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Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady — who’s currently competing for the Mirror Ball Trophy on Dancing with the Stars — will host the 2022 American Music Awards. The ceremony will air live Sunday, November 20 on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.

Selma Blair's family is heartbroken. Blair's inspiring journey in the ballroom has come to an abrupt end after MRI results revealed that she could no longer continue due to her ongoing battle with multiple sclerosis.«So, I've been monitored… I had MRIs and the results came back, and it all adds up to, I can't go on with the competition,» Blair revealed to her dance partner, Sasha Farber, on Monday night's Disney+ broadcast. «I've pushed as far as I could.

Angelique Jackson Emmy-nominated comedian and actor Amber Ruffin will host the 2022 Ebony Power 100 Gala. Ruffin takes over emcee duties from 2021 host Wayne Brady; she’s no stranger to the spotlight after bringing the laughs weekly on Peacock’s “The Amber Ruffin Show.” The late-night series, which mixes interviews, sketches and monologues, is now in its third season and has earned an armful of award nominations over the course of its run, including a Primetime Emmy nod for outstanding writing for a variety series, as well as Critics Choice, NAACP, GLAAD and Writers Guild of America nods. Ebony Media Group’s annual event honors the achievements of 100 influential African Americans across various industries, including entertainment and the arts, business, politics, science, tech and medicine.

Bringing a classic cartoon to life. Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas dressed as Marge and Homer Simpson for their Disney+ Night performance on Dancing With the Stars.

(SPOILER ALERT: This reveals the team that was sent home on Monday, Oct. 10)Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas were tied at the top of the leaderboard again in Week 4 as they channeled Marge and Homer Simpson for Disney+ night.

Emily Longeretta “Dancing With the Stars” took on once of its most popular weeks on Monday night, with each star performing routines to hit Disney+ songs. While many of the routines were on the faster side, the emotion was still running high. Selma Blair and Sasha Farber were tasked with a quickstep to “The Muppet Show Theme” from “The Muppet Show,” and she was feeling the pressure. Ahead of her routine, she admitted that after performing blindfolded last week, she thought she would receive higher scores than four 7s — the scores she’s gotten every week. She said it was a “wake up call” that she wasn’t impressing the judges the way she wanted. Luckily, after this week’s quickstep, the pair were thrilled to receive four 8s for the first time.

Emily Longeretta “Dancing With the Stars” took on James Bond for week three, with each pair dancing to songs featured in Bond films through the years. Selma Blair and Sasha Farber have been in the spotlight all season, but it hasn’t been an easy ride. She admitted this week that she has sensory overload with the lights and crowd each week.

(Spoiler alert! This article reveals the results from Monday’s episode of “Dancing With the Stars” on Disney+.)While Vinny Guadagnino earned the lowest scores of the evening, he was saved by the audience vote, who loved his spirited, if not technically perfect, rumba to “Thunderball.”Former “Charlie’s Angels” star Cheryl Ladd and her partner Louis van Amstel have been eliminated from the competition, with all four judges opting to save Sam Champion & Cheryl Burke. Len Goodman, who said he was glad he saved her last week so she could perform her “Diamonds Are Forever” rumba, did not end up having to cast his vote, but said he would have given it to Sam Champion.Selma Blair, who has multiple sclerosis, often gets sensory overload from the noise and lights, so her partner Sasha Farber decided to blindfold her to help reduce the amount of stimuli during their performance.

"Dancing with the Stars" Week 2 did not disappoint, as the celebrity contestants battled it out on the dance floor with an Elvis-themed night.  While the stars paid tribute to the "King of Rock and Roll," three couples tied for the top score with 32 out of 40 points – Charli D’Amelio with partner Mark Ballas, Gabby Windey with Val Chmerkovskiy and Wayne Brady with Witney Carson.  Despite "Real Housewives of New Jersey" star Teresa Giudice saying "Arrivederci" to being on "Dancing with the Stars," she exclusively told Fox News Digital she is excited to spend time with her husband and family after being eliminated.  On ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Week 2, Teresa Giudice was eliminated, and Selma Blair received support from Sarah Michelle Gellar. (Getty Images) "I just got married, and then I started doing ‘Dancing with the Stars’… I left my husband.

