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Ellen DeGeneres Says She and Wife Portia de Rossi Moved to the U.K. Because of President Trump
Ellen DeGeneres says she and wife Portia de Rossi moved to the United Kingdom because of President Trump. The comedian and former talk show host shared the news during a live conversation in Cheltenham, England, on Sunday, with British broadcaster Richard Bacon, who asked her if reports that she'd moved to the U.K. because of Trump were true. 'Yes,' she said, noting that the decision to permanently relocate there was made the day after Trump was re-elected to a second term in November, according to the BBC. More from The Hollywood Reporter Ava Phillippe, Sam Morelos Cast in Tommy Dorfman's 'Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me' (Exclusive) Charli XCX Starrer '100 Nights of Hero' to Close Venice Critics' Week 'In the End, Everything Will Be Okay' With 'Money Heist' Star Esther Acebo Boarded by Citizen Skull (Exclusive) After DeGeneres' talk show ended in 2022, she embarked on her final tour, titled Ellen's Last Stand … Up, which ended in August. Then, the couple purchased what DeGeneres said they thought was going to be 'a part-time house' — a place to stay a few months out of the year. However, that changed when Trump was voted back into office, she said. 'We got here the day before the election and woke up to lots of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, 'He got in,'' she said. 'And we're like, 'We're staying here.'' Their house is located in the more rural area of the Cotswolds. DeGeneres said she saw snow for the first time in her life this past winter. Meanwhile, De Rossi had her horses flown there, while DeGeneres has chickens. 'It's absolutely beautiful,' DeGeneres said of the area. 'We're just not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The villages and the towns and the architecture — everything you see is charming and it's just a simpler way of life. It's clean. Everything here is just better — the way animals are treated, people are polite. I just love it here.' DeGeneres also noted she and De Rossi might get married again in England. 'The Baptist Church in America is trying to reverse gay marriage,' she said. 'They're trying to literally stop it from happening in the future and possibly reverse it. Portia and I are already looking into it, and if they do that, we're going to get married here.' Later, she added: 'I wish we were at a place where it was not scary for people to be who they are. I wish that we lived in a society where everybody could accept other people and their differences. So until we're there, I think there's a hard place to say we have huge progress.' Meanwhile, DeGeneres also addressed allegations that her former talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, was a toxic workplace, acknowledging she can be 'very blunt' but calling many reports about her on-set behavior 'clickbait.' An internal investigation by parent company Warner Bros. resulted in three top producers being let go. DeGeneres also opened her final season — the show's 19th — with an on-air apology. 'No matter what, any article that came up, it was like, 'She's mean,' and it's like, how do I deal with this without sounding like a victim or 'poor me' or complaining?' she said, adding: 'It's as simple as, I'm a direct person, and I'm very blunt, and I guess sometimes that means that … I'm mean?' DeGeneres added that it is 'kind of crazy' that saying someone is mean 'can be the worst thing that you say about a woman' and that it was 'certainly an unpleasant way to end' her show. 'How dare us have any kind of mood, or you can't be anything other than nice and sweet and kind and submissive and complacent,' she said, adding: 'I don't think I can say anything that's ever going to get rid of that [reputation] or dispel it, which is hurtful to me. I hate it. I hate that people think that I'm that because I know who I am and I know that I'm an empathetic, compassionate person.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter Seeing Double? 25 Pairs of Celebrities Who Look Nearly Identical From 'Lady in the Lake' to 'It Ends With Us': 29 New and Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2024 Meet the Superstars Who Glam Up Hollywood's A-List Solve the daily Crossword
Metro
2 days ago
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- Metro
Cheaper by the Dozen child star Jimmy Hunt dies aged 85
