"Look me in the eyes ... Do you remember me? Do you remember me?" Heidi Thomas, on the one question she has for Bill Cosby, 30 years later.
Three decades after what? By this point, we're guessing you can fill in the blanks without us even saying it, but Thomas says Cosby sexually assaulted her.
Heidi Thomas' allegation, revealed to CNN, is a secret she's carried since 1984, but is eerly similar to other tales of Cosby drugging and raping women.
Cosby's attorney has called the spate of sexual assault accusations against him "ridiculous," but a growing number of women clearly feel otherwise.
Helen Gumpel. Chloe Goins. Janice Dickinson. Beverly Johnson. Carla Ferrigno, Michelle Hurd, Tamara Green, Therese Serignese and Linda Traitz.
And on and on and on it has gone.
Thomas' account dates back to 1984. Then an aspiring actress known as Heidi Johnson, her agent suggested she try modeling in addition to acting.
One day, a phone call came in to her agency regarding a "very important person in the industry" who was "looking for young talent that he can mentor."
She says her agent told her that she needed to fly out to Reno, Nevada, because Bill Cosby wanted to work with her, to coach her and help her act.
Cosby was performing at Harrah's Hotel and Casino, the agency said, and he would probably be doing the coaching in his hotel suite at the resort.
Bill Cosby asks a reporter NOT to include a portion of this interview in which he refuses to answer questions about sexual assault allegations made against him. It's a very awkward exchange.
Two more women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Carla Ferrigno and Terese Serignese both came forward independent of one another earlier today.
Another woman has come forward accusing Bill Cosby of sexual abuse. Michelle Hurd claims Cosby behaved very inappropriately toward her while she was working as a stand-in on The Cosby Show.
Janice Dickinson described an alleged sexual assault by Bill Cosby in vivid detail during a recent interview with CNN. Dickinson claims the attack occurred after a business meeting in1982.
Bill Cosby allegedly said in a brief interview that he only expects the "black media" to uphold journalistic standards in covering his sexual assault scandal.
Rosseanne Barr says she and just about every other woman in Hollywood knew about Bill Cosby and his alleged molestations for years. She isn't surprised at all, but what is surprising is what she hopes for Bill Cosby next.
Kathie Lee Gifford made a startling revelation on the Today show this morning. The TV personality stated that Bill Cosby acted inappropriately troward her while they were on tour together in the 1970s.
When she was picked up at the airport in Reno, she quickly questioned the driver because she saw the city lights behind her as they drove away.
A postcard from the airport showed Harrah's as being in the middle of town. The driver said Cosby was actually staying at a house outside Reno.
Thomas says Cosby met her at the door of the sprawling house, and began coaching her, asking her to do a cold read of a person who was intoxicated.
Cosby wasn't impressed. Thomas didn't drink much. "How are you ever going play an intoxicated person ... if you've never been drunk?" she says he told her.
She says Cosby wanted her to relax, and he gave her a glass of Chablis. Thomas admits that her memory of the next few hours is a little bit "foggy."
Thomas says when she woke up, Cosby was next to her in bed, naked and "forcing himself in my mouth." She says she felt like she wanted to throw up.
Soon after, Cosby was on top of her again and referring to himself in the third person, creepily saying, "I'm your friend ... your friend is gonna (ejaculate) again."
Sick.
Rather than get angry, Thomas says, she made excuses, asking herself, "What's happened? Why am I here? Why is he naked? What did I say? What did I do?"
American Idol has been on the air for over a month now, but let's face it:
The competition truly kicked off last night.
The Fox competition has whittled its hopefuls down to two dozen, 12 men and 12 women, with the former group taking to the stage Wednesday and singing for their reality show lives.
One-third of the 12 men will be voted off next week, placing extreme pressure on each contestant for his first live audition.
With so many performances packed into a single hour (and thank goodness, too, we wanted to watch Empire Season 1 Episode 8!), we're gonna speed through our assessment the same way Ryan Seacrest sped through this fast-paced installment...'
Adam Ezegelian sounded like he was doing karaoke with his version of "I Wanna Rock."
Michael Simeon ratcheted the cheese factor way high with his take on Michael Bolton's "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?"
We loved Savion Wright's jazzy version of "Hey, Soul Sister."
Mark Andrew sang The Band's "The Weight" just fine. In rather forgettable fashion, however.
Trevor Douglas was NOT the best we ever had. He had major pitch problems.
Clark Beckham cannot be accused of lacking a soul after belting out "When a Man Loves a Woman."
Rayvon Owen showed the perfect amount of attitude in making like Nick Jonas on "Jealous."
Daniel Seavey is only 15, so perhaps he can be forgiven for his inconsistency on Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours."
More pitch problems for Riley Bria on Eric Church’s “Homeboy."
Quentin Alexander totally put a spell on us! Can we just vote him through now?
Qaasim Middleton certainly kept us entertained with "Uptown Funk."
But Nick Fradiani takes the initial live auditions cake with his mature, emotional rendition of "Thinking Out Loud."
Who was YOUR favorite male performer from Wednesday night? Who do you think should get voted out?
She was first arrested for DUI in 2012 but avoided jail by completing treatment. Bynes was hospitalized for months after setting a driveway on fire in 2013.
In early 2014, she was placed on three years' probation.
Her second DUI in late 2014 could have put that in serious jeopardy and had Amanda facing jail time, but the case was tossed for unknown reasons.
Even more importantly, and positively?
Bynes and her parents, Lynn and Rick, are getting along these days. Just a few months ago, if you recall, Amanda threatened to kill her dad on Twitter.
"Amanda is doing much better from where she was months ago," says a family source, who says that the aspiring fashionista "has her own apartment."
Amanda Bynes was a delightful child star with a bright career whose hard-partying ways and obvious mental issues have made for many sad headlines in recent years.
