Mandy Mooreknows the ending ofThis Is Us,but even she was shocked to learn what happens in season 4. “There are a few unexpected twists in the information that we find out in episode one of this season that I didn’t see coming,” the actress tells PEOPLE. Theseason 4 trailerleft more questions than answers as many new faces will impact the Pearson household in past, present and future. “It’s going to surprise people and it’s satisfying and it does change the game....

What’s in a name? Just a feeling, forDylan Dreyer! During a Friday-morning call-in toTodayto talkabout her newborn son, the show’s meteorologist and third-hour co-anchor revealed that she didn’t have a hugely specific reason for naming himOliver George. “There was no significance behind Calvin and there’s no significance behind Oliver!” Dreyer, 38,told her colleagueswith a laugh. “We liked the name.” The new mom of two added that she and husbandBrian Ficherahad a “list of five different names” leading up to Oliver’s birth, and then when she was covering the Royal Ascot in London, “Everybody we were around was either named Oliver [or we saw it elsewhere]....

Photo: Sheinelle Jones/Instagram Sheinelle Jonesunderwent a successful — but emotionally draining — vocal cord surgery on Monday. TheTodayco-host, 41,revealed on Thursdaythat she would undergo surgery to remove a polyp on her vocal cord that was harming her ability to speak. On Monday night, after the hour-long procedure,she shared on Instagramthat surgery had gone well, and though she won’t have a voice for another two weeks, she woke up trying to talk....

01of 08Ava PerezTLC; david PerezThough she was barely old enough to know what pageants were back in the day, Ava Perez and her enthusiastic dad David were in love with the pageant life — including everything from costume designing and routine choreographing to hair and makeup. “To some people, I probably seemed a bit over the top. But to my dad, I was his princess,” Perez told PEOPLE in 2021.Perez’s interests stretch beyond pageants, but she’s grateful for the lessons she’s learned throughout the years....

Photo: Everett Collection It’s been over 30 years sinceTom Cruiseplayed the infallible Naval Aviator in the 1986 classicTop Gun, but if history is any guide, theMission: Impossiblestar is not averse to sequels. Top Gun: Maverickwill hit theaters in 2019, with Cruise andVal Kilmer, Lieutenant “Iceman” Kazansky, reprising their respective roles in the highly anticipated action drama, along with a new set of co-stars. Director Joseph Kosinski, who previously directed Cruise’s in the 2013 sci-fi dramaOblivion, has experience making sequels decades after their original release, having directed 2010’sTron: Legacy....

Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty (2) Vanderpump RulesstarRaquel Levissis addressing the cause ofher splitfrom ex-fiancéJames Kennedy. On Friday’s episode ofScheana Shay’sScheananiganspodcast, Leviss, 27, revealed that she and Kennedy “broke up the night before” the show’s season 9 reunion taping. The pair, whogot engagedin May after more than five years together, announced their breakup last month ina joint statementon Instagram. Speaking with Shay, Leviss said she realized her “heart wasn’t in this relationship anymore” around the time costarLala Kentbroke upwith her fiancéRandall Emmettin October....

Let the celebrations begin! Over the weekend, Vanderpump Rules starBrittany Cartwrightkicked off her first of two bachelorette parties alongside friends and family in Kentucky. As the festivities began on Saturday, her fiancéJax Taylorshared a sweet photograph of his love smiling whilewearing a bridal veilat the bash. In another picture, Cartwright, 30, smiled as she posed for the camera wearing a veil, as well as a T-shirt which proudly proclaimed “I’m the bride....

Photo: Nicole Weingart/Bravo Tom Sandovaldouble downed on his “crocodile tears” as his ex-girlfriendAriana Madixand theirVanderpump Rulescostars called out his “victim-blaming” for hisaffairwithRaquel Leviss. Before theSchwartz & Sandyco-owner felt the heat from his castmates on Wednesday’s episode, the first part of theseason 10 reunionbegan with Bravo personalityAndy Coheninterviewing “the principals of the scandal” separately “to hear their sides of the story.” Sandoval, 40, explained to Andy, 54, how the downfall of his relationship with Ariana, 37, ultimately led to him hooking up with the 28-year-old former pageant queen....

Top Row, L-R: Katherine Koonce, Mike Hill, Cynthia Peak Bottom Row, L-R: Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs.Photo: The Covenant School; Facebook (4) Three children and three adults were killed during a shooting ata private Christian school in Nashville on Mondayafter a 28-year-old former student opened fire inside the building. “Our community is heartbroken,” the Covenant School said in a statement emailed to PEOPLE. “We are grieving tremendous loss and are in shock coming out of the terror that shattered our school and church....

Evelyn ‘Lily’ Garcia and her two children.Photo:GoFundMe GoFundMe Family, neighbors, and investigators are still searching for an answer to why a mother in California allegedly killed her two young children and then herself this week, leaving behind the children’s father. Fremont, Calif., police say the “tragic” incident took place in the family’s apartment on the afternoon of June 5. Shortly after 1 p.m. local time, officers arrived at the apartment to find the mother and her two children dead....

Photo: Tibrina Hobson/Getty, Adam Rose/Disney Channel via Getty Wizard of Waverly Placewas almost an entirely different show. “[Disney] had me come out and audition for Alex, then at the last minute they handed me the Harper slides,” Stone, 29, said. “They were like, ‘No, I think you’d be a good fit for this.'” Added Stone, “And then I fought for it to be a series regular.” Selena Gomez (left) and Jennifer Stone onWizards of Waverly Place....

Five years before the demise of one of the most influential groups in country music history, Gary LeVox sat down and co-wrote a song that he knew darn well wasn’t meant forRascal Flatts. Rather, it was meant for him. “I said to myself, ‘I’m not going to pitch it becauseIlove it,” LeVox, 51, remembers during a recent interview with PEOPLE about the prayerful track “Working on Sunday” that he wrote alongside Cledus T....

Photo: Beth Dubber/Netflix As Joe Goldberg’s teenaged neighbor inYouseason 2, Jenna Ortega is poised to make herself comfortable in your living room. The California native has already racked up several credits as a lively teenager — she previously starred in Disney Channel’sStuck in the Middleas Harley Diaz, the engineering whiz in a family of seven kids, and as young Jane in The CW’sJane the Virgin— but inYou, Oretga’s character Ellie is a sharp-tongued high-schooler and wannabe filmmaker who ends up playing a critical role in Joe’s (Penn Badgley) adjustment to Los Angeles....