Former child star Jimmy Hunt has died at the age of 85. The actor was most known for his efforts in Invaders from Mars and Cheaper by the Dozen and a string of other movies. He died in a hospital in Simi Valley on Friday, after suffering from a heart attack six weeks ago, his daughter-in-law confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter. According to the outlet, the LA-born star began his career at a very young age when a scout for MGM arrived at his school – he first graced the screen aged six, in 1947 flick High Barbaree. From there, Hunt commanded roles in Pitfall, the Mating of Millie, Holiday Affair, Special Agent and Louisa. In 1950, he popped up in the original Cheaper by the Dozen movie, playing William Gilbreth – one of the many Gilbreth children. He starred opposite Barbara Bates, Carol Nugent, Anthony Sydes, Walter Baldwin and Jeanne Crain, while Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy played the parents of the brood. Two years later, he appeared in the sequel, Belles on the Toes, but in a different role. The original flick spawned a remake in 2003, with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt as the leaders of the family. Hunt's biggest role came in 1953 hit Invaders from Mars, in which he played David MacLean opposite Helena Carter, Arthur Franz and Hillary Brooke. The cult classic followed a young boy who sees a flying saucer behind his home, but things take a bizarre turn when his father goes to investigate and returns acting strangely – with others following suit. However, the star had to return to the set after the movie was complete, to film further scenes for the UK release. Following this, he decided to step out of the spotlight for good at the age of 14, sharing that the pressure in front of the camera became too much – but he did play a small role in the 1986 remake. 'It's interesting that that film, probably the lowest-budget feature I ever made, is the one that still attracts people,' he said in a previous interview. 'It's also the one that made me conclude that I didn't want to continue acting. The Hollywood Reporter reports that he went on to serve three years in the US Army, and later worked as a sales manager for a supply company that serviced aerospace firms. More Trending 'The older I got the more serious I became about getting a scene right on the first take. Adult actors all made jokes when they blew their lines. Kids just feel dumb when it was their fault. So acting became harder for me all the time. 'Invaders from Mars was real work. I told my folks I wanted to quit. They wanted to make sure I realized the financial consequences. Once they saw how strongly I felt they accepted it and we never looked back.' Hunt is survived by his wife, Roswitha, and their sons, Randy and Ron. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Linkin Park refuse to play poignant song live after Chester Bennington's death MORE: The Cosby Show star Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies aged 54 in 'accidental drowning' MORE: TV soap legend Eileen Fulton died aged 91
Yahoo
4 days ago
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- Yahoo
Eileen Fulton, Longtime ‘Bad Girl' Lisa on ‘As the World Turns,' Dies at 91
Eileen Fulton, the minister's daughter who spent the better part of 50 years portraying Lisa Miller, one of the first 'bad girls' of daytime television, on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, has died. She was 91. Fulton's family announced that she died in Asheville, North Carolina, on July 14 after a period of declining health. More from The Hollywood Reporter Alan Bergman, Oscar-Winning Lyricist, Dies at 99 Kate Beckinsale Announces Death of Her Mother, British Actress Judy Loe, at 78: "I Am Paralyzed" Behind the Incendiary New Play Confronting David Mamet Four years into the run of As the World Turns, Fulton joined the No. 1 daytime drama in 1960 for what was originally supposed to be a three-month summer storyline. She exited the soap three times — once to headline her own primetime spinoff, 1965's Our Private World — but continued on through the final episode broadcast Sept. 17, 2010. Her Lisa had eight husbands, with Nicolas Coster portraying two of them. Three of her marriages ended in divorce, four ended in death, and one was annulled. When As the World Turns was done, her character's full name was Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn. She also had lots and lots of lovers. 'She's a romantic, that's why she falls in love so much,' Fulton said in a 2005 conversation for the Television Academy Foundation website The Interviews. Inducted into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and given a lifetime achievement award from the Daytime Emmys in 2004, Fulton was one of the first soap actors to have her own publicist. She also employed a bodyguard to protect her from angry viewers who disapproved of what Lisa was up to. 'They had a great love/hate thing [with me], it was amazing,' she said. And in the '70s, Fulton famously had a clause inserted into her contract that guaranteed she would never have to play a grandmother. 