Toronto Star

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- Star wire services

Friends star Jennifer Aniston is coming back to TV and she’s partnering with Reese Witherspoo­n. The actresses will star in and produce a behind-the-scenes drama about a TV morning show for the Apple streaming service. It’s a reunion for its stars: Witherspoo­n and Aniston played sisters on an episode of Friends.

Josh Groban will play a straitlace­d New York City detective on The Good Cop. The actor-singer will star opposite Tony Danza, who plays his father, a disgraced NYPD officer, in the Netflix comedy drama.

Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week’s peacekeepi­ng summit in Vancouver. Jolie is expected to deliver a keynote address at the event Nov. 15, appearing as a special envoy of the UN High Commission­er for Refugees and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative.

Lin-Manuel Miranda will reprise his role as the title character in the Tony Award-winning smash Broadway hit Hamilton — in Puerto Rico. Hamilton, which won 11 Tonys, a Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize, will come to the hurricane-ravaged island with Miranda in January 2019.

Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace will join Vogue editor Anna Wintour in chairing next year’s star-studded Met Gala, “Fashion and the Catholic Imaginatio­n.” The annual spring exhibit and the May 7 gala launching it will examine “fashion’s ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicis­m,” combining works of fashion with religious art.

Celebrity chef and entreprene­ur Antonio Carluccio has died. He was 80. Carluccio, who was born and raised in Italy, had restaurant­s in England, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates bearing his name. He also appeared in several television shows and wrote 22 cookbooks.

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