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Martha and Leon Deane, with sons Ewan, Arron and Leon.Photo:Courtesy Jimmy & Kim PhotographyA Tennessee high school community came together to help grant a dying father’s special wish: to see his son graduate.Although Ewan Deane is only a junior at Jellico High School, he took part in aspecial graduation ceremonylast week because his father, Leon, has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and had been told he only has a few months to live, according toTodayandCBS affiliate WVLT....

Ed Smart, the father of kidnapping survivor and activistElizabeth Smart, reportedly came out as gay and announced he is divorcing his wife, Lois, in a since-deleted letter shared to Facebook. “I have recently acknowledged to myself and my family that I am gay,” he wrote, according to the outlet. “The decision to be honest and truthful about my orientation comes with its own set of challenges, but at the same time it is a huge relief,” he continued, according toThe Deseret News....

Eddie Murphy.Photo: Rich Polk/NBC via Getty Eddie Murphyis in talks to star in the next adaptation ofThe Pink Panther, according to reports. Murphy would be following in the footsteps ofSteve Martinand Peter Sellers. The latter famously portrayed the bumbling detective in roughly half of the 11 movie installments,according to Deadline. The news comes amid a big year for the actor. In early January, theComing 2 Americastar was honored with the Cecil B....

Warner Bros. has waved its wand on theFantastic Beastsmovies and a third installment is on its way.Set to begin production in spring 2020, the latest film in the Harry Potter spinoff series will reunite the regular cast for another magical ride, this time to be set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,Deadlinereported.The Wizarding World will bring backEddie Redmayneas Newt Scamander,Johnny Deppas Gellert Grindelwald, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore,Ezra Milleras Credence/Aurelius Dumbledore,Alison Sudolas Queenie Goldstein, Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski and Katherine Waterson as Tina Goldstein....

Eileen Guhas added another medal to her Beijing collection. The 18-year-old star, who was born and raised in the U.S. to a Chinese mother and American father, won the gold medal in the women’s freestyle skiing halfpipe event. The day before, she dominated the qualifying round with a score of 95.50. Her first run scored a 93.25, her second run improved with a 95.25 and for her third run, which she tearfully kicked off, was an easy ski to accept her medal....

Photo: Eli Manning/Twitter It’s been a year since former New York Giants quarterbackEli Manning stepped away from the NFLafter 16 years in the NFL, but his rookie retirement year hasn’t gone exactly as he planned. “I really wasn’t expecting to spend my first year out of footballbasically at homeall the time—and I know my wife wasn’t expecting that either,” Manning, 40, jokes with PEOPLE. The two-time Super Bowl champion also recently joined Twitter, a space he uses to share his musings on life with the kids, poke some fun at his brothers and former league-mates, reveal his culinary adventures, and drum up enthusiasm for his post-football projects—including his current partnership with Frank’s RedHot sauce....

Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Elisabeth Mossis getting candid about her experience withScientology. Scientology has long sparked controversy in Hollywood and beyond, and some fans of Moss’s Hulu seriesThe Handmaid’s Talehave compared the religion to the Republic of Gilead, the oppressive fictional cult-like government on the show against which Moss’s character June leads a rebellion. “People can obviously hold in their mind whatever they want to, and I can’t control that,” Moss has said in the past of criticism she’s received....

Photo: Elizabeth Chambers/instagram Elizabeth Chambersis shielding her kids from her new romance as she says they’re still “emotionally processing” her divorce from exArmie Hammer. The BIRD Bakery founder, 40, answered fan questions on her Instagram Story Monday, revealing in one slide that her two kids, son Ford Douglas Armand, 5, and daughter Harper Grace, 7, “don’t know” about her boyfriend. “They don’t know he’s my bf,” she wrote on top of a selfie of her and her beau....

Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana in The Crown.Photo: Dean/SplashNews.com The Crown’sElizabeth Debickirequires a double take in her latest scenes portrayingPrincess Diana. The next season, scheduled to premiere in the fall, will delve into the last years ofPrince Charlesand Princess Diana’s marriage, as well as the final days of Diana’s life before she died in a 1997 car crash in Paris at the age of 36. Debicki took over the role from Emma Corrin (the series changes out their cast members as the characters age through the decades)....

Photo: Pacific Press/Getty Elizabeth Hurley wants you to indulge in a little me-time. “So often, we women put our needs at the bottom of the list,” Hurley told PEOPLE exclusively. “But it’s really important for us to understand that if we’re going to be caretakers, we have to take care of ourselves.” For the actress, that means carving out 20 minutes nearly every single evening for a bath. “Almost every day I have a long, hot soak....

Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Sen.Elizabeth Warrensaid Monday that Sen.Bernie Sandersonce told her in a private meeting that a woman couldn’t win the2020 election— a headline-grabbing claim that Sanders quickly denied. Warren, 70, later supported this version of eventsin a statement via her campaign, saying she and Sanders, 78, had an hours-long private meeting in December 2018. There they discussed the upcoming presidential election and “our shared goals,” including “beatingDonald Trump” and championing progressive economic policies, she said Monday....

Photo:Mega Agency Mega Agency Ellen DeGeneresandPortia de Rossiare loving their vacation time — and each other. On Wednesday, DeGeneres, 65, was spotted aboard a 40-foot catamaran yacht, continuing her water travels with her wife, de Rossi. Celebrating their15th wedding anniversary, the couple shared a kiss, embracing each other in some loved-up snapshots. The same day that they shared the kiss, DeGeneres took toInstagramto share her love for de Rossi, 50, on their 15th anniversary....

Ellen DeGeneresis opening up about her experience withCOVID-19. The comedian, 62, returned to hostThe Ellen DeGeneres Showfor the first episode of 2021 on Wednesday, a month after the show paused production when DeGenerestested positive for the virus. “I tested positive before the holidays,” she told her virtual audience. “I’m fine now, everything’s good, I’m all clear. I want to thank everyone who reached out with kind words of support.” She said she first learned of her diagnosis just as she was preparing to tape an episode of her long-running show....