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Days of Our Lives Cast React to Kelly Monaco’s General Hospital Exit

November 4, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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Not solely did Kelly Monaco’s exit from Basic Hospital after 21 years shock Us, however it additionally despatched waves all through the cleaning soap opera world.

Many members of the Days of Our Lives household have been equally shocked to study that Monaco was leaving the enduring cleaning soap.

“That’s the exhausting factor about soaps, you get used to being an everyday individual, and also you neglect that the majority actors don’t work this lengthy, this persistently,” Martha Madison solely advised Us Weekly on the “Days of Days” fan occasion in Los Angeles on November 2, 2024. “I feel as actors you need to bear in mind you’re purported to be unemployed at sure components.”

Madison added, “She’s so wildly gifted and I don’t know any of the explanations as to why she’s not on that present anymore, however positively somebody’s gonna scoop her up.”

Monaco notably performed Sam McCall in additional than 2,000 episodes of GH beginning in 2003. Information broke in August 2024 that she can be leaving the present and her remaining episode — the place Sam was killed off — aired in October 2024.

“Final scene with the Davis ladies,” Monaco wrote through Instagram that month, sharing a photograph from set. “Nonetheless doesn’t make any sense to me.”

Maintain scrolling for the entire Days of Our Lives stars’ ideas on Monaco’s exit — and pitches to have her be part of them in Salem:

Brandon Beemer

Days Stars React to Kelly Monacos Exit — Brandon Beemer Michael Tullberg/Getty Photographs

Beemer, who beforehand appeared with Monaco on Soiled Cleaning soap, wasn’t positive that Sam can be gone for good.

“I don’t assume she’s actually absolutely leaving. I imply, who is aware of,” he advised Us. “I didn’t assume that Steve Burton was going to return again, and Steve Burton went to Younger and the Stressed and Day of Our Lives and again to Basic Hospital.”

He added, “When any person leaves, [you say,] ’Oh my God, I’m so sorry. You’re gonna be unemployed for perhaps a yr.’ You’ll find yourself coming again; in any other case, one other cleaning soap is gonna decide her up.”

Martha Madison

After praising Monaco’s “unbelievable” expertise, Madison pitched a possible arrival on Days.

“I’d like to have her on Days of Our Lives,” she advised Us. “Her fanbase is tried and true, and any present can be fortunate to have them and her!”

Billy Flynn

Whereas Flynn didn’t “know a lot concerning the Kelly state of affairs,” he predicted her star will proceed to rise.

“I feel Kelly’s wonderful, and she or he’s going to go on to a different factor,” Flynn stated. “I feel if you see these people who find themselves unbelievable that we’ve misplaced [off shows], and the outpouring of affection that comes with, I feel that offers you a testomony of what the daytime followers [are] all about.”

Susan Hayes

Hayes, for her half, admitted to Us that she anticipated Monaco’s exit can be met with a passionate response from followers.

“You may’t spend a lot time following somebody that you just don’t really feel the connection coming by way of the tv set,” Hayes stated. “Alternatives to satisfy the followers stay are at all times very rewarding to the actors. We’ve by no means had an interface with the followers that didn’t ship us again to the studio a bit jazzed up like, ‘I’m not alone in a room. I obtained 1,000,000 folks that care as a lot as I do.’ It’s an incredible affirmation.”

Judi Evans

Evans praised Monaco’s legions for supporters having her again.

“If a personality goes that so many individuals love and cherish, it’s nearly unfathomable to [fans],” Evans advised Us. “That’s the advantage of Salem. You by no means actually die.”

Wally Kurth

“She was there for 20-something years,” Kurth advised Us. “I work at GH generally too, and I drove into the studio and there was an indication with LCD lights that stated, ‘Kelly Monaco, carry her again’ and it was like outdoors our studio, simply flashing lights for like per week and that was from followers.”

He added, “It occurs to us all. I’ve been fired a number of instances. You may’t take it personally. We’re actors.”

Cherie Jimenez

Monaco’s departure from Basic Hospital reminds Jimenez of Brandon Barash‘s sudden exit from Days of Our Lives earlier this yr.

“This can be a cleaning soap opera. I belief that the writers know what they’re doing. Individuals come and go,” Jimenez stated of her costar’s exit. “That’s simply the way in which it’s, and it creates extra drama. It creates extra angst. … Characters do come again so I’m hopeful, and we’re simply gonna depart it at that and no matter occurs, occurs. I assume we are going to see.”

Eric Martsolf

Martsolf was in awe that Monaco’s followers made a billboard in Occasions Sq. to name for her GH return.

