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Patrisse Cullors Black History Month has always been about abolition for me.I may not have known the word abolition as a young girl, but I understood abolition in my spirit. At my core, I witnessed a community ravaged and decimated by police and prisons, and I wanted more for us.

Pour one out! After working together for two seasons on Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias, the show’s leading ladies are just as welcoming and friendly as their onscreen counterparts.

Dancing On Ice star Chemmy Alcott has opened up on the no holds barred advice she received from series winner Matthew Wolfenden after she was eliminated from the competition.Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, the former ski racer, 39, detailed the words of wisdom she got from Emmerdale star Matthew, 41, who went on to secure the trophy for the series in 2012.When asked how performing on the popular ITV show compared to skiing, Chemmy admitted that she felt out of her element.She said: "You're performing, there's a start to your performance and a start to your race."I was much more comfortable being a ski racer."She went on to explain that she "froze" up after taking to the ice with late partner Sean Rice, after she learnt of the huge viewing figures the show had.Chemmy said: "Whereas with Dancing On Ice, I remember the first time I spaced out there, like, 'There's, you know, over 10 million people tuning in.'"And I just got dry lips, and I froze," she added.The sportswoman told how she didn't have the same problem when she was hurtling down slopes while skiing.She continued: "You don't think about that at all, because you're not doing it for the cameras in skiing."The cameras are there, but you are racing a clock."Your purpose is not entertainment, it's speed," she explained, before adding: "Whereas this show's all about entertaining people tuning in."Chemmy added that she had no idea where the cameras were until after she got eliminated from the show and her co-star Matt gave her some advice.She said: "I didn't even know where the cameras were and I did 10 weeks!"And when I got knocked out, the guy who won it, Matt Wolfenden, said to me, 'Oh, you would have been so much better if you performed to the cameras!'"And I

In January, Oti and Marius set up a property company named Lionshead Property Investments, officially registered on Companies house.Oti isn’t the only one in her family who has cast her net further than television.Motsi Mabuse originally trained to be a civil engineer.She has her own company named Pure Mabuse Entertainment, and receiving around £500,000 per year.She also got involved in writing children’s picture books, such as Dance With Oti: The Bird Jive, teaching kids to develop their dancing skills.Two more picture books are expected to follow on soon."I moved all the way from Africa so I must make something of myself," Oti told the Mail Online in January."I am really trying to learn and do as much as I can for as long as I can, while I can."

Wendy Williams is fighting for her money.

This year, the 2022 Super Bowl is airing on NBC and the network announced that all the 30 second commercial slots were sold out.

After being selected first by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2020 NFL Draft, Joe Burrow is heading to his very first Super Bowl. Joe suffered an injury during his first season with the team, but returned as starting quarterback in 2021. He helped lead the Bengals to their very first NFL playoff appearance since 1990, and took them all the way to the big game against the Los Angeles Rams, which will happen on Feb. 13, 2022.