Lindsay Lohan had a bright, bright future when she hit the scene. And then her star went completely out and now she can't even keep a reality show afloat.
Teen singing rival to Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera was also a Mouseketeer. She managed to keep her nose clean while growing up and landed a job on The Voice.
Daniel Radcliffe was only part of the way through filming the Harry Potter franchise when he decided to shed his child-star image by performing in the nude in Equus. Yep. That'll do it.
Rupert Grint might be Ron Weasley, but as an adult Rupert Grint is just sort of hot. While he's not making too many films right now, we certainly have hopes that will change.
The reality star has been very open about her difficulty in giving North West a sibling, as she and Kanye West continue to have unprotected sex in the hopes it will happen soon.
Kim has also said she's open to fertility treatments if need be and, hey, if you wanna know more... just watch Keeping Up with the Kardashians online when it returns with Season 10 next month!
In an interview with Ross King for iTV's Lorraine yesterday, Kardashian said new episodes of her family's reality show will "follow my journey of trying to get pregnant for the second time, which has proven to not be as easy as the first time, but we're working on it."
You know, if we were cynical, we'd wonder whether Kim and Kanye are actually having trouble procreating or if this is just a Season 10 storyline producers hope will juice ratings.
Only if we were cynical would we wonder that, of course.
The 34-year-old also gushed in the Q&A about her husband as a father, saying West is “very hands-on” with his daughter and just “loves her [Nori] so much!"
Does he change nappies, the host asked? Or diapers, in American speak?
"On occasion," Kim laughed as she replied.
Last year, Kim told Elle UK that she wants "a boy and another girl," adding that she’ll try “IVF if nothing happens,” though both she and Kanye “want to keep trying naturally.”
And, hey, if E! cameras want to follow the stars around as they do so... who is Kim to stop them?!?
Keeping Up With the Kardashians Season 10 premieres March 15 at 9/8c. Will you be tuning in for it?
Jessa Duggar is never one to sky away from controversy. She proved this again with a Facebook post about judgment, sin, God and hell this week.
The 22-year-old 19 Kids and Counting star, an evangelical Baptist who married Ben Seewald last fall, is outspoken and steadfast in her religious beliefs.
In Jessa Duggar's most recent social media missive, she said:
“I will speak to you a hard truth. I do not write this because I think that it will bring me popularity. It won't. But it is Truth from the Word of God: the Bible."
"To not tell people this is to hide the truth from them. To keep silent is to not care for their eternal destiny! I care about you, and this is why I am speaking out!”
She then quoted Matthew 7:1, which says “Judge not.”
“Whenever someone speaks out against something that God calls sin, ‘Don't judge!’ can be heard coming from a thousand lips,” Mrs. Seewald began.
“People don't like to have other people disapprove of the way they're choosing to live their life."
"People are content to live on in lying, cursing, pride, anger, bitterness, disrespecting of parents, lust, pornography, fornication, adultery, and other sexual sins."
"And if anyone tries to confront them, their attitude and response is, ‘You live your life, I'll live mine. Don't you tell me what to do! Only God can judge me!’"
"But when unbelieving, sinful men die and stand before God, He justly condemns them to hell.”
She went on to blast the common argument made by people who profess that they believe in “a loving God, not one who would send people to hell.”
To Jessa Duggar, this is contradictory to the Bible and patently false.
“The person speaking this is right - their god is not angry with them. He can't be, because he doesn't exist. They are not talking about the God of the Bible."
"They have created a god in their own mind to suit themselves."
"They have removed any notion of the Justice of God, and have created a god of their imagination that they can be comfortable with."
"The Bible teaches that God is a Just Judge, and He must punish sin. Every one of us have broken God's law, and hell is our deserved punishment."
"(Unless you're reading some very distorted ‘translation’ of the Bible, you cannot get around the fact that there is a hell).”
She concluded her sure-to-be controversial post by listing a series of Bible verses, and urged her followers to read most passages from the holy text.
“If you find yourself a sinner in need of Jesus, then open your Bible today and begin to read the books of John and Romans. Let the Word of God root out the sins of your heart."
"Do not let up until you have found Salvation for your soul!”
The Duggar parents often accompany their kids on dates in order to maintain "accountability" and "keep things from going in the wrong direction," per Jim Bob. The girls are fine with this, as being alone with men puts them in grave "moral danger." When the parents aren't available, their older siblings will often tag along, making every date a group date and a family affair.
Even in the kids' late teens and early 20s, mom and dad are creeping on their text messages. When Ben Seewald jokingly wrote to fiancee Jessa, "Give me a ring," Jim Bob actually jumped in on the group text, writing "No ring yet." With a smiley face emoticon. Seriously, he did that. Jim Bob needs his own Instagram so he can start posting screen shots of this stuff.
This moment you see here between Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard would not have been permitted until the couple was married. Side hugs are the preferred method of PDA in order to prevent any further temptation or hanky panky, as has been well documented on 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars love their side hugs so hard. Any touching beyond that? Save it for your wedding night.
This is probably an obvious one if you know anything about the Duggars. The family does not smoke or drink. They do, however, enjoy the occasional sugary dessert or getting high on life and love.
Safe to say the Duggars are in the minority, having not read Fifty Shades of Grey (the movie adaptation of which they won't be seeing either, we're guessing). The Bible warns not to "think about gratifying the pleasure of the flesh," so instead the family studies Christian text and not E.L. James' erotic fiction. The Duggars' option is probably better-written.
Avert your eyes, Michelle Duggar! The family matriarch feels that dancing encourages "sensual" feelings, while Jessa Duggar has said that she feels modern music promotes "sex, drugs, all that type of stuff." Instead, the family chooses to play gospel music together.
