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New York Post
2 days ago
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- New York Post
Julianne Hough reveals scary medical emergency she suffered during ‘DWTS' taping
Live from Hollywood, it's 20 years of 'Dancing With the Stars.' In honor of the competition show, which premiered in 2005, Julianne Hough took a moment to reflect on the 20th anniversary with a lengthy social media post. In the Instagram caption, the dancer, 36, revealed that along with all the highs of being part of 'DWTS,' there were some tough moments as well. 9 'Dancing with the Stars' season 4 in 2007. ABC 'I was 18 when I joined the show,' Hough wrote about her journey. 'Fresh out of Utah with $2000 in my pocket after training in london my whole childhood totally unsure of what was ahead. Who would've thought… I ended up winning my first two seasons, had a cyst burst on live TV (yep, that happened).' According to John Hopkins Medicine, 'a cyst that ruptures may cause no symptoms, or only mild symptoms. Ruptured cysts that cause mild symptoms can often be managed with pain medicine.' 9 'Dancing with the Stars' season 4 episode 2. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 9 Julianne and Derek Hough on 'Dancing with the Stars.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'This show has given me a home, a family, and a deep sense of purpose. I'm forever grateful to everyone who's been a part of it,' Hough continued in part, 'from the pros to the celebs to the crew to the fans who've shown up season after season. You've helped create something that's so much more than a TV show. It's a movement. A legacy. A love story with dance.' Fans, friends and fellow dancers praised her in the comments section. Brother Derek Hough wrote, 'Winning your first 2 seasons back 🏆to back 🏆at 18 yrs old is a serious flex 💪🏼.' One fan added, 'I remember your dance with piano you were just after the surgery/ you are incredible both you and your brother/ big inspiration,' while a second chimed in, 'Your solo dance last year was the most ICONIC thing to ever happen to DWTS.' 9 Julianne Hough on 'Dancing with the Stars.' ABC 9 Julianne Hough during the semi-finals of 'Dancing with the Stars' in 2024. Disney The author joined the show in 2007 during Season 4, winning alongside Olympic speed skater Apolo Ohno. In Season 5, she took home the mirrorball trophy with Brazilian race car driver Hélio Castroneves. In 2008, the pro was paired with comedian Adam Carolla but came in ninth place. That same year for Season 7, she and Cody Linley landed in fourth place. The actress ended up having her appendix taken out at the time. She went on to place sixth with country singer Chuck Wicks in Season 8. 9 Julianne Hough hosting 'Dancing with the Stars.' Disney 9 Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro hosting 'Dancing with the Stars.' Disney Hough stepped away from the ballroom until when she came back as a judge in 2014. After serving alongside Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and the late Len Goodman, she took a second break in 2017. 'I do miss the show,' Hough told Entertainment Tonight in 2017. 'But what's really fun is, I'm a fan, just like everybody who watches. I watch the show now that I'm home and, you know, I have favorites and everything. Which is great because I could never really have favorites. I had to really kind of separate that [as a judge].' 'Obviously, right now, I wanted to take some time and focus on my acting and kind of get back on that path,' Hough explained. 'I'm really excited, you know? This is a different chapter. I'm 29 and I feel like I'm sort of coming into my own.' 9 Julianne Hough as a cohost on 'Dancing with the Stars.' Disney 9 Season 4 of 'Dancing with the Stars.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images In 2023, Hough officially joined Alfonso Ribeiro as co-host for Season 32, replacing Tyra Banks. 'It is such an honor to be rejoining 'Dancing with the Stars' as co-host. The show holds such a special place in my heart from the many years and different roles I have had the privilege of being a part of,' she told Variety at the time. 'The incredible team that brings the ballroom to life every night has been my family for the past 17 years. I am so excited to reunite with Alfonso, Carrie Ann, Bruno, Derek, the unbelievably talented pros, and the amazing cast on the dance floor.' Hough added, 'The energy is magnetic every time you step foot in to the ballroom and I can't wait to feel it again — and of course to share it all with the absolute best and most loyal fans — for another exciting season.'
