{"id":36830,"date":"2026-02-26T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/?p=36830"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:09:51","slug":"celebrity-status-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/blogs\/mornings\/2026\/02\/celebrity-status-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Status &#8211; Bridgerton Is Back&#8230; And Paradise&#8230; And Survivor 50!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>For Thursday, February 26th:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dearest reader&#8230; &#8216;<strong>Bridgerton<\/strong>&#8216; is baaaack! Part 2 of Season 4 is here today on <strong>Netflix<\/strong>&#8230; but will Sophie\u00a0decide\u00a0to accept Benedict&#8217;s offer \u2014 even if it means social ruin? Plus, Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley will make their long-awaited return as Anthony and Kate Bridgerton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ICYMI, Season 2 of <strong>&#8216;Paradise&#8217;<\/strong> dropped three new episodes of the post-apocalyptic drama this week on Disney+&#8230; and <strong>Nate Bargatze<\/strong> debuted yesterday as host of the new game show <strong>The Greatest Average American<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <strong>Survivor 50<\/strong>\u00a0had its <strong>season premiere<\/strong>\u00a0last night with a cast of returning players. Jeff Probst says season 50 is the most fun\u00a0he&#8217;s ever had on any season of Survivor. Maybe I&#8217;ll watch again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Martin Short<\/strong> has postponed his <strong>comedy tour<\/strong> following the death of his daughter Katherine. He\u00a0had been scheduled to appear alongside his Only Murders in the Building costar Steve Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kristin Chenoweth<\/strong>, the original Glinda from <strong>Wicked <\/strong>on Broadway, was changed for good on the latest episode of PBS&#8217; Finding Your Roots genealogy series, when it was revealed that a relative of hers played The Wizard\u00a0in stage production of The Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Thursday, February 26th: Dearest reader&#8230; &#8216;Bridgerton&#8216; is baaaack! Part 2 of Season 4 is here today on Netflix&#8230; but will Sophie\u00a0decide\u00a0to accept Benedict&#8217;s offer \u2014 even if it means social ruin? Plus, Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley will make their long-awaited return as Anthony and Kate Bridgerton ICYMI, Season 2 of &#8216;Paradise&#8217; dropped three","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":36609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[4769,4585,8756,580,4589,6332,1812,6143,4223,7055,135,4802,8238,3998,614,8755,8754,4277,4979],"class_list":["post-36830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings","category-the-daily-scoop","tag-bridgerton","tag-celebrity-status","tag-comedy-tour","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-jeff-probst","tag-julie-b","tag-kristin-chenoweth","tag-martin-short","tag-nate-bargatze","tag-netflix","tag-nick","tag-on-broadway","tag-paradise","tag-postponed","tag-survivor-50","tag-the-greatest-average-american","tag-the-one-morning-show","tag-wicked"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 03:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/1017theone.ca\/blogs\/mornings\/2026\/02\/celebrity-status-100\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36834,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36830\/revisions\/36834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}