“It’s fairly easy. Tom Cruise is a film star, however you may solely be subjected to him on display, perhaps 2,3,4, 5, instances a yr perhaps. We’re in your front room day-after-day,” Martsolf defined. “We’re a part of your furnishings. The comfortability and accessibility that followers have with us, you’ll be able to’t problem that in another realm of leisure. In order that’s why they really feel so related to you. Soaps are like caramel corn. It’s, like, salty and candy, however it’s consolation meals. Should you don’t have your consolation meals, if you happen to don’t have your snack on the finish of our day, you’re offended.”

Outdoors of celebrating Monaco’s illustrious GH tenure, the Days forged got here collectively to mark the beginning of their milestone season 60. New episodes of Days of Our Lives stream weekday mornings on Peacock.

With reporting by Mike Vulpo

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Nobody Wants This’ Jackie Tohn Previews Sasha and Morgan in Season 2

November 1, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

No person Desires This season 2 will decide up after Esther discovers her husband Sasha’s secret textual content chain with Morgan, and star Jackie Tohn is prepared for what could occur subsequent.

“Season 2 is a-coming,” Tohn, 44, completely advised Us Weekly on Wednesday, October 30. “I stay up for seeing how that’s going to resolve itself. I don’t know, however I think about it’s going to be a large plot level — or a minimum of how the season begins. I imply, we’ve to brush that below the rug or squash it or no matter we find yourself doing.”

No person Desires This, which premiered on Netflix final month from creator Erin Foster, follows unconventional scorching rabbi Noah (Adam Brody) and agnostic Joanne (Kristen Bell) as they fall in love regardless of household disapproval and spiritual variations. On the similar time, Noah’s brother Sasha (Timothy Simons) begins a friendship with Joanne’s sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) as they bond over being the much less achieved siblings of their respective households. Sasha, nonetheless, is married to Esther (Tohn).

Regardless of the will-they-won’t-they chemistry between Sasha and Morgan, Tohn doesn’t assume that he’d cheat on Esther. (Sasha and Esther share preteen daughter Miriam, whose New York-themed Bat Mitzvah Joanne and Morgan crashed within the finale.)

“I feel he’s sort of obsessive about [Esther], and the factor that he did that’s the worst is he stored it from her,” Tohn advised Us. “Now, would she have taken it properly if he advised her? No, however I’ve been in conditions like this up to now the place a dude pretends he’s not mates together with his ex. He’s like, ‘I don’t get being mates with my exes. It’s not for me.’ After which I’m mates with my ex, and he’ll disgrace me about that. However then, I discover out that the entire time we had been collectively, they weren’t solely mates however nearly emotional help, like, mega-close.”

She defined the comparability, “It’s like, properly, you’ll be able to’t lie about it. Even when I wouldn’t have taken it properly, then we might’ve talked about it and gotten to the underside of it. You possibly can’t simply decide and select what you retain out of your companion, particularly if it’s one thing like that.”

Nobody Wants This Jackie Tohn Teases What Will Happen With Sasha and Morgan in Season 2 — Stefania Rosini/Netflix

In accordance with Tohn, Morgan does “find yourself pondering [Sasha] is sort of cute and charming,” however his coronary heart stays with Esther.

“He’s nonetheless form of, ‘I really like my spouse and I’ve a good friend. Why can’t I’ve a good friend?’” Tohn mentioned.

The precise plot strains of No person Desires This season 2 have but to be revealed as 42-year-old Foster, who crafted the present based mostly on her personal interfaith marriage to Simon Tikhman earlier than changing to Judaism, remains to be working together with her group of writers on the scripts.

The second season was rapidly greenlit after the primary broke all kinds of streaming data on Netflix.

“It’s so nuts and so thrilling. I imply, you make a present, you haven’t any concept who’s going to observe it or if anybody’s going to observe it,” Tohn mentioned. “And I feel everyone seems to be form of coming at it like, ‘Oh my God, you knew, proper? You guys knew you had a success in your arms.’ And it’s, like, you by no means know on this enterprise. I imply, what number of issues we’ve all made and also you’re like, ‘That is the one,’ and no person watches it.”

Tohn additional detailed why No person Desires This was in a position to break by way of and actually make a splash on the streaming platform.

“I feel that Kristen and Adam are actually charming. I feel the writing is fabulous, and I do assume it’s actually a straightforward watch, clearly,” Tohn advised Us on Wednesday. “I imply, my opinions are the opinions of the individuals who find it irresistible. I’m similar to, ‘Oh, that is what I’m clocking.’ Everybody’s loving it, watching it a number of instances … and I assume I’m listening to from lots of people that rom-coms had been gone.”