New York Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Roseanne Barr makes explosive claim that ABC ‘spied' on her before firing
Roseanne Barr is speaking her truth. The comedian-turned-Hollywood pariah has made explosive claims about her former employer, ABC, with which she worked for over 10 years. Barr, 72, first graced the network with her sitcom 'Roseanne' in 1988. The hit show, which also featured John Goodman (Dan Conner), Sara Gilbert (Darlene Conner), Laurie Metcalf (Jackie Harris), Johnny Galecki (David Healy) and more, lasted 10 seasons until 1997. Advertisement ABC revived Barr and her TV family's characters for a 'Roseanne' reboot over two decades later — but her comeback was short-lived. 14 Roseanne Barr on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' in 2018. Getty Images for NBC 14 Roseanne Barr attends the premiere of ABC's 'Roseanne.' Getty Images Advertisement The star was abruptly fired for her outspoken tweet about former Barack Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, which she said the political aide looked like the offspring of the 'Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.' ABC bosses killed the show despite its high ratings, blasting Barr's comment as 'abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.' The network later created the spinoff 'The Conners,' featuring several of Barr's former co-stars and killing off her character. The spinoff lasted seven seasons and recently ended, with the finale airing in April. However, Barr is now addressing the fourth wall in a defiant new interview with the Daily Mail published on Friday, May 30, claiming the cancel culture mob — which she alleged included her bosses — came for blood. Advertisement 14 Roseanne on the spinoff show. ABC 14 Roseanne and co-stars in a scene for the reboot. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 14 Roseanne Barr claims her ABC bosses were watching her every move. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'They were waiting for me to slip up,' the comedian alleged in the interview, confirming she meant the left-leaning executives at the network, who she claimed were already on high alert about her outspoken support for Trump. Advertisement 'They spied. They monitored everything I did,' she claimed. 'They wanted to censor me from the very beginning.' She also accused her ABC liberal bosses of allegedly hijacking her words about Jarrett. 'They hijacked that tweet and made out it said something that it didn't,' Barr insisted. 14 Roseanne was fired after she tweeted about Obama's political aide. Getty Images Still, Bob Iger, chief exec of the Walt Disney Company, ABC's corporate parent, said at the time, 'There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing.' The comedian said she was unaware of Jarrett's background, which includes being born in Iran and having African-American parents. Following the backlash, Barr blamed her prescription medication for the comment, claiming she was 'Ambien tweeting' when she published her tweet. 14 She claimed the left-winged ABC execs were 'monitoring' her. Getty Images Advertisement 14 She later apologized for the tweet but it was too late. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection However, the former star who fell from grace now insisted it wasn't about race at all. 'I'm not stupid. I would never refer to a black person as the product of an ape,' Barr told Daily Mail, insisting it was about Obama's Iran nuclear deal, which the comedian opposed. 'The Planet of the Apes movie is about a fascist takeover of the world – and that is what I was talking about. The tweet was intended as a humorous political statement and not a racial one. But liberals in Hollywood are so racist, they automatically think of a black person,' Barr explained. Advertisement She's also taking back her apology for the tweet, in which she claimed she was 'truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and looks,' saying her joke was 'in bad taste.' 14 She nows says that apologizing was a mistake. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 14 Roseanne also claimed she had behind the scenes drama with men in charge during her 'Roseanne' days. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'The worst mistake you can do is apologize to the left. Then they are on a crusade against you,' she said in the new interview. 'Once you admit a mistake, they will keep on until you're dead.' Advertisement Barr said she was butting heads with several men behind the scenes of 'Roseanne' decades before the tweet, insisting they had no grasp of what the average person at home wanted to watch. She wanted a more humorous presence on the sitcom, accusing them of saving the best and most funny lines for her TV husband, Goodman. 14 Roseanne claims she wanted to tackle the political divide in the reboot but Goodman allegedly refused to play the Republican. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'They were aghast. They said people are not gonna go for this. I go, 'working class people are like this – they are not like your wife. They don't have servants,'' Barr said. Advertisement 'It's all just elitists from Harvard. They did think the audience was deplorable, [whether] Democrat or Republican, at that time,' she continued. At one point, Barr — who became the second-highest-paid woman on TV behind Oprah Winfrey — began rewriting her lines and threatening to boycott scenes. 