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On the same day in which he accused six Democratic lawmakers of “seditious behavior” that he said was “punishable by death” and shared someone else’s post that called for the Congress members’ hanging, Donald Trump once again lashed out at his late night nemesis Jimmy Kimmel.
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It started with Trump’s Truth Social post on Thursday (Nov. 20) in which he asked why “ABC Fake News” keeps Kimmel, “a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air?,” claiming the network’s (or Kimmel’s?) coverage of him is “totally biased.” He ended by demanding, “Get the bum of the air!!!”
The president, ensnared in particularly bruising media cycle whipped up by the back-and-forth over the release of the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein — in which Trump is named more than 1,500 times, more than anyone else — appeared to be spun up again about Kimmel’s relentless jokes about the two men’s close ties.
So, on Thursday night’s show Kimmel doubled-down once again, sloughing off the latest attack from the leader of the free world on his late night comedy show. Kimmel opened his monologue by admitting that he’s “lost count” at this point of how many times Trump has called for him to be pulled off the air, revealing that he woke up that morning to his wife telling him that he was on Trump’s mind again.
“She’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again,’” Kimmel said she told him. “I was like, ‘Oh.’ And then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids… Talk about a snowflake, this guy. Every five weeks, he flips out and wants me fired. If you got this many threats from a neighbor, you’d have no problem getting a restraining order. The judge would be like, ‘Yeah, sounds like the guy’s nuts.’”
Kimmel read the president’s post to boos from the audience, noting that the late night missive went up at 12:49 a.m., just 11 minutes after his show ended on the East Coast. “Which is nice, he watches us live. Hi, Mr. President! How are you? Thanks for watching us on TV instead of on YouTube, we appreciate that. And I’ll tell you, it’s viewers like you who keep us on the air, ironically,” he joked.
And then Kimmel likely heaped more fuel to Trump’s fire by saying, “It’s also sweet that, even in the middle of the biggest sex scandal in the history of the American presidency, he takes precious time on the toilet to post about our show. Keeps saying we have bad ratings. And you should listen to him, because if anyone knows about bad ratings, it’s that guy,” he added, before rolling out a montage of clips with reports about Trump’s plunging polling numbers.
Trump’s latest broadside against Kimmel comes after ABC’s decision in September to pull Kimmel off the air for a few days after Trump’s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, issued a warning to stations carrying the show following criticism about Kimmel’s comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Back on the air the next week, Kimmel continued tweaking the president in his nightly monologues and it appears to have again incensed Trump, who has also called for other late night hosts to be fired in seeming pique over their jabs at his administration.
Kimmel pulled not punches again on Thursday, laying down the gauntlet, saying, “Mr. President, I admire your tenacity. If you’re watching tonight, which I presume you are, how about this: I’ll go when you go, OK?,” before adding another teasingly disparaging nickname to his endless pile of alternate titles for the commander in chief. “We’ll be a team. Let’s ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid. And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you: Quiet, piggy.”
The latter was a pointed reference to the insult Trump hurled at a reporter on Air Force One after she asked him a question about Epstein, with Trump snapping at Bloomberg News journalist Catherine Lucey, “Quiet! Quiet, piggy!“
After swift passage in the House and Senate, Trump signed legislation on Wednesday ordering the Justice Department to release documents related to Epstein. That came after multiple attempts by Trump to kill the legislation before changing course following the defection of several Republican House members urging their release, including such typically MAGA faithful stalwarts as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert.
The Justice Department now has 30 days to release the files, which Kimmel suggested could make for a “very merry Christmas indeed. I have a prediction for the next 30 days: I think we’re going to see Trump do some of the craziest s–t ever.”
Watch Kimmel’s monologue below.
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Carrie Underwood is an eight-time Grammy winner, a three-time ACM entertainer of the year winner, an American Idol judge, an actress and a businesswoman — and she’s also a mom to two sons, Jacob and Isaiah. Thus, Underwood is well-acquainted with the scourge facing countless parents right now: Kids’ obsession with the phrase “6-7.” The trend has become so popular, in fact, that it was named Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year.
During a preview clip for American Idol‘s upcoming season, Underwood greets a contestant on the show, Uzziah Hutchinson, who works with kids and references the popular catchphrase.