She continued, “It’s simply actually cool to be part of a factor so many individuals are loving.”

No person Desires This season is now streaming on Netflix.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi

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Wendell Pierce Says He ‘Would Love’ to Make a Cameo on ‘Suits L.A.’

October 30, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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Wendell Pierce is able to reprise his position as Robert Zane for Fits L.A.

“There’s a brand new Fits being produced proper now, so I’m certain that we are going to be making cameos on it,” Pierce, 60, stated in a current look on SiriusXM’s The Highlight with Jessica Shaw. “I higher be requested to make a cameo on the present as a result of we went on strike as a result of we’re not getting something from that resurgence.”

Pierce’s remark refers to the newest actor’s strike, which lasted from July to November final 12 months, the place members of the SAG-AFTRA union demanded higher wages plus elevated residual funds from streaming providers, amongst different asks.

“No, however I’d like to make a cameo on the present,” he concluded.

Pierce’s recurring position as lawyer Robert Zane (the daddy to Meghan Markle’s Rachel Zane) began on season 2 in 2013 and lasted all through the remainder of the collection’ run. Fits got here to an finish in 2019 after 9 seasons and made a resurgence after happening Netflix in 2023.

Wendell Pierce Says He 'Would Love' to Make a Cameo as Robert Zane on 'Suits L.A.' Spinoff — Meghan Markle as Rachel Zane and Wendell Pierce as Robert Zane on ‘Fits.’ Ben Mark Holzberg/USA Community

“I believe it’s essentially the most fascinating factor that abruptly, our present bought on Netflix and it blew up,” Pierce stated throughout his SiriusXM interview. “We bought a textual content, a sequence textual content, from Gabriel Macht, who’s the lead, and he simply despatched this textual content to everybody saying, ‘WTF.’”

Following the newfound success of Fits, it was introduced in February that the present could be getting a derivative collection. Stephen Amell is ready to star as former New York prosecutor, Ted Black, who’s taking his profession to Los Angeles to characterize some high-profile shoppers.

“His agency is at a disaster level, and in an effort to survive he should embrace a task he held in contempt his whole profession,” the present’s official logline reads. “Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who check their loyalties to each Ted and one another whereas they’ll’t assist however combine their private {and professional} lives. All of this is happening whereas occasions from years in the past slowly unravel that led Ted to go away behind every little thing and everybody he liked.”

Amell, 43, gave followers a primary have a look at himself in character with a July Instagram publish after they began filming in Vancouver.

“Ted Black will see you now,” the actor captioned the picture.

Other than Pierce, another authentic Fits solid members have expressed curiosity in returning for the reboot as nicely.

“I imply, I believe it’s in a world the place some characters may in reality come [back],” Macht, 52, instructed The Hollywood Reporter in February.

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Everything Lucas Bravo Has Said About ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5

October 28, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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It doesn’t seem to be Lucas Bravo is trying ahead to season 5 of Netflix’s Emily in Paris.

Bravo, 36, has performed Gabriel, the recent, French chef neighbor and love curiosity to Lily Collins’ Emily, since season 1. He reprised the position for season 4, which premiered on Netflix in August 2024, however has but to substantiate his return for the present’s fifth season.

Netflix renewed the collection for season 5 in September. Since then, Bravo has spoken about the way forward for the collection in a number of interviews. Talking with the French outlet La Figaro in October 2024, Bravo expressed his hesitation about enjoying Gabriel, citing a scarcity of “freedom” within the position and additional casting doubts on his future on the present.

Bravo has branched out to roles past the Netflix collection, and is at present starring in Libre, a French heist romance movie coming to Amazon Prime video in November. Regardless of his hesitation, he instructed The Telegraph on October 26 that he has no plans to depart Emily in Paris for season 5.

“[Emily in Paris creator Darren Star] is the primary one who took an opportunity on me, and I’ll at all times be right here for him,” Bravo instructed the outlet. “I wish to inform significant tales. About what we’re speaking about, not what we seem like.”

Maintain scrolling to see what Bravo has mentioned about Emily in Paris season 5:

A Lack of Freedom

Everything Lucas Bravo Has Said About Emily in Paris Season 5 — Courtesy of Netflix

Bravo described his character’s on-again, off-again romance with Collins’ Emily as “archaic” in an October 2024 interview with Le Figaro in October, including that he wished Gabriel to have extra “panache.”

“Life is brief. It takes 5 months to shoot this collection,” he mentioned. “Do I wish to sacrifice them by telling one thing that doesn’t stimulate me?” Bravo added, “I don’t wish to be part of a cog that doesn’t are inclined to take the intelligence of viewers into consideration.”

