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The first season of Doctor Odyssey isn’t even over yet, but the show already hinted at several main cast exits — including Joshua Jackson.
During the Thursday, April 17, episode of the ABC series, the Crew Week theme meant a break for the staff at the Odyssey. But while Tristan’s (Sean Teale) time off without guests meant more time for hookups, Max (Jackson) and Avery (Phillipa Soo) were both hinting that their time on the ship would be over soon.
Avery was fresh off the realization that she was never pregnant with Tristan and/or Max’s baby. Instead, she received a false positive that threw her for a loop and now she was back on track. That meant Avery was planning to go to medical school in a month’s time — despite Max hinting that he wanted them to explore a real romance together.
Then there was Max, who decided to go home and visit his twin brother. While Us usually loves nothing more than seeing Jackson — twice — it set up Max contemplating a life not on the high seas. Max even had a job interview, but that just reminded him of what he loved about being a doctor on the Odyssey.
Max returned with more love for his job, which meant he probably won’t be leaving any time soon. But Avery still seemed divided because Max wasn’t the only man who told her about his feelings for her. Spencer (Marcus Emanuel Mitchell) also reminisced about their past situationship before a parasitic medical emergency changed the subject. Then there was Tristan, who wanted Avery to know that he still wanted to fight for her as well.
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Luckily, there’s still several episodes before the medical drama’s first season comes to an end. Doctor Odyssey, which premiered in September 2024, quickly won Us over with its out-of-the-box medical cases, star-studded guest stars and a chance for Jackson, 46, to have some fun on screen.
“[Cocreator] Ryan [Murphy]‘s imagination is prolific and bizarre in its ability to hold [space] for the absolutely grotesque and absurd — and then there are his lighter and happier shows. All of that being inside of one man’s imagination is amazing,” Jackson exclusively told Us Weekly in March. “I will say that for myself, I have wanted to work for Ryan for quite a long time.”
Jackson credited Murphy for being the reason why he joined the project. “Ryan’s word was sparkle. He said, ‘Make sure that my show sparkles,'” he recalled. “And we have tried to make sure that this show sparkles as much as possible and just hope that the joy that we feel in performing it and doing it all together is what comes across while you’re watching it.”
The actor also weighed in on the central love triangle — including whether it could become a throuple in the future.
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“I feel like Ryan’s approach to this is a much more adult approach than when I’ve done this on previous shows. It was a ballsy thing to do to not just have the triangle be consummated but to have them consummated together. I have to say [that is] one of the things I’m most proud of [with] us this year,” he shared. “There are still certain limitations and restrictions to doing something on network television because of the standards and practice issues that you deal with. [We were] able to take something that is very challenging and daring and play inside of the box of network TV.”
Jackson was thrilled to explore “what you can and cannot show” while creating a “very sexy and challenging” dynamic.
“It was within the boundaries of what we are allowed to do, [and] that is one of the high watermarks of what we were able to achieve from directorial to writing to acting,” he told Us. “Everybody came together to make something that you really hadn’t seen before — particularly on network TV. I think we did a pretty good job with that.”
Doctor Odyssey airs on ABC Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET and is available to stream on Hulu.
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Haley Joel Osment claimed he was being “attacked” by police during his recent arrest.
According to body cam footage obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, April 17, an officer approached Osment, 37, when he was being detained by four others in a parking lot in Mammoth Lakes, California.
“I’m trying to walk back to,” Osment told the cop arriving at the scene while being held back.
An officer who was already on site explained to the new officer that Osment was “beyond intoxication.”
“He lunged at the bartender, we were very nice and calm,” a person in the background claimed.
Osment was then cuffed by the officers and shouted “I’m being attacked” multiple times.
“You’re being detained,” an officer told the actor.
The authorities suggested that Osment should stop resisting arrest and the actor asked what he was “doing wrong.”
Osment was subsequently searched and was asked if there was, “dope in here,” which Osment denied. The officers also asked Osment for his name and he elected not to respond.