'At that time, grandmothers had no romance at all — and I wasn't about to let that happen to me,' she told the Los Angeles Times in 2000. She eventually became OK with that. The oldest of three kids, Margaret Elizabeth McLarty was born on Sept. 13, 1933, in Asheville, North Carolina. Her mother, Peggy, was a schoolteacher and her father, James, a Methodist preacher. She said she knew by the third grade that she was going to be an actress. After graduating from Lee Edwards High School in Asheville and, in 1956, as a music and drama major from Greensboro College, she moved to New York and studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where one of her classmates was Keir Dullea. Fulton had played a hooker in Girl of the Night (1960), starring Anne Francis, when someone from As the World Turns called her manager looking to see if one of his clients, East of Eden actress Lois Smith, was available to play Lisa. Smith was not, so he suggested Fulton. 'I knew I was going to get that part. There were 250 other girls there [at the audition], but I just knew,' she said. Lisa 'was supposed to be the sweet girl next door. I said, 'I'm tired of being the sweet girl next door.' I can't change the lines, but I can change my intention once we're on the air. I just thought of little conniving things I could do to Bob.' That would be her first TV husband, played by Don Hastings. During one stretch in the early '60s, Fulton would work in the mornings on As the World Turns (when it aired lived), race to the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway to play Honey in matinee performances of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and then appear downtown at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in the evenings in The Fantasticks. Fulton quit As the World Turns for the first time in 1963 to 'do other things,' which included an off-Broadway turn opposite Hal Holbrook in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. As she had trouble finding other work, viewers did not take to her replacement, Pamela King, and so she returned. She left again in 1965, this time to star in Our Private World, which aired Wednesday and Friday nights on CBS. Lisa had fled Oakdale after dumping Bob to move to Chicago, where she wed the wealthy John Eldridge. (Coster played Eldridge; decades later, he would portray Lisa's seventh husband, Eduardo Grimaldi.) Our Private World, however, was canceled in September after just four months on the air, and Fulton was back on As the World Turns in 1966. In 1983, Fulton exited in a contract dispute, to be replaced by Betsy von Furstenberg. But when she heard the writers were thinking about killing off Lisa, she made another comeback. 'I don't think anybody would believe Lisa is dead unless I do it,' she said. Fulton co-authored two autobiographies, 1970's How My World Turns and 1995's As My World Still Turns; several murder mysteries; and another book, 1999's Soap Opera: A Novel. She also was a cabaret performer and had her own clothing line at J.C. Penney. In real life, Fulton, unlike Lisa, was married (and divorced) only three times. Survivors include her brother, Charles Furman McLarty; her niece, Katherine Morris, and their children, Everly Ann Morris and Easton Lane Morris; and her sister-in-law, Chris Page McLarty. In a 2010 interview with NPR, the actress said she was well aware that many viewers despised her character. There was one in particular. 'I was standing in front of Lord & Taylor. I'd only been on the show a few weeks,' she said. 'And this beautifully dressed woman in a Chanel suit — in the days before there were knockoffs — came up to me and said, 'Aren't you Lisa?' And I said, 'Yes, that's the part I play.' And she said, 'Well, I hate you!' And she hit me! And people looked at me like I was rotten and this woman was a heroine. 'But I thought, 'You know what? I've reached them.' Then a telegram came into the studio. It said, 'If that bitch Lisa marries Bob I'll never watch As the World Turns again.' That is how the character was truly locked in.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Studio': 30 Famous Faces Who Play (a Version of) Themselves in the Hollywood-Based Series 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise
Straits Times
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Superman can't save Hollywood from superhero fatigue
James Gunn's much-discussed reboot of Superman is a hit, rustling up US$125 million (S$160.4 million) domestically and another US$95 million from 79 international markets, but the coverage of its success isn't merely that of a blockbuster. ''Superman' saves the day for DC Studios,' announced the Hollywood Reporter, while a New York Times headline noted, 'With US$217 million in ticket sales, 'Superman' helps save Warner Bros., too'. In a high-profile relaunch with such oversized stakes, it's tempting to latch on to a 'Superman saves the day' narrative. Perhaps, in the light of these record-breaking returns, not only Warner Bros Discovery and DC but the comic book movie itself has been brought back from the precipice of death. Hollywood executives would be wise to temper their excitement about the subgenre, though, because the truth is a bit more complicated.
