The Valley—who suddenly swap bodies and must team up (while walking in each other’s feathers and fur) to survive the wildest adventure of their lives.

“Swapped is an unpredictable, emotional ride — full of humor, spectacle, and heart. We drew from live-action nature documentaries, exploring the complexity of a wild ecosystem to capture something that feels vibrant and deeply human,” Greno said in a statement.

“Michael B. Jordan and Juno Temple brought such warmth and authenticity to the film. Every moment between them feels alive — funny one second, deeply moving the next. Their chemistry lifts the story and gives Swapped its wings.”

Producers on the film are John Lasseter, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Mary Ellen Bauder Andrews.

Celebrity Family Feud: The Housemaid vs The Housewives All-Stars Holiday Special (12/4)

8:00-9:00 p.m. EST – Celebrity Family Feud: “The Housemaid vs The Housewives All-Stars Holiday Special” (1110)

Logline: Hosted by Steve Harvey, it’s an all-star holiday special as the cast of “The Housemaid” faces off against fan favorites from “The Real Housewives” for their selected charities.

Teams:

The Housemaid: Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar, Sarah Cooper, and Paul Feig

The Real Housewives: Cynthia Bailey, Dorinda Medley, Eva Marcille, Melissa Gorga, and Alexia Nepola

Actress Eva LaRue's 12-year stalking terror retold in new Paramount Plus docuseries

Speaking to Fox News Digital, the 58-year-old actress described the ordeal as “psychological terrorism.”

“You become your own prisoner,” LaRue said. “Your mind is constantly in absolute terror mode, so you’re thinking about every possibility. You are living in a prison of your own making.”

The actress and her daughter Kaya Callahan, 23, decided to share their story to put the spotlight on what she calls an “epidemic” of stalking.

“Being stalked really rewires your life,” LaRue told Yahoo! “I don’t think you can ever go back to the innocence of thinking or feeling like you’re safe. That innocence is stolen.”

LaRue’s nightmare all began in 2007 when she got a letter via her manager and publicist threatening graphic threats of rape, torture and murder.

The letter was signed by Freddie Krueger, referring to the serial killer in the movie Nightmare on Elm Street.

“It was the most heinous, most deplorable, most sickening, most terrifying threats,” she told PEOPLE. “And then he began leveling them against my little girl.”

Following that the letters kept coming with one coming to her home saying: “I’ve finally found you.”

At the time LaRue was a 40-year-old single mother to a then five-year-old daughter in Los Angeles having previously been married to John Callahan, her on-screen husband in All My Children from 1996-2005.

“The letters escalated in violence and sickening details pretty immediately,” LaRue told Fox News Digital.

In her case, the stalker mailed his letters from different post offices, making it difficult to trace his location and forensic tracing was far less sophisticated.

Even if partial DNA was recovered, it might not match anyone in the system.

“This stalker was not in a national database,” LaRue told Fox News Digital.

After a brief moment of security when she remarried in 2010, to businessman Joe Cappuccio, the stalker returned with threats also going to Cappuccio’s office and that marriage ended in 2014.

STALKER CALLS DAUGHTER’S SCHOOL

In 2019, the stalker called Callahan’s school, claiming to be her father with the New York Times reporting he called the school 18 times.

Sadly, this was the breakthrough needed as the threats were sent through the mail and crossed state lines, so the FBI got involved looking for forensic evidence that could tie them to a suspect.

When usable DNA was recovered from one of the envelopes, the feds used a genetic genealogy database to uncover a list of the suspect’s relatives, leading them to a small town in Ohio, WRAL.com reported.

James David Rogers, 58, was arrested after his DNA was pulled from a discarded Arby’s straw and in 2022. Rogers pleaded guilty to two counts of mailing threatening communications, one count of threats by interstate communications and two counts of stalking.

He was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison and was released in 2024.

“After stealing our peace and sanity for 12 years, he gets three-and-a-half years,” LaRue told Yahoo! of the disappointing sentence. “And we get life. We get a lifetime sentence of fear.”

Still, LaRue’s next cathartic act is developing a scripted drama based on how the FBI pioneered the forensics genealogy technology that solved her case.

“I already have a (show) treatment,” she told Yahoo!

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards: Michael B. Jordan To Receive Icon Award

“Michael B. Jordan once again proves why he’s been one of the most compelling performers for the past two decades,” said Festival Chairman Nachhattar Singh Chandi. “In Sinners, his reunion with Ryan Coogler yields a bold and intricate performance as twin brothers Smoke and Stack. Michael’s ability to inhabit two distinct souls with such power and nuance is nothing short of extraordinary. For this remarkable achievement, and for his impressive body of work, we are proud to honor him with the Palm Springs International Film Awards Icon Award.”

The festival runs January 2-11 in the desert city east of Los Angeles, and its film awards will be handed out January 3 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

Actress Eva LaRue and Daughter Kaya Callahan Were Stalked for 12 Years: 'Sickening, Terrifying Threats'

That season, her hit prime-time series was one of the 10 most-watched scripted shows on TV. But LaRue’s dream job threatened to turn into a nightmare when she began to receive disturbing mail from an anonymous fan.

Sent to the actress via her manager and publicist, the graphically violent letters contained threats of rape, torture and murder and were eerily signed “Freddie Krueger,” after the villain of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

At first LaRue, then 40 and a single mother living with her 5-year-old daughter Kaya Callahan in Los Angeles, thought the hate mail might just be a twisted prank. But then three more obscene letters from the same sender arrived within a week — and it became clear she was being stalked.

“I am going to instill fear into every part of your life,” said her antagonist in one of his messages.

True to his word, the stalker grew increasingly menacing in his letters until he began to target her daughter Kaya as well.

“It was the most heinous, most deplorable, most sickening, most terrifying threats,” LaRue recalls. “And then he began leveling them against my little girl.”

To keep her daughter safe, LaRue had security cameras installed at their home. It would take authorities more than a decade to make the letters stop with the arrest of a suspect in 2019.

In the intervening years, mother and daughter moved three times to avoid being located. But with each move, their stalker was able to find the new address. LaRue avoided reading all but a handful of the dozens of letters, and she protected her daughter by not telling her about the letters for years.

Now they are experiencing the terrifying ordeal again by appearing in My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, a Paramount+ docuseries premiering on Nov. 13.

“Because my mom kept so much hidden, I didn’t know much about it,” says Kaya, now 23, of filming the docuseries. “It was like reliving it and yet experiencing it for the very first time.”

A model before she landed her first acting gigs, California native LaRue had her big break when she was cast as Dr. Maria Santos on All My Children in 1993.

She married costar John Callahan, who played her onscreen husband, and together they welcomed Kaya before divorcing in 2005.

When the Freddie Krueger letters started arriving in 2007, they weren’t addressed to LaRue’s home.

But then one day she checked the mail and found an envelope with the familiar scrawl.

“I have finally found you,” the letter inside said.

The stalking became more invasive in 2019 when Kaya, who was by then 17 and aware of the letters, was called from a classroom to the school office.

The receptionist explained that her dad had phoned and said he would pick her up outside the building. Kaya texted her mom to see if it was true, and LaRue called her ex-husband to confirm.

When he replied that he wasn’t even in Los Angeles, it clicked: The stalker had learned which school Kaya attended and was impersonating her father. LaRue immediately drove to the school to get Kaya.

“It still feels like a jump scare,” she says.

Later that year DNA found on one of the letters finally led to a breakthrough, and Ohio resident James David Rogers, 61, was arrested. In 2022, he pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

“It was very freeing,” recalls Kaya. “I just felt like I could live a normal life again.”

Still, LaRue says she took part in the docuseries to advocate for stronger laws to protect victims of stalking.

“It’s not just celebrities — all of us can be targeted through social media,” she says. “We want to help everybody who’s being stalked and instill some hope."

‘Y&R’s Peter Bergman Explains Surprise ‘Pluribus’ Role & Bryan Cranston Connection

As it turns out, Bergman didn’t have to audition. The opportunity came his way directly from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan, whose path crossed Bergman’s years ago through Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.

“Bryan and I met each other on a softball field in Central Park when I was on All My Children (as Cliff Warner) and he was on Loving (as Douglas Donovan), and we have been friends since,” Bergman shares. “His wife, Robin, and my wife, Mariellen, are very dear friends, and we vacation together.”

Their connection has spanned the highs and lows of both men’s professional journeys. “We’ve been with Bryan’s career when he could not get work,” Bergman recalls. “In those years, I went to see Bryan in plays that he and friends put together, and I’d come home and I’d tell Mariellen, ‘He’s a very good actor. He was really good in this thing.’ So, when Malcolm in the Middle happened, I thought, ‘Oh, fantastic. Couldn’t happen to a better guy.’”

When Bergman heard about Cranston’s next project, however, he was skeptical. “I was at an Oscar party when Bill Timoney (Alfred Vanderpool, AMC) said to me, ‘Hey, Bryan just did this thing where basically he’s a science teacher who, with one of his reprobate students, starts cooking up meth’. And I thought, ‘That is the worst idea I’ve ever heard. How is that ever going to be a show?’ So, to see this giant snowball of success that just hasn’t stopped for him is amazing.”

Through Cranston, Bergman met Gilligan, sparking another lasting friendship. “Vince and his wife Holly are just the loveliest people in the world,” reports Bergman. “We’ve had them in our home, and we’ve done lots of things with Vince and Holly. So, Vince texted me and said, ‘Hey, I have this thing coming up that I think you’d be perfect for.’ I said, ‘As long as it fits into my Y&R schedule, I’d love that.’”

Bergman received the script and quickly realized how tightly the project was being kept under wraps. “I had to sign an NDA, and it was a watermarked script and very secretive,” he says. “They changed all the names, and in the short time between him first talking about it and my shooting it back in January, I think it had three names and none of them were Pluribus.”

Pluribus Teaser: Video.