He defined that whereas he considers Emily in Paris to be “good leisure” and “an escape” for audiences,” he isn’t a fan of the present’s “Nineteen Nineties concept that lovers pull aside, kiss [and] pull aside once more.”

“Every little thing relies on a scarcity of communication. It’s a bit archaic,” he famous, including, “I don’t actually have any freedom. And as persons are beginning to give it to me elsewhere, I get a style for it.”

Disappointing Storylines

Bravo expressed his disappointment within the script for Emily in Paris season 5 in a September 2024 interview with SheKnows.

“I don’t actually learn what’s on-line, however studying the script this final season, it was like, ‘I don’t actually like what it’s turning into and the place this storyline goes,’” Bravo defined. “You realize, on the finish of the day, I’m simply an actor, and I’m right here to say my traces, however, yeah, it’s type of bizarre.”

That is totally different from earlier feedback he made to Vogue earlier this 12 months, the place Bravo gushed about working with Collins on season 4, saying, “I’ve by no means been so near Lily earlier than by way of what we dropped at Gabriel and Emily.”

“This season is all about maturity,” he instructed the outlet in Might. “It’s been 5 years since we shot season 1 — since then, a few of us within the solid have gotten married, a few of us have children, or new relationships, or new residences.”

He continued, “We actually wished to take it to the following stage, not by way of ardour, however by way of maturity and the connection between them. There’s a variety of issues that weren’t addressed for 3 seasons which we’re confronting now.”

Rising Out Gabriel’s Hair

Bravo debuted Gabriel’s lengthy hair in season 4 of the Netflix collection and needs to maintain the pattern going for season 5.

“I’ve been attempting to have longer hair on the present since season 1,” the Emily in Paris star instructed THR in September. “And since solely at some point passes [between seasons 3 and 4], if I have to have lengthy hair on a season then I have to undergo the transition part the place you will have s— hair and it doesn’t seem like something.”

He added, “So [I decided] to sacrifice season 4 with a view to have lengthy hair in season 5. I simply wished one thing totally different. I’m at all times clean-shaven and 5 months of [constantly] shaving isn’t very good in your pores and skin or your soul.”

Threesome Finale

Bravo shared certainly one of his steamier concepts on the best way to wrap up the present’s divisive love triangle between Emily, Gabriel and Camille (Camille Razat). “From what I gathered, it ought to find yourself in a threesome,” Bravo instructed Further in August. “Everyone is completely satisfied and the world is reunited.”

Nonetheless, the actor shortly clarified that he meant “throuple” as a substitute of “threesome,” saying, “A throuple. Sorry! Poor alternative of phrases. Or possibly not.”

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Gossip Girl’s Kaylee DeFer Hints Cast Was Over Show When She Joined

October 27, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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Gossip Lady’s Ivy Dickens, performed by Kaylee DeFer, was the present villain all of us liked to hate due to her late arrival on the Higher East Aspect.

“It was a really attention-grabbing state of affairs for me as a result of I got here in on the finish of season 4,” DeFer, 38, recalled throughout a current look on the “Don’t Fear About It” podcast. “So, think about going into your senior 12 months of highschool with this one class that’s been collectively for 4 years and so they’ve already all dated one another and damaged up with one another and don’t need something to do with each other.”

DeFer, on the flip slide, was “simply so excited to have a job.”

“There’s simply, like, ‘Get out of right here’ [and] I’m like, ‘Please discuss to me,’” DeFer added. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know anybody in New York. Wanna hang around?’ They usually’re like, ‘No, we’re not babysitting.’”

DeFer additional burdened that the whole solid was all “very good” to her however handled the expertise “like a job.”

Gossip Lady, tailored from Cecily Von Ziegesar’s YA e-book collection of the identical identify, aired on The CW between 2007 and 2012. Blake Vigorous, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Penn Badgley and Taylor Momsen performed college students on the elite Constance Billard and St. Jude’s preparatory academies on NYC’s Higher East Aspect.

As the kids navigated high-society life at a younger age, additionally they lived and breathed to be featured on the “Gossip Lady” weblog that was (spoiler alert) run by Badgley’s Dan Humphrey. DeFer, for her half, arrived on the town throughout season 4 because the presumed cousin of Vigorous’s Serena Van der Woodsen.

