Olivia Holt says twisty Freeform thriller ‘Cruel Summer’ surprised her

Jessica Biel and takes place over three summers in the 1990s, following mousy Jeanette Turner (Aurelia) and popular Kate Wallis (Olivia Holt). During the show’s arc, Kate mysteriously disappears, while Jeanette progresses from wallflower to popular girl to hated outsider — seemingly stealing Kate’s life while she’s gone (including her friends and boyfriend).

The new series Cruel Summer is making history for Freeform!

Cruel Summer has posted Freeform’s most-watched overall series debut ever, averaging 3.81 million average multi-platform viewers in its first week. The Jessica Biel-produced drama also ranks as the network’s best-ever series debut among Adults 18-49 (2.65 million) and Adults 18-34 (1.33 million).

Billie Eilish’s hair and makeup game is strong, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Olivia Rodrigo considers the star her ultimate beauty icon.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the Tuesday, April 27, episode of Cruel Summer.

America Ferrera has been in Hollywood for longer than we realise, and today is a big day for her career!  Over the weekend, the 37-year-old actress took to her Instagram to celebrate her 20-year career as an actress, reflecting on her first-ever role in the Disney Channel original movie Gotta Kick It Up!, which was released in 2002. “20 years ago today was my first day as a working actress.

A worse teen crime drama than “Cruel Summer” would play to conventions and pit the high school archetypes such as the spoiled mean girl against the nerdy, innocent girl, with no real estate between them for character growth. But the new Freeform series, created by Bert V.

Cardi B and Olivia Rodrigo have a budding friendship.

While Hollywood recently saw long-time couple Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez split, love seems to be flourishing on the other side of the pond. We're talking about Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde who have swirled dating rumours on several occasions.

Star of the summer! Chiara Aurelia made waves when her new Freeform TV show, Cruel Summer, premiered on Tuesday, April 20.

Cruel Summer.

Olivia Rodrigo is excited for her new music.

On her 15th birthday, Jeanette Turner (Chiara Aurelia) wakes up just another Texan teen with glasses, braces, frizzy hair and an uncomplicated wish to be pretty and popular. Shortly after her 17th birthday, she tells a friend, “I miss the days when nobody wanted me dead.” In just a couple of years, Jeanette’s life is turned upside down by a public allegation that has the governor of her state calling her a “disgrace” and the National Enquirer charging her with Satan worship.

Elizabeth Wagmeister Senior CorrespondentWhen Olivia Holt rose to prominence on Disney XD’s “Kickin’ It” in 2011, she was barely 14 years old — the same age as Jessica Biel when she began working on the family drama “7th Heaven,” 15 years earlier.Now, the two women are teaming up for “Cruel Summer,” Freeform’s psychological thriller in which Holt stars as Kate Wallis, a high schooler who goes missing.

How are Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel handling being parents of two?

Jessica Biel has her hands full as a mom of two! The 39-year-old actress and producer welcomed her second son, Phineas, with husband Justin Timberlake in 2020. The couple also shares 6-year-old son Silas. On Monday's, Biel opened up about how her two sons feel about each other. «It is so cute to see these two together because they both think the other one is hilarious,» Biel shares of her boys.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Freeform’s premiere of its new teen thriller series “Cruel Summer” on Thursday was not like any other Hollywood has experienced during the pandemic. Instead of a virtual or drive-in screening, the network booked 80 rooms at the Beverly Hilton for a balcony screening.

"Idon't want to say I have a small-town mind-set, but I love people and I love making friends. That's who I am, even now," says Chiara Aurelia, the lead of Freeform's new drama Cruel Summer, in which she plays a character whose experiences differ greatly from her own.