Yes, seriously. There is Duggar-approved swimwear (it's conservative and not very revealing, spoiler alert) but when it comes to the beach, that's not happening. At all. Blame the general public. "It's just too hard for the guys to try and keep their eyes averted," Michelle explains. If we happened upon Kaley Cuoco doing beach yoga, we might see her point. But we also wouldn't complain.
Even if you took out the boozy parties and sexy nurses and cats looking to get frisky, Halloween would still be a no-go for the Duggars. According to the parents, magic and witches are "part of a demonic realm God wants us to stay away from," and this holiday qualifies. To each their own.
We don't actually know if there's a definitive rule against the use of birth control in the Duggar household, but it's clearly not something the family is thinking about, or using, ever. Just saying. Once those vows are exchanged, fornication and procreation tend to happen early and often, ensuring that the great state of Arkansas will never have a population shortage of really nice, quirky, family-first, side-hug loving human beings.
Jessa, who has previously likened abortion to the Holocuast and attacked evolution, is never one to pull punches when it comes to things that matter to her.
What do you think of her latest comments? Discuss ...
Heidi Montag opens up about former best friend Lauren Conrad on the current season of Marriage Boot Camp, saying The Hills star tried to ruin her life.
It’s been almost eight years since Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag’s relationship dissolved on reality TV, from which Lauren has successfully retired.
Heidi and her husband Spencer Pratt, who famously feuded with LC during his time on the MTV smash hit? Still going strong ... or at least still going.
If you watch Marriage Boot Camp online, the strongest thing may be one's urge to vomit, but it's like that car wreck on the road you can't help but look at.
Though the details remained vague on The Hills, it was strongly implied that there was a Lauren Conrad sex tape with Jason Wahler out there somewhere.
Strongly implied by Heidi and Spencer, that is.
Lauren adamantly denied there was such a sex video with her ex-boyfriend and angrily accused the gruesome twosome of planting that story in the media.
This was basically their M.O. at the time.
When Conrad confronted Montag in an epic screaming match outside an L.A. club, an epic celebrity feud was officially born ... and Heidi says it ruined her.
Fast forward a hilarious six years to the WE tv series Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, and Heidi is going through some intense therapy sessions!
The goal? For the cast members to let go of all the anger built up towards others, which is holding them back from being better people and partners.
Or something. Mostly just to generate viral videos that we can't help but post about on celebrity gossip sites. That's our guess as to the true motivation.
Delusional in thinking that Lauren was the manipulator and liar, despite the fact that it's Heidi is married to Spencer Pratt, she sought to "forgive" her rival.
Though Conrad obviously didn’t appear on the show, a tearful Montag improvised with an unknown brunette, whom she directly addressed as “Lauren.”
“I was the best friend you’ve ever had,” she said crying.
“Lauren, I forgive you for being so insecure and frustrated for everything that you went through that you felt like you had to blame it on me because that was easier."
"I forgive you for trying to ruin my life.”
Heidi Montag concluded, “I forgive you for everything. I don’t want to have this with you anymore. I do love you despite everything you’ve done for me. I do.”
Lauren Conrad, who married William Tell last year, is reportedly too busy having an actual life and career to be reached for comment about this nonsense.
No one became more recognizable and successful because of Laguna Beach than Lauren Conrad, or "LC." She went on to star in a wildly successful spinoff, The Hills, and almost more impressively, launched impressive careers in the beauty, fashion and even literary fields, with best-selling clothing lines and young adult novels. After coming of age in the public eye and a series of high-profile relationships, Conrad kept her private life private for the past several years. Just before the 10-year anniversary of Laguna Beach, she tied the knot with her fiance William Tell.
Kristin Cavallari, Lauren's one-time rival on Laguna Beach, later took over on The Hills as its chief antagonist after LC vacated her lead role. Both girls were head over heels for Stephen Colletti and pretended to date Brody Jenner, making for some unusual career symmetry. But the similarities end there. Kristin did some acting and modeling, as well as competing on Dancing With the Stars and landing a gig as a contributor to E!'s The Fabulist. Perhaps most surprisingly, she's a mom! Of two sons! She is married to Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler and lives there with the NFL star and their adorable kids, Camden and Jaxon Cutler.
Stephen Colletti, who held the hearts of Lauren and Kristin captive, went on to star in multiple TV projects, playing Chase Adams on One Tree Hill for four years and hosting MTV’s now defunct Total Request Live. More recently, Colletti had been promoting his short film Celluloid Dreams, a sci-fi/drama film premiered at the Dances With Films Festival in June.
Talan Torriero, once the life of the party and a major player on the B-list celebrity scene in L.A.s, seems to have left those days far behind. Living under the radar and happy about it, he's got a "real" career, as Creative Director at TMG Digital, and just got married to his beautiful fiance Danielle Torriero. He still has his good looks. And a nice dog.
Christina Schuller, now Christina Sinclair, married Chad Sinclair in 2011 and gave birth to their first child, a boy, in 2014. A certified fitness instructor, she has her own website and business, Beach Babe Fitness, which provides recipes diet tips, motivation and exercises. A graduate of USC, she still lives and works in Laguna Beach with her family.
The bad boy of the cast, Jason Wahler, lived up to his billing after the show ended. Dude has been to hell and back. Myriad arrests, trips to rehab and scandalous headlines followed him from Laguna Beach to The Hills and to celebrity gossip infamy. After struggling with alcoholism and attempting suicide, he has turned his life around in recent years through rehab and sobriety, and has been very open about his struggles and recovery. In 2013, LC's ex tied the knot, marrying Ashley Slack.
Lauren Bosworth, a.k.a. "Lo" (for Lauren O. Bosworth), was best known as Lauren Conrad's good friend, which she still is. But she has plenty going on in her own right. In 2010, she launched The Lo Down by Lo Bosworth and wrote a book by the same name. In 2013, she co-founded Revelry House, a brand that is designed to serve the modern hostess. In late 2013, Bosworth started her own beauty channel on YouTube, which has grown rapidly. She has been attending The International Culinary Center in New York City to study Farm to Table culinary, as well.
