Have no fear, your reality roundup is here! Here's a look at what happened in the world of reality television this week:

Vanderpump Rules (Bravo)
Lisa Vanderpump has responded to former Vanderpump Rules cast member Jax Taylor's claim that the reality show is scripted. "I think it's absolutely ridiculous to say 'scripted,'" Vanderpump told Entertainment Tonight. "Nobody can write a script like Vanderpump Rules." She said perhaps Taylor planned what he was going to say on the series ahead of time. "Maybe what Jax says is scripted. Maybe he sits at home, in his little bedroom and writes his own scripts. Well, what do I know? Anyway, for the most part, anything Jax says doesn't make any sense to me," Vanderpump said.

Little People, Big World (TLC)
Zach and Tori Roloff, stars of Little People, Big World, are officially exiting the show after 25 seasons. The latest season's finale on Tuesday, April 23, serves as the couple's final appearance on the program. Zach and Tori first mentioned their departure in a YouTube video they posted back in February. “We are not coming back to Little People, Big World. Like, we are done,” Tori said. “That chapter has closed.”

RuPaul's Drag Race (MTV)
Celebrate drag culture as RuPaul's DragCon returns to LA this year. The event will take place on July 19 and July 20 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Fans will be able to have meet and greets with their favorite queens, as well as watch performances and purchase exclusive merchandise. Tickets can be purchased at rupaulsdragcon.com. 

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Less than a year and a half after being nearly crushed to death by a 7-ton snowplow, Jeremy Renner proved he's literally up and running.

In a video posted Friday to the Marvel movie star and two-time Academy Award nominee's Instagram, he's seen jogging, laughing and happily out of breath.

"Wishing you a Happy Friday" he posted to his 21 million followers, adding, "nothing but smiles today. Feeling full of gratitude and inflammation." He followed that with a crying laughing emoji.

Renner closed with an inspirational, "Be better get Stronger everyday" and the hashtag "recoveryroad."

The Mayor of Kingstown star suffered more than 30 broken bones and other grave injuries in the snowplow accident on his Nevada property on New Year's Day 2023.

His recovery has been called miraculous. "I've lost a lot of flesh and bone in this experience, but I've been refueled and refilled with love and titanium," he told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview in April of 2023, 10 weeks after the near fatal accident.

"You are truly an inspiration to not giving up!" one of Jeremy's followers said of the video, which was liked more than 11 thousand times in less than 30 minutes.

So, what's your excuse?

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Is Zendaya eying a return to music?

During her appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show Friday, April 26, to promote her new movie Challengers, the actress/singer gave an update on whether she’d release a new song any time soon.

“I love music, and it’s something that’s been special to me,” she says. “I think being in the music industry, maybe it, it didn’t kill the joy of music, but it’s when you put music and business together. Sometimes it cannot feel so good.”

She adds that for the time being, she likes to keep music just for her, but she’s open to sharing some new things with the world in the future.

“You know, I think if the right timing and it came, because I like creating it for myself, but if there was a moment, maybe I would, you know, put out a little something,” she said. “Don’t get crazy! We’ll see, but maybe one day.”

Zendaya also opened up about overcoming stage fright to join Labrinth at Coachella last year. The two collaborated on 2019’s "All of Us" and 2022’s "I'm Tired" for Zendaya’s HBO show, Euphoria.

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Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown took to Instagram Friday with his former This Is Us co-stars Chris Sullivan and Mandy Moore to announce they're launching a new podcast about their former NBC hit.

This Is Us aired from 2016 to 2022 on NBC and followed the Pearson family over the years. The show also starred Chrissy Metz and Milo Ventimiglia.

"We are so excited to be back with the That Was Us podcast," begins Sullivan, who played Toby on the tearjerking family drama. He explained every Tuesday, the trio will get together "to relive the show."

Brown, who played Randall, added, "Yes! We're gonna have guests, we're gonna have people, we're gonna have you guys giving us feedback about the things that you want to hear about, so that it's going to be a collective experience."

Mandy, who was nominated for an Emmy for playing show matriarch Rebecca Pearson, enthused, "I can't wait!"

In another video, Moore also explained fans can send emails to thatwasuspod@gmail.com, telling them, "We really want to hear from you!"

That Was Us podcast launches on Tuesday, May 14, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms; videos of each installment will be available on YouTube.

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Ready, set, binge! Here's a look at some of the new movies and TV shows streaming this weekend:

Apple TV+
The Big Door Prize: The people of Deerfield finally know their potential, but can they figure out how to use it? Find out in season 2 of the drama series.