“Dancing With the Stars” Season 20 ended in pro dancer Val Chmerkovskiy’s first mirrorball win – with celebrity partner Rumer Willis – and after hearing judge Carrie Ann Inaba suggest on Monday night she saw a similar chemistry in how he’s working with “Bachelorette” Gabby Windey, the ballroom star couldn’t help but reflect on the comparison.“That’s a huge compliment,” Chmerkovskiy told reporters over Zoom. “I think Rumer is an amazing artist. She had the right attitude when she entered the competition.

Dancing with the Stars season 31 were greeted in the second episode by a hunk'a hunk'a burning love, because it's Elvis Night!MORE: DWTS pro Daniella Karagach tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of upcoming showWith judges and contestants alike delivering their best impersonations of the King of Rock and Roll, whether on the dance floor or off, it was an entertaining night for sure. VIDEO: Dancing with the Stars season 31 castSadly, it ended in Heartbreak Hotel for one of the contestants, that being Real Housewives legend Teresa Giudice and her professional partner, Pasha Pashkov.

Spoiler alert! This article reveals the results from Monday’s episode of “Dancing With the Stars” on Disney+.)Teresa Giudice and Pasha Pashkov have been eliminated from the competition.“I wanted to dance my whole life and I finally did at 50,” Giudice said after learning the news she was going home.The way eliminations are working this season is viewer votes help the show get down to a bottom 2, and on Monday it was Giudice and Pashkov, and Cheryl Ladd with her pro partner Louis van Amstel. The choice was then turned over to the judges.

Ziwe is back with another round of her eponymous late-night variety series. The host and comedian will return to Showtime with six new episodes of season 2, digging into topics surrounding cultural appropriation, politics and celebrity culture.

EXCLUSIVE: Ziwe is returning to Showtime for the second half of her second season and has set her guest list.

(Spoiler alert: This story reveals who went home on “DWTS.”)At the end of the two-hour show, which allowed voting throughout the night via text, two couples were left in the bottom 2 — “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Teresa Giudice and pro Pasha Pashkov, and “Sex and the City” alum Jason Lewis and pro Peta Murgatroyd. And the eliminated couple ended up being Lewis and Murgatroyd.“I am so sad that I have to go home.

Disney Plus.  Dancing With the Stars first debuted in June 2005 on ABC and soon became one of its most popular shows, though ratings have dropped in recent years. While it may not be the powerhouse it used to be, DWTS still has allure for Disney Plus, which is seeking to expand its subscriber base with different offerings.

Dancing with the Stars is ushering in a new era. After 30 seasons of airing on ABC, the reality competition is gearing up for its new home on Disney +. Former pro-turned-judge Derek Hough says he’s proud to be involved in a series that keeps fresh with shifting trends.

Disney Plus.  Dancing With the Stars first debuted in June 2005 on ABC and soon became one of its most popular shows, though ratings have dropped in recent years. While it may not be the powerhouse it used to be, DWTS still has allure for Disney Plus, which is seeking to expand its subscriber base with different offerings.

Selma Blair, Jordin Sparks, Jason Lewis, and Teresa Giudice have joined the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars. The cast of season 31 was announced on Good Morning America on Thursday ahead of the season's premiere on 19 September.

The “Dancing with the Stars” season 31 cast has been announced.

Dancing with the Stars is logging a couple of firsts in its 31st season. Chief among them: a new digital home, a significant star from a competing broadcast network and its first-ever drag queen competitor.

Comeback king! Mark Ballas will once again be hitting the dance floor on Dancing With the Stars, five years after he exited the show after season 25.

Nearly four years after Selma Blair was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, the Legally Blonde actress is ready to dance up a storm on Dancing With the Stars.

Ready to dance with somebody! The season 31 cast of Dancing With the Stars was officially announced on Good Morning America on Thursday, September 8.

Stepping into the ballroom! Gabby Windey, Jordin Sparks and Wayne Brady are officially joining the season 31 cast of Dancing With the Stars, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.