“I bet you get a lot of funny stories,” Underwood says, with the contestant replying, “Right now, it’s ‘6-7.’”
Immediately, Underwood begins mimicking the hand gesture that goes with the catchphrase, which is wildly popular with school-age kids. “6-7” originally came from the song “Doot Doot (6 7)” by rapper Skrilla, in reference to NBA star LaMelo Ball’s height, but it’s mostly just become extremely popular for students to repeat — and an annoyance for many parents and teachers.
Fortunately, Underwood has a scheme to get the “6-7” craze to halt.
“Here’s how we stop that, Uzziah. I have the cure,” Underwood says. “Every time the kids say ‘6-7,’ we have to immediately say [singing], ‘5-3-0-9,’” she says — referencing Tommy Tutone’s Billboard Hot 100 top five hit “867-5309/Jenny” from 1982.
“That’ll work!” Uzziah said.
“And if we all band together and do that, it will stop,” Underwood insists. “It’s gonna take all of us.”
Season 24 of American Idol will launch on Jan. 26 — exactly 67 days from now — welcoming back Underwood as a judge alongside Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie. The music competition airs on ABC and streams on Hulu.
See the American Idol preview clip below:
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Lainey Wilson may have just won numerous awards at the 2025 CMAs, which she also hosted, but the country star isn’t hanging up her cowboy hat for the year just yet.
As announced Thursday (Nov. 20), Wilson will join an already star-studded lineup of artists performing for this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast. According to the release, she’ll sing in front of the iconic Herald Square storefront in Manhattan, past which the parade route goes every year.
The news comes after previous announcements that Cynthia Erivo; Kpop Demon Hunters singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI; and the Broadway casts of Buena Vista Social Club, Just in Time and Ragtime will also deliver showcases for this year’s parade. The show’s full guest list includes the Rockettes, Matteo Bocelli, Colbie Caillat, Ciara, Foreigner, Debbie Gibson, Mickey Guyton, Jewel, Lil Jon, Kool & the Gang, Taylor Momsen, Busta Rhymes, Calum Scott, Teyana Taylor and more.
Viewers can also expect to see the department-store chain’s beloved annual display of vibrant parade floats, enormous balloon renderings of classic characters and, of course, a sleigh carrying Santa Claus during the televised event.
It’s unknown what Wilson will sing during the show, but it could very well be a selection from her EP Peace, Love and Cowboys (Holiday Edition), which features her newly released cover of “Let It Snow!” with the late Bing Crosby. She also might perform something from her 2024 album, Whirlwind, which took home album of the year Wednesday (Nov. 19) at the CMAs. Wilson also won entertainer of the year and female vocalist of the year at the awards.
Hosted by Today‘s Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker, the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will air at 8:30 a.m. in all time zones on NBC and Peacock.
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Charli xcx’s original idea has been turned into a film, which also features the British pop star playing a fictionalized version of herself, and A24’s The Moment released its first trailer on Thursday (Nov. 20).
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The chaotic teaser sees her diving into a reimagined version of her Brat era. Charli’s artist name and her 2024 album are used throughout the clip, which finds the singer preparing for her first arena world tour while navigating the turbulence of fame and a spotlight that’s burning brighter than ever.
“When I felt like people started to care about me, nothing else mattered,” Charli says in the trailer. “Nothing was more important than Brat.”
2026 is shaping up to be a busy campaign for Charli on the silver screen, with the Aidan Zamiri-directed movie coming to theaters on Jan. 30.
The Idol’s Rachel Sennott, award-winning actor Alexander Skarsgård and reality mogul Kylie Jenner are set to appear in the film alongside Charli. The rest of the cast includes Rosanna Arquette, Kate Berlant, Rish Shah, Jamie Demetriou, Arielle Dombasle, Hailey Benton Gates, Trew Mullen, Mel Ottenberg, Richard Perez, Isaac Powell, Shygirl and A. G. Cook.
The Moment serves as Zamiri’s feature directorial debut, while Charli xcx is on board as a producer through her Studio365 production company.
