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“I’m Just Ken” at this year’s Oscars, but was persuaded to do so because of his daughters’ love for Barbie.The Canadian actor, who starred alongside Margot Robbie in the summer hit film, initially told the Academy he wasn’t interested in the live performance because anything could happen.“100 percent no,” Gosling said during his appearance Thursday night on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.“There’s a lot of ways that could go wrong.”Gosling, 43, eventually agreed to put on the show, complete with backup dancers, musician Mark Ronson, and a surprise appearance by legendary “Guns N’ Roses” guitarist Slash.The performance has garnered hundreds of millions of views on social media, Spotify and Apple Music.Gosling earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the Greta Gerwig film.The father of two later shared what his daughters thought when he brought them to the dress rehearsal for his now-viral performance.“Dad’s Ken-ning again,” Gosling joked. The Golden Globes winner shares the two girls with “The Place Beyond the Pines” co-star Eva Mendes.Gosling brought his daughters, 7 and 9 years old, to set to watch him play the Mattel doll-inspired character to give them context for what their father had been up to.“It was their interest in Barbie and their disinterest in Ken that sort of started all of this,” the Ken actor admitted.“It’s really been a team effort, and they were on the film and they came to set when I filmed the number,” Gosling said.

“Sister Act 3” cast wouldn’t be complete without the Holy Father himself.Whoopi Goldberg revealed that she offered Pope Francis a role in the upcoming Disney+ film when they met in October 2023. The Oscar winner, 68, made this holy revelation when she appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday. “I wanted to thank him,” she told Jimmy Fallon after the talk show host showed a photo of Goldberg with Francis, 87.

Anne Hathaway is now taking credit for “The Idea of You” book making the best-seller list — well, sort of.The Oscar winner joked about her new film, which is based off the Robinne Lee romance book, in an Instagram Story Sunday.“Audience said ‘hold my book!!!’ ” she captioned a screenshot of the novel hitting the milestone. She circled “No.

Anne Hathaway only heard crickets when she asked the audience a question during her appearance Monday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”The Oscar winner, 41, was promoting her new rom-com, “The Idea of You,” when she inquired: “Has anybody here read the book?”Spoiler alert: No.The crowd went silent as Fallon interjected, “No, we don’t read. This is ‘The Tonight Show.’ You want to go to Stephen Colbert if you want to get people to read books.

told ET on the red carpet.“Thought I’d come to something fun for a change,” Leno chimed in. “Everything is so controversial. Just to come to a funny, silly movie — it’s great.

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Conan O’Brien returned to “The Tonight Show” on Tuesday for the first time since exiting the job in 2010. O’Brien, who was on the show to promote his upcoming Max series “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” spent much of his time reminiscing with host Jimmy Fallon, 49, about his time on the show. “It’s weird to come back,” O’Brien, 60, told Fallon.

People reports. Mavis added that she’s “receiving excellent care with her husband, Mr. Leno.”“I think she’s in the least restrictive environment,” the judge agreed.

Conan O’Brien will return to NBC’s “The Tonight Show” for the first time since being fired from the host’s chair in 2010.O’Brien, 60, will be a guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on April 9 to promote his new travelogue series, “Conan O’Brien Must Go,” premiering April 18 on Max. He’ll be on Fallon’s show with Nicole Richie and musical guest Benson Boone.O’Brien, who started on NBC hosting “Late Night” after David Letterman jumped to CBS, took over “The Tonight Show” from Jay Leno in June 2009 — while Leno pivoted to a prime-time show called “The Jay Leno Show.”But O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” viewership dropped after Leno left, and Leno’s ratings in prime time also took a big hit.NBC proposed starting Leno’s show at 11:35 p.m.

Jerry Seinfeld found Hugh Grant to be a “pain in the ass” during the filming of the upcoming movie “Unfrosted.”“We had lots of fights. He’s a pain in the ass to work with. He’s horrible,” Seinfeld, 69, said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday.

moving at a glacial pace when she was doing a photo shoot in Iceland.The supermodel, 43, took the icy plunge and revealed a scary ordeal she experienced in 2000 during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday.“I did a photo shoot on a fake iceberg in Iceland, and I almost fell off into the ocean,” she said during the “True Confessions” segment on the NBC talk show.The supermodel nearly fell into the freezing cold water and “would have been dead in seconds.”“So the whole thing I was supposed to be in this slip dress while everyone was like in a boat — like, all the crew was in a boat with like huge puffer jackets and life vests,” Bündchen recalled. Bündchen was participating in a campaign for the fragrance Oxygene at the time.

personal with “Dune: Part Two” star Austin Butler.Sting, 72, who played the villain Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the original 1984 movie “Dune,” met “Elvis” star Butler at the “Dune: Part Two” premiere Sunday in New York City — and offered him not advice but a piece of his movie wardrobe.“I met him last night. He came to the premiere,” Butler, 32, said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”Fallon, 49, initially asked about the show’s most diehard fans. “The biggest one is Leonardo DiCaprio.

