Entertainment
Psychiatrist weighs in as “The Summer I Turned Pretty” fan enthusiasm turns toxic

The debate over who the main character in creator Jenny Han’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty” should end up with is heating up as the final episodes of the third season approach – but fan enthusiasm is starting to spill into hostility.
Prime Video’s hit romance series has captivated audiences as it follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin who finds herself in a love triangle with brothers Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher competing for her attention. Passionate fans have broken off into two dueling camps: #TeamJeremiah versus #TeamConrad. And they’re taking to social media to battle over which love interest should ultimately win Belly’s heart.
But some of these so-called fans are turning on the actors themselves.
Last month, actors Christopher Briney (Conrad) and Gavin Casalegno (Jeremiah) told “CBS Mornings” they often have to remind fans that they’re just playing a role.
“It’s a story that people can relate to and love. Yeah, we’re just grateful that people are passionate about the story we’re telling,” Casalegno said. Briney added, “You root for both of these characters at times.”
Lola Tung, who plays Belly, also admitted the rivalry gets a bit too intense at times.
“When people have an attachment to the characters, they want to see it come together at the end. I’m so grateful that they care so much, but people get a little scary about it. Please don’t threaten to kill someone if something doesn’t go your way — I promise you, it’s not that serious,” she told Teen Vogue.
“There is a line between fiction and reality”
Last week, Prime Video launched a social media campaign called, “The Summer We Started Acting Normal Online,” urging viewers to keep the conversation kind and highlighted its zero tolerance policy for bullying and hate speech.
“The show isn’t real but the people playing the characters are,” Prime Video wrote.
Board-certified psychiatrist and author Sue Varma said she is “blown away” that a network had to step in and tell fans to simmer down and the show is fiction. Varma says fans’ emotional attachment may point to a larger societal problem.
“There is a line between fiction and reality. And I feel as if these lines are becoming really blurred when people are projecting their anger, their hatred, their harassment and resentment onto fictional characters,” she said.
Varma said this indicates that there is perhaps a “deep void in our society right now” with people longing for human connection.
She explained these fan behaviors are a sign of a psychological phenomenon known as parasocial relationships – or one-sided bonds with media figures. Varma adds the anonymity of social media emboldens fans to exhibit bad behavior.
Entertainment
Britney Spears real reaction to ex Kevin Federline’s memoir news revealed

Britney Spears is afraid her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, is going to make bombshell claims about their marriage in his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew.
Federline’s memoir is described as a memoir of “fame, fatherhood and the private cost of public life – from one of pop culture’s most misunderstood figures.”
The former DJ and backup dancer had the custody of the couple’s sons, Sean Preston, 19, and Jayden Spears, 18, while Britney was under conservatorship for 13 years.
Promoting his memoir, he wrote, “I achieved my biggest dreams, dealt with crushing heartbreak and endured constant ridicule, all while becoming the father my children needed as they experienced nonstop emotional turbulence. If you’ve ever had questions, you’ll find answers here.”
Now, “Britney is beside herself over this tell-all.”
An insider told Radar Online that the Princess of Pop knew “it was in the works but never thought he’d go through with it.”
However, if Federline “twists things,” the Gimme More singer is “ready to come out swinging with her own version of events.”
The singer, 43, is anxious to get a copy of the book early so she can decide what to do as she’s convinced “it’s not going to be pretty.”
“Kevin’s been teasing that he’s finally telling his side of the story about what it was like being married to her, and that’s set off every alarm bell,” the mole added.
Britney Spears has already shared a highly restrained version of her side of things in her own bestselling memoir, The Woman in Me, released in October 2023.
Entertainment
Eminem reveals near death experience post drug overdose: Report

Eminem has been opening up about the moment that changed his life.
A new report of RadarOnline.com mentioned that the 52-year-old rapper revealed in a new documentary Stans what led him to get sober.
Reportedly, a near-fatal drug overdose became the wake-up call for the rapper to get his act right after years of prescription pill abuse.
“I got into this vicious cycle of, ‘I’m depressed, so I need more pills,’” the Real Slim Shady crooner admitted.
“Then your tolerance gets so high that you end up overdosing. I woke up in the hospital and didn’t know what happened,” he explained.
He went on to recall, “I had tubes in me and I couldn’t move — I wanted to get up, but I couldn’t.”
It is pertinent to mention that by that point, Eminem had been taking up to 20 pills a day a habit that started in the late 1990s and lasted until around 2008.
The overdose left those closest to him fearing brain damage and uncertain whether he would ever rap again.
The turning point came when he realized just how much of his family life he was losing.
“I cried because it was like, ‘Oh my God, I missed [Hailie’s guitar recital],’” the Oscar, Emmy and Grammy winner shared of his now-29-year-old daughter.
“I kept saying to myself, ‘Do you want to miss this again? Do you want to miss everything? If you can’t do it for yourself, at least do it for them.’”
“My writing had gotten terrible,” he confessed.
“I had to find that rhythm again — like rebuilding a muscle,” he remarked in conclusion.
Entertainment
‘Rental Family’ director recalls moving to US at 17

Hikari, a Japanese filmmaker, has made a new movie titled Rental Family, which reflects her experience when she moved to the US at the age of 17.
As it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, the director shares, “I came to America when I was 17 for the first time, and I landed in Utah.”
She continues, “That was my first place to learn English. I was the only Asian girl in the entire city, I felt like…. I had to learn English, and I had to learn the culture.”

So, for the movie, Hikari says, she re-imagines her experience by swapping herself with an American in Japanese society.
“So, for me, bringing somebody — American guy — to Tokyo, what does that look like? Because there’s a lot of things that you learn when you’re the only person in the room,” the director notes.
Brendan Fraser, who stars in the movie, recalls discussing the film’s idea with the filmmaker Hikari.
“I learned about her life, about her aspirations, her interests, her unique experience of coming to America, and what that meant about the family that we find, and it not necessarily being the one that we’re born into sometimes,” The Mummy star adds.
He remembers, “I was perplexed and mystified and invigorated in all the best ways possible for meeting Hikari. And then…”
“Hey, I knew this story was unique. It’s something that we need to see on screen,” Brendan concludes. “And correct me if I’m wrong, I think we need to see this movie now more than ever these days.”
The film’s logline reads that an American actor goes to Japan in hopes of securing his big break. After that doesn’t work out, he takes up a job at an agency which hires actors to do stand-in roles for their clients.”
Rental Family bows out in cinemas on Nov 21.
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