‘Love Island’ season 6 cast to star in spinoff ‘Love Island: Beyond the Villa’
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I got a text! It says Leah, Serena and JaNa are returning to the Love Island universe.
Peacock has greenlit a new Love Island spinoff series with the working title Love Island: Beyond the Villa.
The show, which premieres in summer 2025, will reunite the fan-favorite islanders from season 6 of Love Island USA for a new docuseries.
It will follow “everyone’s favorite season 6 Islanders around Los Angeles as they navigate new careers, evolving friendships, newfound fame and complex relationships outside of the Love Island villa,” according to its official synopsis.
The cast of the spinoff includes Leah Kateb, JaNa Craig, Serena Page, Aaron Evans, Miguel Harichi, Kaylor Martin, ConnorNewsum, Kenny Rodriguez, Olivia Walker and Kendall Washington. Peacock says other former Islanders will also make appearances throughout the season.
Notably, Kordell Beckham is absent from the spinoff’s cast list. He won season 6 along with Page. Another season 6 fan favorite who isn’t set to appear on the show is snake enthusiast Robert Rausch.
Love Island USA season 6 was the #1 reality series of 2024. It became Peacock’s most-watched reality competition series of all time.
The upcoming Little House on the Prairie remake has found its stars.
Netflix has announced that Alice Halsey has been cast as Laura Ingalls in its adaptation of the beloved books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Also cast in the series are Luke Bracey as patriarch Charles Ingalls, Crosby Fitzgerald as loving mother Caroline Ingalls and Skywalker Hughes as Mary Ingalls, the older sister and polar opposite to sister Laura.
Wilder’s books were previously adapted into a TV series that premiered in 1974 and ran for nearly a decade.
This new adaptation transforms Wilder’s semi-autobiographical books into a show that is “part family drama, part epic survival tale, and part origin story of the American West,” according to Netflix. It will offer “a kaleidoscopic view of the struggles and triumphs of those who shaped the frontier.”
Rebecca Sonnenshine will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the new series. Sonnenshine says she is a lifelong fan of the books.
“I fell deeply in love with these books when I was 5 years old,” Sonnenshine said. “They inspired me to become a writer and a filmmaker, and I am honored and thrilled to be adapting these stories for a new audience.”
Netflix’s vice president of drama series, Jinny Howe, says the streamer is excited to take on this classic story.
“Little House on the Prairie has captured the hearts and imaginations of so many fans around the world, and we’re excited to share its enduring themes of hope and optimism with a fresh take on this iconic story,” Howe said. “Rebecca’s vision threads the needle with an emotional depth that will delight both new and existing fans of this beloved classic.”
Tom Cruise may be closing the book on the Mission: Impossible franchise, but the actor says he isn’t finished making movies.
“I actually said I’m going to make movies into my 80s. Actually, I’m going to make them into my 100s,” Cruise told The Hollywood Reporter at the Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning premiere in New York City on Sunday night.
He continued, “I will never stop. I will never stop doing action, I will never stop doing drama, comedy films — I’m excited.”
Cruise has starred in the Mission: Impossible franchise since the first film in 1996. The actor portrays Ethan Hunt, a highly skilled field agent and operative for the Impossible Missions Force, a secret government agency that handles dangerous and high-stakes missions.
The final installment in the series follows Hunt as he takes on “a new, and particularly formidable, enemy: an AI called ‘The Entity,'” according to a description for the film.
Angela Bassett, Hayley Atwell, Hannah Waddingham, Pom Klementieff, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Henry Czerny star alongside Cruise in the film.
Last week, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning had its world premiere in Cannes, France.
Looking back on his time with the iconic franchise, Cruise said at the New York premiere that “there’s been so many levels of reward with the filmmakers that I’ve collaborated with — the crews, the people, the cultures that we’ve worked in, everything that I’ve learned and continue to learn about storytelling, about life, about leadership, about character and every aspect about filmmaking — and it’s been exceptional.”
He added, “I feel very fortunate to be able to make the films that I make, and I love it,” he said. “I just, I love making movies.”
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning arrives in theaters May 23.
Halle Bailey is requesting sole legal and physical custody of her son, Halo Saint Granberry, whom she shares with rapper, YouTuber and Twitch streamer DDG.
A judge granted a temporary restraining order on Tuesday for Bailey, 25, against DDG, 27, whose real name is Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.
In her petition, the singer and Little Mermaid star accused DDG of starting “drama” and “badmouthing” her to his fans “whenever he wishes to cause upset.” She also claimed DDG had accused her of “withholding” their son from him and told his online audience that she had been “with other men.”
“This is false,” Bailey stated, claiming that she had “requested a set schedule” for him to see their son, but DDG had refused. She also accused DDG of creating a “fire storm of media around ‘freeing Halo'” from her and for “threatening” to take Halo from her and withhold child support, even though she claimed DDG had “never paid” her child support.
Bailey noted that she and DDG ended their romantic relationship in 2024 after two years together. They previously welcomed their son in December 2023.
Bailey alleged that DDG had been physically and verbally abusive with her since their split, which Bailey claimed was due to DDG’s “temper and lack of respect towards me.” She also claimed that “incidents of physical abuse” allegedly occurred before her son was born.
She accused DDG of multiple instances of harassment, with things allegedly escalating in January, when she claimed DDG was “very agitated” when picking up their son from her home.
“Halo was crying,” Bailey said. “I repeatedly pleaded with him to stop calling me a b****. I felt very nervous that he was taking Halo with him and was very agitated; I did not feel safe leaving a baby with him in this state. I also wanted to know when he would bring Halo back. He would not tell me.”
She claimed the argument “escalated” and “things got physical between us.”
“We fought each other, wrestling and tussling,” she claimed. “At one point, Darryl was pulling my hair. He then slammed my face on the steering wheel, causing my tooth to get chipped. I then stopped fighting back as I was in a lot of pain.”
Bailey further claimed that DDG entered her home in March without permission, stating that she had footage of the alleged encounter from her Ring doorbell camera. She claimed that the alleged encounter left her “feeling very unsafe and nervous that he would enter my home again when I was there.”
A few days after that incident, Bailey claimed DDG stopped by her home again to see their son. She stated that she and Halo were both sick with RSV and that she didn’t want DDG to take his son because of their illness.
Bailey claimed DDG “became angry” with her, “unplugged the Ring camera” after seeing it was recording and then locked her out of her home.
Most recently, on Mother’s Day, Bailey claimed DDG accused her of “being with other men” when she went on a short vacation with her sister and Halo.
The actress claimed that when Halo is in DDG’s care, their son is usually left with DDG’s mother.
“I cannot keep living like this,” Bailey stated. “I never know when he is going to demand our son be in his Mother’s care and whether I will be subjected to his threats and abuse.”
Bailey also stated that she wants Halo to be close with DDG’s family but said DDG “should be present instead of simply leaving Halo with his family for days.”
Good Morning America has reached out to Bailey’s rep and DDG’s management for comment.
