Veteran Stand-up Comic and Podcast Host Tom Papa Signs With UTA (EXCLUSIVE)

Dax Shepard is the host of Armchair Expert, the podcast that landed the Prince Harry interview making headlines around the world.The Prince gave a full 90 minutes to Dax’s show where the topics were wide-ranging, including the therapy he underwent to deal with own childhood trauma following the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterMecum Auctions has signed with UTA for representation, Variety has learned exclusively.Mecum Auctions is the world leader of collector car, antique motorcycles, antique farm tractors and road art sales.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeGrab your keys: HBO and HBO Max are leaning heavily into in-person drive-in events for their joint Emmy For Your Consideration campaign next month.

Artists Titus Kaphar has signed with UTA. Kaphar — whose artwork has appeared in exhibitions at Harlem's Studio Museum, MoMA PS1, and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC — was behind the Timemagazine cover for the issue centering on George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement.

"Tan Mom" Patricia Krentcil is determined to stay golden. The famously baked 53-year-old, who became a tabloid sensation nearly 10 years ago, said she still tans twice a week – in her own tanning bed.

British actress Emma Laird, who just booked a starring role opposite Jeremy Renner in Mayor of Kingstown, has signed with APA for representation in all areas. The signing is major one for Laird, who has no feature or series experience, and for the agency, which beat out four other agencies for the opportunity to sign the actress.

Film, TV and Broadway star Norbert Leo Butz has signed with APA. Butz stars in NBC's Debris series and nabbed a lead role as Rex Foster in the Disney+ adaptation of Tim Federle’s YA novel Better Nate Than Ever.

Chinese pop music superstar JJ Lin has signed with UTA for U.S. and European representation in all areas.

Ed Meza @edmezavarBelgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, who examined the ties between the international arms industry and Western political establishments in his recent documentaries, the award-winning “Shadow World” and “Blue Orchids,” is set to explore its impact in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in his new project, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.”Grimonprez and producer Daan Milius are presenting the project at the Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival’s CPH:Forum financing and

Tom Bergeron, former host of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, is returning to presenting.

Popular YouTube content creator Donald De la Haye Jr., also known as Deestroying, has signed with WME. The former college football kicker out of the University of Central Florida (UCF) has 3.4 million YouTube subscribers and, in all, around 6 million followers across social media platforms, including Instagram and TikTok.

WME has signed the UK-based podcast production house Broccoli Productions with an eye to empowering minority talent both in front and behind the microphone. Broccoli Productions (formerly Broccoli Content) was founded in 2018 by award-winning producer Renay Richardson after the success of her indie podcast About Race With Reni Eddo-Lodge.

Paulina Alexis, set to star in the upcoming FX comedy Reservation Dogs, has signed with APA. The First Nations actress will appear in the series executive produced by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, which portrays four native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFive-time Grammy-winning rapper Lil Wayne has joined UTA, the company announced, for worldwide representation in all areas. With a catalog reaching back to the 1990s, Wayne is one of the most influential and successful rappers of all time.