PEOPLE in 10: The News That Defined the Week PLUS Elizabeth Gillies Joins Us
Simone Biles shades ex-teammate as Team USA celebrates gold, Coco Gauff tearfully argues with Olympics chair umpire, Robert Downey Jr.’s surprise MCU return leads to confusion, a new book details Prince William & Princess Kate's 2007 split, and Taylor Swift speaks out after violence at a Swift-themed dance class
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00:00Hey, it's people in tan.
00:05The stars showed up for the GOAT at the Paris Olympics.
00:08Simone Biles competed throughout the week
00:10as scores of celebs cheered her on from the stands.
00:13We see you, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, and Nick Jonas.
00:16You too, Snoop Dogg, who's been a hit at the game so far.
00:20Plus, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, oh, and Lady Gaga,
00:24who's engaged, in case you missed it.
00:26She was up there, too, lending some vocal support.
00:31Simone, along with the rest of the women's team,
00:33clinched the gold medal in the finals
00:34on Tuesday with even more famous faces
00:37there to witness history.
00:39Can I just say, though, it was not
00:41on my bingo card for these rappers to take over the games.
00:44Flava Flav was in Paris, too, loudly
00:46supporting women's water polo.
00:48Now, Team USA didn't go home with the medal,
00:51but their new hype man vowed to sponsor them
00:53for the next five years.
00:55So we'll be watching when they make their comeback next time.
00:59And this Olympics is really like no other before.
01:02It's the third time Paris has hosted the summer games,
01:04but it's really the first we're getting to see
01:06some behind-the-scenes celebrations,
01:08like this one from Simone Biles.
01:12Though, she seemed to throw a little shade
01:14at former teammate Mikaela Skinner on her Insta.
01:17Remember those comments?
01:18Simone's teammate, Suni Lee, celebrated, too.
01:21Everybody wants to know what I would do if I didn't win.
01:26I guess we'll never know.
01:28And Alona Mar, aka Wonder Woman,
01:30celebrated taking home the bronze for women's rugby.
01:33One of our favorites came from the internet's new boyfriend,
01:35Steven Nedarozic.
01:36After nailing his pommel horse routine,
01:39the self-proclaimed nerd rocked the house
01:41as he held clink to the bronze medal
01:43for the men's gymnastics team.
01:45Their first in 16 years.
01:48Not all heroes wear capes.
01:49Some wear glasses.
01:52The Olympics happened, but without Alona Mar.
01:54Olympics happened, but without a little controversy, too.
01:57Tennis star Coco Gauff was eliminated
01:59from the women's singles tournament,
02:01but not before she argued for almost five minutes
02:04with the chair umpire,
02:05insisting that a ball was called out of bounds
02:08before she even hit it.
02:09The crowd at the match booed the call,
02:11and even the broadcast commentators
02:13seemed to agree with her.
02:14But it was no use.
02:16Coco eventually lost the argument,
02:18saying in tears how she feels
02:21like she's getting cheated on constantly,
02:22and how this quote always happens here.
02:25And y'all, she's kind of right.
02:27Something similar did happen
02:28at the French Open back in June.
02:30Now, she might've lost this match,
02:32but she did go on to win her mixed doubles match
02:34the same day,
02:35though a podium moment wasn't ultimately in the cards.
02:39There's a new villain
02:40joined in the Marvel Cinematic Universe,
02:42and he's already very familiar to fans.
02:45Let's get the deets.
02:46Oh, Benjamin.
02:48Hey, Mako, what's up?
02:50Hey, so a very familiar face is joining,
02:53actually rejoining Marvel, but with a twist.
02:55What's going on?
02:56Yeah, so Marvel fans already know and love
02:59Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, aka Iron Man,
03:02but the character did die in 2019's Avengers Endgame.
03:06But now, Robert is coming back to the Marvel movies,
03:10this time as one of the most famous
03:12comic book supervillains, Doctor Doom.
03:15It's all very exciting,
03:16but also at the same time kind of interesting.
03:19How so?
03:21Well, there's a lot of speculation online
03:23among fans of just like how they could pull this off
03:25or how it'll work.
03:26But if the MCU has proven anything,
03:29it's that anything is possible.
03:31I mean, there's so many different timelines
03:33and multiverses,
03:33so maybe this'll be like an evil Tony Stark variant.
