Ncuti Gatwa Got Told by Producers That White People Wouldn’t Understand His ‘Sex Education’ Ad-Libs. He Fired Back: ‘It’s Not For White People’

“Sex With Sue” — told The Post that Johanson died Wednesday in Toronto of natural causes.Rideout shared news of her death Thursday on social media. “Sue Johanson passed away at 93 years old.

Sue Johanson, Canada’s most beloved and celebrated sex educator, has died. She was 93.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Dan Akyroyd admitted in a recent interview with The Daily Beast that he probably would not put on Blackface for a movie role today like he did 40 years ago in the blockbuster comedy “Trading Places.” Akyroyd starred in the John Landis-directed film as a rich investment broker who switches lives with a broke con artist, played by Eddie Murphy. Akyroyd’s character appears in Blackface and sports dreadlocks and a Caribbean accent during one scene set on New Year’s Eve. “I was in Blackface in that film, and I probably couldn’t get away with it now,” Aykroyd said. “Eddie and I were improvising there. Eddie is a Black man and his entourage were all Black people, and I don’t think they batted an eye. There was no objection then; nobody said anything. It was just a good comic beat that was truthful to the story.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor In May 2021, after 19 years in Los Angeles, comedians and married couple Tom Segura and Christina Pazsitzky (aka Christina P), moved to Austin with their two young sons. Segura says he felt like L.A., in mid-pandemic, was falling apart. “I was like, ‘This city is turning into a shit show!'” he tells Variety. About one month after they moved, Pazsitzky suffered an injurious fall in their new home. And, as you might expect, Segura ended up turning the (non-life-threatening) accident into a bit, which is featured in “Tom Segura: Sledgehammer,” his upcoming stand-up special premiering July 4 globally on Netflix. In “Sledgehammer,” Segura recounts his uneasy 911 call that night requesting help. “I realized that, while what I’m about to say it true, it sounds… suspicious! But I gotta say it. So I’m like, ‘My wife fell down the stairs.'” Pazsitzky, who had misjudged a step when she got up in the middle of the night to check on one of the kids in their new home, broke her ankle and part of her tibia as a result of the fall. (She’s since made a full recovery.) Segura remembers being unsettled by her telling the paramedics to not assume he had hurt her. “It was a whole ordeal,” he recalls.

Gotham Knights co-creator Natalie Abrams didn’t want to leave without saying goodbye.

Strictly Come Dancing winner Hamza Yassin has issued a warning to tourists heading to the Scottish Highlands this summer after he got a dangerous tick stuck in his leg.

Pregnant Laura Anderson has shared that her psychic told her that she would give birth to her baby six weeks early.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. A lot has happened in the Sex and the City Universe since HBO’s reboot “And Just Like That…” premiered last summer.

Sammy Hagar's son Andrew Hagar is following in the footsteps of his rock and roll icon father. Last month, the 39-year-old singer and former kickboxer released his new single "Systematic Minds." Ahead of Father's Day, Sammy, 75, and Andrew, who appeared together in the Paramount+ docuseries "Family Legacy," sat down for a joint interview with Fox News Digital. The former Van Halen frontman revealed that he was surprised when Andrew decided to pursue a career in the music industry instead of martial arts.

Jinkx Monsoon. Cementing their place in the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” Hall of Fame by winning “All Stars 7,” Monsoon strutted their stuff on Broadway, making herstory as the first drag performer in “Chicago” on the Great White Way. Now, the “internationally tolerated” star has an upcoming tour, and they just landed a part in “Doctor Who.” Monsoon spoke with Variety over Zoom from London, where they were preparing to film a role in the beloved sci-fi series alongside new Doctor Ncuti Gatwa. Even from across the pond, Monsoon makes it clear that fighting against the wave of anti-trans and anti-drag bills being passed in the U.S. is a top priority.

Sex Education once spoke to him about ad-libbing lines of dialogue in character.During the first series of the show, he said he was approached and told people wouldn’t understand them.“There were producers coming up to me like, ‘This ad-lib, I don’t feel like white people will understand it,’” he told Vogue.“And I was like, ‘It’s not for white people to understand. There are many white people in this show for white people to understand, but I want this other group of people to understand Eric.

