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The long-running medical drama will air its midseason premiere on Thursday, picking up after its gut-wrenching Season 21 cliffhanger in the fall.

In true “Grey’s” fashion, the episode ended with Jo Wilson (Camila Ludington) getting shot following an armed store robbery while going into labor. The midseason premiere will pick up in the aftermath of shooting at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, where Jo’s romantic partner Atticus Lincoln (Chris Carmack) is working, unaware of what happened.

The episode will also follow Ben Warren (Jason Winston George) facing roadblocks “with his new emergency preparedness plan,” romantic tensions for Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), as well as a surgical plan dispute between doctors Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) and Dr. Winston Ndugu (Anthony Hill).

Here’s what to know about the “Grey’s Anatomy” Season 21 midseason premiere this week.

Kardashian’s unisex shapewear brand Skims celebrated the release of its new swimwear collection with the cheeky installation, which has been on display in Times Square since Tuesday.

“OMG… I cannot believe there is a 60 foot float of me in SKIMS Swim in the middle of Times Square,” the 44-year-old wrote in a now-expired Instagram story.

The installation features Kardashian in a blue Skims swim top and bottom. The balloon is elevated on a sleek 4-foot blue deck and wrapped in the brand’s signature logo, making it impossible to miss against the city skyline, according to a Skims news release.

Yet viewers will finally have clarity after the Season 3 finale drops this week and a winner (or winners) is revealed.

The latest season of the Emmy-winning reality competition series has been called messy, impassioned, cut throat and utterly hilarious since the Jan. 9 premiere. It’s followed an extremely chaotic batch of traitors who have gone after each other more than the faithfuls they are competing against.

The finale will also reveal who is the seer, a new twist where the winner of last week’s mission will have the ability to see whether a player of their choice is a faithful or traitor.

In a brief in support of his defense attorneys’ motion to dismiss the case, filed in Wisconsin federal court Tuesday and obtained by USA TODAY, the “Good Omens” author denies Scarlett Pavlovich’s “outrageous” allegations and argues for her lawsuit to be dismissed on the grounds that it was filed in the wrong jurisdiction.

Pavlovich, who started babysitting Gaiman and Palmer’s son in 2022, and Gaiman “began a brief personal relationship, which involved consensual physical intimacy, not sexual intercourse,” per the filing.

“In no uncertain terms, Pavlovich’s accusations are false,” the brief continues. “The sexual scenarios she describes deliberately in graphic detail are invented. Any sexual conduct that occurred was in all ways consensual.”

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Random Thoughts & Interesting Things

• TEAMS (5A: Titans and Giants) The Tennessee Titans and the New York Giants are NFL TEAMS. There is also a baseball TEAM called the Giants, the San Francisco Giants. It was a clever choice to choose TEAMS whose names are synonyms.
• OLE (16A: Copa Mundial cheer) “Copa Mundial” is Spanish for “World Cup.” The FIFA World Cup is an international football (called soccer in the U.S.) competition held every four years. The next World Cup will be held in 2026, and will be hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the United States. OLÉ!
• Y CHROMOSOME (17A: One half of some genetic pairings) Hooray for science in the crossword! Y CHROMOSOMEs and their counterparts, X CHROMOSOMEs, are involved in genetic determination of sex in many organisms. 
• ALOO (37A: Saag ___ (spinach-and-potato dish)) ALOO is a South Asian term for potatoes, and is used in the names of a number of dishes.
• YETI COOLERS (56A: Insulated containers named for a mythical beast) The YETI company was founded in 2006 by brothers Roy and Ryan Selders, who were frustrated with the quality of COOLERS on the market at the time. As the clue informs us, the company is named for the YETI, a mythical creature also known as the abominable snowman.
• BAHT (3D: Currency used in a Thai bar) The BAHT is the official currency of Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia.
• TROLL (5D: Doll with wild, bright hair) We saw TROLL dolls referenced two days ago in a clue for HAIR, [Distinctive feature of “Trolls” characters].
• MGM (8D: Studio with a lion mascot)  Leo the Lion is the mascot of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) movie studio. Leo has introduced MGM movies since 1924. From 1924 to 1957, six different lions were filmed to introduce MGM movies, and only one of them was actually named Leo. The first MGM lion (and the only one that simply looked around but didn’t roar during his film appearance) was named Slats. Here’s another interesting thing about the MGM lion: since 2021, MGM’s lion mascot has been CGI animated.
• LOVE POTION (10D: Elixir that makes someone smitten) I think it’s probably a good thing that the LOVE POTION is a thing of fiction, don’t you?
• YOLO (24D: “Seize the day” acronym) YOLO = You Only Live Once
• GLOW STICKS (29D: Colorful items waved at a rave) According to Guinness World Records, the longest GLOW STICK ever made was 500 feet 3 inches long. It was created in 2018 to celebrate the University of Wisconsin’s 150th birthday, and it took over 100 volunteers to activate it.
• CRETE (32D: Greece’s largest island) CRETE is located about 100 miles south of the Greek mainland.
• PURR (38D: Content cat’s sound) and THU (34A: “Throwback” day (Abbr.)) We’re a day early for it to officially be “Throwback Thursday,” but I thought I’d take this opportunity to share a throwback photo of my cat, Willow, anyway. This photo was taken ten years ago. Willow is lying on top of a cow pillow, which makes me smile.

