Jim Carrey‘s late girlfriend Cathriona White was a Scientologist, Scientology journalist Tony Ortega claims in a new report. According to Ortega, White joined Scientology four or five years ago, inspired by friends of musician Beck who reportedly encouraged her to move from Ireland to the U.S. to take Scientology courses. Ortega says he spoke with friends of White’s who say Carrey knew White was a Scientologist when they first started dating in 2012.

CBS is marking its 15th consecutive season as the most watched broadcast network, and Fox claimed the 2022-23 season among adults 18-49. Each of the seven top broadcasters, however, lost some on-air audience amid the ongoing shift from linear to streaming viewing. CBS finished the September-to-May season, which officially wrapped Wednesday night, with a primetime average of 5.96 million viewers. NBC finished second, about 700,000 viewers off the lead, with 5.

Charlie Day‘s feature directorial debut hits theaters Friday when Roadside releases Fool’s Paradise, a satire in which he plays a man who is unable to speak but becomes an accidental Hollywood star. Day, who voices Luigi in the smash hit The Super Mario Bros. Movie, is no stranger to leading his own projects. Back when he was stuck in the audition trenches, Day met fellow aspiring actors Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, and the trio realized they shared not only comedic sensibilities but also frustrations about landing roles.

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Fox News’ Harris Faulkner and Hasbro have come to a settlement to resolve the television personality’s claims of having her likeness violated through the sale of a plastic toy hamster named “Harris Faulkner.” The anchor of Fox Report Weekend filed her lawsuit in New Jersey federal court with a $5 million demand over a toy included as part of Hasbro’s “Littlest Pet Shop” product line. In her September 2015 complaint, she asserted the toy, with large cartoonish eyes and a butterfly resting on its head, had “caused substantial commercial and emotional damage” to her and falsely implied her “association with, approval, and endorsement of Hasbro and/or the Harris Faulkner Hamster Doll.

The Gibson Amphitheatre, a popular concert venue since opening in 1972 as the Universal Amphitheatre, will be leveled as early as October to make way for a Harry Potter attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. It’s been presumed for months that the iconic amphitheatre would need to come down, since NBCUniversal has been saying that its joint-venture attraction with Warner Bros. called The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was to be built at the north end of the park, which is where the amphitheatre resides.

Nathan Fielder is getting more Rehearsal time at HBO. The premium cabler has ordered a second season of Fielder’s comedy series The Rehearsal, in which the Nathan for You creator stages elaborate trial runs for people (and himself) who are facing significant events in their lives and want to practice getting them just right. The renewal comes just ahead of the show’s first season finale on Friday. “Nathan has sparked such a lively conversation with The Rehearsal.

Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell tells the true story of the titular Atlanta security guard who became a prime suspect in the bombing at the 1996 Olympics before ultimately being cleared by law enforcement. When Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs, he heroically sounded the alarm and cleared the area. The bomb later detonated, killing one person and injuring dozens of others. He was initially praised as a hero, but the FBI later identified him as one of the many suspects, which led the public to vilify Jewell, who was ultimately cleared by law enforcement.

There are two more entries to add to the start of the year shuffling in the representation business: Jake Carter and Travis Tammero have joined the ranks of UTA‘s Independent Film Group. Carter will work from UTA’s New York office, while Tammero will be based at the agency’s headquarters in Beverly Hills. Both report to Jim Meenaghan and Rena Ronson, partners and co-heads of the Independent Film Group. Carter segues to UTA after serving as a vp at the bicoastal 30WEST, where he served crucial roles on such films as The Mauritanian, Destroyer, Late Night, Ben Is Back, Some Kind of Heaven and the upcoming The Contractor.

Jason Statham should be basking in the glow of the incredible global success of Furious 7 at the moment. However, the Internet has outdone itself in bringing the British hardman back to the ground.  Eagle-eyed Redditors found clips of a young, and still bald, Statham gyrating in music videos for early 90s British dance acts The Shamen and Erasure, and the clips have, understandably, gone viral.  Related Stories Statham’s career as a music video dancer, sadly, wasn’t to last as his acting career took off after a starring role in Guy Ritchie‘s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which was released in 1998.