Though he can’t reveal much about his Pluribus role, Bergman hints it’s both challenging and memorable, “When I got the script, the character’s name was Distinguished Gentleman, and I thought, ‘Well, Vince, clearly thinks I’m a distinguished fellow,’” he says with a laugh. “And then I read my dialogue, and I realized, ‘He knows I’ve done a soap, and I can learn copious amounts of complicated dialogue.’ So, I’m in the last seven minutes of the first episode, and I haven’t seen it, so who knows how much of it will make it in, but when you watch it, you’ll understand why we could only shoot it from beginning to end every single time. Once they said, ‘Action,’ I was talking for almost seven pages.”

Filming Pluribus gave Bergman a firsthand look at Gilligan’s creative world. “The fun for me is we were around for all the Breaking Bad years, and I actually got to see the Vince Gilligan factory, what they’d set up in Albuquerque,” he explains. “It was the same people as Breaking Bad, the same people as Better Call Saul, so I met all these people that Bryan used to talk about. An impressive part of it was so many of the departments were headed by women. It was remarkable. And, obviously, they have better food than we have at Television City (where Y&R films).”

Another highlight was working with Better Call Saul alum Rhea Seehorn, who plays Carol. “She is a lovely human being, a thoughtful, compassionate actress who would find me to run lines,” Bergman notes. “She had three-word sentences of dialogue, and she would just come and listen to me blather on very patiently and rehearse the scene with me again and again. She’s totally committed to every moment she’s on camera.”

As the show’s release approached, Bergman found himself caught up in the excitement. “The great fun of it has been the last three weeks,” he relays. “The first teaser that they sent out, you would swear I was a costar on this show. They use so much of what I did for the first teaser — it’s me and Rhea Seehorn, and that’s it. Then I’m driving up Vine in the heart of Hollywood, and there are two big posters. One is with Rhea Seehorn kind of screaming at the sky, and another one is a little further down, and just over it is the Hollywood sign, and in giant bold, black letters on yellow, it says, ‘We’re sorry we upset you, Carol,’ which is one of the lines in their teaser. It’s just funny to see my dialogue in giant bold letters on a big billboard.”

His Y&R costars have been just as enthusiastic about his new project. “It’s remarkable how everyone at work is now aware of Pluribus,” he muses. “Everyone seems to watch something on Apple TV+.”

The show’s debut also comes at a milestone moment: This month marks 36 years since Bergman first stepped into the role of Jack Abbott following his successful run as All My Children‘s Cliff. “It’s just great, and it’s crazy to me,” he marvels. “Both of these daytime jobs were something I was convinced I could make last for six months, and what it’s turned into is really something. And the other thing that’s almost alarming is that at the age I am, I didn’t think they were going to fire me necessarily, but I thought I’d be put out to pasture and show up to do the toast at the Abbott Thanksgiving dinner and at weddings and things like that. But I work as much as I did when I was 40. It’s going to be hard for you to find a more grateful actor out there.”

Pluribus, Series Premiere, Friday, November 7, Apple TV+

Chrishell Stause Leaving Netflix’s ‘Selling Sunset’ After 9 Seasons

Although the streamer has not renewed the show for another season, if another is filmed, Stause will not be a part of it.

“I’ve vacillated back and forth with this decision in the past,” Stause told Bustle about quitting the show. “I have to be honest — having come from nothing, it’s really hard to turn something like this down.”

Stause said that “Jesus Christ himself” couldn’t persuade her to return for another season of Selling Sunset, and neither could creator Adam DiVello, who she claims has been calling and messaging “100 times a day.”

The reality television personality says that she has “gotten to a place where I don’t need the show financially,” adding, “I’m lucky to have other forms of employment, because it’s no longer good for my mental health.”

Stause was one of the original cast members of the Netflix reality series when it debuted in 2019. The show follows the real estate brokerage Oppenheim Group and its agents as they navigate their personal and professional lives.

In Season 9, Stause had a difficult time navigating her relationships with her co-stars, as there was animosity between them. She sparred with Nicole Young, who, early on in the season, hit below the belt by mentioning her deceased parents in an effort to shift accountability. Stause also had a fallout with her best friend Emma Hernan after her new boyfriend made deplorable comments about the LGBTQ+ community.

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‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ Trailer: Amanda Seyfried Stars As Irrepressible Religious Leader In Mona Fastvold’s Musical Epic

Amanda Seyfried stars as the titular character, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. The movie follows the irrepressible leader, who espoused gender and social equality while believing herself to be the female incarnation of Christ. The movie features more than a dozen original Shaker hymns which are transformed into ecstatic “movements,” with choreography from Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and music by Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).

The film received a 15 1/2-minute ovation at its Venice debut. with many critics praising Oscar nominee Seyfried’s performance in particular.

In Deadline’s review out of Venice, Damon Wise wrote “The Testament of Ann Lee plays like a light yin to that film’s dark yang, telling a similar but much warmer story of troubled genius, social torment, and escape. Though she’s clearly some kind of fruitcake, Ann has optimism, compassion and life, which Fastvold reveals in a series of mesmerizing musical numbers taken from real Shaker scriptures.”

Also starring are Thomasin McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit), Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Tim Blake Nelson (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Christopher Abbott (Poor Things) and Stacy Martin (The Brutalist).

Fastvold directs and penned the screenplay with her husband Brady Corbet. Producers are Andrew Morrison, Joshua Horsfield, Viktória Petrányi, Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Klaudia ?mieja-Rostworowska, Lillian LaSalle, and Mark Lampert.

The film is set to open in select theaters on Dec. 25.

Check out the trailer above.

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Hosted by Steve Harvey, Paul Feig, Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, Brandon Sklenar and Sarah Cooper from “The Housemaid” movie face off against Cynthia Bailey, Dorinda Medley, Eva Marcille, Melissa Gorga and Alexia Nepola from “The Real Housewives.”

Matt Bomer To Star, Dan Minahan To Direct ‘Foster Dade’ Hulu Pilot In ‘Fellow Travelers’ Reunion With Robbie Rogers Who Inks Deal With Berlanti Prods.

Foster Dade is one of the first projects under a producing deal Rogers has signed with Warner Bros. Television-based Berlanti Productions. Under the agreement, Rogers will independently bring television projects to the company while also serving as an executive producer on Berlanti Prods.’ Foster Dade, Stillwater for Amazon and its family drama in the works at HBO Max, on which Rogers collaborated with Berlanti and Doran.

Based on Nash Jenkins’ debut novel Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos, Foster Dade takes place in 2008 and present day. It is described as a sophisticated mystery set at an East Coast boarding school that explores privilege, scandal, sexuality and masculinity amid the rise of social media, millennial anxiety and pharmaceuticals.

The story revolves around Foster Dade, a new transfer student at the elite Kennedy boarding school. Bomer will play Alex Tierney, the kind of literature teacher who makes you believe books can change your life — brilliant, eccentric, and “swoony,” as the kids call him. He can spot depth of soul in his students from a mile away and pulls it out of them, sometimes ruthlessly. His intensity draws people in, blurring the line between mentorship and intimacy — which lands him in the thick of the Foster Dade scandal.

Bomer joins recently cast Chloe East as the female lead Annabeth, a popular girl at Kennedy who takes Foster under her wing.

Berlanti Prods.’ Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman executive produce alongside Doran, Jenkins, Rogers as well as Donald De Line of De Line Pictures. Filming on the pilot is slated to begin in December in New York.

Former soccer star Rogers, who is married to Berlanti, made his producing debut on Berlanti Prods.’ football high school drama All American. He has executive produced both the mothership and spinoff All American: Homecoming, and also was a producer on Berlanti-Schechter Films’ My Policeman.

On his own, he was an executive producer and a writer on Showtime’s Fellow Travelers, on which Minahan directed the first two episodes. As executive producers, Rogers, Bomer and Minahan shared in Fellow Travelers‘ Peabody Award and Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination for Best Limited Series. Bomer’s starring role earned him an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award and Critics’ Choice nominations.

Rogers, who chronicled his experience as the first openly-gay male athlete to compete in a top North American professional sports league, is repped by CAA.

White Collar alum Bomer most recently starred in the Hulu comedy series Mid-Century Modern, from Max Mutchnick, David Kohan and Ryan Murphy. Bomer’s many collaborations with Murphy include HBO’s The Normal Heart, which landed the actor his second Emmy nomination, along with a Golden Globe win.

Bomer’s recent series credits also include HBO Max’s Doom Patrol. He will next be seen in Jonah Hill’s Apple TV movie Outcome opposite Keanu Reeves, Hill and Cameron Diaz. Bomer is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.

Minahan is coming off directing the pilot for Fox’s upcoming drama series Memory of a Killer and he also recently directed the film On Swift Horses starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi. Additionally, Minahan directed all episodes of Netflix’s Halston, which earned lead actor Ewan McGregor an Emmy, as well as HBO’s Deadwood: The Movie and multiple episodes of Game Of Thrones. As executive producer/director of FX’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Minahan shared in its Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series Emmy Award. Minahan is repped by Circle Management + Production, UTA, and Cowan DeBaets.

Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck, Ryan Coogler Among Presenters Named For American Cinematheque Tribute To Michael B. Jordan

Ben Affleck, Ryan Coogler and Bradley Cooper are among those tapped to honor him. Oscar winners Daniel Kaluuya, Mahershala Ali and Octavia Spencer will also be part of the ceremony, with Delroy Lindo, Phylicia Rashad, Tessa Thompson and Rocky and Creed producer Irwin Winkler all taking the stage as presenters. Additionally, NBC Universal Entertainment and Studios chairman Donna Langley will present the MPA’s Charles H. Rivkin with the Power of Cinema Award. The show will also feature a special musical performance by Miles Caton, Ludwig Göransson and Raphael Saadiq presenting “I Lied to You” from the film Sinners.

Jordan’s honor comes on the heels of his performance as twin brothers Smoke and Stack in Coogler’s critical and box office phenomenon Sinners earlier this year.

The awards ceremony is set for November 20 at the Beverly Hilton. The event is an annual fundraiser for the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit organization that has year-round programming at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, Los Feliz 3 Theatre in Los Feliz, and Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood.