• DOE EYES (41D: Makeup trend that creates an innocent look) The article I found about DOE EYES trending on TikTok is from last September, so I don’t know if they’re still trending, since these things come and go quickly.
• NHL (44D: Org. for Ducks and Penguins) Here we have some more TEAMS, the Anaheim Ducks and the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was a fun choice to choose two NHL TEAMS that have bird names.
• CAPO (45D: Key-changing guitar gadget) A CAPO is a clamp-like device that is attached to the neck of a guitar (or other stringed instrument such as a ukulele or banjo). The CAPO shortens the length of the playable strings, thus raising the pitch.
• HELL (52D: “___ was the journey but it brought me heaven”) “HELL was the journey but it brought me heaven,” is a lyric from Taylor Swift’s 2020 song, “Invisible String.”
• OREO (53D: Cookie made in 18 countries) What other cookie would it be? Of course it’s our crossword friend OREO that is made in 18 countries. Although OREOs are made in 18 countries, they’re available in many more than that. You can buy OREOs in over 100 countries.
• TAU (58D: Greek letter T) TAU is the nineteenth letter of the twenty-four-letter Greek alphabet, making this a great opportunity to review the end of that alphabet. Following TAU, we have upsilon, phi, chi, psi, and omega.

“It’s not entirely unpleasant seeing you again,” D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk, New York City’s former Kingpin of crime, tells his old enemy Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) in the premiere episode of the Disney+ series “Daredevil: Born Again.” Fisk and Murdock, the blind lawyer also known as the masked vigilante Daredevil, at first toe a peaceful line at a diner, but when the conversation turns from passive-aggressive to just aggressive, bad feelings arise again, with the Big Apple at stake. 

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Yes, they’re archenemies, but they also give each other a newfound sense of purpose when they meet again. “I’m a big soccer fan,” says Cox, 42. “My team is Arsenal, and our big nemesis is Tottenham. The question becomes, would I want them to not exist? And the answer is no. I want them to be there, because I want to beat them.”

The “Vanderpump Rules” star revealed on Bravo’s “Hot Mic” podcast on Tuesday that he has been dealing with addiction issues, primarily abusing cocaine, “on and off” for the past two decades.

He’s approaching three months of sobriety, including abstaining from alcohol, which he said went “hand in hand” with his cocaine habits.

“I can’t do cocaine without drinking,” Taylor, 45, said. “So I just gave up both.”

Taylor said he has been “waiting a long time” to make this admission, but felt with the new season of “The Valley” – a “Vanderpump” spinoff – coming up later this month, it was a good time to do so.

The third season of the Peacock series, based on a Dutch format, airs its finale and reunion Thursday (9 p.m. EST/6 PST).

Efron, four years younger than actor brother Zac Efron, emerged as an early fan favorite after producers positioned him as scrumptious eye candy. The “Down to Earth” producer, who’s also worked as a stuntman and in film production, is among those gathered in a Scottish castle, duking it out to determine who among them are traitors ‒ masterfully pulling off “murders” undetected ‒ and who are honest faithful. The last player(s) standing are awarded a cash prize of up to $250,000.

“I’m all for that,” Efron, 33, says of his ab-baring onscreen moments. “If you see my Instagram, I have my shirt off 90% of the time.”