“It’s a very simple question,” an officer asked to which Osment replied, “I’m an American, man.”
Another person at the scene claimed that Osment “couldn’t take care of himself.”
“He went to the bar, ordered one drink, he was so intoxicated that he spilled his drink … They served him one drink, he was so drunk he spilled it, and they cut him off,” the person alleged. “Then he got aggravated, argumentative, he tried to load the lift they refused to load the lift.”
Us confirmed on Wednesday, April 16, that Osment was charged with disorderly conduct and possession of a controlled substance after being taken into custody on April 8. He was arrested after police revealed a call about an allegedly intoxicated person at the ski resort. He has since been released from custody.
According to a video obtained by TMZ, Osment was attempting to board a chairlift despite not having his snowboard. A staff member and guest asked that Osment get out of line.
Osment was reportedly booked for public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance, per TMZ, which was the first to report the news. The substance was sent to a lab for testing, per the outlet. Ski patrol was present when authorities arrived and arrested Osment. Osment stayed in jail overnight. Us has reached out to Osment for comment.
The Mono County district attorney later confirmed that Osment had been charged with disorderly conduct under the influence of alcohol and possession of cocaine. Osment will be arraigned at the Mammoth Lakes branch of the Mono County Superior Court on July 7.
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“I thought I was already dark and deep in a hole from what happened to me from the incident in North Carolina and [Gary Wayt] leaving me in the mountains,” Amber, 34, shared on the Thursday, April 17, episode of Teen Mom: The Next Chapter, when referencing her ex briefly going missing in 2024. “But when I found out about my daughter saying that she wanted to be adopted, it took over everything.”
In a March episode of the MTV reality show, Leah expressed to her dad, Gary Shirley, that she would like stepmom Kristina Shirley to formally adopt her.
Cameras rolled as Gary decided to meet with an attorney to discuss the next legal steps. At the time, Leah agreed that she had to think over the issue some more before agreeing to officially file paperwork.
“I was really in bed for over four months,” Amber shared in a confessional interview, “but I just realized that I truly just needed my mommy.”
Although Amber had a complicated relationship with mom Tonya Portwood over the years, the pair reconnected after the reality star needed a “shoulder to cry on” during tough times.
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“I’ve seen my mom three times in just these last few weeks when I hadn’t seen her in almost a year,” Amber shared. “When I wake up crying, all I do is call [her].”
During the episode, Amber met with her mom for dinner and expressed her hope that Tonya would meet her psychiatrist to better understand what she is going through mentally.
“I’m not just bipolar,” Amber explained of her diagnosis. “I have four major mental illnesses that I would like to have him explain to you.”
While Tonya offered her support, she also inadvertently upset her daughter when she confessed to still receiving texts from Leah. (During a recent episode, Leah expressed her wish that Amber didn’t attend her 16th birthday celebrations.)
During dinner, Amber shared her fears that her daughter is “never going to come around.”
At the same time, she couldn’t help but acknowledge the growth she has experienced with her own mother.
“I see how my relationship with my mom was completely tumultuous, and today I’m with my mom,” Amber said in a confessional. “I love my mom so much. This is why I have hope with Leah.”
Teen Mom: The Next Chapter airs on MTV Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET.
For Nick and Mike Fiorito, finding a bracelet in a haystack required intervention from The Amazing Race’s doctors.
“We had to actually stop [the challenge] and get medical attention for a few minutes because we were about to have a heat stroke,” Mike, 28, exclusively told Us Weekly on Thursday, April 17, following their elimination. “We were so determined to not stop.”
During the episode, which took place in Bulgaria, Mike and Nick, 32, chose to complete the Woodstack option for The Detour challenge. The brothers hit a snag when they were one kilogram short and had to complete another round of delivering wood. Once they finished that task, they were in a footrace with Melinda and Erika Papadeas to get to the next portion of the race.