Heidi Montag. This one needs no introduction. While she wasn't a bona fide reality star until The Hills, she was briefly seen on Laguna Beach as "Lauren's friend." Oh, how things changed. She became involved with Spencer Pratt, forming half of the dastardly duo known as Speidi and becoming a celebrity news go-to couple for a year or two. They went on other reality shows, Heidi got 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, and she even tried her hand at music before they faked a divorce and generally ran out of ideas and money. Amazingly, they are still together though.
Jen Bunney auditioned for Laguna Beach but was not cast among its principal stars, though she was friends with many and became a part of the show on its periphery. She later appeared on The Hills after her friend Lauren Conrad made a friend, Heidi Montag (pictured with Jen), who is still Bunney's bestie. It's a small world. She married Taylor Dunphy in 2014 and yes, Speidi was present.
Alex Murrel, in addition to being a reality star, was once a budding singer with modest talent who even had a minor hit in "Let It Come True," though her musical career never quite panned out. She went on to study at Orange County's Chapman University.
Taylor Cole went on to graduate from The University of Arizona with a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. She is currently a marketing coordinator for Incipio Technologies in Orange County.
Jessica (JESS-cah!) Smith and her pining and whining over Jason Whaler (and later Cameron Brinkman in the seldom-watched Season 3, was the unsung star of Season 2. She, like Jason, got arrested in 2009, for DUI. She married Michael Evans (pictured) and welcomed a child with him shortly thereafter. She's been off the celebrity radar for years, and being named Jessica Smith, she is harder to stalk online than most of her co-stars.
Morgan Olson (now Morgan Smith) graduated from Brigham Young University and now works in Los Angeles as a digital marketing manager for Bugaboo. She is now married to Joel Smith. The couple welcomed their first child, Theo Sundstrom, on June 2 of this year, and when she’s not busy being a new mom, Smith runs her lifestyle blog Smith, Her.
Trey Phillips, seen here with fellow Laguna co-star Dieter Schmitz, has remained out of the spotlight post reality-TV fame, graduating from Parsons School of Design in New York with degrees in fashion design and renewable energy in 2010. According to Phillips' LinkedIn profile, he currently lives in New York City and works as an associate designer at Vera Wang.
Though she wasn't an original cast member of Laguna Beach, the arrival of Casey Reinhardt to the reality series was a memorable one. Casey has since launched a successful career in the world of cupcakes by opening Casey's Cupcakes in Orange County. She even won Food Network's Cupcake Wars in 2011. Her brother Doug Reinhardt dated Paris Hilton, Amanda Bynes and - you guessed it - Lauren Conrad.
We'd love to know what the little guy is trying to say: take me outside! Feed me! Hold me closer! Throw me a tennis ball! Take me to a ball pit now!!!!
Pretty incredible, huh?
Check out the video and then click around the adorable photo gallery below:
Keeping Up with the Kardashians has been renewed for four more seasons by E! and the estimates of what the family will earn from the show are staggering.
Accounts vary, but regardless, it's pretty obvious that Keeping up with the Kardashians for the next four years isn't going to be cheap for the bigwigs at E!
The New York Post claims that Kris Jenner signed a $100 million deal with the network for four more seasons of the family's flagship reality program.
The details of the alleged deal, which People claims are accurate, and would make the stars among the highest paid in the history of reality television.
"The story that ran this morning is grossly inaccurate," E! spokeswoman Christel Wheeler said in a statement, though insiders insist it's pretty accurate.
"E! is now freaking because others are calling trying to get a better deal - like Giuliana [Rancic]," an insider says of the reasons they would nix the story.
Giuliana should be glad she's not getting fired at this point. Just saying.
Regardless, Kris, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner are all set to appear in the new seasons.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner are quickly morphing into Kim Kardashian, and as recent photos of them show, that means a wild side and growing up very, very fast. Some would say much too fast based on pics like this ...
A number of possible spinoffs, and even a YouTube channel, are also included in the deal, although there is one notable family member who isn't.
Bruce Jenner, who plans on launching his own show chronicling Bruce's transition to become a woman on the network, was not part of this negotiation.
In fact, this season is reportedly an unofficial farewell to the patriarch.
Scott Disick, meanwhile, has his own deal (the terms of which were not disclosed) and Rob Kardashian will be paid per episode ... if he even appears.
TMZ, for its part, claims the $100 figure is inaccurate ... and it's only three years, $80 million plus ratings bonuses and an option for a fourth season.
In any case, a new season of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians premieres Sunday, March 15. For a sneak peek, all you have to do is look at the script.
A night after the Top 12 men performed on American Idol, to very mixed results, the Top 12 women aimed to prove on Thursday that that Season 14 will be all about girl power.
Lovey James struggled with OneRepublic's "Love Runs Out," putting a spin on this current track that was far too low.
The chorus was a problem for Adanna Duru on Clean Bandit and Jesse Glynne’s “Rather Be."
We've heard plenty of hopefuls over the years sing Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder and Lead." Nothing about Alexis Gomez doing it really stood out.
Give Joey Cook points for singing a Keith Urban track ("Somebody Like You") in front of Keith Urban!
Katherine Winston has a nice voice. But she looked utterly terrified while covering Taylor Swift's "Safe and Sound."
Shannon Berthiaume went with Pink's "Who Knew" and... sorry. We nearly fell asleep just thinking about pretty lazy rendition.
Loren Lott penned a "Note to God" and no one can question she at least sings with passion.
Sorry, Shi Scott. You seem nice and all. But that was a catastrophic take on Rihanna's 2007 hit "Umbrella."
Conversely, strong work by Maddie Walker on Shania Twain’s “Love Gets Me Everytime," which didn't require much range.
