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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Saturday Night Live” is celebrating its big 50th anniversary milestone in a way that only the long-running sketch show can: with a very star-studded special. “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” is set to air this Sunday with favorite “SNL” alums like Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Kate McKinnon, among many

By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — A Jane Doe who alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z sexually assaulted her 25 years ago has withdrawn her lawsuit against them. In a notice of voluntary dismissal filed Friday, attorneys for the woman dropped the lawsuit with prejudice, preventing it from being re-filed in the future. “Counsel of

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Scott Foley is well aware that people are buying homes in Italy to renovate them, and he’d liked to help. “Scott really is out here trying to get anybody to get a home so he can renovate it,” Maia Reficco, who shares the screen with Foley in the

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Sabrina Carpenter is riding off into the sunset with a true musical legend. The “Espresso” singer surprise-dropped a new version of her hit song “Please Please Please” on Thursday night, featuring the one and only Dolly Parton, who compliments Carpenter’s vocals on the track with a beautiful falsetto. In

By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Less a ‘whodunnit’ than a ‘whowasitdunnto,’ “The White Lotus” features the discovery at each season’s opening of a dead body (or bodies) at an eponymous upscale resort, followed by a reset to one week prior, which slowly fills in the pieces of what happened, how it happened, and most

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The awards campaign for an Oscar frontrunner hasn’t quite gone the way Netflix executives had hoped. With 13 nominations and a history-making star, “Emilia Pérez” leads among Oscar-nominated films this year. Then Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the movie’s titular character, found herself in a firestorm after her

By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — An unemployed Oregonian, a divorced mother of three, a freshman college student, the governor of South Dakota and an 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans all wanted the same thing: to host “Saturday Night Live.” On November 19, 1977, the five finalists of the show’s first — and, ultimately, only

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Insecure” star Issa Rae has canceled a previously scheduled event set to be held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following news that President Donald Trump was elected the center’s new chairman. In a statement posted to her Instagram Story Thursday, Rae thanked her followers for “selling

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Wedding bells are ringing for “Cobra Kai” costars Mary Mouser and Tanner Buchanan, and the timing couldn’t be better. The couple announced that they are engaged in an Instagram post shared to both of their pages on Thursday, the same day that Netflix dropped the final episodes of the

By Lisa France, CNN (CNN) — Lily Allen is sharing details surrounding a recent visit to a treatment center. The singer discussed the visit on the latest episode of her BBC podcast “Miss Me?” with her cohost Miquita Oliver. Oliver began the episode by expressing excitement that Allen was back, with Allen responding in part,

By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Applause is in order for Lady Gaga, for her performance on “Hot Ones.” The “Abracadabra” singer appeared on Thursday’s episode of the hot wing interview show, and she took on the so-called “wings of death” like a true rock star, only showing weakness with a mere giggle. Perhaps what