Previous American Cinematheque Award honorees include Eddie Murphy (1986); Bette Midler (1987); Robin Williams (1988); Steven Spielberg (1989); Ron Howard (1990); Martin Scorsese (1991); Sean Connery (1992); Michael Douglas (1993); Rob Reiner (1994); Mel Gibson (1995); Tom Cruise (1996); John Travolta (1997); Arnold Schwarzenegger (1998); Jodie Foster (1999); Bruce Willis (2000); Nicolas Cage (2001); Denzel Washington (2002); Nicole Kidman (2003); Steve Martin (2004); Al Pacino (2005); George Clooney (2006); Julia Roberts (2007); Samuel L. Jackson (2008); Matt Damon (2010); Robert Downey Jr. (2011); Ben Stiller (2012); Jerry Bruckheimer (2013); Matthew McConaughey (2014); Reese Witherspoon (2015); Ridley Scott (2016); Amy Adams (2017); Bradley Cooper (2018), Charlize Theron (2019), Spike Lee (2020), Scarlett Johansson (2021), Ryan Reynolds (2022), Helen Mirren (2023) and Jessica Chastain (2024).

The Power of Cinema Award honors an individual or organization whose actions through storytelling have advanced the significance and social relevance of film in today’s modern culture. Previous honorees include Charles Roven, Kevin Goetz & Screen Engine, Jason Blum & Blumhouse, Participant, Adam Aron/AMC Theatres, Dolby Laboratories, Imax, Sue Kroll and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

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Monday, Nov. 3 — LACEY CHABERT dishes on “She’s Making a List”

‘High Potential’ Guest Aiden Turner Teases How Rhys “Makes Morgan Fall In Love” After Writers Extended His Storyline: “I Enjoy Being Eye Candy”

Season 2 of ABC‘s High Potential sent audiences into the midseason finale with a little eye candy and a big cliffhanger, both courtesy of guest star Aiden Turner.

Ahead of this week’s episode ‘The One That Got Away‘, the British actor teased Deadline that his insurance investigator character Rhys “sort of makes [Kaitlin Olson’s Morgan] fall in love with him a little bit” in the two-part mystery that continues Tuesday, Jan. 6 at 9pm.

“I mean, I enjoy being eye candy,” said Turner. “There was a big responsibility I knew, that wasn’t necessarily weighing on my shoulders, but being a fan of the show myself and watching it with my lady Jessica, they’ve got such a great loyal fan base.”

Following a museum art heist, Rhys joins LAPD’s major crimes unit to help recover the stolen painting, much to Morgan’s annoyance. As she reluctantly bonds with him while going rogue to investigate the theft, newly introduced Capt. Nick Wagner (Steve Howey) brings the hammer down and takes Morgan off the case, prompting her to drown her sorrows in a drink with Rhys.

As Morgan gets him shirtless in his hotel room, she spots a scar on his shoulder matching a thief from a previous heist, as well as a big wooden crate about the size of the stolen painting.

Turner explained that this week’s episode was “so intense,” given the steamy make-out sesh and a high-speed chase, that the writers “ended up deciding to extend it into two.”

“So, that was a really nice sort of a compliment because that first one was really tight, and now they’ve sort of extended it over, so they ended up writing a lot of more interesting stuff,” he added. “They gave a lot more backstory about me, and then Kaitlin’s character divulged a lot more about her—not necessarily insecurities—but she became a little bit more vulnerable. So, that led to us sort of getting together.”

Read on about Aiden Turner’s experience joining Season 2 of High Potential as a guest star, as well as what’s to come in the midseason premiere.

DEADLINE: Tell me what it was like joining the cast as this mysterious outsider.

AIDEN TURNER: Any time you join a new cast, there’s always sort of expectations, worries people aren’t gonna be nice, director’s gonna be barking at you, you know. But to be honest, everyone was so kind, so welcoming, so professional. It really felt like a family from the first morning, at 7 a.m. everybody was just so polite and welcoming and excited. It was just so much fun.

DEADLINE: And your character Rhys, he’s this insurance investigator in the art world, and he dresses very fancy. Did you enjoy his wardrobe?

TURNER: Yeah, it really made me feel like I was back at a private school in England, near Cambridge, just outside London. I always had to wear a shirt and black pants, shoes, always smart. I didn’t have a little pocket square when I went to school, but there’s nothing like feeling like you’re being dressed by a huge designer like Ermenegildo Zegna or something. The suit fit like Tom Ford, the pocket square, the waistcoat, it was nice. It was really good. They didn’t make me wear a tie, which sometimes it makes you feel like you’re being strangled. I felt like I was walking along Savile Row in London.

DEADLINE: Did that help you kind of build the character too and get into his mindset?

TURNER: I think the wardrobe always really makes you feel like the character. In other roles, I’ll be put in a leather jacket, which I never wore before, t-shirt, jeans, boots, and you feel kind of grungy and private detective. So, the wardrobe really makes an actor feel like the character, and these guys did just such an amazing job, from the shirts and the suits, the shoes, the briefcase, it was just so much fun. To be honest, they made it easy for me to slip in the character.

DEADLINE: Tell me about building the dynamic with Kaitlin where you’re at each other’s throats at first, and then by the end of the episode, you’re in each other’s pants.

TURNER: [LAUGHS] Yeah, that’s pretty much how it went. In the beginning, when Rhys was introduced in the bullpen at the precinct there at Fox Studios, the writing is just so good. You could tell that Kaitlin’s character Morgan, she was peeved that there was a another consultant, and and that she couldn’t sort of handle the the case on her own. I mean, that’s how sort of Morgan reacted. “Hang on, there’s another consultant. I’m the only consultant, why is there another consultant?” And so, the bickering started then, and then when, Nick Wagner, played by Steve Howey, right at the end of the introduction to Rhys, he said, “You two can ride together to figure out the case and start working on who stole this piece of art.” It’s just the banter back and forth which I’ve always loved, especially there’s a lot of that in in England. You know, when you watch Love Island and stuff, the girls and the boys are always like, “Well, if we have some good banter, then then there could be some romance.” And that’s what we had from the get-go.

DEADLINE: I love Kaitlin’s work and she really does something incredible with this role

TURNER: She does, doesn’t she? I mean she’s quick witted, he’s got some great one-liners, she’s got a great personality, she’s a hardworking woman, three kids, and she sort of tears herself in half with looking after her children, and then working so well at solving these cases and helping the LAPD find the criminal. I mean, she’s amazing.

DEADLINE: Also it’s nice to see, even if it’s short-lived, her get lucky. How did you feel about being the eye candy of the episode for that scene?

TURNER: I mean, I enjoy being eye candy. There was a big responsibility I knew, that wasn’t necessarily weighing on my shoulders, but being a fan of the show myself and watching it with my lady Jessica, they’ve got such a great loyal fan base. I definitely wanted to make it look good, seem real, and give the fans basically what hopefully they’ve been looking for. You know, after 16 episodes, she hasn’t—she’s got close to having a romance. And I feel like, within the show, you kind of see her longing for a good man. So, I felt like it was a big compliment for me to be the man that was lucky enough to win the audition and to be lucky enough to be on the show with such good writers and a great director, and such a great talent like Kaitlin Olson. And so I really didn’t want to screw it up. So, I really worked hard on trying to make it as authentic and as real as possible.

DEADLINE: And then of course, there’s the big twist at the end where we’re kind of led to believe that he’s possibly the thief. So can you tease what’s to come after the hiatus?

TURNER: These two worked together in the beginning, they’re bickering, and then all of a sudden, they sort of share some some of their past. Rhys gives some insight that he may not be exactly what she thinks he is, which is this pompous, high class, art recovery specialist that’s well traveled, and he starts—not to give too much away—but tell a lot about his upbringing. It sort of makes her fall in love with him a little bit. He also goes out of his way to really help her look good in front of the police. She has some kind of little problem with Wagner because he has sort of a problem with her, and that she’s not a cop, and why she’s getting all this attention. He’s brand new, so I think there’s a little conflict there with him being from a LAPD family for so many years. I can’t really talk about too much. That first episode was so intense, and there was so much action and so much happened that, they ended up deciding to extend it into two, and then it sort of spread that over two hours. So, that was a really nice sort of a compliment because that first one was really tight, and now they’ve sort of extended it over, so they ended up writing a lot of more interesting stuff. They gave a lot more backstory about me, and then Kaitlin’s character divulged a lot more about her—not necessarily insecurities—but she became a little bit more vulnerable. So, that led to us sort of getting together.

Margaret DePriest Dies: Actress & Writer On ‘General Hospital’, ‘Days Of Our Lives’, ‘All My Children’ & More Was 94

Born in Bristow, OK on April 19, 1931, DePriest rose from Depression-era farm life to win a drama scholarship at the University of Oklahoma.

She began her career as an actress both onstage and television. One of her first credits was a contract role as Abby Cameron #1 on The Edge of Night from 1965-1966. She also portrayed social worker Mrs. Berger on The Doctors.

She segued to co-writer (with Lou Scofield) on The Edge of Night in the mid-1960s. In 1969, she co-created and was co-head writer of CBS Daytime’s Where the Heart Is, and went on to become head writer for daytime dramas General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Another World, One Life to Live, and most recently Sunset Beach.

She also appeared as an actress in guest-starring roles on The Catholic Hour, True Story and N.Y.P.D. in the late ’50s and 1960s.

DePriest earned five Daytime Emmy noms for Best Writing, first in 1985 for General Hospital, two for Days of Our Lives in 1984 and 1985, and for All My Children in 1990 and One Life to Live in 1992. She also was nominated for a WGA Award for Best Writing for Another World in 1998. In 1965, she won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Place for Chance.

She was married to writer Paul Price who passed away in 2012.

Casting Director Reveals How Sarah Michelle Gellar Joined All My Children as Susan Lucci’s Daughter

Veteran casting director Judy Blye Wilson opened up about her time working on All My Children in a new interview published by TV Insider on Oct. 16. Gellar, now 48, was 15 at the time when Wilson needed to cast someone as Kendall, the daughter of Susan Lucci’s Erica Kane.

