Ian en Paul breiden hun Bourbonmerk in Amerika uit, na een succesvolle pre-sale is het merk nu al te koop in 17 Amerikaanse staten.

The Vampire Diaries stars Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley have expanded the US availability of Brother’s Bond Bourbon after achieving the ‘most successful pre-sale launch’ in the history of Reserve Bar.

Somerhalder and Wesley became the latest celebrities to move into spirits when they launched Brother’s Bond Bourbon in 2020.

The 40% ABV expression is a four-grain, high-rye Bourbon comprised of 65% corn, 22% rye and a percentage of wheat and barley that has not been disclosed. It is aged for a minimum of four years in virgin American oak barrels.

The name of the brand is a nod to the actors’ former roles in supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries, where they played brothers, as well as their shared love of Bourbon and the ‘brotherhood they have formed over the years’.

“Our characters bonded on-screen over Bourbon and so it made sense that we would do the same off-camera,” the duo said. “Never could we have imagined that our creation would come this far and help establish new bonds as well as strengthen old ones. We are so proud of the success of our initial release and are excited to say that this is just the beginning.”

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Danielle is gecast in het theaterstuk ‘Trouble In Mind’ dan van 18 november 2021 tot 9 januari 2022 te zien zal zijn in NYC.

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the full cast joining Tony & Emmy Award winner LaChanze in the Broadway premiere of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, directed by Charles Randolph-Wright.

The company will include Michael Zegen as “Al Manners”, Chuck Cooper as “Sheldon Forrester”, Danielle Campbell as “Judy Sears”, Jessica Frances Dukes as “Millie Davis”, Brandon Micheal Hall as “John Nevins”, Simon Jones as “Henry”, Alex Mickiewicz as “Eddie Fenton” and Don Stephenson as “Bill O’Wray”.

Roundabout’s production of Trouble in Mind comes to Broadway following two recent development readings with director Charles Randolph-Wright. Roundabout audiences will know the work of playwright Alice Childress from the recent online reading of her play, Wine in the Wilderness, as part of Roundabout’s multi-year The Refocus Project, presented in association with Black Theatre United, to spotlight twentieth-century Black plays and their playwrights.

Trouble in Mind begins rehearsals today, September 28 and will begin preview performances on Friday, October 29 with an official opening set for Thursday, November 18, 2021. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, January 9, 2022 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street).

De eerste trailer voor ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ seizoen 3 is verschenen, het nieuwe seizoen begint op 26 juli op The CW.

Since playing on-screen brothers, the former ‘The Vampire Diaries’ stars explore the next phase of their lives together — this time, as business partners.

For Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder, their mutual love of bourbon — much like their brotherly bond — has been over a decade in the making.

The former co-stars turned business partners are famed for their portrayal as vampire brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore on The CW’s franchise hit The Vampire Diaries. But Wesley and Somerhalder’s on-screen brotherhood extends far beyond the eight-season run of the show that catapulted them to stardom.

When they weren’t playing blood-thirsty vampires on-screen, Wesley and Somerhalder were building a thirsty tradition of their own — drinking bourbon, of course, off-set after hours.

“So we could tolerate each other off-screen,” Wesley jokes.

A Louisiana native, Somerhalder grew up surrounded by the culture of Southern whiskey. “I’ve been drinking bourbon for 25 years,” the actor says. “It pumps through my veins.”

So, after over a decade of drinking together, Wesley says that creating their own bourbon “felt like an incredibly organic thing to do.”

And so began their journey to creating Brother’s Bond Bourbon — a passion project that has seen Wesley and Somerhalder through the next stage of not only their professional relationship, but their friendship, as well.

The pair — “attached at the hip,” says Wesley, in their Vampire Diaries days — are now in the midst of what they call their “2.0” phase of life. “This is gonna be another decade together,” Somerhalder says.

For the target audience of their new product, they’re looking to extend beyond that of their TVD following — the show, which ended in 2017, was the 15th most-streamed series of 2020, according to Nielsen’s yearly rankings — and into the homes of bourbon connoisseurs and new whiskey drinkers alike.

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A horrifying undertaking? Not so much. Claire Holt and her costars rose to the challenge when they were tasked with filming themselves for their new comedy, Untitled Horror Movie. The Nick Simon-directed movie came together amid the pandemic while the cast worked from their homes to comply with social distancing.

