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Dwyane Wade has something sweet in store.

On Tuesday, the basketball pro invited fans into his kitchen to show them how to make his favorite dessert: Red velvet fried Oreos. Fully equipped with a deep fryer and a delicious bowl of homemade red velvet batter, he shared his baking tutorial on Instagram, writing, “My worse enemy…Sweets‼️”

“If anybody knows anything about me, I love sweets,” the dad of four said into the camera. “So, tonight—we call this the ‘Quarantine Body Fat Addition Snack.’ It’s what we about to do.” 

Before diving into the frying portion of the recipe, Dwyane recited the ingredients he used to create his batter, which was comprised of 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of cocoa powder, ½ teaspoon of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 ½ cups of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, 2 eggs that have been lightly beaten, 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, ½ teaspoon of baking soda and ½ teaspoon of red food coloring.

For the next step, Dwyane dipped his Double Stuf Oreos into the batter, making sure that both sides were “nice and gooey,” as he instructed. Noting that this can get messy, he looked down at his fingers and said, “So, if you grew up around your grandma, make sure you lick those fingers.”

Then, the covered Oreo cookie went into the fryer until it was ready to be enjoyed. “Just shake it a little bit,” he said as he watched the Oreo fry. “So, I was told that you gotta flip it around a little bit. And when you know it’s done is when the bubbles around it start going away.”  

Proudly showing off the finished product to camera, the former Miami Heat star continued, “Ultimately, it’s gonna look like this. There y’all go: Red velvet Double Stuf Oreos. Mm.”

To make things even better, Dwyane enjoyed his delicious deep-fried bites with vanilla ice cream, strawberries, chocolate drizzle and nuts. His pal Richard Ingraham captured his decadent creation on Instagram and wrote, “Lil Snack Double Stuffed Red Velvet Fried Oreo Sundae Oreos fried by my guy.”  

See how Dwyane makes his red velvet fried Oreos in the video above!  

Attention, Tooth Fairy: Jimmy Fallon‘s daughter, Winnie Fallon, just lost her tooth.

The 6-year-old child announced the big news during Tuesday’s at-home edition of The Tonight Show. Jimmy was in the middle of an interview with Ciara and Russell Wilson when his firstborn came running in to show off her new smile.

“Daddy! I lost my tooth,” she exclaimed. 

The late-night host then expressed his excitement over the major milestone and gave his daughter a big squeeze. The singer and the football player wanted to know all the details, too and asked Winnie how it happened.

“Mommy put a string around my tooth,” she said. “Then, she tried to pull it out, and then it worked.”

Jimmy said he hoped “the Tooth Fairy knows that this happened and will be visiting you tonight.”

“She knows!” his wife, Nancy Juvonen, reassured her young one.

Jimmy also held up a bag containing the item along with a label that read “Winnie’s sixth tooth.” His youngest child, Franny Fallon (5), then crashed the interview, as well to join in on the fun.

“Oh my gosh! I’m so proud of you, buddy,” Jimmy reiterated after giving Winnie a kiss on the forehead.

Ciara and Russell could relate to the proud parenting moment.

“Our son Future, when he lost his first tooth, his sister accidentally, like, bumped him…and the tooth—it popped up,” the “1, 2 Step” star recalled. “We tried that string thing, too.”

In addition, the couple talked about how they’ve been social distancing amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Ciara, who is pregnant with her third child, said she’s been hosting dance classes for her kids, and Russell said he’s been providing the children with a little athletic training.

“I’m coaching football, baseball, basketball, all the sports,” the Seattle Seahawks star said, “trying to get them trained up.”

They also said they’ve been cooking, dog grooming and homeschooling. Russell even joked he’s become a celebrity hairstylist and learned how to help out with his wife’s ‘dos.

Furthermore, they talked about how they’re giving back, such as by helping to facilitate the making of two million masks through Russell’s company Good Man Brand and by donating one million meals to Feeding America through Wheels Up’s Meals Up initiative.

Watch the video to see the full interview.

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The fashions of Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek have always been over-the-top, inspirational and downright amazing, but the team took things to a new level in the series finale. Warning, spoilers follow for “Happy Ending.”

As officiant at her son’s wedding, Moira (Catherine O’Hara) took her job very seriously and stepped up to the altar in a very papal outfit, complete with one of her longest wigs yet. The outfit reveal made this writer gasp.

