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Saturday, April 4

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As a Kennedy scion, Jack Schlossberg got outsized attention when he launched his congressional campaign in New York City late last year.

He was already a social media star — in part through his relentless attacks on his cousin, Trump administration heath secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and had been bouncing around the national Democratic scene very much looking the part of a Kennedy heir.

Now, among a crowded field hoping to win a prized House seat in Manhattan, Schlossberg has another potential advantage no other candidate could dream of: a hit TV show about his family that’s renewed Kennedy clan fervor.

Actress Blake Lively vowed to keep fighting after a federal judge dismissed most of her claims in her sexual harassment lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star, Justin Baldoni.

In a 152-page ruling, on Thursday U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman tossed out 10 of Lively’s 13 claims against Baldoni, including harassment, defamation and conspiracy. He allowed three other claims to proceed to a trial scheduled to begin in May: breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation.

Lively issued a statement to her Instagram stories on Friday saying she was grateful for the court’s ruling because the case will now go to trial and she will get the opportunity to “tell [her] story in full.”

Dakota Mortensen, the ex-boyfriend of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul, will be edited out of the upcoming season of “Vanderpump Villa,” a source familiar with the show confirmed to NBC News.

The news, which Variety was first to report, is the latest fallout surrounding Mortensen and Paul following reports that the on-again, off-again couple are involved in an open domestic violence investigation.

The cast of Hulu’s “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” subsequently paused filming for Season 5, and ABC pulled Paul’s upcoming season of “The Bachelorette. (Both Hulu and ABC are owned by Disney.)

Young people in China hoping to boost their chances of success have a new digital good luck charm: American reality TV star Kris Jenner.

Gen Z social media users are channeling the wealthy Kardashian-Jenner matriarch’s “momager” energy to manifest their own prosperity in a tough economy. Images of Jenner, 70, have been proliferating in recent days across Chinese platforms such as Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Douyin, most commonly in profile pictures or screen wallpapers.

Digitally transformed into a CEO in a suit, a doctor in a white coat, or a Ph.D. student in a graduation gown, she is a shape-shifting symbol reflecting users’ varying career goals.

Melissa Gilbert, who is married to actor Timothy Busfield, is speaking out for the first time since her husband was charged with child sex abuse.

In a preview of an interview with Gilbert on “Good Morning America,” Gilbert said the past few months have been “the most traumatizing experience of our lives.”

The full interview is set to air on “Good Morning America” on Monday.

Move over, “Scandoval.” Here comes “Scamanda.”

“Summer House” viewers and internet fans were officially “activated” after recently separated Amanda Batula and fellow cast member West Wilson revealed their surprise romance.

The hit Bravo reality TV show, now airing its 10th season on Peacock, follows a group of friends and their antics in a vacation home in the Hamptons in New York.