R&B sensation HER (real name Gabriella Wilson) is making history again. As the singer prepares for her musical special debut as part of Disney’s 30th celebration televised special of Beauty And The Beast, Wilson becomes the first Black and Filipina woman to play the role of Belle.
For clarity, singer Toni Braxton was the first Black woman to star as Belle on Broadway in 1998. But Wilson’s portrayal will mark the first time a woman of color has played the character on the small screen. During a stop at Good Morning America, the “Back Of My Mind” singer shared with host Michael Strahan what this opportunity means to her.
Wilson confessed, “I never thought I could be a Disney princess.” She later added, “Of course, every little girl wants to be a Disney princess, but I’ve never seen one that looks like me — so I get to be that to little girls now.”
When asked about her experience as Belle, Wilson replied, “Being a Disney princess is fun!”
Striving for the coveted EGOT status, Wilson could very well earn an Emmy as she also serves as a producer of the special. Wilson discussed the production side of the special, stating, “that’s such a huge deal on top of being a producer on Beauty And The Beast, which is crazy. I got to do a lot of the new arrangements and work with Alan Menken, the original arranger and producer. It’s been an amazing experience just learning so much about myself, and it’s been a lot of fun, honestly.”
Without giving too much away vocally, Wilson sang a teaser of the production’s opening number, “Belle,” and let’s say viewers are in for a treat.
Other notable names joining Wilson in the production include Shania Twain (in the role of Mrs. Potts), Josh Groban (in the role of Beast), Martin Short (in the role of candlestick Lumière), Joshua Henry (in the role of Gaston), and David Alan Grier (in the role of Cogsworth, the clock). Rita Moreno will narrate the special.
The Beauty And The Beast: A 30th Celebration television event will air on ABC on December 15 and on Disney+ the next day.
Hallmark has produced more than 300 holiday-themed movies over the past decade and they tend to be romantic comedies or stories about families that reunite around Christmas. The movies are meant to be comfort food on a cold winter’s night, so no one seems to mind that they’re filled with predictable plot lines and cliches.
Hallmark movies have become a big part of America’s holiday tradition. Last year, more than 80 million people watched at least part of one.
Each film usually begins with a single woman in a small, quaint town having a meet-ugly or a meet-cute with her love interest. In a meet-ugly scenario, the boy and girl are either adversaries in a cause or inadvertently injure one another in a freak accident. If it’s a meet-cute scenario, the two randomly run into each other and have an instant connection.
Regardless of how they meet, the couple falls for each other and then a major misunderstanding drives them apart before they are brought together again
Writer Shyla Watson went Christmas tree shopping on November 27 and inadvertently found herself in a situation that resembled the first act of a Hallmark holiday movie. Her tweet about it quickly went viral, receiving more than 72,000 likes.
I can’t believe I’m even writing this but just now I was trying to get my Christmas tree off the roof of the car. Clearly struggling. A voice calls out asking if I need help. I turn around. A HANDSOME, SHIRTLESS, TATTOOED stranger comes forward. (1/2)
u201cOkay so I didnu2019t get his name or number but in my defense I was very frazzled!! Itu2019s not every day a hot shirtless guy comes to your Christmas rescue (yes this would be the name of the Hallmark movie) but Iu2019m pretty sure he lives across the street so waiting for a xmas miracleu201d
Shyla didn’t get his number but that may not be such a bad thing. Liv pointed out that the movie has just begun and it was a total meet-cute situation.
No, it’s good that you didn’t get his number bc they never do in the first scenes. Please frequent your local cafe, join a local cause/protest, go Christmas shopping on a busy weekend, and walk around unaware of your surroundings for optimal results. Please update. Thank you.
Amber Picota noted that there is a surefire way to get the man’s attention: gaze at the snow with a warm drink in hand.
Hear me out: during the first snow, walk w/ a mug of cocoa in hand, to the front porch. You gaze at the miracle of snow. You’re distracted by movement across the street. He too is mesmerized by the snow. Your eyes lock. There’s a softness in his eyes. He waves & walks your way.
Shyla should also prepare herself for a meet-ugly reversal.
