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Josh Duhamel makes rare comment on why he and Fergie divorced: ‘No regrets’

The actor gave rare insight into his 2017 split from the Black Eyed Peas member, 50, during Monday’s “The Skinny Confidential” podcast.

“We’re just very different,” the “Ransom Canyon” star, 53, told listeners. “She and I just have different views of the world, and that’s OK.”

Duhamel clarified, however, that he has “no regrets about” his failed marriage to the singer, whom he divorced in 2019.

“We have a beautiful son,” he gushed, referencing 12-year-old Axl.

The former soap star went on to compare Fergie to wife Audra Mari, noting that the Grammy winner and the model, 32, are “both very different in a lot of ways but both really, really great women.”

“Fergie is also very wholesome, believe it or not, especially since she stepped away from it all,” he added.

“She’s a great mom, very kind, very non-confrontational, thank God.”

As for where the former couple stands now, Duhamel explained, “[Fergie and I] have a great relationship. She and Audra have a great relationship.”

Duhamel moved on with Mari in 2019, popping the question three years later.

The couple walked down the aisle in North Dakota in September 2022, and their son, Shepherd, was born in January 2024.

The following year, Duhamel gave more insight into his and Fergie’s breakup on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger.”

“There wasn’t anything wrong with [our relationship],” he insisted in the 2023 interview.

“We had a great time. I think we kind of outgrew each other and had very different interests.”

Additionally, the “All My Children” alum noted he didn’t “ever really get comfortable” with Fergie’s fame because he’s “just not a guy who is comfortable going to red carpets [and] doing all the Hollywood stuff.”

SAG-AFTRA’s Actor Award Winners

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Michael B. Jordan, Sinners

NAACP Image Award Winners

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture: Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners” (Warner Bros. Pictures)

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)

Young and Restless Star Melissa Claire Egan Reveals Heart Disease Diagnosis: ‘Too Important Not to Share’

The actress began her post by writing, “I wanted to share that in late January I was diagnosed with Coronary heart disease.” She then assured her fans, “Thanks to early detection, and medicine, I will be okay!”

Detailing the road to her diagnosis, Egan shared, “My brilliant doctor of 20+ years [Dr. Thai?s Aliabadi] sent me to a wonderful cardiologist [Dr. Mo Ghalichi] when some bloodwork came back high, and through a Heart calcium scan he found plaque in my LAD artery (known as the ‘widow maker). It’s mild so far and tends to be genetic, but rare for a 44 year old woman.”

Cautioned Egan, “This could have caused the plaque to chip off and cause a fatal heart attack or stroke any time over the next 5-10 years, maybe even sooner.”

The actress went on to encourage other women to undergo heart calcium scans. “Later that night after I was diagnosed, I laid with my sons [Caden, 4, and Jake, 2], putting them to bed, feeling so grateful to God and my doctors that I found this early,” she wrote. “But I couldn’t stop thinking about all the other women (and men) that might have this disease and not know it. It is under-tested and under-recognized.

“We all are so good about getting our mammograms every year, but we don’t check our heart health,” she continued. “It is imperative that you do! Cardiovascular disease is the Number 1 killer of women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year.”

Egan advised, “Tell your doctor you want to be evaluated for coronary heart disease risk. A takeaway from my situation, for your blood tests ask your doctor to specifically look for Lipoprotein(a) and ApoB levels. Also you MUST ASK YOUR DOCTOR ABOUT A ‘Heart Calcium scan,'” she stressed.

The actress also shared that she was working with the American Heart Association to bring more awareness to heart disease. She went into the story of her diagnosis in greater depth on the AHA website, where she explained that knowing that going public with her ordeal might help save the lives of other women. “I’m a relatively private person, but I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I didn’t share my story,” declared Egan.

Kelly Ripa on 25 Years of ‘Live,’ Asking Oprah When to Walk Away and Hopes for the Future: ‘The Show Is Far More Important Than Any Two Hosts’

“I don’t care if it’s the flight attendant on the plane or the person that I just met standing in line at Starbucks,” she says. “I want to know the origin story of the person.”

Ripa’s origin story with “Live” begins in 2000, when Philbin’s co-host of 15 years, Kathie Lee Gifford, departed. There was a slew of people — Gloria Estefan, Rosie O’Donnell, Lisa Rinna and Whoopi Goldberg, to name a few — in the rotation as guest hosts in the following months. Ripa wasn’t one of them.

Ripa had been playing the scrappy Hayley Vaughan on ABC’s “All My Children” for a decade and, unbeknownst to virtually everyone, she was expecting her second child with husband Mark Consuelos.

But while she wasn’t looking for the hosting gig, she filled in one day, and it was clear she was the front-runner for the spot from her first appearance.

Three months later, the show was rebranded “Live With Regis and Kelly.” She’d sit next to Philbin for the next 10 years until he left the show in 2011. Michael Strahan and Ryan Seacrest occupied the chair next to Ripa in the years that followed. Then, in 2023, the perfect partner came along — Ripa’s real-life one.

This time, there were no co-host auditions. Consuelos, who had regularly filled in on the show over the years, was made the permanent co-host on April 17, 2023.

Now, Ripa looks back at her start on “Live” — and her future. She even turned to Oprah Winfrey, who left her daytime show in 2011 after 25 years, for advice.

What do you remember of your first time guest hosting?
My first day was the day after Halloween. The only reason that sticks out in my head is because Mark and I knew we were pregnant. We hadn’t told anyone. They tell you at the show, “Come with something to talk about for the host chat.” I was like, “I have a lot to talk about because I just took a 3-year-old trick-or-treating.” There was a psychic on the show, Char Margolis, that we were going to be interviewing. She came out and told the world I was pregnant.

You were on “All My Children” for 11 years when Kathie Lee Gifford decided to leave. Did someone come to you and say you should try out?
I knew I was pregnant with our second child and working on a soap opera is an extraordinarily demanding schedule. I was like, “I don’t think I can do this with two kids. It’s not fair to me, and it’s not fair to the kids.” My contract at “All My Children” had a year and a half left and I decided at that point that I would just stop working and raise my kids. I wasn’t paying attention at all to the Kathie Lee of it all — I certainly wasn’t looking for that job.

But you were convinced?
I think part of the reason I was attractive in any way is because I was the one person not pushing to get an audition for that show. My boss at the time was Angela Shapiro. She said, “I think you should fill in for Kathie Lee.” And I was like, “Angela, I’m exhausted.” What I didn’t tell her was, “I’m pregnant and I’m exhausted.” Then she said, “We had somebody cancel.” I did it, I had fun, but it was not on my radar at all to do that show. I guess there was an audience response to me. I really never thought about it again and then I got a call right away to come back and do it again. The rest was history. I think, by December, they were already negotiating my contract. It was very fast. I think I had hosted three times and then they signed me to a contract.

