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Hoda Kotb beams in first family photo with new baby - AOL

Hoda Kotb was all smiles on Easter in her first family photo since bringing home baby Hope Catherine.

In an Instagram photo shared Sunday, the NBC “Today” show co-host was seen grinning with partner Joel Schiffman, 2-year-old Hayley Joy and the recently adopted infant.

“This is us,” Kotb, 54, captioned the picture in which Schiffman is cradling their new daughter, bottle in hand.

Kotb also posted a shot of her mother, Sameha, holding the child in a tender moment.

“This makes me so happy... my mom filled with Hope,” she wrote.

Announcing the newest addition to her family on Tuesday in an interview with her NBC colleagues, Kotb teared up with joy.

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My girl met my girl and my face exploded! @todayshow @klgandhoda

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Al... you always show up for life.. thx for loving Haley .. happy 40th anniversary xxx

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“I’m feeding her, and I can’t believe it,” she said. “I’m so happy she’s here!”

Anchor Al Roker visited the family last week, appearing ecstatic to meet baby Hope. He shared his visit in a series of photos on Instagram, captioned, “I can’t stop smiling.”

For Kotb, its one of two major changes this month, as she said goodbye less than three weeks ago to Kathie Lee Gifford, with whom she had co-hosted the fourth hour of “Today” for 11 years.

Jenna Bush Hager has since assumed Gifford’s role, having filled in for her on previous occasions.

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TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Wednesday, January 23, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, January 24, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, January 17, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager and Maria Shriver on Tuesday, January 22, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Jenna Bush Hager, Hoda Kotb and Keri Glassman on Monday, January 21, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, January 17, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Harlem Globetrotters with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, January 10, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager and Neil Patrick Harris on Thursday, January 10, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 09: Jenna Bush, Hoda Kotb, and Al Roker are seen on January 09, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager and LeAnn Rimes on Friday, November 9, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, November 9, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Jenna Bush Hager, Hoda Kotb, Jennifer Hartstein and Jeff Gardere on Monday, October 29, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Tuesday, October 15, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, September 14, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, August 24, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, August 23, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, July 27, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager and Hilaria Baldwin on Friday, July 27, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, June 1, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb on Thursday, April 26, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Thursday, January 31, 2019 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, January 5, 2018 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb, Kathie Lee Gifford. Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

TODAY -- Pictured: Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager on Friday, October 6, 2017 -- (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

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2019-04-22 13:17:36Z
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‘Game of Thrones’ star Maisie Williams opens up about sex scene that shocked viewers - Fox News

“Game of Thrones” showrunners threw in a sex scene in Sunday night’s episode that many fans didn’t see coming.

The night before the epic battle against the White Walkers, several characters spent time coping with what could be their last few hours alive. For 18-year-old Arya Stark, it was losing her virginity to Gendry, a former travel partner who is the bastard son of late King Robert Baratheon. Both of them were in their teens when they last saw each other.

“We’re going to die soon. I’d like to know what it’s like before that happens,” Arya, played by Maisie Williams, 22, told Gendry, played by 31-year-old Joe Dempsie, in reference to having sex.

[WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM SEASON 8 OF "GAME OF THRONES"]

Fans have been rooting for an Arya and Gendry romance since the duo first met in Season 1 and began traveling together in the next season — but the unexpected sex scene still shocked fans and left some cringing.

“Running to google to check Maisie Williams’ age to make sure I didn’t break the law by having my eyes open,” one Twitter user wrote.

'GAME OF THRONES' FINAL SEASON LAS VEGAS ODDS REVEAL BIZARRE THEORIES ABOUT HBO HIT

“Google: Maisie Williams’ age; 22 #GameOfThrones,” another person tweeted.

Another person tweeted, “ARYA SAID I SEE IT, I LIKE IT, I WANT IT, I GOT IT#GameofThrones”

“#GameofThrones Nobody: [no response], Arya: I ain't tryna die a virgin!” a fan wrote.

“Me watching Arya and Gendry about to get it on even though I pretty much watched Arya grow up,” another tweet read.

Williams opened up about her first “GOT” sex scene to Entertainment Weekly, saying co-star Sophie Turner was the first to alert her about it.

“Sophie said, ‘Whatever you do, you have to skip to this episode, this scene first.’ So I just read that and it was practically all I knew about the entire season,” Williams told Entertainment Weekly.

“At first, I thought it was a prank,” Williams added. “I was like, ‘Yo, good one.’ And [the showrunners were] like, ‘No, we haven’t done that this year.’ Oh f—k!”

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Williams said it sank in she was going to be in a sex scene by the final season table read.

“I got to the read-through and I’m reading the scene and thought, ‘Oh, we’re actually going to do this. When do I shoot this? I need to go to the gym.’ A whole list of things,” she said.

Maisie Williams portraying Arya Stark in "Game of Thrones." (HBO via AP)

Williams, who was 11 when she first joined the show, said everyone on set was respectful when it came to filming the scene. She added that by the end they were rushing to finish filming the moment.

“David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] were like: ‘You can show as much or as little as you want. So I kept myself pretty private. I don’t think it’s important for Arya to flash. This beat isn’t really about that. And everybody else has already done it on the show, so…” Williams said.

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Dempsie also said the experience was strange for him.

“It’s obviously slightly strange for me because I’ve known Maisie since she was 11, 12 years old,” Dempsie told Entertainment Weekly. “At the same time, I don’t want to be patronizing toward Maisie — she’s a 20-year-old woman. So we just had a lot of fun with it.”

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2019-04-22 12:55:38Z
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On Game of Thrones, Everyone Gets Ready to Fight the Dead...and to Die - Gizmodo

Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) makes a stand.