For Holt, 33, the process had its advantages. “At the time, I was pregnant. It was a perfect opportunity because I was in control of all of the framing and I could easily shoot my stomach out, which was a nice thing,” the actress exclusively told Us Weekly. “But most importantly, I really loved the script, and I loved that Nick and [writer] Luke [Baines] had created this world that was accessible in a pandemic, but we didn’t reference it at all because I think everyone’s got pandemic fatigue. It’s been a really long, hard year for everyone. So we wanted to shoot something that worked in the confines of the world we were living in, but also light and fun and entertaining, which was the ultimate goal.”

Untitled Horror Movie tells the story of six costars who learn that their TV show is about to be canceled. Before facing unemployment, they decide to shoot their own scary movie, only to find out they’ve summoned a dark spirit.

The film also stars Baines, 34, Kal Penn, Darren Barnet, Timothy Granaderos, Katherine McNamara, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Kevin Daniels, Lesly Kahn, Sohm Kapila and Aisha Tyler.

“There were so many elements that came together. I was so excited to work with the rest of the cast and I was also just really interested in challenging myself technically in terms of figuring out the lighting and the camera and the sound and all of the things that go into filmmaking that usually I don’t have any sort of input in or any expertise in,” the Vampire Diaries alum continued. “Everyone was really flexible and the director of photography, Kevin Dugan, is amazing. He could talk us through all of the insane, crazy aspects of setting up the shot and how to light it and what would work best visually for the film. So we figured it out.”

Although the cast didn’t have a crew watching them, Holt came close to an audience — thanks to her son, James, who was 12 months at the time. (She and husband Andrew Joblon also welcomed daughter Elle last year.)

“It was kind of tricky to figure out where I was going to be able to film in the house that was going to be quiet and that he wasn’t going to barge into every five seconds. And also, we shot a lot at nighttime. I wasn’t able to just scream at the top of my lungs or yell at three in the morning. So I was a little limited in terms of where I could shoot in my house,” she explained to Us. “I ended up shooting in one of our guest bedrooms, most of it, and then a little bit outside in the living area, but it worked.”

Playing Kelly was a “fun experience” for Holt, especially because she and her castmates could relate to their characters.

“It’s amazing because we got to talk about all of the things that you don’t normally discuss. What it’s like to be an unemployed actor and what it’s like on a TV show. And we get to really enhance these characters that a lot of us met in our lives,” she said. “And I got to play this really kind of snarky, sarcastic and fun character Kelly, which it’s not something I get to do often. I don’t really do comedy so much.”

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Nog voor het derde seizoen op The CW is begonnen heeft de zender ‘Roswell, New Mexico’ al vernieuwd voor een vierde seizoen.

As part of the fourth season renewal announcement, Mark Pedowitz, Chairman and CEO of The CW network, said, “Though we’re just a few weeks into the new season, we wanted to get a strategic head start on next season with these early renewals, which allows our production teams to start laying out story arcs and hiring staff, and at the same time, continues to provide us with a strong, stable schedule to build on for next season.”

De trailer van het vierde seizoen van ‘Virgin River’ op Netflix is verschenen, verwachting is dat Daniel wel in enkele afleveringen te zien zal zijn. Het nieuwe seizoen is vanaf 9 juli te zien op de streamingsdienst.

Ian heeft in een instagrampost voor de 33e verjaardag van zijn vrouw Nikki laten weten haar dankbaar te zijn voor haar hulp met zijn schulden. Hij laat weten dat hij door slechte zakelijke beslissingen een grote schuld had waarbij zij hem geholpen heeft dit af te lossen.

Actor Ian Somerhalder took to Instagram this weekend to praise his wife Nikki Reed on her 33rd birthday by revealing a very personal chapter in their lives.

The star said he found himself in a “terrible business situation” while shooting “The Vampire Diaries,” which led to Reed spending two years of her life getting Somerhalder out of debt.

“Before Nik and I got together I built a company while shooting ‘TVD’ that was important to me,” Somerhalder wrote. “I invested heavily, I made huge personal guarantees to banks. However due to greed and fraud within that company and fraudulent activities from our biggest customer, not to mention the temporary collapse of the oil and gas industry — I was left in an EIGHT- FIGURE hole.”

Somerhalder, 42, said that time in his life was “a true nightmare day in and day out.”