💯this. Also, carry in the other arm a stack of poorly organised papers and files of different colours to increase the drama of the accidental both or you not looking where you’re going collision
You need to get another bulky thing in your car and struggle to get it out, so he’ll appear again and say “We need to stop meeting like this.”
— Henri Hart – Querying ‘Corner House’ (@HenriHartWrites) November 28, 2022
Auld Anxiety knows how to find him and find out if he’s single.
aight so boom, this what you gotta do…call your friends/family and get a caroling group together. Go to every door in the neighborhood till he answer. Now u know where he stay at AND if he got kids/wife cause he’ll call em to the door. pic.twitter.com/FWAFqkI3Kq
Keep an eye out for ex-girlfriends. They always tend to pop up somewhere in these movies.
And after knowing him for 1 month, he will invite you to his small town family’s Christmas party where his ex is also attending. She’ll try to make a move but don’t worry he’ll shut it down. By the end of the night, you’ll be engaged. Congrats!
Make sure to tell everyone that you are not interested in a relationship this Christmas and that love is not for you and that you are busy with work or some other big project so that way you will be more shocked and surprise to see him at the office/event party.
Nonononono! She’s the brilliant designer who comes up with THEE hot Xmas ornament whose sales are going to save the company, which he inherited from his grandparents.
You’re going to figure out where he lives because you will see him walking out his door with a very attractive woman. You will be jealous but eventually you will find out she’s his recently widowed sister. You will feel bad and relieved at the same time.
Pretty sure you might need to go to your local bookstore which may be closing down because a greedy real estate mogul wants the land for development. You’ll find your guy working there because it’s his family store.
The fact that Hallmark holiday films are so predictable isn’t entirely due to a lack of creativity at the channel. Romantic comedies are generally filled with cliches that date back to Shakespeare.
“The Rom-Com Formula: Two people at odds, a meet-cute, misunderstanding, or an outright lie, an adorably clumsy heroine, a red herring love interest, a whimsical job, a big apartment, zany side characters, kissing in the rain, the epiphany, the happy-ever-after… and more.”
Shyla has yet to update the world on what happened after she had her meet-cute, but maybe that’s because “Handsome Holiday Hunk” is already in development at Hallmark and she doesn’t want to blow the deal.
“A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter.”
It’s a simple, repeated line from a one-minute sketch, but as a Gen Xer raised on public television, it’s one of thousands of “Sesame Street” segments etched into my brain. Such memories still pop into my head at random times, clear as day, well into my forties. Bert singing about his oatmeal box while playing it like a drum. Kermit lamenting that it’s not easy—but it is beautiful—being green. Buffy Saint-Marie breastfeeding her baby and explaining it to Big Bird. Mr. Hooper—the sweet, bow-tied man who ran the Sesame Street corner store—dying.
I was 8 when Mr. Hooper died. It was a big deal. I rewatched part of that episode recently to see what I’d think of it as an adult. The “Sesame Street” gang of 1983 handled it masterfully, helping us all process his unexpected death through Big Bird’s own experience of learning about what it means to die.
“Big Bird, when people die, they don’t come back,” said Susan.
Big Bird let that reality sink in, then said that things wouldn’t be the same without Mr. Hooper—exactly the sentiment we all had.
Bob comforted Big Bird, saying, “You’re right, Big Bird. It’ll never be the same around here without him. But you know something? We can all be very happy that we had a chance to be with him, and to know him and to love him a lot when he was here.”
u201cA founding cast member, Bob embodied the melodies of Sesame Street like no one else, and his performances brought joy and wonder to generations of children around the world…nn2/4u201d
And now the always kind, always gentle Bob has joined Mr. Hooper and the original Big Bird, Carol Spinney, in whatever comes next. Bob McGrath passed away this past week at age 90, and I found myself mourning the loss more than I would have expected.
I suspect I’m not alone.
Those of us in the original “Sesame Street generation” were the guinea pigs on which the theory of educational children’s television programming was tested. It was an experiment that proved beneficial for millions of us, helping us grow up smarter, stronger and kinder, according to research—but it also gave us a unique relationship with the people and characters who lived on Sesame Street.
