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Celeb in 5: Wednesday's best entertainment and gossip news.

 

1. P.S. I Love You is getting a sequel and we’re already crying.

It’s been a long time coming but it seems we’re finally going to get a sequel to P.S. I Love You.

Although there’s no news of a sequel to the 2007 film, we will be getting a sequel to the novel later this year.

The author behind the bestselling romance novel announced the news on Twitter last week.

“I have BIG NEWS!” author Cecelia Ahern wrote on Twitter.

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“I’ve written the sequel to P.S. I Love You – titled Postscript. Postscript will be published September 19th in the UK and Ireland. I hope you’ll welcome back Holly and Gerry and that reading it will be as emotional for you as it was for me.”

Ugh, we’re already crying.

P.S. I Love You, which was released in 2004, propelled Ahern to fame in 2007 when Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler starred in the screen adaptation of the same name.

2. MAFS’ Mick’s latest comments about Tamara may confirm their unlikely relationship.

Well, well, well.

It turns out the latest MAFS rumour – that Tamara and Mick have coupled up post-experiment – may actually hold some truth.

How do we know this?

According to TV Week, Mick described Tamara as a ‘great chick’, which basically translates to ‘we are in love and expecting triplets’.

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We are not sure where they are registered at this stage.
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To keep you up to speed - Mick was fake-married to old mate Jess, who cheated on him with Dan, who was married to Tamara.

Jess and Dan have reportedly continued dating after the show, and Tamara and Mick have been spotted out together.

So it seems we have a straight partner swap on our hands, people.

Speaking with TV Week magazine this week, Mick said he wished he was paired with Tamara from the beginning and we feel he is missing the point a bit but we see where he's coming from.

I mean, the ~drama~ is what we're here for, Mick.

(The man was held captive for three weeks straight so we will cut him some slack).

"I don't think they realised that if they left the experiment they wouldn't fall off the face of the earth," he said of his fake wife Jess and Dan's secret fling.

And same, Mick, same.

3. “I was lucky to be portrayed fairly.” The Bachelorette’s Todd King on his reality TV experience.

Following the death of UK Love Island star Mike Thalassitis last week, and the questions his passing has raised about the psychological impact of reality TV, fellow reality stars are shedding light on their own experiences.

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One such star is former Bach favourite Todd King, who took to Instagram yesterday to discuss the unfavourable editing he was lucky to avoid when appearing on Ali Oetjen's season of The Bachelorette.

Todd, who is the same age as Mike was when he died, 26, reminded followers that the 'heroes' and 'villains' of reality TV are just characters invented in post-production.

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He gave an example of a moment which didn't air during the season, where he had spoken about fellow contestant Bill Goldsmith behind his back, betraying his trust.

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Instead of this playing out on our screens, Todd was portrayed as sweet and sensitive type, while Bill was ended up as one of the show's 'bad boys'.

Todd wrote: "I was lucky enough to be portrayed fairly on the Bachelorette, but for some, only the negatives of their experiences are shown to the public.

"Bill is a true gentleman, he was always so gracious in the face of critique and ridicule. I misjudged him and betrayed him - yet he was kind enough to forgive me when he didn't have to and now we have a supportive friendship.

"But you didn't know [from watching the final edit] I stabbed him in the back and shared one of our private conversations."

His candid post comes after close friends of Mike Thalassitis have urged people to stop referring to him as "Muggy Mike", an unfortunate nickname he was given during his season of Love Island.

4. Why fans are furious J K Rowling shared details about Dumbledore’s sex life.

British author J.K. Rowling has revealed that Albus Dumbledore, from her Harry Potter series, and Gellert Grindelwald, from the Fantastic Beasts film, had "a relationship with a sexual dimension."

In 2007, 53-year-old Rowling announced that Dumbledore was a gay man. But last week, audio from the Blu-Ray edition of The Crimes of Grindelwald was unearthed. In the DVD commentary, Rowling says of the relationship between the two characters:

"Their relationship was incredibly intense. It was passionate, and it was a love relationship.

"But as happens in any relationship, gay or straight or whatever label we want to put on it, one never knows, really, what the other person is feeling. You can't know, you can believe you know.

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"So I'm less interested in the sexual side - though I believe there is a sexual dimension to this relationship - than I am in the sense of the emotions they felt for each other, which ultimately is the most fascinating thing about all human relationships."

Author J.K. Rowling. Image via Getty.

So... not exactly a full and open acknowledgment of the the homosexual relationship.

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Rowling published the first book in the series that made her an international household name, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 1997. She wrote six more Harry Potter books before she outed Dumbledore, which she did only after the final novel was published.

So, with yet another minimisation of Dumbledore's sexuality, fans were disappointed in Rowling's explanation.

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5. "I'm always by myself." Last night, Casey Donovan spoke about her aching loneliness.

“I can’t just pretend I don’t need another friend. Guess I’m stuck being lonely.”

This is one of the lines from Casey Donovan’s 2017 song titled Lonely.

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Casey Donovan on Insight. Image: SBS.

Speaking on SBS Insight last night, the former Australian Idol and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here winner opened up about her journey with the emotion, one which has been present in different forms throughout her life.

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“In a world that’s very glitz and glamour, I am always doing things by myself. Coming into an industry where trying to make friends is difficult, because I didn’t know if they wanted to be my friend or if they wanted to be Casey Donovan’s friend. It was tricky navigating that,” she said.

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