The actor said he had to travel the world weekly to pay “massive” six-figure banknotes. He said it led to him being in the hospital four times over a two year period, but did not explain the nature of his hospitalizations. Then the “Twilight” star came to his rescue.

“This woman here decided that she didn’t want to see her husband ruin his body/mind/spirit and pulled up her bootstraps and got down in the trenches assembling a team to get to the negotiating table to find a way out,” he wrote.

“I am where I am BECAUSE of this woman,” Somerhalder continued, highlighting his new venture, Brothers Bond Bourbon. “I was able to start my life over because of this woman.”

Somerhalder and Reed were married in 2015. Their daughter, Bohdi Soleil, was born in 2017.

Torrey heeft besloten de serie ‘Chigago Med’ na 6 seizoen te verlaten.

Chicago Med actress Torrey DeVitto on Wednesday addressed her impending exit from the NBC drama in a heartfelt message to fans.

“All good things must come to an end,” she wrote on Instagram, less than an hour after news broke that both she and co-star Yaya DaCosta would not be returning for Season 7. “It has been such an honor and pure joy to bring Dr. Natalie Manning to life for all of you on Chicago Med for the past 6 seasons. But it is now time for me and her to bow out and say goodbye.

“Thank you to all you loyal watchers who adored her as much as I did,” DeVitto added. “I can’t wait to share what’s to come with all of you. New adventures await!”

Both actresses, DeVitto as Dr. Manning and DaCosta as nurse April Sexton, have walked the halls of the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center since the Dick Wolf-produced drama debuted on NBC in 2015. The characters have significant ties to the other shows in the One Chicago universe, appearing in several episodes of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

The rest of the Chicago Med cast — S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead, Brian Tee as Dr. Ethan Choi and Marlyne Barrett as nurse Maggie Lockwood — are all expected to return for Season 7, though their contracts are currently being negotiated.

Torrey is aan het daten met David Ross, de manager van Chigago Cubs en voormalig baseball speler.

ew couple alert! Torrey DeVitto revealed she’s dating Chicago Cubs manager David Ross — and she’s definitely into the new romance.

“Love him madly,” the Chicago Med star, 36, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, May 8, alongside a black and white photo showing her kissing the Dancing With the Stars alum, 44, on the cheek. She also referred to Ross as her “boyfriend” in an Instagram comment on a recent selfie. In the same post, she drew a heart around his head.

“My boyfriend’s team was playing in Cincinnati this weekend!” DeVitto wrote. “The river walk was beautiful! Loved it!”

Friends and fans were eager to share their excitement for the new couple.

“Oh well, look at that…Home Run!” actress Margaret Colin commented on the photo. “Omg this makes me SO happy! You have no idea how much my family LOVES him ❤️❤️❤️,” Rachel Melvin added.

Most recently, the New York native was dating Will Estes. While the former couple didn’t formally announce their breakup, all photos of each other have been deleted from their social media accounts. The Vampire Diaries alum and Blue Bloods actor had confirmed their romance in October 2020.

“We like to keep pretty private about our plans and what we do and stuff. So I don’t want to speak too much on it, but yeah, it’s pretty incredible,” DeVitto told Us Weekly at the time.

The former baseball player, for his part, was previously married to Hyla Ross. The pair wed in 2005 and share three children: Cole, Landri and Harper. David confirmed his divorce had been finalized in February 2020 during an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.

Last fall, the Chicago P.D. star told Us that it’s important whoever she dates shares her passion for advocacy.

“I don’t think I’d be able to connect with somebody who didn’t have a passion of either giving back or wanting to use their good to help the world in whatever way they could,” she said. “We’re in such dire times that it’s like, if you can turn a blind eye to anything that’s going on with the planet, with other human beings, with animals, then to me, it’s like, I don’t know that there would be much for me to connect on.”

Candice heeft in een interview aangegeven het wel zien zitten om terug te keren als Caroline Forbes in ‘Legacies’.

“Yes…I always just say yes. And obviously, COVID changed things and the way that things were filming, so those invitations might even be a little delayed, you know. But, uh, yes. Absolutely. Absolutely.”

De trailer’s van Claire’s nieuwste film ‘Untitled Horror Movie’ is verschenen, de film komt op 15 juni uit. De cast heeft de film tijdens quarantaine zelf opgenomen met camera en heeft elkaar nog nooit in het ‘echt ontmoet’