Jay Leno Swears He Didn’t ‘Deliberately Sabotage’ Conan

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | August 2, 2022 |

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | August 2, 2022 |

Jay Leno recently stopped by Bill Maher’s podcast, which sounds absolutely insufferable, where he opened up about The Tonight Show fiasco. According to Leno, he didn’t “deliberately sabotage” Conan O’Brien, but he does realize that the whole sticking around at NBC did not go as planned. “Sometimes the czar you have is better than the one you’re going to. Then you have your old team shooting at you as well. I just figured let’s just play this out and see what happens.” (IndieWire)

Because it’s freaking ’80s reboot central today — you’ll see what I mean — here’s Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan filming the Fatal Attraction series for Paramount. (Lainey Gossip)

Marilyn Monroe’s estate thinks Ana de Armas did a damn fine job, thank you. (Dlisted)

Jennifer Garner urges women to pump the brakes on injecting things into their faces. “Be very, very incredibly judicious and wait as absolutely long as possible.” (Celebitchy)

For a little more gossipy juice, did you know about Shania Twain’s wild divorce saga that’s now a whole-ass documentary on Netflix? (The Cut)

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— kat (@kthrn_lcs) August 2, 2022

Obviously, Batgirl getting fridged is the big news tonight, and you better believe Brian is going long on this fresh nonsense tomorrow. (Deadline)

Meanwhile, Amazon is officially plunking down on a Road House reboot starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which frankly, borders on blasphemy in my book. (THR)

And Hulu is making a Working Girl reboot with Selena Gomez. (People)

Told ya it was ’80s reboot central. (Sorry, Batgirl.)

Ohhh they must be FUMINGGG pic.twitter.com/SMcUNzP9J8

— Aaron (@aaron_txt) July 31, 2022

Stephen King is helping the government stop a publishing house merger. (Vulture)

Beyoncé handled that Kelis business by cutting “Milkshake” completely out of “Renaissance.” Simple as that. (Rolling Stone)

Stranger Things 4 crushed it on Netflix, but not enough to beat out Squid Game, the still reigning champion. (Variety)

Tracy picked up Enid Bagnold’s classic, National Velvet. "I was one of those horse crazy girls-show me a book about a horse and I’d read it." She thought it mostly held up. What have you revisited lately? (Cannonball Read 14)

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— Xeni (@xeni) July 31, 2022