Kaylee DeFer Says It Was an 'Interesting Situation' Joining 'Gossip Girl' When Cast Was 'Over It' — Kaylee DeFer Bobby Financial institution/WireImage

After Ivy infiltrated her approach into the elite society, it was ultimately revealed that she was employed by Serena’s aunt Carol (Sheila Kelley) as a technique to safe her inheritance. Carol’s actual daughter, Lola (Ella Rae Peck), didn’t need something to do along with her mom or the UES world as she studied appearing in school.

Whatever the solid’s emotions, DeFer nonetheless had nothing however fond recollections of appearing on Gossip Lady. She famous on the October podcast episode that present creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage wrote the position of Ivy particularly for her after they labored collectively on The Mountain.

“They have been simply the loveliest,” DeFer gushed. “They have been like, ‘Kaylee, the place have you ever been? We forgot about you!’ I’m like, ‘I do know I haven’t labored in three years.’ After which [they] have been like, ‘We need to work with you; we liked working with you on The Mountain.’ They usually introduced me on board, which was the sweetest factor in the entire world [and] actually saved my life — and I stayed within the trade for an additional 5 years.”

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Law and Order SVU Clip: Carisi Reacts to Threat Against His Daughter

October 25, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

Peter Scanavino channeled his inside cop — as soon as once more — ADA Dominick “Sonny” Carisi, Jr. got here face-to-face with a possible risk.

Us Weekly’s unique clip from the most recent episode of Regulation and Order: SVU season 26 exhibits Carisi (Scanavino) go into full dad mode when he storms over to confront a person on the road. The potential assailant seems to be gazing underaged women — which Carisi is fast to clock together with his cop instincts.

“These two women, they’re underage,” Carisi says. “You’re gazing them; you’re gazing my daughter.”

Carisi is referencing 9-year-old Jessie, who’s standing with him. (Carisi’s spouse, Amanda Rollins [Kelli Giddish], welcomed Jessie with Declan Murphy [Donal Logue] throughout season 17. Rollins can be the mom to daughter Billie, whom she welcomed with Al Pollack [George Newbern] in season 20. Carisi and Rollins are additionally the dad and mom to child Dominick “Nicky” Carisi III, whom they welcomed in season 25.)

“Let me see your ID,” Carisi tells the potential perpetrator, which causes a tense second between the 2. When the person asks if Carisi is “a cop,” the assistant district lawyer doesn’t reply the query.

ADA Sonny Carisi Reverts to His Cop Ways After Sensing a Threat to His Daughter in SVU Clip — Peter Scanavino as A.D.A Dominick “Sonny” Carisi Jr. Ralph Bavaro/NBC

“What do you suppose?” Carisi replies. When the character was launched to SVU throughout season 16 in 2014, he was a detective with Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and her squad. He grew to become an ADA throughout season 21, which aired in 2010.

“You retain your eyes to your self, if you wish to maintain them in your head,” Carisi tells the person after taking a look at his license. The Thursday, October 24 episode of SVU, titled “Constricted,” will present Carisi amid a mini-spiral as he brings a case dwelling, which ends up in elevated fear for the way forward for his two younger daughters.

Whereas Carisi isn’t the organic father of Jessie and Billie, it appears the women have taken to accepting him as their dad. Followers obtained a glimpse of his dwelling life with Rollins, the women and son Nicky throughout SVU season 25, which aired earlier this 12 months.

Beforehand, Scanavino instructed Us Weekly completely about Carisi’s shift into fatherhood.

“I feel that’s going to be the best factor ever,” the actor shared throughout the SVU twenty fifth anniversary celebration in January. “I feel he all the time would’ve been an excellent dad. I’m so glad that now he will get to try this. It’s so heartwarming to me as a result of you’ve such an affection in your character. I’m so glad this has occurred to him.”

Regulation & Order: SVU season 26 airs on NBC Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and is streaming the subsequent day on Peacock.

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DWTS Music Director Says Pros Are ‘Very Specific’ With Music Requests

October 20, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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Dancing With the Stars’ music director and composer, Ray Chew, works intently with the present’s skilled dancers to rearrange the songs performed stay within the ballroom every week.

“They’re very particular about a variety of issues that they’re searching for,” Chew, 66, completely instructed Us Weekly of the DWTS professionals on Thursday, October 17. “They might be searching for just a little sound that occurs [at the] 29 seconds [mark] to allow them to do some arm [movement].”

Chew added that the professionals choose up on moments in songs that “no person else hears,” which informs their choreography.

“They’re like, ‘Effectively, I must do some motion on that,’” he defined. “There’s a variety of very, very particular issues that they search for. And it’s very, very difficult at instances. However I really like the problem.”