“She was a young kid, and she had done a couple of little plays,” Wilson said of Gellar. “We tested about four girls, and we tested them with Susan. And there was no question about it. Sarah Michelle was it, period. She really, really nailed that role and continued to do so. She was really phenomenal.”

Kendall was supposed to be a younger version of Erica, serving back to her mother the chaos that she had sent in the direction of so many other people. “That relationship was interesting between her and Susan, and they had great chemistry together,” Wilson said. “And obviously, Sarah Michelle went on to do Buffy [the Vampire Slayer].”

Gellar won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in 1995, after her second nomination. She left AMC in 1995, and the character returned in 2002, played by Alicia Minshew. Gellar, meanwhile, started starring in Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1997, and soon became a star thanks to that show and movies like 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, 1999’s Cruel Intentions and 2002’s Scooby-Doo.

Wilson’s time as casting director at AMC saw her unearth some other future superstars, including Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, Josh Duhamel and Amanda Seyfried.

She also found one more Buffy star — Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Lily Montgomery. “The interesting thing about it is that Michelle Trachtenberg came on to All My Children when she was 14, and then I’ll be darned if she didn’t end up doing Buffy with Sarah, which I thought was pretty amazing,” Wilson told TV Insider. Trachtenberg, who died in February at age 39, played Buffy’s sister Dawn. “They were big buddies and played in Buffy for a number of years.”

Before her days at AMC, Wilson worked as a casting assistant on Ryan’s Hope. Post-AMC, she landed at The Young and the Restless. “I really loved working there,” she said of the CBS drama.

On Oct. 17, Wilson was honored at the Daytime Emmys as part of the “Silver Circle,” a “society of honor” that recognizes her career of more than 25 years in television. “I’m absolutely over the moon,” she told TV Insider. “It makes me feel validated, like I got it right. I take no credit for it; the actor and their talent are what’s winning here.”

She explained of her penchant for finding future stars, “But it was a plethora of fabulous people coming along in those years, and I think that I was lucky enough to snag some of them when they were very young. I really believe it was just great timing all the way around.”

Back in 1994, Gellar spoke to PEOPLE about her role on All My Children, where she ended up playing age 24 even though she was 17. After a day bringing Kendall’s schemes to life, she said “It takes me an hour to unwind. But it's a great way to get out all my frustrations.”

She said that her first day at work, she was “shaking” until her costar Lucci, 78, calmed her down. “Susan put her arm around me and said, 'Don't worry, nobody bites,' ” she remembered.

Gotham Awards Film Nominations

Outstanding Lead Performance
Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Focus Features)
Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice (NEON)
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
Sopé Dìrísù, My Father’s Shadow (MUBI)
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jennifer Lawrence, Die My Love (MUBI)
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent (NEON)
Josh O’Connor, The Mastermind (MUBI)
Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee (Searchlight Pictures)
Tessa Thompson, Hedda (Orion Pictures/Amazon/MGM Studios).

Maurice Benard Sets the Record Straight on His Future on General Hospital amid Retirement Rumors

In PEOPLE's exclusive clip from the Tuesday, Oct. 28 episode of Richard Taite's We’re Out of Time podcast, General Hospital star Maurice Benard weighs in on the speculation about his future on the soap opera, which he's been a part of for over 30 years.

When asked if he's leaving the show, Benard, 62, shut down the rumors: "No, I’m not leaving."

"There have always been a lot of people [saying that]. I think they’re saying I’m dying, too, like I have cancer or something," he said.

The actor, who has been playing Sonny Corinthos since 1993 on General Hospital, has a "year left" in his contract, which secures his place on the soap for at least that long, but he has no real plans to leave the show anytime soon.

"Look, I’m going to retire, but I don’t think it’s going to be before I’m 65," he admitted.

Benard doesn't seem to be bothered by the speculation, as he said, "Let people say what they say," but he knows he's not going to stay forever, because the show is "mentally taxing."

When he does take his final bow as the Port Charles mobster, Benard knows he'll have to keep himself busy in other ways, as he and the podcast host agreed they "don’t do well without structure."

“When I leave, I’ll have [my podcast], State of Mind, maybe [I'll] do that more," he said. "Financially, I’m pretty good, but you’re right — I already know what happens to my mind when I’m living in it alone.”

Comments Benard made over the summer fueled rumors that he might be considering leaving the series.

He was asked on the podcast Soapy if he would still be playing Sonny in his 80s, like other soap opera stars have done, and he admitted, "I don’t know, in all honesty, if I can last that long."

Benard, who is among the longest-running cast members on the soap, made sure to clarify that it's "not because I don’t want to."

“People are going to get mad at me for saying this, but I’m always just going to be honest," he said. "I don’t think, mentally, I can keep going that long, and I don’t know if I could act on GH if I’m not at least at 90 percent. That’s the truth.”

General Hospital airs weekdays on ABC. Check local listings. New episodes of the We’re Out of Time podcast drop Tuesdays on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. y

‘CSI: Miami’ Alum Eva LaRue Recalls ‘Freddie Krueger’ Stalking Her for Years

A trailer for the doc features excerpts from the letters LaRue’s stalker, who used the pseudonym “Freddie Krueger” in a seeming reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street villain Freddy Krueger. (Coincidentally or not, LaRue’s filmography includes a guest appearance on the 1980s TV spinoff series Freddy’s Nightmares.)

In one excerpt, the stalker threatens physical and sexual violence against LaRue and her daughter, Kaya, now 23.

“Those words and those threats were absolute psychological terrorism,” LaRue says in the trailer.

LaRue says that playing DNA analyst Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami was the “pinnacle of [her] career” and that being on a primetime series “was a different level of celebrity.” But with that celebrity came a lot of fan mail — and the menacing messages from “Freddie.”

“My worst fear was that everything that he said in those letters could become a reality,” LaRue says. “The letters were coming fast and furious. … I just remember being absolutely terrified.”

Kaya is also featured in the trailer, saying she remembers seeing her mom break down in tears. “At 12, that was devastating,” she says.

“Your one job as a parent is to keep your kids safe,” LaRue explains. “Like, that’s it. That’s your freaking job. And I was feeling like I couldn’t do my job. I couldn’t do my job.”

Eventually, LaRue had to take matters into her own hands, she says. “I did start sleeping with a weapon under my bed,” she reveals.

In September 2022, an Ohio man named James David Rogers was sentenced to more than three years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of mailing threatening communications, one count of threats by interstate communications, and two counts of stalking, according to The New York Times.

Court documents showed Rogers’ stalking behavior started in March 2007 and continued until his November 2019 arrest, during which time he mailed around three dozen handwritten and typed letters with threats, the newspaper reported.

My Nightmare Stalker: The Eva LaRue Story, Thursday, November 13, Paramount+

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Michael B. Jordan In Early Talks To Star In ‘Miami Vice’ Movie At Universal

Kosinski is directing, with Eric Warren Singer and Dan Gilroy penning the script. Dylan Clark and Kosinski are producing.

Universal had no comment.

The film is dated for August 6, 2027, and this incarnation will explore the glamour and corruption of mid-1980s Miami, inspired by the pilot episode and first season of the NBC television series that ran from 1984-1089 and influenced the culture from fashion to filmmaking.

The film is based on characters created by Anthony Yerkovich from the series executive produced by Yerkovich and Michael Mann. Singer was the first scribe that originally developed the adaptation with Kosinski. The show rocketed Don Johnson to pin-up star status in the role of iconic white-suit-wearing Detective Sonny Crockett, while Philip Michael Thomas played his partner Tubbs.

Rumors have been flying for months about who might star in the new project, with Jordan’s name being linked at least once. But sources say the official offer only came in over the past week after the studio worked to move dates so that Jordan could finish post on his next directing gig, The Thomas Crown Affair, and also shoot this.

Again while a deal is not done yet, insiders say it is headed in that direction after Jordan was blown away by the recent rewrite delivered by Gilroy.

As for the role of Crockett, sources say that part is open and the studio is looking to lock in Jordan’s partner soon.

‘High Potential’ Season 2 Casts ‘All My Children’ Alum Aiden Turner in Guest Role

Turner will appear in the midseason finale as Rhys, who is described as “a quick-witted, well-tailored art recovery specialist with the tenacity of a prosecutor and the instincts of a seasoned detective. Equal parts cultured and street savvy, Rhys navigates the murky world of stolen masterpieces.”

A first-look clip of Turner in the midseason finale can be seen below. The episode will air Oct. 28 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and stream the next day on Hulu.

Turner is best known for his long stint on the popular soap opera “All My Children.” He famously played Aidan Devane in over 500 episodes of the series between 2002 and 2009. Turner also starred in the soap opera “If Loving You Is Wrong” from creator Tyler Perry. His other credits include shows like “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D” and “NCIS: Los Angeles,” as well as films like “Mindcage” and “Hunting Souls.”

He is repped by NTA Talent Agency and Brave Artists Management.

“High Potential” debuted its second season in September. Kaitlin Olson returns as Morgan, “a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a by-the-book seasoned detective (Daniel Sunjata).”

The cast also includes Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev “Oz” Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot, Steve Howey as Nick Wagner and Judy Reyes as Selena.

The series is based on the French drama “Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI).” Drew Goddard developed the American version and executive produces via Goddard Textiles along with Sarah Esberg. Todd Harthan serves as executive producer and showrunner. Olson also executive produces, as does Marc Halsey. 20th Television is the studio.

Jane Elliot Reflects on 60 Years in Soaps and Life on ‘GH’ at 78: ‘I’m a Failed Retiree!’

Just moments after receiving the honor, Elliot talks to Woman’s World about what it feels like to have somehow grown into the role of General Hospital matriarch—not to mention, in the wake of the passing of Leslie Charleson and her character Monica, how it feels to be the last one standing.

Plus, Elliott admits to one major failure (her retirement!) and we have the 52nd Annual Daytime Emmys soap opera winners’ list.

