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Vanessa Hudgens, Lilly Singh and Ashley Graham will host Countdown to the Oscars, the official preshow to the 2023 Academy Awards on March 12.

This marks Hudgens’ second consecutive year of hosting the preshow, which will air at 6:30 p.m. Et/3:30 p.m. Pt on ABC. The 90-minute special will highlight Oscar nominees, performers and presenters.

Hudgens is a singer and an actress who most recently starred in Tick, Tick… Boom! and The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star, and she hosted the MTV Movie & TV Awards last year as well. She will next have a voice role in Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas.

YouTube star Singh has received an MTV Fandom Award, four Streamy Awards, two Teen Choice Awards and a People’s Choice Award. From 2019-2021, she hosted the NBC late-night talk show A Little Late with Lilly Singh.

Graham is a model and television presenter. Graham...

In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for A&E, History Channel and Lifetime. For this season, the A&E networks have returning dramas “Knightfall” and “Vikings” plus newcomer “Project Blue Book,” past Emmy favorites “Born This Way,” “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath” and “Project Runway” plus TV movies starring Rob Lowe, Christina Ricci and Maurice Benard as part of their 2019 campaign.

Below, the list of lead, supporting and guest stars for their dramas and TV movies, plus reality, documentary and informational programs. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.

See Watch dozens of our fun video interviews with 2019 Emmy contenders

“Biography: Chris Farley – Anything For A Laugh” (A&E)

Informational Series or Special

“Biography: Chris Rock’S Bring The Pain” (A&E)

Informational Series or Special

“Biography: Freaks...

Exclusive: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate is set to attend MipTV next month with an expanded international distribution team and television slate following its recent acquisition of Electus. The company has also set new format sales ahead of the market that runs April 8-11 in Cannes.

Led by Propagate Content international president Cyrus Farrokh, the distribution team will include new execs from Electus, as well as two promotions and a new hire. Joining from Electus are sales VPs Max Richards and Nick Wang; Svp Business & Legal Affairs David Martinez; and consultant Chris Moreton in finance.

Propagate has also promoted Georgia Berger to manager, Global Scripted Development & Distribution; and Dan Thunell to manager, Distribution & Acquisitions. Chris Olmos has joined the team as supervisor of Worldwide Technical Operations.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Electus’ talented executive team and its top-tier content to the Propagate family,” Farrokh said. “Along with these...

When ashley Graham walked onstage in December to interview Serena Williams for the season finale of her podcast, Pretty Big Deal, she felt intimidated. As the crowd erupted into deafening cheers for the tennis icon, Graham gave herself a pep talk: “Own this shit, girl. You got it.”

It’s a mantra that has served the model well. Discovered in a Nebraska mall at age 12, Graham became the first size-16 woman to cover Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue, in 2016. The next year, she was the first curvy model to walk...

Lifetime’s “American Beauty Star” has a new second season host who appreciates the contestants’ struggle for success as equally as their battle to break down diversity barriers in the fashion industry.

“I have been doing this for almost 20 years… and people are finally catching up to what we’ve always known as normal,” the show’s host Ashley Graham told Variety at an exclusive screening and panel for the hit show. “Being the first of so many different things you are always going to have those conversations. Little girls like you and I when we were growing up didn’t have a role model that looked like us. And, now there are role models for them. That gives me chills because that makes me just know that they are not going to have as bad a time growing up.”

The plus-size beauty turned television producer hit the red carpet...

Ashley Graham is many things: supermodel, author, body-positive activist, to name a few. But, now, the multihyphenate has added one more title: executive producer.

Earlier this year, Graham signed on to host season two of Lifetime's American Beauty Star, taking over for the reality beauty competition series' inaugural host, Adriana Lima. But Graham didn't want to just be the new face of the show; she wanted to be at its helm. Although she admits to The Hollywood Reporter that producing was more work than she expected — "It was definitely no joke!" she says — Graham ultimately found the experience ...

Exclusive: Lifetime’s beauty competition American Beauty Star has tapped the expertise of legendary supermodel Christie Brinkley, Hearst Magazines Chief Beauty Director Leah Wyar, and fashion and beauty photographer Yu Tsai as the new judges for season 2.

The new season of the reality competition began production on its second season today in Atlanta. Brinkley, Wyar, and Tsai will join supermodel host Ashley Graham and celebrity makeup artist mentor Sir John. Each week, the new trio of judges will use their experience in the industry and perspective to determine who stays in and who packs up their brushes and goes home.

