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Kimberly Guilfoyle Resigns Amid Ethics Misconduct Allegations
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host who became a high-profile figure in Donald Trump‘s orbit, resigned as U.S. ambassador to Greece following a bombshell Wall Street Journal report over alleged ethical misconduct.
Guilfoyle confirmed her exit in a post on X, shortly after the new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, told reporters that the administration had asked her to resign.
“While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end,” Guilfoyle wrote.
She also called the ethics allegations “false,” and wrote that she intended to “vigorously defend my name, my reputation, and my integrity. I have dedicated my professional life to fighting for justice, standing up for what is right, and defending the values that make America exceptional. I will not allow false accusations to define my decades of public service.”
The Journal reported last week on the contents of message exchanges between Guilfoyle and Eric Deters, a Trump donor. Deters provided text messages to the media, including one where she asked him to wire $100,000 directly to American Express to pay off a bill. Deters was seeking Guilfoyle’s help in accessing administration officials.
Trump told reporters that Guilfoyle “went to Greece. She was doing a good job, but we didn’t like what we were reading.”
Guilfoyle is the former fiance of Donald Trump Jr., but the engagement ended before Trump started his second term.
“She wasn’t a member of my family. She, I guess, dated my son a long time ago,” the president told reporters.
In 2020, Guilfoyle led the fundraising push to draw in bundlers to the Trump campaign, and even had a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention that year. She had previously had a well-established TV career, serving as co-host of Fox News’ The Five. She also is the former wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
The White House’s demand for her resignation dominated the headlines coming out of the first press briefing held by Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. Appearing before reporters for the first time in the crowded briefing room, Zacharia spoke and answered questions for 14 minutes before ending the session. She told reporters that Trump would answer questions later, which he did as he set out on a three-day campaign swing.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Black List has named the six writers and projects chosen for its 2026 Writers Lab. They are Elton de Almeida (A Mark of Kin), Yasmin DeWinter (Guillaume), Scott Leddy (Nightwatch), Marcelle Pallais (One Last Summer), Alexander Seltzer and Kyle Jutkiewicz (Depths) and Emma Taylor Stock (Denial).
The program, now in its 13th year, provides creative mentorship and professional support to promising feature writers as they further develop their selected project during a weeklong workshop in Ojai, CA.
The Black List’s Annual Lab program supports two distinct cohorts: writers and filmmakers. The Writers Lab focuses on developing feature scripts to be sold in the studio system and/or used as voice samples. The Projects Lab, which will be announced in November, offers writer-directors the chance to develop a screenplay that they intend to direct.
During the Lab, each writer will develop their screenplay through peer workshops and one-on-one sessions with working professional screenwriters, including returning mentors Travis Braun (One Night Only), Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4, The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power), Katie Silberman (Set It Up, Don’t Worry Darling), Victoria Strouse (Seekers of Infintie Love, Finding Dory) and Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey, Bumblebee).
Black List Annual Lab alumna Savion Einstein (A Cuban Girl’s Guide To Tea and Tomorrow) will also join as a session mentor. After the lab concludes, the writers cohort will participate in a yearlong support program involving monthly meetings with screenwriters, agents, managers, producers, and executives.
“We’re excited to welcome the latest cohort of screenwriters to the Black List Lab fold. At a time when the industry can seem particularly challenging and harder than ever to break into, we’re thrilled to be able to support projects that make us excited to go to the movies. These writers are bringing distinctive voices, bold points of view, and stories that deserve to be heard to the Lab and we’re privileged to be able to give them space to take risks, challenge themselves, and build community with other writers, in Ojai and beyond,” said Megan Halpern, Black List SVP.
Submissions for the 2027 Labs are now open on the Black List website.
Previous Black List Lab alumni include Claire Ayoub (Empire Waist), Minhal Baig (We Grown Now), Tom Dean (Carolina, Caroline), Gia Gordon (Law and Order), Danny Hogan (The Pitt), Jimmy Keyrouz (Broken Keys), Dagny Looper (The Resort), Alexandra Qin (ThirstyGirl), Michelle Steffes (For When You Get Lost), and Jason Young (The Magic Flute).
Learn more about the 2026 Writers Lab projects, and the creatives behind them, below.
2026 Writers Lab Projects:
Elton de Almeida – A MARK OF KIN
Haunted by her family’s tragic past, a cunning scammer seeks revenge on the uncle who abandoned her decades ago — only to be trapped by a demonic curse that feeds off her bloodline.
