Conchata Ferrell, the character actress known for her role as the witty housekeeper Berta on Two and a Half Men, has died. She was 77. Ferrell died Monday of complications from a cardiac arrest after several months in poor health, beginning when she contracted a kidney infection in December. She fell ill again in May and spent several weeks in intensive care, later being transferred to a long-term care facility after suffering a heart attack.
This week’s episode of Survivor 46 morphed into a Doublemint gum ad as we doubled our pleasure and doubled our fun with not one, but two blindsides. More amazingly, apparently both of them were orchestrated by Venus! I know! It doesn’t seem to make sense, but I have sources that confirm Venus swam over to the old Siga camp and influenced the entire yellow team into voting out Tim. Evidently, she even convinced Tim to vote himself out, until producers intervened and told Tim he was not allowed to do that.
With so much uncertainty about the future, Two Door Cinema Club decided to look to the past. On June 5, the Northern Irish indie rock band released the album Lost Songs (Found), a collection of seven tracks made during the group's early days. The surprise drop is a nostalgic return to their 2010 debut Tourist History, with the new EP featuring an original demo of "Something Good Can Work." Meanwhile, songs like "
Tyler Perry had to pause his interview on The View twice to compose himself after cohost Sara Haines offered a sweet tribute to his late mother, Maxine, that moved the filmmaker to tears during a live broadcast. The emotional moment happened during a discussion about the new documentary Maxine's Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, which Haines said made her feel like she met Perry's mother 14 years after her death in 2009 at age 64.
Mama's back, y'all. After letting pop star Rita Ora take the wheel for a single season, Tyra Banks is making her grand return to VH1's America's Next Top Model next year, and EW has an exclusive first look at the fierce teaser for the show's upcoming 24th cycle. "Did you miss me?" Banks says in the clip above, which sees her brandishing a set of ANTM-emblazoned brass knuckles atop a sleek runway, throwing a few punches into the air.
Tyrese Gibson is suing Home Depot after an alleged racial profiling incident at a Los Angeles-area store earlier this year. According to a complaint filed Wednesday in L.A. Superior Court, the Fast and Furious actor visited a Home Depot store in West Hills, Calif., with two associates on Feb. 11, and the trio "experienced outrageous discriminatory mistreatment and consumer racial profiling first-hand." Gibson and his associates, Eric Mora and Manuel Hernandez, are seeking $1 million in damages — the amount Gibson estimates he's spent at the home improvement company over the years — as well as statutory damages, attorney's fees, punitive damages, a declaratory judgment declaring that Home Depot's actions violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, pre-judgment and post-judgment interest, and "
Here's an exclusive look at the script for Tyrion Lannister's awesome trial scene from HBO's Game of Thrones. Writer Bryan Cogman tells EW of his scene from this season's sixth episode, "The Laws of Gods and Men": "This is a moment we've been building to ever since the beginning. Every scene with Tyrion [Peter Dinklage], every interaction, was all leading up to this moment. The Shae [Sibel Kekilli] moment triggers what's been building up inside him his entire life.
Hardy Jenns, Some Kind of Wonderful Everett Collection Played by: Craig Sheffer
Words to vile by: "You're gonna have to beg."
Like Steff and Stan, Hardy is a proto 1-percenter. His fluffy coiffure and Miami Vice style immediately convey his douchebag potential. What it doesn't convey is his deep-seated cruelty, forged the intense entitlement of a life of never having to earn any of the luxuries you've been given.
Uncoupled has been given a second chance at love. The romantic comedy series starring Neil Patrick Harris has been picked up for a second season by Showtime after being canceled by Netflix last month, EW has confirmed. The show — which stars Harris as Michael, a man attempting to re-enter the New York City dating scene after his long-term relationship ends — premiered last summer, and its fate was in limbo until the January cancellation.
Warning to Oscar voters: Give Adam Sandler the Best Actor prize, or he may take EW up on making Grown Ups 3: Fart Camp. The morning after losing to Adam Driver at the Gotham Awards, Sandler appeared on The Howard Stern Show to promote his dramatic turn in Uncut Gems, an adrenaline-filled thriller from directors Josh and Benny Safdie. In the film, the comic stars as Howard Ratner, a gambling addict trying to dig himself out of a massive hole.