Jim Gaffigan Explains How a Commercial He Did Cost Him an Acting Gig, But He Might Have Dodged a Bullet

Wayne Brady is opening up about his sexuality and has come out as pansexual. In a recent interview, the Let’s Make a Deal host explained his process of coming to terms with his identity.

Noah Schnapp is opening up about his sexuality, as well his role in his hit TV series.

Rasmus Hojlund should become Manchester United's third major signing of the summer in the next 48 hours and, based on a previous admission, Anthony Martial will welcome him with open arms.

A sleep expert has explained why you shouldn't snooze on your stomach.

Billy Ray is back for the 13th installment of Deadline Strike Talk, the weekly podcast that began at the start of the Writers Guild strike against AMPTP. With writers and actors petrified at the job cutting and ecosystem-destroying potential of AI, Ray re-engages the technology in conversation, as he did in his week seven podcast. But this time, with a new twist.

Travis Kelce is the star tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and was in attendance for Taylor Swift‘s Eras tour stop at Arrowhead stadium earlier this month.

NeNe Leakes is dishing about her time on The Real Housewives of Atlanta — and the toll her career has taken on her personal life.

Sheryl Lee Ralph opens up about her bicoastal marriage to Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes.Ralph gives an interview with for their August/September 2023 issue, and is candid about her career, her work on and her long-distance relationship to the man she's been married to for nearly two decades.While her 66-year-old husband resides in Pennsylvania, Ralph lives and works in California, and the 66-year-old actress explains how they make their romance work.«You have to have an incredible amount of trust in that other person,» Ralph shares. «We spend a lot of time talking to each other.

Fans of Yellowstone who are still smarting over the surprise death of Lee Dutton in the pilot episode of the Paramount Network drama should be pleased to see that Taylor Sheridan made up for killing off Dave Annable’s character. Annable now plays the doctor-husband of Zoe Saldana in Sheridan’s latest series Special Ops: Lioness, which premiered Sunday on Paramount+.

It was a culture shock for a 16-year-old Jovan Kirovski when he swapped the sunshine and the beaches of California for a bedroom in Swinton, but as one of America's brightest talents at the time, he knew Manchester was too good to turn down if he was to make it.

Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya dives deep into how insecurities prevented him from being a present father to his daughter Atiana when she was young.

Rachel Leviss and her mother, Laura, did everything they could for dog Graham Cracker, whom the star once shared with her former fiancée, James Kennedy. Laura tells ET the family went above and beyond to find Graham the top rehabilitation center, even after he bit her so badly in the finger that she suffered nerve damage. News reports and social media users suggested Leviss dropped Graham off at a shelter, but her mother Laura tells ET that’s simply not true.«Rachel put Graham into behavior classes after breaking up with James because he had bitten several people. When Rachel went into the mental health facility, she asked us to care for Graham as we have many times before.

Samuel L. Jackson believes that excessive editing ruined a performance that was worthy of Oscar consideration.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director While “Oppenheimer” has been touted as Christopher Nolan’s first biopic, that’s not necessarily true. It’s only the director’s first biopic to hit the big screen. Decades ago, Nolan wrote the screenplay for a biopic about aviator and business tycoon Howard Hughes, but the project never took flight because Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes, beat him to it. Nolan told The Daily Beast in 2007 that his Hughes biopic was the best script he’d written, and he even lined up Jim Carrey to star as Hughes. Nolan said Hughes was the role that Carrey was “born to play.” Nolan’s Howard Hughes movie never materialized, but learning how to distill the life of an iconic American figure into a movie script would pay off years later when it came time to penning “Oppenheimer.”

A few minutes into his new Amazon Original comedy special “Dark Pale,” hitting the streamer July 25, Jim Gaffigan delves into some topical issues — then speculates on how people might respond. Most people associate the veteran comic with his self-deprecating bits about his laziness, living with five children and his many ruminations on Hot Pockets. So, following jokes about COVID and plane crashes, Gaffigan stops for a second and notes, “This is usually the point when people ask, ‘When’s he gonna do the food jokes?’” As he goes further, discussing funeral decorum, he stops and asks the crowd, “Was that too dark? It’s gonna get worse.” On the contrary, Gaffigan is only getting better. Since his television debut in the mid-’90s on “Caroline’s Comedy Hour,” the comedian has constantly adapted to a changing world while maintaining his incisive wit and affability. “Dark Pale” marks the comedian’s 10th comedy special, and while he finds big laughs in some somber topics, he can also mine humor from something as wholesome as a hot air balloon ride with his daughters. His agent, Nick Nuciforo, partner and head of comedy touring at UTA, has repped Gaffigan since 2005, and praises his wide appeal. “His brand of humor is both clean and hip, and I have seen him excel in both alternative rooms and rural settings,” says Nuciforo. “The ability to succeed with any audience is a superpower that opens up unlimited opportunities.”

Another actor has come out in support of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike — and is opening up about why it matters to him.

Tim Chan If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. The GOAT has entered the stadium. World Cup champ Lionel Messi is set to make his Inter Miami debut Friday, as the MLS team faces off against Cruz Azul in the 2023 Leagues Cup. The annual CONCACAF event pits teams from Major League Soccer against teams from Mexico’s Liga MX in an inter-continental face off. Messi is expected to make his Inter Miami debut on Friday, July 21 and you can watch Messi’s first game online through Apple TV+. The streaming service’s MLS Season Pass gets you a livestream of Messi’s debut vs. Cruz Azul, and access to all the Leagues Cup matches online free.

Mandy Moore is sharing more details on why actors depend on residual paychecks following her candid comments about her minuscule This Is Us sum.

Christopher Nolan’s daughter Flora has a cameo in his latest film “Oppenheimer”.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor When Sean Hannity handed off his Fox News program to Laura Ingraham last Thursday night, he had company. On-air switches between cable-news hosts make for bright moments on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, with the audiences at home and producers in studio looking at warm exchanges between personalities like Hannity and Ingraham or Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell. The chatter between former CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon generated so much attention that producers often let the segment bleed into Lemon’s first segment of the night and even time reserved for commercials. These days, Hannity has begun letting a new crowd bear witness.