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Washington Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor who rose to fame on ‘The Cosby Show,' dies at 54
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, an actor and musician who rose to fame as a child star on 'The Cosby Show,' has died at 54. Warner died of an accidental drowning while on a family vacation in Costa Rica, according to the Associated Press. Representatives for the actor declined to provide a statement. A New Jersey native, Warner started acting when he was 9 years old, and became a household name in the 1980s when he starred as the witty teenage son Theodore Huxtable in 'The Cosby Show.' Created by and starring Bill Cosby, the show became one of the biggest and most culturally significant sitcoms in television history. Warner garnered critical acclaim for his performance, which earned him an Emmy nomination in 1986 when he was 16. 'When the show first came out, there were White people and Black people talking about (how) the Huxtables don't really exist, Black people don't really live like that,' Warner said in a 2013 interview. 'Meanwhile, we were getting tens of thousands of fan letters from people saying, 'Thank you so much for this show.'' Beyond his breakout role, Warner starred in the UPN sitcom 'Malcolm & Eddie' and made recurring appearances on shows including 'Suits,' 'Community' and 'The Resident.' A trained musician, Warner also carved out a career in music, winning a Grammy award in 2015 for the song 'Jesus Children' alongside Robert Glasper Experiment and Lalah Hathaway.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Child star Drake Bell fumes that he has been left struggling to pay rent while 'some fat cat with a cigar' 'is 'high on child labour' due to strict Nickelodeon payment terms
Former child star Drake Bell has hit out at the contract terms from his work with Nickelodeon, that he says have left him struggling to pay rent. The actor, now 39, explained that despite the ongoing success of his show Drake & Josh, he is not living anything close to a life of luxury. Having also starred in Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show, Drake revealed that he was given one-off payments for his work and does not receive residuals. He told The Unplanned Podcast: 'That's the perception of the world, it's always been this way. 'It's like, you know, "Oh, you made a Folgers Coffee commercial. You must live in a mansion in Hollywood. Like, I saw you on TV. You're rich." 'That's far from the case. And especially, which is the bummer for most of us on Nickelodeon, we don't get residuals for our shows.' Drake said that had he been given a fair contract, he would still be benefiting from his work. This is because residual checks - achieved through the sale of reruns - would allow him to still get paid for appearing in reruns of the hit shows, which he still features in. The star is still recognisable to many after starring in the Drake & Josh show with Josh Peck from 2004 to 2007. He said: 'The Friends cast at the peak was making a million dollars an episode. You make 13 episodes that year, you make $13,000,000. You make 20 episodes that year, you make $20,000,000, right? 'But right now, each cast member of Friends just in syndication alone is making over $20,000,000 a year, and they're not filming a show every week. 'They're not going to work, but they're playing their show and they're using their likeness and they're doing all this, so they get paid for it. 'And they're making over $20,000,000 in a year just because other networks are buying the rights for syndication.' The former child star, who also claims to have been sexually abused on-set, described his current financial situation as the result of the actions of 'evil people'. Drake, who is also known for The Amanda Show and The Fairly OddParents, said: 'It's a lot of evil, corrupt people. That's the only thing, that is the answer. There's no other answer.' 'Do everything that they do to us mentally and emotionally, and then throw us to the wolves. And we're like, okay, cool. I got rent this month. There are three channels doing marathons. 'Netflix just bought it, it's top 10 on Netflix, and I gotta figure out how to pay my rent this month 'And some fat cat with a cigar is just sitting up at the top of Viacom just going [chuckles]. What do you call it? It's just like getting high on child labor. 'People don't understand how the business works, the business side of this. They just see what the perception is on Instagram and social media and all the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood. 'We're putting in all of this work. This corporation is making billions with a 'B' off of us, and we're being compensated for the week of work, cool, but that's it. 'And forever, in perpetuity, it literally says in the contract, across universes and galaxies and planets.'
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Former child star and once A-list actor looks unrecognizable during rare outing... can you guess who?