As far as the rest of her film endeavors, Charli xcx is slated to deliver multiple original songs for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation, and the first arrived with “House” earlier in November. The 33-year-old also notched roles in upcoming projects including Daniel Goldhaber’s remake of Faces of Death, I Want Your Sex, The Gallerist, 100 Nights of Hero and Sacrifice.
Watch The Moment‘s trailer below.
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A week ago, an incident involving a man charging at Ariana Grande on the Wicked red carpet in Singapore made headlines — not just because of how terrifying it was, but also due to the heroic way Cynthia Erivo immediately stepped in to protect her costar.
Viral videos from the premiere show how the culprit — later identified as 26-year-old Johnson Wen, who was arrested for his actions — jumped over the barricade and barreled straight toward the pop superstar on the red carpet, putting an arm around her neck and grabbing onto her shoulder as Erivo pried him off and yelled at him not to touch Grande. Many were quick to praise the Tony winner for her quick thinking, but in an interview with Today Thursday (Nov. 20), she explained that it was all “instinct.”
“I wasn’t really thinking,” Erivo told host Savannah Guthrie. “I just wanted to make sure my friend was safe.”
“I wanted to make sure that she was OK,” she continued, shrugging. “That was my first instinct, yeah.”
Erivo’s instincts served her and Grande well. By the time security personnel jumped in to haul Wen away from the scene, the Pinocchio star had already mostly torn him away from the R.E.M. Beauty founder, whom Erivo further guarded by putting a protective arm around until Wen was a comfortable distance away.
“I’m sure he didn’t mean us harm, but you never know with those things,” she said, adding of Grande, “We’ve really looked after each other in this.”
Regardless of Wen’s intentions, the Australian man was placed under arrest by Singapore police and sentenced to nine days in jail for the charge of being a “public nuisance.” It’s not the first time he’s faced legal repercussions for his behavior, previously getting arrested for stage-crashing one of Katy Perry’s concerts over the summer and touching her without consent.
The Wicked premiere at which Wen charged at Grande marked the last stop on the film’s international press tour leading up to the Friday (Nov. 21) theatrical release of Wicked: For Good. The long-awaited film comes almost exactly one year after the first installment came out, shattering box-office records and earning Oscars for best costume design and best production design.
Watch Erivo’s full interview with Today above.
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The rest of the world spent the past decade getting acquainted with Ariana Grande‘s innumerable talents, but I Love LA actor Josh Hutcherson was tapped in with the Wicked star’s golden pipes during her Victorious days.
During a stop at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on (Nov. 18), Hutcherson recounted befriending Grande during their teen years, and her steadfast commitment to pursuing a singing career.
“When I was 15-17, I was friends with a bunch of the cast of Victorious,” he explained to Fallon. “I met Ariana multiple times in that day and age. She, one day, told me, ‘I’m a really good singer.’ I was like, ‘I believe you.’ Then she was like, ‘No, I can do the Mariah Carey, like, whistle sing.’ I was like, ‘Really?’ [And she said], ‘Yeah, watch!’ It was like a whole dolphin-voice-sounding thing. I was like, ‘You’re really good!’ She’s like, ‘I’m gonna be a singer too.’ Cut to [present-day] Ariana Grande … she was right!”
Grande starred as Cat Valentine for all four seasons of Victorious from 2010 to 2013. The following year, she reprised her role in Sam & Cat, a spinoff that lasted just one season and aired in the interim between her debut and sophomore studio albums. Of course, Grande quickly transitioned into a pop career that’s earned her nine Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers, six Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, and two Grammy wins. Last year, Billboard crowned her the No. 9 Greatest Pop Star of the 21st Century, and, this year, she was named the No. 12 Top Songwriter of the 21st Century on the Hot 100.
Grande’s famous pipes have also resulted in two official collaborations with Carey: 2020’s “Oh Santa!” remix (with Jennifer Hudson) and 2024’s “Yes, And?” remix. At September’s MTV Video Music Awards, Grande delivered a heartfelt speech while presenting Carey with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award — before winning three Moonpeople of her own that very night.
Last year, Grande made her grand, formal return to the silver screen in Wicked, for which she earned an Academy Award nomination for best actress in a supporting role. The “We Can’t Be Friends” singer will reprise her role in Wicked: For Good, which hits theaters on Friday (Nov. 21), and is expected to follow in the box office-conquering, award-winning footsteps of its prequel.