Sarina Joi-Crowe showed off crazy talent (and a high kick!) on Jessie J’s “Mamma Knows Best."
Jax showed serious power by covering Cher’s “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)".
And Tyanna Jones went with Meghan Trainor’s “Lips Are Moving,” reminding us somehow of a lovechild between Teletubbies sun and Patti LaBelle. We mean that as a major compliment.
Who was YOUR favorite woman from the night? Which four do you think will/should be sent home when American Idol cuts the field from 24 to 16 next Wednesday?
ABC aired a double dose of How to Get Away with Murder last night, wrapping up one of the most successful first seasons of a drama in TV history with one jaw-dropped after another.
We learned toward the end of the finale that Frank actually strangled Lila and then disposed of her corpse in the water tank.
HOWEVER, he did this dastardly deed on behalf of Sam because Frank owed Sam some kind of mysterious favor.
This twist was merely the first game-changer, though, as it turns out Rebecca had not been telling the whole truth. Stunning, right?!?
She did actually send the text message to Lila from Griffin's phone... and she did actually end up in the water tank with Lila's dead body. Moreover, she drugged Rudy with something called "Purple X" and it caused him to horrifyingly crawl at the walls.
The students discovered these actions and proceeded to tie up Rebecca via duct tape while interrogating her. Instead of providing answers, though, she played coy and then tried blackmailing them while sending strange texts such as “Eggs 911.”
But she only succeeded in getting herself tied up in Annalise's basement… until she disappeared.
That is, until the closing moments when Annalise joined Frank in the basement and asked: "Did you do it?"
She was asking whether Frank killed Lila, right? Nope, she was asking whether Frank killed Rebecca because HE WAS STANDING OVER HER DEAD BODY!!!!!!
While you process that stunner, let's rundown some quick hitters from the finale:
Bonnie and Asher grew a lot closer.
Michaela learned that that Laurel had been hiding her ring the whole time.
Connor tested negative for any STDs, but Oliver revealed that he tested positive for HIV.
As you go back and watch How to Get Away with Murder online (because how could you not?!?), these are the questions we'll be pondering until Viola Davis is back in our lives this fall:
Remember that girl in Buffy's dream? Summing up these villains? "Can't even shout. Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors... They need to take seven and they might take yours... Can't call to mom. Can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard."
Is the embattled Giuliana Rancic changing her story and throwing her own E! show's writers under the bus for her controversial joke about Zendaya?
Four days after the Fashion Police co-host said the Disney star’s dreadlocks smelled like “patchouli” and “maybe weed,” she is still feeling the heat.
Reports that Giuliana Rancic could be fired turned out to be premature, but she's been scrambling to ensure that her career doesn't go up in smoke.
Rancic apologized to Zendaya on camera, and now Access Hollywood has released a statement in which she claims wasn’t the creator of the comments.
“Giuliana Rancic’s comments about Zendaya’s dreadlocks may have seemed off the cuff, but Access Hollywood has learned otherwise,” the statement says.
The comments, according to Billy Bush via Giuliana, were "penned by a Fashion Police show writer, and not something Giuliana came up with on her own.”
“Billy also asked about reports of Kelly Osbourne trying to stop her and telling her Fashion Police colleagues they can’t make comments like that about Zendaya."
"According to Giuliana," the statement says, "none of this is true."
"What she said actually happened is that Kathy Griffin spoke up and asked ‘Who is Zendaya?’ to which Kelly responded, wait a minute, let’s not act like we don’t know her."
"She’s been a guest host on the show a couple of times.”
Rancic evidently claims that her schedule, the timing of the Oscars and the show taping required other professionals to give her jokes to deliver on air.
“Fashion Police is a comedy show, and because there was such a fast turn-around time, they had to have a few things planted, according to Giuliana."
“A writer wrote the [Zendaya] line that got Giuliana in trouble."
"Nobody saw it as racist. The original joke was patchouli."
"There was a follow-up joke that never made it to air. It said ‘I heard she’s going on tour with the Grateful Dead,’ alluding that the joke was referring to hippie culture.”
Whatever its intent was, the joke did not go over well.
“There is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful,” Zendaya said initially. “Someone said something about my hair at the Oscars that left me in awe."
"Not because I was relishing in rave outfit reviews, but because I was hit with ignorant slurs and pure disrespect,” the actress went on, clearly unamused.
“To say that an 18-year-old woman with locs must smell of patchouli oil or ‘weed’ is not only a large stereotype but outrageously offensive,” she continued.
The soft side of Kanye West has fully been on display this week.
First, the rapper actually broke down in tears while talking about a late professor and mentor, Louise Wilson, a former teacher at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design.
Then, he went ahead and apologized to Beck and Bruno Mars on Twitter for past slights made against those artists.
Now, Kanye has gone ahead and gotten a pair of new tattoos, each honoring a beloved family member.
Via Facebook, wife Kim Kardashian writes (in jest?) that West wanted to get this ink on his face, but she convinced him to get it on his wrists instead.
The tattoos are of West's mother's birthdate and West's daughter's birthdate, both in Roman numerals.
Donda West died in 2007 after complications from surgery, with Kanye having recently released the track “Only One,” which was penned from the perspective of his mom talking to him about North West from heaven.
Meanwhile, he and Kim are trying ("As many times a day as [we] can," the artist said in a BBC 1 interview this week) for a second child.
What do you think of Kanye's new tattoos? How do they compare to some other famous tattoos on some other famous body parts?
Jenelle Evans and Nathan Griffith are still together and apparently happy, despite her recent arrest and their blowout fight over his hollering at Stevie Ryan.
Just a week after her fiance slammed her in texts with actress Ryan, and days after Jenelle Evans got arrested for the 11th time, all seems to be well.
At least as of this report. Things change quickly in their household.
