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DoesMelania Trumpactually have a body double making official appearances withPresident Donald Trump? Some people on the internet still seem to think so — even though the White House previously called the idea “ridiculous.” A creative hashtag, #FakeMelania, emerged in support of a conspiracy theory that the first lady, 48, has a body double who sometimes accompanies Mr. Trump, 72, to events and photo ops. Though it appears to have first surfaced in 2017, the theory was reignited after the president visited Alabama on Friday to honorthe victims of the tornadothat killed 23 people....

Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty E.T. phone home? With $3 million, he might just buy a house on Earth and stick around. Being that the model is the No. 1 “hero” used with the actors, the aluminum alloy skeletal E.T. is estimated to fetch as much as $3 million, according to the auction house. “Pre-dating modern CGI technology and effects, this one-of-a-kind cinematographic relic (constructed in 1981) features 85 points of movement and is regarded as an engineering masterpiece,” the lot description reads....

Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty The original mechanical model fromE.T. the Extra-Terrestrialhas snagged a staggering sum. The highly desirable film item (for those with very deep pockets) was part of the recentJulien’s Auctions and TCM Presents: Icons and Idols Hollywoodauction, going for a final bid of$2,560,000, according to the auction house. “Pre-dating modern CGI technology and effects, this one-of-a-kind cinematographic relic (constructed in 1981) features 85 points of movement and is regarded as an engineering masterpiece,” the lot description reads....

Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty; Jesse Grant/Getty; Alamy Drew Barrymoreand Henry Thomas are reuniting 40 years after playing siblings in 1982’sE.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Thomas — now 50 and known for recent Netflix hits likeThe Haunting of Hill HouseandMidnight Mass— played Elliott inE.T., a boy who becomes friends with an alien who crash-lands on Earth. Barrymore, 47, played his little sister, her first major big-screen role. She told PEOPLE last month how sheplans to mark the movie’s anniversarywith her daughters Frankie and Olive....

Stranger Thingsfans, it’s time to head back into the Upside Down. On Thursday, the firstofficial teaserfor the upcoming fourth season of the hitNetflixseries dropped, teasing what’s to come when the Hawkins, Indiana, gang returns. Set in what appears to be the Hawkins National Laboratory in the past, the teaser opens with a group of children playing together in a room. Some play chess, while others ask questions of a Magic 8-Ball....

Photo: NIETE/NETFLIX It’s almost time to return to Las Encinas. Netflix’s Spanish dramaEliteis coming back foranother dramatic season on April 8. As season 4 traced the story of why Ari ended up hospitalized, a host of drama-filled twists and turns help build up the climactic final episode. Like allEliteseasons, it also featured a surprise death. Though it’s been less than a year since season 4 aired, the drama that follows the students at Las Encinas is never simple....

Give these ladies their halos! On Wednesday,Elizabeth Banksposted a behind-the-scenes photo with Ella Balinska, Naomi Scott andKristen Stewart, the stars of theupcomingCharlie’s Angelsremakethat Banks is directing and writing. She’ll also star as Bosley, the never-seen owner of the Charlie Townsend agency. “#BTS @CharliesAngels on set. Ella, Kristen, Naomi. #4PercentChallenge,” Banks, 44,tweeted. Elizabeth Banks/Twitter Time’s Up and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative issued the 4 percent challenge last month to encourage Hollywood to commit to one project with a female director in the next 18 months....

Photo: Sophia Grace/Youtube; Sophia Grace Instagram Sophia Grace Brownleeis a mom! The 19-year-old British influencer — whose viral video ofNicki Minaj’s “Super Bass” propelled her and her cousin Rosie McClelland to stardom a decade ago onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show— has welcomed her first child, a boy. Brownleefirst revealed that she was pregnant back in October, announcing the news in a video posted to her YouTube account. “I am here to tell you guys that I am pregnant,” she said in the nearly eight-minute clip, posted Oct....

Ellen DeGeneresis walking away from her namesake talk show. “When you’re a creative person, you constantly need to be challenged — and as great as this show is, and as fun as it is, it’s just not a challenge anymore,” DeGeneres, 63, toldTHR. Ellendebuted in 2003, and over the years the hit program has earned 64 Daytime Emmys. Wednesday’s announcement comes almost a year afterthe show became embroiled controversy last summer amidallegations of workplace toxicity, prompting aninternal investigation....

Wolverine.Photo: facebook One of the “rarest mammals” to inhabitYellowstone National Parkhas been caught on a wildlife camera for the very first time. Park officials announced on Wednesday that animal experts were able to capture footage of a wild wolverine from one of theirremote trail cameraslocated outside of the Mammoth Hot Springs area. The video, which was posted toYellowstone’s Facebook page, shows the animal running across a snowy, forested area on the morning of Dec....

Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Peterson opens up to PEOPLE about the “shocking, embarrassing, traumatizing” experience, which she never told anyone, with the exception of her ex-husband Mark Pierson, before the release of her book,Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark. TheElvira: Mistress of the Darkstar, 70, details the alleged assault in her new memoir, recounting a party at Chamberlain’s Bel Air mansion in the 1970s. He offered to show her his custom-built closet for his NBA jerseys, where he forced her to give him oral sex, Peterson writes....

Photo: John Sciulli/Getty Cassandra Petersonknows who her true fans are. TheElvira: Mistress of the Darkstar, 70, revealed on Thursday’s episode of David Yontef’sBehind the Velvet Ropepodcastthat she lost 11,000 followers aftercoming outas a member of the LGBTQ community last year. “I knew that there were going to be some horny old men out there who were just not going to like the fact that they didn’t have a chance with me anymore,” Peterson said....

Photo: John Sciulli/GettyCassandra Peterson — known to most as horror hostessElvira, Mistress of the Dark, since the early 1980s— is finally coming out into the light.Peterson released her first memoir on Tuesday,and in it, she discusses her 19-year relationship with another woman named Teresa “T” Wierson, who started off as her gym trainer.TitledYours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, the book recounts how Peterson, now 70, first noticed a “dark and brooding” trainer years ago at Gold’s Gym in Hollywood — someone she thought was male....