On Thursday’s installment of The Jennifer Hudson show, Emmy winner Courtney B. Vancetalked about his anticipation of receiving one of the biggest honors in showbiz, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Vance is following in the Walk of Fame footsteps of his award-winning wife, Angela Bassett.
“Angela got hers I think back in ’07, and the [children] were 2,” he said of their fraternal twins, Bronwyn Golden Vance and Slater Josiah Vance, who are now 18.
“Aw, they were babies!” J. Hud gushed to a throwback photo of the family at Bassett’s ceremony.
Grotesquerie star and executive producer Vance said they still need to schedule his ceremony, but added, “It’s such a blessing to be in the class of ’24-’25.”
Vance will be in good company: When the next slate of nominees was announced back in June, it was revealed that some of the actor’s “class” will include actress Nia Long, actor-director Bill Duke, Sherri Shepherd, Fantasia, Colin Farrell and Jane Fonda.
According to the organization’s website, upcoming star ceremonies are usually announced 10 days prior to dedication.
Shaun White and Nina Dobrev are officially engaged.
The three-time Olympic gold medalist and Vampire Diaries alumna shared photos from the proposal in separate engagement announcements Wednesday.
“She said YES,” White wrote in an Instagram post, adding a diamond ring emoji and an infinity symbol; Dobrev used the same emoji in her own post, which read, “RIP boyfriend, hello fiancé.”
The pair also shared images from the proposal with Vogue. The sweet images show the couple in coordinating black outfits, in a room covered with flower petals and candles.
“I went into shock. I just froze and stared at him,” Dobrev told Vogue of the moment she realized that White was proposing to her in a New York City restaurant.
She told the outlet that White had worked with his publicist to create a fake invitation to a fashion event for her, sharing, “He made the invite look so legitimate.”
Dobrev also shared with the outlet that White “said all the right things” during the proposal.
The pair have been linked since 2019 and often share photos of themselves together on social media.
Matthew McConaughey says it took turning down a $14.5 million payday for Hollywood to take him seriously in dramatic roles.
The actor appeared on tennis pro Nick Kyrgios‘ Good Trouble podcast and revealed he left Hollywood for Texas because he kept getting scripts for romantic comedies.
After a string of successful ones, like How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days and The Wedding Planner, he wanted more.
“When I was rolling with the rom-coms, and I was the ‘rom-com dude,’ that was my lane and I liked that lane. That lane paid well … I was so strong in that lane that anything outside that lane – dramas and stuff that I want[ed] to do … Hollywood said, ‘No, no, no. You should stay there.'”
He added, “So, since I couldn’t do what I wanted to do, I … moved down to the ranch in Texas.”
He reportedly told his wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, “I’m not going back to work unless I get offered roles I want to do.”
The actor and author says he stuck to his guns even after studios sweetened the deal with a potential paycheck as high as $14.5 million. “That was probably seen as the most rebellious move in Hollywood by me because it really sent the signal, ‘He ain’t f****** bluffing,'” McConaughey recalled, noting the gambit worked.
He insists, “The devil’s in the infinite yeses, not the no’s. ‘No’ becomes more important than ‘yes.'”
McConaughey says N-O is even more important if you’ve become successful. “We can all look around and see we’ve over-leveraged our life with yeses and going, ‘I’m making C-minuses and all this s*** in my life because I said yes to too many things.'”