14 She has since moved out of Hollywood and is living in Texas. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection 'I thought to myself, when this show goes to number one, here are the people I will fire. So I named everybody,' the comedian revealed. Once it happened, Barr followed up on her word. 'Right after that, everyone who was on the bad boy and girl Santa list, they were fired as a motherf–ker,' she shared. The comedian said that when she threw her support behind Trump in 2016, people were up in arms that she wasn't voting for the female candidate, Hillary Clinton. 14 Roseanne's character was killed off in the revival. Disney via Getty Images 'It was vaginal politics. It made me sick,' she said, adding that she wanted to tackle the political divide on the 'Roseanne' reboot. 'I wanted a Trump hater and a Hillary hater. They were pissed at each other but they loved each other,' she explained of her and Goodman's characters. Barr shared that she wanted Goodman to play the Republican supporter to take some heat off of her and the idea that she was a MAGA mouthpiece. 'John refused. It fell to me. I looked like a crusader,' she stated. 14 She's gearing up for her new documentary, which will be released next month. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection Barr also claimed that her Republican forward tweets made her ABC bosses sweat, claiming they allegedly asked her to delete several of them. The Post reached out to ABC for comment. Barr has since left Hollywood and is living on a ranch in Texas with her son, Jake, his wife and their daughters. She has no plan to return to Tinsel Town. 'It's a very liberal city, that's why I live outside of it,' the comedian said. That doesn't mean she won't be back on the TV screen. Barr is telling her side of the story in an upcoming documentary, 'Roseanne Barr is America,' by conservative filmmaker Joel Gilbert, releasing on several streaming platforms on June 10.
New York Post
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Kerry Washington's ‘Desperate Housewives' reboot sparks outrage: ‘I don't want it'
'Desperate Housewives' fans aren't interested in returning to Wisteria Lane. News broke Tuesday that Kerry Washington is making a reboot to the popular comedy-drama series at Onyx Collective (owned by Disney) with 'The Flight Attendant' showrunner Natalie Chaidez. The pair are executive producing the series alongside Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher. Chaidez will also write the project. Advertisement 10 The cast of 'Desperate Housewives.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 10 Kerry Washington at the 2025 Annual Atlanta Film Festival. WireImage The show is currently titled 'Wisteria Lane,' after the street from the ABC series that starred Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross. Advertisement According to Variety, the official logline says the show is 'set around a group of 5 very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called 'Wisteria Lane.' On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream. Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets.' 10 Natalie Chaidez at the 32nd Annual Imagen Awards. Getty Images 10 Kerry Washington in an Instagram selfie. Kerry Washington/Instagram Fans of the original series quickly blasted the reboot news on social media. Advertisement 'Whyyyyyy stop ruining the classics and come up with something original,' one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter). 'No. Bring back the originals,' another person wrote. 10 Marcia Cross, Vanessa Williams, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria Parker, Teri Hatcher in a promo for 'Desperate Housewives' in 2010. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'Oh hell no enough of these remakes my lord and it never hit like the OGs,' a third account wrote. Advertisement 'Unless marc cherry is behind this, i don't want it,' someone else said, referring to the original show's creator. 'If nobody's cheating with the gardener in episode 1 i'm not watching,' another tweet read about Longoria's Season 1 storyline with Jesse Metcalfe. 10 Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Eva Longoria and Jesse Metcalfe in 'Desperate Housewives.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images More critics compared the 'Desperate Housewives' reboot to Max's critically panned 'Sex and the City' sequel series 'And Just Like That.' 'Legit not the original cast with the same premise as the Sex And The City reboot I don't particularly care tbh,' one fan wrote. Another tweeted, 'the same thing that happened to sex and the city is about to happen to desperate housewives.' 10 Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, Brenda Strong, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman in 'Desperate Housewives.