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Familiar faces in familiar places. After the success of The Real World Homecoming‘s New York and Los Angeles editions, the show is returning for a third season — and this time the original New Orleans cast is coming back.
“This is lightning striking twice,” Julie Stoffer exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the show’s Wednesday, April 20, premiere. “It’s just mind-boggling, to be honest.”
The Wisconsin native, 42, became the first Mormon to appear on The Real World when she starred in the show’s first New Orleans season, which aired in 2000. She famously got suspended from Brigham Young University because her participation in the series violated the school’s honor code, which stated that unmarried students could not have non-family roommates of the opposite sex.
More than 20 years later, Julie is no longer part of the Mormon church, and she says Homecoming will explore the reasons she decided to leave the faith.
“There’s gonna be attention paid to my faith transitions over the years, and kind of, like, what my religious life looks like now,” she told Us. “It’s a little complex, so I’ll just say that it’s not an uninteresting story.”
The MTV personality explained that she decided to double down on her religion after leaving BYU because she wanted to be “that good Mormon girl.” Once she did more research, however, she realized that some of the faith’s cornerstones weren’t compatible with her personal beliefs.
“When I did my due diligence and I studied and really sat down and was honest with myself over time, I started to realize that the values of the religion did not align with my own,” she told Us. “I had philosophical differences with the core tenets of the faith.”
Julie noted that her exit from the church was “a process of
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Glenn Close can now add learning Farsi to her list of accomplishments. ET spoke to Close at the New York premiere of her Apple TV+ series, “Tehran”, Wednesday, where she detailed her return to television and the difficulties she faced learning a brand-new language for her role as CIA agent on the second season of the network’s espionage thriller.
Glenn Close can now add learning Farsi to her list of accomplishments. ET spoke to Close at the New York premiere of her Apple TV+ series, , Wednesday, where she detailed her return to television and the difficulties she faced learning a brand-new language for her role as CIA agent on the second season of the network's espionage thriller.«It was just such a new experience. Everything was new,» Close said of her first TV role since wrapping in 2012. «Filming in Athens was new.
Eminem, Duran Duran, Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie are all set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2022.Eurythmics, Carly Simon, Judas Priest and Pat Benatar will also be inducted into the Hall Of Fame this year.Kate Bush, Beck, DEVO, Fela Kuti, MC5, New York Dolls, Rage Against The Machine and Dionne Warwick made the initial shortlist for 2022, but didn’t make the final cut.The honourees — voted on by more than 1000 artists, historians and music industry professionals — each “had a profound impact on the sound of youth culture and helped change the course of rock ’n’ roll,” said John Sykes, the chairman of the Rock Hall, in a statement.The 2022 event, which will be the Hall’s 37th annual induction ceremony, will be held on November 5 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.The announcement comes after Parton initially refused the honour on the grounds that she didn’t feel that she had “earned the right”. But she reversed her stance last month to confirm she will accept the honour should she be voted in.Parton continued to explain that, at the time she made her statement bowing out, she hadn’t realised that the institution already included numerous artists from other genres outside the world of rock.
took herself out of the running to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in March — “I don’t feel that I have earned that right,” she said in an Instagram post — voters thought she was more than “worthy” of a seat at the table of music immortals. After the rock hall didn’t accept Parton’s withdrawal — in part because voting was well underway — the “I Will Always Love You” singer ended up saying “I’ll accept gracefully” and will join such country legends as Johnny Cash, Chet Atkins and Hank Williams in the RRHOF when the 2022 induction ceremony goes down in November.Also making this year’s eclectic class are Eminem, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Carly Simon and New York native Pat Benatar.
Nicola Peltz was the model daughter-in-law on Monday as she congratulated David Beckham on his 47th birthday.MORE: Brooklyn Beckham introduces matchmaker in never-before-seen wedding photoDespite Nicola being busy in New York getting ready for the Met Gala, which she attended alongside her new husband Brooklyn Beckham, she took time out of her day to share a never-before-seen picture of herself alongside David and her own dad Nelson.WATCH: Nicola Peltz and Victoria Beckham dancing together"Happy birthday @davidbeckham," she simply wrote alongside the photo, which also included a white heart.READ: Nicola Peltz stuns in dreamy sheer dress at Met Gala afterpartyRELATED: David Beckham shares unseen photo from son Brooklyn's lavish weddingThe photo shows Nicola in between the two men, with her arms around their shoulders, and both David and Nelson smiling for the camera. Nicola shared a sweet photo in honour of David's birthdayA few weeks ago, Nicola also shared another rare family picture, this time showing her and her mother Claudia alongside Victoria Beckham.