“Lovely Jane Elliot” was first introduced on the big screen in Elvis Presley’s last film, 1969’s Change of Habit with Mary Tyler Moore and Barbara McNair. But the beauty who also appeared on The Mod Squad, Kojak, and Law and Order, not to mention soapy Knots Landing and Broadway’s The Impossible Years, had already made her first mark on the soap scene by then.

Since her breakout soap role on A Flame in the Wind in 1965, Elliot has caused drama on Guiding Light, All My Children, Days of Our Lives and Loving—and this weekend, she was honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) for her incredible work on General Hospital’s Tracy Quartermaine, which started back in 1978 and included a stint on The City.

“I started in daytime 60 years ago, and as a woman of 78 years old and a female actor, I’m blessed,” says Elliot. “First of all, there are very very few us who are gainfully employed full-time as an actor, and I’m one of them.

“It is such a privilege and honor to get to do what I do and keep doing it, that what I do is still wanted and still appreciated, and that they still keep giving me good work to do,” she continues. “I consider myself a really, really lucky woman.”

As longtime General Hospital viewers know, Elliot officially announced her retirement back in 2017.

“I’m a failed retiree,” she cracks with a grin. “I thought I needed a break. I was a single parent. I raised two children on my own, and I raised them exclusively on acting money. I no longer had children to raise, and I was 70. I had my pension and my Social Security. I thought, ‘Oh, yay. I don’t need this job anymore. I can retire.’”

Two years later, she quietly slipped back into Tracy’s bossy, wise-cracking shoes.

“It wasn’t what I thought it would be,” she admits. “I was like, ‘But wait, I really like that job! And whether I need the money or not, I want to keep doing it,’” she recounts. “I luckily had a wonderful boss who kept a place at the table for me and didn’t replace me. Didn’t hire someone else to play the part.”

As if anyone else could play her role!

“There are a lot of wonderful actors out there that would bring something new to it,” Ellliot insists. “They couldn’t do me, but they could do that.”

With one of Elliot’s first storylines leading to the unforgettable scene where she withholds her father Edward’s heart medicine, the seven-times-hitched Tracy Q has made some truly detestable moves over the decades.

Since her return, she’s remained formidable. Just ask Cameron Mathison’s Drew and Michael E. Knight’s Martin Grey.

Yet even as Tracy’s remained tough, since running off with Anthony Geary’s Luke and then losing him, she’s also softened enough to become a wizened, loving head of family—and not just to Wally Kurth’s Ned and Amanda Setton’s Brook Lynn. By the time Leslie Charleson’s Monica Q passed last month, Tracy had even become her almost lifelong nemesis’ fiercest protector!

“People say to me on the show, ‘You’re the matriarch of the Quartermaine family.’ And I go, ‘Who are you talking about?’” Elliot admits with a laugh. “I still haven’t taken it on board.”

While it’s hard to believe she’s all grown up, after 60 years in daytime and almost five decades on General Hospital, this soap opera diva who once worked alongside Elvis—not to mention onscreen family John Ingle, Anna Lee, and Stuart Damon, Leslie Charleson, and Jacklyn Zeman—can’t ignore her place.

“I look around and I realize that at this stage of the game, I’m the oldest actor on the show,” Elliot tells Woman’s World. “There are all these photographs on the set of the characters on the show, and they’ve all passed away, and I’m still standing.

“It’s daunting, it’s overwhelming,” the NATAS Gold Circle honoree admits. “It makes me sad sometimes, and it makes me enormously grateful and proud.”

Jesse McCartney's Classmates Didn't Know He Acted Until the Principal Announced His Emmy Nod on the Loudspeaker

McCartney, 38, was cast as JR Chandler on All My Children at just 11 years old, and was also a member of the boy band Dream Street. But the singer tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue that he had a “normal childhood” growing up in Ardsley, N.Y. up until his junior year of high school.

For starters, few of his classmates had any idea that he was on a soap opera at all, let alone nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.

“It's a daytime soap opera, so we’re all in school. A lot of people didn’t even know that I was on a soap” he says. “Then, I was in science class, I’ll never forget it. My [middle school] principal announced on the loudspeaker, ‘Oh, one of our own students has been nominated for a daytime Emmy Award.’”

McCartney continues: “That outed me, that I was on a soap opera. Dream Street came along, and because the audience were mainly female tweens, some of the girls at school started to catch on.”

Still, it wasn’t until he was cast in Summerland at age 16 that things really changed.

“Things started to get weird at school,” he says. “Then, people were treating me differently. I ended up leaving and coming to California. I was mainly tutored on set for my junior year and senior year. Then I would come back for graduation, and people were just a little different.”

McCartney admits that that period of his life was tough to navigate.

“The sacrifices, that was definitely hard. I missed out on a lot of family things that I wish I didn’t miss out on,” he says. “My brother and sister’s moments, they were younger than me. My brother’s 10 years my junior, so I missed a lot of his childhood. But it was overall, I guess, a small price to pay for everything that I have now, and my relationship with my family is really strong.”

He eventually embraced the spotlight, and his debut album Beautiful Soul came out in 2004, when he was 17. He’s since released a number of hits, most recently the EP Weightless, and has acted in other projects, including Greek and Young and Hungry.

Despite finding fame at such a young age, McCartney has emerged relatively unscathed from the hazards of the fame machine.

"I think you’re not a normal teenage boy if at some point you don’t just want to stick your finger to the world and say, 'I’m not doing this,'" he says. "I definitely had some hard lessons in life with work. I was always the youngest person in the room. I just got lucky I had a lot of good people that weren’t afraid to tell me no. [I learned that] actions have consequences. I skirted some of the cliché pitfalls, and I’m very grateful for that."

He also reflects fondly on “Beautiful Soul,” the song that started it all.

"It was such a whirlwind. I was literally in math class and then suddenly I’m in Japan and singing for an audience of people that don’t speak English, but they can sing the song," he recalls.

"It was pretty amazing and also strange… We never really knew what kind of impact that song would have then, let alone now, that it stood the test of time and became multi-generational. Moms that were fans then are bringing their kids and they’re singing the song. That song took on a life of its own, and I’m very grateful for it."

McCartney is currently on tour, and will stay on the road through December, including select dates with the Jonas Brothers.

For more from Jesse McCartney, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar and Susan Lucci's Unforgettable 'Sociopath' Clash Still Haunts All My Children Fans 31 Years Later

All My Children watchers will remember that Gellar, 48, played Kendall Hart from Feb. 1993 to July 1995. Recently, the anniversary of an intense scene that saw Kendall feuding with her biological mom, Erica Kane (Lucci, 78), got fans talking about the duo.

In the scene, highlighted on Reddit on Sept. 27, 31 years to the day that it aired, the two women begin to argue amid a shopping outing. Erica has sniping words to deliver to her daughter, born to her as the result of a rape during her own teen years.

"You can't love anyone, Kendall, and you can't be loved. There's a word for that. Do you know that? You're a sociopath," Erica said.

"That's a lie. That's a lie!" screams Kendall. "People love me. Lots of people love me."

Erica then challenges her to "name one," saying that Kendall's on-and-off beau Anton didn't count. "You can't use that boy anymore to fall back on. He gave you a lot of chances, but that's it."

Kendall accused Erica of "lying" and "turning them all against me," shouting, "You're the one who's cold and unfeeling."

"No, you turned them all against you," Erica leveled. "You only have feelings for yourself. You're going to end up a very lonely old woman someday. And if you keep it up, you will die in that seedy motel room, just like your father did — all alone and hated, with no one to mourn you. No one will even notice you're gone."

In a rage, Kendall pulls Erica as she walks away and the women begin to tussle. As people, including Kendall's Anton, step in to intervene, Erica says, "You stay away from me. Do you understand me? I never want to see your face again, and if I see you on the same street, I will slap a restraining order on you. Do you understand me? You'll be back in jail so fast, it'll make your head spin."

"How can you say that? You gave birth to me. You brought me into this world," Kendall says, dejected and angry.

"Yes, I did bring you into this world, and I can take you out." Erica says.

Fans commended both actresses on how they maneuvered the intense scene.

"Oh, that was the good old days of soaps. They just don't make them like this anymore. Brilliant acting from a great soap." one commenter wrote.

"Sarah’s portrayal as Kendall was just immaculate! The story was so layered, and there was so much emotional nuance that even though she was completely nuts most of the time, the way that Sarah played her had me sympathizing with the character’s internal struggle," another shared.

It would be six years after Gellar's departure before the role was recast, with Alicia Minshew as Kendall. Lucci continued to play Erica over 1700 episodes, through the series' completion in 2011.

2025 Daytime Emmy Awards Announces Presenter Lineup

“We’re thrilled to welcome such a wide-ranging and talented group of presenters to this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards,” Adam Sharp, President & CEO, NATAS, said in a press release. “From beloved daytime drama stars to culinary innovators, lifestyle experts, and talk show favorites, this lineup reflects the vibrancy and diversity of daytime television. We look forward to an unforgettable evening celebrating their contributions and honoring the best of daytime.”

The Daytime Emmys will be streamed on the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) website at watch.theemmys.tv on October 17.

Finn Wittrock & Ashley Thomas Join FX’s Witness Protection Pilot

The project, from FX Productions, is a contemporary take on an unproduced script by David Chase, who previously was attached. In it, a violent confrontation drives a high-end D.C. madam, Remy (Brie), to turn on her partner and enter witness protection in seaside Maine with her adolescent daughter.

Thomas will play Isaac, Remy’s stern but caring FBI handler. Wittrock plays Remy’s charming but manipulative ex-business partner.

In addition to Brie, Thomas and Wittrock join previously cast series regulars Pablo Schreiber, Zoë Chao, Jamie Neumann, Antonella Rose and guest star/recurring Aidan Gillen.

