Audiences first fell in love with Melissa Joan Hart on her hit show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Now, fans can see the mom-of-three, 39, on the upcoming final season of Melissa & Joey.

The actress opens up to Celebrity Baby Scoop about her new boys clothing line King of Harts which she co-created with husband Mark Wilkerson, their three sons Mason, 9, Brady, 7, and Tucker, 2, and her upcoming Mother’s Day plans.

CBS: We love that you and Mark have teamed up to create King of Harts. What’s it like working with your hubby? What’s been the biggest surprise/shock working with him on this clothing line?

MJH: “It’s like having a 4th child when you collaborate on a project like this. We both have strong opinions and voices and have to find appropriate places to compromise and pick up the slack. It’s hard not to step on each others’ toes or take things personal, but after 9 years of being parents together we have a good idea of how to make it work.”

CBS: Tell us how part of the proceeds is donated to charity. Do your boys understand how the family business is helping out kids in need?

MJH: “We take our boys often to do charitable work. Whether it’s making a meal at the mission, or donating books and clothes and toys, they are learning that there are people not as fortunate. They have started adding in their prayers that they are very grateful for the roof over their heads, food in their bellies and clothes on their backs.

King of Harts donates clothing to Youth Villages programs around the country. Nothing makes someone feel better about themselves than having some cool new duds to wear to school and camp. We will be making a trip soon to bring another box of goodies to the kids.”

CBS: Tell us about some of your favorite pieces in King of Harts. What do you love about the line?

MJH: “I love the Tucker camo short. It’s so cool and comfy for picky kids like mine to put on. The Gosman chambray is my top choice for some of life’s nicer moments like school pictures or family visits. And the lobster tee is adorable and a fan favorite with our signature lime-yellow collar raglan and quirky lobster with sunglasses graphic.”

CBS: How are your boys doing? What are they into these days? Are they getting excited for summer? Do you have them registered in summer camps/activities?

MJH: “Big moments for all of them. Tucker is potty training which is always a delight. Brady is becoming a great reader and losing teeth, and Mason is very interested in American history after our recent trip to Washington, D.C. They will do a fun outdoor camp in Lake Tahoe this summer where we spend a lot of time. Tahoe inspired our back to school fall line that is soon to be seen.”

CBS: What are your upcoming Mother’s Day plans?

MJH: “We will stay home as a family with our neighbors – the husbands will BBQ while the kids run around and play. It’s the perfect hassle-free fun family day.”

CBS: What’s up next for you?

MJH: “King of Harts has my full love and attention right now, but I guest starred on NBC’s Mysteries of Laura which airs on May 13th. My Nutrisytem ads are running now to help people get in shape for the summer, and the final season of Melissa & Joey starts airing June 17th on ABC Family.”

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I feel like we should just take this in all week, all of these royal stories. Because there’s going to be a real royal drought this summer. Well, let me say this: we’re probably not going to be seeing much of Duchess Kate for the rest of the year. Just weeks before she gave birth, a “source” leaked to People Mag that Kate wanted to take a longer “maternity leave” this time around, as opposed to the couple of public appearances she did months after she gave birth to George. So, come June and July and August… we probably won’t have any new Kate stories or Kate photos.

Even now, there’s really not much going on post-baby. Princess Charlotte of Cambridge is here. Will, Kate and the kids spent Charlotte’s first days holed up at Kensington Palace. People Mag says they’ve “been enjoying nice, private family time.” A source says: “They are very settled, his job is set, they have their house, and the status quo hasn’t changed in the royal family at large. So they are looking forward to a period of calm.”

They did leave for Anmer Hall on Wednesday, surprising no one. The only surprise was that they waited this long to decamp to Anmer Hall. That’s where they’ll be for the rest of the year, if not the next few years. Unless William decides that he’s bored with being a pilot again. I’m assuming – from multiple reports before the birth – that Carole and Michael Middleton will probably be living with Will and Kate for much of the summer too. Which is a change from last time, when Kate and George stayed at her parents’ home for months after George’s birth. People Magazine also says that Kate “is not planning on adding any extra help.” Just the nanny, the housekeeper, the cook, the private hairstylist and her parents. And like a dozen other people too.

What else? People Mag has more quotes about Anmer Hall and how great it is: “It’s like a fancy farmhouse. It isn’t grandiose. But it’s a great, friendly family environment.” It isn’t grandiose… except for the £500,000 worth of landscaping, millions in renovations, including ripping out a perfectly beautiful new kitchen.

Oh, and William will be returning to work on June 1st. And by that I mean he restarts his training to eventually become an air ambulance pilot.