Yasmin DeWinter – GUILLAUME
Paris, 1898. Two American brothers walk into a brothel. The others pulls a knife. Within the hour, they owe a madam five thousand francs they don’t have. Their ship sails at dawn. The elder just had a seizure in a piss-soaked allegy – and if anyone finds out, he loses his wife, his childen, and his name.
Scott Leddy – NIGHTWATCH
In the midst of an apparent nuclear attack on NATO and the US, a communications blackout with the President places the Defense Secretary in the hot seat on America’s Doomsday Plane, but with the minutes ticking down, a comms expert discovers an anomaly that could change everything.
Marcelle Pallais – ONE LAST SUMMER
A restless, sharp-witted teen aching for meaning and adventure escapes to a wealthy beach town, only to be pulled toward a charming boy and his family’s deadly secret. Adapted from NORTHANGER ABBEY by Jane Austen.
Alexander Seltzer and Kyle Jutkiewicz – DEPTHS
Trapped aboard a US nuclear submarine, a former priest turned navy engineer must stop a demon-possessed Soviet defector before she turns the Cold War hot.
Emma Taylor Stock – DENIAL
When a health insurance giant denies their bestie’s cancer treatment, three friends attempt to approve the claim themselves. But their plan spirals when they accidentally kidnap the CEO and must expose his fraud to save themselves.
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Scarlett Johansson is getting into the reality television business.
The Black Widow star is exec producing Assassins, a new series greenlight at Peacock.
The series comes from Sony’s B17 Entertainment and founders Brien Meagher and Rhett Bachner are exec producing alongside Johansson.
Assassins follows a group of players competing in a game of strategy and wit inspired by the live-action game played in real life around the world. From the moment they arrive, each player is assigned a target — one person they must eliminate before the season is out. But in this game, every hunter is also the hunted, and no one is ever safe. With shifting alliances and deception, only the most calculating player will survive to win it all, per the logline.
The game, which is popular on college campuses, is essentially a version of tag, which itself was turned into The Ultimate Tag for Fox in 2020.
It is the latest competition series based on a real-life game and follows, most notably, Peacock’s own series The Traitors, which is loosely based on Mafia. NBC is currently airing The Traitors: New Blood with Peacock airing season six of the celebrity edition next year.
There have been a number of competition series where contestants are hunted; CBS aired Hunted, based on Channel 4’s British series, for one season in 2017, while The Runner, which came from Pilgrim Media Group and Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, launched on go90 in 2016.
It’s not clear how Johansson got involved in Assassins, but she becomes the latest A-list star to exec produce a reality competition, joining the likes of Brad Pitt, who exec produces Fox’s Lego Masters.
B17 Entertainment is behind series including Fox’s Extraction, ABC’s The Final Straw and Roku’s Thanks A Million.
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EXCLUSIVE: Narges Rashidi, who recently won the BAFTA for Leading Actress for her portrayal of Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe in BBC’s Prisoner 951, has signed with TFC Management.
The series, directed by Phillipa Lowthorpe and also starring Joseph Fiennes, told the true story of Zaghari Ratfcliffe’s wrongful seven-year imprisonment in Iran and her husband’s subsequent fight for her release. In addition to the BAFTA, Narges also received two Royal Television Society Awards along with several other award nominations for her portrayal of Nazanin.
Narges is perhaps best known in the U.S. and the UK for her role as fearless mobster ‘Lale’ in Gangs of London for Sky/AMC, which is heading into its fourth and final season in 2027. Narges also performs the majority of her own stunts across the series.
Her breakthrough role was leading Babak Anvari’s 2016 critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Persian-language film Under the Shadow, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. For her performance, Narges received a nomination for Best Actress at the BIFAs, a well as the Breakthrough Actress award at the New York International Film Festival.
Narges’ other credits include Netflix feature Havoc opposite Tom Hardy and indie feature Last Swim, which won at Berlinale 2025. Narges has a long list of German credits, including series The Allegation, which won the Dior Grand Prize at Canneseries in 2021.
Founded in 2020 by David Stone and Ben Jacobson, TFC Management reps on-camera talents such as Dakota and Elle Fanning, Shira Haas, Lashana Lynch, JD Pardo, Dan Ings and Josh Hutcherson, as well as such creators, filmmakers, novelists and producers as Warren Littlefield, Brian Yorkey, Megan Park, Adam Reed, Akiva Goldsman, Courtney Lilly, Josh & Jonas Pate and Rebecca Serle.
TFC’s sister company, TFC Productions, most recently produced the Apple series Margo’s Got Money Troubles, created by David E. Kelley and starring Elle Fanning, which recently received eight Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series.
Rashidi will continue to be repped by The Artists Partnership in all areas.
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