Wittrock has appeared in five installments of American Horror Story on FX, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, also on FX, as well as Murphy’s HBO movie The Normal Heart and Netflix series Ratched, earning Emmy nominations for AHS: Freak Show and Versace. He can most recently be seen starring in the indie Westhampton, which premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival. Wittrock is repped by CAA, Mosaic, Weissenbach Management and Schreck Rose Dapello.

British actor-rapper Thomas also has a history with FX, starring in the network’s limited series Great Expectations with Olivia Coleman, for which he received a Royal Television Society Award nomination. Thomas can currently be seen in the Netflix limited series Hostage and in the Channel 4 series In Flight. His recent series credits include Starz’s Serpent Queen and Hulu’s Black Cake. Thomas is repped by CAA and Independent Talent Group.

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Facts

1. Zach's Poem about Myrtle:

   (Zach's voice) Now who will lead our carnival?
   And who will make us stronger?
   Who will mend our broken sleep when she is here no longer?
   For who's part do we stand and bow?
   What stories do we tell?
   And will we memorize the day when great and greatness fell?
   Say will this valley overcome, and will these shadows fade?
   And will we lift our eyes to see the beauty that she made?
   The disappearing last of her that leads to worlds unknown,
   has left a path to softly tread when sadness wanders home.
   I'll meet thee where the highland winds divide wild mountain tyne,
   where I will be forever yours and you, forever mine.
   (Myrtle's voice) And, trust me, the angels are on your side.
   Watch the clip on Youtube at this link.

2. January 5, 1970: Pine Valley and all its residents were introduced to the world when the serial debuted on ABC.

3. January 29, 2001: Vanessa was shot by Adam’s private investigator, who mistook her for Arlene, who was really Hayley.

4. January 1977: Mark Dalton, a promising composer, came to Pine Valley and discovered that the woman he was attracted to was his half sister, Erica.

5. January 2000: Susan Lucci (Erica, AMC) played Annie in the Broadway hit Annie Get Your Gun!

6. February 14, 1984: Greg Nelson and Jenny Gardner were married.

7. February 1985: Tad and Hillary were married at Wallingford Mansion.

8. February 1988: Erica gave birth to a baby girl, Bianca.

9. March 2, 1988: Mark Dalton wed Ellen Shepard.

10. March 8, 1984: Erica Kane and Adam Chandler wed for the first time.

11. March 11, 1994: Edmund Grey and Dr. Maria Santos were wed in a fairy-tale ceremony.

12. April 12, 1985: Daisy was found standing over Zach’s dead body, holding a bloody knife. Later, it came out that Marian had killed the pimp/gigolo.

13. April 16, 1998: Erica was shocked when she came face to face with her presumed-dead ex, Mike Roy.

14. April 28, 1993: Gloria Marsh wed Adam Chandler.

15. April 1972: Dr. Joe Martin wed Ruth Brent.

16. May 3, 1999: While trapped in Adam’s cabin during a storm, Liza went into labor.

17. May 15: In 1989, Nico Kelly and Cecily Davidson first wed as a result of a business arrangement to gain access to her trust fund.

18. May 21: Erica and Travis wed again, on this date in 1990, but this time for the sake of their daughter, Bianca.

19. May 23, 1997: With the bride lying on a hospital bed, Hayley Vaughan wed Matéo Santos.

20. May 26: On this day in 1988, Stuart wed Cindy after revealing she had been diagnosed with HIV.

21. May 1984: Jenny died in a jet-ski explosion, which was rigged by her jilted fiancé, Tony.

22. June 2, 1980: Langley Wallingford and Phoebe Tyler wed.

23. June 7, 1996: Noah Keefer and Julia Santos had a Cinderella-style fairy-tale wedding.

24. June 16, 2001: Hayley and Matéo wed.

25. June 22, 1993: Erica wed the dashing Count Dimitri.

26. June 25, 2001: Ryan watched as Gillian’s heart was given to Laura.

27. June: In 1982, Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter shared their first kiss.

28. June: In 1997, Erica finally returned baby Sonya to biological mother Maria.

29. June: Frances Heflin, who portrayed Erica’s understanding mother Mona, passed away in 1994.

30. June: Cindy, who passed away in 1989 of AIDS, appeared to son Scott as a ghost during the AIDS Day Of Compassion in 2000.

31. July 4, 1996: Maria decides to flee the country so she doesn’t have to give up baby Sam.

32. July 15, 2002: Ditching their lavish Pine Valley Inn wedding, Greenlee and Leo instead exchanged vows privately at the boathouse.

33. July 15, 1998: Holidays, Hayley and Matéo’s bar, burned down due to Lee having tampered with the boiler to get even with Adam.

34. July 27, Eden Riegel first aired as Erica Kane’s daughter, Bianca, in 2000.

35. July 1994, A tornado tore through Pine Valley and leveled the Martin house, nearly killing Tad, who was crushed by the rubble.

36. July: Chris saved Bianca when a fire broke out at SOS in 2001

37. August 28, 1986: Wade Matthews conned Phoebe Wallingford into marriage.

38. August 1999: Dixie suffered a miscarriage.

39. September 3, 1980: Cliff and Nina Warner wed on the grounds of Cortlandt Manor.

40. September 6, 1978: Erica married former football hero Tom Cudahy on the rebound from her affair with Nick Davis.

41. September 28, 1999: Joan Rivers made a guest appearance in Pine Valley when David and Erica had a rendezvous in New York City.

42. November 21, 1988: Jeremy Hunter wed Natalie Cortlandt while his presumed-dead ex-lover, Marissa, sat undetected in the back of the church.

43. December 16, 2004 marks All My Children's 9000th show

44. December 22, 1986: In a ritzy, black-and-white ceremony at NYC’s Tavern On The Green, Dr. Cliff Warner, for the third time, wed Nina Cortlandt.

45. December 23, 1999: Susan Lucci (Erica, AMC) began her Broadway run as Annie in Annie Get Your Gun.

46. December 25, 1976: Phil and Tara wed.

47. December 26, 1988: Nico Kelly (Maurice Benard) and Julie Chandler (Lauren Holly) were wed in a simple, country wedding. However, the wedding turned out to be invalid because the mayor who officiated at the ceremony was not authorized to perform marriages.

48. December 29, 1989: Tad and Dixie first walked down the aisle to become man and wife. However, the groom had a difficult time getting to the church — he arrived dirty and disheveled!

49. December 1976: Paul and Anne struggled to make future plans for their mentally handicapped daughter, Beth.

50. December 1979: Ruth, while over the age of 40, gave birth to a healthy son, Joey.

51. January 5, 1970: All My Children premieres on ABC.

52. 1970: Amy Tyler (Rosemary Prinz) joins an organization called Mothers March For Peace to protest the Vietnam War.

53. 1973: Mary Fickett, who played Ruth Martin, receives the first Daytime Emmy given to a soap performer. Her submission includes an anti-war monologue.

54. 1973: In the same year of the passage of Roe vs. Wade, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) is the first character to undergo a legal abortion on TV.

55. 1974: Eileen Letchworth’s (Margo Flax Martin) facelift is incorporated into her storyline, marking a daytime first.

56. April 25, 1977: AMC expands from 30 minutes to an hour.

57. 1978: Erica and Tom Cudahy’s (Richard Shoberg) honeymoon is filmed in St. Croix, making it the show’s first international location shoot.

58. 1978-79: AMC is the first ABC soap to top the Nielsen ratings.

59. 1980: When Ruth became pregnant over 40, she feared her child would be born with Down Syndrome and underwent daytime’s first amniocentesis.

60. 1982: Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams) and Angie Baxter (Debbi Morgan) are paired to great success and become daytime’s first Black super-couple.

61. 1983: The show introduces Donna Pescow as Lynn Carson, daytime’s first lesbian character.

62. 1987: During the height of his drug addiction, Mark Dalton (Mark LaMura) shared needles with Fred Parker (Mark Morrison), who contracted HIV and died of AIDS. While Mark tested negative, Fred’s widow, Cindy Parker (Ellen Wheeler), tested positive. She succumbed to AIDS two years later.

63. October 5, 1990: Barbara Bush becomes the first First Lady to appear on a soap when she films a PSA about organ donation as part of a leukemia story. The characters on the show are filmed watching the PSA.

64. 1995: Mark Consuelos joins the cast as Mateo Santos. He is paired with Kelly Ripa’s Hayley Vaughan, and their reel-life romance turns into a real-life romance.

65. 1996: Erica develops an addition to painkillers and seeks treatment at the Betty Ford Center.

66. May 21, 1999: Susan Lucci makes worldwide headlines when she is named Outstanding Lead Actress at the Daytime Emmys, her first win after 19 nominations.

67. February 17, 2009: Reese Williams (Tamara Braun) and Bianca Montgomery (Eden Riegel) marry in daytime’s first same-sex wedding.

68. April 14, 2011: ABC cancels All My Children and One Life to Live.

69. September 23, 2011: All My Children airs for the final time on ABC.

70. 2013: All My Children streams online from April to September.

71. The location of Wildwind is Coe Hall at the Planting Fields in Oyster Bay, Long Island.

72. Thorsten Kaye (Zach) just like his character is a fan of the Detroit Red Wings

73. Bobbie Eakes (Krystal, AMC) was in the 1980's all girl band Big Trouble.

74. Mischa Barton played Lily in 1993

75. According to Jesse, Tad's sister Jenny said that you need three things in life to be happy: Something to do, someone to love and something to believe in.

76. Jake Martin: Through the Years: Jake -- born Joey Martin on Christmas Day -- has a long and tortured history (It's Pine Valley; who doesn't?). Need a quick catch-up on Jake? Who he is, where he's been -- or been with? Here's a Jake Martin timeline!

    1979: Born to Pine Valley pillars Ruth and Joe. Ruth's advanced age caused some health worries, but Jake's birth was normal...no kidnappings or comas involved!

    1990-1991: Joey married Emily Ann Sago. Too bad Emily went mental after she found out her real parents were a pimp and his hooker! Joey left Pine Valley, divorced Emily Ann and went to med school.

