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November 30, 2016

Jasmine Tookes and Elsa Hosk Reveal How They're Preparing for the 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show

What does a supermodel do hours before she struts down a catwalk in lingerie and wings?

Victoria's Secret Angels Jasmine Tookes and Elsa Hosk are not newcomers to the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, so they've got their routines down. And these two runway veterans spilled their preparation secrets to E! __news the day before this year's show, which is taking place in Paris for the first time. 

"I feel like it almost gets easier" every year, says Jasmine, who will be wearing the $3 million Bright Nights Fantasy Bra tomorrow night. "My first year I was panicking, I was working out everyday, freaking out."

However, the model explains that with time and experience she has grown more comfortable with herself and her body. Jasmine explains that this time around "it's kind of a good feeling" because "it's more excitement and, like, nervous jitters and you just want to be on the runway."

Before arriving in Paris, all of the 2016 Victoria's Secret Angels traveled together to France. Jasmine gushed, "it was so much fun, that's like one of my favorite parts about it because we all get to fly together." 

Meanwhile, Elsa dished the deets on the Angel bonding during the plane ride. "Everyone was dancing," she said, and "all the new girls were having a full-on party."  

So, with one day left before the big show, how will these two spend their time? 

Elsa explains, "we are doing our last workout today and we're just going to target the glutes and do all the areas that need a little extra love." She adds, "I don't go too hard the day before because then I might be sore on the runway." 

The VS Angels also stress the importance of eating healthy and nourishing their bodies. Elsa mentions that before walking down the runway it is vital to be "eating lots of proteins, vegetables, things that will just nourish your body from the inside."

Jasmine says that bubble baths, face masks, early bedtimes and meditation are part of her routine the night before the show. She reveals, "I'm normally a night owl, so it's going to be a little bit tough for me. I'm going to force myself to be in bed hopefully by 10 p.m."

There's no doubt these two are looking forward to the runway extravaganza as Jasmine states, "We're feeling excited, and I think we're ready...We've been training so hard for this show, and tomorrow is the big day!" 

The 2016 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show takes place Wednesday in Paris and will air Dec. 5 at 10 p.m. on CBS.

16 Holiday Dresses You Can Wear Just as Well as Rita Ora or Gigi Hadid

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Now is your time to shine!

The holidays are the perfect season to put those sequins to good use. From now until New Year's, you're bound to hit your fair share of soirees. From the birthday parties of your Sagittarius friends, Hanukkah celebrations, Christmas festivities, Kwanzaa gatherings and New Year's Eve extravaganzas, there's a lot to plan for.

How do you shine bright without blinding fellow party-goers? Welcome to Hollywood living. Celebs hire stylists to ease the stress of shopping for all of their appearances. No stylist? No problem. We've got everything you need right here.

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Celeb Clothes Under $100

Come the holidays, anything goes. Rita Ora, Karlie Kloss and Rachel Platten proved that all that glitters is gold with their recent sequined dresses. For a modern edge, mix and match metallics, like Jourdan Dunn, to turn heads. 

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To really elevate your look like the fashion elite, consider shiny pleats. If Gigi Hadid and Nicole Kidman can wear the same Pleated Lamé Long Dress from Christopher Kane's Spring/Summer 2017 collection, so can you! Confidence is everything. Not to mention, holiday cheer starts with the right wardrobe.

Looking for beautiful dresses to make the season bright? Keep clicking for our holiday picks!

Inside Leah Remini's Journey Since the Release of Her Scientology-Skewering Memoir a Year Ago

Consider 2015 the year that Leah Remini audited Scientology right back.

The actress' raison d'etre for awhile now has been to lift the veil on the controversial and infamously secretive Church of Scientology, which counts among its members a host of celebrities, including Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley and Beck.

After a couple of years of speaking out about her own experience, it seemed as though Remini's mission was reaching its peak with the release of her 2015 memoir, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, about what she believed to be Scientology's manipulative ways and its harassment of ex-members who ultimately rejected the church's teachings, herself included.

But it turned out that Remini was just getting started.

A year after her book earned her the widespread scorn of the church (two years after her leaving had already made her persona non grata), her journey continues to play out on the A&E series Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, which premiered last night. 