03:38His Iron Man co-star, Gwyneth Paltrow, got in on the fun,
03:41and she left like a comment on Instagram,
03:43and she was like,
03:44wait, I don't get it, are you a baddie now?
03:46It's all unclear right now,
03:48but it is safe to say that Downey probably got a big payday
03:52to be lured back to the franchise.
03:54And he's sort of trading one mask for another,
03:57so maybe this could be mostly like a voiceover role.
03:59Who knows?
04:01Marvel loves twists and turns,
04:03so I guess we'll have to stay tuned.
04:04Thank you, Benjamin.
04:06Yeah, no problem.
04:07Talk to you later.
04:08Bye.
04:10Well, Taylor Swift spoke out this week
04:11after awful news in England
04:13where three kids were fatally stabbed
04:15at a Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance class.
04:18This is an absolutely heartbreaking tragedy,
04:21and Taylor wrote that she's in shock
04:22from the horror of the whole situation.
04:24The loss of life and innocence, she added,
04:27these were just little kids at a dance class.
04:29I'm at a complete loss for how to ever convey my sympathies
04:32to these families.
04:33A 17-year-old male suspect has been arrested
04:36in connection to the stabbings.
04:37The three little girls were six, seven, and nine years old.
04:42I think we all need some happier news after that,
04:45so how about this?
04:46Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden are married, y'all.
04:49They did it with a low-key ceremony in Edinburgh, Scotland
04:52after first meeting and reportedly falling in love
04:55on the set of Mary, Queen of Scots.
04:57And according to a local news outlet,
04:59only a handful of their closest friends were even there.
05:02The guests that were there sworn to secrecy.
05:05And based on everything we know about them as a couple
05:08and how private they like to be,
05:11that makes so much sense.
05:14While we've got weddings on the brain, imagine this.
05:17You're a guest at a reception with a buffet,
05:19but by the time it's your turn to make a plate,
05:21they run out of food.
05:22What do you do?
05:23Well, someone on Reddit was in this exact situation
05:26and decided to order pizza and wings for their table
05:29delivered to the venue since they were so hungry.
05:32But when the bride and groom found out, they were fuming.
05:36Some comments argued that they should have gone
05:38behind the bride and groom's back,
05:40but most sided with the guest,
05:41saying it's always the host's duty
05:43to make sure everyone's fed.
05:45The guest swooped in to save the day.
05:47The bride and groom should be thanking them.
05:50Okay, I'll admit it.
05:51It's fun to be petty sometimes,
05:53especially when it comes to new gossip about old drama.
05:56Like when Prince William and Princess Kate broke up
05:58for a couple of months back in 2007.
06:01According to a new book,
06:02William first canceled New Year's plans,
06:04giving Kate the sense that something was wrong.
06:07Then he called her and dumped her over the phone
06:10during a half hour convo.
06:11That's cold.
06:12Apparently he just wasn't ready to settle down.
06:14But hey, even future kings can have second thoughts.
06:17They crossed paths at a costume party a little while later
06:20where Kate was dressed as a nurse.
06:22Okay.
06:23And apparently that was all it took
06:25to make William come crawling back.
06:27The rest is history,
06:28and they celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary
06:30back in April.
06:31They've come a long way.
06:34Well, Selena Gomez is going makeup free
06:37in not just one selfie,
06:38but a whole series of them
06:39to show fans that natural is beautiful.
06:42Actually, Selena has been on a roll lately.
06:44She also shared these personal pics too,
06:46including some that were pretty glam.
06:48And those came on the heels of even more photos
06:51of Selena looking cozy and so in love
06:53with her boyfriend, Benny Blanco.
06:54And to top it all off,
06:56these sweet snuggles with her little sister, Gracie.
06:58So adorable.
07:01Now it's the sit down with Liz Gillies.
07:03Hi, Liz.
07:04Your new movie spread is streaming on Tubi now.
07:06Your character, Ruby, is an aspiring journalist
07:09who's broke.
07:10So she has to start temping
07:11at an outdated adult magazine company.
07:13It's hysterical, but also quite sweet.
07:16What appealed to you most about this project?
07:18I found the characters to be so endearing
07:20and also so lost in their own way,
07:23yet sort of unabashedly original.
07:25And that's why, although she doesn't see it at first,
07:28Ruby fits in so well with these weirdos
07:30as they're described in the film.
07:33And I think it's so interesting
07:35how she finds herself in this place
07:37she never expected to be doing something
07:40she hoped she'd never be doing.