Green Day put the rock back in Rockefeller Center when it teamed up with NBC’s “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon to serenade straphangers at the 47-50th Street station in Midtown Manhattan around 8 p.m.The pop-punk band and the talk show host launched into a platform performance that included their tunes “Basket Case” and “American Idiot” as well as the Kiss hit “Rock and Roll All Nite.”Fallon and band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool emerged disguised, sporting phony beards and performing a cover of Bad Company’s “I Feel Like Making Love.”But the fakeout didn’t last long, as Fallon ripped off his disguise and introduced the band, which is set to release its 14th studio album, entitled “Saviors,” on Friday.Throngs of commuters and fans who’d caught wind of the secret show ahead of time crowded the makeshift stage as the band launched into their famous tunes — many of them jumping up and down, singing every word and taking cellphone footage.The action was caught and shared to X by Post editor Mark Lungariello as he was leaving the newsroom.Some days commuting are more interesting than others.

Bradley Cooper was writing the script on besties becoming boos.The Cooper Opinion — in a 1993 column titled “When best friends cross the line” — was published in the “Fresh Ink” teen section of the Philadelphia Daily News when the actor was a high school senior at Germantown Academy in the Philly suburbs of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.I know this because I was the young editor, barely out of college myself, who helped Cooper find his pen game when he was a lovesick lacrosse player.“Can best friends who are of the opposite sex hook up with each other without destroying their friendship?” he wrote.Then — with an appropriate paragraphic pause for dramatic effect — he added, “In my case, yes … so far.”As if he was already ready to write his own personal “When Harry Met Sally” about his relationship plot twist with his senior prom date Deborah Landes, Cooper got real about how “suddenly you start to hate that guy she always told you was hot” and about how “once college hits, our relationship will definitely return to a ‘best friendship.’”Long before Cooper, 48, started working his baby blues on the the leading lady likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Lady Gaga and, currently, Carey Mulligan — in “Maestro” his Leonard Bernstein biopic that began streaming on Netflix this week — the baby heartthrob was already in his romantic feelings.“There has always been an underlying attraction between the two of us,” he wrote.But then he continued to get into the conflicted heart of it all: “Before, we could never fathom the idea of being more than just friends, especially because she was involved in a relationship with a friend of mine.

who’s facing a multitude of sexual misconduct allegations, is in more hot water — after a resurfaced video shows Brand suggestively bouncing singer Katharine McPhee on his knee during a 2013 appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Brand, 48, has been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse by four women stretching from 2006 to 2013. He has denied the claims.In the three-and-a-half-minute clip, Brand jokingly refused to move from his chair alongside Fallon, 48, when McPhee, 39, came over to chat with the host. He then grabbed McPhee’s hand and she sat on his lap, as Brand told Fallon, “She’s welcome to sit here.”“No, Russell, don’t even say for the Queen, you can’t,” Fallon said, referring to McPhee, who looked uncomfortable.

McConaughey’s scary-accurate figure, which is now on display at Madame Tussauds in New York City.“Wow,” McConaughey said as he approached the figure, “I feel like AI’s alive and well.”“I don’t remember when, but I did wear this suit,” McConaughey said of the stunning green look he wore on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon” back in December 2021. “And I remember those shoes,” he said of the black and white loafers.

posted to X ( formerly Twitter), was initially covered in Tina Fey’s 2013 autobiography “Bossypants,” and depicted Fallon, 48, yelling at Poehler, 51, during a table read for the NBC variety show. “Amy Poehler was new to SNL and we were all crowded into the seventeenth-floor writers’ room, waiting for the Wednesday night read-through to start,” wrote Fey. “Amy was in the middle of some such nonsense with Seth Meyers across the table, and she did something vulgar as a joke.

groveling apology to his “Tonight Show” staffers after reports surfaced of his toxic workplace behavior — but fans aren’t buying it.One user on X, formerly known as Twitter, pointed to a line the 48-year-old TV host allegedly said during the all-hands meeting: “It’s embarrassing and I feel so bad.”The commenter said the “apology sounds like it was spoken by a toddler.”“Why didn’t and couldn’t he apologize in person? I find the Zoom apology insulting,” another shared, while others chimed in that Fallon only said he was sorry “cause he got called out.”Fallon likely conducted his apology virtually, however, because of the ongoing Hollywood strike, which has shut down production for a slew of highly-anticipated movies and TV shows, including late-night talk shows.“Oh, f–k off. Fallon’s ‘apology’ is about how he was inconvenienced by the Rolling Stone article exposing him as a raging a–hole and nothing about apologizing to staff or saying how he will change,” another scathing comment said.Another user likened the saga to Ellen DeGeneres, who had her “Ellen Show” canceled in 2022 after a 19-year run following a flurry of toxic workplace allegations against the seemingly family-friendly talk show host.“The Jimmy Fallon saga is following EXACTLY the same footsteps that Ellen DeGeneres tread … accusations.

published a story Thursday in which two current and 14 former “Tonight Show” staffers accuse the host of fostering a “toxic workplace.” Seinfeld took specific issue with two employees’ recounting of an “uncomfortable” incident during which Fallon, 48, allegedly publicly “scolded” a crew member who flubbed a simple task while taping a segment with the legendary sitcom star.The anonymous whistleblowers claimed Seinfeld, 69, ordered Fallon to apologize to the worker — and that Fallon supposedly complied.“It was very awkward, and Jerry [Seinfeld] was like, ‘You should apologize to him,’ almost trying to make it a joke,” one of the employees told a reporter. “It was one of the strangest moments ever and so many people were there, so it’s kind of hard to forget.”Rolling Stone claimed Seinfeld’s reps did not respond to multiple requests for comment, but once the story was published, Seinfeld sent them the following statement: “This is so stupid.