And just as Remini surely anticipated, the church hasn't eased up on its portrayal of the actress as a has-been desperately using Scientology to stay relevant.

So have unfolded the ups and downs that Remini has faced since her book was published a year ago:

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18 Winners and Losers of the 2016 Fall TV Season

Remini first opened up about leaving Scientology after more than 30 years around the time she competed on Dancing With the Stars in 2013. In the TLC series Leah Remini: It's All Relative, which lasted for two seasons, she continued to expound upon her decision to leave the church and the repercussions she faced.

And then came the book in which she claimed, among other things, that Kirstie Alley–who had publicly bashed Remini in 2013 as a "bigot" for criticizing what was still Alley's faith—gave her former DWTS partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy the cold shoulder after finding out he had been socializing with Remini during her time on the show.

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"She needs to move on with her life instead of pathetically exploiting her former religion, her former friends and other celebrities for money and attention to appear relevant again," the church said in a lengthy statement in response to the book.

Moreover, "when her firing from The Talk erupted into a public embarrassment for her in 2012, we tried to help pick her up off the floor. But she treated everyone around her in a degrading, bullying manner. Her behavior was intolerable.

"Leah Remini knows the truth she conveniently rewrites in her revisionist history. The real story is that she desperately tried to remain a Scientologist in 2013, knowing full well she was on the verge of being expelled for refusing to abide by the high level of ethics and decency Scientologists are expected to maintain. Her repeated ethical lapses and callous treatment of others led to an ecclesiastical review which resulted in her being expelled."

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Tom Cruise, who inevitably factors into a high-profile conversation about Scientology whenever there is one, never publicly responded to any of Remini's reminiscences about his status within the church or her experiences being around him and his then-partner Katie Holmes.

A source claimed to Us Weekly, however, that Cruise considered Remini's memoir and her equally explosive press tour a "major betrayal."

Holmes, meanwhile, said in a statement," I regret having upset Leah in the past and I wish her only the best in the future."

Buoyed by the inherent drama in her own story, as well as mass interest stirred earlier in the year by the much-discussed HBO documentary Going Clear, based on Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief, Remini's memoir hit No. 3 on the hard-cover non-fiction sales chart in its first week out.

On set with these beauties @nayarivera @tiffanyhaddish #madfamilies #sonycrackle

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Once her book tour was over, Remini carried on with her day to day business of being a working actress, filling in for Erin Andrews as guest co-host on Dancing With the Stars, appearing as a panelist on Match Game and shooting a few movies, including the upcoming comedy The Clapper with Amanda Seyfried, Adam Levine and Tracy Morgan. She also shared a pic of herself on the set of the Crackle-bound movie Mad Families with co-star Naya Rivera.

What a delightful place this is ;) @UniStudios #WizardingWorldHollywood

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Remini and husband Angelo Pagán also celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary in July, and their daughter, Sofia, turned 12 in June. Leah and Sofia went to Universal Studios earlier this fall and the whole family did a Disneyland trip a couple weeks ago.

But as it turned out, for most of the year Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath was in the works at A&E. News of their planned collaboration didn't break until September, on the very day Troublemaker came out in paperback.

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Leah Remini and the Church of Scientology Are at War...Again

The docu-series premiere featured clips of Remini praising her surroundings back when she was a full-fledged Scientologist in the 1990s, her words all the more striking when juxtaposed to what she would go on to say.

Throughout the show, there are numerous reminders of where to go online to read the church's heated rebuttals to Remini's claims.

"Leah Remini's 'reality' show, like her last one, is nothing more than a scripted, rehearsed, acted and dramatized work of fiction," begins a statement published Nov. 26 on Scientology Newsroom. "She and the other anti-Scientologists in her program have been expelled from the Church for unethical conduct." It called those participating in Remini's show "a cast of admitted liars" and stated that A&E's participation "smacks of bigotry."

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So Remini is once again on a whirlwind promotional tour, much like last year, sitting down with Ellen, Dr. OzTodayE! NewsThe Hollywood Reporter and more in her continued endeavor to speak her truth.

She told us that the two most famous Scientologists around, Cruise and John Travolta, won't reach out to her, first of all, because they're "not allowed" to reach out to her.

"They wouldn't want to reach out to me," she added, "because what they've been taught is that I mean them harm, that I am an anti-social personality that means them harm, that I literally wake up in the morning and want them to fail in life. That is the mentality."