CBS Daytime has revealed the fall premiere dates for its No. 1 rated lineup, including the official start date of  The Young and the Restless’ 50th season.

Wayne Brady is getting real about how steamy things got on the set of his new series, . ET spoke to Brady backstage at the African American Film Critics Association TV Honors, where he was a presenter Saturday night, about just how much nudity was involved in the making of the Showtime series.«The scenes that I am in are not steamy at all, because I play Jon's best friend, and so, I help move the story along, but I will say that there are a couple pool side scenes where, well, folks are just naked so if you don't like folks being naked, don't watch ,» Brady revealed. «But something tells me if you're watching, you should not be averse to a little bit of nudity.»While the nudity is par for the show's plot line, it did take a little getting used to for Brady.«It took me a second to get used to it,» he admitted.

The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) held the 4th Annual AAFCA Awards today to celebrate and recognize outstanding work in the television industry.

EJ Panaligan editorThe long-running U.S. game show “Let’s Make a Deal” will expand into eight new international territories in a new deal brokered by Marcus/Glass Productions and Can’t Stop Media, an international sales group.The gamer, which is hosted by Wayne Brady and produced by Fremantle for CBS in the U.S., is aiming to expand to Germany, Indonesia, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, Ireland and Poland under new deals.

Jon Bernthal is turning up the heat in his upcoming Showtime series,. A new trailer for the show was released on Thursday, which gives a closer look at the actor's turn as Julian Kaye, the main character from the 1980 film of the same name, starring Richard Gere.«Since I was a kid, I could always just be this other guy,» Julian says in the trailer.

Wayne Brady has made himself a household name through his work on several beloved and celebrated TV shows, but there's still no forgetting the one project that he passed on that he regrets.Brady recently sat down with ET's Kevin Frazier ahead of this year's Daytime Emmy Awards — where Brady is nominated for Outstanding Game Show Host for his work on — and he opened up about almost getting the chance to develop a series with Jamie Foxx.«Years ago, right after I got , Jamie Foxx reached out to me and took me to dinner and asked me to work on a sketch show with him, or to do something,» Brady recalled. «I was in a deal at the time and I said no, and to this day I'm like, 'Aw, man. I really wish.'»«Because I feel like Jamie Foxx and I should be best friends,» Brady added. «I wanna be Jamie Foxx's buddy.»While that project didn't pan out, Brady's work on Whose Line Is It Anyway? earned him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2003.

Comedian-host-director W. Kamau Bell claims a Black Carrot Top could never exist.

Kevin Hart is behind the two-part documentary event “Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution,” set to premiere on the A&E Network on Wednesday, June 29 at 9 p.m.The documentary, produced by Hart’s Hartbeat and Time Studios, explores the progression of Black comedy across time, tracing how comedians have used pointed humor to articulate the Black experience in America and expose, challenge and ridicule society’s injustices. From Redd Foxx and Moms Mabley of the civil rights movement to modern-day comedians and creators like Key & Peele, Issa Rae, Amber Ruffin and Tiffany Haddish, the four-hour documentary celebrates the history and under-appreciated legacy that Black comedians had in driving social change across the 20th and 21st centuries.

Fox put a number of its non-scripted competition series including Next Level Chef and a new Gordon Ramsay series front and center of its 2022/23 slate.

EXCLUSIVE: Production on Showtime’s drama series American Gigolo has been paused again, this time for at least two weeks, as the series’ co-executive producer David Bar Katz has exited the series, produced by Paramount TV Studios. His departure comes three weeks after the Paramount network and TV studio severed ties with the series’ developer, writer, director and executive producer David Hollander following an investigation into allegations of misconduct and almost two weeks after The Offer executive producers Nikki Toscano and Russell Rothberg joined the series as consulting producers.

EXCLUSIVE: The Offer executive producers Nikki Toscano and Russell Rothberg have come on board Showtime’s upcoming series American Gigolo, from Paramount Television Studios. They will serve as consulting producers, working alongside Executive Producer David Bar Katz.