    1996: Joey, now calling himself Jake, had a fling with Tad's ex, Liza. Liza freaked when she realized who Jake was and rebounded by marrying Adam Chandler. He got over her fast, and tried to push Jake and Liza into an affair to divorce Liza. It didn't work.

    1998: Jake agreed to be Liza's sperm donor. He was psyched when young Colby was born, but didn't realize Adam was the true dad; he switched sperm samples!

    2000: When the truth about Colby came out, a furious Jake left town.

    2000: Jake, doing aid work in Chechnya, was rescued by Gillian and Ryan. Jake's injuries and guilt kept Gillian and Jake married, but Ryan was too hot for Gillian to resist.

    2001: Jake started dating Greenlee Smythe. She couldn't get over her ex, Leo, so Jake dumped her.

    2002-2003: Jake went off to do some Doctors Without Borders work. Months after leaving town, Jake married fellow aid worker Carolyn.

    2008: Charity work has Jake captured in Sudan (what's with this guy and war-torn regions?) and needing rescue.

77. Erica Kane's Rap Sheet: What makes a star? In today's world, charisma, money and talent are only pieces of the puzzle. Trouble with the law is the benchmark for celebrity and if Erica Kane's rap sheet is any indication, she's at the top of the A-list. Erica is facing insider trading charges (just like Martha Stewart did), but she's no stranger to jail cells. Take a look back at her ever thickening file with the Pine Valley police department:

    1977: Erica wanted Nick Davis for herself, but faced competition from the–as she saw it–gauche and inferior Claudette Montgomery. Naturally, Erica decided to frame Claudette for marijuana possession to get her out of the way. Too bad Nick turned the tables on Erica by planting the drugs on her instead.

    1982: "At the pinnacle of my beauty," as Erica once put it, she faced murder charges. She had discovered her lover and boss, Kent Bogard, was having an affair with her sister, Silver Kane. Furious, Erica confronted Kent with a gun and it went off in a struggle. Kent was killed, but Silver claimed she witnessed Erica murder him in cold blood. Erica was arrested, but went on the run disguised as a nun. Later, it was revealed Silver wasn't Erica's sister—she was a con artist—so Erica was cleared of all charges.

    1993: Erica was arrested for stabbing her husband Dimitri Marick. She wasn't intentionally homicidal, just a victim of her long lost daughter from hell, Kendall Hart. Kendall falsely accused Dimitri of raping her, sending Ms. Kane over the edge. A rape survivor herself, Erica flashed back to her own assault, saw Dimitri as her attacker and plunged a letter opener into his chest. To dig the knife in further (so to speak), Kendall perjured herself by denying any rape claim, making Erica's attack seem premeditated. Kendall's lies were exposed and Erica was acquitted—but she started opening mail the old fashioned way.

    1997: Warning: No man cheats on Erica Kane without consequences! Dimitri found this out the hard way after he slept with his sister-in-law, Dr. Maria Grey, and she found herself pregnant. Everyone, including Erica, wrongly assumed the child was Dimitri's. Stranded with Maria, Erica delivered the baby and rushed it to the hospital, only to drive off a bridge (oops). Never one to let ideal circumstances pass by, Erica allowed the world to think the baby had died. Erica believed the child would never be accepted because of her scandalous conception, so she kept the baby for herself. A true trendsetter, Erica helped start the celebrity adoption craze when she told the world that Maria's little girl was Sonya, a Russian infant. Erica eventually realized her wrongs and confessed. She was sent to prison, but paroled months later.

    1998: Erica found herself in the middle of a love triangle with Jack and Mike Roy, her presumed dead husband (sort of–the marriage was invalid). When Jack kidnapped Erica to shake some sense into her, she called Mike to rescue her. The resulting madness got the three arrested for disturbing the peace.

    2000: Adam begged Erica to speak on his behalf in his custody hearing for his daughter, Colby. Despite the judge's protests for order, Erica demanded to be heard and was arrested for contempt of court.

    2001: Erica's maternal instinct went into overdrive after the murder of Mary Frances "Frankie" Stone. Erica's daughter, Bianca, had nursed a longtime crush on Frankie. Since Frankie rejected Bianca, Erica assumed that Bianca must have murdered her. Ms. Kane confessed to the crime to divert suspicion away from Bianca, and even paid Kendall to return to Pine Valley as a negative character witness. When Bianca learned what was going on, she was able to clear up any suspicion, and the Kane women were cleared.

    2002: Erica was on a roll: Two arrests in one year! Erica was arrested for perjury and obstructing justice in her efforts to make herself appear guilty of Frankie's murder. Months later, Erica broke into Kendall's hotel room to try to dig for evidence that Trey Kenyon burned down her posh home, Linden. She was arrested for breaking and entering, and spent Thanksgiving in prison. Opal Cortlandt, Myrtle Fargate and Bianca spent the holiday in the cell with her.

    2008: Erica was arrested for insider trading, amidst claims that she unjustly used a stock tip from Adam Chandler. Samuel Woods, an attorney with eyes on a Senate seat, wants to make a high-profile example of Erica. But Erica Kane is nobody's victim. She's volunteered to go to prison to keep Samuel from getting the best of her. And just like Martha, she intends to come out a winner.

78. All My Children celebrated the taping of the 10,000th episode of 'All My Children,' Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008, in New York. The 10,000th episode, featuring show creator Agnes Nixon playing the character of a ghost named Aggie will air on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

79. Angie and Jesse 101: Angie and Jesse Hubbard are coming back to All My Children! Need a quick refresh on their history?

    1982: Angie and Jesse's burgeoning romance was put on hold when Liza Colby falsely accused Jesse of raping her. When the charges were dropped, Angie and Jesse faced a bigger obstacle: Her father, Les.

    1983: The two eloped and Angie got pregnant. Fearing rejection, Angie kept the pregnancy secret and divorced Jesse. Angie gave birth to a boy just as Jesse found out about the pregnancy. He told Angie he wanted to raise their son together, but Les already gave the baby up for adoption. Angie and Jesse tracked down their son and kidnapped him from his adoptive parents. They named their boy Frankie. The couple remarried and went on the run.

    1984: The lovebirds were found and Jesse was arrested. Despite this, the couple sued for custody of Frankie and won. To make ends meet, Jesse began singing with a rising star, Yvonne Caldwell. Yvonne had eyes for Jesse, while his half-brother Eugene longed for Angie.

    1985: Eugene and Yvonne schemed to split up Angie and Jesse. They managed to dissolve the trust between them enough so the couple separated. Soon their manipulations were exposed and Angie and Jesse reunited. Angie prepared for medical school and was sexually harassed by her instructor, Dr. Voight.

    1986: Angie reported Dr. Voight, but he managed to dodge any charges. With Jesse's help, they took the dirty doc down.

    1987: Jesse discovered the head of a baby trafficking ring, "Mr. Big," was actually his father-in-law, Les! Jesse confronted Les, they struggled and Les accidentally plummeted to his death in time for Angie to witness all. Distraught, Angie separated from Jesse but when she thought Jesse had been killed, they reconciled.

    1988: Jesse was shot in the line of duty. He died in Angie's arms.

    2008: Jesse and Angie return to Pine Valley. Yes, Jesse's coming back, too. How? Their story starts on January 18.

80. The Littlest Bird: The littlest bird peers over the nest and says, "What if I fall?" And Mama Bird says, "You'll fly when you're ready. You'll fly before long. You're little, my son, but you're oh so strong." He ruffles his feathers and puffs up his chest. Mama Bird says, "you can just do your best." Then the littlest bird looks up to the sky. "Please, oh please, allow me to fly." Then Mama bird says, "Don't look to the blue. All that you need is inside of you." "With that and a squeeze of his eyes so tight, the littlest bird makes his leap -- and takes flight."

81. Q. What was the name of the song that Bianca sang at Myrtle's memorial service on All My Children? It was beautiful.
    A. The song is called "Once Upon a Time." Eden Riegel's (Bianca) recording of it is not commercially available, but other versions of the song are.

82. Q. Wasn't Susan Lucci on Dallas?
    A. Yes! Susan Lucci guest starred in the 1990-91 season of Dallas as Sheila Foley, a woman who kidnapped Bobby Ewing's wife, April, and was ultimately responsible for her death.

83. Q. Can you tell me where I can get the lavender sweater Greenlee wore on the October 13, 2008 episode of All My Children?
    A. The sweater is actually pale peach and was purchased from Nanette Lepore. It is available at Nanette Lepore boutiques as well as retail stores such as Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus and is available online at nanettelepore.neimanmarcus.com.

84. Q. Where can I find the red plaid dress All My Children's Greenlee wore with the blue sweater on Oct. 3, 2008?
    That multi-colored plaid dress is by LAMB and was purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue. The sweater is by Hoss and can be purchased as part of a two piece set online or in Hoss stores worldwide.

85. Q. Taylor's dress at the Bella party on All My Children was so pretty. Where is it from?
    A. Taylor's dress is by Lodice, and was purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue.

86. Q. I loved Erica's dress on the 8/6 episode of All My Children when Erica visited Adam. Can you tell me who designed it?
    The designers were Tom and Linda Platt.

87. Q. What was that song used during the Mardi Gras explosion episode of "All My Children?"
    A: It's called "How High The Moon." It was written by Nancy Hamilton and Morgan Lewis, arranged by Jerry Pilato and sung by Sophie Michalitsianos. Originally, when the song was written in 1940, it was a ballad. Interestingly enough, the song is now most often played as an up-tempo number -- but All My Children's arranger, Jerry Pilato, says, "We decided to arrange this as originally intended, to underscore the mood of the tragedy at the end of the Mardi Gras as the lyrics played against the destruction."

88. Q. Where did the show get the beautiful red halter dress with flowers around the neckline that Angie wore on 7/18/08's AMC?
    A. Angie's silk twill halter dress is by Catherine Malandrino and can be purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue.

89. Q. Where did Babe get the tanktop she wore on AMC's 7/8/08 episode?
    A. It is by Marc Jacobs and was purchased at Saks.

