Fox steps up to help struggling retailer
Frederick’s of Hollywood, the struggling lingerie company, has a new part-owner in Megan Fox, recurrently under-dressed in those Transformers movies.
In addition to being part-owner, she will be a “brand ambassador.” (That sounds so much better than “paid shill,” doesn’t it?) We don’t know the terms of the deal.
Frederick’s is moving into activewear, so much more wholesome, and perhaps profitable, than the company’s racier underwear. Now there will be a “mom-friendly” line (“sexy comfort”) supposedly designed by Fox, and even men’s underwear, to be called Fred.
Megan, still married to Brian Austin Green, has three kids. She’s 30.
West Wing reunion: If you’re in Ohio this weekend, keep an eye open for six stars of the series The West Wing (NBC, 19992006).
Deadline.com reports that Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina and Mary McCormack will be together in Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton and Columbus on Saturday and Sunday, campaigning for one of the U.S. presidential candidates.
No prize for guessing which one.
The all-female Ocean’s 11 remake has now been fully cast, as Ocean’s 8. Variety mag reports that Sarah Paulson, who just won an Emmy for that O.J. Simpson thing, has accepted the last role in the Las Vegas caper picture.
She joins Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and someone named Awkwafina, an Asian-American rapper (she’s in the new movie Storks). There’s a male director, Gary Ross, and the producer is Steven Soderbergh. Filming starts next month.
Daniel Radcliffe aspires to a role in a certain TV series. Right now he doesn’t want any long-term commitments to a movie franchise or a TV series, he tells the website Digital Spy.
But a guest appearance on Game of Thrones would suit him fine: “If they want to just bring me in and (bad word) kill me, I would be so happy to do that,” he said.