January 27, 2022

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My wife is the biggest Vampire Diaries fan so I just had to share this story...

The Vampire Diaries actor Matthew Davis is a dad of two.

The 43-year-old actor welcomed his second child, daughter Dorothy Lavender, with his wife, Kiley Casciano, on Monday.

Casciano shared the news Wednesday on Instagram alongside a photo of herself and Davis with their baby girl.

"Dorothy Lavender Davis - 01-24-2022 i love you @immatthewdavis," Casciano captioned the post.

Davis and Casciano married in December 2018. The couple also have an older daughter, Ripley Nightingale, born in March 2020.

"Ripley Nightingale Davis Born March 31st 9:51pm 7lbs, Blond hair, Blue eyes Moms beautiful face," Davis said on Instagram at the time.

Casciano announced in August that she and Davis were expecting their second child.

"Davis party of 4 coming soon @immatthewdavis #twoundertwo," she said on Instagram.

Davis played Alaric Saltzman on the CW series The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. He now plays the character on Legacies, which returned for a fourth season in October.

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Steve

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'Downton Abbey: A New Era' coming to U.K. on April 29, U.S. on May 20

Downton Abbey: A New Era has changed its release date and will now hit theaters in the U.K. on April 29 and in the U.S. on May 20.

The film, which acts as a sequel to Downton Abbey television series on ITV and a 2019 film, was originally set to hit theaters on March 18.

The original principal cast, including Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, are set to return, along with new cast members Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West.

The sequel will follow Violet as she tells her family that she once had a romance with a man before the birth of her son, Robert (Hugh Bonneville). Violet has now inherited a villa in the French Riviera.

The film also stars Jim Carter as Charlie Carson, Elizabeth McGovern as Cora Crawley, Michelle Dockery as Mary Crawley, Laura Carmichael as Edith Crawley, Sophie McShera as Daisy and Lesley Nichol as Mrs. Patmore.

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes penned the script and is producing with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge. Simon Curtis is serving as director.

'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider's win streak ends at 40 games

Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider was eliminated in Wednesday's episode, ending the second-longest winning streak in the quiz show's history.

Schneider, a 42-year-old engineering manager, won 40 games and amassed $1,382,800 in winnings coming into the most recent contest.

She was defeated by Rhone Talsma, a librarian from Chicago, who outearned Schneider $29,600 to $19,600 in the episode.

Schneider entered Final Jeopardy with a narrow $27,600 to $17,600 lead when Talsma wagered $12,000 and correctly answered "Bangladesh" in response to the question which tasked players with producing the only nation that ends its English spelling with an "h" and is among the world's Top 10 most populous countries.

Schneider came up blank and lost $8,000.

In a statement released by the show, Schneider said she "had thought that Rhone was going to be tough" going into the competition.

"I loved hanging out with him, we had great conversation before the taping, but I could tell that he was here to play and that he was going to be good," she said. "I still came very close to winning, but I did feel like maybe I was slipping a little bit. And once it was clear that he was fast on the buzzer, I knew it was going to be a battle all the way."

Schneider's 40-win streak places her behind only Ken Jenning's 72-game run, after she surpassed Matt Amodio's record of 38 wins earlier this week.

She also became the first woman to win more than $1 million in Jeopardy! history with her winning total placing her fourth behind Jennings, James Holzhauer and Amodio.

Charlie Day on 'Super Mario Bros.' film: 'They don't tell Luigi anything'

Charlie Day described his experience recording voice lines for the upcoming Super Mario Bros. film while appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Super Mario Bros., based on the iconic Nintendo video game series of the same name, features Day voicing Luigi with Chris Pratt as Mario, Anya Taylor Joy as Princess Peach, Jack Black as Bowser, Keegan Michael-Key as Toad and Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.

"I know nothing. I show up and they're like, 'You say this and you say that.' And it's all very funny and good and then I walk out and there's like two guys in overalls with hammers that are like, 'Don't you tell nobody nothing about this Charlie. I swear to god we're going to get your kneecaps, we're going to break your neck,'" Day joked on Wednesday about how the animated film is being kept under wraps.

"Mario's probably in the know but they don't tell Luigi anything," Day continued.

The actor and comedian also confirmed that he is not recording his lines alongside Pratt.

"Maybe they just don't trust me around Pratt," Day joked.

Super Mario Bros. hails from Universal Pictures and animation studio Illumination, which is best known for Despicable Me, Minions and Sing. The film is set to hit theaters in the holiday season of 2022.

Macaulay Culkin, Brenda Song engaged after son's birth

Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song are reportedly engaged.

People said Wednesday that Culkin, 41, and Song, 33, are engaged following the birth of their son, Dakota.

Us Weekly confirmed the engagement.

"They are and always have been very in love with each other," a source said.

E! News said Song was spotted with a large diamond ring on her left hand during an outing in Los Angeles in January.

Culkin and Song started dating in 2017 after meeting on the set of their film Changeland. Culkin had nothing but praise for Song during an interview on the Anna Faris is Unqualified podcast in 2018.

"I'm with a lady right now and she is so good to me," Culkin said.

"She just does nice things, and I feel like at first I didn't know how to be treated well in that kind of way. It was a strange, almost foreign concept," he added. "So that kind of thing... I realize it is important to me."

Culkin and Song welcomed their son in April 2021.

Culkin is best known for the Home Alone movies, while Song played London Tipton on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck.