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Luigi Mangione learned today that he will not be fighting for his life when his case goes to trial.

Mangione was arrested late last year for the murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Bryan Thompson.

He’s currently behind bars awaiting trial, and he learned today that he’s no longer at risk of receiving the death penalty.

According to a report from NBC News, U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett dismissed two of the four federal counts against Mangione: murder through the use of a firearm, and a related firearms offense.

The former charge was the only one against Mangione that carried a potential death sentence.

He’ll still be tried for two federal stalking counts, which each carry a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In rendering her decision, Judge Garnett explained that the murder through the use of a firearm charge did not fit the case, as it had to be used in tandem with a “crime of violence,” which the stalking charge against Mangione is not.

She admitted that her decision may come off as a bit arcane, but she insisted that she’s following the letter of the law.

“The analysis contained in the balance of this opinion may strike the average person — and indeed many lawyers and judges — as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Garnett wrote.

“But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case,” the federal judge continued, adding, “The law must be the Court’s only concern.”

In comments delivered outside the courtroom, Mangione attorney Karen Agnifilo praised the judge’s “incredible decision.”

“We’re all very relieved,” Agnifilo added.

The prosecution previously dropped its terrorism charges against Magione.

Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against him.

We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

Luigi Mangione Will Not Face Death Penalty; Judge In Murder Case Tosses Two Federal … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Will Janelle Brown be back?

After Season 20, some fans weren’t sure if TLC would keep the show going.

Sister Wives will return for Season 21.

But after Janelle’s statements about leaving the show, will she be part of it?

We’re getting Season 21, but …

In recent months, Janelle Brown has made multiple social media posts about leaving Sister Wives.

Not an announcement. Not a promise or a threat. Just … touching upon the topic.

“Leaving the show… leaving a marriage… starting over at an age where everyone expects you to have it all figured out,” she penned in one post, as we reported.

Janele continued at the time: “I kept looking at the pieces and thinking something must be wrong with me.”

In another post, she wrote: “After the cameras went away, I realized how much of my identity had been shaped by what people thought they knew and rebuilding after that … honestly it takes time.”

This week, Mykelti Brown and her husband, Tony Padron, were guests on the Growing Up in Polygamy podcast.

With so much uncertainty, she was able to confirm that TLC viewers will be getting a Season 21 of her fractured family’s show.

“There will be guaranteed one more season for sure,” Mykelti dished.

“Beyond more than one,” she admitted. “I have no idea.”

It is possible that TLC doesn’t know, either.

Will Janelle Brown be part of Season 21?

According to Mykelti, who would know, “Janelle will be a part” of Season 21.

However, she stressed that this season has some key differences from seasons past.

“I will say that none of the parents have the same filming schedule that they used to have,” Mykelti cautioned.

“For the last 15-16 years, it’s been two weeks of filming, two weeks off,” she specified.

Mykelti explained: “But this last six months or so, the filming has been very, very miniscule. It’s sporadic. So, the filming has been less.”

“But Janelle will be part of the new season coming out,” Mykelti then emphasized.

How does Janelle feel about that?

Well … that’s a tough question for anyone to answer. Even Janelle herself.

“I think Janelle, some days she’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do five more seasons!’” Mykelti characterized.

She continued: “And sometimes she’s like, ‘I’m done. I just want to focus on my grandbabies.’”

She’s of two minds about staying on the show (and that’s okay)

Mykelti continued to characterize how Janelle’s feelings on reality TV ebb and flow.

“‘I want to focus on Taeda Farms. I want to focus on my life in North Carolina. I want to move on,’” she described.

She reasoned: “So I think she goes back and forth.”

That is very reasonable.

As for fans … as much as they love seeing her, they also want for her to be happy. Janelle’s fans are likely as conflicted as the woman herself.

Janelle Brown: Leaving ‘Sister Wives’ for Good After Season 20? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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We have tragic news to report out of Hollywood today:

Catherine O’Hara — the beloved comic actress who won laughs with her roles in Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek — has passed away.

She was 71 years old.

News of her passing comes courtesy of TMZ, who reports that two sources with “direct knowledge” of the situation have confirmed that O’Hara passed away on Friday.

Her cause of death is unknown at this time.

In addition to her roles in the Home Alone franchise and the beloved sitcom Schitt’s Creek, the Emmy winner racked up dozens of film and television credits over the course of more than 50 years in the industry.

After getting her start on the groundbreaking sketch show Second City Television, O’Hara starred in such acclaimed films as After Hours, Beetlejuice, and Christopher Guest-directed mockumentary comedies like Best In Show and A Mighty Wind.

In 2020, O’Hara won an Emmy for her work on Schitt’s Creek.

In her acceptance speech, she thanked the show’s creators — father-and-son duo Dan and Eugene Levy — for “the opportunity to play a woman of a certain age, my age, who gets to fully be her ridiculous self.”

In her later years, O’Hara remained busy, with roles in the HBO drama The Last of Us and the Apple TV+ comedy The Studio.

She received Emmy nominations for both, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for The Studio.

O’Hara did not attend the 2026 Golden Globes ceremony, but the cause of her absence is unknown.

Across social media today, friends, family, and a legion of fans are all paying tribute to this one-of-a-kind talent:

“Hard to think of an actress who was as consistently funny or made a greater impression on both my childhood and adult life than Catherine O’Hara. Another great one gone. RIP,” wrote one user on X (formerly Twitter).

“Devastated. Gutted. Never met her but this feels like a personal loss. As great as any comedic performer of my lifetime. Rest In Peace, Catherine O’Hara,” another added.

“Catherine O’Hara was an absolute treasure and I loved all her roles,” a third remarked.

The actress is survived by her husband of 34 years, Bo Welch, and their two children.

This is a breaking story, and we will have further updates as new information becomes available.

Our thoughts are with Catherine O’Hara’s loved ones as they begin their mourning process.

Catherine O’Hara Cause of Death: ‘Home Alone,’ ‘Schitt’s … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Who can keep a secret this big?

On the Today show, Kylie Kelce of course fielded questions about her extended family.

That includes a probing interrogation about Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s impending nuptials.

How much did Kylie confirm?

Can she keep a secret?

On Friday Morning, January 30, Kylie Kelce appeared as a guest on the Today show.

Host Savannah Guthrie did not hesitate to grill Kylie about her brother-in-law’s upcoming wedding.

Travis and Taylor are engaged.

Rumor has it that they’ll marry this summer — possibly in Rhode Island.

Here’s what Kylie had to share.

“Do we think there’s a wedding this year?” Savannah asked.

A visibly uncomfortable Kylie hesitated before modestly replying: “Oh, I don’t know.”

Savannah didn’t take the hint.

“Do you really not know?” she asked her guest.

“I have no idea,” Kylie then claimed. She went on to laugh with obvious discomfort and avoid eye contact.

She is ‘Not Gonna Lie’ after all

Without accusing Kylie of lying, one can honestly state that nervous laughter and avoiding eye contact are stereotypical signs of a bad liar attempting to avoid telling the truth.

Which is funny, because her podcast happens to be titled Not Gonna Lie. Her host knew that, too.

“You’re not going to lie?” Savannah quipped.

“Yes! I’m not going to lie,” Kylie fired back.

Generally, going on Today doesn’t make someone feel like they’re getting the third degree. Of course, wedding secrets aren’t usually this big of a deal.

In what may have been an attempt to ease off, Savannah asked Kylie if she is going to “get yourself in trouble.”

The implication being that she might say too much and incur the wrath of bride-to-be Taylor Swift.

“Never!” Kylie declared.

“But we are excited to celebrate, though,” she admitted.

Kylie expressed: “We can’t wait.”

Our information about the wedding is actually pretty limited

In August of 2025, Travis proposed to Taylor. She said yes.

The (admittedly one-sided) power couple had been dating for two years.

We still do not officially know a lot of details about the wedding plans.

Taylor likes to keep things close to the vest, especially when it comes to her personal life.

Maybe she’ll marry Travis this summer in Rhode Island. But she has the resources to marry her man at any place at any time — and she could always surprise us.

Kylie Kelce: Spilling Details on Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce Wedding Plans? was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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When the world learned that Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun were dating, most reacted with utter confusion.

After all, Sydney might be the most sought-after human being on the planet, and while he’s very rich, Scooter is also very problematic.

It was an odd pairing from the start — and it looks it may have already come to an end.

Neither Sydney nor Scooter has publicly confirmed that they’ve called it quits, but all the signs are there:

For starters, they haven’t been seen in public together in more than two months.

On top of that, Syd just gave an in-depth interview with Cosmo, and in it, she sounds very much like a single gal:

“Look, I am a boss in my life. I take control. I go after what I want. I am confident, and I am successful, and I don’t actually need a man,” she told the outlet, adding:

“I’ve got myself. I’ve got an incredible group of girlfriends. I’ve got a team of badass women. That is very intimidating to a lot of guys, so a guy needs to be able to stand in that with me.”

From there, Sweeney went on to say that dating is tough for her, as not every potential partner can handle her lifestyle.

She explained that it “takes a very specific person who can handle the world that comes with” her level of fame.

She added that she recently dated a guy who she “really, really liked,” but he ended it because he “couldn’t handle [her] world.”

“It’s a hard thing,” Syd said, adding that she recently received some advice from her mom:

“The other day, my mom and I were talking about guys, and I was like, ‘Well, he’s not really my type,’” Sweeney recalled.

“Well, maybe your type’s not working out for you, Syd,” Mom offered.

“Maybe I need to be open to other experiences and try not to put everything in this exact box of what I think I need,” Sydney recalled realizing.

Again, no mention of Scooter, but that’s a lot of dating talk for someone who’s currently in a relationship.

We don’t know if Braun is the guy who couldn’t handle Sydney’s level of fame and fortune, but that seems unlikely, as he’s been highly successful for a very long time.

And as the man who discovered Justin Bieber, it’s not like he’s unaccustomed to hanging out with pop culture icons.

We may never know what happened with the Scooter fling, but Sydney supporters were never a fan of him — so they’re probably quite happy to learn that their girl is back on the market.

Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun Appear to Have Broken Up Already was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Kyle Richards would like to set the record straight.

Way back in July 2023, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star split from Mauricio Umansky, her husband of 27 years.

The estranged spouses had been “separated” for awhile even at that point, according to People Magazine.

Fast forward all the way to last February and Richards tried to explain where her marriage went wrong.

“Every situation, every marriage is different. For us, it had nothing to do with the show. We did the show together for many years, and we were fine through it … I was very happily married. The show did not affect us in that way at all,” Richards emphasized back then.

She emphasized that Umansky was “a great husband” and “a great dad” and admitted that her being “busy and traveling” did not help the situation.

Two appear to have remained quite amicable since they went their separate ways.

Just how amicable, however? To the point where they might get back together?

There have been rumors of late that Kyle and Mauricio “were canoodling” in Aspen on New Year’s Eve, sparkling these kinds of reconciliation rumors.

On the January 29 episode of Andy Cohen’s talk show Watch What Happens Live, the host asked his guest to respond to such speculation.

“It honestly was…someone just made that story up,” Richards simply said about the alleged Aspen sighting.

The 57-year-old also provided an update on whether or not she and her ex have plans to finally file for divorce after her costar Dorit Kemsley speculated on the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills that Kyle was holding off in the hopes that they might be a couple again someday.

“We have had conversations that we had not had during this season since then,” Kyle told Andy. “We still haven’t filed, but we’ve had conversations since then about what it’s going to look like and all of that.”

It can be a long and complex process, that’s for sure.

From what we’ve read, Umansky at one point had a girlfriend.

Richards also dated someone, but the relationship didn’t last.

“Since separating from Mau, I was in a relationship I was in a very vulnerable place in my life and I fell hard for this person,” she said on the December 11 episode of RHOBH, adding that she had been willing to share the romance with the world, but the individual she was seeing wasn’t.

“All the speculation and the gossip and the talking is what ultimately ended it.”

Kyle Richards Responds to Mauricio Umansky Reconciliation Rumors was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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