“My biggest supporter, my best friend, my lover, my everything,” the Teen Mom 2 star, 23, said in posting a throwback photo of the duo one year ago.
"Though thick and thin," Jenelle writes to Nathan Griffith, 26, "U were and will always be there for me. I love you so much words can’t even describe.”
She ended her post with an interesting, philosophical suggestion.
“If one day we could just switch bodies, only then U will then understand,” Evans continued, most likely implying that she is a hard woman to know.
Certainly she and Nathan have problems knowing how to resolve conflict, although we give them credit for riding this and other crises out thus far.
Still, you have to wonder about some of their bizarre behavior.
Nathan Griffith's direct message to Stevie Ryan reveals that he's unsure about his future with Jenelle Evans. Based on the way he describes her behavior, we can't blame him!
Earlier this month, Nathan Griffith trashed her and flirted with the aforementioned Stevie TV actress, even going so far as to tell her he would leave Jenelle.
“The other night I was trying to walk away and Jenelle started putting holes in the wall,” he said in the leaked messages. “Kick the bathroom door in."
"Because I told her it was over. I was about to call the cops ... And she said if I did she would tell them I hit her ... That’s why I said I’m leaving today.”
Didn't happen. He apologized, and Jenelle has clearly accepted it, believing he just lashes out when he's upset and not viewing this as a huge deal.
Stevie Ryan, for her part, says Nathan is a total loser.
He and Jenelle have patched things up for now, in any event, and it's a good thing too, with Evans arrested for driving on a suspended license and jailed.
She was released after paying $237.50, but there's also the matter of her custody battle with Barbara Evans, who is still the guardian of her son Jace.
How will the arrest impact her efforts to win back control of her first-born child (whose father is the MIA Andrew Lewis)? It's unclear, but it can't help.
A Tumblr user shared the following photo of what appears to be a regular dress, only he said it's causing him and his friends to "freak the f-ck out" because they cannot agree on whether it's white and gold... or blue and black.
Millions proceeded to stay up half the night, debating the same question on social media - and a few very famous names were not immune to this back and forth.
“IT’S A BLUE AND BLACK DRESS! ARE YOU F*CKING KIDDING ME,” Mindy Kaling Tweeted, later referring to B.J. Novak as “insane” for thinking otherwise and then reacting in horror when Nathan Fillion also went white and gold.
“I can’t live in a world where Castle thinks that dress is white and gold. How many murderers has he let go," she wrote.
"I don’t understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it’s a trick somehow. I’m confused and scared. PS it’s OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK.”
Then there was Zendaya: “Yo this dress thing on here is confusing the mess outta me. So it’s deff white and gold but then I just saw it as black and blue too…..TRIIIPPPPYYYYY #imdonewiththeinternet.”
And Sarah Hyland: "Guys. I’ve stared at this dress for 5 minutes. Like an idiot. All I see is white and gold. And a satin bolero that shouldn’t be paired w/ it."
And Lucy Hale: "I saw white and gold, then i saw blue and black. now I’m confused… either way…im not gonna be wearing that dress."
And Chrissy Teigen: “F*ck the dress it’s heinous. I have read the explanations and still cannot fathom how ANYONE sees white and gold and I think they’re attention-seeking LIARS."
Yoga pants during yoga? Obviously appropriate? Leggings under a long sweater or jacket? Ditto. But they've become a near-constant substitute for regular pants for many women going about their daily lives, which has resulted in much debate.
Zara quickly yanked this children's shirt off its shelves after complaints that the stripes and six-pronged star made it look like uniforms worn by inmates in Nazi Germany.
Yup, it's Urban Outfitters again. The company stopped selling this "Eat Less" shirt in January 2014 after a lot of uproar and outrage. Way to mock eating disorders, Urban!
Twitter went nuts after Zara debuted this "White Is the New Black," T-shirt, which was meant to be a play on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. It didn't go over so well.
Target drew ire for listing the color of a dress online as "Manatee gray" in its plus-sizes. It referrs to the exact same color as "dark heather gray" in all its other sizes.
Urban Outfitters also drew anger customers for its shirt that came in an "Obama/Black" color option. Supposedly this was a typo and the option was meant to read "Obama Blue," in reference to the democrat party.
Patrons were outraged by this Urban Outfitters shirt. It had the words "depression" written all over it, making many think that it was demeaning to those who suffer from mental illness.
Also in 2012, the Navajo Nation actually sued Urban Outfitters for its use of the trademarked word "Navajo" on products such as their "hipster panty. For real.
In 2011, American Apparel drew criticism for its "Teenagers Do It Better" shirt for its suggestive slogan. Get ready for more American Apparel to come.
And James Franco: "Dress controversy… VIOLET and BLACK! Obvs.”
And Julia Louis-Dreyfus: “It’s blue & brown. Period. Next? #whatcoloristhisdress.
And Anna Kendrick: “If that’s not White and Gold the universe is falling apart. Seriously what is happening???”
And Demi Lovato: “Wow. We now live in a world where not only can anyone become famous, but ANYTHING can too. Hold on…. So people actually see white and gold….??!!”
And Josh Groban: “I find it ironic that Kim K got naked to break the Internet and it was a dress that did it.
And Nina Dobrev: "Ok, so for 2 hours I saw BLUE&BLACK. And it suddenly changed and now I only see WHITE&GOLD. WTF? I am I the only one that experienced this?"
And Justin Bieber: "And for everyone asking I see blue and black."
And Kim Kardashian: "What color is that dress? I see white & gold. Kanye sees black & blue, who is color blind?”
And Ellen DeGeneres, who summed it all up with: “From this day on, the world will be divided into two people. Blue & black, or white & gold.”
It's safe to say that Richard Pryor's widow, Jennifer Lee Pryor, is no fan of Bill Cosby. At all. In fact, she might hate him more than his three dozen accusers.