This former child star and once a renowned A-list actor looked unrecognizable during a rare outing with his famous partner over the weekend. On Saturday, he was spotted heading out with his wife to pick up some groceries at Erewhon in Pasadena before she is set to head to the United Kingdom to film her next movie. The troubled actor, whose entertainment career has been mired with scandal involving his past romantic relationships and serious accusations, looked very different from his former self during their outing. He sported a very short haircut and a prominent mustache on his face — two years after he shaved off his beard as another one of his ever-changing looks. The rare outing comes just weeks after a documentary about him allegedldy being physically violent premiered at Cannes Film Festival and just a couple months before he is set to head to court with an ex-girlfriend. Can you guess who he is? This former child star and once a renowned A-list actor looked unrecognizable during a rare outing with his famous girlfriend over the weekend. Can you guess who he is? He's Shia LaBeouf. The fallen actor, 39, was a far cry from his former clean-shaven self with a clean background while stepping out. For his casual outing in sunny Southern California, he sported an oversize graphic T-shirt as he repped the Detroit Lions football team. He also sported a pair of dark blue shorts that showed off the many tattoos on his thighs, right above his knees. He also donned sandals with tall socks and threw on a mesh baseball cap to complete his look. During his outing, he was spotted with his wife Mia Goth, who is set to begin filming for an upcoming Star Wars spinoff alongside Ryan Gosling soon in the United Kingdom. During their outing, the Pearl star looked casual-chic in a white, long-sleeved top, which was cropped to show off her bare midriff, and bright yellow shorts. She sported gray sneakers teamed with a black backpack and oversize sunglasses after stopping by the upscale grocery chain. She was seen walking out with a grocery bag in hand and a bottle of green juice while her partner was walking hands-free. LaBeouf and the MaXXXine star have been in an on-again, off-again relationship since 2012, when they first met on the set of the movie Nymphomaniac: Vol. II. During his outing, he was spotted with wife Mia Goth, who is set to begin filming for an upcoming Star Wars spinoff alongside Ryan Gosling soon in the United Kingdom The Transformers alum and Goth, 31, went on to get married in 2016. They briefly separated when Goth filed for divorce in 2018 before reconciling and welcoming their daughter Isabel together in 2022. He first rose to Disney Channel fame for his role as Louis Stevens on the hit series Even Stevens, winning a Daytime Emmy in 2003. Afterwards, he transitioned to film and played the leading star of the hit family comedy Holes that same year. He then went on to star opposite Megan Fox in the Transformers in 2007. LaBeouf and Goth's outing comes weeks ahead of his trial, scheduled for September, against FKA Twigs after the singer sued her ex-boyfriend back in 2020. Her lawsuit against him saw him charged with assault, sexual battery and infliction of emotional distress over the course of their nearly year-long relationship due to his 'relentless abuse.' The pair had started dating after she was cast in his mostly autobiographical 2019 film Honey Boy. He and Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, dated from mid-2018 to mid-2019. He initially responded and acknowledged her charges but has since denied the allegations. Amid the scandal, he has stepped back from acting with minor appearances sprinkled throughout the past few years. In March, one of his latest movies Salvable was released, being the third movie he has appeared in since 2020. In the past half decade, he has also made appearances in The Tax Collector and Pieces of a Woman. Back in May, a documentary painting him in a once-again, not-very-pretty light premiered at Cannes Film Festival. First-time director Leo Lewis O'Neil's documentary, Slauson Rec, explores the experimental theater company LaBeouf previously launched in southern Los Angeles in 2018. The new documentary included footage of him being physically violent with students, drawing from several years' worth of intimate video recordings he signed off on.
Fox News
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jennifer Aniston's emotional new role about 'overbearing, domineering' mother hits close to home for star
Jennifer Aniston, who is set to star in Jennette McCurdy's new show "I'm Glad My Mom Died," is no stranger to complicated mother-daughter relationships. On the show, Aniston will play McCurdy's "overbearing, domineering" mother based on McCurdy's real-life experiences as a child star and her 2022 memoir of the same name. McCurdy, a former child star, will write and co-showrun the series on Apple TV +. Aniston was raised by her mother, Nancy Dow, after her father, John Aniston, left and says that when she was young her mother, a model, was critical of her appearance. KRISTIN CAVALLARI CUTS TIES WITH FATHER, JOINING JENNIFER ANISTON, OTHER STARS WITH SEVERED BONDS Aniston told Diane Sawyer in a 2004 interview that her mother told her as a child that her eyes were too close together and her nose was too big. "She was doing me a favor. She was helping me out by telling me these things, giving me hints, helpful beauty tips," Aniston said. "It wasn't about this is what your problem is, it's this is how you can help that." She added, "That's probably why I wore so much makeup." After she became famous as Rachel Green on "Friends," Dow's decision to do a tabloid interview and later write a memoir called "From Mother and Daughter to Friends," caused a rift in their relationship and they stopped speaking. "She made a mistake, and I don't think she knew any better, obviously," Aniston told Sawyer. "I've definitely tried and I've made the efforts and I've sort of started – it's the stubborn thing of 'Well, I tried enough, now it's your turn,' you know, and maybe that's like where we are, and like I've said, we're now sort of all standing in our corners just waiting for the other to approach probably." Aniston's mother died in 2016 after the two had reportedly reconciled. "We're all fine," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. McCurdy, who starred as a teen on Nickelodeon's "iCarly" and later on "Sam & Cat," wrote about a mother who she described as an overly critical stage mom set on making her daughter a star and who put her on a restrictive diet at a young age, forcing her to weight herself five times a day. She wrote that her mom also wouldn't