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‘All my love, Elliot’: Actor Page comes out as transgender
Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, the star of “Juno,” “Inception” and “The Umbrella Academy,” came out as transgender Tuesday in an announcement greeted as a watershed moment for the trans community in Hollywood.
Page, 33, said his decision to come out as trans, which also involved changing his first name from Ellen, came after a long journey and with much support from the LGBTQ community.
“I can’t begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self,” Page wrote. “I’ve been endlessly inspired by so many in the trans community. Thank you for your courage, your generosity and ceaselessly working to make this world a more inclusive and compassionate place.”
Page signed the statement, “All my love, Elliot.”
Brown recalls ‘uncomfortable’ fan encounter: ‘I’m a human being’
Millie Bobby Brown is tearfully asking fans to respect her boundaries following an “uncomfortable” encounter with a fan while she was Christmas shopping with her mom.
The “Stranger Things” star wrote on Instagram that a fan recorded Brown, 16, without her consent.
“She said, ‘Can I take a video of you?’ I said, ‘No,’ ” the actress said. Brown said the fan proceeded to record her anyway.
“I said, ‘I’m a human being. What more can I ask from you?’ ” an emotional Brown said. “I asked her and she said, ‘So I can’t take a video of a human being?’ And I said, ‘No, not when I said no.’
Cosby’s sex assault conviction goes before Pa. Supreme Court
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court questioned Tuesday whether Bill Cosby’s alleged history of intoxicating and sexually assaulting young women amounted to a signature crime pattern, given studies that show as many as half of all sexual assaults involve drugs or alcohol. Cosby, 83, hopes to overturn his 2018 conviction because the judge let prosecutors call five other accusers who said Cosby mistreated them the same way he did his victim, Andrea Constand.