Did your nerves immediately kick in?
When there’s something at stake, a far greater pressure is on you when you are a co-host versus when you’re just a fill-in person. I felt terrified.

When did that go away?
Maybe the eighth year? It took me a while to not feel terrified. It really took a long time to get comfortable. What surprised me about Mark is how comfortable and good at it he was immediately. Where it took me eight years to become comfortable, it took him maybe eight days!

When did you realize that this was going to be something you’d be doing for a long time?
When I tell you I never knew it was going to be a long-term thing — I’m still on the fence about it being a long-term thing! The fact that we are celebrating my 25th anniversary does not seem real to me.

In the early days of “Live,” you were still on “All My Children,” then did three years of “Hope & Faith.” Right now, you have this and your podcast — on top of home responsibilities. How would you describe your work ethic?
I’m always busy. I always work. I feel like I burned out for a while because I was offered a lot of things after the sitcom that I turned down outright. They were big things. I was like, “Wait, why did I take this talk show in the beginning?” Because it allowed me the opportunity to be a present parent while still earning a living at the end of the day. So, I went back to that.

You interview so many people. Who is the last person that made you nervous?
They all get me excited. The reason I’ve been able to maintain longevity in this job is because I assume the role of the person at home that is excited. I’ve always been curious about people. And I don’t care if it’s the flight attendant on the plane or the person that I just met in line at Starbucks. I want to know the origin story of the person — no matter who it is. If Madonna comes on, I’m up at night planning how I can try to look cool in front of her. I guess that’s the exception.

How much longer do you want to keep hosting the show?
Let me give Oprah credit. She left her show at the 25-year mark, and I said to her, “Should this be my signal?” She’s like, “Don’t leave. Don’t do it. Right now, you’ll regret it.” She said, “With you and Mark, the dynamic, the show is more important than ever. People really relate to it, and they need that in this world of a lot of darkness and an endless 24-hour, never-ending news cycle.” I need to actually ask her, “You said not to leave at 25, but what year? What are we thinking? Give me an idea of how far beyond 25 I should go.” But I always say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. We are really having a very good time.

So, no end date in sight?
I want to see this show stay on the air as long as linear TV lives. The show is far more important than any two hosts, so I just want the show to live forever because it’s a really, really great piece of history. It’s also a great way for people to have worry-free TV that they can watch with their kids.

Michael B. Jordan explains how All My Children shaped his acting career: 'That was my education'

According to Michael B. Jordan, getting his start on the long-running soap opera was all the education he needed as an up-and-coming young actor. Now an Oscar nominee for his performance in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, Jordan reflected on his All My Children stint during a recent interview with Sirius XM, where he was treated to some kind words for his former soap costar, Susan Lucci.

"He was always so wonderful to work with," Lucci told the outlet during her Feb. 5 visit. "He was prepared, he was on time, he was committed, he was sweet, he was respectful to everyone around him — cast, crew, producers, everybody, you name it. But not nauseously so, you know, not phony baloney. He was authentically who he was."

She added, "He was a genuinely terrific young man."

Jordan received the words with a smile, calling Lucci's praise "sweet" and noting, "I gotta get in touch with her."

He went on to speak highly of his time on the show, sharing that — although it was not his first role in Hollywood — his teenage tenure on All My Children was a formative experience.

"That time I spent on that show did so much for me education-wise," he shared, sharing that he had the honor of "learning about the craft" alongside stars like Lucci, Darnell Williams, and Walt Willey.

"We did 100-plus pages a day," he added. "We did an episode and a half a day, you know what I'm saying? It was a machine. And [for] a kid that never really went to acting classes and never went to acting school or anything like that, that was my education. I learned from them."

By the time he joined the soap, Jordan had already broken out onto the scene as Wallace on The Wire. But All My Children marked another significant stretch of his career, as he stuck with the show for three years across 59 episodes. His role, Reggie Porter Montgomery, was originally played by the late Chadwick Boseman — his future Black Panther costar — who was fired after just one week on set for criticizing Reggie's character arc for playing into racial stereotypes.

Jordan himself has acknowledged that criticism of the character and in 2015, told GQ that it ended up providing a road map of the kind of roles he wanted to pursue in the future. "No dad, no mom, a f---ing stereotypical black role in a soap opera," he said of Reggies. "And I saw the stereotype, so moving forward I was like, 'Nah, those are the roles I don’t want to play.'"

That said, Jordan has also noted that starring on a soap opened doors he never could've expected. "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,'" he told PEOPLE last year, adding that several of those conversations ended with invitations for him to come in and read for new projects.

Jordan has come a long way since his All My Children days, boasting accolades including a Producers Guild Award and SAG win, in addition to a Golden Globe nod and two Emmy nominations.

Kim Delaney Tells Judge She Left Scene of Crash Because She's Too Famous

According to court docs filed by Kim, the actress claims she was not drunk when she fled the scene of a 2022 car crash.

The actress admitted she was involved in a car accident where she rear-ended a man named Dzhamal Badalov.

Dzhamal is suing Kim for unspecified damages, claiming Kim was intoxicated when she hit him and rushed off before cops arrived.

In her new filing, Kim scoffed at the suggestions but did say she left before law enforcement arrived because she feared for her safety.

The entertainer alleged that she was surrounded by several people and had a “previous history of personal assault in this neighborhood.”

Kim also said she is an actress who has “appeared in television series and movies, and is additionally fearful of any retribution or attack based on her perceived celebrity status.”

In court docs, Dzhamal claimed Kim was driving erratically before the crash. He said she reeked of alcohol and left the scene after trying to offer him money not to call the police.

Kim denied all allegations of wrongdoing. She claimed the accident was caused by third parties outside her control.

The lawsuit isn’t the only thing Kim is dealing with at the moment. As TMZ first reported, Kim’s husband James Morgan was arrested after cops were called to the actress’ home for a disturbance. The on-again, off-again couple, who are in the middle of a divorce, have had a rocky relationship for years.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar Says She Learned to Drive on Set of All My Children

On the Monday, Feb. 16 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, Gellar, 48, spoke about her turn as Kendall Hart, the daughter of Susan Lucci's Erica Kane. Gellar played the role from Feb. 1993 to July 1995.

"I remember meeting you a a teenage girl," co-host Kelly Ripa told Gellar. Ripa had played Hayley Vaughan Santos, the rebellious daughter of tycoon Adam Chandler on All My Children

"I was 15," Gellar responded.

Elsewhere in the show, Gellar said she took driving lessons outside the studio where the soap opera was filmed.

"You guys were around when I took Driver's Ed," Gellar said to hosts Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who aplso appeared on the show.

"I didn't want to learn how to drive," Gellar said, noting that she grew up in New York City. "I was like 'I'm never leaving New York City, I'll take the subway...' My mom was like, 'You have to get your license.'"

