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As Emmy nominations approach, Vanity Fair’s HWD team is once again diving deep into some of the shows that struck us most, and asking actors and creators how the season’s greatest scenes and characters came together. You can read more of these close looks here. OTIS MILBURN, SEX EDUCATION “Cool” is not a word that

Brad Pitt rode in style to drop by Angelina Jolie’s gated community on July 9. The ‘Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood’ star made the visit not long after Angelina talked about their split in a rare interview. Brad Pitt, 56, embodied his stunt double character Cliff Booth from Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood when he

Less than two weeks after using a disguise to successfully infiltrate and wreak havoc at a far-right rally in Olympia, Wash. — where he jokingly led a racist sing-along — Sacha Baron Cohen has reportedly returned with yet another one of his notorious political pranks against the people of the U.S. This time, however, the

Everyone around Michael has their own briefly-sketched woes and joys, from bartender Shay—who is trying to do right by her just-starting-to-act-out teenage son—to a faded hippie flirt whose transient backstory suggests that there is some deep existential restlessness lying under his smooth, affable charm. It’s amazing what the Rosses were able to get from their

Simone Biles revealed her honest thoughts after splitting from her first boyfriend, Stacey Ervin Jr. The gold medalist also dished on her plans for the 2021 Olympics! Sadly, this gymnast dream team is no more. Simone Biles, 23, confirmed that she split from her longtime boyfriend, two-time U.S. national champion gymnast Stacey Ervin Jr., 26,

WARNING: This post contains explicit language.  Will Smith opened up about his experience with racism and police in Philadelphia. The actor sat down for a conversation with Angela Rye on her podcast, On One With Angela Rye, on Tuesday and addressed the Black Lives Matter movement. The 51-year-old actor spoke about facing racism at the

This may be a classic case of cow and barn door. Or toothpaste and tube. The scheduled publication of Mary Trump’s hotly anticipated Trump family tell-all is just days away—but much of the detail, salacious and incisive and fascinating in the way of all unhappy families, is already out there. Readers have been devouring excerpts

So heartbreaking! The 911 call reporting former ‘Glee’ star Naya Rivera missing detailed how her child was found all alone on a boat without any sign of his mother. The first sign that something had gone wrong in Naya Rivera‘s July 8 boating trip on California’s Lake Piru came when her four-year-old son Josey Hollis

Five people have been arrested in connection with the February home-invasion death of rapper Pop Smoke in Los Angeles. Three men and two juveniles were arrested on Thursday, police confirmed. The 20-year-old New York rapper, whose legal name is Bashar Barakah Jackson, was killed Feb. 19 at a home in the Hollywood Hills. A 911

Most of Wall Street, it seems, is happily preparing for a Joe Biden victory in November. “The majority of my friends on Wall Street would like to see Trump lose to Biden,” one very senior investment banker tells me. “They’re saying, ‘We’d like to see Biden crush Trump.’” And that is without knowing exactly what

Angelina Jolie opened up about her ‘extraordinary’ daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt in a new interview, saying how ‘in awe’ she is of the teenager’s connection to her African roots. Angelina Jolie couldn’t be prouder of her daughter. The actress and activist brought up her 15-year-old, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, during a discussion about the power of African voices

After being greenlit by ABC, the much-beloved coming of age comedy/drama series The Wonder Years is set to receive the reboot treatment next year — but this time, the series will follow the lives of a middle-class Black family in Alabama. After landing a pilot-production commitment, a newly, updated version of the show, helmed by

On July 2, Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire and charged with perjury and crimes connected to her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The next day, The Telegraph resurfaced a 2002 photo that illustrated exactly why Prince Andrew is reportedly feeling “nervous” in the wake of her capture. In the photo, Maxwell sits on Queen

In this EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at the upcoming July 9 episode of ‘Revenge Prank,’ Pauly D looks on as a young woman pulls the ultimate prank on her unsuspecting mother. Pauly D is at it once again on the upcoming episode of Revenge Prank with DJ Pauly D & Vinny Guadagnino! This time, he’s helping a