With seven more episodes of her show slated to air on A&E, the antagonistic back-and-forth between the two parties isn't expected to abate any time soon, though it isn't far-fetched to think that the church is not-so-secretly praying for Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath to be a ratings loser.

In a response to the church's claim that she tried to extort $1.5 million from them in exchange for staying quiet, Remini told The Hollywood Reporter that any ask for money on her part "was a response to the horrific and libelous letters that they sent me. They were trying to stop this show from happening. They were trying to disparage my name and my reputation with 20/20 and ABC and the public at large. So that was my response to what they were doing. I actually haven't sued them, so I'm not going to see one red cent."

But Remini insisted to E! __news that she isn't doing the A&E show for her own benefit, financially or otherwise.

"The people who are just average people who dedicated their lives to this organization and are willing to tell me their stories, these are the brave people of the world," she said. "With the series, they will hopefully get the acknowledgement they deserve."

Khloe Kardashian Claps Back at Critics Who Thought Her Denim Factory Looked Like a Sweat Shop

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Attention Khloe Kardashian followers: You better know your facts before you tweet.

On Tuesday afternoon, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star gave fans an inside look into her Good American denim factory.

But while giving a behind-the-scenes look into how the jeans are made, the businesswoman received a few concerns from fans.

"By the looks of @khloekardashian Snapchat, she's got a sweat shop working on her jeans," one Twitter follower wrote. As it turns out, Khloe saw the message and decided to fire back.

"Watch your mouth. All make salaries and all are employed in la! Know your info before you chime in," she explained. "It means a lot to me to fight to make my denim in the US and to be employing good wages to all of my hardworking employees!"

In the midst of her busy day, the reality star also traveled to Orange County to speak at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit.  While speaking about her denim line with business partner Emma Grede, Khloe opened up about balancing being a businesswoman and celebrity.  

"It's a blessing to be documenting your life to a degree. There are still 24 hours in a day. We have to utilize them," she explained. "We film 10-12 hours every day, meetings after and the gym before… you just have to make things work. We're only young once. Let's just do it now. I think it's invigorating."

Khloe, along with her sisters, also have a personal brand they continue to develop each and every day. While Kylie Jenner lives and breathes makeup, Khloe explained that she's all about women empowerment and fitness.

"I was always the fat ugly sister, the piglet. It took three and a half years before I got recognition," she shared. "I easily could've gone on some diet fad or gone surgery route and I'm not against that and I'd be in the gym and people would ask me what I was training for."

Khloe continued, "[I was training] for life, for my day to day and now it's paying off. I think people are just now realizing. But this has been something I've worked on for three and a half years."

—Reporting by Sara Kitnick

Bianca Returns! Watch Mariah Carey Impersonate Her ''Evil'' Alter Ego

She's back!

Mariah Carey's alter ego Bianca is making her return. Back in 1999, Bianca made her debut as Carey's arch-nemesis in the singer's "Heartbreaker" music video and now Carey is bringing her back in this exclusive interview with E! News' Zuri Hall.

"Bianca is a character that I made up a long time ago when we were doing the 'Heartbreaker' video with Brett Ratner, my Aries brother," Carey explains in the video above. "We wanted to do me as the evil, you know like the bad version of me."

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In the music video, Carey has a fight with Bianca in the bathroom and the songstress reveals that the scene was actually all put together by Jackie Chan's choreographer!

After the video shoot, Carey admits she "became obsessed" with the alter ego and says it's "fun" to be her and talk like her.

This past April, Carey teased Bianca's return on Twitter by posting photos of herself dressed up as her alter ego and now it sounds like we might get to see Bianca on Carey's new E! series.

So what would Bianca say about Carey's new show Mariah's World?

Watch the video above to find out and to see Carey impersonate her "evil" alter ego!

Watch the series premiere of Mariah's World Sunday, Dec. 4 at 9 p.m., only on E!

Jennifer Aniston Just Made Her Snapchat Debut Thanks to Ellen DeGeneres

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Is that the friend we think it is?!

If you found yourself clicking through Snapchat Tuesday afternoon, a familiar face may have shown up on your phone.