Cover courtesy of People Magazine, additional photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Dear Gossips,

A trailer for the upcoming Ricki and The Flash was released yesterday starring Meryl Streep as a rock star. Which basically means Meryl Streep will be nominated for more. And she totally should be. As usual, she’s amazing. But so is Audra McDonald. And that’s another bonus. Anot…      

Dear Gossips,

A trailer for the upcoming Ricki and The Flash was released yesterday starring Meryl Streep as a rock star. Which basically means Meryl Streep will be nominated for more. And she totally should be. As usual, she’s amazing. But so is Audra McDonald. And that’s another bonus. Anot…      

Have you watched Mindy Kaling’s “Unlikely Leading Lady” American Express commercial? Go here to watch it. I get choked up watching it. Maybe it’s because I’m an Indian-American girl too, but I think Mindy is a very inspirational person. I hate the hate she’s gotten over the years because she “dared” to see herself as a leading lady, because she “dared” to not be a size-2 white woman, because she “dared” to talk about her art rather than her perceived victimhood. I just admire her and relate to her on a lot of different levels.

I watch The Mindy Project too – it had some growing pains in the first season, but by the second and third seasons, TMP was easily one of the funniest, sweetest and most unapologetically romantic shows on TV. The core relationship – between Mindy and Chris Messina’s characters – was always perfect. They have an incredible amount of chemistry together and their on-screen relationship is beautifully written. TMP has always struggled, ratings-wise, but I always thought Fox fully supported the show. I kept hearing that TMP was “on the bubble” and might not get a fourth season on Fox, but I just thought (naively), “That won’t happen!” It happened. Fox canceled TMP. But Hulu might pick it up?

Fox has decided not to move forward with “The Mindy Project,” after three seasons, Variety has learned. However, Hulu is in talks with Universal Television, the studio behind the Mindy Kaling-starrer, to move the Fox comedy over to the streaming service for multiple seasons. The deal would reportedly include two new seasons, and possibly more.

The shift to Hulu would be a smart move, given the already-standing library of past “Mindy” seasons, including all 67 episodes, plus the series’ very loyal — but not very large — fanbase. The series premiered to an audience of about 4.6 million in September 2012 and dipped to just over 2 million viewers with its season-three premiere this past March.

As series’ fates will be decided by next week when broadcast upfront presentations kick off, most cancelled shows will wrap for good, but “The Mindy Project” recalls another fan-favorite comedy resurrected online: “Community,” which, after being axed by NBC, went to Yahoo Screen for its sixth season.

[From Variety]

If the Hulu deal goes through – and I’m hoping it does – I will watch TMP on Hulu. The Season 3 cliffhanger was a wonderful game-changer and I loved the fact that the Mindy character has been “allowed” to evolve into a much more mature woman.

Spoilers: when Danny told Mindy he didn’t want to marry her – even though she was pregnant with his child – she cried and stood up for herself and what SHE wanted out of the relationship… and then she went back to Danny’s apartment and fell asleep. Meanwhile, Danny flew to India to meet her parents and presumably ask for their blessing to ask for Mindy’s hand in marriage. I want to know what happens next, damn it!

This was Mindy’s reaction to the cancellation – she’s on vacation in Montana:

Hey guys, I’m in Montana, is anything happening in LA? #themindyproject

A video posted by Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) on May 6, 2015 at 8:25pm PDT

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Although it’s her first Mother’s Day, Eva Mendes does not plan to celebrate herself this Sunday.

“There is no plan [for me],” Mendes tells Access Hollywood Live. “I kind of feel like I haven’t quite earned my stripes yet in a way. She’s seven months.”

The actress and her beau, actor Ryan Gosling, welcomed daughter Esmeralda Amada in September.

“This Mother’s Day is definitely all about my mom,” she added. “She’s had a really hard year. My brother’s sick, so it’s all about my mom, honoring her. We’re all going to go over to her house and bombard her with love.”

Mendes and Gosling started dating in 2011 after co-starring as parents in The Place Beyond the Pines.

As much as some people want to write off Mark Ruffalo as just another offensive douchebag Avenger, I just can’t. I love him. I think he only made one mistake during the Ultron promotional tour, and he tried to apologize for it and I don’t know… I kind of forgive him. He had a “live and learn” moment with the Romani community. He’s still a feminist though! He’s been absolutely lovely to and about the actresses in Ultron, and he’s always self-identified as a full-throated feminist (and a pro-choice feminist at that).