90. Q. What was the song that Ne-yo sung during Angie and Jesse's wedding on AMC?
    A. Ne-Yo performed two songs: "Stop This World" and "Closer." You can watch his performance of "Closer"

91. Q. I'm getting married soon and would like to know how can I get the poems/quotes that AMC's Angie and Jesse read to each other as vows during their wedding? Can you give us the words?
    A. It's a series of quotes from Marc Chagall, Germaine De Stael, Victor Hugo and Adam Lang. Here's the dialogue from the show:

    In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning in life and art. It is the color of love. Love is the emblem of eternity. It confounds all notion of time, effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

    Separated lovers find countless mysterious ways of corresponding. By sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars–all the beauties of creation. Love is never-ending, nor is it ever begging.

    A man is born. A woman is born for him. In the fight to find each other, the perfect moment awaits its destiny. When they meet they know. That's why love is never-ending, nor begging. It is always and forever.

92. Q. On the April 28th episode of AMC, Amanda had on a white dress with flowers. It was absolutely beautiful. Can you tell me where I can purchase that dress?
    A. The white satin empire dress with oversized violet print and flutter sleeves is by Porridge. Porridge has their own website (porridgeclothing.com) where you can locate a store in your area.

93. Q. What was the song playing when Aidan got ready to leave and was kissing Greenlee goodbye on AMC?
    A. The song, "Tomorrow May Be Never," is from the ABC background library and not available for commercial release.

94. Q. What song did B5 perform on AMC on April 25 at the Free Erica rally?
    A. The song performed by B5 is called "Erika Kane" (they took creative license with the spelling) and is from their album Don't Talk, Just Listen

95. Q. On AMC's March 27th and March 28th episodes, Greenlee was wearing a black and white blouse with big fuchsia colored flowers, along with a black pencil skirt. Who is the designer and where can we purchase it?
    A. The seafoam and magenta vintage swirl pattern silk blouse is by Nanette Lepore. It was paired with a deep aubergine tweed pencil skirt, also by Nanette Lepore. It can be purchased at the namesake boutique on Broome Street in New York City.

96. Q. What was AMC's Erica wearing on Valentine's Day 2008? It was a yellow dress and just perfect for spring!
    A. Erica's canary and lime print silk belted chiffon dress with Bakelite buckle is by Versace and was purchased at Bergdorf Goodman.

97. Q. There was a beautiful white eyelet blouse with ruffled cuffs that AMC's Babe wore on February 21 or 22, 2008? Where can I get that?
    A. Babe's white embroidered cotton eyelet blouse is by Bell and was purchased at Anthropologie.

98. Q. I loved the dress that Colby wore for Tad and Krystal's reception/wedding on AMC. Can you tell me where I can buy the dress Colby was wearing that night?
    A. Colby's royal blue and white watercolor print silk strapless dress is from Betsey Johnson, available at the namesake boutiques and major department stores.

99. Q. The train station scene between Angie and Jesse on AMC was incredibly touching. Where was it filmed?
    A. Angie and Jesse's reunion was shot in New Hope, PA.

100. Q. I loved all the red dresses that came out from AMC's Go Red fashion show, especially Colby and Amanda's. Who are the designers?
     A. Colby wore a custom dress by Betsey Johnson while Amanda's dress was made by Eric Gaskins.

101. Q. What song was used in the AMC TV ad for Angie and Jesse's return?
     A. The song is called "Like You'll Never See Me Again" and it's by Alicia Keys. Watch out for it in future AMC episodes.

102. Q. What kind of hat was Kendall wearing on the 11/21/2007 episode of All My Children and where can I buy it?
     A. Kendall's chocolate 1960s retro style cap was purchased at Club Monaco.

103. Q. I loved the black and white dress that AMC's Erica wore on 11/30/07. Who is the designer and where can I find it?
     A. Erica's black, white and navy dress is designed by Narcisco Rodriguez and was purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue.

104. Q. Please tell me where I can buy that darling pink baby doll shirt Amanda on AMC was wearing on Nov. 26, 2007 when she visited Janet for Thanksgiving!
     A. Amanda's pink and vanilla chiffon floral print blouse is by Odille and was purchased at Anthropologie.

105. Q. On the Wednesday, November 14, 2007 episode of AMC, Erica wore a black turtleneck dress with cut-outs at the shoulder. Can you tell me where I can buy it?
     A. Erica's "cold shoulder" wool turtleneck top was purchased from the Dolce and Gabbana boutique.

106. Q. What is the name of the song Krystal sang to Tad at the surprise party on the Aug 31 episode?
     A. The song Krystal sang was a cover of the Gershwin piece "Our Love Is Here to Stay."

107. Q. What is the name of the children's book that Lily gave Zach for Ian? Is it a real book?
     A. It's called the "The Littlest Bird," and no, it isn't a real book.

108. Q. What is the name of the song played on Monday, July 30 episode of AMC, while Kendall's baby was having surgery?
     A. The song is called "Crossroads" by Don McClain.

109. Q. I perform weddings and like the saying that Ryan said to Annie on the beach about sand.
     A. Here it is: "Each grain of sand is hard, scratchy. It's rough. Not so pretty. But put all those grains together, all those rough parts, and you have this beautiful beach. This smooth, soft, great beach. When it gets crazy, we have to put the sand together. Take back our own beach. I love you. We'll keep ourselves on the shore, even when the water's rough."

110. Q. On the July 10, 2007 episode at the end of AMC, they played a beautiful song. Can you tell me the name or artist?
     A. It was "The Way Back Down" by Fooling April.

111. Q. I really loved the song that played at the end of AMC on Thursday, May 24. Any info? A. The song is called "Closer" by Travis. The Album is The Boy with No Name.

112. Q. Can you tell me how many times one person has played two characters on (AMC) and who they were?
     A. For anyone who missed it...Regularly appearing characters: Kitty and Kelly Cole (Francesca James), Adam and Stuart Chandler (David Canary), Natalie Dillon and Janet Green (Kate Collins), Lily Montgomery and Ava Benton (Leven Rambin), Cindy Chandler and Karen Parker (Ellen Wheeler), Elizabeth Hendrickson playing "Maggie" and "Frankie", Michael E. Knight has played both Tad Martin and Ted Orsini, and Finola Hughes played both "Alex" Devane Marirck and Police Chief Anna Devane Scorpio.

113. Q. What is the name of the beautiful song that Zoe sang at Dixie and Babe's funeral?
     It was "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban.

114. Q. I loved the dress that Erica was wearing on the 6/28//2006 episode of AMC. Could you please tell me where it was purchased?
     A. Erica's white cotton pique strapless dress with coral beaded trim is by Michael Kors and was purchased at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.

115. Q. On Friday, July 7th 2006, Erica was wearing a beautiful green & white sundress... Where can I find that dress?
     A. Erica's white and celadon print sundress is by Luca Luca and is available at the Luca Luca boutique on Madison Avenue in NYC.

116. Q. What was the name of the song that was playing while Jonathan and Lily were in the park and exploring Manhattan on 5/26?
     A. The song is "On the Ride" by Aly and AJ, from their latest album "Into the Rush."

117. Q. JR (on AMC) had on a t-shirt that had wings on it. Can you tell me where that shirt is from?
     A. JR's shirt is by Just Cavalli and was purchased at Bloomingdales.

118. Q. Where can I find the sheer v-neck top Di was wearing at the bowling alley during the March 16th episode? She was wearing it over a black tube top and it's gorgeous!
     A. Di's top is designed by Rozae Nichols. Store locations can be found at www.RozaeNichols.com

119. Q. Where can I find and buy the print above Kendall's fireplace?
     A. The painting over the mantle in Kendall's condo is an original work of art purchased from the Carrie Haddad Gallery which is located in Hudson, New York at 622 Warren Street (518) 828-1915. It was purchased several years ago. The artist's name is Stevan Jennis. He is still represented by the gallery. There are five examples of his work which are available and which can be seen on the gallery's site carriehaddadgallery.com.

120. Q. Who is the designer and where can I buy the pink coat worn by Kendall (AMC) on the 1/23/06 episode?
     A. Kendall's coat was by Tracy Reece. It was purchased at Bloomingdales.

121. Q. I love the pink frilly scarf that Babe (on AMC) was wearing in the beach scenes with JR during the first week of January. Can you tell me where to buy it?
     A. It was from the Bloomingdales accessories department in New York. The tag has been removed, but we believe it was by BCBG.

122. Q. What song was playing in the New Year's Eve 2005 episode in the scenes between Kendall and Zach (on AMC)?. The name of the song is "The Loneliest Star" by Seal.

123. Q. Where did Greenlee's cute outfit for the Thanksgiving 2005 episode come from?
     A. Greenlee's outfit was by Tufi Duek, head to toe. That designer is a bit difficult to find, except for in NY and LA, but you could try doing a web search.

124. Q. I was wondering where I could find the dress that Babe was wearing on the Thanksgiving 2005 episode?
     A. Babe's dress was by BCBG. The line is sold in many department stores as well as their own stores nationally.

125. On the heels of the controversial Roe v. Wade decision, All My Children’s Erica underwent TV’s first legal abortion in 1973. The daring plot of a married woman ending a pregnancy for the sake of her career didn’t hurt ratings, which climbed from 8.2 to 9.1.

126. AMC introduced daytime’s first lesbian character in 1983 with Dr. Lynn Carson, played by Donna Pescow (Gertrude, General Hospital). Devon McFadden developed a crush on the doc and proposed having an affair. But Lynn realized that lonely Devon was straight and declined.

127. 1996, AMC became the first soap opera to begin each episode with a recap of the previous day and to end the show with a preview

128. Approximately 400 to 500 lights are needed each day to tape an episode of AMC.

129. Erica Kane is the character who has the largest number of wardrobe pieces.

130. Pine Valley's laundry is done in the basement of the ALL MY CHILDREN studio. Two washing machines are in constant use all day long!

131. Michael Nader (Dimitri Marick) spent three years on As the World turns, where he played Kevin Thompson.

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