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Faith Hill, Kellie Pickler Team Up For New Talk Show...
Faith Hill and fellow singer Kellie Pickler will team up on a new daytime talk show.

The 48-year-old country star will executive produce the yet-untitled series, while the 29-year-old American Idol season 5 contestant will host the program with one or two other co-hosts.

"This is a woman of so many talents," Hill said of Pickler. "Kellie is smart, compassionate, funny, quick-witted and has a heart for service ... She possesses the ability to reach far beyond the camera and into the hearts of people, allowing you to feel immediately connected to her."

"She has lots of great ideas," co-executive producer Lisa Erspamer lauded of Hill. "She's also an incredible curator, so I think that's why having her behind the scenes is really valuable for us. Faith coming on board as an executive producer was definitely a big piece of making this work."

The show will film in Nashville, but not focus on country music or celebrity and musical guests. Instead, the series will feature cooking, home design, gardening and entertainment segments, with five to 10 experts in those fields as rotating guests.

Pickler is no stranger to television, having won Dancing with the Stars season 16 and guest-hosted The View and The Chew. In addition, she and husband Kyle Jacobs, a 42-year-old songwriter, will star on the forthcoming CMT reality show I Love Kellie Pickler.


LOOSE LIPS:
"Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."- Meryl Streep, on the advice she would give her 18-year-old self, to Time Out New York


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This star reveals... 'I Swam Naked With Michael Jackson'...

Graffiti Artists Tag 'Homeland' Set With Messages Accusing Show of Racism...
The latest episode of Showtime's Emmy award-winning drama Homeland featured Arabic artwork that criticized the show for allegedly being 'racist.'

The latest episode which aired Sunday, featured phrases such as "Homeland is racist," "Homeland is NOT a series," "The situation is not to be trusted," and "#blacklivesmatter," among others.

Graffiti artists, Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone have claimed responsibility for the artwork as they were hired by the show in Germany to give the carefully crafted set made to resemble a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon, some extra authenticity.The artists' were asked to write messages that were apolitical and instead chose to make a political statement regarding their feelings on the show and how it negatively portrays the Middle East with its "highly biased" depictions of Arabs, Pakistani's and Afghans.

"Set designers were too frantic to pay any attention to us; they were busy constructing a hyper-realistic set that addressed everything from the plastic laundry pins to the frayed edges of outdoor plastic curtains," Amin explains in a blog post. "The content of what was written on the walls, however, was of no concern. In their eyes, Arabic script is merely a supplementary visual that completes the horror-fantasy of the Middle East."

As Amin explains, the trio views Homeland as a "thinly veiled propaganda," that promotes fear and mistrust of Muslims of all backgrounds. "For four seasons and entering its fifth, Homeland has maintained the dichotomy of the photogenic, mainly white, mostly American protector versus the evil and backwards Muslim threat."

"It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself," they said.

While producers wish they had paid more attention to what was being written, for the moment they seem okay with the incident and even admire what the artists' were able to accomplish.

"We wish we'd caught these images before they made it to air," said showrunner Alex Gansa in a statement to Mashable. "However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and stimulus for conversation, we can't help but admire this act of artistic sabotage."


Kaley Cuoco Dismisses Johnny Galecki Dating Rumors...
Kaley Cuoco dismissed Johnny Galecki dating rumors Wednesday on Instagram.

The 29-year-old actress responded to speculation about her relationship with the 40-year-old actor just weeks after she and husband Ryan Sweeting announced their intent to divorce.

"So sorry to disappoint, but no home wreckers or secret flings going on here," she captioned a photo of herself with Galecki. "Me and @sanctionedjohnnygalecki are just the best of buds - Leonard and Penny will just have to suffice!!!"

Cuoco and Galecki play Penny and Leonard on CBS series The Big Bang Theory, and secretly dated from 2008 to 2010. The actress said she and her co-star "moved on" romantically, but remain "best friends" on Watch What Happens Live in September.

The National Enquirer had sparked the rumors by claiming Cuoco "never stopped having feelings for Galecki" in an article last week. The actress and Sweeting were married less than two years, and will reportedly honor their prenuptial agreement.

The Big Bang Theory returned for a ninth season in September, and kicked off the new episodes with Leonard and Penny's wedding. The series co-stars Jim Parsons as Sheldon, Simon Helberg as Howard and Kunal Nayyar as Raj, and airs Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.


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The star who recently revealed, 'I Swam Naked With Michael Jackson'?

It's Jane Fonda... Jane revealed she once enjoyed a naked swimming session with Michael Jackson and Greta Garbo.

She has worked with many big names during her illustrious career, and has a head full of happy and bizarre memories -- and one of her favorite moments involved a young King of Pop and the iconic Swedish actress as she filmed 1981 movie On Golden Pond with Katharine Hepburn.

"Michael Jackson came and stayed for 10 days on the set," she told an audience at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film & TV as part of The Hollywood Reporter's Hollywood Masters series. "We lived together. I went skinny dipping with him. Also, by the way, with Greta Garbo.

"He (Jackson) wanted to be a movie star -- he had just finished doing The Wiz -- and he had a tape recorder with him, and every day I would bring him to the set, and in between scenes she (Katharine Hepburn) would sit down in a chair and pull over a chair for him and tell him stories."

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