So, Ruffalo did a Reddit AMA yesterday and he was asked about a lot of different things, obviously. You can read the full AMA here. The part everyone picked up was where Ruffalo was asked about the criticism leveled at Joss Whedon for not making Black Widow a stronger, more empowered character. This was Ruffalo’s response:

I think it’s sad. Because I know how Joss feels about women, and I know that he’s made it a point to create strong female characters. I think part of the problem is that people are frustrated that they want to see more women, doing more things, in superhero movies, and because we don’t have as many women as we should yet, they’re very, very sensitive to every single storyline that comes up right now. But I think what’s beautiful about what Joss did with Black Widow – I don’t think he makes her any weaker, he just brings this idea of love to a superhero, and I think that’s beautiful.

If anything, Black Widow is much stronger than Banner. She protects him. She does her job, and basically they begin to have a relationship as friends, and I think it’s a misplaced anger. I think that what people might really be upset about is the fact that we need more superhuman women.

The guys can do anything, they can have love affairs, they can be weak or strong and nobody raises an eyebrow. But when we do that with a woman, because there are so few storylines for women, we become hyper-critical of every single move that we make because there’s not much else to compare it to.

So I know Joss really well. I know what his values are. And I think it’s sad, because in a lot of ways, there haven’t been as many champions in this universe as Joss is and will continue to be. And I know it hurts him. I know it’s heavy on him. And the guy’s one of the sweetest, best guys, and I know him – as far as any man can be a champion for women, he is that.

So it’s been a little disheartening.

But I also see how much people love that aspect of it. There’s an equal amount of people who find the love interest between Banner and Black Widow to be a big standout. And it’s very satisfying to people. So it’s a movie. People are going to have their opinions. And that’s actually a great thing. The fact that this is a debate that’s coming out of this movie is probably a positive thing.

I just don’t think that people should get personal with Joss, because he really is – of anyone – an advocate for women. He’s a deeply committed feminist.

[From Reddit]

I think he’s dead right. He doesn’t dismiss the criticism as “internet trouble” (tip of the hat to d-bag Jeremy Renner) and he doesn’t negate Black Widow’s sexual agency either. The problem is not that Black Widow or any female character (or any real life woman) has sex, it’s a larger problem of the lack of representation of many types of women in film. And Ruffalo defends his friend Joss Whedon. Yes… Ruffalo is still one of my favorite people.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

During a Thursday appearance on Good Morning America, Modern Family actress Sofia Vergara addressed the ongoing embryo battle with her ex-fiancé Nick Loeb.

“I really want to make this, like, the last time I talk about it because I don’t think it’s fair,” Vergara said.

“I’ve been working very hard for 20 years to get to this point where I am, enjoying my movie,” she said of her new film Hot Pursuit, costarring Reese Witherspoon.

“I promote all my movies, all my work, but I don’t like promoting my private life and I don’t understand why this person…I don’t want to allow this person to take more advantage of my career and try to promote himself and get press for this,” she continued.

She added: “It shouldn’t be out there for people to give their opinion when there’s nothing to talk about. There’s papers signed. There is a court date. He shouldn’t be creating something so ugly out of nothing.”

While the actress is “super happy” at this point in her life, she does not understand why media outlets are giving Loeb a voice.

“Just with the press, it’s like, and allowing somebody to invent things and create press for himself,” said Vergara, who is mom to 23-year-old son Manolo from a previous relationship. “He’s not an actor. He’s not a celebrity. It’s like, why? Why are they allowing him to do that?”

Loeb, a businessman and banking heir, penned an op-ed last week in the New York Times to explain why he wants to “protect” the embryos.

I have such mixed feelings about Natalie Portman’s THR cover interview. On one side, she’s a pretentious, humorless ass. On the other side… I feel like THR asked her a lot of unnecessary questions about politics, the Jewish people, Israel and Charlie Hebdo and she didn’t really get a chance to show off a lighter side. THR’s justification, I suppose, for their line of questioning is that she’s promoting a film she directed, set and filmed in Israel, and she’s an Israeli-born woman who now lives in France (where anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise). The interview is actually pretty epic, so if you’d like to parse every word, go here for the full piece. Some highlights:

On Benjamin Netanyahu: “I’m very much against Netanyahu. Against. I am very, very upset and disappointed that he was re-elected. I find his racist comments horrific. However, I don’t — what I want to make sure is, I don’t want to use my platform [the wrong way]. I feel like there’s some people who become prominent, and then it’s out in the foreign press. You know, sh-t on Israel. I do not. I don’t want to do that.”