When requested to select which of the season 33 professionals — Witney Carson, Jenna Johnson, Daniella Karagach, Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bersten, Rylee Arnold, Val Chmerkovskiy, Sasha Farber, Gleb Savchenko, Britt Stewart, Emma Slater, Pasha Pashkov and Ezra Sosa — have the strongest opinions about their music, Chew stated he couldn’t choose only one.

“All of them,” he stated. “All of them are world class winners. They’ve come from everywhere in the world … and once they converge right here, they’re very aggressive.”

Chew famous that each one the professionals inform him “precisely what they need” in “a really respectful manner.” As he works on the preparations for the songs that the professionals and their movie star companions carry out every week, the professionals present him with “revisions and modifications” proper up till present time.

As soon as the love present is over, the work begins over again.

“As quickly as we end the present is after I get my large pile of stuff [for the following week],” Chew stated.

DWTS Music Director Ray Chew Says Pros Are Very Specific With What They Want for Songs — Shahar Azran/Getty Photographs

Earlier than Chew joined the DWTS staff in 2014, he served as American Idol’s music director from 2010 to 2013. He instructed Us that he had extra freedom with music preparations on Idol, whereas with DWTS he’s making an attempt to recreate the songs’ recorded variations as intently as doable.

“Once I was doing American Idol as a music director, I may do the model of a well-liked music the way in which I type of interpreted it. … I didn’t must go and analysis each article and particle that was within the authentic. I may do it with the model of my band. I used to be free to type of implement and add some various things so long as it supported the contestant,” he defined. “With [DWTS], I’ve to go and discover that little sound that was at [the] 1 minute and 15 seconds [mark] from the unique [and recreate it].”

Chew refers to that strategy of breaking down a music to the sum of its components earlier than creating a brand new association as making an attempt to “unbake the cake.”

“I’ve to determine what’s within the sauce,” he stated. “[You] go to some advantageous restaurant and also you style this excellent gravy sauce. Now, think about for those who needed to sit there and decipher what’s in that sauce. It may take you 5 minutes to truly make it, however hours making an attempt to determine what’s within the sauce. And that’s the steps we now have to do, as a result of no person is sitting there giving us that data.”

One other distinctive problem of DWTS is that Chew must be ready to make any music applicable for any model of dance, whether or not or not it’s a rumba, cha cha or Viennese waltz.

“With any music, we are able to make it into any model. And that’s my job,” he stated. “There was nothing earlier to this present the place I needed to take the music ‘Get Down On It’ and make a rumba out of it.”

Along with arranging, Chew performs a task in choosing songs for every week’s theme. Some themes to date this season have included Soul Practice Night time and Hair Steel Night time.

“It’s a staff effort,” Chew stated of the music choice course of. “You may have the community and you’ve got the movie star visitors. You may have our nice choreographers who additionally dance the factor. It’s a giant staff, and all people type of chimes in on that.”

Chew stated that though the movie star contestants get “a variety of enter” in selecting which songs they’ll carry out, they don’t all the time get their want. Generally, the present gained’t have the rights to a music {that a} contestant needs to bop to.

“Earlier to this yr, all Prince songs have been off the desk,” he stated. “I believe it is likely to be totally different now, however there are specific classes [we don’t do], like artists who won’t allow you to use their music. A variety of that stuff determines what can and can’t be used.”

Whereas DWTS is maintaining him busy, Chew has a number of different initiatives within the works as properly. After coproducing the 2018 documentary Two Beats One Soul together with his spouse, Vivian Scott Chew, Ray is trying to increase the movie right into a sequence. Two Beats One Soul shines a light-weight on Cuban tradition and brings collectively artists from each Cuba and america.

“It was a cultural trade,” Ray instructed Us of the unique movie. “It spurred the concept of us doing a sequence that will happen in other places across the globe, and never solely internationally, however domestically.”

Chew additionally teased his subsequent album, My Journey, which is due out in 2025, and his upcoming gig directing an all-star lineup of artists at Carnegie Corridor’s Night time of Inspiration on December 14.

“It’s a congregation of cultures and other people coming collectively in a singular environment that brings secular and non-secular music along with totally different totally different genres of music,” he stated of the New York Metropolis occasion. “[It’s happening] on a fantastic stage with a 150 [piece] mass choir and 64 piece orchestra.”

Dancing With the Stars airs concurrently on ABC and Disney+ Tuesdays on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. You may stream episodes on Disney+ the subsequent day.

Two Beats One Soul is now streaming on Black Expertise on Xfinity and Xumo.

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Amy Slaton Shops for ‘Crazy Recipe’ in 1000-Lb. Sisters Preview

October 18, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

1000-Lb. Sisters star Amy Slaton likes to “experiment” with making new recipes.

