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The Real World season 16 is now streaming on Netflix!

Fans of Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino weren’t the only ones surprised by some of the darker details in his new memoir! His wife had no idea about some chapters of his life, too!

The Family Stallone is accepting guests again into their home. All 10 episodes of the second season of the docuseries featuring Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Flavin Stallone and their daughters Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet will premiere February 21 on the streamer.

Former Love Island star Paige Turley has been left 'gutted' after she was banned from joining the Love Island: All Stars series.The 26 year old won the series in 2020, scooping the £50,000 prize money with her then-boyfriend, Finley Tapp, who she went on to date for three years before they split. Following their breakup, Paige signed up to appear on MTV's Ex On The Beach, for which filming finished in October. But, unfortunately for Paige, this means that she is unable to appear on Love Island: All Stars, due to Ex On The Beach being a rival dating show.

Madonna, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera‘s performance at the 2003 MTV VMAs is the sort of pop culture history that we are incapable of forgetting.

Sean “Diddy” Combs will not be present at the 2024 Grammys.

Kevin Hart insists he will not host an award show ever again. "Whatever little hope you had, I want to destroy it right now," Kevin told Sky News. "Those gigs aren’t good gigs for comics.

Britney Spears’ debut single, “…Baby One More Time.”Indeed, the same California high school where John Travolta’s Danny and Olivia Newton-John’s Sandy were “Born to Hand Jive” in the 1978 movie classic set the scene for Spears’ graduation to the top of the pop world.“It was filmed at Venice Beach High School — the same place they filmed ‘Grease,’” Felicia Culotta — who was the then 16-year-old Spears’ assistant/chaperone — told The Post. “And we were just like, ‘Oh my gosh — nothing’s gonna get any better than this!’”The classic clip that premiered on MTV in November 1998 — two months after the single’s release — was the brainchild of the teenager herself.“The video was 100 percent her idea,” said Barry Weiss, who was then president of Spears’ label, Jive Records.“That was a huge, huge vehicle that broke her on a global basis.”Indeed, the timing couldn’t have been better: MTV’s “TRL” premiered just two months before Spears would deliver the video for her army of new fans.“The time that it was on during the day meant that kids would rush home from school and vote for their favorite video,” said Lori Majewski, host of SiriusXM’s “Fierce: Women in Music,” who was Entertainment Editor at Teen People magazine when Spears launched her recording career.And those young fans would become instantly acquainted with Culotta, who made a last-minute appearance in the schoolroom scenes at Spears’ request.“They said, ‘Oh, we don’t have a teacher,’” said Culotta.

Naman Ramachandran Kevin Hart has reiterated that he will not host the Oscars again. Hart was due to host the 2019 Oscars but stepped down after an outcry over previous anti-gay tweets, and comments he’d made during stand-up routines a decade ago. He later told Variety that he’d never do it again and is sticking to his stance.

Charlotte Crosby has slammed her former Geordie Shore mates after they were caught gossiping on camera behind her back.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Skydance Media and Paramount Global‘s controlling shareholder are engaged in talks that could fold the home of CBS, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central into a new entity controlled by the people who produce starry Hollywood franchises such as “Mission Impossible” and “Tranformers.” Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount’s corporate parent, National Amusements Inc., is in early discussions with a consortium of investors led by Skydance founder David Ellison,. (above, pictured), according to a person familiar with the matter.

Jenelle Evans is doing whatever it takes to fight Child Protective Services and her husband David Eason’s child abuse charge.

EXCLUSIVE: Clone High, Max‘s animated series revival of the classic MTV series from Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Bill Lawrence, is expanding its Season 2 guest cast ahead of its premiere next month. A specific date TBD.

EXCLUSIVE: RuPaul’s Drag Race is sashaying its way into another season of strong ratings for MTV.

EXCLUSIVE: MTV Documentary Films is making its Oscar-shortlisted documentary The ABCs of Book Banning free to public library patrons across this country on Saturday, in partnership with streaming platform Projectr.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is back. The Emmy-winning reality competition series — which returns to MTV for its 16th season on Jan.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The critically-acclaimed documentary feature “The Eternal Memory” is returning to theaters, Variety has learned exclusively. The doc, which hails from MTV Documentary Films, will be back on theater screens in New York and Los Angeles starting today. The film will screen daily at The IFC Center in New York on Jan.

RuPaul’s Drag Race is premiering it’s new season THIS Friday night (January 5)!

We have a situation here!

Kailyn Lowry is ready for a “mommy makeover!”

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Paramount Global has clinched a deal that is crucial to its future — but it’s not the transaction that Wall Street has been buzzing about for a few weeks. Paramount Global and Comcast have set a new carriage agreement covering Paramount’s cable channels and CBS-owned stations. The pact averts the prospect of a blackout for CBS stations and Paramount channels across Comcast’s cable systems, which reach about video 14.5 million subscribers and 29 million broadband subscribers.

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Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. After first being announced in October, RuPaul‘s upcoming memoir “The House of Hidden Meanings” is now available to pre-order on Amazon, where it’s already a No. 1 bestseller.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large There are several popular social media accounts that graph weekly cable network schedules, and it’s always stunning to see how many schedulers have just given up. Nearly every cable network, large and small, now mostly program marathons of their most popular shows. You know about “Ridiculousness” on MTV, of course.

Timothee Chalamet received the ultimate gift when he was cast to play Bob Dylan in a forthcoming biopic.

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino upholds the Italian-American tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes on Christmas Eve — and his seafood dinner is so nice, he eats it twice, including the next morning.“On Christmas Day for breakfast I have Christmas Eve’s dinner, which is usually crab [in] linguine sauce, also with shrimp oreganata, also calamari oreganata,” he told The Post. “So it’s pretty much everything oreganata, and I just eat it for breakfast with a Diet Coke.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Mega media merger mania is once again afoot in Hollywood with very, very early talks between Warner Bros. Discovery‘s David Zaslav and Paramount Global’s Bob Bakish about a potential merger of the two companies. Analysts and industry sources have already raised a number of questions about what a WBD-Paramount combo would look like and the effect it could have on the larger TV and film landscape.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Here we go again? Warner Bros. Discovery is flirting with the idea of acquiring Paramount Global. If a deal involving the Redstone empire comes to fruition, it would mark another transformative mega-merger for Hollywood legacy brands, following on the heels of Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019, AT&T’s difficult marriage with Time Warner in 2018 and the subsequent Discovery-WarnerMedia tie-up that closed in April 2022.

Timothée Chalamet was SO distracted by his girl that he forgot where he was! LOLz!