She continued: "I took my driving lesson right outside on the old walkway outside the old studio."

"And it was so embarrassing. Because, like, I'm trying to be a professional, have an adult job and then my lame driver's car comes with the dual brakes. But yea, I learned to drive outside the old studio," Gellar said.

Veteran casting director Judy Blye Wilson spoke last year about Gellar's casting, saying in an interview published by TV Insider of the actress: “She was a young kid, and she had done a couple of little plays."

“We tested about four girls, and we tested them with Susan. And there was no question about it. Sarah Michelle was it, period.," she added. "She really, really nailed that role and continued to do so. She was really phenomenal.”

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'NYPD Blue' Kim Delaney's Husband Arrested After Multiple Disturbance Calls to Home

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department tells TMZ ... deputies responded to what was classified as a family disturbance on Sunday night. We're told deputies received four separate 911 calls reporting a possible verbal disturbance in a public area at the couple's apartment complex in Marina Del Rey.

According to the sheriff's department, Kim's hubby, James Morgan, was arrested at the scene for obstructing or delaying a public officer. He is currently still in custody and is due in court Tuesday.

TMZ broke the story ... back in April 2025, Kim was arrested for assault likely to cause great bodily injury against James who was also arrested at the time for misdemeanor domestic violence.

At the time, cops said the couple had been fighting for two days leading up to those arrests. During the first alleged incident, Kim called police and made a domestic violence report against James. Authorities say James left the home but returned, prompting another call to law enforcement.

Sheriff's deputies say James told them at the time Kim tried to hit him with her car, and he allegedly showed deputies video of the incident.

Despite the turmoil, the two appeared to reconcile shortly after. Not long after the arrests, Kim gifted James a bouquet of flowers for his 55th birthday, posting online ... "Birthday Boy, 55!!!!! Your wife loves you, my guy!"

We've reached out to Kim for comment ... so far, no word back.

Susan Lucci, 79, reveals the simple way she's staying so youthful: 'I wish I started sooner'

The actress, who celebrated her 79th birthday this past December, has been actively working since the late 1960s, achieving her breakthrough when she took on the role of Erica Kane on All My Children, a role she inhabited throughout its network run until 2011.

Since then, her life has changed in innumerable ways, from other TV and film projects to health scares with her heart and the loss of her longtime husband Helmut Huber. And she describes it all in her new memoir, La Lucci, which was published on February 3.

How does she balance it all? Speaking exclusively with HELLO! ahead of a talk with Joan Lunden on release day at The 92NY, Susan attributed finding joy and a healthy approach to life as her secret.

When asked about her philosophy on fitness, she told us: "I think first of all, it's the hip bones connected to the thigh bones, it's all part of the same thing, the body, mind, spirit."

The one exercise she can't do without now? Pilates! "I started doing Pilates in my 40s, and I'm really glad I did, I wish I'd started sooner." She attributes not only its physical effects on her body, the "results that I really like" and doing "various forms of it," but also how it plays a part in mental health.

"It really helps the stress, and I wish I had known about that," Susan shared, revealing that the change in her fitness regimen also naturally contributed to a shift in her diet. "Two weeks into doing Pilates, my cravings changed."

"Suddenly I did not want any more tacos or cheeseburgers," she continued. "If anyone had told me that before, I would not have believed it. Suddenly I wanted salads and salmon and blueberries, like that."

The All My Children alum now subscribes to the "Mediterranean diet," which in her words consists of an emphasis on "fish and vegetables and fruit," which "all stood me in good stead, and that's kept me healthy."

She also touched on her "heart event," referencing her 2018 operation to place two arterial stents in her heart. Susan reasoned as well that she realized she'd inherited her father's genes contributing to her heart trouble as opposed to her mother's, who passed away at 104.

Gushing about her partnership with the American Heart Association as well (and wearing red on the occasion to symbolize it), she added: "I'm so proud of that. That's one of my proudest accomplishments."

"I'm so thrilled that people have liked me as an actress, and continue [to], and I love that," she continued. "But my other favorite, wonderful thing that I'm proud of is the work I get to do thanks to the American Heart Association."

"On behalf of women's heart health, and really men's heart health too, we want them around too!"

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Susan Lucci on Her New Memoir, Return to Acting With Keanu Reeves and Advice for Diane Warren After 17th Oscar Nom

But not as her iconic “All My Children” character Erika Cane. After not appearing on television in almost a decade, Lucci returns to acting in the upcoming dark comedy “Outcome,” starring Keanu Reeves as a Hollywood star who is being extorted with a video that could destory his career. He seeks out all those he may have wronged to try to find out who is bent on taking him down. Lucci plays his mom.

Footage of the film that debuted Tuesday during Apple TV’s press day in Santa Monica shows Lucci’s character cursing up a storm. Jonah Hill serves as director and co-writer of the movie, which begins streaming on April 10. He also stars, alongside Cameron Diaz and Matt Bomer.

Hill approached Lucci, who lasted acted on TV in 2017 with a guest spot on the Billy Eichner series “Difficult People,” about joining the ensemble. “I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it,” Lucci told me at the American Heart Association-hosted book release party in New York City for her new memoir “La Lucci.” “I love Jonah Hill, but my main scene, it’s spectacular and challenging, but I was going to have to go to a place where I would have to be very raw again to do this.”

But then she read the script. “When I laid down at night, I couldn’t help myself,” Lucci said. “I started working on this character. I also knew that I would feel terrible if I saw another actress take on the challenge and it wasn’t me. I’d be really upset.”

She worked closely with Reeves. “He was fantastic. After a few shows of it, he said to me, ‘Wow, I wish we were doing this on stage on Broadway,’” Lucci said. “I said, ‘Me, too. I was just sitting here thinking the same thing.’”

Lucci said she lost her spark for acting after the death of her husband of 53 years, Helmut Huber, four years ago. “I really thought I would never step in front of the camera or on stage again,” she said.

“La Lucci” chronicles her experience with grief and other challenging moments. “Maybe you’ll gather something for yourself from the book, and maybe you won’t,” Lucci said. “There’s no teaching moments. There’s no bumper stickers in the book, but maybe you won’t feel so alone.”

Lucci famously was nominated for a Daytime Emmy 19 times before finally winning in 1999, so I had to ask if she has any advice for Diane Warren. The prolific songwriter received her 17th Oscar nomination this year. She has yet to take home an Academy Award. (Warren was awarded a non-competitive honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in 2022.) “Keep on doing what you love. Diane,” Lucci said. “We don’t do it for the awards, but winning is better.”

Lucci almost didn’t make it to the stage when she won. “I didn’t hear my name,” she said. “After the ninth time I didn’t win, I would go numb whenever they said the name. It must be a self-protective thing.”

