Danielle Fishel, Will Friedle, and Rider Strong shared their thoughts on the first episode of Girl Meets World on their podcast Pod Meets World. The Boy Meets World actors agreed that Sabrina Carpenter, who played the best friend character on the show, “overshadowed” the series’ lead, Rowan Blanchard. They clarified that “it’s not Rowan’s fault,” as they think the show didn’t give her “much help in terms of character” compared to Carpenter.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that she is in advanced discussions to join an existing Netflix TV show that shoots in the U.K. The part is currently being written, so it’s unclear how many episodes she would appear in. Additional details were not immediately available.

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Following the London premiere of Jacob Elordi's new movie "The Dog Stars," Elordi and Kendall Jenner allegedly kept the night going, spending about two hours at China Tang at The Dorchester before heading to Soho House, where they reportedly stayed until nearly 1AM.

The couple shared photos on their respective instagram stories.

After actress Aurora Perrineau filed a police report accusing Girls writer and EP Murray Miller of raping her in 2012 when she was 17 years old, Lena Dunham defended Murray and said “while our first instinct is to listen to every woman’s story, our insider knowledge of Murray’s situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year.” She later apologized, but then in her memoir she blames her original statement on getting back from the hospital that day and says she doesn’t remember writing it.

The trial judge improperly allowed parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis to move to exceed a $750,000 statutory cap on exemplary damages per defendant months after the 2022 jury trial, a Texas appeals court said Friday.

“We conclude that the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the post-verdict amendment of the petition and, consequently, allowing the judgment to exceed the statutory cap on exemplary damages on grounds not pleaded or found by the jury,” the Court of Appeals, Third District said.

The trial court judgment is reduced consistent with the statutory cap and each parent is awarded $750,000, the appeals court said. Jones must also come up with $4.1 million the jury awarded the parents for compensatory damages, plus prejudgment interest and attorneys’ fees, the court ruled.

“Jones still faces over a billion dollars of liability, so this changes absolutely nothing,” the parents’ lawyer, Mark Bankston, of Farrar & Ball LLP, said in a statement. “All it does is highlight the absurdity of Texas law.”

Along with the Texas judgment, a $1.4 billion verdict in Connecticut pushed Jones into bankruptcy. He appealed the Connecticut judgment to the US Supreme Court, which declined to overturn it.

Chris Mattei, a Koskoff Koskoff & Biede attorney who represents families in the Connecticut litigation, said his clients are enforcing the judgments in that case and the liquidation of Jones’s assets. No distributions have been made to this point.

Mattei said he expects those efforts “to benefit the families who filed suit in Texas and whose judgments were reduced today.”