In a sitdown for Alison Rosen's podcast, Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend, Lee absolutely goes off on the 77-year-old comedian in epic fashion.
In light of the shocking sexual assault allegations against Cosby, Lee, who also served as a manager for Pryor, wasn't shy about sharing her insight.
"It was a well-kept secret that Bill f--ked everything that moved," she claimed.
However, "this kind of s--t that we're finding out about is beyond."
"I wasn't aware of this kind of business. There are people in the business who were aware of it," Pryor's widow adds, "and they're coming out now too."
"The condescension going on and the holier than thou. It got so over-the-top," she said of Bill's attitude, evident in his defiant, non-apologetic statements.
As for "people in the business" who knew, she didn't name names, but comics such as Roseanne Barr and Patton Oswald have also said as much.
Lee also was quick to defend her late husband Richard, no stranger to controversy himself, from any comparisons to the embattled, 77-year-old Cosby.
Yes, Richard Pryor was at times embroiled in personal and professional problems, but he's nothing like Cosby, who she says is just a terrible individual.
"Richard was dirty on the outside, but he was a good person, he was clean on the inside," she said, referencing Pryor's raunchy comedy and personal demons.
"Bill? F--k. He's a piece of shit," she added. "He's done."
"Clean, oh, 'clean.' He hated Richard because Richard ... he 'worked dirty.' Bill worked clean, so therefore, you know, Bill’s just a f--king hypocrite, and dirty on the inside."
Bill Cosby asks a reporter NOT to include a portion of this interview in which he refuses to answer questions about sexual assault allegations made against him. It's a very awkward exchange.
Two more women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault. Carla Ferrigno and Terese Serignese both came forward independent of one another earlier today.
Another woman has come forward accusing Bill Cosby of sexual abuse. Michelle Hurd claims Cosby behaved very inappropriately toward her while she was working as a stand-in on The Cosby Show.
Janice Dickinson described an alleged sexual assault by Bill Cosby in vivid detail during a recent interview with CNN. Dickinson claims the attack occurred after a business meeting in1982.
Bill Cosby allegedly said in a brief interview that he only expects the "black media" to uphold journalistic standards in covering his sexual assault scandal.
Rosseanne Barr says she and just about every other woman in Hollywood knew about Bill Cosby and his alleged molestations for years. She isn't surprised at all, but what is surprising is what she hopes for Bill Cosby next.
Kathie Lee Gifford made a startling revelation on the Today show this morning. The TV personality stated that Bill Cosby acted inappropriately troward her while they were on tour together in the 1970s.
She also took shots at Cosby's wife Camille, calling the couple judgmental and when asked if his wife knew what her man was up to, said, "I think she had to."
Recalling an evening where she and Pryor had the couple over for dinner, Lee said she felt particularly slighted by what she felt was their air of superiority.
“Here's the perfect couple sitting right there for us to feel so ashamed. The perfect Camille, the perfect Bill. I never felt so judged and shamed in all my life."
Camille has defended Bill, as has is Cosby Show TV wife Phylicia Rashad, decrying the accusers as waging some form of conspiracy, in recent months.
Cosby has never been charged in any case regarding the accusations against him, though they just keep surfacing, one after another after another.
Most recently, former actress-model Heidi Thomas went public with a graphic tale of allegedly being plied with alcohol and raped by Cosby in 1984.
Jennifer Lee was married to Richard Pryor from 1981-82, then married the comedic legend again in 2001 until he passed away in 2005 from a heart attack.
Now, however, with a Justin Bieber roast scheduled for March 31 on Comedy Central, the young superstar is hoping to make amends with the actor.
And he's willing to take even more vitriol as a result.
"All I want for my birthday is for you to roast me," Bieber Tweeted at Rogen last night. "I took the twitter bashing please make my bday and do it in person. Thanks.”
The singer later added via a second online message:
“@Sethrogen I would have emailed u but this is the only electronic communication with u that doesn’t scare me. Hope to see u at the roast :)”
Bieber has publicly apologized for his run of indecent behavior on multiple occasions over the past few weeks.
He's on an image rehabilitation tour these days, stopping by various talk shows and reality shows in order to come across as jovial and likable again.
So far, Rogen is yet to response to Bieber's request.
But even if he turns it down, there are plenty of Justin Bieber hates out there who may jump at the chance to slam the singer on national television. To wit:
Fans of the cultish, colorful '80s Hasbro cartoon hit Jem and the Holograms, prepare to geek out, because the first photo from the 2015 live action film is here!
Jem and the Holograms, for those unaware, centers around a girl and her friends who, with the help of a holographic computer, transform into a rock band.
The photo from the film, released this week, shows Hayley Kiyoko as blue-haired Aja, and Aubrey Peeples as pale pink-haired main star Jem, a.k.a. Jerrica.
Joining them is Stefanie Scott as Kimber, who sports hot pink hair, and all can be seen performing onstage. According to Peeples, the film won't disappoint.
"Nobody will be disappointed with the hair, makeup and the fashion," she said. "We had a lot of different performance looks, each one is truly outrageous."
"I look at pictures and I can't believe that's me. It's so weird."
Aurora Perrineau plays fourth member Shana in the film directed by Jon M. Chu of G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Justin Bieber's Believe documentary fame.
Molly Ringwald and Juliette Lewis are also on board ...
The Jem and the Holograms movie hits theaters in October, but first, in March, a new Jem and the Holograms comic book series is set to be released.
Both are set in the present day, and it shows.
The film version has been described as an "online recording sensation" and "underground video sensation," while the comic shows the group taking selfies!
There are other significant changes as well.
"Kimber and Stormer are gay and we're discussing a few others," artist Ross Campbell told The Advocate, when asked about the LGBT characters.
Stormer is the blue-haired keytarist of rival group The Misfits, and "it's only natural that a modern Jem includes additional diversity," writer Kelly Thompson added.
