ABC's losers looking for love on a national stage may continue to be white, a court ruled. That story and more in today's CelebFeed Gossip Roundup!
The lawsuit against ABC's The Bachelor that claimed that the show only selects white people as the Bachelors and Bachelorettes and stated that it "underscores the significant barriers that people of color continue to face in the media an the broader marketplace" was thrown out of Tennessee court yesterday. The judge ruled,
"As the defendants persuasively argue, casting decisions are a necessary component of any entertainment show's creative content...The plaintiffs seek to drive an artificial wedge between casting decisions and the end product, which itself is indisputably protected as speech by the First Amendment. Thus, regulating the casting process necessarily regulates the end product. In this respect, casting and the resulting work of entertainment are inseparable and must both be protected to ensure that the producers' freedom of speech is not abridged."
Jimmy Kimmel will take his show on the road to Brooklyn's Academy of Music for a week. David Letterman will be among the guests to sit down with him while he's in town.
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Matthew Fox is now on a campaign to clear his name of the woman-beating rumors. He told Men's Fitness this month:
