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Jennifer Aniston will star in and produce a series adaptation of Jennette McCurdy’s bestselling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died. The Apple Studios production will tackle McCurdy’s “heartbreaking and hilarious” account of handling child stardom while dealing with a “narcissistic mother”.
Apple Studios has given the dramedy a 10-episode order, as reported by Variety. The official press release describes the series as a “heartbreaking and hilarious recounting of Jennette McCurdy’s struggles as a former child actor while dealing with her overbearing, domineering mother (Aniston).”
The drama will focus on the dependent relationship between her narcissistic mother, who enjoys being a starlet’s mother, and an 18-year-old actress in a popular kid’s show.
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Along with Ari Katcher (Ramy, Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show), McCurdy will write, executive produce, and showrun the series. Additionally, Aniston will work with Echo Films to produce executive production.
Other notable producers attached to the project include Sharon Horgan and Stacy Greenberg who executive produce for Merman – the production house behind Bad Sisters. LuckyChap, Jerrod Carmichael and Erica Kay are also named as producers.
The series is an expansion of both Aniston’s and Horgan’s relationship with Apple TV+. Aniston currently stars in and executive produces the drama The Morning Show, which is launching its fourth season in September. Likewise, Horgan previously developed the series Bad Sisters” at Apple, with the second season airing in late 2024.
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I’m Glad My Mom Died in 2022, a memoir by McCurdy, quickly rose to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. McCurdy details her tense relationship with her late mother Debra McCurdy in her book, revealing traumatic and unfavorable events like her mother’s refusal to bathe her until she was 18 years old.
Speaking on the Louis Theroux Podcast, McCurdy said her mom would subject her to “breast and vaginal exams in the shower” saying she was “checking for cancer”.
“McCurdy told Theroux” and “I knew it felt against my dignity,” McCurdy said, “But the first time I tried to even say, “Hey, I think I could take a shower myself,” She entered hysterics.
The former Nickelodeon child star started acting at the age of 8 and was a main character on iCarly and Sam & Cat opposite Ariana Grande for years. Jennette admitted that growing up on the Nickelodeon shows caused her mental health to suffer, and that her self-image was drastically impacted as a result.
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Owen Farrell, the former England captain, will be eligible for a remarkable call-up for the Australian tour of the British and Irish Lions.
Utility back Elliot Daly has been ruled out with an arm injury he sustained in Wednesday’s win over the Queensland Reds, and coach Andy Farrell will turn to his son in the interim.
After a difficult season in Paris with Racing 92, 33-year-old Owen Farrell recently made his Saracens debut.
Before taking a break from England duty after the 2023 Rugby World Cup, he won 112 caps for his nation.
There is no denying Farrell’s credentials because he was a Test Lion on the 2013 and 2021 tours.
However, his request is contentious.
After suffering a concussion while playing for Racing against Lyon on May 4, his final game for the Top 14 side, Farrell hasn’t played international rugby in nearly two years and hasn’t played at all in nearly nine weeks.
Other contenders have been training and getting ready for competitive rugby with their respective national teams, including Blair Murray from Wales and Tom Jordan from Scotland.
However, Andy Farrell confirmed that Owen, despite not having any international rugby, was in contention for a place in the Lions squad when he named them on May 8th.
The Lions’ midfield could change with Farrell’s inclusion, with the Saracens playmaker comfortable at both the fly-half and inside center.
Finn Russell, Bundee Aki, and Sione Tuipulotu are the clear favorites to start the Test series at fly-half, as of right now.
Marcus Smith had yet to have the opportunity to start in his preferred position of number 10, while Fin Smith had been scheduled to serve as Russell’s backup.
After the Lions defeated the Queensland Reds 52-12, Andy Farrell suggested even if Daly was ruled out, they still had “lots of full-backs.”
Hugo Keenan and Blair Kinghorn, who both arrived late following Toulouse’s Top 14 victory, have both struggled with injuries and illness, respectively.
