Brandon Lewis
February 19, 2026
Thursday 19th February 2026
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Vulture magazine says Shania Twain and Martin Short are in talks to star in ABC’s part animation, part live-action reboot of ”Beauty and the Beast.” Shania is going to play Mrs. Potts while Martin is going to play Lumiere. Josh Groban is playing the Beast. The special will air on Thursday, December 15th on ABC
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Mel Gibson tells the JoBlo movie website that ”Lethal Weapon 5” is going to be made. “It’s in the works, It’s one of those things that’s a no-brainer. They’ve worked on the script and he’s happy with it. He says it’ll come. I’m not quite sure when but it’ll happen.”
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Maddie & Tae have a new, eight-song EP out today titled, “Through the Madness, Volume 2”. It’s the follow-up to “Volume 1”, which came out in January. Maddie Font says the songs are meant to be “little beacons of hope” to remind us that “there’s still good things to look forward to.”
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Jackson Dean Says ‘Don’t Come Lookin” Was Inspired By His Mother .. “It just became a running joke, and that’s kinda how the song came to life, and she’s the reason behind that song. For a while she was like, ‘I’m the Disney mom that’s always dead,’ because I always used to write about my brothers and my dad. And she got the first radio single, so she’s all happy about it.”
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Dancing With the Stars Season 31 has already been hit by COVID. At least four cases were reported after the dance competition show’s Sept. 19 premiere on Disney+, Deadline reports, Dancing With the Stars employs more than 300 production employees behind the scenes, which is where the outbreak hit. All four individuals who tested positive are crew members who work separately in “completely different departments that do not have in-person contact with each other, based on our pod system.”
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Jon Pardi announced he and his wife Summer are expecting their first child sometime early next year. He said, quote, “Pardi of three! I’m really excited to meet our baby and to have someone to ride around the ranch with.”
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Shia LaBeouf went full Mardi Gras meltdown in New Orleans, getting arrested after a fight outside a bar and charged with simple battery. Paramedics showed up, Shia went to the hospital, and locals claimed he’d been “terrorizing the city.” But plot twist, after getting released, he was spotted dancing on Bourbon Street with his release papers in his mouth like it was a receipt from a wild night at Walgreens.
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Miley Cyrus is dusting off the blonde wig for the Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special hitting Disney+ March 24th. They’re recreating the original sets, showing never-before-seen footage, Miley says Hannah will always be part of her, which makes sense, because that show launched her career and funded about half her wardrobe during the foam finger era. Somewhere Billy Ray just whispered, “Best of both worlds… and residual checks.”
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Carrie Underwood might look like a country music superhero on stage, but at home she’s basically your Midwest grandma with better hair. She says she crochets, birdwatches, makes sourdough, brews kombucha, and even ferments her own hot sauce. Carrie says real life isn’t glam, it’s cleaning toilets, gardening, and doing laundry. So yes, America’s sweetheart could win a Grammy in the morning and yell at you in the afternoon for not using a coaster.
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Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO just announced they’ve found a surrogate and are preparing to grow their family. Bunnie says after years of healing and getting stable, they’re ready to raise kids surrounded by love and give them everything they didn’t have growing up. Which means those kids will have emotional support, life wisdom, and probably the coolest bedtime stories ever told by a guy named Jelly Roll.
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