The teams came across a U-Turn, and the mother-daughter duo decided to choose Nick and Mike, fearing they were competing for last place. (No team realized that Carson McCalley and Jack Dodge, who were typically in the front of the race, had gotten lost and were three hours behind everyone.)
Nick and Mike had to go back and perform the other option of the Detour: The Haystack challenge. The task required teams to search for a bracelet hidden in one of three bales of hay. As the pair searched for a tiny bracelet in a literal haystack, the weather had an effect on Nick and Mike.
“When you look at us on TV and you see us kicking the hay, it almost looks like we’re just giving up and just like kicking hay. But that was literally all the energy we had left in our body,” Mike explained. “The sun was so extremely hot and it was right on top of us.”
Nick noted that the grueling effort from the Woodstack task also zapped a lot out of them.
“We had just finished carrying 400 pounds of wood and running back and forth three times. So we were really exhausted,” Nick told Us. “And then — like Mike said — the sun did not help and the hay was extremely itchy as well. So it was just like a perfect storm of unfortunate events and our energy level really went very low.”
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Mike and Nick spent a total of six hours in the field in search of a bracelet. At one point, the duo contemplated taking a time penalty. However, they ultimately decided against it since it would have been an extra “eight hours” on top of what they’d already done.
“It was something outrageous, like somewhere between six and eight hours. And at that point we’re like, ‘OK, that doesn’t not make any sense to take it’ because we were already hours into this challenge,” Mike told Us. “So to add that many hours on top of it just wouldn’t make any sense. So we just said, ‘We gotta just keep fighting through here.’”
Nick and Mike never found the bracelet, and never made it to the pit stop. Host Phil Keoghan appeared at the challenge to eliminate the brothers in a “bittersweet” moment.
“[Phil] had a line basically where he said he came to take us out of our misery. And to be honest with you, he did,” Mike quipped. “We were really beaten down by that sun, by that hay just exhausted beyond measure. That was a bright point that we could stop now.”
Being on The Amazing Race was a lifelong dream for Nick and Mike. The pair applied to be on the show over the course of seven years before they got selected for season 37.
“Watching it from your couch is one thing, but experiencing it and living it in real life is a whole nother thing. We got to see countries that we never even heard of. We never heard of Bulgaria before,” Mike shared. “So we got to see cultures and the way different people live their lives. And that was something that you can do from your couch, but it’s a whole different feeling when you experience it firsthand.”
While they didn’t walk away with the million dollar prize, the pair are looking on the bright side as they lived out their dream of competing in the race.
“At first watching last night, I’m not gonna lie, I felt like a loser. It felt like we lost, we gave it our all and it just wasn’t good enough. And there was shame attached to it and just a lot of negativity. Then I realized, maybe some of that is true, if I choose to believe it,” Nick reflected. “At the same time, you know what else is true, we’re winners because we did give it our all until the very end. We didn’t give up. We made it on the show after seven years of trying and inspired so many people with that alone.”
The Amazing Race airs on CBS Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET and is available to stream on Paramount+ the next day.
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Lucas and Lauren’s skinny dipping scene on Ransom Canyon allowed Garrett Wareing to bare himself as an actor like never before.
“I’m all about body positivity,” Wareing, 23, exclusively told Us Weeklyabout his memorable scene before quipping, “All of my friends on set saw my naked body, but now I guess everybody who has Netflix can see my naked body.”
Wareing was thankful for the opportunity, adding, “But I’m really grateful for the chance to be able to lean into that body positivity and embrace myself in that way.”
Netflix’s newest romantic western, which premiered on Thursday, April 17, introduced Us to the fictional Texas town full of drama, love and hot cowboys. Wareing plays inevitable fan favorite cowboy Lucas Russell, who charmed Us and his love interest Lauren’s (Lizzy Greene) by stripping down to take a secret swim together, which didn’t turn out as expected but fans still caught a glimpse of the actor putting quite a lot on display.