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images The night before the reboot was announced, Longoria, 50, appeared on 'Watch What Happens Live' and was asked who needs the 'most convincing' to bring the show back. Advertisement 'Marc Cherry, our creator. He feels like we've exhausted the characters,' said the actress, who played Gabrielle Solis in the series. 10 Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marc Cherry, Nicollette Sheridan and Teri Hatcher at the 2006 Golden Globes. FilmMagic 'Unlike 'Sex and the City,' [which] was only like six episodes, eight episodes a year, we did 24 episodes a year for a decade,' Longoria explained, joking, 'I can't sleep with any more people on that street. I have slept with every person on the street.' 10 Marc Cherry, Eva Longoria at Mandarin Oriental Residences Beverly Hills on January 13, 2024. Getty Images for Mandarin Oriental Residences Beverly Hills Advertisement Cherry, 63, created the original series that ran for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012 on ABC. The show also starred Brenda Strong, Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delaney, James Denton, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Doug Savant and the late Kathryn Joosten. Cherry, who also created the shows 'Devious Maids' and 'Why Women Kill,' pitched his idea for a prequel series to 'Desperate Housewives' last year. 10 Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, and Felicity Huffman. ABC Advertisement 'I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,' he told People. 'Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand.' Cherry added: 'There's times when I go, 'You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.''
New York Post
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Lost' actor Sam Anderson confesses fans are afraid to fly with him: ‘Get me off this plane'
Everything happens for a reason. Sam Anderson has confessed that passengers are not at all excited about flying on the same plane as him and his fellow 'Lost' alum L. Scott Caldwell. He shared the surprising revelation on Sunday during a sitdown with Variety about his time on the popular sci-fi drama. Advertisement 6 Sam Anderson at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on April 27, 2022. Getty Images 6 Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler in 'Lost.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 'Sometimes, Scott and I would be traveling on the same flight,' Anderson told the outlet. 'And as we walked on, we'd see people's faces like, 'Get me off this plane; it's gonna crash.'' Advertisement Anderson, 79, joined season two of 'Lost' in 2005 as Bernard Nadler and remained on the show until the finale in season six. Caldwell, 75, played his wife, Rose Nadler. The show followed a group of characters after they survived a disastrous plane crash and worked to survive on a mysterious island located in the South Pacific Ocean. It also starred Matthew Fox (Jack Shepherd), Josh Holloway (James 'Sawyer' Ford) and Evangeline Lilly (Kate Austen). 6 'Lost' followed a group of characters after they survived a disastrous plane crash and worked to survive on a mysterious island located in the South Pacific Ocean. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images But even though people might be afraid to fly with Anderson due to his close connections to the show, he still speaks highly of 'Lost' and the opportunities it offered him as an almost 60-year-old actor when he joined in 2005. Advertisement 'That changed everything,' he said. Anderson also 'loved' that the creators of 'Lost' never 'did an episode about race' even though he and his onscreen wife, played by Caldwell, were an interracial couple. 6 Sam Anderson at the Ahmanson Theatre on April 5, 2017, in Los Angeles. FilmMagic 'One of the things I loved about it most was that I think many people thought that someplace along the line, we were going to do an episode about race,' he explained. 'And they never did – they normalized it. We were just two people incredibly in love.' Advertisement Still, Anderson and Caldwell's onscreen relationship led to one of the most iconic moments on the show when Jorge Garcia's character, Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes, says: 'So, Rose's husband's white. Didn't see that one coming.' Now, 15 years after 'Lost' aired its finale in May 2010, Anderson stars in the reboot of the legal drama 'Matlock' alongside Hollywood legend Kathy Bates, 76. 6 Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler in 'Lost.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Anderson plays Bates' onscreen husband, Edwin, in the show developed by Jennie Snyder Urman. 'It has been such a gift,' Anderson gushed about working with Bates. 'I say that as somebody who is as interested in the craft and how it works as she is, I just landed in co-star heaven.' He also praised Urman's 'joyful' scripts. 6 Sam Anderson currently stars in the reboot of the legal drama 'Matlock' alongside Kathy Bates. Getty Images 'I get these scripts and it's like reading a best-selling novel,' he said. 'More often than not, I'm gasping because I can't believe what Jennie has pulled off. It's a joy to read and a joy to play.' Advertisement Sadly, Bates suggested back in September that she might retire after 'Matlock' comes to an end. 'This is my last dance,' she said at the time.