07:41And she ends up not only thriving there,
07:44but making lifelong friends
07:45and discovering who she really is.
07:47And it just kind of shows us
07:48sometimes the places we end up
07:50are not the places we necessarily want to be
07:53or would have chosen for ourselves,
07:54but where we need to be.
07:56It's almost a coming of age,
07:57but I guess I'm too old to be coming of age now.
08:00So I can't even play coming of age characters,
08:02but you know what I mean.
08:04In real life, what's a job you want to temp at?
08:06Whether it's a hobby you have
08:08or you think you'd be good at it,
08:09or just curious.
08:11I actually tried to get a job
08:12after my Broadway show closed at Cold Stone Creamery
08:15and did not get the gig.
08:16I thought because I sang
08:17and they have to sing the happy birthday song,
08:19it was like a shoo-in,
08:20but no, they had no interest in me.
08:22Oh my God!
08:23It's hard to believe it's been almost two years
08:25since the Dynasty finale.
08:27You played such a strong, dramatic character
08:29who had quite a mouth on her.
08:31What was the last thing
08:32that made you want to bring out your inner Fallon?
08:35Unfortunately, she's stuck with me forever now.
08:37So it happens more often than I'd like to admit.
08:39Whenever I'm really pressed in a way by somebody,
08:43like to give you an example,
08:44if it's like a contractor,
08:46I'm going to buy a piece of furniture or something,
08:48anything that's negotiable
08:49or I feel I'm taken advantage of in any possible way.
08:52It could be anywhere.
08:53It could be someone cutting me in line.
08:54It doesn't even matter.
08:55I immediately turn into her
08:56and I sort of just not tear them apart.
08:58I just sort of take charge.
09:00And I try not to use any of her old lines.
09:02I try not to throw them around.
09:03They're a little too mean.
09:04Fight me, Crystal.
09:05Oh, please, call me mom.
09:08You also have a wedding anniversary coming up.
09:10So to celebrate,
09:10are you and hubby more low-key nighting kind of people
09:13or is your style go big or go home?
09:16We're so low-key.
09:17We're the opposite of,
09:18I don't even think we actually had a proper honeymoon
09:20now that I think about it,
09:21just because I was working
09:22and we got married during the pandemic
09:23and it just never timed out.
09:25We're very low-key.
09:26We like to get each other very funny gifts.
09:28One year, my husband adopted a cockroach for me,
09:32which I loved so much.
09:33We might go away this year,
09:35but it's usually a staycation situation.
09:36It's nothing too...
09:38We just want to chill and we're obsessed with our dogs.
09:40We'd rather hang out with our dogs any day of the week.
09:43Okay, real quick.
09:44You know we got to talk about you and your bestie,
09:46Ariana Grande.
09:47How excited are you for Wicked?
09:49I cannot even describe to you how excited I am for Wicked.
09:52Like anybody, I mean our age, younger, older,
09:55everybody, we're just...
09:56That musical was everything to me
09:58when I was younger.
09:59And Ari and I used to sing the songs
10:01and she has been so obsessed with it.
10:03That has been her musical and her obsession
10:05since I met her when she was 13, 14.
10:06And I'm just like, I can't even talk about it.
10:08I get chills and I just, I'm so excited.
10:11I know it's going to be incredible.
10:12It is everything.
10:13I think I'm going to watch it like standing up
10:14in the theater, like when you're a child
10:16watching a Disney movie
10:17and you're just sort of like lip-syncing.
10:19Like, I think that's what I'm going to be
10:22when I watch the movie,
10:23which will be embarrassing, but I don't care.
10:24When do you start planning your famous Halloween costumes?
10:27An idea might have just been born in the last week,
10:31but I cannot say a word past that.
10:34And maybe it'll change,
10:35but there's an idea floating around for sure.
10:38Okay, we're going to put 10 seconds on the clock
10:40to promote any one of your projects.
10:42Ready? Go.
10:43Please go watch Spread.
10:44It's on Tubi.
10:45It's so easy to watch.
10:46It's so free.
10:47It's the funniest movie.
10:48It's the sweetest movie.
10:49It'll make you laugh.
10:50Harvey Keitel is in it.
10:52It's the best.
10:52Go watch it.
10:53Everyone's loving it.
10:54Join the club.
10:55Be cool. Don't be a loser.
10:57Liz, thank you so much for being here today.
10:59Thank you so much.