“Everyone likens me to a golden retriever. Part of me wants to be like a Rottweiler or a pit bull but it’s all golden retriever. So Lucas is very, very much that guy. It felt very close to me — not only being from Texas — but also being the golden retriever and being able to play that role,” Wareing noted. “Given some of the fun scenes I got to have — specifically the skinny dipping and the mud wrestling — I would say every character is a version of you and this is a version of myself that I’m very proud to play and very grateful to be able to share with the world.”
Wareing knew Lucas was the right role, because he would “have the most fun with” certain scenes.
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“That was going to be playing the cowboy, going to cowboy camp, skinny dipping, mud wrestling and that line dance sequence,” he detailed. “And a little secret for you about the skinny dipping scene:that was the coldest water I have ever been in. I think we were freshly past winter in New Mexico. It was at elevation, we were in the mountains and I saw God that day.”
Despite the tough conditions, Wareing was “not a wimp,” adding, “I opted to do it as many times as production needed and we did it safely. I had my dear friend who was our safety diver who I had brought in and I was definitely in there for a while. I go under the water too — to add to injury. I had to go underwater and also I’m butt naked, so that was quite the day for sure on Ransom Canyon.”
That instantly iconic scene scored Wareing a place in Us‘ Guys We Googled Shirtless selection — but it wasn’t the only highlight of the show. Wareing specifically recalled going to cowboy camp for research.
“We showed up to New Mexico and we were aware that we were going to go through the ringer for cowboy training. I — being from Texas — wanted to claim this ownership of being a cowboy. But if I showed up to that cowboy camp and told them that I knew how to ride a horse the way that they knew how to ride a horse, they’d all laugh at me,” he recalled about spending “three hours a day” for a month learning the basics. “We were learning how to rope. We also learned how to ride horses, hit marks on horses, ride in tandem with one another, get that walk into a trot, that trot into a leap and do that comfortably and safely, which was the most important part.”
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He continued: “Then once we got proficient at that, they started incorporating the lasso. We started practicing on this roping dummy and then we would upgrade to a dummy that was a mechanical bull basically pulled by a horse. We would go behind this robot bull and rope it on horseback.”
The experience allowed Wareing to “become the cowboy” he always wanted to be.
“I felt like I finally earned my stripes as a cowboy through cowboy camp with all of my friends that definitely brought us together and we bonded through that,” he added. “I think being a cowboy is a state of mind. It’s a state of being that’s a steadfast, sure and confident version of yourself.”
Bethenny Frankel is ready for a change of scenery — and is officially trading in New York’s cityscapes for Florida’s beaches.
“I am moving to Florida for personal and professional reasons,” Frankel, 54, announced via an Instagram video on Thursday, April 17. “Something has arisen that made this the best and healthiest for myself and my daughter.”
The former Real Housewives of New York City star explained, “We will maintain residences in the Hamptons and New York City because we love New York. This will be our primary and permanent residence.”
Frankel then panned the camera from her face to the ocean waves and sandy beaches of Florida’s coast. “This will be my backyard,” she gushed.
“Excited to share this with you … It’s been a concept for a while, but personal & private circumstances have made this the healthiest life choice,” Frankel reiterated in the social media caption. “#florida #sunshinestate #xoxo #moving #lifechange.”
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Earlier this month, Frankel hinted at her move by sharing a photo of U-Haul boxes stacked up in what appeared to be her house.
“Life is good albeit with some unexpected stressful surprises … Moments with good friends, food, laughs, and as always a little chaos,” she captioned the Instagram post, teasing, “So many exciting changes coming soon… but you nosy B’s will just have to wait and see xoxo #lifelately #goodlife #suprises #happy.”
Frankel’s relocation comes nearly one year after Us Weekly broke the news that the reality star called off her engagement to Paul Bernon. The couple dated six years before pulling the plug on their romance in May 2024.