Netflix
Dead Boy Detectives: Watch the new series about best friends who help ghosts uncover their mysteries.

Prime Video
Them: The Scare: Prepare yourself for the return of one of the scariest shows in recent memory.

Paramount+
Knuckles: The Sonic the Hedgehog universe expands with the new live-action series.

Hulu
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story: Learn the history of the iconic band in the four-part event.

Max
We're Here: You can watch season 4 of the reality series that celebrates drag queens across the country.

That’s all for this week’s Weekend Watchlist – happy streaming!

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Courteney Cox is opening up about a regret she has when it comes to how she parented her only child, daughter Coco Arquette.

Cox said on the most recent episode of the Minnie Questions podcast that she wishes she'd been a "firmer parent" to her daughter, now 19, whom she shares with ex-husband David Arquette.

The Friends actress, now 59, said that when she was a younger mom, she wasn't able to set boundaries as much as she is now.

"That's one of the things with age, I've learned to say no, I've learned to have boundaries," Cox told host and fellow actress Minnie Driver. "But earlier on, when she was a kid, or not even that many years ago, I wish I'd been a firmer parent."

Cox said she looks back at particular at times when she should have trusted her instinct to intervene.

"I wish so bad that I could have realized in the moment a way to protect Coco from things that I didn't because of my own issues, whether it was codependency or seeing her in relationships with people that I knew, this was not good," Cox said. "But I didn't want to step in, even though I knew something wasn't right, because she would get so mad at me ... you know, 'Let me deal with it mom. You don't understand.'"

Cox continued, "I should have trusted myself and I should have stepped in."

Cox was 40 when she gave birth to Coco, who she has shared publicly was conceived with the help of in vitro fertilization (IVF).

The actress also spoke with Driver about wishing she had stopped and "stayed in the moment" during each phase of her daughter's childhood. "I wish I'd held on to that a little longer," she lamented.

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The Netflix LGBT rom-com Heartstopper has added Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey, Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning's Hayley Atwell and Ray Donovan's Eddie Marsan to its season 3 cast, according to Variety. The trade reports Atwell will play Diane, the aunt of Kit Connor's Nick, who offers tough advice about his relationship with Charlie, played by Joe Locke; Marsan will play Geoff, Charlie’s wise and straight-talking therapist; and Bailey will make a cameo appearance as Jack Maddox, Charlie's the social media celebrity crush ...

Netflix has given a 16-episode straight-to-series order to a yet-to-be-titled comedy starring stand-up comedian Leanne Morgan, who co-created the series with The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The comedy revolves around Morgan, whose life "takes an unexpected turn when her husband of 33 years leaves her for another woman," per THR. "Starting over when you’re a grandmother and in menopause isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but with the help of her family she will navigate this new chapter with grace, dignity and Jell-O salad" ...

Variety reports Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang have been tapped to star in director Andrew Ahn's remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet. The film "follows what happens when Min’s boyfriend Chris rejects his marriage proposal. Min convinces his best friend Angela to marry him instead, paying for her partner Liz’s IVF treatments in exchange for his green card," per the outlet. "However, things begin to unravel when Min’s grandmother makes a surprise trip from Seoul to throw the couple a Korean wedding banquet." Kelly Marie Tran, Yuh-jung Youn and Joan Chen are also attached to star ...

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Ellen DeGeneres kicked off her Ellen’s Last Stand ... Up Tour on Wednesday, April 24, and didn't shy away from tackling the controversy surrounding her talk show, and the accusations of poor working conditions that she jokes got her "kicked out of show business."

“There’s no mean people in show business," she noted, per Rolling Stone. "... I became this one-dimensional character who gave stuff away and danced up steps. Do you know how hard it is to dance up steps? Would a mean person dance up steps? Had I ended my show by saying, ‘Go f*** yourself,’ people would’ve been pleasantly surprised.”

DeGeneres' daytime talk show ended its 19-year run in 2022, amid accusations of racism, sexual misconduct and intimidation on the set of the show.

“For those of you keeping score, this is the second time I’ve been kicked out of show business," DeGeneres told her audience, referring to her 1990s sitcom Ellen, which was canceled after she publicly came out as gay.

"Eventually they’re going to kick me out for a third time because I’m mean, old and gay,” DeGeneres quipped.

“It’s been such a toll on my ego and my self-esteem. There’s such extremes in this business, people either love you and idolize you or they hate you, and those people somehow are louder.”

“I used to say that I didn’t care what other people thought of me and I realized ... I said that at the height of my popularity,” she shared. “It is such a waste of time to worry about what other people think ... Right now I’m hoping you’re thinking, ‘This is marvelous, I’m so happy to be here.’ But you could be thinking, ‘Let’s see how this goes.’”

