The Wake Up with Bret & Julie's Julie Tristan has all the entertainment news that you'll need, and she might even give you a "Hot Guy Fact of the Day". Today's "Hollywood Hashtag" stories include...
Forbes' list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women came out yesterday. Vice President Kamala Harris came in at #3 and Oprah Winfrey is at #24. Rihanna is at #73, Taylor Swift at #79, and Beyoncé at #80. (See the full list at Forbes.com.)
Google released their year-end data yesterday. Johnny Depp was the most-searched person and the most-searched actor. "Encanto" was the most-searched movie, "Euphoria" was the most-search TV show, and Adam Levine was the most-searched musician. (Check out all the categories here.)
"Time" magazine named Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky its Person of the Year. They said, "Zelensky's success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious." By the way, David Letterman traveled to Ukraine in October to interview Zelensky for his Netflix show, "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction". The episode drops on Monday.
Actors who were rejected by "Saturday Night Live" before making it big include Jim Carrey, Zach Galifianakis, Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, and Stephen Colbert. (Check out more here.)
In a new interview, Jennifer Lawrence said nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie before "The Hunger Games". Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hamilton, Angelina Jolie, Pam Grier, and many others would like to have a word with her.
DC Studios will no longer move forward with "Wonder Woman 3". It's unclear WHY or if there are other plans for the Wonder Woman character.
Anna Kendrick plays a woman stuck in an abusive relationship in the upcoming movie "Alice, Darling".
The original "Avatar" will air on ABC on Sunday, just days before the sequel hits theaters. It'll be the first time it's ever been on broadcast TV.
Kane Brown, Kelly Clarkson, Maluma, OneRepublic, and Adam Lambert will perform on next week's season finale of "The Voice".
Fox cancelled the country music drama "Monarch" after one season.
A new study determined that the overwhelming majority of experts on Shark Week programming are white men. Also, there are more white men named Mike on these shows than there are women.
Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of Dua Lipa that's actually pretty accurate.
And H.E.R. is using her real name, Gabriella Wilson, on the ABC special "Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration". She says, "It's a new chapter of my life, and I'm allowing people to see under the layers a little bit."
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