Charlie Puth is not holding back.

with that romance trope you can't get enough of in the style of Casey McQuiston’s , a a la A Good Girl's Guide to Murder or Verity, a fantasy world you can get swept away in (I see you, Sarah J. Maas fans), or a dystopian jaunt like the kind Adam Silvera does so well, there's a BookTok book for you. Because one of the best things about BookTok—that is, book recommendations on TikTok—is how varied its book lists are; in topic and genre but also in its authors, who range from huge bestsellers to cult favorites without a big publishing deal.

indicted by the federal Government over classified documents, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes decided to look ahead to how things might play out. So it is that on Wednesday’s episode of “All-In,” after explaining why he thinks the case might not make it to court until after the 2024 election, Hayes argued that it is “imperative” Trump also be indicted for “his gravest crime,” the Jan.

A.D. Amorosi When listeners look back at what was their favorite late-spring/early-summer 2023 anthem, for many, it will surely be New York rapper and vocalist Toosii’s warmly embraceable “Favorite Song.” A spare, banging ballad with a gorgeous, sinewy melody, a subtly contagious chorus and a positive, romantic message (“You look good without no make-up, no lashes, even better when you wake up”), it has spent 15 weeks on the Billboard chart to date, most of that in the Top 10. Along with reaching No. 5 on the Hot 100, “Favorite” hit No. 1 on the Rap Streaming Songs Chart, the Hot Rap Songs Chart and the R&B/Hip-Hop Chart, all with 400-million-plus combined global streams. To go with its platinum-certified victory, “Favorite Song” has also accumulated over 61 million YouTube video views, and is currently the centerpiece of “Naujour” Toosii’s just-released debut album.

John Slattery told ET on Monday he would «absolutely» reprise his character for HBO's spinoff  Slattery played politician Bill Kelley in several episodes of the original show, which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. «Absolutely, in a hot second,» Slattery told ET of a potential return, agreeing that perhaps his character could be the mayor of New York City by now. «Why not!» Interest surrounding the spinoff peaked in recent weeks, following the news that Kim Cattrall will return for a cameo in the upcoming second season of . Cattrall had previously stated that she would not reprise her role — her last appearance in the franchise was for the second feature film in 2010. Per , she shot just one scene for the cameo and filmed it in one day back in March. Slattery spoke to ET at the global premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director When it came to designing and creating the costumes for Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” movie, the focus was put far more on Margot Robbie’s eponymous doll than it was on Ryan Gosling’s Ken. As the film’s costume designer, Jacqueline Durran, recently told Vogue UK, “No one cares about Ken, everybody just wants to play with Barbie. He matches Barbie and changes too but he has very, very, many less [clothes] options.” Durran, who won an Oscar for her costume designs on Gerwig’s “Little Women” adaptation, said colorful ’80s sportswear was the key to Ken’s looks in the movie. “Retro sportswear is one area where we did a lot of shopping for Ken,” Durran said. “He is sporty. That’s his main thing. We had buyers in America that went to dealers and imported it for us because we needed so much of it.”

A purse thief who targeted an elderly woman in Asda feigned innocence and pleaded "I wouldn't do that, that's the lowest of the low" after being confronted.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Bryan Cranston has a plan for his Hollywood career to come to a brief end in 2026 so that he can spend more time with his wife, Robin Dearden. The Emmy winner announced the plan in a new GQ UK interview, saying he will take at least six months off from Hollywood and move to France in 2026. As reported by GQ: “In 2026, one of the greatest actors of this era will retire – at least temporarily. Cranston is planning to shut down his production company, sell his half of Dos Hombres, and abscond with Dearden to a foreign country, probably France, for a minimum of six months.” “I want to change the paradigm once again,” Cranston told the publication. “For the last 24 years, Robin has led her life holding onto my tail. She’s been the plus one, she’s been the wife of a celebrity. She’s had to pivot and adjust her life based on mine. She has tremendous benefit from it, but we’re uneven. I want to level that out. She deserves it.”

Wednesday” star Percy Hynes White is calling out allegations against him as a “campaign of misinformation.” He did not mention by name what specific allegations he was referring to, but his statement was published to Instagram months after sexual assault allegations against him began circulating social media in January. “Earlier this year, somebody I’ve never met started a campaign of misinformation about me online. Because of this, my family has been doxxed, and my friends have received death threats,” Hynes White wrote in an Instagram story statement on Tuesday. “Underage photos of me were used, and examples of me acting in character were presented as hateful. My friend Jane was falsely portrayed as a victim, and her attempts to set the record straight have been ignored. She gave me permission to include her in this message.”