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On Thursday, Netflix dropped all eight episodes of the supernatural series Dead Boy Detectives, based on the beloved comic series from The Sandman's Neil Gaiman.

Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) are best friends — and as the title suggests, they're dead. However, as ghosts, they're tasked with solving paranormal mysteries.

One of their allies in their quests is Tragic Mick, sort of the Q to the specter sleuths' James Bond.

The actor who plays him, Michael Beach, says there's more to the eccentric character, however.

"He's a man who used to be a walrus, but because of some mystical thing — and it will come up in the show —he has been a human for 200 years," Beach says. "And he spent that time, all of that time trying to find potions and spells ... to turn him back into a walrus, because he misses living in the sea."

Beach explains, "He's developed this shop where people can come and get potions and spells to help themselves out of whatever. So, the two main characters, the dead boys, they often come to him because they are trying to help other dead people move on to whatever the next realm is that they're going." 

The actor adds with a laugh, "You know, I spent some time on YouTube looking up ... video of these huge, hulking walruses hanging out. And, you know, how they sounded, how they moved and tried to incorporate that into who Tragic Mick was."

He adds, "That's part of the joy about being an actor, right? If the writing is good and the people are open to ... you trying crazy stuff sometimes, then that's the real fun of it."  

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On Thursday, the Board of Jurors of the Peabody Awards announced the 27 nominees for the organization's 84th annual honors in the categories of Arts, Entertainment, Children's/Youth and Interactive & Immersive.

More than 1,100 entries from TV shows to podcasts were in the running; this year, FX's Emmy-winning The Bear was among those singled out as "the most compelling and empowering stories" released in 2023. 

Other shows that were singled out in the Entertainment category included FX's Reservation Dogs; HBO's dramedy Somebody Somewhere and its hit video game adaptation The Last of Us; Netflix's Lupin, Blue Eyed Samurai and The Fall of the House of Usher; and Amazon Freevee's Jury Duty.

In the Children's/Youth category, Bluey on Disney+ was singled out, as was Disney Channel's animated Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, executive produced by and starring the voice of Laurence Fishburne.

The winners of the 84th annual Peabody Awards will be announced on May 9 and then celebrated on June 9 at a ceremony in Los Angeles.

Here are the nominees in the Entertainment, Arts and Children's/Youth categories; the full list can be found here:

ENTERTAINMENT

The Bear - (FX)
Blue Eye Samurai - (Netflix)
Dead Ringers - (Prime Video)
The Fall of the House of Usher - (Netflix)
Fellow Travelers - (Showtime)
Jury Duty - (Amazon Freevee)
The Last of Us - (HBO | Max)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Israel-Hamas War - (HBO | Max)
Lupin - (Netflix)
Poker Face - (Peacock)
Reality - (HBO | Max)
Reservation Dogs - (FX)
Somebody Somewhere - (HBO | Max)

CHILDREN’S/YOUTH

Bluey - (Disney+)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur - (Disney Channel)
Summer Camp Island - (Cartoon Network)

ARTS

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters - (World Channel and APT)
Judy Blume Forever - (Prime Video)
Little Richard: I Am Everything - (CNN Films, MAX and Magnolia Pictures)

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Actress Sophia Bush is opening up about finding new love with former soccer player Ashlyn Harris.

"I didn't see it until I saw it," Bush wrote in her cover story with Glamour that was published Thursday.

Bush filed for divorce from husband Grant Hughes on August 4, 2023; they'd tied the knot on June 11, 2022. Bush cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

Bush explained how friends in her support group, which was formed to help each other through the life change, began to point out the obvious compatibility forming between her and Harris, who filed for divorce from her ex-wife, former professional soccer player Ali Krieger, in September 2023.

"It really took other people in our safe support bubble pointing out to me how we'd finish each other's sentences or be deeply affected by the same things," she wrote.

After much consideration, Bush said she finally asked Harris to spend time individually.

"It took me confronting a lot of things, what felt like countless sessions of therapy, and some prodding from loved ones, but eventually I asked Ashlyn to have a non-friend-group hang to talk about it," wrote Bush.

Bush said the public reaction turned negative quickly, as people on the outside were not aware of the time and work it took her to find love again.

"There were blatant lies. Violent threats. There were accusations of being a home-wrecker. The ones who said I'd left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women — my partners have known what I'm into for as long as I have."

She added of Harris, who is a mom, "Falling in love with her has sutured some of my own childhood wounds, and made me so much closer to my own mother."

