Mama June Shannon is addressing the backlash surrounding her youngest daughter Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson‘s relationship.
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Emily Longeretta Ahead of her Hollywood Walk of Fame honor, icon Jean Smart looked back at some of her incredible roles — including the one that put her on the map globally. In 1985, she joined CBS’ “Designing Women” as Charlene Frazier Stillfield, a role she held for five seasons.The sitcom earned 18 Emmy nominations and catapulted Smart’s career — and she completely knows why.“There weren’t a lot of shows that were just about women back then. Linda [Bloodworth-Thomason] is such a good writer that she made the characters so distinct from each other,” she says.
“A lot of times, back in the day on sitcoms, you could practically all trade lines and nobody could tell the difference. The jobs are kind of all the same.” Since this show was different, it had a staying power others didn’t. “She was very specific about our characters,” says Smart.
“She would do another thing that nobody did back then: Give us page-long monologues. Nobody had that in sitcoms, and that really made it fun and made the characters, I think, much more interesting for the audience and much more entertaining.”The actor notes that now, it’d be excited to play another role like Charlene.“I would kill to play a part like that again — someone who’s kind of sweet and gullible. It’s funny, in some ways I see myself more that way than some other roles I’ve played recently,” she tells Variety.
Mama June Shannon is addressing the backlash surrounding her youngest daughter Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson‘s relationship.
Jean Smart rocks a red hot outfit for the season two premiere of Hacks held at DGA Theater Complex on Monday night (May 9) in Los Angeles.
John Travolta is remembering an important mother in his life.
John Travolta is revisiting some of his most special family moments he shared with his late wife, Kelly Preston. MORE: John Travolta leaves fans in disbelief as he shares unreal experience following major milestoneThe star took to Instagram to commemorate the actress – who he was married to from 1991 until her tragic death in 2020 – with a video montage featuring never-before-seen family photos of the pair with their three children, Jett, who passed away in 2009, Ella Bleu, and Benjamin.Fans of the actor have continuously shown their support and commended him for being such a strong and doting father amid difficult moments, and beyond, each time he shares heartfelt family updates.WATCH: John's son Benjamin shows off his incredible talentMORE: John Travolta leaves fans gushing with new heartwarming family videoSet to the song That Face, he captioned the emotional tribute with: "We love and miss you Kelly.
This Is Us is (the series finale is Tuesday, May 24) and I watched this coming Tuesday's episode with the intention of not crying ( I was going on Access Hollywood the next day to talk about the last few episodes of This Is Us and really didn't feel like going on camera looking all puffy). Well, that plan quickly went out the window, because by the time the last five minutes rolled around, I was a full-on sobbing mess.
Jean Smart ran away with awards season last year for her performance in HBO Max’s breakout comedy “Hacks,” winning the triple crown of best actress in a comedy at the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Emmys awards. With tough-as-brass Deborah Vance, a legendary stand-up comedian fighting to stay relevant and keep her Las Vegas residency, Smart and series co-creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W.
This Morning’s Alice Beer is best known as the reviewer of ‘Everything’ on This Morning. When she isn’t working, the presenter, 56, often keeps her followers updated on her life away from the show.
Joan Jett has shared her memories of the late Taylor Hawkins in a new interview with NME.Foo Fighters drummer Hawkins passed away in March in Bogotá, Colombia, where the band had been touring. He was 50.Speaking to NME, Jett remembered Hawkins as “a fuckin’ wonderful guy”, adding: “[He] would light up a room. Kick-ass drummer.”Jett also recalled in the interview how she and her band, the Blackhearts, first met the Foos “around 2010″, where they “all really hit it off”.In 2011, Foo Fighters invited the band to perform Jett’s 1980 hit ‘Bad Reputation’ on The Late Show With David Letterman.“Just little things like that, they included me in,” she recalled to NME about the performance.
HBO series, which follows her dynamic with young comedy writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder).In the second season, Deborah and Ava embark on a cross-country tour to test out their new stand-up material – joined by a roster of new guest stars, including Laurie Metcalf (The Big Bang Theory) as tour manager Alice who, as mentioned in the trailer, is nicknamed ‘Weed’ by Pete Wentz.Other new guest stars for the second season include Martha Kelly (Baskets), Ming-Na Wen (The Mandalorian) and Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), while Margaret Cho and Devon Sawa will also make appearances.They’ll join returning cast members Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Christopher McDonald, Kaitlin Olson, Paul W. Downs, Poppy Liu, Rose Abdoo, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Angela E.
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder are hitting the road!
Jane Fonda is sharing her thoughts on growing old, explaining that “you can be really old at 60, and you can be really young at 85.”The legendary actress talked about her successful career in Hollywood during her most recent interview, promoting her popular Netflix series ‘Grace and Frankie’ with her co-star Lily Tomlin.“I’m super-conscious that I’m closer to death. And it doesn’t really bother me that much,” Jane shared, confessing that what bothers her is that “My body is, you know basically not mine!” adding, “My knees are not mine, my hips are not mine, my shoulder’s not mine.
If you watched the first season of the Emmy-winning and critically-acclaimed HBO Max comedy series “Hacks”—and you probably should if you didn’t, it’s a great conflict between two generations of comedians—you probably remember that things ended on a cliffhanger. The dark mentorship between legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her young, entitled writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) is still very much touch and go.