The generation that came before us didn’t have anything like “Sesame Street” or “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” or “The Electric Company,” and the generations after us have had so much more educational programming to choose from. But those shows were all we had besides mostly-horrible-in-hindsight Saturday morning cartoons. For us, the people and characters on “Sesame Street” formed a core part of our most wholesome childhood memories. They weren’t just entertainers, but teachers. They helped us become better humans in addition to teaching us our letters and numbers, and the emotional connection created from that mentorship during our formative years is profound.
u201cMe eating an apple today for me friend Bob. ud83cudf4eu2764ufe0fu201d
I’m not a huge crier, but I cried when Mr. Rogers died and I cried when Jim Henson died. I didn’t expect it, but I couldn’t help it. And when I saw the news this weekend that Bob McGrath from “Sesame Street” had died, I had the same visceral reaction. A piece of my childhood is gone, just like that, never to come back. I didn’t know him, of course, but I felt like I knew him. And in some odd way, I feel like he actually knew me, because he knew and understood kids.
Perhaps that’s why so many of us feel an emotional attachment to our childhood educational show icons. We weren’t just mindless consumers of cartoon entertainment to them, but precious children with the potential to learn and discover, to become more caring and more knowledgeable. We knew they saw us and understood the stages we were going through. I felt that genuine respect for me as a human being even as a young child. And as an adult, I’ve learned about the sincerity and earnestness of the “Sesame Street” creators and how hard they worked to create the absolute best for kids, which only crystallizes what I felt back then.
“Sesame Street” didn’t just make learning the alphabet and counting entertaining. It taught us about life, about people, about relationships and about ourselves—lessons that became part of our identities. I’ve often thought that the world would be an entirely different place if every young child was raised on a steady diet of “Sesame Street,” and the older and more experienced I get, the more I believe that. It really did make us smarter, stronger and kinder.
Rest in peace, Bob. Thank you for everything you taught us and for being such a positive part of our childhood memories.
Yellowjackets is the one of the few television shows to appear on best-of lists for both 2021 and 2022, due to premiering in November 2021 and ending in January 2022. That won’t be an issue for season two: Showtime has announced that the horror series, about a high school girls’ soccer team that’s forced to survive in the chilly wilderness after a plane crash (and their well-cast adult counterparts), will return on March 24, 2023.
You can watch the spooky teaser above.
“I think what the show always kind of aspires to do is continue to evolve and become more itself but also have a tremendous continuity with what came before,” co-creator Bart Nickerson told Deadline about season two. “We are watching the emergence of a religiosity in ’96 and seeing the ramifications of that and the rebirth of that in the present day. I think that that kind of trajectory will continue to hopefully keep the show — you don’t have to completely start from scratch each season. Hopefully, this sort of the tone and the feel of the show will continue to become fuller and more itself.”
Sophie Nélisse, who plays Shauna, also teased that there are scenes in season two that are so “graphic” that the cast “all sat and looked at each other, and we were like ‘What the f*ck are we doing? Like, literally, what the f*ck are we doing? You’ll look at it, and you’ll understand, but I don’t think you’ve ever seen such a scene in TV before.” Can’t wait!
For the seventh year, Babbel has released its annual list of mispronounced words on television. Babbel, a subscription-based language learning platform, partnered with the Institute Of Verbatim Reporters and The Captioning Group to compile data and mispronounced words.
Among those words was British singer Adele’s name.
Though many of her fans, particularly in the US, pronounce “Adele” like “Uh-dell,” this actually isn’t how her name is properly pronounced. During a recent fan event for the premiere of her “I Drink Wine” video, Adele responded to a fan who pronounced her name correctly. The correct way to say her name is “Uh-dale,” as it sounds with an East London accent. When the fan pronounced her name this way, Adele responded, “Love that. She said my name perfectly!”
Though Adele was the only musician whose name showed up on this year’s list, there are several artists whose names we may not be pronouncing correctly. In a Beats 1 Radio interview in 2018, Ariana Grande revealed her last name is actually pronounced “Gran-dee” and not “Gran-deh.”
Last December, Kid Cudi, who released his 10th studio album, Entergalactic this September, cleared up the pronunciation of his legal name. Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that the emphasis goes on the first syllable of his last name “We’re going to do this right now. I really want everybody to learn how to pronounce my last name. This has been bothering me for 13 years. I know I kind of confuse everybody with my rap name. It’s ‘MESS-cud-e.’”