This season will include an exclusive partnership with Hearst Magazines, spearheaded by Holly Whidden, head of Hearst Magazines entertainment division. The partnership will include social and digital content across Hearst titles, unique challenges inspired by the high end magazines, which includes Cosmopolitan. The winner of season 2 will also have the...

American Beauty Star will be back! Today, Lifetime announced the TV show will return for a second season with new host, Ashley Graham, and makeup artist, Sir John.The competition series follows "fourteen of the most talented hair and makeup artists from across the globe" as they "compete in a series of intense challenges from creating high-end editorial looks to the most fashion-forward red carpet and runway ready looks to prove that they have what it takes to be the next American Beauty Star."Read More…...

In today’s roundup, Comedy Central reveals the premiere date of Season 22 of “South Park,” while “The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood signs on to host her own writing MasterClass.

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Ashley Graham will be joining the second season of Lifetime’s “American Beauty Star” as the new host and executive producer of the competition series. “We are thrilled to have world-renowned supermodel, Ashley Graham, join the second season of ‘American Beauty Star’ as host,” said executive producer Norton Herrick of Herrick Entertainment. “Graham’s extensive work in both fashion and beauty has pushed the boundaries for industry standards and we look forward to her unique perspective alongside our highly creative panel of judges.” Celebrity makeup artist Sir John will also return as mentor to the contestants when the series returns in 2019.

Meredith Vieira is slated to host “25 Words or Less,” the game show from Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bucatinsky,...

Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima is appearing to put her foot down when it comes to disrobing.

The longtime supermodel, who walked her 18th Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in November, spoke out on Saturday regarding her new stance on stripping down.

"I had received a call for the possibility of filming a sexy video of me to be posted and shared in social media," Lima, 36, wrote on Instagram. "Even though I have done many of this type, something had changed in me, when a friend approached me to share that she was unhappy with her body."

The Brazilian bombshell has posed for racy -- and even naked -- photo shoots for magazines in the past, but she now says that she is ready to "make that change."

"Everyday in my life, I wake up thinking, how do I look? Was I going to be accepted in my job?" she asked. "And in that moment...

Adriana Lima is an icon when it comes to the Victoria’s Secret runway. The Brazilian supermodel has been one of the lingerie brand’s Angels for nearly two decades, since 1999, and now that she’s 36, Lima sees no signs of slowing down, or retiring from the runway.

“That’s something that doesn’t come into my head,” she tells People in a new interview featured in this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. “My plan is to stay as long as my body allows me, at least until I am 40, so that’s four or so more years. But if I can stay longer,...

Imagine being thisclose to Beyoncé’s face and not hyperventilating. Not only has makeup artist Sir John mastered the art of staying serene when in the presence of the Queen, he’s created absolutely ***Flawless looks for her for the past seven years. As if collaborating with Bey for red carpet appearances, tours, and two visual albums hasn’t kept his schedule busy enough, Sir John has also managed to amass an impressive celebrity clientele (from Priyanka Chopra and Karlie Kloss to Joan Smalls and Serena Williams), partnered with L’Oréal Paris, and most recently added another major job to...

Get ready to see a whole new side of the beauty industry.

Et was on set of Lifetime’s American Beauty Star -- a new competition series that aims do for hair and makeup artists what Project Runway has done for fashion designers -- with host Adriana Lima, contestant mentor Sir John (Beyonce’s personal makeup artist!), and judge Sarah Brown, Vogue contributing editor, to find out why it took until 2017 to make a show like this happen.

“This is such an exciting time for beauty,” Brown gushes. “What's been amazing in the last year or two is that we've seen the definition of beauty expand, to be so much more inclusive than it ever has been.”

“Right now, the conversation is so broad and includes every gender, every ethnicity, every type of person, every everything,” she continues. “There's just room for everyone, and makeup brands are getting on board with that, the modeling...

Project Runway will soon be joined by American Beauty Star. Adriana Lima will host the new competition series. The new series will premiere on September 21.Read More…...

When Sir John and Joan Smalls get together, beautiful makeup is almost guaranteed.  The supermodel's face made for the perfect canvas for the makeup artist and L'Oréal spokesperson, who also works with Beyoncé, Karlie Kloss, Gabrielle Union and Ashley Graham. Recently, the American Beauty Star mentor painted blue liner on Joan's top and bottom lids, titling his work, "Denim Liner." As we're prepping our denim wardrobe for fall, this makeup trend came at the perfect time.  The pigment, matched to the model's I'm-not-even-trying-and-i'm-still-killin'-it stare, would make anyone pause their timeline scroll. Her eyes pop. Her face is flawless yet...