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Jackie Strause

Managing Editor, East Coast

Jackie Strause manages the breaking news team out of the New York bureau, covering 24/7 entertainment news and industry reporting. In addition to editing, she also writes TV feature stories and interviews with stars and showrunners. She came to THR.com in 2015 and is among the 2022 LA Press Club awards winners for THR's TV coverage on The Live Feed; as well as a 2023 nominee. Jackie previously worked on the digital teams at Yahoo and The New York Post. She graduated from the University of Maryland, with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism.

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Reacts to Vandalized Billboard and Shares Secret About That End-Credits Text Chain

[This story contains spoilers from Season 12, Episode 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “The Dream Scheme.”] Life imitated art this week in the world of Curb Your Enthusiasm when a real-life Hollywood billboard ended up vandalized, just like the plot of last week’s episode. As viewers will recall, the sixth episode in the final season […]

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss on the Late Richard Lewis: “He Was Funny Every Minute He Was on Set”

Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Jeff Schaffer knows that Richard Lewis will be remembered for being funny. But he wants fans of the comedian and actor, who died last month at age 76, to also know one thing. “The thing about Richard is that everyone knows how funny he was,” the executive producer told The Hollywood Reporter. […]

‘The Valley’ Trailer Zeroes In on Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright Tension

Taking a page out of the Vanderpump Rules producer handbook, cameras on The Valley began rolling again after Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright shared publicly that the married couple was taking time apart. Production had wrapped on the VPR spinoff series last year, but The Hollywood Reporter reported that the cameras fired back up to […]

How ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Got Lori Loughlin to Parody Herself With Larry David

[This story contains spoilers from the sixth episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 12.] Curb Your Enthusiasm is known for inviting guest actors onto the HBO improv comedy series to play versions of themselves and go toe-to-toe with Larry David’s onscreen persona. The latest actress to do so was Lori Loughlin, who came on the […]

Classic Movie and TV Presidents Give Biden Advice for His State of the Union Address

After playing two-term fictional POTUS Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant III on the hit ABC series Scandal, Tony Goldwyn told President Biden that he has one tip to share ahead of Thursday’s 2024 State of the Unionaddress. “There was one piece of advice that meant a lot to me when I was president,” said Goldwyn of his […]

Why Kate Winslet Keeps Returning to TV, This Time as a Narcissistic Dictator

Kate Winslet is back on TV and this time, she’s playing a character she’s truly never played before. The opening scene of HBO’s The Regime sets the scene. The geopolitical satire opens somewhere in middle Europe. The music is ominous, then quirky, when a soldier (played by Matthias Schoenaerts) is brought to the grand palace […]

Richard Lewis Delighted in Sparring With Larry David on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

The final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm reunited Larry David with one of his closest co-stars when the late Richard Lewis returned to the HBO comedy after taking a hiatus over his health. On the Feb. 18 episode of season 12, titled “Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug,” the lifelong friends were seen riding a golf cart, […]

Yes, Larry David Brings His Own Eggs to Country Club Meals

On the latest Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, Larry David (the character) is accused of being the anonymous writer of a letter griping about his Los Angeles country club. The letter, which is posted to the locker room bulletin board, is signed “Disgruntled” and grabs the attention of the club’s owner, Mr. Takahashi (Dana Lee), who […]

‘Wendy Williams Show’ Producer Speaks Out on Host’s Diagnosis: “There Were Early Signs”

The Wendy Williams Show‘s co-executive producer is reflecting on working with her former talk show host following the news of her diagnosis being made public. Suzanne Bass says there were early signs pointing to what has now been publicly revealed to be primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (FTD). “You can go back and see the show, […]

Wendy Williams Shares Aphasia and Dementia Diagnosis Ahead of Doc Release

Wendy Williams has gone public with her diagnosis two days ahead of the release of what has promised to be a revealing Lifetime docuseries centered on the former talk show host. A press release sent out Thursday claiming to be on behalf of Williams and her care team, shares that, in 2023, after undergoing a […]

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Boss Jeff Schaffer Reveals Episode 3 Bit That Prompted a Larry David Debate

[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of season 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.] In the world of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David is back in Los Angeles and he’s a bit famous. The third episode of the HBO comedy’s final season brought the so-called liberal darling back from Georgia, where he made national […]

Travis Kelce Donates $100K to Two Girls Shot at Kansas City Chiefs Parade

Travis Kelce has donated $100,000 to a family whose two daughters were shot during the Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., last week. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end posted two donations, for $50,000 each through his Eighty-Seven and Running Foundation, to the GoFundMe page for the Reyes family to benefit the recovery […]