Facing the consequences. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s Jennie Nguyen has been dropped from the series after her past racially insensitive social media posts resurfaced.
06.01.2022 - 13:23 / deadline.com
Adam McKay’s climate change satire Don’t Look Up is officially a record breaker, with the title attracting the most viewing hours for a movie in a single week in Netflix’s history.
The pic’s 152.29 million hours watched globally in the week December 27 – January 2 is a new high watermark, the streamer has confirmed to Deadline.
Figures released by Netflix show the Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence-starrer is already its third most-watched film (in its first 28 days) of all time, behind only Bird Box and Red Notice.
While Netflix doesn’t release day-to-day data, Don’t Look Up is likely to be encroaching on the Sandra Bullock movie, and could soon take the all-time record away from the Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds crime caper.
Yesterday, director McKay tweeted that he was “straight up flabbergasted” by the viewing numbers the film was receiving.
Despite dividing critics and audiences, the film has clearly tapped into the zeitgeist, and has put renewed focus on the subject of climate change.
In its latest round of data released, Netflix also revealed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter had landed at number three on its list of most-viewed English-language films for the week with 18.26 million hours viewed.
Meanwhile, César Rodrigues’ Brazilian drama Lulli was the most-watched non-English film over the December 27 – January 2 period with 15.21 million hours viewed.
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Facing the consequences. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s Jennie Nguyen has been dropped from the series after her past racially insensitive social media posts resurfaced.
Bravo has fired‘s Jennie Nguyen over multiple insensitive social media posts she shared in 2020, many of which mocked the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jennie Nguyen has been fired from the show after a slew of controversial social media posts resurfaced in recent days. The network announced that Nguyen was let go from the show on Tuesday, acknowledging that it made the decision in direct response to her social media posts that many said were overtly racist. "Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she will no longer be a cast member on ‘The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,’" the network said in a statement posted to its Instagram. The statement continues: "We recognize we failed to take appropriate action once her offensive social media posts were brought to our attention.
, Bravo announced on Tuesday. The decision comes after Nguyen apologized for offensive comments she made on her since-deactivated Facebook account.A source told ET on Friday that 44-year-old Ngyuen had not yet been fired from the show despite fan outcry.
Kate Aurthur editorAfter the firestorm earlier this month caused by caused by racist (and deleted) Facebook posts by “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” cast member Jennie Nguyen, Bravo announced Tuesday that Nguyen has been fired from the show. It had recently begun filming its third season in Utah with Nguyen, Heather Gay, Whitney Rose, Jen Shah, Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow returning.
Meredith Marks is finally elaborating on her “vile” tweet — in response to castmate Jennie Nguyen’s resurfaced racially insensitive social media posts. On Sunday, the 49-year-old took to Twitter to post a statement.“Since it was not perfectly clear in my previous tweet, and I can now speak out in more depth. I am sickened by my co-worker's racist and prejudicial posts that recently surfaced,” Marks wrote.
Meredith Marks is finally elaborating on her “vile” tweet — in response to castmate Jennie Nguyen’s resurfaced racially insensitive social media posts. On Sunday, the 49-year-old took to Twitter to post a statement.“Since it was not perfectly clear in my previous tweet, and I can now speak out in more depth. I am sickened by my co-worker's racist and prejudicial posts that recently surfaced,” Marks wrote.
The Weeknd has broken a new Spotify record, dethroning Justin Bieber as the artist with the most monthly listeners on the platform.After releasing new album ‘Dawn FM’ earlier this month, which missed out on the Number One spot on the Billboard 200 album chart by just 2,300 copies, Abel Tesfaye has now risen to have 85,667,564 monthly listeners on Spotify, the highest of any artist right now.The title had previously been held by Bieber for nearly a year, and The Weeknd’s fellow Canadian contemporary still holds the title for being the first artist ever to cross the 90 million monthly listener mark, which he gained just last month.The Weeknd’s fifth studio album ‘Dawn FM’ was released earlier this month (January 7), serving as the sequel to his 2020 full-length ‘After Hours’. Tesfaye has hinted that the new album might be part of a “trilogy” of albums.
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A post shared by Jennie Nguyen (@jennienguyenluv) According to, the posts were created at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, after the death of George Floyd. In the posts, Nguyen, who is Vietnamese-American, shared racially insensitive memes and mocked protestors and compared them to “thugs.” After the posts resurfaced on Wednesday, fans of the show called for Andy Cohen and other producers to remove her from the franchise.
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