Watch Josh Hutcherson reminisce on befriending Ariana Grande below.
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Robert Irwin is just three routines away from being the second member of his family to hoist the Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy. The conservationist who has wowed the crowds every week on season 34 of Dancing With the Stars did it again on Tuesday night’s (Nov. 18) Prince-themed episode, when he and partner Witney Carson landed one perfect score and one near-perfect rating for their flawless routines.
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The couple danced a jive to Prince & the Revolution’s “Baby I’m a Star,” which kicked off with Irwin leaping off the judge’s table in perfect time to one of the late pop icon’s high-pitched squeals, then sliding on his knees toward Carson and doing a gravity-defying stand-up move from a prone, flat-on-the-floor position.
From there, the couple pulled off fancy footwork, spins and acrobatic moves that would have made the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer proud, including a tricky maneuver where Carson flipped Irwin over her back, earning them a perfect score of 30.
Their sensual routine to Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL’s “WOW” found the pair dressed in leather, sheer tops and iridescent purple for a stunning Viennese Waltz in which they swooned around the floor, their bodies moving in time as one. It ended with Irwin spinning Carson in circles as she hovered just inches above the floor before he let go and slid on his knees to meet her for a final, sensual embrace.
Irwin’s younger sister, Bindi Irwin, won season 21 of DWTS in 2015.
The night also featured the first drop-in from Zac Efron (The Iron Claw), who showed up to support younger brother Dylan Efron (The Traitors), who made it through to the finale with a tango to Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” and a second dance to “Kiss,” which earned Efron and professional partner Daniella Karagach a 28 out of 30.
And, because that’s how these things go, someone had to have their dance card punched for the final time. Despite getting the third-highest score of the night for their cha cha to “1999” and a waltz to “Slow Love,” MomTok and Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt and partner Mark Ballas were sent home in what the internet deemed a “shocking” elimination.
The three-hour, three-round season 34 finale (Nov. 25) will feature influencer Alix Earle with partner Val Chmerkovskiy, Efron and Karagach, Irwin and Carson, gymnast Jordan Chiles and Ezra Sosa and Parent Trap actress Elaine Hendrix with Alan Bersten; the show will air on ABC at 8 p.m. ET.
Watch Irwin’s Dancing With the Stars routine to Prince’s “WOW” and “Baby I’m a Star” below:
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Vivica A. Fox joined Sherri on Tuesday (Nov. 18), where she opened about how she can’t forget about 50 Cent, her ex of 20-plus years.
Fox went viral earlier in November for her comments from a Women’s Expo advising others not to date 50 Centand rappers altogether, but she is now clarifying her stance.
“I didn’t say you couldn’t play with them,” she told host Sherri Shepherd. “You acted like I was on the picket line. Every time somebody ask me something, ‘Don’t date 50 Cent.’ That was not it. What happened is I said, ‘Vivica, if you could tell your 17-year-old self anything.’ That was me, like, I wish I knew not to go public so fast, not to have it out there, not to have the breakup that’s lasted 22 years.”
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Fox enjoyed that 50 had fun with his comedic response to her comments, which saw him post an AI-generated photo of himself as The Matrix‘s Morpheus holding out a red and blue pill.
“Either way I’m a have that a– in the matrix,” he wrote in a since-deleted post captured by Complex. “You know I love me some you, girl. But damn it’s been 22 years Vivica.”
Fox and 50 Cent dated in 2003 and broke up in the same year. They’ve been on-and-off publicly feuding in the decades since.
However, they’re on cordial terms these days, and Fox says she’ll always hold a “special place” for 50 and pointed to their excellent sex life. “You know you got that one that you always got that one that you always got a little special place for, but we are in a good place, and I’ll take the blue pill. Oh my goodness,” she revealed. “Remember the time!”
50 got wind of Fox’s comments on Tuesday and responded with an IG post resharing the Sherri clip. “What the fvck is going on here Shaniqua & Jane doe don’t act like that, and I had to pay them h–’s. LOL,” he wrote.
Watch the clip of Vivica A. Fox on Sherri below.
