Alec Baldwin back on ‘Rust’ set… Stephen Wayda interview… Mariah Carey drops 50 pounds… Taylor Swift’s cut hand… and Morgan Wallen receives backlash

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After the October 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, filming on the Western movie “Rust” came to a full stop. And with charges dropped against him — at least for now — Alec Baldwin moved the set from New Mexico to Montana to resume filming. At the same time, he’s taking part in a documentary about Halyna’s shooting death. As he was preparing to leave New York for Montana, Alec was interviewed by filmmaker Rory Kennedy, who’s behind several documentaries on issues like addiction, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, nuclear radiation, and now this “Rust” shooting. And yes, she’s from THE Kennedys. She’s the youngest child of Sen. Robert and Ethel Kennedy. When he was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy left behind 10 children, and Ethel was 3 months pregnant with Rory at the time.

The photographer behind some of “Playboy” magazine’s biggest celebrity shoots is taking part in a TV series called “Shooting Sex.” Stephen Wayda will reveal more in the series, but he gave a few snippets to the “Daily Mail.” Stephen was responsible for Kim Kardashian’s 2007 cover shoot, but he was actually the second photographer to shoot her. After the first set of photos wasn’t approved, they had to do some reshoots, but Kim and her mom wanted to approve the photographer. It was NOT Stephen, but that’s who was there when Kim and Kris showed up. He said, “They brought Kim and her mom in on the pretense that we were just going to redo the cover and while I was doing that, the art director told me you need to get a full set. I had no sets, no wardrobe, they had no idea and at first Kris said: ‘Absolutely no.’” But then Stephen got then to agree to taking just one photo, have him fix his lighting, take another, and then if they didn’t like it, they would call it a day. But when they saw what he’d done, they agreed, but they had to work through the whole set like that, negotiating one picture at a time. Stephen also says Kim’s photos in that Playboy issue were not edited. Stephen also shot Demi Moore hours before she shaved her head for “GI Jane.” He shot Pamela Anderson the day after “her first night of passion” with Tommy Lee.

RadarOnline is reporting that Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka are engaged and could possibly be married as early as this summer. It’s about danged time! Mariah and Bryan have been together for 7 years. Radar’s source also claims Mariah has lost 50 pounds to get into her wedding dress. Engagement rumors started on Easter when Mariah shared a video where she’s blowing a kiss while holding a bunny, and a gigantic diamond on THAT finger was on full display. Meantime, Simone Biles hopped on Instagram to answer some of her fans’ questions about her courthouse wedding to Houston Texans player Jonathan Owens this past weekend. She said they will be having a destination wedding in a couple weeks, but they had to make it legal here in the US. She also revealed she got their courthouse wedding rings on Amazon because she’s saving their real rings for the destination wedding. She also revealed that her color scheme is champagne, gold and white, and she’ll have 8 bridesmaids, 7 groomsman, and bout 140 guests. And while she only spent $119 on her courthouse wedding dress and ordered her shoes from Amazon, Simone is wearing FOUR gowns at her destination wedding!

During her second of three sold-out shows in Houston, Taylor Swift’s fans were very concerned when she returned to stage with a huge cut on her left hand. One Swiftie said it happened between “Tolerate It” — which was the last song in the “folklore” era portion of Taylor’s show — and “Ready For It” — the first song in her “Reputation” era. If it hurt, she didn’t let on. Taylor powered through the rest of her show, leaving fans gushing on social media about her superhuman strength and how we don’t deserve her. After a video of Taylor’s injured hand went viral on TikTok, Taylor jumped on Twitter to explain: “…For those asking how I cut my hand, I’m totally fine and it was my fault completely – tripped on my dress hem and fell in the dark backstage while running to a quick change – braced my fall with my palm. It was all very Mercury in retrograde coded. Don’t worry about me I’m gooooood.”

For Morgan Wallen, the show just couldn’t go on. Only 11 dates into his seven-month world tour, Morgan has lost his voice. On Sunday night, fans in Oxford, Mississippi, happily sat through opening acts, HARDY, ERNEST and Nate Smith, but they were all there to Morgan as the headliner. However, just before Morgan was supposed to take the stage, a message flashed on a huge screen: “Ladies & Gentlemen, Unfortunately Morgan has lost his voice and is unable to perform tonight — therefore tonight’s show has been cancelled. Please make your way safely to the stadium exits. Refunds for tonight’s event will be available at point of purchase.” This did not sit well with several audience members, who blasted Morgan on social media. Some even thought he was lying, blaming a bad hangover on laryngitis. Morgan apologized on his Instagram, explaining, “After last night’s show I started losing my voice so I spent the day resting up, talking to my doctor and working through my vocal exercises trying to get better. I really thought I’d be able to take the stage and it kills me to deliver this so close to showtime, but my voice is shot and I am unable to sing. All tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. I am so sorry, I promise you guys I tried everything I could.” Morgan has also canceled his next three concerts in Michigan, Illinois and Nebraska, which will all be rescheduled. His tour picks up again May 4 in Jacksonville, Florida.

 

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