A Latin act was the most-watched artist on Vevo this past year and surprisingly it wasn’t Bad Bunny. The video streaming platform revealed today (December 7) that Colombian superstar Karol G pulled in the most views globally.
2022 turned out to be the year of Karol G. She scored multiple global hits with the feel-good “Provenza” and the breakup anthem “Mamiii.” On Spotify, she claimed the crown for the most-streamed female Latin artist on the music platform this year. Karol G also took the title for the high-grossing tour of 2022 by a female Latin artist for her Strip Love Tour.
Now Karol G’s reign is translating over to Vevo. Among the most-watched artists globally on the video platform this year, Karol G came in at No. 1 with over 2.76 billion cumulative views. Latin music proved to be popular with Shakira placing in second with over 2.49 billion views. Another Colombian star, J Balvin, pulled in at No. 8. Mexican singer Christian Nodal rounded out the list at No. 10. Bad Bunny did not appear in the top 10.
Karol G also claimed the most-viewed video of the year. “Provenza” came out on top with over 546.9 million views. “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Disney’s Encanto soundtrack came in at No. 2. Shakira’s “Te Felicito” featuring Rauw Alejandro appeared at No. 3. Karol G scored another hit on the list with “Gatúbela” featuring Maldy at No. 5. Rosalía’s video for “Despechá” finished the year at No. 6.
The New York Knicks acquired Cam Reddish in a trade from the Atlanta Hawks in January. It’s been less than a year since they decided to bring the former top-10 draft pick on board, and apparently, the team is already sitting down with his representatives in an effort to find a deal to send him elsewhere.
According to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, talks are ongoing between the two sides on the heels of Reddish falling out of the team’s rotation. Reddish, who turned 23 in September, appeared in 20 games with eight starts for the Knicks this season, averaging just under 22 minutes per game. He is also slated to become a restricted free agent at the conclusion of the year, as he was unable to figure out a long-term deal with the team.
It is not the first time that Reddish has been available on the trade block since he came to the Knicks, as Fred Katz of The Athletic reported on Wednesday that the team tried to trade him “leading up to February’s deadline and then again over the summer.” Katz went on to report that both Reddish and Immanuel Quickley could be available in a trade as a way to facilitate a deal to move off of Evan Fournier’s contract in the lead-up to the deadline this year.
This season, Reddish is averaging 8.4 points per game on 44.9 percent shooting from the field and 30.4 percent shooting from three.
A lot of the entertainment industry has bounced back from COVID delays and disruptions, but the virus is still out there. While we hear stories about various TV shows dealing with cases and illnesses, it seems like there is no real protocol for how certain production companies choose to approach COVID. It’s also not uncommon right now: much of The White Lotus cast also managed to get sick while filming in Italy for season two. Netflix’s latest hit Wednesday is now coming under fire for how the production handled an alleged COVID case, and people have a lot of thoughts.
A video of Jenna Ortega‘s titular character dancing recently went viral, showcasing her own self-taught moves on the dance floor. Of course, Ortega expertly executed her own dance routine, but it was recently revealed that she was feeling sick the day of filming, and eventually tested positive for COVID.
Ortega recently spoke to NME when she admitted she woke up on the day of her big shoot feeling sick. “I felt like I’d been hit by a car and that a little goblin had been let loose in my throat and was scratching the walls of my esophagus,” she continued. She revealed that they continued to film while waiting for the results, which turned out to be positive. She added, “They were giving me medicine between takes because we were waiting on the positive result.” After it was confirmed that Ortega was sick, she was removed from the set.
While this kind of problem seems to be happening more and more, a lot of fans are criticizing how the situation was handled.
this is a bad thing right? we all agree that this is not some “persevering through hardship” moment, its a why the fuck didn’t she get sent home, she could get horrendously sick or infect others kinda moment pic.twitter.com/dBlwOf2ulr
— Lily Simpson is Emotionally Dead like Twltter (@LilySimpson1312) December 3, 2022
Jenna Ortega having COVID on set and working unmasked around other unmasked performers is not a flex. She should not be praised for “working while sick.”