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Susan Lucci Says She Still Receives 'Signs' from Her Beloved Late Husband 4 Years after His Death

"The minute I fell in love like I did with my husband, I knew how vulnerable I was," she tells PEOPLE. When he died, she adds, "I was completely lost."

For more than five decades, Helmut Huber, who died at age 84 one month after suffering a stroke, had been a "rock" for the All My Children soap legend as well as her date to every Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony where she was nominated for best actress for her role as certified schemer Erica Kane.

That's 21 Emmy ceremonies in all, between 1978 and 2002. (Lucci won her first and only competitive Emmy in 1999 after 18 losses.) Their son Andreas was her date the night in 2023 that she was presented with a lifetime achievement Daytime Emmy, but as Lucci tells PEOPLE during a cover story interview about her new memoir La Lucci (out Feb. 3 on Blackstone Publishing), the presence of her beloved husband was strong that night, and it stays with her — sometimes in truly mysterious ways.

"I didn't even know that there were signs," Lucci, 79, who lives on Long Island, N.Y., says of receiving messages from her husband four years after his death. "I was so thrilled. A good friend of mine sent me a book called Signs. And in that book, there were many examples."

Lucci says she received a sign of her own "early on" after Huber died. "Helmut's family from Europe had been staying with us through all the services. And I went to the guest area to see what they were doing. And Helmut's birthday was 10/10, October 10th. And there next to their bed was a little baggy, full of dimes ... full of dimes."

"Even when you're here for a week, you don't wind up with that much change," she continues. "All dimes. And I right away knew that was Helmut. And dimes for a while showed up in pairs in very unexpected places. And even in my purse where there used to be just one, suddenly there were two. This was definitely a sign from him."

The signs, she says, kept coming.

"And I guess six months after Helmut passed, I was invited to a dinner party outdoors," she recalls. "And it was a beautiful evening. Everybody was outside. There was a table. My college roommate had put together about 10 of us. They were all friends. I was the newbie. Anyway, there were bouquets of flowers scattered outdoors. And there were bouquets of feathers far away."

"At my chair, curling, [there was] a big, big plume, a purple feather, just at my chair," she continues. "None of the other 10 people sitting at the table and nobody else nearby at any table, just at my chair."

"And Helmut was very funny," she adds. "He had such a great sense of humor. He made me laugh all the time. And I thought that must be a sign from him. And it was too big to put in my wheelie to go home, and I didn't want to fold it or damage it. So I left it in my friend's closet."

Like the number 10, feathers have become a recurring — and comforting — presence in Lucci's life. "Ever since then, places where there are no birds — a beautiful white feather on the pavement in Paris. Or in the trunk of my car. Now there were no birds in the trunk of my car and no birds flying near the trunk of my car when it was open that a feather could have dropped in there. I chose to believe these are signs. I just believe them and they're there."

La Lucci is available now, wherever books are sold.

Susan Lucci Reveals Her Favorite Erica Kane Wedding Dress on ‘All My Children’

“Erica really just wanted boyfriends and men in her life,” reflects Lucci. “That’s another thing I think that people could identify with, searching for that love, wanting to have that love in their lives. Some characters were in search of power. I know Erica was powerful, but that was not the thing she was searching for. She wanted love.”

That search played out dramatically over the course of the show’s run. When AMC went off the air in 2011, Erica had racked up 10 marriages, earning her the famously lengthy name: Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery. Those unions included her saying, “I do” to Jeff Martin (Charles Frank), Phil Brent (Nick Benedict), Tom Cudahy (Richard Shoberg), Adam Chandler (David Canary), Travis Montgomery (Larkin Malloy — twice), Adam again, Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader — twice) and Jackson Montgomery (Walt Willey), plus a wedding to Mike Roy (Nicolas Surovy) that was ultimately deemed invalid.

Erica’s multiple trips down the aisle also produced some of the show’s most memorable bridal looks, and Lucci does have a favorite. “There were so many, as you know,” she says. “I don’t know why I never thought about that before, but as you’re saying it, I’m remembering the wedding with Dimitri. That was all very ceremonial — the Greek wedding full of pageantry — so I would think that one.”

Identifying the love of Erica’s life, however, is a more complicated question. “I think she was always in search of that,” points out Lucci. “I think there were some that could have been, but I don’t know. Jack, she loved him, but she left him several times, too.”

Beyond romance, Erica was also known for her glamorous career as a model and her enviable wardrobe, something that spilled over into Lucci’s own sense of style. “I always loved what our costume designer would put me in,” she praises. “Erica and I had very similar taste, but Erica would wear a Dolce [& Gabbana] cocktail dress around the house or on a plane, and I would wear it to a cocktail party. That was the difference.”

Who Does Susan Lucci Keep in Touch With From ‘All My Children’?

In addition to a handful of behind-the-scenes colleagues, Lucci is still closely connected to her former costars, including Cameron Mathison (General Hospital‘s Drew Cain, who played Ryan Lavery), Eva LaRue (Maria Santos), Eden Riegel (Bianca Montgomery), Alicia Minshew (Kendall Hart), and Jill Larson (Opal Cortlandt). “We all stay in touch somehow or another,” Lucci says. “Sometimes we get to see each other, but mostly we just stay in touch via text or Instagram.”

Lucci’s 41-year run on the show was filled with memorable moments, but none looms larger than her Daytime Emmy win in 1999 after 19 nominations. Before revealing the winner, presenter Shemar Moore (who played Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless) declared, “The streak is over.”

(Emmy Video) The announcement quickly entered daytime television lore, but for Lucci, it played out in an unexpected way. “Shemar Moore is so adorable,” she notes. “We were in Madison Square Garden that year — we were usually at Radio City — but that particular year we were in the Garden, and I thought he was announcing the sports playoff scores. I thought, ‘Oh, that’s nice. He’s gonna keep everybody in the loop.’ So, I was surprised when [my win] turned out to be the announcement that he made.”

Finally holding the coveted trophy was deeply meaningful. “Winning is better,” she says candidly. “I make no secret of that. I was really happy to be nominated all those times and, of course, you can’t win if you’re not in the game, so I was very happy that my peers in the industry thought my work was worthy to keep me in the game. That was great, but winning was just amazing.”

What became clear in the days that followed was just how much the victory really resonated with the public. “I would walk into a restaurant, and the restaurant would not only send over champagne, but the staff would come and sing, ‘Congratulations to you,’ to the tune of ‘Happy Birthday,’” she recalls. “I was so touched. I remember being stopped at a red light on the way home after work one day shortly after I won, and a big New York City fire truck pulled up next to us at the red light, and on top, sitting outside, were a bunch of firemen. I don’t know how they saw me, but they leaned down, and they all gave me a thumbs up. Some wonderful things like that. I mean, certainly, my husband and our family cared, but that the press corps would be so engaged and that people in general would care so much and would be jumping up and down for me, that was amazing, and I’ll never forget that.”