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While her new book, Rebel Rising, sees Rebel Wilson making some headline-grabbing accusations against Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen, readers across the pond won't get to read them.

According to the The New York Times, publisher HarperCollins confirms edits will be made to the chapter in question, "Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A*******," for the U.K. version of the book.

"We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the UK edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note," the publisher said in a statement to the paper. "Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story," it continued.

Cohen had previously called Wilson's written accusations of harassing behavior on the set of The Brothers Grimsby "demonstrably false."

"While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby," the statement read at the time.

In response to HarperCollins' decision, a spokesman for the actor told The Times, "Printing falsehoods is against the law in the UK and Australia," adding that the decision "confirms what we said from the beginning — that this is demonstrably false, in a shameful and failed effort to sell books."

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The nonprofit Gold House, which celebrates Asian Pacific creatives, companies and communities, has assembled an A-List set of honorees for its third annual Gold Gala.

The event, which will take place on Saturday, May 11, at the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, will honor its 2024 A100 List celebrating "the 100 most impactful Asian Pacific changemakers in culture and society over the past year."

Among this year's honorees will be the cast of Netflix's Emmy-winning series Beef, receiving the Gold Icon award for its "groundbreaking representation of the Asian American experience."

Saweetie will perform and receive the first-ever Billboard Gold Music honor "recognizing boundary-pushing musical accomplishments that redefine cultural narratives," while her fellow Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo will be presented with the Gold Ally award "for her award-winning work to advance inclusive representation in front of and behind the camera."

Other honorees include Lifetime Achievement winners Lucy Liu and Padma Lakshmi — who is doing double-duty that evening as the Gold Gala Culinary Director, overseeing a three-course meal for the event's 600 invited guests.

Other honorees will include Maui's first responders following the devastating fires there in August. On a lighter note, the iconic character Hello Kitty will receive the Gold Generation award for her 50th anniversary.

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Audible announced Thursday that it has partnered with the Wizarding World's Pottermore Publishing to produce full-cast audio recordings of all seven original Harry Potter books. 

Scheduled for late 2025, the endeavor will tap more than 100 performers and promise to "bring these iconic stories to life as never heard before, offering immersive audio entertainment through high-quality sound design in Dolby Atmos, stunning scoring, a full range of character voices, and real-world sound capture," Audible claims.

Each of the seven English language audiobooks will be released sequentially, the company notes.

The original English language Harry Potter audiobooks were first published in 1999, starring the voices of Jim Dale and Stephen Fry. Since they launched on Audible in 2015, the audio adaptation of J.K. Rowling's creation have reached 1.4 billion global listening hours on the platform.

Bob Carrigan, CEO of Audible, said of the new productions, "Together with Pottermore Publishing, best-in-class producers, and over one hundred actors, we will introduce a groundbreaking new soundscape for the Wizarding World, as well as performances that will inspire our listeners’ imaginations and redefine these quintessential characters for a new generation."

Chairman of Pottermore Publishing Neil Blair added, "J.K. Rowling's storytelling lends itself perfectly to the application of new audiobook technologies, and we’re certain this sophisticated, immersive audio experience will not only add a new listening dimension for existing fans but will introduce a whole new generation of listeners to the wizarding world."

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If you wanna be a reality show star, learn to cook.

That's because a new study claims two chef Gordon Ramsay-fronted Fox shows have your best shot of appearing as a contestant.

The website HelloMillions tracked Google data for the number of people who searched phrases like "apply for" and "casting call" related to 19 of the top reality shows, then compared that to the number of contestants on a given show per season — aka your competition for a slot.

With that in mind, Hell's Kitchen had the lowest number of monthly searches for applications — an average of 1,598 national searches — and each season has 18 participants.

The search number is likely the lowest because unlike other reality shows, you have to have a skill to be in the kitchen with Chef Ramsay.

Coming in second was The Bachelorette. Despite the show's popularity, one still has a decent shot of getting on it, considering each season has 26 contestants and there's only 2,400 or so monthly searches inquiring how to apply. 

Coming in third was Squid Game: The Challenge: While there are 42,843 monthly searches for how to join up, the show has the largest pool of contestants per season: 456. 

The fourth easiest show to get on, according to the site, was another Ramsay reality hit Master Chef: 2,359 monthly searches were related to getting on, with 20 wannabe winners a season.

Rounding out the top five was The Bachelor. Nearly 5,000 monthly searches were related to applying to the ABC show, with slots for 33 hopefuls.

For the record, the hardest show to get on was CBS' Love Island. Per month, there are 16,322 casting searches and 33 contestants.

Methodology and results have not been verified or endorsed by ABC News or The Walt Disney Company.

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