"Kimber and Stormer are indeed both out gay characters [and] we're going to explore a romantic relationship between the two characters."
"We have some other plans for LGBTA+ characters as well but it's still early days and we're still figuring out how some things can fit together to tell the best story."
The sexual orientations of all Jem and the Holograms characters had never been revealed before; the girls were either straight or it was not discussed.
Tom Cruise played Ron Kovic, a Marine injured during the Vietnam war who returns home and struggles to adapt to his new life, eventually becoming an anti-war activist.
Kevin Costner built a baseball field in the middle of his corn field after hearing whispers on the wind and no one thought he was crazy. (Okay, a few people thought he was crazy.)
"Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas. No, no. We're all in this together." Ahhh, family!
The retailer behind the Internet's most talked-about (and wildly debated) dress said Friday that the frock is flying off the shelves like fashion hotcakes.
That was our terrible intro, not their direct quote. You get the idea though.
... White and Gold? Or Blue and Black? Celebrities have taken sides in this intense viral debate. Flip around to find out which star is on which color-based team.
F*ck the dress it’s heinous. I have read the explanations and still cannot fathom how ANYONE sees white and gold and I think they’re attention-seeking LIARS.
If you just returned from a parallel universe and haven't been online in 24 hours, peeps are flipping the f--k out over the #TheDress and what color it is.
We know, we know. What can we say? #FirstWorldProblemsFTW.
The white and gold dress from Roman Originals was trending across all search engines and social media platforms this morning, which was classic.
People were at odds over the colors of the dress for various scientific, visual reasons, but there is no debating the fact that the debate is good for business.
Roman Originals says sales overall were up a whopping 347 percent on Friday as people scooped up not only The Dress, but other items as well.
Skeptics wondered if this was a brilliant idea concocted by Roman Originals and BuzzFeed, which helped take the optical illusion viral. Not the case.
"This is 100 percent not a marketing campaign by us," Ian Johnson told NBC News in the wake of the online sensation. "It came by complete surprise."
"Our website's currently at about a million visits to this page alone. We can guarantee that we'll make it through the day. The weekend, we'll have to see."
"We're getting also calls constantly," Johnson told NBC.
"About 150 calls in the last 45 minutes alone.
The dress currently retails at £50 (or $77), and is offered in additional colors including ivory, red, and pink. White and gold are not available ... yet.
In 2011, American Apparel drew criticism for its "Teenagers Do It Better" shirt for its suggestive slogan. Get ready for more American Apparel to come.
Yup, it's Urban Outfitters again. The company stopped selling this "Eat Less" shirt in January 2014 after a lot of uproar and outrage. Way to mock eating disorders, Urban!
Yoga pants during yoga? Obviously appropriate? Leggings under a long sweater or jacket? Ditto. But they've become a near-constant substitute for regular pants for many women going about their daily lives, which has resulted in much debate.
Zara quickly yanked this children's shirt off its shelves after complaints that the stripes and six-pronged star made it look like uniforms worn by inmates in Nazi Germany.
Twitter went nuts after Zara debuted this "White Is the New Black," T-shirt, which was meant to be a play on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. It didn't go over so well.
Target drew ire for listing the color of a dress online as "Manatee gray" in its plus-sizes. It referrs to the exact same color as "dark heather gray" in all its other sizes.
Urban Outfitters also drew anger customers for its shirt that came in an "Obama/Black" color option. Supposedly this was a typo and the option was meant to read "Obama Blue," in reference to the democrat party.
Patrons were outraged by this Urban Outfitters shirt. It had the words "depression" written all over it, making many think that it was demeaning to those who suffer from mental illness.
Also in 2012, the Navajo Nation actually sued Urban Outfitters for its use of the trademarked word "Navajo" on products such as their "hipster panty. For real.
The beloved actor, best known for his role as Dr. Spock on Star Trek (the TV show and the movie versions), passed away at his home in Bel-Air, having lost a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Last year, Nimoy went public with the diagnosis and blamed the disease on many years of smoking, even though he had given up the habit over three decades ago.
"Today, the world lost a great man, and I lost a great friend. We return you now to the stars, Leonard. You taught us to 'Live Long And Prosper,' and you indeed did, friend. I shall miss you in so many, many ways."
"Thoughts &prayers with @williamshatner today," the country rocker wrote on Instagram. "Sorry for your loss buddy. What a friendship you & Leonard had."
ESPN's Stuart Scott (1965-2015) will forever be missed. The beloved anchor and personality passed away after a long battle with cancer in January at the age of 49.
Amidst all the feuds and Twiter tirades, you may have forgotten that Iggy Azalea actually makes music.
The Aussie rapper debuted the music video for her newest single "Trouble" today, and it features Jennifer Hudson in a prison yard-collaboration that might bring to mind Lady Gaga and Beyonce's "Telephone" clip:
Apparently, the track is the first single from Reclassified, which is not a new album, but a "reissuing" of Iggy's New Classic album. Yeah, we're not quite sure what that means, either.
Anyway, the video features J-Hud and Iggy as a devoted girlfriend who breaks her man out of the big house.
The car chase that follows is enough to rival yesterday's llama drama.
Despite their adversarial relationship, however, Jennifer's cop and Iggy's robber still find time for a dance break before I-G-G-Y gets the cuffs slapped on her.
The video might not catch on in quite the same way as Iggy's Clueless tribute for "Fancy" (That clip has racked up an astonishing 480 million views), but the song itself is every bit as catchy.
And who knows? The combined talent and star power of Iggy and Jennifer might result in another juggernaut single to rival the success of Iggy's breakthrough hit.
Or, it may turn out that the Igg-Ig's haters were right about her flash-in-the-pan status. Stay tuned to find out!
She used to stage dive at shows, but stopped because audience members were "always trying to finger" her. She adds that more women were guilty of it than men.
