The List for Friday, November 28th 2025

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It’s Black Friday and Chris Young Says ‘Black Friday’ Doesn’t Seem As Fun As It Used To Be … “This is kind of a weird thing ’cause I feel like Black Friday doesn’t really exist anymore. 8 of the 14 major retailers that are all opening on Thursday, and it’s like, man, it just kind of kills it for me a little bit. Cause that’s somethin’ that in the past I have done. Me and my family would totally get up and go early, even when we weren’t lookin’ for anything. Just like the whole madness and the rush of everybody shopping and I thought was really, really cool, and I don’t think you get that anymore. I don’t think it’s the same.”

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Brett Young Loves The Sights And Smells Of Christmas … “The first thing always is that the day after Thanksgiving all the Christmas decorations including the tree go up at my parents’ house and in my apartment.  There’s a movie, A Christmas Story, and that’s been my family’s thing that you know TBS does the marathon every year and we watch it until they stop playing it. And then a new one snuck in in the last couple of years that I’m obsessed with that I watch year round pretty much, and that’s Elf. So both of those movies also are like I don’t need to wait for December for that. And then anything kind of like ‘nutmegy’ I’m not a big baker but like every once in a while I’ll be, ‘All right I’ve got to make some sort of holiday dessert to make the house smell like that.’  And so I usually get myself into trouble with something like that too.”

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Will Smith is reportedly gearing up for a massive Hollywood comeback and has signed a major deal with Paramount. The National Enquirer says he wants action comedies, thrillers, big sci-fi spectacles — basically all the stuff that turned him into The Fresh Prince of the Box Office. A source says he’s cracking down on his team and demanding the best scripts, directors, writers… because “failure is not an option.” Translation: Will is done apologizing. He wants his summer-blockbuster crown back.

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Ben Affleck is allegedly crushed after hearing that his ex-wife Jennifer Garner is planning her wedding to longtime boyfriend John Miller. Sources say Jen is glowing, happier than she’s been in years, and believes John is the one she was meant to be with. Meanwhile, Ben is apparently sitting there with a Dunkin’ cup and a broken heart. They’re not together, he’s not invited, but somehow he’s still catching feelings like it’s 2005 again.

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