Looking back on more than four decades in Pine Valley, Lucci is filled with gratitude. “I loved it, and I continue to love it,” she says. “I remember walking into the studio one morning, and we had been on the air for 25 years. I remember thinking, ‘Has anyone noticed how long we’ve been here? Aren’t we lucky? Isn’t this fabulous?’ I miss that. I miss being part of that team, and it was a great team, people all on the same page. We just wanted the scenes to work and to put on a good show, and it was wonderful.”

That she remained with the series for the entirety of its run still amazes her. “First of all, I had to be convinced to sign my first contract because it was for three years,” she muses. “I was just out of college, so my only frame of reference was four years of college, and now they wanted me there for three years? It was a lifetime to me at the time, but what I did realize was how wonderful the part was and how wonderful the writing was.”

She admits she periodically checked in with herself about whether she wanted to remain on the show. “As time went by, I would reevaluate every time my contract would come up, ‘Do I want to stay? Am I happy?’” she shares. “But the truth is, I would walk in in the morning, and my inside voice was singing. I was happy. I was happy with the material, I was happy with who I was working with, happy who I was working for, and it allowed me to stay in New York and raise my children. I was as happy as I could be.”

Perhaps the biggest surprise of all was the audience’s reaction to Erica Kane herself. “I didn’t know the fans were going to love Erica because she was the bad girl in town, but they did,” she marvels. “What I loved is that the audience saw her spirit more than anything, and that’s what they loved. I was so surprised early on that I was being asked to give interviews for women’s magazines as a standard of feminism. That shocked me because Erica really just wanted boyfriends and men, so I didn’t see what the audience saw, which was that she was determined to have what she wanted in life. I guess I didn’t know that that was such a new thing. To me, that just seemed normal.”

For more from Lucci, pick up a copy of her new memoir, La Lucci, on sale February 3.

Susan Lucci Faced a Life-Threatening Battle When Her Son Andreas Nearly Died 36 Hours After He Was Born

A mere 36 hours after the birth of her son Andreas in 1980, he suffered a life-threatening bout with pneumonia. Lucci, 79, writes about the harrowing experience in her new memoir La Lucci (out Feb. 3 from Blackstone Publishing) and in a PEOPLE cover story in this week's issue.

“It was hugely impactful on me,” she says of the ordeal. “I was so grateful to God, so grateful to the doctors, the nurses. I have written one fan letter in my life, and it was to the nurses in NICU, [about] how they took care of not just my son, but all the other babies, too.”

Lucci says Winthrop Hospital (now NYU Langone Hospital) in Mineola, N.Y., was way ahead of its time when it came to patient care. "They allowed the parents to visit 24/7 in NICU, and so I did," she adds. "When Andreas was put into the transitional nursery, meaning that he was on his way to being able to come home, I walked in one morning — it was 5:30 a.m. — and there was a nurse rocking Andreas. He was in swaddling, but his little feet were sticking out at the bottom and she had crocheted cowboy boots for him. She had another baby in an umbrella stroller, and she was singing, 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail.' "

"She didn't know I was coming," Lucci continues. "She didn't know — that's who those nurses are in NICU. They are so giving and so loving, and parents can't be there all the time. And so, I wrote that one fan letter. I was so grateful to receive that kind of kindness, to be on the receiving end of that. It woke me up."

Lucci and her son still share a close bond. Four years ago, in March of 2022, they had to lean into that connection when Lucci's husband of 52 years, Helmut Huber (the father of Andreas, now 45, and his sister Liza, 50), died at age 84, one month after suffering a stroke.

Lucci writes about the devastating impact of the loss and her difficult journey with grief in La Lucci. “The minute I fell in love like I did with my husband, I knew how vulnerable I was,” Lucci, 79, tells PEOPLE. “I was completely lost [after he died]. And it's so isolating. You feel so alone, even though I had the most wonderful friends … I am so grateful for the people who stood by me.”

One of those people was Andreas, who was by his mother's side in 2023 when she received a lifetime achievement Daytime Emmy, 12 years after the cancellation of All My Children. The 21-time nominee was up for best actress 18 times before she finally won in 1999 on her 19th nomination.

"My husband had been with me at every one of the Emmys and so many performances," Lucci says. "My son flew in to be with me that night and having him there ... I love him so much. And he was spectacular through the whole [night]."

"And I write about how he was there the whole time, too, with my husband fighting for his life and beyond and past that," Lucci continues. "And he's a great young man, whether he's my son or not. I'm very proud to be his mother. He's terrific. And he was there that night, and that was a big help."

La Lucci will be released by Blackstone Publishing on Feb. 3 and is currently available for preorder, wherever books are sold.

Susan Lucci Reflects on the All My Children Storyline She ‘Hated,' Erica Kane’s ‘Iconic’ Fight with a Bear

Lucci discusses her work on All My Children as well as her journey with grief after losing her husband of 52 years, Helmut Huber, in 2022 in her new memoir La Lucci (out Feb. 3 from Blackstone Publishing).

The actress sat for an exclusive PEOPLE interview for a cover story in this week's issue, and she talked about a storyline that came several months before All My Children's 2011 series finale. (Lucci played Erica from episode 1 all the way to the very end.) It stands out in the actress's mind as a true jump-the-shark moment.

"I'll tell you, the one I hated was one that came very late in the game," Lucci, 79, tells PEOPLE. "I played Erica, but I also played a stalker of hers. I hated that. I just didn't like it. It just seemed, I don't know, forced. I don't know. I didn't love it. I didn't love it. And I don't think that was [written by AMC creator] Agnes [Nixon]. I think that was something that would come at the end."

In the storyline, a woman named Jane Campbell had extensive plastic surgery to look just like Erica. Jane kidnapped Erica on Erica's wedding day and then spent weeks assuming her identity. Doppelgängers are a staple of daytime soap operas, but for Lucci, two Erica Kanes was simply one too many.

She's more appreciative of an even more outrageous 1985 storyline in which Erica Kane stared down a threatening grizzly bear. After a few tense moments, she bellowed, "I am Erica Kane, and you are a filthy beast." The filthy beast beat it.

"I'll tell you the truth, I will try anything in rehearsal," Lucci says when the subject of Erica's bear encounter comes up during her interview with PEOPLE. "That morning, we were on location up north on the Finger Lakes in Canada, but way north of Toronto. And they brought the bear. It was a very hot day in the summer, and this bear, with its trainer or handler, just wanted to be in this creek that was on the property. So the bear was just trying to stay cool in the water."

