Steve Carell helps save prom for hundreds of students impacted by LA fires
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Hundreds of students impacted by the Los Angeles area wildfires in January can go to prom this spring thanks to actor Steve Carell.
Carell said in a video message shared to students at six Los Angeles area high schools on Tuesday that he was teaming up with the nonprofit Alice’s Kids to share the generous gift.
“Attention! Attention all seniors! This is Steve Carell with a very special announcement,” Carell began. “I work with a wonderful charity based out of Virginia called Alice’s Kids, and Alice’s Kids wanted me to let you know that they will be paying for all of your prom tickets.”
“Have fun! Enjoy the prom! And remember, this is Steve Carell,” he added.
Alice’s Kids confirmed in a Facebook post Tuesday that the organization will fund tickets for about 800 students in six high schools in Altadena, California, that were affected by the Eaton Fire, which burned over 14,000 acres across Los Angeles County from Jan. 7 to Jan. 31, according to Cal Fire.
“Today, the six high schools in Altadena, Ca are holding special assemblies for their seniors. Once seated, the kids will see this wonderful announcement from our friend, Steve Carell,” Alice’s Kids wrote in their post. “Yes, we are paying for every prom ticket (about 800) for every senior in that area that was impacted by the Eaton fire!”
In a video clip from one of the assemblies shared by Alice’s Kids, students yelled out in surprise and burst into cheers and applause upon hearing the news.
The 2025 Golden Globes, hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, took place in Los Angeles Sunday night.
Here’s the complete list of winners:
Best performance by a female actor in a television series (musical or comedy) Jean Smart, Hacks
Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role in any motion picture Zoe Saldaña, Emilia Pérez
Best performance by a male actor in a television series (drama) Hiroyuki Sanada, Shōgun
Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role in any motion picture Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Best performance by a male actor in a supporting role on television Tadanobu Asano, Shōgun
Best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
Best performance by a male actor in a television series (musical or comedy) Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Best screenplay Peter Straughan, Conclave
Best performance in stand-up comedy on television Ali Wong: Single Lady, Ali Wong
Best motion picture (non-English language) Emilia Pérez
Best performance by a male actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television Colin Farrell, The Penguin
Best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television Jodie Foster, True Detective: Night Country
Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy) Sebastian Stan, A Different Man
Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy) Demi Moore, The Substance
Best director Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Best motion picture (animated) Flow
Best original score Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Challengers
Best original song “El Mal” from Emilia Pérez, music and lyrics by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
Cinematic and box office achievement Wicked
Best television limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television Baby Reindeer
Best television series (musical or comedy) Hacks
Best performance by a female actor in a television series (drama) Anna Sawai, Shōgun
Best television series (drama) Shōgun
Best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (drama) Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best performance by a male actor in a motion picture (drama) Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Best motion picture (drama) The Brutalist
Best motion picture (musical or comedy) Emilia Pérez
The first batch of Oscars presenters have been revealed.
Cillian Murphy, Emma Stone, Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph will return to the Oscars stage to present awards at this year’s ceremony, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.
All four actors are returning to the awards ceremony after winning Oscars last year. They’ll present the awards for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor and best supporting actress, respectively.
The producers for the Oscars will continue announcing the talent who will present at the show throughout the coming weeks, they announced.
Conan O’Brien will host the awards ceremony for the first time, while Raj Kapoor serves as executive producer and showrunner and Katy Mullan executive produces.
The 97th Oscars will take place on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. It will air live on ABC and will also stream live on Hulu.
Justin Baldoni has filed a new civil lawsuit against Blake Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, the couple’s publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s public relations company, Vision PR, for, among other things, extortion and defamation.
Baldoni, who directed and starred in the film It Ends With Us with Lively, is accusing Lively of having “robbed” Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios LLC of control of the film, as well as destroying Baldoni’s “personal and professional reputations and livelihood.”
The suit lists Baldoni, Wayfarer and Baldoni’s publicist Jennifer Abel as plaintiffs, as well as Melissa Nathan, a crisis PR specialist hired by Wayfarer Studios, and Jamey Heath, Baldoni’s friend and podcast co-host. They are currently seeking $400 million in damages.
“Lively stole Wayfarer’s movie, hijacked Wayfarer’s premiere, destroyed Plaintiffs’ personal and professional reputations and livelihood, and aimed to drive Plaintiffs out of business entirely,” the suit reads.
The suit claims Lively pushed a “false and damaging narrative” against Baldoni that was “rife with lies and doctored ‘evidence'” in accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of It Ends with Us.
Lively first raised allegations of sexual harassment against Baldoni and accused him and his publicity team of trying to destroy her reputation in a complaint she filed in December with the California Civil Rights Department, which included numerous text messages and communications she claimed were part of a campaign to attack her public image. The New York Times was the first to report Lively’s legal complaint.
Lively then formally filed a lawsuit in New York against Baldoni and other defendants, again alleging sexual harassment.
Bryan Freedman, the attorney for Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios, denied all allegations.
Baldoni’s suit accuses Sloane of having gone “so far as to propagate malicious stories portraying Baldoni as a sexual predator” and Reynolds of using the term to describe Baldoni in a call with Baldoni’s agent. The suit claims Reynolds told Baldoni’s rep to “drop” him as a client.
Baldoni also accused Reynolds of launching into an “aggressive tirade, berating Baldoni in what Baldoni later described as a ‘traumatic’ encounter” at the couple’s home during the film’s production.
The suit claims Baldoni and the other plaintiffs were “the targets of a calculated and vitriolic smear campaign” lodged by the defendants and that Lively, leveraging her and her husband’s star power, took control of the film — including Lively having her own cut of it.
Freedman said in a statement, “This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.”
“It is clear based on our own all out willingness to provide all complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence that was shared between the parties in real time, that this is a battle she will not win and will certainly regret,” Freedman continued.
Freedman ended his statement by saying, “We know the truth, and now the public does too. Justin and his team have nothing to hide, documents do not lie.”
ABC News has reached out to Lively, Reynolds, Sloane and Vision PR for a comment in response to Baldoni’s suit against them, but has not yet received a response.
Baldoni’s latest action in his legal battle against Lively comes after he had filed a lawsuit against The New York Times on Dec. 31 for libel and false light invasion of privacy, after it published the story “We Can Bury Anyone” on Dec. 22, which included reporting on Lively’s complaint. That same day, Lively formally filed her lawsuit in New York against Baldoni and other defendants.
Baldoni was reportedly dropped from his talent agency after the story was published.
In his complaint against The New York Times, Baldoni accused the newspaper of relying on “cherry-picked” and altered communications, with details “stripped of necessary context and deliberately spliced” to “mislead.”
In a statement to ABC News, The New York Times denied Baldoni’s accusations and said their original story was “meticulously and responsibly reported,” and that their report was “based on a review of thousands of pages of original documents, including the text messages and emails that we quote accurately and at length in the article.”
Lively’s attorney issued a statement amid the ongoing feud.
“Ms. Lively’s federal litigation before the Southern District of New York involves serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation, backed by concrete facts. This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation. As alleged in Ms. Lively’s complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set,” the statement read in part.
In recent days, both Baldoni and Lively’s attorney have issued statements on the ongoing legal feud.