“Hello! [Laughs.] That was—talk about mother of the bride. That was beyond. Wasn’t it fun? And with blessings from the Vatican, it looked like,” O’Hara said about her look. “And I was so happy I got to be as emotional as I was in the wedding. To let my guard down, for Moira to let her let her guard down for a minute.”

According to series co-creator, star, writer and director Dan Levy, the look was a collaborative effort—and one that he felt immense pressure to deliver on.

“I don’t want to say that that was the most pressure I ever felt in the history of our show, but figuring out Moira’s wedding look, knowing that it was going to be the last big Moira look and also knowing that it was the last episode of our show, it was just compounded pressure on compounded pressure,” he said.

Levy said he sourced about six gowns for the character to wear, including the white Alexander McQueen gown she ended up wearing, but it was O’Hara who generated the theme. “The minute Catherine found out that she was going to officiate, she came up with the idea of, ‘What if we dressed her kind of like the pope?'” Levy recalled with a laugh. “And the minute we had that direction, everything really sort of fell into place. She had the idea for the headpiece, she wanted to have a little bit of her hair wrapped around the hat. And Ana Sorys, who did all of [Alexis] and Moira’s hair on the show, just spent months trying to figure out how to make that hat with the hair on it. Finally, she did it.”

“I remember having this vision in my head and I ended up waking up at like 3 in the morning, texting Ana saying, ‘I think she should have very, very, very, very, very long blonde hair and I think it should be kind of curled like a Botticelli painting. I think that’s the vibe, and I think it should be on either side and I think they should be long, and I think we need jewelry.’ So, I called Debra Hanson, who’s our costume designer, and walked her through the process. And then of course, at the very it’s like, well, yeah, throw on the Tom Ford boots, gold boots, and that feels very on brand with Moira,” Levy said.

Once they had everything for one final spectacular Moira Rose look, Levy said it felt like they had accomplished more than a costume.

“The minute it all came together, it felt like such a celebration of the character, but it also felt like this celebration of our costume department, it felt like a celebration of the hair and makeup departments, and at the same time, it never overshadowed David and Patrick. So, from a costume standpoint, it was that perfect balance of being a complete showstopper, I hope giving the audience everything they could have ever imagined and then some, and still coming in a little under the radar so that David and Patrick had a moment to shine. I just loved it so much,” Levy said. “The day that she came out in that look full hair and makeup, I just sent some photos to some friends of mine [Laughs.] and said, ‘I think we did something right here.'”

What we thought was going to be an eternal mystery—what would Mark Frost and David Lynch have done with their creation if Twin Peaks had lasted longer than two seasons—was solved when Showtime brought the cult-classic drama and most of the original cast back for a third season in 2017.

Yet nothing will ever quite compare to how it all started 30 years ago, on April 8, 1990, when Twin Peaks‘ two-hour pilot premiered on ABC, posing the infamous question: Who killed Laura Palmer?

It wasn’t easy to convince the network to put the decidedly different drama on the air at all, but the response, when it did, was fairly rapturous. The eight-episode first season was promptly nominated for 14 Emmys and won two, and it was named Best TV Series, Drama, at the Golden Globes the following year. 

Dark, funny, endlessly surprising and ultimately way ahead of its time, the series didn’t turn out to be everyone’s cup of coffee and, after Laura’s killer was revealed in the middle of season two, was canceled after 30 episodes.

But it endured in the hearts and minds of superfans everywhere (a fanzine called Wrapped in Plastic published for 12 years, and now you can read all the issues online), and armchair analysis has been consuming the internet ever since.

So in honor of this damn fine show about murder, secrets, betrayal, love, family and hallucinatory dreams in a small town where it turns out nobody really knows each other, here are some secrets we dug up about the making of Twin Peaks:

All 30 episodes of Twin Peaks are streaming on Hulu.

Daniel Levy has spent a lot of time pacing around his house. The co-creator, star, writer and director of Schitt’s Creek has anxiously awaited the premiere of the series finale for his show, his baby.

“All I’ve been doing is pacing around my house with, like, bated breath waiting for people to see it and hoping that people like it,” Levy told E! News.

In place of traditional series final fanfare, Levy and the Schitt’s Creek team are raising money, and as of press time, Schitt’s Creek Gives Back has raised more than $190,000 for Food Banks Canada and Feeding America. Levy called the fundraiser, which has surpassed the original goal “a great send off for the show” and a testament to the fans.