In Us Weekly’s unique sneak peek of the Tuesday, October 22, episode of the TLC present, Slaton, 36, retailers for groceries to make a white chocolate shrimp alfredo.

“I don’t know the place my loopy recipes come from, I simply wish to experiment,” she shares. “On the finish of the day, it may not be good, it is likely to be bomb as f—.”

Slaton then asks a grocery retailer employee the place they preserve the white chocolate — and shocks the worker when she reveals what she’s making.

“It’s like common alfredo, you simply add chocolate chips,” Slaton explains to the girl.

The worker then notes that she “prefers garlic” in her alfredo sauce. Slaton is unfazed, replying that her cooking is “so completely different.”

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“Perhaps I’ll be on Dancing With the Cooks,” Slaton jokes earlier than getting “typical” alfredo components, which embrace onion powder, ranch powder, garlic powder, vanilla and creole seasoning.

Slaton then comes throughout a mysterious ingredient referred to as “Puck Cream” — which she by chance refers to as “F— Cream.”

“My head autocorrected that,” she shares earlier than laughing. “I feel it’s a candy condensed milk sort of deal. It appears to be like Arabic or Indian or Taiwan or one thing. … I’ve by no means used ‘F— Cream,’ however I’ve used quite a lot of lube in my life.”

Since January 2020, Amy and her sister, Tammy Slaton, have been documenting their lives and their weight-loss journeys on 1000-Lb. Sisters.

Season 6 of the present, which premiered on October 8, explores Amy’s life as a single girl. Amy referred to as it quits with ex Michael Haltermann in March 2023 after practically 4 years of marriage. (The couple share sons Gage and Glenn, born in 2020 and 2022, respectively.)

“I advised him time and again, if he don’t change, I’m gonna depart,” Amy shared throughout a December 2023 episode of 1000-Lb. Sisters. “I was the glue that held our household collectively, however now I’m simply the used piece of gum. I simply wish to be glad. I simply need the divorce.”

One 12 months after Amy and Haltermann’s divorce was finalized, the fact star made headlines as soon as once more after she was arrested on drug possession and youngster endangerment expenses.

In response to a Crockett County Sheriff’s Division Fb put up, Amy was taken into custody in September after police responded to a name a few visitor being bitten by a camel at an area drive-through zoo.

“Upon arrival, deputies have been instantly overtaken by suspicious odors coming from the visitor’s automobile,” the put up defined, noting that Amy was arrested on “unlawful possession of Schedule I, unlawful possession of Schedule VI, and two counts of kid endangerment.” A person named Brian Scott Lovvorn was additionally current within the automotive and arrested on the identical expenses.

The Crockett County Sheriff additionally confirmed to Us that Amy’s sons have been current within the automobile however weren’t injured and that the Division of Youngsters and Household Providers had turn into concerned with the case.

“A plan has been put in movement involving the mother and father and there may be nonetheless an ongoing investigation,” the PIO advised Us, including that Gage and Glenn have been launched into the custody of a member of the family following Amy’s arrest.

Amy and Lovvorn pleaded not responsible to drug possession and youngster endangerment expenses. She is due again in court docket on November 7.

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Christina Applegate is Finally Watching Friends Despite Emmy Win

October 16, 2024 RecentlyHeard

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Christina Applegate might have received an Emmy for her visitor star look in Associates — however she’s simply now watching the long-lasting present for the primary time.

On the Tuesday, October 15 episode of her and Jamie-Lynn Sigler’s “Messy” podcast, Applegate, 52, and Sigler, 43, revealed she had just lately began watching the NBC franchise after the pair mentioned watching tv at evening to quell their anxiousness.

“You already know me, I flip the TV on and simply stays on 24 hours a day,” Applegate shared. “Apart from the Bravo reveals, they simply cease it. Then if I go to sleep and I don’t have my white noise, which is Bravo or Peacock now, then I’ve to press it once more. I kinda like the way it simply performs, however then I miss an episode of one thing. Like I’m on Associates proper now. Sure, I used to be on Associates twice. I had by no means seen it earlier than I used to be on it.”

Applegate famous that she’s on season 8 of the collection though she simply “began three days in the past.”

“So I don’t have an issue with something, do I? No. It’s completely positive,” she joked, earlier than including that Associates is such a “good present” to look at. “That’s what’s so humorous is I actually received an Emmy on that present and I had by no means seen it earlier than I went on and now I’m obsessed.”

The Lifeless to Me actress went on to clarify how she had watched her personal episodes after she appeared on the present, however she didn’t know what was occurring within the collection.

