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Taylor Swift's Miss Americana Netflix Doc Is Coming Sooner Than You Think. Ready for it? Taylor Swift's Netflix documentary is coming -- and it will be here sooner than you think. Starting January 31, Taylor Swift: Miss Americana will be available to watch on the popular streaming service. The upcoming documentary will also be premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 23. Following the 30-year-old singer's record-breaking career, the film will give a "raw and emotionally revealing look" at Swift's life as she finds her voice as a singer-songwriter and also a woman of today. Back in November, Swift announced that the documentary was underway ahead of her 2019 American Music Awards performance, where she was honored with the coveted Artist of the Decade Award. But, the good news was overshadowed by a shocking revelation from the "Lover" singer. At the time, Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta weren't letting Swift use old footage from her performances in the doc, as well as perform her hit songs at the AMAs because that "would be re-recording my music before I'm allowed to next year," she said in a statement. "Additionally - and this isn't the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years," Swift's statement continued. "Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film." Following the backlash he had received from angry Swifties on social media, Braun asked the "ME!" singer for a meeting so they could "fix" the situation. For her milestone AMAs performance, the Grammy-winning singer brought the crowd to its feet with throwbacks like "Love Story," "I Knew You Were Trouble" and "Blank Space." While accepting her award, she addressed the ongoing battle for her masters at the AMAs, calling it one of "the hardest things" that she's ever gone through. "The last year of my life has had some of the most amazing times and also some of the hardest things I've gone through in my life and not a lot of them are things that haven't been public," she told the crowd. "And I wanted to thank you so much for being the thing that has been a constant in my life." Swift continued, "Like, this industry is really weird. You feel like your stock is either up or down and people either like you or they don't or you're feeling bad about yourself. But the people that hang in there for you are the ones that you will never forget." Taylor Swift: Miss Americana will be available on January 31. (Eonline)
Ken Jennings Is Officially Named the Greatest Jeopardy! Contestant of All Time. It's a big night for Ken Jennings. The 45-year-old Washington state native and the contestant with the longest Jeopardy! winning streak of all time has officially become the game show's "Greatest of All Time" after claiming the title on Tuesday. What's more, Jennings is also claiming 1 million dollars and the respect from host Alex Trebek. This also marks Jennings' third victory out of four matches in ABC's Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time tournament. Jennings beat fellow top contestants James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. Since they're the three highest-earning champions in Jeopardy! history, the contestants were pitted against each other to see who would come out on top. Ultimately, it became a faceoff between Jennings and Rutter, who has won the most money in game show history and Holzhauer who holds more Jeopardy! records than any contestant. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jennings came into the "match leading the series, with two wins to Holzhauer's one and Rutter's zero" but "the two-game showdown was a close race between Holzhauer and Jennings." However, even with Jennings' $1 million prize (the other two contestants will receive $250,000), Rutter still holds the title for winning the most money in Jeopardy! history with his $4.6 million total. He first appeared back in 2000. But, the GOAT title now belongs to Jennings. Another person worthy of the GOAT title, however, is the host itself. Battling pancreatic cancer, Trebek soldiered on when he came back to primetime for the series of games. Speaking at the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, the 79-year-old looked ahead to the day he will sign off the show he's called home since 1984. "Some days are better than others," Trebek said about the current state of his health while promoting Jeopardy: The Greatest of All Time. "My resistance is lower than most of you, of course, because of the treatments I've been having, and as you can tell I have the cold that seems to be going around. They've got me off one of my chemo drugs, which was killing me. I won't know 'til tomorrow, I go in for some tests, and then another week or so until I find out where things stand." Trebek continued, "Keep in mind, I'm 79 now, and I don't foresee that 30-second [goodbye speech] coming up in the near future." (Eonline)
'The View' fearful of more leaks in wake of backstage drama. Page Six has become a problem behind the scenes at "The View," we're told. Sources say that after we published a story last week about the breakdown of relations between co-host Meghan McCain and her four fellow panelists, Sunny Hostin attempted to have a powwow with the other hosts. But a head producer tried to shut it down because they were afraid that a story about it would land in this column. Last week, Hostin "wanted to have a [meeting] with Yvette [Nicole Brown], who was filling in for Meghan, before the show, but the head producer freaked out," a source told us. We're told the producer was worried that if the hosts were seen huddling while McCain was away from the set, it would seem as if the meeting was about her. A source told us the terrified producer "was sweating and said, 'You can't have a meeting .?.?. Meghan's not here. I don't want any Page Six items saying you're meeting without Meghan.'" A spokesperson for the show told us it was all a misunderstanding. "She wanted to introduce her longtime friend Yvette to [part-time co-host] Ana [Navarro], so they headed to Joy [Behar's] dressing room to do just that." (PageSix)
Ken Jennings Is Officially Named the Greatest Jeopardy! Contestant of All Time. It's a big night for Ken Jennings. The 45-year-old Washington state native and the contestant with the longest Jeopardy! winning streak of all time has officially become the game show's "Greatest of All Time" after claiming the title on Tuesday. What's more, Jennings is also claiming 1 million dollars and the respect from host Alex Trebek. This also marks Jennings' third victory out of four matches in ABC's Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time tournament. Jennings beat fellow top contestants James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter. Since they're the three highest-earning champions in Jeopardy! history, the contestants were pitted against each other to see who would come out on top. Ultimately, it became a faceoff between Jennings and Rutter, who has won the most money in game show history and Holzhauer who holds more Jeopardy! records than any contestant. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jennings came into the "match leading the series, with two wins to Holzhauer's one and Rutter's zero" but "the two-game showdown was a close race between Holzhauer and Jennings." However, even with Jennings' $1 million prize (the other two contestants will receive $250,000), Rutter still holds the title for winning the most money in Jeopardy! history with his $4.6 million total. He first appeared back in 2000. But, the GOAT title now belongs to Jennings. Another person worthy of the GOAT title, however, is the host itself. Battling pancreatic cancer, Trebek soldiered on when he came back to primetime for the series of games. Speaking at the 2020 Television Critics Association winter press tour, the 79-year-old looked ahead to the day he will sign off the show he's called home since 1984. "Some days are better than others," Trebek said about the current state of his health while promoting Jeopardy: The Greatest of All Time. "My resistance is lower than most of you, of course, because of the treatments I've been having, and as you can tell I have the cold that seems to be going around. They've got me off one of my chemo drugs, which was killing me. I won't know 'til tomorrow, I go in for some tests, and then another week or so until I find out where things stand." Trebek continued, "Keep in mind, I'm 79 now, and I don't foresee that 30-second [goodbye speech] coming up in the near future." (Eonline)
'The View' fearful of more leaks in wake of backstage drama. Page Six has become a problem behind the scenes at "The View," we're told. Sources say that after we published a story last week about the breakdown of relations between co-host Meghan McCain and her four fellow panelists, Sunny Hostin attempted to have a powwow with the other hosts. But a head producer tried to shut it down because they were afraid that a story about it would land in this column. Last week, Hostin "wanted to have a [meeting] with Yvette [Nicole Brown], who was filling in for Meghan, before the show, but the head producer freaked out," a source told us. We're told the producer was worried that if the hosts were seen huddling while McCain was away from the set, it would seem as if the meeting was about her. A source told us the terrified producer "was sweating and said, 'You can't have a meeting .?.?. Meghan's not here. I don't want any Page Six items saying you're meeting without Meghan.'" A spokesperson for the show told us it was all a misunderstanding. "She wanted to introduce her longtime friend Yvette to [part-time co-host] Ana [Navarro], so they headed to Joy [Behar's] dressing room to do just that." (PageSix)
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