By Wonderwall.com Editors
9:01am PDT, Oct 26, 2023
Post-accident 'superpower'
Jeremy Renner has a real-life "superpower" after he was nearly killed in a snowplow accident on New Year's Day. "I'm very, very clear. My life is really lean, if that makes sense," the "Avengers" star recently told CNN. "There's no fat in my life anymore. I don't have time for that. So, there's something really beautiful about having that superpower."
He also feels pretty "lucky to be upright and walk around and to live life" given the extent of his injuries. On Jan. 1, Jeremy was crushed by a snowplow that had started to slide away from him and towards his nephew on his property in Nevada. In the process of protecting his relative, the actor was run over the machine.
Nine months later, he's back to work on a handful of new projects, from recording new music to buying an ownership stake in Sweet Grass Vodka, a company that "feels like family," he told CNN. "I was really clear about how I want to spend my time, and who I want to spend my time with," Jeremy explained, adding that he feels like he's received "a lot of gifts" from his near-death experience.
"When you're tested physically, emotionally, spiritually, in every way, and then to come through it, that's something hard to explain," he said. "Perseverance. Strength. It's all a mental game. I put it in my back pocket now. I know how to deal with pain. … It's all in the mind, if you can sift through the fog of it all. I am very blessed."
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Scientology split?
Danny Masterson has reportedly been expelled from the Church of Scientology as he navigates a 30-year prison sentence for rape and his divorce from wife Bijou Phillips. That's according to Jeffrey Augustine, a former Scientologist and outspoken critic of the group who runs a news site focused on exposing what he calls its "brutal and inhumane" practices.
"According to my sources, Danny has been declared a suppressive person, which means he would be expelled from Scientology," Jeffrey told the Daily Mail at a Scientology protest in Los Angeles on Oct. 21 when asked about the former "That '70s Show" star. The church reportedly requires Scientologists, including family, to sever all ties with anyone branded a "suppressive person."
The former "That '70s Show" star was convicted on two counts of forcible rape in May. In September, he was sentenced to 30 years to life behind bars. Bijou filed for divorce shortly after the sentencing. On Monday, Oct. 23, People reported Danny gave Bijou full and legal custody of the couple's 9-year-old daughter, Fianna, 9. Jeffrey has suggested on his Scientology Money Project site that Bijou may have been pressured into divorcing Danny by the church, a move that would "align with" the actor being declared a suppressive person, though he says Scientology authorities still maintain Danny's innocence.
"They are telling Scientologists that he will file an appeal and that he is innocent of the charges for which he was convicted," Jeffrey told the Mail. "[Church officials] declared Danny a suppressive person for not maintaining the high ethical standards for the Church of Scientology, and other reasons, but not because he was convicted of rape." The Church of Scientology had not commented on the allegations as of Tuesday.
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New cheating claims
In her bombshell-filled new memoir, "The Woman In Me," Britney Spears says she knew Justin Timberlake strayed during their long and very public romance.
"There were a couple of times during our relationship when I knew Justin had cheated on me," the singer writes in a chapter excerpted by People. "Especially because I was so infatuated and so in love, I let it go, even though the tabloids seemed determined to rub my face in it. When NSYNC went to London in 2000, photographers caught him with one of the girls from All Saints in a car. But I never said anything. At the time we'd only been together for a year."
Britney goes on to recall an incident in Las Vegas when one of her dancers said Justin boasted about having been with he'd been with another celebrity the night before. "I don't want to say who he was talking about because she's actually very popular and she's married with kids now," Britney writes, noting he was also rumored to have cheated on her with "dancers and groupies," though she never confronted him. "I let it all go, but clearly, he'd slept around," she writes. "It was one of those things where you know but you just don't say anything."
Britney's new memoir also details her experience of a "painful" abortion during her relationship with Justin, who she says "didn't want to be a father." The pop stars dated from 1999 until 2002.
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'DWTS' 'betrayal'
Tom Bergeron is shedding new light on his bitter exit from "Dancing With the Stars" in 2020, when he and co-host Erin Andrews were ousted and replaced by Tyra Banks. According to Tom, his 15-year tenure on the hit show ended after he was "lied to" by higher-ups who cast Donald Trump's former press secretary, Sean Spicer, in spite of having agreed to keep politics off the show.
In an appearance on Cheryl Burke's "Sex, Lies and Spray Tans" podcast this week, Tom said he'd made his case for an apolitical 2019 season to the showrunner and a producer, telling them he wanted "DWTS" to serve as a "wonderful escape from all that divisiveness for two hours a week." They agreed, Tom recalled, then cast Sean Spicer anyway.
"I said, 'Guys, this is exactly what we said we wouldn't do.' And I would have responded the same way if they had booked Hillary Clinton, whom I voted for," the TV personality explained, per THR. He felt strongly that "DWTS" should "give people a break from" the country's increasingly divided politics. Tom said he offered to sit the 2019 season out, though he'd just signed a new contract. In response, the producers offered to let him out of his contract and leave the show.
"My temper kicked in," Tom recalled. "I was at least going to let people know that they f****** lied to me." On Twitter in August 2019, without warning producers in advance, Tom told fans he hoped the new season would be "a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitably divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations," but instead "a decision was made to … 'go in a different direction.'"
Calling the casting move "a step too far on the cusp of an election year," Tom told Cheryl that's when he "knew this is probably my last season, because of that one betrayal." And it was – both he and Erin were fired in July 2020. "Had it been a Democrat, same statement," Tom added. "Honestly. It's not about my political beliefs. It's about what is this show at its best. And we were becoming the show at its worst."
Stunt double doc
While shooting the second-to-last Harry Potter movie, Daniel Radcliffe's longtime stunt double suffered an accident on set that left him paralyzed from the chest down. His story is now the subject of a documentary called "David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived," Variety reports. Executive produced by Daniel, who also appears throughout the film in interviews, the doc looks at how "David's extraordinary spirit of resilience" becomes a "source of strength and inspiration" to his friends and colleagues, according to the movie's official synopsis.
"I think there's a myth around stuntmen that they are just superhuman in some way," Daniel previously told Variety. "When the public see something really painful or horrible, they think it was a visual effect or that there's some clever, safe way of doing it. Often that's not the case. There's no way of faking, for example, falling down stairs. When you get hit by a car, you're still getting hit by a car, even if it's going slower than it would. They find the safest way of doing it, but it can still hurt."