let her shower by herself until she was 16. LIKE WHAT YOU'RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Her mother died of cancer in 2013. The show is described as a "heartbreaking and hilarious recounting of Jennette McCurdy's struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother (Aniston). The dramedy will center on the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid's show, and her narcissistic mother who relishes in her identity as 'a starlet's mother.'" CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER Aniston previously compared her relationship with her own mother to her 2018 role in the Netflix movie "Dumplin'" in which she played a pageant mom. She told the Sunday Telegraph, "One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of it was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was," according to People magazine. "She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like," she continued. "I did not come out the model child she'd hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mom who was too occupied with things that didn't quite matter," according to People. She added, "This movie is so special because it is about stripping away those preconceived notions of beauty, trying to become individuals and not feeling that we have to live up to some unrealistic ideal that society is feeding up to us…My idea of beauty is what makes you feel beautiful, and what makes me feel beautiful is the people around me, the life that I have. And maybe a good hair day." In 2015, Aniston told The Hollywood Reporter of her mom, "She had a temper. I can't tolerate that. If I get upset, I will discuss [things]. I will never scream and get hysterical like that. [But] I was never taught that I could scream. One time, I raised my voice to my mother, and I screamed at her, and she looked at me and burst out laughing. She was laughing at me [for] screaming back. And it was like a punch in my stomach." CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP She continued, "She was critical. She was very critical of me. Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I never was. I honestly still don't think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine. She was also very unforgiving. She would hold grudges that I just found so petty."
Fox News
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Jennifer Aniston's emotional new role about 'overbearing, domineering' mother hits close to home for star
Jennifer Aniston, who is set to star in Jennette McCurdy's new show "I'm Glad My Mom Died," is no stranger to complicated mother-daughter relationships. On the show, Aniston will play McCurdy's "overbearing, domineering" mother based on McCurdy's real-life experiences as a child star and her 2022 memoir of the same name. McCurdy, a former child star, will write and co-showrun the series on Apple TV +. Aniston was raised by her mother, Nancy Dow, after her father, John Aniston, left and says that when she was young her mother, a model, was critical of her appearance. Aniston told Diane Sawyer in a 2004 interview that her mother told her as a child that her eyes were too close together and her nose was too big. "She was doing me a favor. She was helping me out by telling me these things, giving me hints, helpful beauty tips," Aniston said. "It wasn't about this is what your problem is, it's this is how you can help that." She added, "That's probably why I wore so much makeup." After she became famous as Rachel Green on "Friends," Dow's decision to do a tabloid interview and later write a memoir called "From Mother and Daughter to Friends," caused a rift in their relationship and they stopped speaking. "She made a mistake, and I don't think she knew any better, obviously," Aniston told Sawyer. "I've definitely tried and I've made the efforts and I've sort of started – it's the stubborn thing of 'Well, I tried enough, now it's your turn,' you know, and maybe that's like where we are, and like I've said, we're now sort of all standing in our corners just waiting for the other to approach probably." Aniston's mother died in 2016 after the two had reportedly reconciled. "We're all fine," she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. McCurdy, who starred as a teen on Nickelodeon's "iCarly" and later on "Sam & Cat," wrote about a mother who she described as an overly critical stage mom set on making her daughter a star and who put her on a restrictive diet at a young age, forcing her to weight herself five times a day. She wrote that her mom also wouldn't let her shower by herself until she was 16. Her mother died of cancer in 2013. The show is described as a "heartbreaking and hilarious recounting of Jennette McCurdy's struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother (Aniston). The dramedy will center on the codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid's show, and her narcissistic mother who relishes in her identity as 'a starlet's mother.'" Aniston previously compared her relationship with her own mother to her 2018 role in the Netflix movie "Dumplin'" in which she played a pageant mom. She told the Sunday Telegraph, "One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of it was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was," according to People magazine. "She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like," she continued. "I did not come out the model child she'd hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mom who was too occupied with things that didn't quite matter," according to People. She added, "This movie is so special because it is about stripping away those preconceived notions of beauty, trying to become individuals and not feeling that we have to live up to some unrealistic ideal that society is feeding up to us…My idea of beauty is what makes you feel beautiful, and what makes me feel beautiful is the people around me, the life that I have. And maybe a good hair day." In 2015, Aniston told The Hollywood Reporter of her mom, "She had a temper. I can't tolerate that. If I get upset, I will discuss [things]. I will never scream and get hysterical like that. [But] I was never taught that I could scream. One time, I raised my voice to my mother, and I screamed at her, and she looked at me and burst out laughing. She was laughing at me [for] screaming back. And it was like a punch in my stomach." She continued, "She was critical. She was very critical of me. Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I never was. I honestly still don't think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine. She was also very unforgiving. She would hold grudges that I just found so petty."
