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Josh Gad claimed Jake Gyllenhaal was far from enthusiastic about him pursuing a role in The Book of Mormon.

According to his memoir, “In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some,” released on Tuesday, January 14, Gad, 43, claimed his Love & Other Drugs costar warned him against pursuing a part in the musical-comedy production.

Gad wrote, “While bouncing back and forth to do episodes of The Daily Show, I was also filming a movie called Love & Other Drugs … One day as Jake and I were driving home from set in Pittsburgh, I asked him if I could play a demo of a new musical that I had recently done a workshop for in New York, hoping to get his advice as to whether or not I should pursue it further. He said, ‘Yeah, pop it on,’ and I played the opening number.”

Love & Other Drugs, starring Gyllenhaal, 44, and Anne Hathaway in lead roles, kicked off principal photography in Pittsburgh in September 2009. Gad played a supporting role in the story, which followed pharmaceutical salesman Jamie embarking on a relationship with Maggie, a woman suffering from early onset Parkinson’s disease.

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Gad said in his book that Gyllenhaal, “laughed his ass off,” while listening to “Hello!,” the critically acclaimed stage production’s opening number, before Gyllenhaal’s thoughts evolved.

“I skipped to another track on the album and his face slowly went from joyful enthusiasm to abject fear and terror,” Gad wrote. “He stopped the car and said, ‘Dude, you cannot do whatever this is. This will be way too controversial. Who the hell wrote this anyway?’ I paused the music and looked over at him. ‘The South Park guys.’”

Despite Gyllenhaal’s alleged concerns, Gad spent 15 months portraying Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, created by South Park’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Gad’s performance earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical in 2011.

Gad told Us Weekly upon the release of his memoir that navigating the obstacles of his career path ultimately “became the theme of the book.”

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“In the face of adversity, how do you overcome obstacles in order to achieve bigger dreams than you could have set out for yourself? That has been the story of my life,” Gad told Us.

The actor also wrote about having a father who was absent for more of his life, detailing how that impacted his own fatherhood experience. (Gad shares two daughters, Ava, 13, and Isabella, 10, with wife Ida Darvish.)

“I enjoyed the hell out of writing [the book], and I hope everyone who reads it takes away something that’s useful and inspires them,” he told Us. “At the very least, I hope they have a good laugh.”

In the latest episode of Sister Wives, Meri Brown shed light on the breakdown of her family’s funds — and she claimed it wasn’t always fair.

“His whole big thing then was I would get two acres. Two acres,” Meri, 53, told her pal Jen during the Sunday, January 19, episode of the TLC series, alleging that ex-husband Kody Brown never intended to give her an equal share of their family’s Coyote Pass property. “He’s like, ‘Well, you don’t need as much because you don’t have as many kids.’”

Jen pointed out that Meri “paid equally” into the plot of land, which is in Flagstaff, Arizona, despite the fact that she only shares one child, Leon, with Kody, 55.

“I don’t know if they don’t remember, like, when our funds were all together and those family funds that I helped with went to the kids’ college, went to property,” Meri explained. “It went to everything. We had a family fund.”

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Jen quickly reminded Meri that not only did she put money into the family bank when she was married to Kody, but that money “paid out for the majority of the kids’ colleges, but not Leon’s.”

Jen alleged that the family fund “went to the majority of the kids’ cars, but not Leon’s,” which Meri confirmed. “I paid for Leon’s college,” Meri said, adding that she paid for her child’s “car payments” as well — and didn’t use the family slush.

Meri confessed: “I really don’t know how much of the family fund actually paid for other kids’ school or cars, but I know that my kiddo’s school was not taken care of from the family fund.”

Although she was married to Kody the longest, Meri claimed she never got an even share of the money her sister wives all pulled together for their plural family.

“Kody has actually said this: ‘Because I only have one child, I am not entitled to an equal portion of the property,’” Meri alleged, once again referring to the sale of their communal land.

Meri and Kody were legally married from 1990 to 2014. They got divorced so Kody could wed fourth wife Robyn Brown and legally adopt her three children from a prior relationship. Meri and Kody remained in a spiritual union until she confirmed their separation in January 2023.

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Along with Leon, Kody welcomed six children with both Janelle Brown and Christine Brown before their respective breakups. (Janelle announced her split in December 2022, while Christine left the plural family in 2021.)

Kody is still married to Robyn, 46, with whom he shares three adoptive children and two biological kids.

“We had 18 kids to take care of. You know, that’s just water under the bridge,” Kody told the cameras during Sunday’s episode while discussing the division of assets. “I don’t even want to discuss it. Meri can do all the complaining about whatever happened that she wants.”

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While Kody tried to ignore Meri’s claims, she remained adamant that she deserves to get some money from their Coyote Pass property — as does Janelle. (Christine gave her portion of the land to Robyn and Kody after her divorce and kept the money from selling her Arizona home.)

“I put a lot into this marriage emotionally, financially [and] personally. I didn’t get anything out of it as far as, like, alimony or whatever. And I’m not looking for that,” Meri concluded. “So I think it’s fair [I get] the property investment. I think it’s fair that I walk away with that at least.”

Elsewhere in the episode, Kody met with a realtor to list Coyote Pass but didn’t keep Janelle or Meri in the loop. The women, meanwhile, both retained attorneys to try and protect their rights to the land.

Sister Wives airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.

Barry Keoghan has revealed how fatherhood has forever changed him.

