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Hayden Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, is speaking out about their estrangement in the wake of the actress’ shocking death. “Although my daughter and I were estranged, it was not for lack of care or love,” Vogel, 70, said in a statement to Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, August 20. “It was due to the involvement of a toxic individual who I believe led to her death.” Vogel did not name the “toxic individual” whom she was referring to in her statement. “Hayden was a beautiful and talented young woman who unfortunately became involved with the wrong person, and although her family…

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Hayden Panettiere’s mom, Lesley Vogel, tells ET, ‘I hope all remember Hayden for the beautiful human being inside her and her gift to the world from her time on this Earth.’ This comes after Lesley’s first statement about her daughter’s sudden death left people, including ‘CBS Mornings’ anchor Gayle King, confounded. Hayden, who was 36, died on Aug. 16 while in Greenville, South Carolina with her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Brian Hickerson. The cause of death is still under investigation, although first responders seemed to suspect an overdose in dispatch communications, obtained by ET. More from Entertainment Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtXPiqI2cLorKaPrfpKc4g?sub_confirmation=1 Exclusives from…

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Zach Roberts still remembers seeing 1998’s “The Mask of Zorro” for the first time as a child. As he watched the film’s daring stunts and swashbuckling action, he realized that his ambition was to do that. “I guess I just never really let that go,” Roberts said. “At school, I went to a careers evening and they said, ‘What do you want to do?’ I said I wanted to be a stuntman and they said, ‘Go join the Army or become a bricklayer. It’s never going to happen.’” But happen it did. Roughly 30 years later, Roberts picked up his…

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The supporting-actress and supporting-actor nominations for Karolina Wydra and Carlos-Manuel Vesga aren’t just two of the most deserved honors of this Emmy season; they’re also plaudits for two performances that embody how gloriously odd and thought-provoking “Pluribus” is. While Wydra may be the first person nominated for playing 8 billion people at once, Vesga is one of only a handful of actors to be nominated for playing a nearly silent role. “The show fulfills every role that you would expect from a TV series,” Vesga said. “But also it really goes beyond entertainment and starts to walk the territory of…

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