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Prepare to feel old, even if you’re young: Movies about classic rockers are now contenders for AARP Movies for Grownups Awards.
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the biopic about a pivotal period in the life of Bruce Springsteen, is nominated for best period film, while its director, Scott Cooper, is up for best director. Becoming Led Zeppelin, a doc about Led Zeppelin, hard rock gods of the late ‘60s and ‘70s, is nominated for best documentary.
The Movies for Grownups Awards honor films and television projects that celebrate the voices and stories of those who are 50-plus. This year’s contenders for the top award, best picture/best movie for grownups, are Hamnet, A House of Dynamite, One Battle After Another, Sinners and Train Dreams.
Kathryn Bigelow, director of A House of Dynamite, and Paul Thomas Anderson, director of One Battle After Another, are up for best director, along with Cooper, director of the aforementioned Springsteen biopic, Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein) and Spike Lee (Highest 2 Lowest).
Ethan Hawke is nominated for best actor for playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon. The film is set on the night of the opening of the groundbreaking musical Oklahoma!, which was created by Hart’s former collaborator Richard Rodgers and his new lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
Other nominees include Helen Mirren, recently announced as the 2026 recipient of the Golden Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award; two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn; and Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock.
Two documentaries directed by current stars that look at the lives of their parent(s) are also nominated for best documentary. They are Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, Ben Stiller’s film about his parents, the great 1960s comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and My Mom Jayne, actress Mariska Hargitay’s look at her mother, 1960s sex symbol Jayne Mansfield. The remaining nominees for best documentary are Cover Up, a look at investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, and Riefenstahl, about controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.
In the best TV series or limited series category, nominations go to Adolescence, Hacks, The Pitt, The Studio, and The White Lotus.
“These nominees prove that powerful storytelling transcends age,” Myechia Minter-Jordan, CEO of AARP, said in a statement. “At AARP, we believe representation matters—not just for audiences, but for the industry itself. By honoring these actors and creators, we’re shining a light on the richness, depth, and diversity of experience that deserves to be seen and celebrated.”
The annual Movies for Grownups Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, Jan. 10 at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills, California. Alan Cumming, the Tony- and Emmy Award-winning host of TV’s The Traitors, will return to host the show, which will be broadcast by PBS’ Great Performances on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 7/6c.
The annual awards show raises funds for AARP Foundation, which works to strengthen older adults’ financial resilience.
Here’s the complete list of 2025 nominees for the Movies for Grownups Awards:
Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
Hamnet
A House of Dynamite
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Best Actress
Laura Dern, Is This Thing On?
Jodie Foster, A Private Life
Lucy Liu, Rosemead
Julia Roberts, After the Hunt
June Squibb, Eleanor the Great
Best Actor
George Clooney, Jay Kelly
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Dwayne Johnson, The Smashing Machine
Best Supporting Actress
Regina Hall, One Battle After Another
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Helen Mirren, Goodbye June
Gwyneth Paltrow, Marty Supreme
Sigourney Weaver, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Michael Shannon, Nuremberg
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Kathryn Bigelow, A House of Dynamite
Scott Cooper, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Spike Lee, Highest 2 Lowest
Best Screenwriter
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly
Bradley Cooper, Will Arnett, and Mark Chappell, Is This Thing On?
Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
James Vanderbilt, Nuremberg
Best Ensemble
A House of Dynamite
Jay Kelly
Nuremberg
One Battle After Another
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Intergenerational Film
Eleanor the Great
The Lost Bus
Rental Family
Rosemead
Sentimental Value
Best Period Film
Dead Man’s Wire
Marty Supreme
Nuremberg
Sinners
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Best Documentary
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover Up
My Mom Jayne
Riefenstahl
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
Best Foreign-Language Film
It Was Just an Accident
No Other Choi
Nouvelle Vague
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Best TV Series or Limited Series
Adolescence
Hacks
The Pitt
The Studio
The White Lotus
Best Actor (TV)
Walton Goggins, The White Lotus
Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Noah Wyle, The Pitt
Best Actress (TV)
Kathy Bates, Matlock
Kathryn Hahn, The Studio
Catherine O’Hara, The Studio
Parker Posey, The White Lotus
Jean Smart, Hacks
