Lacey Chabert, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and More Set to Bring Sparkle and Shine to Christmas Con 2026 (Exclusive)

Christmas Con 2026 will feature reunions of Hallmark stars, including the Three Wise Men and She's Making a List duo

NEED TO KNOW

• Barbara Niven and Laura Vandervoort will attend for the first time alongside other stars from Hallmark holiday favorites

• The event will include panels, games and festive activities at the New Jersey Expo Center from December 11-13

The holidays are all about reuniting with loved ones — and former costars, apparently.

The latest round of celebrity guests coming to Christmas Con 2026 in December is packed with exciting reunions and re-pairings, including theThree Wise Men(Tyler Hynes,Andrew WalkerandPaul Campbell) and last year'sShe's Making a Listduo,Lacey Chabertand Walker.

Yep, Chabert will be back in Jersey! And she'll be coming fresh off her 2026 Hallmark Christmas movie,Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True.

The trio formerly known as the Brenner Brothers will be able to reconnect with their trilogy's co-writer and onscreen doctor, Kimberley Sustad, as well as the actress behind Taylor Brenner's ex, Ali Liebert, and Lachlyn Munro, who played Stephan's future father-in-law.

Hynes will surely be getting in some quality time — and quality hugs — with hisGroomsmanbuddy, B.J. Britt, and he'll also have the chance to reconnect with hisShifting Gearscostar Katherine Barrell and director Crystal Lowe, whose attendance was previously announced.

The link-ups don't stop there!

Barbara Niven will be attending her first Christmas Con. TheChesapeake Shoresalum is starring with Chabert in the upcoming Hallmark+ limited seriesParis Is Always a Good Ideaand appeared with Liebert and Barrell in last year's holiday movie,Christmas Baby. She alsoteased on Instagramlast month that she'd just wrapped filming on her next holiday movie, so she'll have much to discuss when she hits the stage in Edison.

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Niven also isn't the only first-timer:Laura VandervoortandGinna Claire Masonare set to bring their special sparkle to New Jersey as well.

Vandervoort will see herA Christmas Together with Youcostar Niall Matter, who was previously announced. And Mason will have the chance to reminisce about the 2025Hallmark Christmas Cruisewith many of the other actors in attendance (and this author).

PEOPLE previously announced theGood Witchreunion coming to the convention, including Catherine Bell, James Denton, Bailee Madison, Chris Potter and Barrell.

And, of course, Santa Claus will be there too.

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That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats. On the main stage, expect fun panels, games and activities with the stars. Get tickets and more infohere.

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Corentin Moutet receives warning after pulling down shorts in frustration after losing mid-match point

It’s not unusual to see tennis players meltdown during a match. Verbal altercations with umpires, broken rackets and errant tennis balls flying into the stands are the standard course of actions for frustrated players.

But Corentin Moutet decided to take things to a whole other level Monday. During a match with Davidovich Fokina, Moutet pulled his shorts down after losing a point.

It was … a bizarre moment for everyone involved.

So, what exactly is the punishment for a player pulling down their pants in the middle of a match? In this instance, Moutet received a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct for his actions. Given the situation, Moutet may have been lucky his punishment wasn’t more severe.

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Oddly, it’s not the first time a tennis player has pulled down their pants on the court. The same thing happened in 2004, only it was in celebration of winning a point.

Marat Safin was the guilty party in that match.

Safin was assessed a one-point penalty for the gesture. Despite that, he wound up winning the match and advancing. When askedabout the situationafter the match, Safin asked, “What’s bad about [pulling down your shorts in celebration]?”

Any chance of Moutet repeating his antics will have to wait until his next event. Moutet lost to Fokina on Monday 6-4, 6-4. The loss eliminated Moutet from the Hamburg Open.

With the win, Fokina will advance to the Round of 16, where he’ll face No. 3 ranked Alex de Minaur. Here’s hoping both competitors keep their cool — and their shorts — in that match.

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New Documentary Details Radio Interview John Lennon Gave Hours Before His Death

A new documentary is offering a closer look at the final interview given by John Lennon

NEED TO KNOW

• Lennon was interviewed by San Francisco radio station KFRC on Dec. 8, 1980 — just a few hours before he was murdered

• Lennon was 40 years old when he was fatally shot the same day

A new documentary is offering a closer look at the final interview given by John Lennon — just hours before his murder.

John Lennon: The Last Interview,from director Steven Soderbergh, details Lennon's final interview, given to San Francisco radio station KFRC from out of his and wifeYoko Ono's apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. The interview was meant to focus onDouble Fantasy, Lennon's comeback album recorded with Ono and released three weeks prior.

According toThe Guardian, Lennon's final interviewers were KFRC's Dave Sholin, Laurie Kaye and Ron Hummel who, on their way out of the musician's Manhattan building, The Dakota, "were accosted by a creepy stalker-fan; in attempt to calm the man down, Kaye gave him a brand new copy of John and Yoko's new album ... This sinister man was Lennon's future murderer who got him to sign an album — perhaps this very album — and later shot him dead."