Jimmy Fallon is finding himself in hot water after several members of his staff claim he creates a toxic workplace with his behavior. “The Tonight Show” host has 16 current and former staff members come out with allegations of “erratic” behavior. Fallon has become known for his infectious laugh and ability to create hilarious scenes.

to Rolling Stone.“He couldn’t remember he had just crossed it out himself,” the employee said. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, he [seems] drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.”The Post has previously reported about Fallon’s drinking and partying getting “out of hand” back in 2015, and a bartender who served him commented, “He’s a mess.” “Nobody told Jimmy, ‘No,’ ” a staffer told Rolling Stone.

Hollywood writers’ strike. However, a “Tonight Show” insider told The Post that neither Fallon, 48, nor “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, 49 — whom Kobos later mentioned — are typically not in those production meetings.The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced in the wee hours Tuesday that its 11,500 screenwriter members in California, New York and other cities will refuse to work after the union and studios failed to agree on a new three-year contract after their current one expired just after midnight.In the wake of the strike, Fallon’s “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” have all been shut down.On Tuesday, Kobos, a non-union member who is not striking, quote tweeted a video of Fallon at the Met Gala on Monday night, in which he told Variety: “I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers, I support them all the way.“They got to have a fair contract and they got a lot of stuff to iron out and hopefully, they get it done,” he added.

“Peter Pan & Wendy” — so the child actors on set remained genuinely afraid of him when he played Captain Hook.“[Director] David Lowery had the idea of really trying to encourage them not to see me when I wasn’t Hook,” Law, 50, said Tuesday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”“So I just stayed as Hook the whole time, which was an opportunity just to be really scary and mean. Sounds kind of awful,” “The Holiday” actor admitted.

playing it cool.Chris Evans, 41, admits his certified sexy status has some drawbacks — particularly, hazing from his friends.Evans appeared on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Monday to promote his new film “Ghosted,” but Fallon had some other talking points in mind — namely, Evans being crowned 2022’s “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine.According to Evans, the illustrious title comes with a bit of teasing.“So they haze you, and it almost feels like it’s — that’s all that title does is give you a hard time, you know what I mean?” Evans laughed. “Like, nobody on the street’s like, ‘Hey.

Jimmy Fallon has a royally big plan for his dream guest. ET spoke to the 47-year-old, late-night host on Wednesday, and revealed the surprising person he hopes to welcome on the program one day.«We put word out to the Queen,» Fallon told ET of the British monarch. «Whenever she wants to come on the show… if she wants to play beer pong, she wants to do whatever she wants to do. We'll go to her.

Evan Rachel Wood! During an appearance on Thursday's , the  star showed off her major vocal chops, channeling the likes of Madonna, Alanis Morissette and Janis Joplin.The actress unleashed a trio of stellar singing impressions after the topic of her role as Madonna in the upcoming «Weird Al» Yankovic biopic came up. As the star noted to Fallon, she's set to play Madonna in the '80s, which calls for a certain type of speaking.

Kim Kardashian’s favor! On Tuesday, the 41-year-old SKIMS founder was on and had to jump into mom mode in the middle of her interview.  While Kim was talking to Jimmy about her time on she briefly stopped the discussion to call out her and Kanye «Ye» West’s two sons, Saint, 6, and Psalm, 3, who were being a little rambunctious off camera.  “Guys, can you stop,” Kim told her kids, who were sitting on the side of the stage.

Mandy Moore's body couldn't handle the script to the penultimate episode of. After reading it, she threw up.During an appearance on Tuesday's , the 38-year-old actress revealed what her natural reaction was after reading the script that she says not only destroyed her, but will also destroy fans of the hit NBC show.  When asked, on a 1 to 10 scale, how emotional the remaining final two shows will be, Moore painted quite the picture.«I will tell you that the penultimate episode, which airs in like a week, I threw up after I read it,» said Moore, prompting Fallon and the crowd to gasp.

Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon pulled off the TV prank of all TV pranks by switching late-night TV shows!It was a sight to behold as Fallon strolled onto the set of  in Hollywood and introduced himself simply as Jimmy after the boisterous crowd gave him a rousing ovation.«I’ve switched places with Jimmy Kimmel, although as far as surprises you’ve seen on ABC this week this one’s a distant second,» quipped Fallon referring the Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars last Sunday. Fallon added, «It’s really strange for me to be here.