Justin Bieber, and Hailey Baldwin were spotted for the first time since the terrifying shooting that occurred outside the pop star’s after concert party on Friday (February 11). The couple managed to look every inch the fashion icons as they kept solemn faces arriving to Drake’s Super Bowl party at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood the following day. The celeb-packed shindig, where Justin performed the night before, was also reportedly attended by Cardi B, Lizzo, Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx among other A-listers.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticIn its first-ever chance to be part of Deadline’s Contenders Television event, Disney+ chose its original movie Togo to highlight in its panel session, with director-cinematographer Ericson Cole, writer Tom Flynn and star Willem Dafoe joining a virtual panel to discuss the imposing logistics of mounting this true-life family adventure about an extraordinary sled dog and his master as he leads a team in a harrowing journey to deliver much-needed serum in 1925 in Nome, Alaska.In this case, Dafoe explained it was important to use real dog actors, not CGI versions, since most of the film was done with practical action in actual challenging locations.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticCertified legend Norman Lear joined EGOT winner Rita Moreno and producer/showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event for Pop TV’s One Day at a Time. The series got a new lease on life after Pop picked it up for a fourth season following Netflix’s cancellation of the series revival of Lear’s popular 1970s-era series about a divorcee single mom bringing up two daughters on her own.But as Lear pointed out during the discussion, “We’re not doing it again.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticJason Segel, the creator, writer, director, producer and star of the innovative AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere, said it straight out during Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event: he is essentially playing himself.“My character starts out not knowing who he is and by the 10th episode I become Jason Segel – literally by name. I wanted to write something from my gut.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticCountry music icons Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline have both had separate big-screen features focusing on their lives, including Coal Miner’s Daughter which won Sissy Spacek a Best Actress Oscar as Lynn in 1981, and Sweet Dreams for which Jessica Lange was Oscar nominated for playing Cline.At Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, Neil Meron, who is executive producer of the Lifetime movie Patsy & Loretta, acknowledged the fact that singers’ stories have been told individually, but that the idea of doing a movie that focused on the unique friendship between the pair gave the filmmakers, which include director Callie Khouri, real license to do something different.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticIn the biggest panel of all 44 shows in Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, all seven key female stars of FX’s Mrs. America gathered in different locations to talk about the limited series, which centers on the fight for the ERA as well as the women’s liberation movement centering on those who fought hard to make a change — and one woman in particular who rallied her own troops to defeat that movement.Her name was Phyllis Schlafly, and she is played by Cate Blanchett in her first major TV project; she also serves as an executive producer of the nine-part show.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticOne of Hulu’s Emmy hopefuls this year is the limited series adaptation of Celeste Ng’s 2017 novel Little Fires Everywhere, which tells the story of a seemingly perfect white suburban family in the ’90s whose lives change dramatically when a mysterious African American mother and her teenage daughter come into the picture.Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington have the two key mother roles and the series was produced by both of them along with their respective production partners Lauren Neustadter and Pilar Savone.The latter two joined showrunner/executive producer/writer Liz Tigelaar to discuss the show at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, where they revealed that not only was

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticAmy Sherman-Palladino made history by winning Emmys for Comedy Series program, writing and directing — the first woman to ever have that distinction — for Season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticChristina Applegate, who plays Jen Harding on Netflix’s comedy mystery series Dead to Me, said during the series’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television livestream that she was gobsmacked when creator-showrunner Liz Feldman told her of the left turn the series was taking in Season 2.The plot twist in question involved her character killing off James Marsden’s Steve, the person she suspected of killing her own husband in Season 1. Turns out he has a brother who looks just like him.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticBeaming into Deadline’s livestreamed Contenders Television virtual event all the way from his home in the Australian Bush country, Oscar winner Russell Crowe discussed why he decided to make a rare foray into TV by playing Roger Ailes, the disgraced force behind the creation of Fox News Channel who was eventually ousted in a high-profile sexual harassment scandal.The Showtime limited series The Loudest Voice, for which the actor won a Golden Globe earlier this year, was a unique challenge beginning with his transformation into Ailes.“You generally tend not to do something as large as this or as long as this,” Crowe said. “I think at the end of the day it was something like 68 applications.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticKathryn Hahn has been very busy on the HBO front, we learned when she sat down to participate in the pay cabler’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event. Hahn has starred in two challenging projects including the series Mrs.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticStars Jim Parsons and Patti LuPone, along with directors Janet Mock and Jessica Yu joined Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event to discuss the Netflix limited series Hollywood, a seven-part show set in the Tinseltown of the ’40s but that puts a revisionist spin on things — a kind of wishful look at the town and the industry.“It was always going to be surrounding these outsiders who were looking in and wanting to be a part of the inside,“ Mock, who is also a writer and executive producer, said of the idea that there were no barriers to being gay, a woman or a person of color in getting ahead at the studios.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDuring the Ozark portion of Netflix’s panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television livestream event, star-producer-director Jason Bateman talked about how the show has suddenly exploded in popularity in its third season, and gave much of the credit to the times we are living through right now.“We are very proud of what we did, but we would be lying if we said we didn’t have a little virus aid,” he said during a discussion featuring co-stars Laura Linney and Julia Garner and showrunner Chris Mundy. “We had some gratuitous timing with the show coming out when everyone had nothing to look at except their walls and television.

Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticDeadline’s invitation-only Contenders Television all-day event is getting underway in just under 30 minutes. For the first time ever, out of necessity due to restrictions posed by the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve gone virtual.Originally we had aimed to present Contenders in April at Paramount Studios in front of a live audience of Television Academy and key guild voters, just like we always do.