“They are so different — he’s an under the radar kind of guy,” a source exclusively told Us of the reason behind their split, noting “it just wasn’t going to work.” (Bernon and Frankel lived together in Boston in 2019, but sources told Usthey were house hunting the New England area ahead of their nuptials.)
Prior to dating Bernon, Frankel was married to Jason Hoppy from 2010 to 2012, before parting ways. The exes, who share daughter Bryn, 14, finalized their divorce in March 2021 after a lengthy legal battle.
Frankel was linked to Tom Villante in 2024, before confirming last month that she was back in the dating game. “I am dating,” she said on the March 13 episode of the “Hot Mess” podcast. “I have always, sort of, wanted to know exactly what everything is, and I’m trying to let the wine breathe more vs. need to know what it is.”
Frankel explained that she doesn’t care right now about “what the label is or that I’m getting married [or not].”
The business mogul, who owns Skinny Girl and other companies, confessed that dating hasn’t been easy at times because of her success. Frankel admitted she’s been guilty of “dumbing [herself] down” with some men.
“I don’t want to make them feel bad. I’m telling them how their thing is the same thing as my thing,” she continued. “So, it’s nice to be with someone who’s not in even the same business. So, it doesn’t feel adjacent or competitive.”
“As cliché as it sounds, it was the toughest experience, the most beautiful on every level, and working with Martin Scorsese, I definitely was a student again of film,” Emmett told L.A. Business First in January 2017, recalling their first collaboration. “Now I feel like a partner and a friend and an ally after going through the war together after coming out the other side. It feels great and I’m very proud.”
While the duo’s second project, The Irishman, was an Oscar-nominated film, their first movie caused friction from the start. In April 2025, Emmett made headlines when his and Scorsese’s Wall of White was blocked from casting due to his alleged misconduct with past films.
The Writers Guild of America West claimed that Emmett “failed to pay” more than $700,000 in compensation and more to WGA writers. The union called for its members to boycott the project, prohibiting them from signing on to star in it. Emmett claimed in a statement that he was working on resolving the issue with the WGA.
Scroll down to see Scorsese and Emmett’s relationship from the beginning:
Emmett first teamed up with Scorsese to produce 2016’s Silence starring Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson. The movie was the brainchild of Scorsese, who had been trying to make it for years before Emmett signed on. Scorsese was the director as well as a producer and writer on the project. Emmett was a producer.
“I flew to New York and sat with him. It was a very simple interview. He said, ‘Well, tell me about you,’” Emmett recalled to HuffPost Entertainment in 2017 of how he got the gig. “I said, ‘I went to film school about 20 blocks from here. It’s an honor to be in the room with you.’ What else am I going to say?”
After Scorsese asked Emmett’s opinion on the movie, he responded, “All I have to say is one thing: ‘Whatever you want, you can have. I just want to be side by side with you. It’ll be like my graduate film school.’” Emmette remembered Scorsese laughing and saying, “‘I like this kid.’ The rest is history.”
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Following the release of Silence, Emmett had nothing but nice things to say about working with Scorsese, whom he now considered a friend.
“It’s the pinnacle for any actor or producer or financier. For me, going to film school, I don’t think I ever thought in my mind I would make a Martin Scorsese movie,” Emmett told HuffPost Entertainment in December 2017. “The moment came, and it was surreal.”
The High Rollers producer remembered being in awe of Scorsese once he was seated in front of him brainstorming their project.
“There were these moments in the south of France when we were sitting after doing the work all day. It’s 6 or 7 o’clock at night and we’re having a glass of wine, and he starts talking about film preservation and restoration. It’s just surreal,” Emmett gushed. “The greatest filmmaker talking about movies and making Raging Bull. It’s overload.”
2019
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When Emmett signed on for Silence, he was also bookmarked to reunite with Scorsese on The Irishman. The gangster film premiered on Netflix in November 2019 and starred Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Scorsese was once again the director on the project and both he and Emmett were producers. The Irishman was nominated for 10 Oscars.