“You know, I think that the beauty of the show is that it’s never been bigger than it is, and it’s quite telling that the last episode is airing without fanfare that had been originally planned for it. We were supposed to have big events, we were supposed to go and talk shows. Obviously, none of that’s happening. What stood in its place now is a fundraiser that’s raised a substantial amount of money for people. So, it feels, in a way, so right. The show was never intended to be a success, so to go out with people in their homes craving, comfort and joy, it just feels very right,” he said.

Schitt’s Creek was always the little show that could—until it did. Over the years, it saw a steady increase in popularity thanks in part to streaming on Netflix. In its fifth season, the show broke through at the Emmys with nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Catherine O’Hara, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for Eugene Levy and Outstanding Contemporary Costumes, and entered its sixth and final season with more eyeballs on it than ever before, something Levy was well aware of for the first time.

Below, Levy gets candid about the show, its impact on fans and the touching series finale callbacks.

Let’s start broad: Did you accomplish everything you wanted to with the show?
I think I accomplished more than I ever set out to with this show. I don’t ever think you can anticipate the kind of relationship that this show has formed with its fans and the kind of philosophy that it seems to have ignited in people in terms of just spreading kindness and love and joy. It’s far surpassed any of our expectations in that regard. And then in terms of the storytelling, I had visions of what I wanted the finale to be. And then as we were shooting it, I just kept being hit with these waves of emotion because it was so much greater and so much more meaningful than I could have ever hoped. I think that’s all you can, can wish for when it comes to just making those choices on how you want to end something. You know, it’s a daunting task. [Laughs.]…It’s a particularly daunting task when you’ve never had the pressure of people watching your show before and suddenly in this last season it felt like more people were watching than ever before, so to really disregard any expectation and continue to focus on what was really going to services our characters and our show and cast out the weight of the expectations of people and press and all those things that come with people suddenly watching your show. But no, I was so thrilled with it all and I feel very content.

I’m still pacing, [Laughs.] waiting for the episode to air and waiting for people to see it and hoping that people like it because I think in the past…we really made an active choice not to listen to the fans, not in a negative way, but rather I think the minute you start making a show that is aware of your fanbase, the minute it stops being your show. It starts being something else. So, this last season was probably the first time that we obviously had to consider what would make fans feel satiated. What would make fans feel like they got everything they possibly could out of the show, while at the same time, hopefully proposing some other ideas that they didn’t see coming? It was a daunting task, but I knew when we were shooting that wedding that there was magic in the air. And that sort of gave me a sense of calm, because there was something so special about that day. I knew that in order to create that kind of energy in the air, the pieces were in the right place.

Have you been able to take stock and look back, at what you accomplished with the show and how it touched audiences?
I don’t think I’ve taken, like, a conscious step back and thought about it because I feel like…it’s never been really about me. It’s been about proposing an idea and seeing that idea catch fire with our audience. So from time to time when I am told that, that people have written things… those are the moments when I get to stop and realize the impact that the show has had on people, but I just don’t think it’s very helpful to be too aware…Then you’re flirting with a strange sense of, like, self-entitlement. [Laughs.] It’s like, you know, “I took an afternoon to think about my impact.” No, that is not the vibe. Maybe it’s the Canadian in me. But do your work, and if good comes from it, that’s great. I don’t think you can be too aware of the good because it’s not necessarily all me, it’s other people. It’s a collection of people. It’s a team of people that I couldn’t possibly take credit for.

So, I am very proud of the impact that the show has had in terms of the work that our team has put into it. That’s been really amazing. I think to get to sit back and watch the success of our actors and seeing cast members on our show getting recognized on the street and hearing from fans about their thoughts on the hair and makeup departments and the costumes and the production design. That to me has been the most rewarding, outside of just the lives that have been touched by the show, is getting to watch a group of people be celebrated on the world stage and be really proud of them for the work that they did because this team was dealing with a very small budget. They managed to take the first seven seconds of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s budget and turn it into something that has really meant things to people. And that only comes when people are giving 110 percent of their time and energy. So, yeah, it’s been very emotional for me over this past year, as I’m sure most of my cast members will attest to.