Lucci discussed the scene with executive producer Jacqueline Babbin and the improbable twist: "That Erica would fight the bear and would win," Lucci recalls. "I said, 'Jackie, you know I will do anything in rehearsal. I'll try anything, but don't you think we've gone too far?' And she said, 'No, no, try it.' So I did."

Unfortunately, the bear was not as cooperative behind the scenes as it was onscreen. "The bear did not want to work," she says. "The bear was like so hot — furry bear, on a hot July day in the water. It just wanted to stay in the water. And when the trainer brought the bear to stand opposite me to play the scene, the bear was just like, 'Rah.' "

"He did not want to work, but I tried it," she continues. "We got it in one take. She was happy. Jackie Babin was happy, the crew was happy and we went on from there. Who knew that was going to become such an iconic Eric Kane scene?"

During her tenure of 40-plus years, Lucci amassed a legion of fans, including many of her colleagues.

"Susan was one of my favorite people in the whole world to work with," Cameron Mathison, who played Ryan Lavery on AMC and now plays Drew Cain on General Hospital, tells PEOPLE. "I loved her whole energy and friendship. I think because I was close with her husband Helmut and her son Andreas, it brought me even closer to her."

"By the time that the writers had put us together as a couple, we were already very close," he adds. "We had so much fun together, and that was one of my favorite storylines in my 14 years on the show. Even though the audience hated it, Susan and I loved it."

Michael E. Knight, who played AMC's Tad Martin and now appears on General Hospital as Martin Gray, is equally effusive when discussing Lucci in an email to PEOPLE: “It’s ridiculous to try and sum up what Susan means to me in a line or two. Too much vies for too little."

"What can I possibly say about an adored, professional, glamorous, hysterical, loyal and compassionate friend who changed the course of my life when I was still too young and inexperienced to know how incredibly lucky I was," Knight writes. "I CAN tell you, however, the greatest lesson she ever TAUGHT me was all about gratitude. If I’m still 'in there' swinging today (having started when the world was still cooling), it’s because Susan once told me, 'Mikey, they’ll love you for 50 years. All you gotta do is love them back for five minutes.' "

"The woman could say 'thank you' to the avalanche of devoted fans who never STOPPED approaching her in any one of a 1000 ways, each and every one sincere and heartfelt. She made people feel special."

"Susan, I love you… Always have… Always will. But more than ANYTHING, 'Thank you.' It’s a complete sentence… a very VERY important one.“

La Lucci will be released by Blackstone Publishing on Feb. 3 and is currently available for preorder, wherever books are sold.

Theo Rossi, Mario Van Peebles & Derek Wilson Sink Teeth Into WeBros’ Vampire Island Thriller ‘Young Blood’

The trio join previously announced Myles Truitt, Madison Wolfe, Marley Aliah, Genneya Walton, Alex Aiono and Mitchell Hoog in the WeBros Entertainment production.

Young Blood follows three college best friends who travel to Key Largo for what promises to be the best spring break ever … until they end up stranded on a deserted island being hunted by starved, bloodthirsty vampires. Rossi, Van Peebles and Wilson will play the vampire godfathers in the genre pic.

EPs on Young Blood are Matt Luber, Kelly Pendygraft and Brian Gottlieb. Celina and Sergio Borges Torrealba Carpi and Arvin Scott are also EPs. WeBros Entertainment’s Michael Weiss, Andy Weiss and Gregg Barbagallo are producing. Babacar Diene of Paradigm Agency is handling sales.

Andy Weiss co-wrote the George Gallo movie Middle Men, along with the director. He also wrote the Netflix Jamie Foxx sports drama Fight for ’84 and the Yann Demange-directed Matthew McConaughey thriller White Boy Rick, on which Michael Weiss was an EP. Michael Weiss produced Middle Men and also executive produced the recent Russell Crowe feature Beast in Me, and the Muzzle franchise starring Aaron Eckhart.

Rossi recently starred in HBO Max/DC series The Penguin, the Netflix movie Carry On, as well as the upcoming Come With Me opposite Ron Perlman, The Underneath: In Fortune’s Shadow with Michael Rooker, and The Saviors with Perlman and Adam Scott.

Van Peebles’ feature credits include Clint Eastwood’s Heartbreak Ridge, New Jack City, Ali, and the upcoming That One Beautiful Day opposite Mira Sorvino.

Wilson starred on the Hulu series Future Man, Prime Video’s The Boys, Gen V, Warner Bros/DC’s Birds of Prey movie, and the AMC series Preacher.

Rossi is repped by Paradigm, Entertainment 360 and Shreck Rose Dapello etc. Van Peebles is represented by Buchwald, Luber Roklin, and Pitt Entertainment Law. Wilson is repped by Innovative Artists, Gartner Group and Tisherman Gilbert Motely etc.

Talk Show Appearance

Tuesday, Feb. 3 – SUSAN LUCCI discusses “La Lucci.”

Jacob Young Reveals How a Call to Anthony Geary Helped Him Land ‘General Hospital’

Actor Jacob Young (ex-Rick, The Bold and the Beautiful), who stars in the independent film A Murder Between Friends (which he also directed), was up for the coveted role. A chance run-in with a pair of Young’s former B&B castmates set in serendipitous motion a call that played a role in his move to Port Charles.

“Anthony Geary was a big part of me getting on General Hospital,” Young told TV Insider at a screening in Century City for A Murder Between Friends. “Jonathan was leaving, and [the show] wanted to make sure that they had somebody playing Lucky. Tony had a big, big say in recasting because they didn’t want to recast him [lightly]. Tony had been working with this young guy for so many years. Jonathan had three Daytime Emmys at the time.”

Young had gone through an initial casting process and was poised to go on tape in the hopes of landing the role. “The night before [my test], I ran into Ian Buchanan [ex-James, B&B; ex-Duke, GH] and Susan Flannery [ex-Stephanie, B&B] on Franklin Avenue [in Los Angeles]. Susan says to me, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m screen-testing tomorrow for General Hospital.’

“And she goes, ‘What character?’” Young continues. “I said, ‘Lucky Spencer,’ Tony Geary’s son. Susan goes, ‘I love Tony. I’m going to call him.’ So, she called him.”

Does Young feel that Flannery’s phone call and discussion with Geary helped tip the scales in his favor? “It definitely did,” Young states. “I don’t think I would have gotten that role without that support.” In 2002, Young won his own Daytime Emmy for playing Lucky in the now-retired category of Outstanding Young Actor in a Drama Series.

Just as Jackson has returned to GH over the years, so has Young with B&B. After he returned to the half-hour soap (following the cancellation of All My Children in 2011, the show on which he played JR Chandler), Rick emerged as a more forceful presence at Forrester Creations.

Rick wouldn’t hesitate, on occasion, to remind everyone that Stephanie’s firstborn, Ridge (Thorsten Kaye), was, in fact, not a Forrester by blood but rather a Marone, as his father was Massimo Marone (Joe Mascolo), not Eric Forrester (John McCook).