News18
6 days ago
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Priyanka Chopra Turns 43: Her Net Worth And 5 Heartwarming Moments With Nick Jonas
Last Updated: Priyanka Chopra shines in Hollywood and Bollywood, inspiring young girls with her success, confidence, and charisma across personal life and global achievements. Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who is turning 43, continues to shine in her personal and professional life. Whether it's about making headlines in Hollywood with her versatile roles, ruling Bollywood, or taking on the world with her achievements, she has grown like no one else. The actress has become an inspiration for young girls to take notes on confidence and charisma. But Priyanka's success isn't limited to work. The actress's Instagram handle proves how she has been balancing her work around the world with being a mom to her daughter, Malti, and a loving wife to Nick Jonas. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Priyanka Chopra strongly holds her position as one of the richest actresses. She has a whopping net worth of $80 million, but the sources of her income aren't limited to acting. Her fortune comes from her films in the US and India, brand endorsements, production ventures, and smart startup investments, which highlight her business intellect. Priyanka Chopra's Latest And Upcoming Projects At 43, Priyanka Chopra has been running on a busy schedule with a lineup of important projects like: Heads Of State: Priyanka Chopra was recently all around the reality talk shows promoting her latest release, Heads Of State. She was seen as a full-fledged action avatar with legends like Idris Elba and John Cena. Called 'Fun and fiery" by The Guardian, the film was released on July 2, 2025, on Prime Video. The Bluff: After confirming the report from Deadline, Priyanka moved to Australia in late 2024 to shoot for the period action-drama film, The Bluff. She portrays the never-before-seen avatar of a pirate in the film who fights to protect her family across vast oceans. Judgment Day: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Priyanka will team up with Will Ferrell, Zac Efron, Regina Hall, Jimmy Tatro, Billy Eichner, and more in her next film, Judgment Day by Nicholas Stoller. Apart from the film being based on a TV courtroom hostage, other details from the project have been kept under wraps. SSMB29: After a long wait, the Indian audience took a sigh of relief when Pinkvilla confirmed that Priyanka will make her much-awaited comeback to Indian movies by collaborating with S.S. Rajamouli's film. The actress who is presently shooting for the film shared several updates about her to-and-fro trips from India, confirming the same. Krrish 4: Yes, the rumours swirling around are true as Times Of India confirmed that Priyanka will rekindle nostalgia by reprising her role in Hrithik Roshan's highly anticipated superhero film, Krrish 4. Priyanka Chopra's 5 Special Moments With Nick Jonas Priyanka Chopra and Nick recently gave a glimpse of their bond at Heads Of State's London Premiere, where the singer adorably introduced his wife, who twirled in her gown. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) Priyanka Chopra shared a glimpse of her touching family moment with Nick Jonas in black and white a few weeks ago as their daughter, Malti, joined her parents at his father's event. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) The Love Again actress left the internet drooling after she shared a candid BTS shot with Nick as the duo got cozy in love. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) Priyanka Chopra called Nick her 'forever Valentine' by sharing two heartfelt photos where she leaned over his shoulders in a gentle gesture. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Priyanka (@priyankachopra) Priyanka Chopra soaked in festive vibes at her brother Siddharth's pre-wedding function, where she shared joyful moments with her husband, Nick, and Malti. Frequently Asked Questions Does Priyanka Chopra live in the US? Priyanka Chopra and her husband, Nick Jonas, have multiple homes across the US and in India. Presently, she is staying in New York, where her daughter, Malti, goes to school. Is Priyanka Chopra an American citizen? No, Priyanka Chopra is an Indian citizen. She has often shared images of her Indian passport on Instagram and even votes in the National elections of India. Why did Priyanka Chopra leave Bollywood? Priyanka Chopra did not leave Bollywood. During a conversation on the podcast, Armchair Expert, she revealed that she moved to the US for a fresh start and to pursue more career opportunities after feeling tired of Industry politics. However, she continues to work in Indian films and might be seen in Hrithik Roshan's Krrish 4, as reported by The Times of India. First Published: July 18, 2025, 07:30 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