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Working alongside the legendary director inspired Emmett when he made his directorial debut with Midnight in the Switchgrass. Emmett recalled learning how to lead from his time on Scorsese’s sets.
“He really made me feel like family, and he didn’t have to do that,” Emmett told Variety in July 2021 of Scorsese. “I want to be that kind of filmmaker, I want everybody to feel part of the journey. When you make a film, it takes a whole village of all of us together. And Marty taught me that you need everybody; everybody’s important. I’m really grateful that I got to learn that from him.”
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During Emmett’s relationship with Vanderpump Rules alum Kent, the couple spent time with Scorsese. Following their 2018 engagement, Kent exclusively told Us Weekly that Emmett was in “such a different world than I am. It’s like, while I’m filming a reality TV show, he’s producing movies with Martin Scorsese.”
In addition to the name drop, the duo were photographed with the Goodfellas director at an Oscars after party in 2020 before Kent and Emmett called it quits in November 2021.
Despite parting ways, Kent and Emmett appear to both have a connection to Scorsese. “He actually said to me, ‘You do great work,’” Kent told Rolling Stone in May 2023, while reflecting on Scorsese’s love of her Bravo reality show. “His producing partner at the time was a Vanderpump fanatic, so it could have been shown to him that way as well.”
She teased, “I don’t know if he’s tuning in every Wednesday to catch the new episode of Vanderpump Rules, but Martin Scorsese knows that Vanderpump Rules exists. And that is good enough for me.”
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Emmett and Scorsese’s third project, Wall of White, hit a roadblock in April 2025 when the Writers Guild of America West slammed Emmett via social media. The Writers Guild of America west coast affiliate revealed via X that Emmett, who founded Convergence Entertainment Group, “has been on the WGA/Unfair List since 2020.”
The union claimed that two companies Emmett founded “failed to pay over $700,000 in compensation, P&H contributions and interest due to WGA writers.” As a result of the alleged misconduct, the union told its members they are forbidden to work on Wall of White.
“Emmett has a long history of refusing to honor obligations to writers and the Guild has filed numerous arbitration claims against companies owned by Emmett over the last decade,” the email sent by the union claimed, according to the Los Angeles Times, adding that the guild prohibits “members from working for or selling literary material to companies or individuals who are on the Strike/Unfair List.”
Emmett responded to the accusations in April 2025, issuing a statement to The Times. “We are fully financing this movie, and we have every intention to settle this dispute in the coming weeks,” the statement read. “Our representatives will be reaching out to the Writers Guild so we can put this matter from six years ago behind us.”
Us Weekly reached out to Scorsese for comment at the time.
Ashley Greene is proud of her new horror film, It Feeds — but shooting her first movie after giving birth wasn’t always easy.
“This [movie] was tough for me because it was my first movie post having my little girl, and I think we were six months in, and so I’d been on set for the longest that I’d ever been on set,” Greene, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly. “I was breast-feeding, and so I was pumping on set and your hormones are going everywhere. And then I was, like, having to go home to this little angel and try to separate these two things. It really was challenging for me.”
In the supernatural thriller, Greene portrays Cynthia, a clairvoyant mother who is on a mission with her daughter, Jordan (Ellie O’Brien), to save a girl named Riley (Shayelin Martin) from a demonic entity. While having to balance new motherhood — Greene gave birth to daughter Kingsley, whom she shares with husband Paul Khoury, in September 2022 — with such a heavy role was admittedly “hard” for Greene, she used the character’s strengths to help her along.
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find stuff that you can use to your advantage also vs. letting it work against you,” Greene explained. “And so I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I’m gonna find a way through it and I’m gonna use this, these moments when I’m on set.’ It’s one of the things I’m most proud of coming out of this project.”