“I felt like Rick had been a stepchild for so long,” Young recalls. “I wanted to up him and make sure that he had a voice in the company… Rick had been put down for so many years. I’m not going to play a character that’s not going to speak up for himself.”

Young says the show’s writers picked up on Rick’s new attitude and soon, he began seeing Rick standing up for himself in the scripts.

“Brad [Bell, head writer/executive producer] and I discussed it, and we ended up moving forward with that angle,” Young shares. “Rick has a fond place in my heart. It was at the beginning of my career. I would not be where I am today without The Bold and the Beautiful. I was 17 when I got the part and didn’t know my head from my toes. I had a really wonderful experience on B&B.”

Now, Young’s making movies, and he plans to bring more films to the big screen. His character, Josh, in A Murder Between Friends, is a man who gets together with friends for a college reunion when a murder takes place. “Josh is kind of a wild card,” Young teases.

A Murder Between Friends is a playful whodunit/Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, starring and produced by Joan Collins (Alexis, Dynasty; Alexandra, Guiding Light), Young, Trent Garrett (ex-Asher, AMC), Percy Gibson, and Toby-Alexander Smith (EastEnders). The film was shot on location over two weeks at Úsobí Castle in the Czech Republic.

Collins stars as Francesca Carlyle, a legendary TV star, who sets out to solve a murder that takes place on her estate. “She’s a mixture of Angela Lansbury and Auntie Mame,” Collins tells TV Insider of her character. “I like murder stories, and I thought A Murder Between Friends was a great idea!”

A Murder Between Friends, Now Streaming on Video on Demand Platforms.

Susan Lucci Opens Up About Losing Her 'Love of a Lifetime' Husband of 52 Years and Embracing Joy Again

But the iconic antiheroine never had to face anything like the crushing grief her portrayer, Susan Lucci, had to endure when her husband of 52 years, Helmut Huber, died in 2022 at age 84, one month after suffering a stroke.

“The minute I fell in love like I did with my husband, I knew how vulnerable I was,” Lucci, 79, who played Erica from 1970 to 2011, tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. “I was completely lost [after he died]. And it's so isolating. You feel so alone, even though I had the most wonderful friend ... I am so grateful for the people who stood by me.”

Lucci reflects on her experience with grief in her new book La Lucci (out Feb. 3 from Blackstone Publishing), the follow-up to 2011’s All My Life: A Memoir.

Surrendering to her vulnerability once again and sharing it with the world was a process that began “in the middle of the night,” she recalls. “I keep a pen and paper next to my side of the bed in case I get an idea or in case I have to write something down so I don't keep rolling it around and memorizing it, so I could sleep. And in this case, I started waking up and things just started pouring out of me.”

Many of the words in La Lucci came to her in her sleep. When she was awake, the healing process was rough. “I felt like half a person,” she says. “I could hardly remember that I was an actress. It didn't mean anything to me. I thought, ‘Do I do that? Really?’ I thought at that time I probably will never go in front of a camera or go on stage again.”

In the book, Lucci discusses her soap opera tenure and shares joyful memories from her five decades with Huber, an Austrian-born producer she married at age 22 after eight months of dating and with whom she shared two children, daughter Liza, 50, a former actress who played Gwen Hotchkiss on the daytime soap Passions, and son Andreas, 45.

(Photo) She writes adoringly about Huber, a “classically trained chef” with “great sense of humor” who called her “Susie” and loved to drive fast, ski and golf, and cook her European comfort food. Asked what she misses most about him, Lucci says, “Everything. It's hard to say one thing. I just miss him, miss his presence, miss sharing things together, like coffee in the morning.”

These days Lucci, who will turn 80 in December, wakes up every morning on a mission: “I am looking for joy again,” she writes in her book. And although she finds it in work, travel, friends and “time spent with family, especially my grandchildren,” she still sometimes has to swim through waves of grief.

(Photo) “I don't fight it,” she says of the low moments, adding that they now wash over her less frequently. “I'm surprised sometimes by it. Certainly there are things like the holidays that are triggers — someone who should be sitting at the table. But I just go with it.”

And when grief threatens to swallow her whole, she has her memories of a lifetime spent with Huber and the wisdom he left behind, including a personal mantra he used to say in his “adorable” Austrian accent: “After the rain, the sun she shines.” For Lucci, those words have healing power. “They still help me,” she says. “His words stick with me. He was really my rock.”

La Lucci will be released by Blackstone Publishing on Feb. 3 and is currently available for preorder, wherever books are sold.

Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa: Susan Lucci

The iconic Susan Lucci joins Kelly in the studio, aka Michael’s bedroom, to discuss what it was like for her to FINALLY break her Emmy streak after 19 nominations for her role as Erica Kane on All My Children. The duo share their favorite off the wall storylines for their characters, Erica and Haley, and Susan breaks down the famous scene with the grizzly bear. PLUS, stick around for a very special announcement… and Susan shares if she’s ready to find love again. Be sure to check out Susan’s new memoir, La Lucci.

Saturn Awards Nominations

Best Actor in a Film
David Corenswet - Superman
Tom Cruise - Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
Tom Hiddleston - The Life of Chuck
Oscar Isaac - Frankenstein
Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
Pedro Pascal - The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Sam Worthington - Avatar: Fire and Ash

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series
Jack Alcott - Dexter: Resurrection
William Fichtner - Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order
Jude Law - Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
James Marsden - Paradise
Babou Ceesay - Alien: Earth
Ethan Peck - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Stellan Skarsgård - Andor

Best Guest Star in a Television Series
Dave Dastmalchian - Dexter: Resurrection
Peter Dinklage - Dexter: Resurrection
Linda Hamilton - Stranger Things
James Remar - It: Welcome to Derry
Bill Skarsgård - It: Welcome to Derry
Samba Schutte - Pluribus
Paul Wesley - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

BAFTA Film Awards Nominations

LEADING ACTOR
Robert Aramayo, “I Swear”
Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia”.

Soapy Season 2 Episode 12 | Judy Blye Wilson on Casting Super Stars on All My Children

Online Film Critics Society Award Winner

‘Matlock’ & ‘Elsbeth’ Renewed For New Seasons At CBS

From Jennie Snyder Urman, Matlock stars Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases. Matty is assigned to Olympia (Skye P. Marshall), a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice. Olympia’s ex-husband, Julian (Jason Ritter), the son of the head of the firm (Beau Bridges), is intrigued by Matty and her clever skills.

Deadline recently announced that Edwin Hodge would be joining the fold later this season as a guest star. He will play Langston, the kind of guy who can show up late, knowing he’ll charm everyone into forgetting about it as soon as he arrives. A double PhD in neuroscience and philosophy, he is a deep thinker… and a smooth talker.

