Meta Content Exec Mina Lefevre Leaves As Facebook Watch Ends Originals; ‘Red Table Talk’ Being Shopped

DailyMail revealed.“It’s a shame that his visit with [Queen Camilla] received less coverage than it might have expected to,” they disclosed to the publication. “I hope they are not too disappointed.”Camilla, 75, and Charles, 74, attended the sweet-scented botany bash as Middleton made a surprise stopover on Monday.The sources also noted that the high amount of press coverage given to Middleton may find Charles to feel “eclipsed” by his daughter-in-law.Charles had previously felt that others stole the limelight from him, especially when he was married to the late Princess Diana.The pair were married from 1981 until 1996, with Lady Di’s face often being splashed across the front pages.Andrew Morton, author of the 1992 biography “Diana: Her True Story,” explained to Insider last year how Diana was usually “the star of the show.”The writer added that Diana “never minded the personal difficulties” she had with Charles behind closed doors.

An air passenger decided to ignore one of the unwritten rules of being on a plane, when he refused to swap seats to accommodate a young family.

Maluma is going the arena route yet again.The popular urbano artist just announced his 29-concert ‘Don Juan Tour’ that will take him back to huge venues all over North America from August through November.Along the way, the “Hawái” singer will slide into Long Island’s UBS Arena on Oct. 5, New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Oct.

Jason Oppenheim‘s girlfriend Marie-Lou Nurk is revealing the four Selling Sunset cast members that she loves.

The Doctor Who universe is expanding!

Louis Staples It was an earthquake that broke the pop-cultural Richter scale: the revelation that “Vanderpump Rules”stars Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss were having a secret seven-month affair behind the backs of their closest friends. But there was one of their co-stars who didn’t find the news of the affair quite so shocking: Lala Kent. Kent was the first cast member to suspect that Sandoval was cheating on Ariana Madix,  his girlfriend of nine years. Madix found out herself when she discovered an explicit video on Sandoval’s phone, and, as Variety detailed in a May 17 interview with “Vanderpump Rules” executive producer Alex Baskin, by the time TMZ broke the story on March 3, Bravo’s cameras were already at the Valley Village home she and Sandoval share to capture the fallout. Those astonishing scenes aired during last week’s season finale.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer The upper deck at France’s Hotel Du-Cap-Eden-Roc offers a stunning coastal view of nearby city Cannes, the kind that Jay Gatsby would covet to peep Daisy Buchanan. On Tuesday, at one of the hottest parties at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, that view belonged to Graydon Carter. Standing alone with a female companion, the creator of the digital publication Air Mail and iconic former editor of Vanity Fair observed not a long-lost love but a cliffside full of movie stars, auteur directors and Hollywood power players. Carter’s Air Mail co-hosted an evening celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures, the latter represented by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and his top content lieutenants. Leonardo DiCaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Lily-Rose Depp, Sam Levinson, Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Rebel Wilson and more turned up to toast cinema and each other.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Tiger Stripes,” the debut feature of Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu, won the Grand Prize at Cannes’ Critics Week, the Cannes sidebar dedicated to first or second films. The prize was awarded by a jury presided over by Audrey Diwan, the Venice prizewinning director of “Happening.” The French Touch Jury Award went to Belgian director Paloma Sermon-Daï’s “It’s Raining in the House,” a film about adolescence, while the Revelation prize from the Louis Roederer Foundation was handed out to Jovan Ginic, the actor of Vladimir Perisic’s “Lost Country.”  The SACD prize, meanwhile, went to “Le Ravissement” by Iris Kaltenbäck.

Thania Garcia Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Wednesday in connection to a drug conspiracy charge that claims he was trafficking narcotics across the country. The “Trap Queen” rapper was also ordered to five years of supervision after his prison sentence ends. The six-year sentence is one year longer than the minimum, according to The New York Times. Prosecutors had argued for the New Jersey-born rapper to serve a longer term in a letter addressed to the judge last week, urging that Fetty Wap (real name Willie Junior Maxwell II) had used his fame to “glamorize the drug trade” while making a wealthy living from his music. The letter made reference to one of his music videos to support the claim.