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PerVariety, Soderbergh utilizes many never-before-seen photographs of both Lennon and his wife, as well as "a handful of fantasy images created by AI" in the documentary, which made its debut at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 16.

Hours prior to giving the interview, Lennon and Ono posed for a series of now-iconic photographs by Annie Leibovitz, who photographed the couple in their Manhattan apartment.

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Hours after the interview, Lennon would be shot twice in the back and twice in the shoulder with a .38-caliber pistoloutside of that same New York City apartment.The Washington Postreported that N.Y.C.'s medical examiner, Dr. Elliot Gross, attributed Lennon's death to “massive hemorrhaging and shock” caused by the wounds. He was 40 years old.

According to the autopsy, two bullets struck Lennon's left lung before exiting his chest. One bullet that entered through his shoulder hit his left arm bone, while the other punctured his left lung before becoming lodged in his neck.

Shortly after Lennon was shot, his killer,Mark David Chapman, confessed at the scene of the crime. He later told a parole board that he was a Beatles fan “seeking fame.”

"I knew what I was doing, and I knew it was evil,” he said in September 2022. “I knew it was wrong, but I wanted the fame so much that I was willing to give everything and take a human life."

Lennon was survived by his wife, andtwo sons, Julian andSean Lennon.

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NBA Playoffs 2026, odds: New York Knicks are biggest favorite for franchise in Eastern Conference Finals since at least 1988

The New York Knicks are their second consecutive Eastern Conference Finals, and if it seems like Knicks fans are excited about their team’s prospects to advance to the franchise’s first NBA Finals since 1999, the oddsmakers agree.

The Knicks opened as huge -270 favorites in the ECF (implied probability of 73%), with the Cleveland Cavaliers as +220 underdogs. It is the biggest favorite that the Knicks franchise has been in an ECF since 1988, which isas far back as the Sports Odds History database goes.

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In addition to having a terrific roster, New York is also aided by an astonishing rest advantage heading into the series, as the Cavaliers won Game 7 in a hard-fought series against the Detroit Pistons on Sunday and now will have to play again in less than 48 hours. The Knicks last played all the way back on Sunday, May 10, when they finished off the Philadelphia 76ers 144-114 in a four-game sweep.

New York has won seven straight playoff games by an average margin of over 26 points per game, after falling behind two games to one in its Round 1 series against the Atlanta Hawks.

The Knicks are 7.5-point home favorites in Game 1 on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden

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Adam Driver reacts to question about Lena Dunham's memoir claims

Adam Driver is keeping mum aboutLena Dunham's revealing memoir− at least, for now.

During aCannes Film Festivalnews conference for the movie "Paper Tiger," the "Star Wars" actor, 42, brushed off a question about his former "Girls" costar claiming that he screamed and threw things on the set of the HBO show.

When a journalist asked Driver for his response "to Lena Dunham's portrayal of you in her memoir, and whether your process has changed since your time on 'Girls,' " he immediately shut the topic down.

"I have no comment on any of that. I'm saving it all for my book," he said, drawing laughs before the conference quickly moved on to the next question.

Lena Dunham on Adam Driver:She describes her costar's 'short-tempered' behavior on 'Girls'

In his breakout role, Driver played Adam Sackler, the on-again, off-again love interest of Dunham's character, Hannah, on the HBO comedy "Girls" from 2012 to 2017.

In April, Dunham's memoir "Famesick" delved into her complicated relationship with Driver while they worked together on the show. In the book, she wrote that Driver could be "short-tempered and verbally aggressive, condescending and physically imposing," including in an incident where he allegedly threw a chair when she forgot her lines.

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"Late one night, as we practiced lines in my trailer, I found that mine were suddenly gone," she wrote. "I knew I'd written them. I'd known them only minutes before. But when I opened my mouth, all that came out was a stammer – until finally, Adam screamed, 'F------ SAY SOMETHING' and hurled a chair at the wall next to me. 'WAKE THE F--- UP,' he told me. 'I'M SICK OF WATCHING YOU JUST STARE.'"

In another incident, Driver allegedly "punched a hole in his trailer wall" because he "hated his new haircut." Dunham said they "fought often" while working together, typically "about the content of a scene, what it required, and how it would be executed," though Driver could also "be protective, loving even."

In one chapter, Dunham detailed a night when Driver came to see her at her apartment, but she didn't let him in because she felt they were threatening to cross a "boundary" in their relationship. A month later, she wrote, Driver told Dunham he was engaged, and she was "heartbroken."

According to her book, Dunham and Driver have not spoken since "Girls" ended in 2017.

In an interview withPeople, Dunham, 40, said she wrote about Driver not to make him seem like an "outlier," but to explore how "being around this very talented, charismatic, complex and powerful person affected me in ways that were really positive and in ways that were a bit harder."

Dunham also said on"Today"that her experience with Driver was a "dynamic that a lot of young women can understand from the workplace," adding that she hopes people read what she wrote about him "in context, and understand it in the totality."

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