His casting heralds Hodge’s return to CBS, following the conclusion of FBI: Most Wanted last year, in which he played the series regular role of Special Agent Ray Cannon across the show’s fourth to sixth seasons. Hodge will also reunite on-screen with his real-life wife, Marshall, whose work on the series is critically acclaimed.

In addition to Hodge, Sarah Wright Olsen and Henry Haber are set to recur on Matlock when it returns from hiatus following a mid-season break on February 26. Wright Olsen will play Gwen, an efficiency expert analyzing the firm, and Haber as Hunter, a younger associate from the floater pool who is a total bro.

Marshall recently told Deadline on the Golden Globe red carpet what fans can expect the new duo to bring to the show.

“The two new cast members brought such a completely different light, energy, and charisma to our storyline that I cannot wait for our audience to witness it,” she shared.

Urman executive produces the CBS Studios-produced series alongside Joanna Klein, Eric Christian Olsen, Kat Coiro and Bates.

Based on the character featured in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) is the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to catch New York’s well-heeled murderers, utilizing her unique perspective. Wendell Pierce also stars as Captain Charles Wallace (C. W.) Wagner.

The show has welcomed a number of guest stars again in its third season, including Lindsey Normington, Jaime Pressly, Andrew Rannells, Stephen Colbert, Andy Richter, Tony Hale, Dianne Wiest, Lois Smith, William Jackson Harper, Annaleigh Ashford, Amy Sedaris and Lindsay Mendez, among others.

It’s notable that a character from the Good Wife/Good Fight universe returns as her original character: Sarah Steele as Marissa Gold. Preston, as well as Christian Borle and Steele, are the three actors from the Universe to appear in all three franchise shows.

Elsbeth is produced by CBS Studios and executive produced by Robert King, Michelle King, Jonathan Tolins, Liz Glotzer, Erica Shelton Kodish, Bryan Goluboff, and Gail Barringer, with Tolins serving as showrunner. The Kings co-created the series.

‘Sinners’ Michael B. Jordan On His First Oscar Nomination, An Update On ‘Fourth Wing’ And Why ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ Is “Not What People Are Expecting”

Amid a record-breaking 16 nominations for Sinners, Jordan is being celebrated for his double-duty role as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler‘s period vampire film.

Speaking to Deadline shortly after the announcement, he said, “To be a part of a project that will live in cinema history right up there with the movies that have inspired me as an artist — it is really a surreal feeling, and it’s a testament to the movie, to every piece of the puzzle that went into making this film.”

Recently Coogler had been a guest on the podcast Good Hang with Amy Poehler and had recounted the story of first pitching Sinners to Jordan over the phone, only to be met with a long silence. So, what was Jordan thinking during that long pause? What was going on?

Jordan laughed. “I think it was because I was going to pitch him another project, I think I was all geared up and ready to go on this idea and this thought about this project, and then he acknowledged it, loved it, but then and re-pitched me that [Sinners] idea. So the silence for me was like, f–k, that’s really good. That’s really good.”

Also, there was the feeling of this has to happen now, Jordan said. “Knowing the windows that we had to hit and just my mind kind of went through, this is one that has to go right now. This is something that we have to do. Immediately, it jumped to the top of the queue.”

Was some of that urgency because the story also felt timely due to the state of the world? “In hindsight, looking at where the world is today, versus when we made that project and how universal the movie feels, even though it’s so specific? It’s a testament to the empathy and the humanity that Ryan pours into the world and the movies that he makes, that forever remain timeless and somehow become a mirror to the world and to the audience of what’s going on today. Sometimes you just get it right. It is life imitating art, imitating life, and that gray area, that middle ground, is where that lies.”

As for a genre film getting so much unusual Oscar recognition, Jordan said, laughing, “Me personally, I don’t watch horror movies. When I grew up, I was kind of scared of horror movies.” But of course he isn’t at all surprised by Coogler’s success. “Look, it’s not Ryan’s first time being the first at doing something,” he said. “He was the first Marvel film with [Black] Panther to get nominated for Best Picture. He’s been breaking boundaries and stepping outside of those boxes. That’s what he’s always done.”

Jordan is currently hard at work directing his upcoming film The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he stars opposite Adria Arjona. Previous versions of the film saw Pierce Brosnan in the lead role as an art thief player (1999) and Steve McQueen (1968). Jordan will also produce via his production banner Outlier Society alongside Elizabeth Raposo.

“I’m getting ready to go the edit right now,” Jordan said. “So I’m going to be celebrating in a dark room, cutting together a movie for 2027. That’s a baby of mine that I’ve been wanting to make for a really long time, so I’m excited about it. I think it’s not going to be what exactly people are expecting as well. When you’re re-imagining something, it’s not a remake. It’s not a reboot. It’s a re-imagination, and I’m really excited about it because I really care about this movie and its title.”

Also, Jordan’s Outlier Society is producing a new television adaptation of Fourth Wing for Amazon MGM Studios, based on the fan favorite dragon-rider romance book series by Rebecca Yarros, who will serve as executive producer. Meredith Averill (Wednesday, Jane the Virgin, The Good Wife) is attached as showrunner.

“We are making sure that this is going to be a exciting show that delivers on all of the things the fans want and some of the things that they won’t be expecting either,” Jordan said. “But trust me, I know how beloved this franchise IP is and we’re diligently… We’re in the lab, we’re cooking up. We got it. It’s coming. It’s early stages, but I feel how much people care about this one. It’s not lost on us.”

Oscar Nominations 2026

Best PictureBugonia” (Focus Features) An Element Pictures/Square Peg/CJ ENM in association with Pith/Fruit Tree Enterprises Production; Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers

“F1” (Apple) An Apple Original Films/Monolith Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer/Plan B Entertainment/Dawn Apollo Films Production; Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers

“Frankenstein” (Netflix) A Netflix/Double Dare You/Demilo Films/Bluegrass 7 Production; Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers

“Hamnet” (Focus Features) A Hera Pictures/Neal Street/Amblin Entertainment in association with Book of Shadows Production; Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers

“Marty Supreme” (A24) An A24/Central Group Production; Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers

“One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.) A Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers

“The Secret Agent” (Neon) A CinemaScópio/MK/Lemming Film/One Two Films Production; Emilie Lesclaux, Producer

“Sentimental Value” (Neon) A Mer Film/Eye Eye Pictures/MK/Lumen/Zentropa/ Komplizen Film/BBC Film Production; Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers

“Sinners” (Warner Bros.) A Proximity Media Production; Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers

“Train Dreams” (Netflix) A Black Bear/Kamala Films Production; Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme” (A24)
Leonardo DiCaprio in “One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
Ethan Hawke in “Blue Moon” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Michael B. Jordan in “Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
Wagner Moura in “The Secret Agent” (Neon)

‘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.

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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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