Gigi Hadid is pulling out some major fashion for the night.
A great change! Fans have been immersed in the historical drama of HBO Max’s The Gilded Age since its season 1 debut.
Police found multiple firearms in A$AP Rocky's Los Angeles home during an unannounced search last week, TMZ and the L.A. Times report.
Dolly Parton has backtracked on her original plan to withdrawal her nomination from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, now saying she would “gracefully” accept the award. The country music star was among the artists nominated this year, alongside Eminem, A Tribe Called Quest, Duran Duran, Carly Simon and Beck. On 14 March, she released a statement bowing out of her nomination, citing her belief that she hadn’t “earned that right”.
Seth Rogen is inviting fans into the Los Angeles headquarters of his company.
The truth comes to light! Three months after Kim Kardashian’s Disneyland snaps sparked Photoshop rumors, the reality star admitted to editing the pictures.
Done. Will Smith’s Netflix movie is canceled. The King Richard actor was set to star in a sequel to 2017’s Bright, however the studio canceled it entirely.
LOS ANGELES -- Former star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” NeNe Leakes sued the companies behind the show on Wednesday, alleging that they fostered and tolerated a hostile and racist work environment.The lawsuit filed in federal court in Atlanta says Leakes, who is Black, complained to executives about years of racist remarks from fellow housewife Kim Zolciak-Biermann, who is white, but that only Leakes suffered consequences.It names as defendants NBCUniversal, Bravo, production companies True Entertainment and Truly Original, executives from the companies and “Housewives” executive producer Andy Cohen, but not Zolciak-Biermann."NBC, Bravo and True foster a corporate and workplace culture in which racially-insensitive and inappropriate behavior is tolerated – if not, encouraged,” the suit says.Emails sent to representatives of the defendants and Zolciak-Biermann seeking comment were not immediately returned.Leakes, 54, a TV personality and actor whose legal name is Linnethia Monique Leakes, spent seven seasons as one of the central stars of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta” between 2008 and 2020.It alleges that during the first season, which aired in 2008, the cast was planning to attend a barbecue, and housewife Kim Zolciak-Biermann, responded to the idea with “words to the effect of: ‘I don’t want to sit around with NeNe and eat chicken.’” The suit says the statement “perpetuated an offensive stereotype about African-Americans.”The suit says in 2012 during the fifth season, Zolciak-Biermann made "racially offensive and stereotypical" comments about the new home of housewife Kandi Burruss, calling her neighborhood a "ghetto" and perpetuating a racial stereotype in an offensive comment about whether Burruss needed a
Angelyne,” the new drama miniseries starring Emmy Rossum. “Angelyne” tells the story of the titular D-list celebrity, who came to prominence in the 1980s through a series of provocative billboards throughout Los Angeles. Rossum portrays Angelyne, with the series set to cover her rise to local prominence.“Since I was a girl, I’ve known that fame is my destiny,” Rossum-as-Angelyne narrates in the trailer.
Emmy Rossum plays the voluptuous billboard queen, who made a name for herself in Los Angeles, way before social media.The trailer, released Tuesday, gives a closer look at Angelyne and those who thought they knew her enough to tell her story. “Since I was a girl, I knew that fame was going to be my destiny — huge, gigantic fame,” Rossum as Angelyne says. “So I said to myself, I’m going to get the love of the world.
An L.A. icon is born.
There are many paths to stardom, but the blueprint used by Los Angeles pop icon Angelyne was especially ahead of its time. While attempting to jump-start her music career in the 1980s, she appeared on a series of billboards and soon rose to fame as “L.A.’s Billboard Queen.” Before long, she was scoring television gigs and cameo roles in films like 1988’s “Earth Girls are Easy.” In a post-Kardashians world, celebrity for its own sake has become a perfectly normal pursuit.