New York Post
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Brady Bunch' star Susan Olsen reveals her biggest gripe with playing ‘stupid' Cindy Brady
Susan Olsen didn't like dumbing herself down on 'The Brady Bunch.' The actress, 63, appeared on 'The Real Brady Bros' podcast hosted by her TV brother Barry Williams and Christopher Knight last week and looked back on the impact of her role as the ditzy Cindy Brady. Williams told Olsen that she was 'the cutest person in the world' while portraying the youngest Brady sibling, before explaining that he and Knight, 67, knew she 'was a little bit uncomfortable with the nature' of her character. Advertisement 10 Susan Olsen at 'A Very Brady Renovation' TV show premiere in Sept. 2019. David Buchan/Shutterstock 10 Susan Olsen in 'The Brady Bunch.' Courtesy Everett Collection 'You're so much smarter than your character. You're so much edgier than your character,' Williams said to Olsen. 'You're the least like Cindy. Your personality is the least like their character than any of us.' Advertisement The group discussed a scene from the 1969 pilot episode of the sitcom where matriarch Carol Brady (Florence Henderson) tells her daughters she feels butterflies, to which Cindy replies, 'Are you sleeping with your mouth open, mommy?' 10 Eve Plumb, Florence Henderson, Maureen McCormick, Susan Olsen in 'The Brady Bunch.' Courtesy Everett Collection 10 Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady. CBS via Getty Images 'Here it is right there. You're saying the most idiotic thing imaginable,' Williams said of Olsen's TV moment. Advertisement He then jokingly called Cindy 'stupid,' as Olsen explained, 'That's just how my career was. And it was something I had to accept. And it was really emphasized when my son was old enough to start watching the things I was in.' 10 Susan Olsen in New York City in Sept. 2019. GC Images Olsen recalled the time her son, Michael, watched a Disney movie where Olsen's character didn't know what being British meant. 'And my son said, 'So you always play the stupid child.' And I said, 'Mike, you're right. I did.' And he goes, 'Wow. Do you think you had anything to do with that?' I'm like, 'Well, I hope not!'' the actress recalled. Advertisement 'But my mother always said, 'It's cute,'' she added. 10 Susan Olsen, Barry Williams, Eve Plumb, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland in 'The Brady Bunch.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images 10 The cast of 'The Brady Bunch' in 1973. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Olsen quipped, 'She doesn't have a functioning brain, but she's cute.' Olsen played Cindy for the sitcom's full run from 1969 to 1974. She explained on the podcast how playing Cindy as a child affected her in real life. 10 Susan Olsen attends the Thalians annual Winter Gala honoring Gary Sinise with the 2023 Mr. Wonderful Award. Getty Images 10 Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady in 'The Brady Bunch.' Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Advertisement 'We went back to regular public school. And I used to think, 'Thank goodness the show is on a Friday because at least the kids have a whole weekend to maybe forget about all the stupid things Cindy did while she was in my body on TV,'' she said. Olsen added: 'I knew every year I'd have a whole new crop of kids that had just arrived in the neighborhood who were going to treat me like I was a freak in a sideshow. But my friends were really good.' 10 Susan Olsen at the 2025 Chocolate Expo. Getty Images Later in the podcast, Olsen revealed she got injured and 'almost died' filming the first episode of the series. Advertisement 'I was getting body makeup on my legs. Was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell,' she explained. 'It hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.' Olsen joked that she wishes she sued Paramount for the incident 'because I would have made more off of that than the show.'