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find stuff that you can use to your advantage also vs. letting it work against you,” Greene explained. “And so I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I’m gonna find a way through it and I’m gonna use this, these moments when I’m on set.’ It’s one of the things I’m most proud of coming out of this project.”
One of the film’s overall themes centers around the battle against one’s deepest traumas, as director and writer Chad Archibald created the story after both his parents were diagnosed with cancer. Greene, who has been open about her battle with anxiety and panic attacks over the years, said she immediately understood the layered representation and believed she could do something “powerful” with her performance.
“When you’re ready, I think you have to look inside of yourself and you have to face your demons and you have to be able to allow yourself to have the strength to overcome things that have happened to you, not because of you,” she explained. “I loved that throughout the course of the film.”
In juxtaposition to the empathetic Cynthia was Greene’s costar Shawn Ashmore as Randall, the father of the possessed Riley who has a more extreme (and violent) approach to saving his daughter. Like Greene, Ashmore used his own experience as a parent to place a human and empathetic spin on his character’s motives. (Ashmore and wife Dana Renee welcomed their son, Oliver, in 2017.)
“I’d never looked at Randall as a villain. If we were watching this movie through Randall’s perspective, he would be the hero,” Ashmore, 45, explained to Us. “He’s making horrible choices, but I understood the bad choices he was making, because he is in an impossible situation. He’s just watched his wife wither away from a circumstance that he cannot understand as he starts to grasp that he’s now at risk of losing his daughter. I just looked at him as a loving father who is doing anything that he can.”
Ashmore said he had to figure out how to “reconcile” how his character could make the decisions he does without being an “evil” person at heart, which is where being a father himself became crucial to his process.
“When I really started to think about his circumstance, and if I was in that circumstance, what would I do? I would do anything to protect my son,” he explained. “And he’s not doing the right thing, but he’s doing the only thing that he knows how to do in this impossible situation that he’s being put in.”
Ashmore hopes when people see the film that they lean into the “great thrill ride” It Feeds provides while also recognizing the complexity — and intelligence — of the characters on screen.
“In genre films, it’s so frustrating when you [can] tell the characters are making the decision to further the story or to put a character in a bad or a perilous position. And I never, ever felt that way when I read [this script],” he explained. “And then when I watched It Feeds [and then] characters make bad decisions …. I completely understood why.”
He added, “I think that’s a distinction specifically in horror movies, where, if a character’s making the decision just to further the plot or to put themselves in peril, that’s a bad writing choice as opposed to, ‘We understand who this character is and that the choice of they’re making is true to who they are.’ And I think that this film is full of decisions and actions like that. And I think that is great storytelling.”
Greene, for her part, wants It Feeds to provide plenty of supernatural fun while also holding up a mirror to viewers.
“What I loved about Cynthia and Jordan is that once we see Cynthia grappling with past traumas and things that had happened to her — [but] when she realizes that she has to overcome those things to help her daughter, she does it no questions asked and is able to do that for someone else,” she told Us. “And I think that’s what we are as a society, right? When you heal yourself, you have the ability to heal others too.”
It Feeds premieres in theaters and on demand Friday, April 18.
You don’t have to own a yacht — or even a boat — to channel the yacht wife aesthetic. Yacht wives exude a unique, polished style and carry themselves with confidence.
If you’re looking for a yacht-style outfit that is flattering, versatile and doesn’t break the bank, you’re in the right place. We did the heavy lifting and found 17 comfy, ultra-classy dresses that fit the bill. You’ll wear these dresses on the bow and errand runs, to brunch and even to the office. Read on for your new outfit obsession!
1. European Gal: Everything about this tiered maxi dress is swoon-worthy, from the flattering high waist to the print and short puff sleeves.
2. Striped Stunner: This knee-length dress was practically made for yacht wives. Pair it with an oversized tote for an ultra-luxe look!
3. Breezy Find: If you’re looking for a go-to dress to wear from the beach to the party, this spaghetti-strap wonder has your name on it.