Four days later, the Lions take on the ACT Brumbies in Canberra before hosting the New South Wales Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday.
Following the deaths caused by weather-related deaths in other parts of China, northern and western China are still on high alert as a result of more torrential rain.
Rains made their way to Gansu province in the northwest and then Liaoning province in the northeast on Thursday, making it extremely dangerous.
More than 1, 000 rescue workers were dispatched to Taiping, a town in central Henan province, on Wednesday as a river burst its banks, causing three people to pass away and three to go missing, according to state media.
After a heavy downpour on Wednesday and Thursday, another state media report confirmed the death of two people at a construction site in Gansu.
In Hubei, China’s central province of Xianfeng experienced a record-breaking summer downpour, bringing in more than a month of rain in just 12 hours, with local videos demonstrating how torrents werehed away cars.
Authorities there evacuated 18, 000 people on Tuesday, shut down schools, and halted bus services.
China’s Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing reaffirmed his country’s leadership’s call to increase the volume of evacuations over the course of a two-day visit to Hebei, which included a visit to the province’s northern province.
Although there is a nationwide system to forecast and monitor severe weather, scientists say it’s challenging to make localized forecasts, especially in rural areas without the capacity to do so.
Early this week, Meng Gao, a climate modelling specialist at Hong Kong Baptist University, told the Reuters news agency that it is challenging to accurately forecast the intensity and exact location of heavy rain.
More than $10 billion in economic losses were caused by the “plum rains” in China last July, which came about during the plum-ripening season.
The Gaza Government Media Office claims that Israel has committed “26 bloody massacres” during that time, including more than 300 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Government Media Office.
33 desperate aid seekers are among the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites where at least 73 people have been killed by Israel since dawn on Thursday.
According to medical sources who spoke to Al Jazeera, Israeli forces killed 13 people when they attacked a tent in al-Mawasi in the south of Gaza, and another 11 were killed and many were hurt in an Israeli attack on the Mostafa Hafez school, which provides shelter to displaced people west of Gaza City.
The attacks, according to a statement from the government media office on Thursday, targeted civilians in shelters and displacement centers overrun with tens of thousands of displaced people, Palestinian families living inside their homes, popular markets and crucial civilian facilities, and starving civilians looking for food.
According to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press news agency, American contractors ostensibly guarding Gaza’s aid distribution centers have been using live ammunition and stun grenades to pelpel Palestinians for food.
Under the condition of anonymity, two US contractors claimed they were speaking out because they found these practices to be dangerous. They claimed that the security personnel they were employing frequently lacked credentials, improper training, excessive weapons, and an open mind to do whatever they desired.
On Tuesday, more than 130 humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and Amnesty International, demanded the GHF’s immediate closure, alleging it to be a source of aid to Palestinians who are starving.
According to the NGOs, Israeli forces and armed groups “routinely” fire on civilians who attempt to get food.
Nearly 4, 000 Palestinians have been hurt and more than 600 have died since the GHF started operating in late May.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 56 of the 647 people killed and 134 of the 105 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. During the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks, an estimated 1, 139 people died in Israel, and more than 200 were taken prisoner.
Hamas claims to be looking into new options for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, but it insisted that an agreement would put an end to Israel’s bloody conflict is still being sought.
Hamas said in a statement on Wednesday that it had received mediation proposals and is speaking with them to “bridge gaps” so that it can return to the table of negotiations and attempt to reach a ceasefire agreement.
The group stated that its goal was to reach a resolution that would end the occupation of Gaza and allow the enclave’s Israeli forces to leave.
The announcement comes a day after Donald Trump said Hamas should accept the proposed 60-day ceasefire and that Israel had agreed to it. Trump has been putting more pressure on Hamas and the Israeli government to negotiate a ceasefire and for the release of Israeli prisoners in Gaza.
George Russell, a Mercedes driver, tells John Watson on BBC Breakfast that he will “give it everything” to win this weekend’s British Grand Prix.
He also discusses the Silverstone support that he and the other British drivers receive.