Christina Applegate is Watching Friends for the 1st Time Despite Winning an Emmy for Her Guest Role — Solid members of NBC’s comedy collection “Associates.” Warner Bros. Tv/Getty Photos

“It’s so good, it’s such a superb present,” she gushed.

Applegate starred as Jennifer Aniston’s sister, Amy Inexperienced, in two episodes of the favored sitcom. She took residence an Emmy award for Excellent Visitor Actress in a Comedy Collection for the 2003 episode “The One The place Rachel’s Sister Babysits,” which reveals Amy shifting in with Rachel (Aniston) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc).

Whereas Applegate might not have seen an episode of Associates earlier than, she beforehand opened up about being stunned at successful an Emmy award for her visitor efficiency.

“It was surprising that I used to be nominated for the episodes I did as a result of it truthfully didn’t really feel like work,” she advised As we speak in 2019. “And it didn’t really feel like I used to be doing something particular in any means. I used to be simply having a lot enjoyable. I actually was in shock when that occurred. It was a type of moments of, like, ‘Why … What, me?’ Like in Sixteen Candles when she’s like, ‘Me?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, you.’ That’s how I felt after they stated my title.”

Applegate then recalled how she realized that Associates can be such a beloved present.

“I bear in mind speaking to Marta [Kauffman] about Associates. And this was whereas we have been engaged on Jesse. And she or he stated the celebrities simply aligned,” she stated on the time. “You had these six individuals who have been simply essentially the most good actors for these elements, relatable, they usually’re so humorous. And it doesn’t typically occur the place all the things works. Plus, it’s only a nice present. It’s bought coronary heart, it’s humorous.”

Associates, which ran from 1994 to 2004, adopted six pals — Aniston, LeBlanc, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer — who all reside in New York Metropolis. The collection received six Emmy Awards with 62 nominations.

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Glen Powell Booed at UGA Football Game While Filming Hulu Series

October 14, 2024 RecentlyHeard Leave a comment

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Glen Powell confronted the ire of faculty soccer followers throughout a shock look on the College of Georgia’s current sport in opposition to Mississippi State.

Throughout the sport’s halftime, which befell on Saturday, October 12, a mysterious soccer staff wearing blue and white uniforms took the sector at Sanford Stadium with Powell, 35, main the cost.

The Prime Gun: Maverick actor was there filming scenes for his upcoming Hulu sequence, Chad Powers, a comedy that follows a disgraced school quarterback as he walks onto a struggling Southern soccer staff. Social media footage confirmed the whole stadium booing Powell’s faux soccer staff as they ran onto the sector. It’s unclear whether or not or not the group was advised to boo the “soccer gamers” for the sake of the scene.

Created by Powell and Michael Waldron, Chad Powers was impressed by Eli Manning’s 2022 ESPN+ docuseries Eli’s Locations whereby the previous New York Giants quarterback participated in Penn State’s walk-on soccer tryouts in disguise as a personality named Chad Powers, full with prosthetic make-up and a wig.

As for Saturday’s precise soccer sport, the Georgia Bulldogs wound up defeating the Mississippi Bulldogs 41 to 31.

Eli Manning Says It s Unbelievable How Terrible Glen Powell Looks as Chad Powers — Glen Powell as Chad Powers. Disney/Daniel Delgado

“We’re each diehard school soccer followers. After we noticed Eli as Chad Powers, we knew that was the way in which into an enormous, enjoyable story about this world,” Powell and Waldron mentioned in a joint assertion to Selection when the present was introduced in February. “We’re excited to be a part of this staff, and might’t wait to get Chad within the sport. Assume quick, run quick.”

Manning, 43, will even govt produce Chad Powers alongside together with his brother, Peyton Manning, through Omaha Productions.

“The love for Chad Powers has stunned me in spectacular methods,” Eli advised Selection. “I performed 16 years within the NFL, however now once I’m in a restaurant or strolling by means of an airport, it’s not unusual for followers to scream, ‘Hey Chad!’ I’m so excited to staff up with my mates Glen Powell, Michael Waldron and Omaha Productions to proceed to inform the Chad Powers story and see what he does subsequent.”

Eli gushed over Powell’s portrayal of Chad Powers final month whereas talking completely with Us Weekly. “I believed he regarded unbelievable,” he mentioned in September. “I imply, he regarded horrible, which is tough for Glen to look actually dangerous. He regarded dangerous like I did!”

He added, “I’ve been speaking to him, working with him a bit of bit within the off season and to get him prepared. And he’s fired as much as play quarterback and to play Chad. He’s gonna do an amazing job. I can’t wait to see him in motion.”

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