4. Boho Twist: Fake an hourglass figure with this loose maxi dress. It has dainty short sleeves and a boutique-style hem design.
5. Expensive-Looking: Whether you wear tie-sleeve dress to a wedding or dinner is up to you, but either way, you’re guaranteed to look rich.
6. Bye-bye, Belly: Designed to conceal your midsection, this wrap dress is the flattering outfit you’ve been searching for.
Brazilian influencer Kat Torres rose to fame on social media because of her wellness content — but things took a sinister turn.
Torres, who is currently incarcerated, had millions of social media followers and built a brand off of self-help videos and a wellness subscription service. The disgraced internet star also alleged that she had spiritual powers and connected with her followers on a deeper level.
However, she became the focus of an FBI investigation which led to a 2024 arrest.
Keep reading for everything to know about Torres — and the fallout:
Who Is Kat Torres?
Prior to her internet career, Torres was a model and pageant girl in her native Brazil.
Multiple followers claimed to the BBC in interviews published in July 2024 that as they got in deeper with Torres and her content, they felt “isolated” from friends and family. One even uprooted their life to become Torres’ live-in assistant.
In September 2022, two Brazilian women were reported missing after moving into Torres’ Texas house. (Torres called them her “witch clan” on social media.)
Eventually, their “profiles on escort and prostitution websites were discovered.” At this point, Torres had moved from Texas to Maine with the women — who asked for the search to stop — in tow. In November 2022, a wellness check tipped off law enforcement and the missing women were back home in Brazil the following month.
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By April 2024, Torres had already stood trial in Brazil and denied all wrongdoing in an interview with the BBC.
“When I was seeing the people testifying, they were saying so many lies,” she alleged. “So many lies that at one point, I couldn’t stop laughing.”
She added: “You choose to believe whatever you choose to believe. I can tell you I’m Jesus. And you can see Jesus, or you can see the devil, that’s it. It’s your choice. It’s your mind.”
Torres was convicted for human trafficking and slavery and sentenced to eight years in prison in July 2024. (She has appealed the conviction.)
Did Kat Torres Publish a Book?
In 2017, Torres book A Voz, was released. She claimed to be able to make predictions because of her spirituality in the memoir.
A (second) Clueless TV series without Alicia Silverstone as queen bee Cher Horowitz? As if!
A revival TV series of the iconic 1995 film with Silverstone attached to star and executive produce is currently in development at Peacock. The show will be written by Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage‘s Fake Media and Dollface’sJordan Weiss, with the 1995 movie’s writer-director Amy Heckerling and producer Robert Lawrence also serving as executive producers.
The original Clueless, loosely adapted from Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, centered on Silverstone’s Cher, the most popular girl at Bronson Alcott High School, who sets out to become a successful matchmaker to her friends — and even her teachers.
The film’s box-office success sparked a follow-up TV series in 1996, created by Heckerling and starring Stacey Dash, Donald Faison and Elisa Donovan in their film roles as Cher’s inner circle. Silverstone and Paul Rudd — who portrayed Cher’s love interest and former stepbrother Josh in the film — did not return. The part of Cher was recast and played by Rachel Blanchard. The show aired on ABC for three seasons before its cancellation.
While Peacock picked up a different Clueless reboot centered around Dash’s Dionne in 2019, the project ultimately never moved forward.
Keep scrolling for everything to know about the Clueless TV series starring Silverstone:
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Who Would Star on the ‘Clueless’ TV Series?
Silverstone will return as Cher after reprising the role for a Super Bowl commercial in 2023. It’s unknown whether anyone else from the 1995 cast will return.
Where Can I Watch the ‘Clueless’ TV Series?
The show will air on NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock.
Schwartz and Savage (who are behind shows like Gossip Girl and The O.C.) and Weiss (creator of Dollface) will serve as showrunners and executive producers. Heckerling, who wrote the original film and the follow-up series in the ’90s, and Silverstone will also executive produce.
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