Oscars 2023 Performers Revealed & 1 Big Nominee Isn't Performing!

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of The CW’s All American.

There’s always a reckoning. There has to be. A studio chief tells me that next awards season they’re going to recalibrate how they screen to voters “because there are a bunch of movies that people did not bother to see. Good movies that people did not watch because they were drawn to the noise. And the noise won.”

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large As he was lifted into the Dolby Theater rafters five minutes before the Oscars were set to begin, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue still wasn’t locked. It couldn’t be: Several of his gags would involve pop superstar Rihanna — but it all depended on whether she’d be in her seat. “We had two versions of the monologue,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live” executive producer (and Kimmel’s wife) Molly McNearney told Variety on Monday afternoon. “One if Rihanna was in her seat, one if she was not in her seat. One if Rihanna had her baby on her lap, which she wanted to do. And one if her baby was not on her lap. A lot of our jokes were kind of at the mercy of people being in their seats.”

 took home the Oscar for Best Visual Effects on Sunday, senior visual effects supervisor Eric Saindon was forced to leave the ceremony and head straight to the hospital.According to a representative for Weta FX, the VFX production company behind the groundbreaking sequel, Saindon had been experiencing gastrointestinal pain throughout the day leading up to the evening ceremony.Saindon checked into the Beverly Hills Hotel around noon but wound up testing negative for kidney stones and appendicitis, so he decided to dampen the discomfort with painkillers until after the show, according to an  report.Saindon and his fellow visual effects supervisors wound up taking home the Oscar and delivering an acceptance speech. However, after posing for photos with their awards backstage, Saindon experienced even greater pain.He left the press room and returned to the hospital, where doctors determined he had a rupture in his small intestine, and immediately performed the surgery.The rep for Weta FX tells ET, «He’s doing okay and recovering as we speak. I’m just glad he left when he did.

We’re weeks away from the end of the latest season of The Bachelor and the infamous Reality Steve‘s sources have already spilled the tea on the winner of Zach Shallcross‘ season.

Ashley Graham is speaking out about her now viral interview with Hugh Grant from the 2023 Academy Awards over the weekend.

After debating picks and filling out your party Oscar pools, usually the second most discussed aspect of the Academy Awards tend to be the television ratings. Like many awards programs, the telecast saw a dramatic drop during the pandemic.

Simu Liu admitted to ET Canada’s Carlos Bustamante on the Juno Awards red carpet that he had to host again since he had such a fantastic time doing it the previous year. Along with that, Liu said he has a few surprises up his sleeve.

Will Smith was keeping a low profile while the 95th Academy Awards were taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The best in Canadian music have been revealed.

Lady Gaga stole the show at the 95th Academy Awards.

aired Sunday night on ABC, was viewed by an estimated 18.7 million, according to preliminary Fast National Live+Same Day numbers released Monday by ABC. That’s up 12% from last year’s show — and was a three-year high — but was still low compared to most years.The evening’s main counterprogramming, the season finale of “The Last of Us” pulled in 8.2 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max. The show began at 9 p.m.

feels the need, the need — to stay far away from his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman. The 60-year-old “Top Gun: Maverick” actor was noticeably absent from the 2023 Oscars on Sunday, despite the movie being nominated for six awards. He reportedly was MIA because he wanted to avoid an “awkward run-in” with Kidman, 55, whom he divorced more than 20 years ago.“Tom was not there because she was there, and he did not want a run-in,” a source reportedly told the Daily Mail on Monday.But insiders close to Cruise allegedly told the outlet that his absence was “not personal” and instead the result of scheduling issues.

Drake and 21 Savage have announced a huge 2023 arena tour of North America – find details below and buy tickets here.The 29-date tour, dubbed ‘It’s All A Blur’, begins in June and comes in support of the two rappers’ recent collaborative album ‘Her Loss’.The tour begins in New Orleans on June 16 before dates in Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Chicago and more. It was previously teased by Drake during a career-spanning SiriusXM concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City back in January.Four dates in New York – two at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and two at Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden – will then follow, before the tour wraps up in early September in Glendale, Arizona.A press release for the tour states that additional dates will be added to the tour soon, including a hometown show for Drake in Toronto.A number of brand presales for the tour will take place this week (find details here) before a general sale at noon local time on Friday, March 17.

His final performance. After 20 seasons on Dancing With the Stars, Mark Ballas announced his retirement from the show following his third mirrorball win.

Showing his support! Entertainment journalist Jason Kennedy praised Ashley Graham — and slammed Hugh Grant — after the twosome engaged in an interview at the 2023 Oscars.

Not fazed. Ashley Graham revealed whether she took “offense” to Hugh Grant’s lackluster demeanor at the 2023 Oscars after their red carpet interview went viral … and not in a good way.

Another season of Love Island came to a close on Monday 13 January, with Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan announced as the winners of the winter 2023 series. The series, which was the second ever winter edition of the ITV2 dating show, ended on Monday with Maya Jama presenting the grand finale live from the iconic villa in South Africa. The final episode included the finalists' heartwarming declarations of love as well as clips from their last ever day in the villa, and each couple got to look back at their highlights as they sat down with Maya, 28, for a live interview.

Megan Fox appeared to be living it up at the  Oscars after-party. Showing up to the annual soirée solo Sunday, the 36-year-old actress turned heads as she enjoyed a night apart from her fiancé, Machine Gun Kelly, who had a show in Dana Point.Dressed in a black strapless Miss Sohee Couture gown, Fox debuted an all-new red hairdo as she partied alongside singer Billie Eilish and reunited with her  co-star, Tyrese Gibson, and his girlfriend Zelie Timothy.Following Fox's Oscars night out, a source inside 's bash tells ET that she seemed «happy and free.»«Megan Fox was having a great time at the Vanity Fair Oscars Party last night.