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Lena Dunham Was Fired from HBO’s ‘Mildred Pierce’

Despite Lena Dunham's great success with her HBO series Girls, the 27-year-old has revealed that she had been fired from her last HBO project, Mildred Pierce. "I got fired off the one day I did. Fired might be a rough word but I got sweetly dismissed," Dunham said. The Girls creator admitted that she didn't properly prepare for her role as a nurse in the period drama, which stars Kate Winslet: "I didn't practice. I …

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Matt LeBlanc Is Nothing Like His ‘Episodes’ Character

Matt LeBlanc is a "little more together" than his on-screen persona. The 46-year-old actor plays a fictional version of himself in Episodes, but admits he is noting like his character in real life. "It's a fictitious character, and you just have to approach it that way. He just happens to have the same name I do. When we were coming up with who the character was going to be, I thought it would be fun …

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Kate Mara Warns Family About On-Screen Nudity

Kate Mara's family don't approve of her stripping on screen. The 30-year-old actress is currently starring in the Netflix original series House of Cards alongside Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and admits she has to warn her parents if she takes her clothes off in any of the scenes: "They [my parents] don't love it that I occasionally have to take off certain items of clothing. We sort of have an unspoken rule of, if …

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Jimmy Fallon Makes ‘Tonight Show’ Debut

Robert DeNiro, Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan and Mariah Carey were among the surprise guests on Jimmy Fallon's debut Tonight Show last night. The former Saturday Night Live star anchored his first show from New York and took the time to mock a "buddy" who bet him he would never land the job, prompting a host of famous faces to come out and honor the bet. "To my buddy who said that I'd never be the …

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Laura Carmichael: Lady Edith Is Carrie Bradshaw

Downton Abbey's Laura Carmichael thinks her character is the Carrie Bradshaw of the 1920s. The actress, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in the period drama, imagines her to be like Sarah Jessica Parker's Sex And The City alter ego, because she writes a column for a newspaper about women's issues, despite it not being mentioned often in the show. "I do love to think of her in my head as Carrie Bradshaw of the 20s. …

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Matthew Morrison Wants 1D and Simon Cowell for ‘Glee’

Matthew Morrison wants Simon Cowell and One Direction to make cameo appearances on Glee. The singer-and-actor thinks the band - which includes Zayn Malik, 21, Harry Styles, 20, Louis Tomlinson, 22, Liam Payne, 20, and Niall Horan, 20 - could join the comedy drama as students attending McKinley High School in Ohio. "We have been so fortunate to have some great cameos, and to have One Direction on would be great for the show. They …

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Jason Segel Praises Co-Star Alyson Hannigan

Alyson Hannigan taught Jason Segel "how to be a man." The How I Met Your Mother actor, who reportedly checked into rehab following his split from Michelle Williams last February, admitted he is really going to miss his co-star when the show finishes up in March after nine seasons. "Aly taught me a lot about how to be a man, I gotta say. I was 25 when I took the show. I think we've all …

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Jay Leno “Blindsided” by ‘Tonight Show’ Boot

Jay Leno says he was "blindsided" when he was asked to leave The Tonight Show. The 63 -year-old talk show host felt like he had been dumped by a girlfriend during his spat with NBC producers, who announced in 2004 that he would be leaving the show and replaced him with Conan O'Brien four years later. During an interview with 60 Minutes set to air Sunday, Jay recalled, "I was blindsided ... [NBC executives said] …

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TV Scoop: Oprah on LiLo, ‘Dexter’ Spin-Off, New ‘Walking Dead’ Trailer

+ Not surprisingly, Lindsay Lohan hasn't made things easy for her latest project - a reality show set to air on Oprah Winfrey's OWN network. When asked about the progress of the show, the famed TV mogul said that "there have been bumps" with filming. + With the disappointing series finale of Dexter, fans of the crime thriller will be pleased to know that Showtime president David Nevins is - despite some reluctance - hinting …

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Lena Dunham Wants Jamie Dornan on ‘Girls’

Lena Dunham wants Jamie Dornan to star on Girls. The actress-and-director would have loved the Irish 50 Shades of Grey hunk to share some steamy sex scenes with the cast of her hit TV show, but fears his high profile casting as S&M-loving billionaire Christian Grey has made him off-limits to get up close and personal with any of the characters. "Allison [Williams] wants Zac Efron. [We] requested Jamie Dornan, but the thing is, [we] …

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