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Q: Is it true that former “Bachelorette” Jenn Tran is dating her partner from “Dancing with the Stars”? I hope so; they were so cute together. – K.S.
A: While Jenn Tran and dance pro Sasha Farber haven’t confirmed that they’re a couple, it certainly appears so. If anything, they’re great friends who recently attended the premiere of the movie “Wicked” together, as well as a Taylor Swift concert in Vancouver, Canada.
Jenn Tran (“The Bachelorette” and “Dancing with the Stars”) (Depositphotos photo)
They both deserve some happiness. Tran had her heart broken when her fiancé from “The Bachelorette” ended their engagement right before she was cast on “DWTS,” while Farber’s marriage to fellow dance pro Emma Slater was dissolved in 2023.
Q: Whatever happened to actor Denis Leary? I loved his firefighter drama series but haven’t seen him in anything since. – L.W.
A: Denis Leary’s best-known work “Rescue Me,” which he co-created with Peter Tolan and starred in as troubled 9/11 first responder Tommy Gavin, ended in 2011. Since this time, he’s kept busy with many other projects – both in front of and behind the camera – and also behind the mic voicing Diego the saber-tooth tiger in the animated “Ice Age” movies.
His next series on FX was “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll,” in which he played an aging rock singer who recruits his daughter for his new band. After this, he starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom “The Moodys,” which followed a dysfunctional family, before landing a stint as a detective on “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” He followed it with a role on the gritty family crime drama “Animal Kingdom.”
Leary started his career as a stand-up comedian before landing his breakout role in the comedy film “The Ref” in 1994. He’s returning to his comedic roots early next year in a new comedy series on Fox, opposite Catherine Tate (“The Office”) and Danny Pudi (“Community”). It sounds like he’s perfectly cast as a “loud-mouth Army colonel” who is sent to a base in the Netherlands “with no real purpose.”
“Going Dutch” premieres on Jan. 2, 2025, as part of a comedy block with Joel McHale’s sitcom “Animal Control.”
Q: Who is the man with the gray hair in the new Charles Schwab commercials who gets angry every time the company is mentioned? He looks so familiar. – D.D.
A: Salvator Xuereb plays “Carl the Broker” in a series of commercials that are currently airing for the financial services company Charles Schwab. He’s a character actor who has guest-starred in numerous television series, most recently as a smarmy doctor in “9-1-1,” a CIA officer in “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and Mr. Stewart in “Teen Wolf.”
He’s also appeared in movies like “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” but his TV credits far exceed his movie credits. Perhaps you recognize him as part of the cast from the series “Pensacola: Wings of Gold,” in which he played a demolitions expert nicknamed Buddha.
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