The above the line crew could’ve possibly disabled or killed someone for their irresponsibility.
Disappointed to learn that Jenna Ortega had COVID symptoms on set but was still allowed to film the Wednesday dance scene while she waited for her positive test result. I wonder how many people got sick? And how many people those people got sick?
jenna ortega filming a whole scene while waiting for her covid test results AND with obvious symptoms isn’t “professional”, it’s just completely irresponsible
i love jenna ortega but why on earth does she sound like she’s bragging about working while super sick and waiting on her covid test…which ended up being positive. why is exposing the entire cast and crew to a severe virus such a flex??
While many might be placing the blame on Ortega, others are pointing out that a Netflix production should have had safer protocols when it comes to COVID. MGM, the company that produced Wednesday, told The Hollywood Reporterthat “strict protocols were followed,” after Ortega’s result, but in that time, it’s possible that she could’ve gotten her peers sick.
she shouldve been isolated – not made to keep working while feeling ill. forcing jenna ortega to keep working and spreading covid around the set is so negligent of the producers and studio https://t.co/7RnqWgFpWS
jenna ortega seems chill, and that dance in the new wednesday show is cool, but no one else finds it concerning that she admitted she had covid during that scene? like even if she was waiting for the test to come back, why not delay filming? she put the cast and crew at risk
I’m gonna play devil’s advocate here and say: Yes, its a shitty thing that happened. I doubt Jenna Ortega’s proud of the fact that she had to work while Covid Positive. She isn’t SAYING she’s proud of it, she’s talking about how wild that experience was because she HAD to shoot. https://t.co/Me1jcqfPNi
During yesterday’s (December 6) episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the host highlighted a video from a recent visit to the Space Force cadets in Greenland and mentioned wanting to repay them with what he is good at: “telling jokes and drinking alcohol.”
“I wanted to thank the service members at Thule for making me feel at home, so I invited them out for a night of fun at the Top Of The World bar,” Colbert explained. “I recently found out the Space Force is so new that while you’ve got a 120-year-old Sousa march called ‘The Invincible Eagle,’ it doesn’t have any lyrics yet. That ends tonight.”
Colbert goes on to introduce none other than the country star (and US Navy veteran) Sturgill Simpson to help him out with the words. The Space Force crew was immensely excited, chanting Simpson’s name in the audience as a warm welcome.
“Hail the guardians’ vigil keeping, on the Earth both night and day / Watching o’er you when you’re sleeping / But not in a creepy way,” Simpson and Colbert jokingly duet as the video is spliced with footage of the crew working.
And the jokes in the new Space Force anthem don’t end there. “Hail the guardians, we’ve seen aliens / As the galaxies they cross / Oops / We were supposed to keep that secret / So, please don’t tell our boss,” they continue, as the sing-along lyrics allow everyone to start joining in on the space-age bit.
Watch Simpson perform the new (and totally real) Space Force anthem with Stephen Colbert above.
Taylor Swift has a Grammy (many of them, actually), an Emmy, and two Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for Favorite Global Music Star, her most important career achievement. But you know what she doesn’t have? An Oscar. Swift tried with “Beautiful Ghosts,” her song for the big-screen adaptation of Cats, but it wasn’t even nominated. Maybe that’s why, when asked by the Hollywood Reporter if she could trade places with anyone in Hollywood for a day, she picked Best Director winner Guillermo del Toro.
“Imagine having that imagination, that visual vocabulary, and that astonishing body of work,” she said about the Blade II, Pan’s Labyrinth, and The Shape of Director filmmaker. “To have such a diverse storytelling range but to somehow put your distinctive artistic fingerprint on every film. And yet, it fells like he’s still so curious and enthusiastic about his work. I can only imagine that a day in his mind would be fascinating.”
Swift is right: I didn’t think I needed a new Pinocchio movie in my life, until I saw del Toro’s Pinocchio. It’s wonderful. So weird and dark, and there’s a scene where one character taunts another character with a singing and dancing piece of poop. Robert Zemeckis could never. Also, if any movie studio executive is reading this, please greenlight a Freaky Friday remake starring Swift and del Toro. Thank you in advance.
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