BreAnna Bell Blake Shelton and Lee Metzger have joined forces to launch Lucky horseshoe Productions. The news comes after the success of their new show “Barmageddon.” “I’m excited to partner with my longtime friend and creative rainmaker Lee Metzger,” said Shelton. “He was one of the first people I met at ‘The Voice’ and working together currently on Barmageddon. We’ve always been in sync on ideas and projects that interest and excite us. So long as Lee doesn’t screw this up, it’s going to be great.” “Over the years of working with Blake, we’ve created some incredible TV moments, now with the success of ‘Barmageddon,’ we’ve realized we have a creative point of view that an audience loves to watch, said Mezger. “ I’m looking forward to producing our own brand of entertainment and years of success with Blake. Besides, now that he’s left ‘The Voice,’ it’s not like he has anything better to do.”

Offset and Cardi's B's love is stronger than 100 bands! The Migos rapper covers the latest issue of, where he credits his wife for shifting his lifestyle and supporting him professionally and personally.«She always got my back, right or wrong. We both are on the same mission to make each other better. Social is her strong point, so I listen to her social advice.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has a warning for fit-fluencers and young body builders: When it comes to steroids, «Don't go there.» The 75-year-old action icon covers the July/August 2023 issue of, opening up about his past steroid use and his ongoing commitment to training. In the interview, Schwarzenegger reckons with his legacy and admits that, while he was always publicly candid about his steroid use as a bodybuilder, he finds social media content surrounding performance-enhancing drug use and testosterone replacement therapy concerning. «Bodybuilding always, always was considered a safe sport. But now it's not,» he says.

with Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne «Gammy» Banfield-Norris, along with several other Facebook Watch Originals, has officially been canceled, ET can confirm.On Wednesday, reported that Mina Lefevre, who was Head of Development and Programming at Meta, was part of the latest round of layoffs at the Mark Zuckerberg-run company. None of the series launched under Lefevre will return for new seasons as Facebook shifts focus from original programming to creating VR experiences in Meta Horizon Worlds.Along with the  franchise, which included the Gloria Estefan spinoff Facebook's other original series included  with Steve Harvey, with Taraji P.

Meta will no longer pull up a seat at the red table. Jada Pinkett Smith and her daughter Willow Smith’s Red Table Talk has been canceled.

Jada Pinkett Smith’s “Red Table Talk” has been cancelled.

Gisele Bundchen has donated $1 million for a kids’ center at the country’s largest women’s shelter, the Miami chapter of Lotus House.

Red Table Talk” got the boot after Meta unplugged Facebook Watch’s original programming.The daytime Emmy award-winning show — hosted by Jada Pinkett-Smith, her daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris — tackled conversations about social issues with an inter-generational perspective, which led to Pinkett-Smith exposing the dark side of her marriage with Academy Award winner Will Smith.In 2020, the couple revealed to their 11 million Facebook followers that the “Girls Trip” actor had an “entanglement” — a relationship outside her marriage — with 30-year-old R&B singer August Alsina.She admitted her marriage was on a downfall, and the couple briefly separated, so “I got into a different kind of entanglement with August … it was a relationship, absolutely,” she revealed to her husband in the 12-minute video.After Alsina ended the entanglement with the 51-year-old actor, she began to repair her marriage to 54-year-old Smith, “We have gotten to that new place of unconditional love.”The Facebook series started in 2018 and ran for five seasons before being canceled.Each episode featured a notable guest, such as Hayden Panettiere, Jennette McCurdy, Jordyn Woods, Bobby Brown and the cast of “A Different World.”The talk show was one of the last to get unplugged after Mina Lefevre, head of development and programming at Meta, along with more than 20,000 employees were laid off, according to Deadline.Facebook Watch began scrapping its original scripted programming in 2020 after canceling “Sorry For Your Loss,” starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Biel. In more recent years, the platform started to focus on unscripted programming such as “Tom vs.

Love is in the air for new mom Kaley Cuoco and Tom Pelphrey.

Meta is shutting down the Facebook Watch originals group, including Jada Pinkett Smith‘s show Red Table Talk.

Shares in Meta Platforms jumped 12% in after-hours trading following the company’s report of better-than-expected first-quarter financials.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, turned in better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of 2023 — even as net income dropped sharply on a year-over-year basis. Overall, the company reported revenue of $28.65 billion, up 3% from the year prior, and net income of $5.7 billion (or $2.20 per share), down 24%. Analysts on average expected Meta to post revenue of $27.65 billion and EPS of $2.03, according to Refinitiv. Click here to sign up for Variety’s free Strictly Business newsletter covering earnings, financial news and more. In announcing Q1 results, the company said Facebook averaged 2.04 billion daily active users in March, up from 2.0 billion the prior quarter. Across all its apps, Meta reported daily active users of 3.02 billion on average for March 2023, an increase of 5% year-over-year.