‘SNL’s’ Colin Jost to host Pop Culture ‘Jeopardy!’
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost has been tapped to host Amazon Prime’s Pop Culture Jeopardy!, set to begin production in August.
Similar to traditional Jeopardy!, the spin-off, billed as “the first Jeopardy! series created exclusively for a major streaming service,” will employ an answer-question format, but with a focus on categories such as music, film, TV, stage and sports, according to Variety. Additionally, contestants will play in teams of three in a tournament-style event.
“What is: I’m excited,” Jost quipped in response to the announcement in a statement obtained by the outlet.
Jost joined SNL back in 2005 and has co-anchored the sketch show’s Weekend Update segment since 2014. He’s also appeared in the films How to Be Single, Coming 2 America and Tom and Jerry.
The two main stars of the highly anticipated film adaptation of People We Meet On Vacation by Emily Henry have been revealed.
On Friday, Netflix announced that My Lady Jane actress Emily Bader and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes actor Tom Blyth will play Poppy and Alex, the two main characters of Henry’s beloved romance novel.
The book follows Poppy and Alex, two best friends who live apart but reunite each summer for a weeklong vacation, “until two years ago, when they ruined everything,” a synopsis for the novel reads.
When Poppy finds herself “stuck in a rut,” she “decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together — lay everything on the table, make it all right,” the synopsis continues.
Henry shared in her newsletter why Bader and Blyth were the perfect Poppy and Alex.
“They are PERFECT,” she wrote. “He’s so stoic, repressed, quietly repressed, quietly hilarious. She’s an irresistible rascal with a secret softness.”
Henry added that after seeing Blyth and Bader’s chemistry read, she used the word “irresistible” to describe “the magic of them together.”
“I wish I could just show you now but the good news is, we are MOVING so you will get to fall in love with them very soon,” she told her fans. “I hope you are even a fraction as excited as I am right now for this film. I know how terrifying it is to loosen our grips on this story enough to let new people into the mix.”
Netflix also shared a video on Instagram of the moment Bader found out over Zoom that she was cast as Poppy.
“Are you kidding?!” Bader says in the video. “I’m gonna cry!”
A release date for the upcoming film has not yet been announced.
Oscar winner Angelina Jolie may be on track for a second, if the reaction from the crowd at Thursday’s Venice Film Festival to her premiere of Maria is any indication.
According toVariety, the crowd got on its feet and cheered for eight full minutes when the credits rolled on the film from Pablo Larraín; the biographical drama has Jolie playing legendary opera singer Maria Callas.
The trade reports Jolie wiped away tears and hugged the filmmakers at the Sala Grande Theatre, comparing her reaction to that of Brendan Fraser at the festival ahead of his 2023 Oscar win for the film he premiered there, The Whale.
Incidentally, Larraín directed Kristen Stewart in another biographical drama, the Princess Diana film Spencer, and she earned a Best Actress nomination for it in 2022.
Emmy and Golden Globe winner Jolie also won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 1999’s drama Girl, Interrupted.
In a cover story inBetter Homes & Gardens, Pamela Anderson shows off a different side of herself: She could give Martha Stewart a run for her money.
The former Baywatch bombshell, 57, tells the magazine that during the pandemic she sold her Malibu home and returned to the same small town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where she was born and raised.
“I kind of gave up at some point and needed a change,” she said. “I was not in a good space when I moved back to Canada.”
She added she felt “very sad and lonely,” offering, “I felt like I had really screwed up, that my whole life was a bundle of mistakes. I was hard on myself … I put my … kids through so much.”
Back in Canada, she perfected the art of baking, completely renovated her family’s rundown hotel, and began a lot of self-reflection with the help of her now-adult sons, Brandon and Dylan.
From the latter came her bestselling 2023 autobiography, Love, Pamela, and her Netflix documentary, Pamela, A Love Story.
Pamela says gardening was an escape: “[W]hen I started building the garden, it was really like a metaphor of putting my life back together. I began planting seeds,” she said.
She gives flowers to her “hardworking … gentlemen” sons, adding that “over the years, as they learned about things in my past, both age-appropriate and not age-appropriate, unfortunately, they thought I was taken advantage of in some ways.”
She added, “[I]t hurt them to think that those other things are the only things people think of their mom. Yes, she’s been in Playboy … but we know who she is. It’s different now.”
“They told me, ‘We’re going to try and find ways for you to keep doing what you love but also sharing it with people in a way where it benefits you too.'”