During a campaign video for proposed children’s care reforms within the U.K., featuring U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy, posted via Facebook on Friday, January 17, Keoghan, 32, offered rare comments about being a dad to son Brando, 2, whom he shares with ex-girlfriend Alyson Sandro.

The Saltburn star told Lammy, 52, that becoming a father has led to deep reflection over his own parents. “As I’ve got older and I had my own son, I realized that it was such hard work for her [Keoghan’s mother] and my father. And luckily there was a good care system there, which is massively important,” Keoghan said. (Keoghan’s mother died of a heroin overdose when the actor was 12, per The Irish Post.)

“You can use your platform and profile to shine light on things, and anything to do with kids and care, I’m always wanting to help and shine a light on it, and get attention to it,” Keoghan added.

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Keoghan became a father while filming 2023’s Saltburn, telling GQ in a January 2024 interview that he received a “day off” for the youngster’s birth. “Good on them! Day off, and straight on to night shoots and night feedings — boom!” Keoghan told the outlet at the time. “You see me tired. Yeah. Brando. Good ol’ Brando.”

Keoghan’s latest comments come after the star defended himself in the face of online accusations of being a “deadbeat dad.” During an interview for “The Louis Theroux Podcast” in September 2024, Keoghan acknowledged insensitive comments online trolls had recently posted.

“There’s a lot online. If I didn’t have tough skin or the strength, I wouldn’t be sitting here,” Keoghan told host Louis Theroux. “Of course, [his childhood is] going to affect me being a father when I had no blueprint to take from. People just read that [as] laziness and go, ‘Oh, that’s no excuse to be an absent father.’ I’m not an absent father.”

The accusations are believed to have been sparked by an interview Keoghan gave to Entertainment Weekly earlier that month, in which he talked about his relationship with Brando. “I’ll just say this — I didn’t have a father figure growing up, so even my relationship with my son isn’t quite of the normal father-son relationship because I don’t have that figure to draw experience from and to base it on,” Keoghan told the outlet at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12.

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During Keoghan’s conversation with Theroux, 54, he said, “People love to use my son as ammunition or whatever. And it kind of leads me to stop, the more attention I’ve [gotten] lately and the more in the public I’ve become, the less I’ve posted about my child, because I don’t think it’s fair to put my child online. And because I reigned that in, people draw a narrative and go, ‘Absent father, s—, deadbeat dad,’ and more disgusting things I wouldn’t even repeat. Just the audacity of some people, man. It sickens me, makes me furious.”

Keoghan and Sandro, a dental nurse and orthodontic therapist, met in early 2021 before calling off their relationship in summer 2023.

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Spencer Pratt has taken issue with “Call Her Daddy” podcaster, Alex Cooper, claiming she declined to promote wife Heidi Montag’s song.

During a TikTok Live interview with Bethenny Frankel on Saturday, January 18, Pratt, 41, said he asked Cooper, 30, to “post” a song from Superficial, the 2010 album released by Montag, 38. The alleged request comes after Montag’s album recently topped the music charts following the loss of the couple’s home to the L.A. wildfires.

“I asked [Alex] to post the song, and I texted her husband [Matt Kaplan] and I was like, ‘Hey, it would really help,’” Pratt told Frankel, 54. “I kept tagging her, messaging, and then she wrote to me, ‘We have a lot of people displaced at our house,’ and I’m like, ‘Post the song, girl.’”

Us Weekly has reached out to a representative for Cooper for comment.

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Pratt continued, “Respectfully, if I keep my platform, if I keep being an A-list, rich celebrity, she’s so f—ed, because I have beef with her now. Like she’s going to be targeted.”

Pratt’s stance drew a “wow” from Frankel, who then asked Pratt how “big” his “hit list” currently is, referring to the people in Pratt’s life who have upset him. Pratt responded, “Right now, it’s only Alex Cooper.”

Pratt, who has been married to Montag for more than 16 years after the Hills alums tied the knot in Cabo San Lucas in November 2008 before staging a second wedding in Pasadena five months later, added that Cooper’s alleged dismissal has pushed Pratt to align with Cooper’s former “Call Her Daddy” cohost Sofia Franklyn, who now hosts the “Sofia With an F” podcast.

Pratt explained to Frankel during their chat, “Now I ride with “Sofia With an F,” that’s my team now. “Sofia With an F” posted the song, did a dance.”

Fans have rallied behind Pratt and Montag after they confirmed via social media that their Pacific Palisades home burnt down on January 7. Since the devastating loss, the couple, who share two sons, Gunner, 7, and Ryker, 1, together, have posted updates and pleaded with fans to support them financially.

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Superficial shot to the top music chart spot on Saturday 11, confirmed by Montag at the time. “Thank you so much to everyone. No 1 on iTunes chart, oh my gosh,” she shared via her Instagram Stories that day. “Thank you for the overwhelming love and support of my music and really rallying behind us in this devastating time and making it such a blessing.”

Celebrities including Paris Hilton and Jhené Aiko, who lost their homes in the L.A. wildfires, too, supported Montag via Pratt’s own celebratory Instagram post. “Congrats @heidimontag ,” Hilton, 43, commented, with Aiko, 36, adding, “Love this!!!!!!! @heidimontag !!!”

Model Emily Ratajkowski also cheered on Montag by sharing a TikTok video of herself listening to the song, “I’ll Do It,” off the album. “Didn’t expect this Heidi Montag song to be the soundtrack to the 2025 apocalypse but you know what f*** yeah,” Ratajkowski, 33, wrote over the clip.