Before making an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jennifer Aniston did something she's never done before. She just posted her first selfie on Snapchat.

As seen on Ellen DeGeneres' profile, the Friends star gave us some serious duck face as she posed for the camera before hitting the stage.

The social media moment may come as a pleasant surprise to fans of the A-list actress. After all, the Hollywood star hasn't been the biggest fan of social media.

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After taking over her beauty company Living Proof's Instagram account, Jennifer admitted to People that it wasn't the best experience.

"I was so stressed out, sweating bullets," she told the publication in 2015. "It was too much pressure."

She also voiced her concerns about the younger generation who spends more than a little time on various social media outlets.

"Kids aren't speaking to each other anymore," she shared. "I was with friends of ours from Vermont and their two kids don't have an iPhone or an iPad. They were 9 and 12 and were the most interesting young adults. Seeing other kids on their [phones] all the time, it makes me sad."

If it's any consolation, viewers will be totally glued to the small screen when she appears on the Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss her new film Office Christmas Party.

Day 6 of Ellen's 12 Days of Giveaways and Derek Hough will also be a part of Wednesday's all-new episode.

You're 1 Scarf Away From a Complete Winter Wardrobe

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Scarves are so underrated.

For whatever reason when we picture that necessary winter accessory our parents forced us to wear growing up, we have immediate flashbacks of the less-than-stylish ones our grandmothers used to knit us. But lucky for us, that's totally not the case anymore. #Blessed

That bad rep scarves used to have went out the door the day fashion gods started making ones like this. And this. And this. And the one Priyanka Chopra's wearing above. Starting to get the picture?

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Winter Jackets Under $100

There are thin scarves, thick scarves, long scarves, short scarves, wide scarves, cotton scarves, faux fur scarves...the list goes on. So no matter your personal style, there's bound to be your perfect match out there. Somewhere. (And by somewhere, we mean right here.)

So without further ado, it's time you had a mini lesson in scarf styles! 

Click here for a little celeb inspiration and a lot of great finds that will surely keep you warm this winter.

A Definitive Ranking of Jennifer Lopez's Movies: Selena, The Wedding Planner and More

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Jennifer Lopez is the triple threat: she's an actress, a singer and a businesswoman. 

However, with her ever-developing music career, we sometimes forget that she actually got her start as an actress.

J.Lo took on her very first leading role playing Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in the biopic Selena in 1997, for which she earned her very first Golden Globe nomination. 

However, her first film came years before that in 1986 with a smaller role in My Little Girl, a film about a young woman who agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents.

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After that, she tried out several television roles before getting back into film with 1995's My Family and Money Train

She continued her career by finding her niche in lots of romantic comedies—including our favorites like Maid in Manhattan and The Wedding Planner—but also switched things up from time to time with surprising roles like Enough and Out of Sight.

Check out our ranking of her worst to best films in the gallery above!

Why Dolly Parton Couldn't Watch Her NBC TV Movies in Front of People (Hint: It Involves Eyelashes)

Dolly Parton has seven Grammys—including a Lifetime achievement one—numerous other music accolades, Emmy nominations, Oscar nominations and Golden Globe nominations, but she still found watching her life brought to life on the TV screen "overwhelming."

"In fact, one of my favorite things is my sister Stella, she plays Corla Bass…the owner of the merchandise store…We knew that we couldn't watch it with the whole crowd when they had a preview because I knew I'd just cry my eyes out and I didn't want to look stupid and lose my eyelashes either, and look bad," she admitted to E! __news on set of Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love.

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So, what did Stella and Dolly do? They got set up with a private screening.

"It was so strange. Stella and I were walking in and we said, ‘Is this not amazing,' here we are, just walking up the steps, ‘that we're going to see a movie about our family, about us?' Like, who knew when we were ragged-ass kids like that, back there in the mountains, who knows how you're ever going to wind up? But It was just such a touching thing and of course we both sat there and cried the whole time," she told us. "It was great. My family loved it, they all cried."

What's next after Christmas of Many Colors?

"I have thousands of songs I'd like to turn into movies and series," she said. Currently in the wings? "Jolene" and maybe "The Seeker." Watch the video above to get an update on those projects and to hear more from Dolly.

Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love airs Wednesday, Nov. 30 on at 9 p.m. on NBC.

(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)