Forgiving John Galliano after his anti-Semitic rant: “I don’t see why not to be forgiving to someone who is, I mean, someone who’s trying to change. However, I don’t think those comments are ever OK. I don’t forgive the comments, but … we’ve all done things that we regret.”

Her marriage to Benjamin Millepied: “The disappointments are always in myself, and like, when you’re faced day to day with someone looking at you, it’s like a mirror that you have to yourself, and you can see your own good behavior and bad behavior. And it’s a beautiful challenge to be the best person in the mirror that you can be. I mean, I don’t beat myself up over it, but I’m not always as generous as I feel like I could be.”

Whether she’s nervous about being Jewish in Paris. “Yes, but I’d feel nervous being a black man in this country. I’d feel nervous being a Muslim in many places.”

Living in France now: “I’ve been to Paris so much in my life that I felt [at first] like it’s very similar, and then when you live in a place, you start realizing how culturally different we are, deeply culturally different… in millions of ways. I feel like this country has a lot of religion and a lot of freedom around that; and there, the religion is almost like love. Love and intellectualism is their sort of way. I love that people at dinner want to have a serious conversation — and only a serious conversation. They’ll be upset if you don’t have something interesting happen. I love that my kid wants to go to art museums after school — like, ‘Take me to the Pompidou.’ I love that it’s also not elitist, as it is in New York. You can afford to go to the philharmonic or the opera much more easily because all of it’s subsidized. And there’s a huge culture of cinema there.”

She was in Kenya during the Charlie Hebdo attack: “I went to visit a school that we actually helped build with Dior that was an all-girls school in Kenya, like the first girls’ secondary school in the area. Someone I was with was looking at the news and said, ‘Oh my God! There were just attacks in Paris.’ ” Was she shaken by the killings? She looks at me directly and stops twirling that metal stick. “Listen,” she says. “I’m from Israel.”

Her Best Actress Oscar: “I don’t know where it is. I think it’s in the safe or something. I don’t know. I haven’t seen it in a while. I mean, Darren [Aronofsky] actually said to me something when we were in that whole thing that resonated so deeply. I was reading the story of Abraham to my child and talking about, like, not worshipping false idols. And this is literally like gold men. This is lit­er­ally worshipping gold idols — if you worship it. That’s why it’s not displayed on the wall. It’s a false idol.”

[From The Hollywood Reporter]

Her lack of interest in her Oscar is… interesting. Especially given that she hustled SO HARD for that little gold idol back in 2011. She was doing and saying everything she could to win that Oscar. And after she won, we found out that she and the Black Swan team pretty much lied the whole time so Natalie could win. Sarah Leal, the real ballerina/body double in Black Swan, came out after Portman’s win to basically say that it was her (Leal’s) body used in many of the ballet scenes and that Natalie wanted everyone to think that she had become this world-class ballerina in just 18 months. Portman’s Oscar win will always have an asterick beside it (for me) and I can’t believe she went through all of that to diss her Oscar.

Incidentally, in the midst of all of that political discussion, Natalie did briefly discuss the massive clusterwhoops of Jane Got a Gun, where the director and several actors all left the project within a week of the start date. Natalie plays coy with what really happened, saying that she got there “one week before we were supposed to start.” What THR didn’t press her on was the fact that she’s a producer on the film and isn’t it strange that she just showed up a week before the production began and she only had like one meeting with Lynne Ramsay, the director who quit? Isn’t much of the clusterwhoops ON NATALIE for poor management?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN.

Someone got a haircut!

Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker chopped off her daughter’s long locks. “Another first. This time Tabitha. She stood like a statue. Calmed my shaking hands,” SJP captioned the image of her daughter’s cut hair wrapped in a ribbon.

No word if twin sis Loretta got a cut as well.

The actress, 50, and her husband, Ferris Bueller’s Day off star Matthew Broderick, welcomed their twin daughters in June 2009. As well, they are parents to 12-year-old son James Wilkie.

The mom-of-three recently turned heads in a statement headpiece at the Met Gala 2015. She shared an Instagram image of her dramatic look, with the caption, “‘Til next year…”

She went on to post a photo with her former SATC costar Kristin Davis.

“Its been a long time since I had a chance to pose with this gorgeous woman,” SJP wrote. “It was like old times last night at the screening of her documentary “Gardeners of Eden” with @iamkristindavis So happy to be with her on such an important occasion.”

Its been a long time since I had a chance to pose with this gorgeous woman. It was like old times last night at the screening of her documentary “Gardeners of Eden” with @iamkristindavis So happy to be with her on such an important occasion. X sj

A photo posted by SJP (@sarahjessicaparker) on May 6, 2015 at 5:56pm PDT

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