JD Knapp is the morning news editor at TheWrap, with a personal preference for horror movies, bubblegum pop, reality TV, sitcoms, and animation. After growing up in Connecticut and graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, he has gone on to work for national outlets such as People, E! News, The Messenger, and Variety. Outside of work, you can find him hiking Runyon Canyon, playing video games, or winning dodgeball.
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Gold Medalists The Woodhalls Praise Sports Content Creators for Letting Viewers See Them as Human Beings
“It’s special that we can share these stories that are usually only captured through television in a minute or two seconds, where on social media it lives forever,” Tara Davis-Woodhall tells TheWrap
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Missing ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’ Oscar Statuette Found in Germany After TSA Confiscation
“We sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologised to the owner,” Lufthansa says following Pavel Talankin’s turbulence at John F. Kennedy International Airport
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Savannah Bananas Star Coach RAC Explains Why Sports and Content Creation Make Such a Good Team
“When I started making content, I really just wanted to share with my younger self: This is what it’s like when you do make it into a professional locker room for the first time,” he tells TheWrap
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Tan France Is Proud to Go From Streaming Fab 5 to Digital Fab 3 With ‘Honorable Gays’ | Video
“I don’t have half an hour to spare, so I’m really leaning into the digital space as a viewer and a creator,” the “Queer Eye” star tells TheWrap
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‘Summer House’ Reunion Audio Was Leaked by Member of Production, Bravo Finds
“There is no evidence that any member of the cast was involved in the recording of the audio,” the network says, adding that “appropriate action has been taken”
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WHCA President Weijia Jiang Praises Journalists for Their ‘Calm and Courage’ Amid DC Dinner Shooting
“We are proud of everyone in that room,” the CBS News senior White House correspondent says, while noting the WHCD board is still determining how to proceed
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Trump Says ‘Nothing Should Be Allowed to Interfere’ With His White House Ballroom After WHCD Shooting | Video
“This is mostly for future presidents. We’re actually ahead of schedule, right on budget. It was always scheduled to open in ’28,” the president tells Fox News
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‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Star Keeley Karsten Calls Revival a ‘Physical Comedy Masterclass’
“There are probably not too many takes where I don’t burst out laughing,” she tells TheWrap of working with Frankie Muniz on Hulu’s “Life’s Still Unfair”
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Bravo Launches Full Investigation Into ‘Summer House’ Reunion Audio Leak
“It’s disgusting and illegal for someone to leak or distribute this,” Andy Cohen adds
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Jake Reiner Says Parents’ Murder Case Is His ‘Living Nightmare’ Ahead of Brother Nick’s Return to Court
“Any loss of a parent is devastating, but nothing compares to losing both of them at the same time and, on top of that, having your brother be at the center of it,” Michele and Rob Reiner’s eldest son writes
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‘Hacks’ Enlists Deborah Vance’s Real-Life Fan Club to Clean Streets on the Road to Vegas | Video
Jean Smart’s Little Debbies adopted a stretch of highway near San Bernardino in honor of Season 5 of the HBO Max comedy
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Francis Ford Coppola Mourns Death of ‘The Godfather’ Collaborator Dean Tavoularis: ‘A Profound Loss’
“I would be unable to list the many ways he benefited my work and my personal life,” the director says of the late production designer upon his death at 93
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Jane Fonda Committee Condemns WBD Merger Shareholder Approval: ‘This Fight Is Far From Over’
“A handful of powerful decision-makers should not be allowed to quietly reshape American media, culture and creative life without accountability,” the Committee for the First Amendment says
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Film and TV Workers Hold ‘Block the Merger’ Rally at Warner Bros. Ahead of Shareholder Vote
Jane Fonda’s Committee for the First Amendment protests the WBD-Paramount merger at the New York headquarters as the list of entertainment industry signatories crosses 4,000
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Khloé Kardashian Brings ‘The Girls’ to Hulu With Docuseries on Her Inner Circle
“The Kardashians” star will EP with a cast that includes Natalie Halcro, Olivia Pierson, Yris Palmer, Nicole Williams English, Khadijah Haqq and Malika Haqq