The finale had so many emotional moments, like Alexis booping everyone on the nose to show her affection, but it didn’t linger in sentimentally for too long. That’s always been one of the show’s strong points. How do you achieve that balance?
You put together a really f–king stellar cast, that’s what you do. I can’t speak more highly of a cast than I have this of this show. You know, that was Annie. I’d love to say that we’ve scripted all of that, but so much of the details and the dimension of the show come from the impulses of the actors and also come from the freedom that they were allowed, as they should be, to explore who they are as characters, both in terms of dialogue and who they are as physical beings…When Annie [Murphy] asked if she could write “A Little Bit Alexis,” we said, yes. It’s why I asked Noah [Reid], “Do you want to take a stab at interpreting ‘The Best’? Or do you want us to bring someone in?” I think it’s so important to trust and put value in your actors. And I think that has paid off as a whole in such magical ways. So, yeah, I think a lot of those details are impulses that the cast had. And that’s why there’s such a warmth to the show because it really is a team effort.

Was it easier to do the goodbyes in character because you were also saying goodbye in real life?
It was harder because you’re not only saying goodbye to the people in your life, although most of them I will have as friends and friend-family for the rest of my life, but you’re also saying goodbye to your own character, and you’re stepping out of the shoes that you have laced up for years. And that, I think, was what caught a lot of us off guard as well, just the poignancy of saying goodbye to the people that you have inhabited for six years. So, yeah, the wedding was an intensely emotional scene to shoot. And it took an entire day and it was our last day on our sets. So we were not only saying goodbye to each other, celebrating David and Patrick, but we were also saying goodbye to the Rosebud Motel sets, we were saying goodbye to the Cafe Tropical set, we were saying goodbye to the town hall set in the most celebratory way, which I think made it all the more special.

How long did you know what the ending would be, the reveal of the town sign now featuring the Rose family?
Yeah, it’s been around for a while. We thought what a great way to end it and what a symbolic sort of representation of the fact that this family will have always left a mark on this town. It just felt so right. And I think from a storytelling standpoint, it just adds that Schitt’s Creek little bit of humor that sort of undercuts the emotionality of a moment. So, it was important that we have a little laugh right as we as we go out.

When I heard the Jazzagals start singing “The Best”…and then to have Patrick sing to David, something that would’ve mortified him at the beginning of the series, it was all beautiful.
I think a lot of that last episode was looking back and connecting the dots between the first episode and the last, between who these characters were and who they became. And I think that’s why we had Alexis saying I love you to everybody. She was a character in the very first episode who was willing to get on a helicopter and abandon her family [Laughs.] in the town. And now she is the one proclaiming her love to everybody throughout the whole episode. And then obviously, the little Mariah Carey moment in the vows was just felt so right. And the Jazzagals calling back to “The Best” and then also “Precious Love,” which was playing in the barn at the end of season two…So, those little callbacks, we had a long list of details that we would be interested in, as a writing team, of revisiting and we tried as best we could to sort of give little winks and nods to the details of the show without obviously making it too heavy handed. The idea that the entire town came together to save their wedding just felt so symbolic of what this town did for the family.

I asked Annie and Catherine this, so it’s your turn: Did you do anything special to say goodbye to David Rose?
Well, we have a tradition with the show of I bring an expensive bottle of champagne into the wardrobe truck and we gather cast and crew, whoever is around at the time, and we pop a bottle of champagne and have a cry and reminisce. We did that on our last day and it was great and then I went with Noah and Andrew Cividino who was co-directing the episode with me. We went to a bar at the very end of the day and had some drinks and a toast and it all felt very right.

Was anybody’s final line hardest to nail down?
No, because I think all of our final lines were, ‘I love you.’ So, I couldn’t imagine it being anything else. And then my dad’s last line being, ‘We’re ready,’ felt so—it spoke to the show in such a specific way.

They aren’t doctors, but they do play them on TV. 

To show their support for the real doctors and nurses and healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and nurses from all over TV got together virtually to give a big thank you and maybe also give us a little burst of joy in these tough times. 

The video starts with former House, MD star Olivia Wilde, who organized the whole thing, and includes appearances by Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser); Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh, and Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy); Donald Faison, Zach Braff, and Sarah Chalke (Scrubs); Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie); Lisa Edelstein, Jennifer Morrison, Omar Epps, Kal Penn, and Peter Jacobson (House, MD), Julianna Margulies and Maura Tierney (ER), Freddie Highmore (The Good Doctor), and even Jennifer Garner, who played a doctor in Dallas Buyers Club.  

This isn’t the only thing the fake doctors have been able to do. TV shows set in hospitals have been donating masks, gowns, and other medical supplies for the past few weeks, and you can see below which shows have been helping out! 

And if you’re now in the mood for a nice comforting medical show, we’ve got a nice little list for you (including where you can stream them) right here.