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Netflix has no shortage of unscripted dating content, from the wholesome docuseries Love on the Spectrum to the bizarre reality show Sexy Beasts. Somewhere in the mix (amid the more gimmicky fare) is Too Hot to Handle, a competition series where hot singles are gathered for what they think will be a sexy vacation that turns out to be a challenge in chastity: If they can suppress their sexual urges and make meaningful, non-physical connections, they’ll go home with a whopping cash prize; but if they break the rules, they’ll...

Selena Gomez is back in New York City shooting her Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, and the paparazzi got an extensive look at some of her season 2 wardrobe so far. The actress was photographed in three different coats on set today.The first style was a cozy lime green wrap coat. She wore her hair down and paired it with dark pants and lug-sole shoes. Raymond HallGetty Images Gomez’s second winter look was tan and even cozier. The actress was seen in cream culottes, black shoes, and a...

The night Euphoria season 2 premiered on HBO, music supervisor Jen Malone felt seen. Because as viewers were reacting to plot twists, conflicts, and outfits in episode 1, they were also tweeting about the song choices—nearly 40 of them—with the same enthusiasm. “The memes were amazing. And so right-on,” she tells ELLE.com, laughing. Malone estimates that there were 37 songs—“or something crazy, I lost count”—in season 2 episode 1, far surpassing the season 1 record of 25 to 27 songs per episode. There’s much more sourced music this time around...

On Thursday, Adele announced that the opening of her Las Vegas Residency would be delayed, which she attributed to issues with COVID-positive staff and distribution delays. The first night of the residency was set for the following evening on January 21 at the Colosseum of Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace Hotel.The pop music star posted the news on Instagram, talking directly to fans and getting emotional about the change in plans. On Friday night, she spoke directly to fans again, this time via FaceTime, Variety reports. Video was taken of her...

On Thursday, Jennifer Coolidge made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and used her interview to shout out Ariana Grande for bringing her career a needed burst of energy. Coolidge is an incredible comedian, but her career in TV and films had become somewhat stagnant. Then, in 2018, Grande did a dead-on impression of Coolidge while appearing on Fallon's show herself. Grande then featured the Party Down star in her music video for “thank u, next.”In the music video, Coolidge brought back her character from Legally Blonde,...

Emma Stone and husband Dave McCary are working together as producers on Jesse Eisenberg's directorial debut film When You Finish Saving the World. To celebrate the movie's premiere, they made a rare appearance together at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival on a virtual panel. McCary and Stone founded Fruit Tree Productions together in August of 2020. “As an actor, you usually just go with what comes to you and you're at the mercy of the process,” Stone said at the January 20 panel about the film, according to IndieWire. “We...

If you've just watched Netflix's Archive 81, you likely have a lot of questions about the show's main antagonist, Kaelego. Yes, the strange demon dwells in the Otherworld, and is worshipped, in statue form, by the Vos Society at The Visser. Here's everything you need to know about Archive 81's creepiest character, who is truly the stuff of nightmares. Thanks, Netflix.Who (or what) is Kaelego? For anyone wondering whether Kaelego is based on anything real, Archive 81's showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine explained to The Wrap, “It is not anything except for...

Spoilers below for season 1 of Squid Game.Following in the footsteps of The Hunger Games, Netflix's newest K-drama hit Squid Game is, at face value, a spin on the Japanese classic Battle Royale. A group of strangers are placed in an enclosure, where they're forced to kill one another if they hope to claim the carrot dangling before them: money, and lots of it. But unlike in Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, where the fighters are children forced into the arena against their will, Squid Game posits an intriguing...

To help warm you up in these winter months, Netflix has dropped the third season of Too Hot to Handle right in the middle of January. The steamy reality show has returned with a brand new group of singles, and a whopping $200,000 prize. Obviously, the players have to fight all of their sexual urges if they want to take home a substantial portion of the cash, which has proven more than a little difficult in the past.It's time to get acquainted with Too Hot to Handle's latest recruits. Beaux...

On the heels of releasing her new album, 30, Adele announced she'll be hosting a Las Vegas residency from January to April 2022. Titled Weekends with Adele, the exclusive performances will run for 12 weekends at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace.You can register for presale tickets starting now until 11:59 p.m. PT on Dec. 2 via Ticketmaster Verified Fan Registration here. Presale begins Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. PT. Only users who have received a unique code will be able to purchase tickets on a first come, first served...

When Meghan Markle learned, in 2019, that she was one of the “most trolled in the entire world, male or female,” she didn't reveal the stat on a podcast the following year so she could scrounge up pity. It seems she was trying, desperately, to communicate just how dire her situation had become. In hindsight, after the revelations of her and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey and the ensuing media frenzy, these comments seem downright prescient. That malaise continues into the present day, as the final report in a...

Longtime Hollywood couple Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa shocked everyone when they announced on social media that they were separating after 16 years together. Sources spoke to Entertainment Tonight and Us Weekly about what led to the decision.Us's source said it was due to personality differences, the same thing that attracted to them to each other when they first started dating in 2005. “Jason and Lisa worked because they were so different,” the source said. “He was jovial, loud and the center of attention, and Lisa was always cool, calm...

None of the characters in HBO's high school drama Euphoria have a particularly easy time of it, and Cassie, played by Sydney Sweeney, is no exception. After having an abortion and splitting from her football player boyfriend McKay in season one, Cassie begins the second season in what the actress describes as a “low, lonely place.” This manifests in her embarking on an ill-advised fling with resident villain Nate Jacobs.This bad romance had many viewers yelling at Cassie to run for the hills, but in episode two of the season,...

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