Who Is Chiara Aurelia? 5 Things to Know About the ‘Cruel Summer’ Breakout Star

Cruel Summer —truly, genuinely, actually divided. This isn't normal social media division, either. Typically, when , it's because people either .

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).

Dani Imbert is the latest glamorous newcomer to join the cast of ITVBe’s The Only Way Is Essex.The blonde beauty joined the hit reality show after her friend, Rem Larue, set her up on a blind date with 32-year-old Liam Blackwell who is best known as Gatsby. Gatsby treated Dani to a sweet date at Favourite Chicken and Ribs in Brentwood, Essex, on last week’s episode and the pair confirmed they were “exclusive”.

Real Housewives of Cheshire is set to return to our screens with even more glitz and glamour on 10 May.The gorgeous housewives of The Golden Triangle in the North West are known for their famous dinner parties and lavish lifestyles. And Deborah Davies is the latest housewife to join the ITVBe cast of the hit show and joins Hanna Kinsella, Rachel Lugo, Lauren Simon, Seema Malhotra, Nicole Sealey, Lystra Adams and Tanya Bardsley for season 13.

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

Ready for her close-up! Rachel Zegler was just 16 when she scored the role of a lifetime as Maria in Steven Spielberg‘s upcoming adaptation of West Side Story — and her performance is already generating plenty of buzz.

Maria Bakalova is making her Oscars debut!

The temptation will prove too much for Carol and Fr Liam on this weekend’s Fair City as frustration will turn to passion.

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.

Cruel Summer.

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.

director Joshua Rofé comes the Hulu docuseries , which he describes to ET as a “paranoid thriller meets a graphic novel come to life.” Over three episodes, Rofé follows gonzo journalist David Holthouse as he investigates a haunting rumor about three men who were brutally murdered by Bigfoot in Northern California cannabis territory to find out if there’s any truth behind what happened that night in 1993. As Holthouse digs deeper into various conspiracy theories, Rofé also sits down with several

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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.

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