To commemorate the upcoming 2020 reissue of their critically acclaimed album Goats Head Soup, The Rolling Stones have released a previously unheard studio track from the 1973 record called Criss Cross. The previously unreleased song was recorded between 1972 and ’73 during the Goats Head Soup studio sessions and only ever played live on a handful

Thandie Newton: They certainly like to have feedback from previous seasons, which I imagine goes towards how we continue. I think really, because we’re all part of this network and because there are a few of us that are consistently part of it, I feel like part of what I’m really concerned about is just

‘Glee’ stole our hearts more than a decade ago from the show choir room of William McKinley High School. 11 years after its premiere, we reflect on how far the cast has come. Glee premiered after American Idol on May 19, 2009, and was an instant favorite. Stars like Matthew Morrison, 41, Lea Michele, 33, Amber Riley, 34,

Kourtney Kardashian has explained why she took a break from her family’s famous reality TV series Keeping Up With the Kardashians (KUWTK). Last fall, Kardashian announced that she was stepping back from the show, and in a cover interview for Vogue Arabia’s July/August issue, she said she was feeling “unfulfilled” after filming the show “non-stop

She continued to tweak That’s How Rumors Get Started after she left California in 2018, recording overdubs at home with Ivey. Ramona was born in June 2019, and the subsequent months saw her slow down. “I had been touring really, really heavy for about three years,” she said. “So [it was] a kind of forced

Heather Morris is absolutely devastated after hearing that her ‘Glee’ co-star, Naya Rivera, is feared to have drowned while boating with her son in California. Naya Rivera’s Glee love interest, Heather Morris, took to Instagram during the early hours of July 9 to pray for the safe return of her friend. Heather’s message came after it

For more than four decades now, action-comedy series The Dukes of Hazzard has advertised the Confederate flag to retinas of TV-lovers across the world. Now, in the wake of international Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice, the stars of the CBS show are speaking out in defence of the series’ usage of the controversial

A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ailes’s widow, Elizabeth, invited Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a few others for dinner at her $36 million Palm Beach home. The political conversation around the table was melancholy, a person familiar with the gathering recalled. With COVID cases hitting record highs and Donald Trump’s poll numbers going

Authorities are desperately searching a lake north of Los Angeles for former ‘Glee’ star Naya Rivera. She rented a boat on July 8, and hours later, only her four-year-old son was found in the vessel. This is just devastating news. Rescuers in Ventura County, CA are searching for former Glee star Naya Rivera after she

Actress and singer Naya Rivera, best known for her role on the television series Glee, is missing after possibly drowning in a California lake, police said late Wednesday. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office identified Rivera, 33, as the person reported missing in Lake Piru, which lies roughly an hour northwest of Los Angeles. After hours

Kanye West announced on Saturday night that he plans to run for president in the fall. Immediate details were scant, but the news was met with varying degrees of skepticism. The outlets that tend to report on West’s every move did so, but some pointed out that it would be nothing short of logistically impossible⁠—or

Rob Kardashian is one proud papa when it comes to his daughter Dream. He shared a new photo of his little princess looking like a style star in a matching cheetah print outfit. Rob Kardashian seems to be on a mission to show he’s got the cutest daughter in the next generation of young Kar-Jenner

Throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Blink-182 bassist and co-founder Mark Hoppus has spent much of his time on Twitch, the live video streaming service, as a way to stay in touch with his fans while simultaneously playing video games. Though the 48-year-old musician typically streams himself playing Nintendo‘s best-selling Animal Crossing game, 2020’s New Horizons, he’s recently taken a

Give Kelly Loeffler credit for this: The two defining stories of the past few months have been the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, and she’s managed to carve out some villainous terrain for herself in both. In January and February, the Republican junior senator from Georgia made millions of dollars worth of

Two players with red skulls were sent home on the July 8 episode of ‘The Challenge’ — and one elimination came after a game-changing move to help someone else. The July 8 episode of The Challenge: Total Madness begins with six guys and five girls left. Every player has earned a red skull at this point,

Tyler Perry is set to pay for the funeral of eight-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was shot and killed near Rayshard Brooks‘ memorial site on Saturday. Police on Tuesday released a short video of an armed man who they described as a person of interest in the girl’s shooting. Atlanta police Lt. Pete Malecki said the