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Actresses Eva Longoria and Gina Rodriguez will be among those honored at next month’s
American Latino Media
Arts Awards. Wilmer
Valderrama is host of the celebration of Hispanic achievements in American entertainment and media. Activists Samantha Fuentes and Jamie Margolin also will be honored. Fuentes survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting, and Margolin founded the Zero Hour movement to address climate change. Rodriguez, star of TV’s Jane the Virgin, will share the awards spotlight with the show’s cast. The Nov. 4 ceremony is airing live at 7 p.m. on sibling TV channels Fuse and FM. Performances by Ally Brooke and Amara La Negra will be featured. In a statement Friday, host Valderrama said Hispanic achievements and contributions need to be spotlighted more than ever at what he called a “critical” time. The awards are back after a three-year hiatus in time for the 50th anniversary of UnidosUS, previously known as the National Council of La Raza. UnidosUS is the nation’s largest Hispanic civil-rights and advocacy organization. In 1995, it created the awards as a way to promote fair, accurate and balanced portrayals of Hispanics in the entertainment industry.
Kiernan Shipka, best-known as Don and Betty Draper’s daughter, Sally, on Mad Men, is learning a lot as the star of the new Netflix series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. One of those lessons: She’s allergic to cats, which can be a challenge in portraying a teenage witch whose black cat, Salem, is essentially her sidekick. In a recent interview, Shipka mocked a cradling motion and said, “There’s a still [a photo] of me picking up Salem like this. That’s the exact moment I truly learned that me and cats are not compatible. … I feel like ants are crawling all over my face.” She said she first tried taking a Benadryl to combat the reaction and jokes it was so potent, she doesn’t even remember filming that day. Shipka is the latest in a number of Sabrina the Teenage Witch iterations over the years. The most recent being a 1990s comedy starring Melissa Joan Hart. Shipka said she’s never seen the Hart version but does intend to watch it one day. “I hadn’t seen much or any of the ’90s version just because it was a little bit before my time,” laughed the 18-year-old.