We didn’t need seven seasons of shocking character deaths to know that not all our favorite characters are going to survive the battle against the White Walkers. It turns out very few characters on the show have any illusions about staying alive either, so they have to choose how to spend their final day before the dead arrive on their doorstep. It makes for a very bleak episode, but a damned good one, too.

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After last week’s rocky season premiere, I am very happy to report that things are much, much improved. While last week’s episode often felt rushed to the point of incoherence, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” has nothing but time—time to stay with those gathered at Winterfell as they get ready to fight a war no one much expects to win…but are forced to wait for that war to arrive and reckon with their probable demises. All of those thoughtful character moments that have made the series so special and were almost completely lacking in the premiere? It turns out they were all here.

Compare anything from last week with the beginning of last night’s episode, in which everyone decides what the hell to do with Jaime. Just about all the main characters get a chance to weigh in and let us know how they feel about his arrival. Daenerys is ready to kill the traitor who murdered her father, Sansa is also ready to punish the man who attacked her father in season one, Brienne vouches for Jaime’s honor and tells of his good deeds when they were together, and Tyrion hopes to save his brother while being on Daenerys’ bad side for getting utterly duped by Cersei. Best of all is Jaime’s frequent, desperate looks at Bran, wondering if he’s going to mention how Jaime pushed him off that tower all those years ago, but only getting Bran’s uncomfortable Three-Eyed Raven stare in return. None of this needed to be seen—we all knew Jaime wasn’t going to be killed, because he’s obviously going to fight alongside the good guys—but it felt natural and real, in that way that makes Game of Thrones so special.

And that was just the first scene! Jaime then got time to talk to Bran alone, and discover Bran has no hard feelings (he has no feelings at all, really) and that by pushing a kid out that window Jaime accidentally set himself on a road to becoming a better person. Jaime and Tyrion also get to spend some alone time together, marveling at how two Lannisters have somehow both ended up fighting for the Starks in Winterfell. And then when Jaime and Brienne reunite, he tells her he’d be honored if he could serve under her when the fighting starts.

Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) enjoys his fifth of 18 drinks.

Honestly, it’s almost a little obnoxious that so many characters get so much time to process Jaime’s arrival when so many major moments were jam-packed into the show last week, but it’s these scenes where the characters don’t have plot duties that really stand out.

Sansa and Daenerys finally get to have a private conversation and it’s everything I wanted; from Daenerys’ too-friendly overtures to the two women bonding over the perils of the patriarchy to Sansa’s utter refusal to forget that when the war is over the fate of Winterfell and the North is still in the queen’s hands. Tyrion and Jaime, drinking and regretting the “perils of self-betterment” was outstanding. Sansa’s palpable happiness at seeing fellow Ramsay survivor Theon again was much briefer, but also satisfying. Even the mini-Night’s Watch reunion of Jon, Samwell, and Edd had a bit of emotional heft.

Not all of it worked, though. Sam giving Jorah his family’s Valyrian sword to fight with didn’t feel particularly earned. The scene where Davos is inexplicably serving food to raw recruits and meets the clichéd “small child who wants to be a soldier” was worthless. And I’m honestly not at all sure how I feel about Arya’s determination to have sex before most likely dying the next day (although to be fair I don’t think Gendry was sure how to feel either).

But the episode is going to be remembered for one scene and one scene alone, and it’s not the one where Jon reveals his true parentage to Daenerys (which conveniently occurs seconds before the White Walkers arrive). It’s when Tyrion and Jaime are drinking, and are slowly joined by Brienne, Podrick, Davos, and Tormund, and then…that’s it, basically. They drink and talk and think about how they’re probably going to die in the very, very near future. These different characters, who have had vastly different journeys, come together and quietly bond in their shared doom, and it’s just marvelous. It honestly didn’t need that cheesy but incredibly satisfying moment when Jaime knights Brienne, but Gwendoline Christie does such an excellent job of conveying Brienne’s emotions while she’s trying desperately to restrain them, and it’s a lovely reminder of how important these scenes are to Game of Thrones—or can be.

Of course, given that the episode ends with the White Walkers staring at Winterfell, I sincerely doubt we’re in for any more simple, quiet scenes for…well, ever, maybe? The war will clearly begin next week, and I don’t know that there’s much reason to suspect it’ll end anytime before the final episode. That’s fine—it’s what we’ve all been waiting for, after all—and I feel very confident that the spectacles in store are going to blow our minds. But we all needed this episode, not just as the traditional calm before the storm, but as a reminder of what this show is and has been, and why we’re so damn invested in seeing who manages to live through what’s next—however few they may be.

Because right now, the big plan is “kill the Night King and hope they all die” like when they slew the Walker last season and his wights collapsed. Bran will hang out in the Godswood because the Night King hates Three-Eyed Ravens so much he’ll likely head there to attack—at which point Theon and his Iron Islanders will pop up, as, hopefully, will Dany with one of her dragons. It’s not the worst plan, but as Bran points out, no one actually knows if dragon fire can even destroy the Night King. Given that next week is only the third episode of six, I’m guessing…no. It won’t.

Which most likely means some the characters we saw thinking they may be about to die are going to be very, very right. Thank goodness we’ll have this last night to remember them by.

Davos (Liam Cunningham) takes time out of his incredibly busy day to, uh, serve soup.

Assorted Musings:

Jon basically sprinting away from Daenerys every time they were done having a group meeting made me chuckle.
For defenses, Winterfell has catapults, plenty of spiked barricades, and a trench they can set on fire. Oh, and nine million dragonglass weapons. Could be worse!
Arya’s Gendry-made weapon was a spear with a dragonglass blade at each end. Should make for a pretty action scene.
Bran doesn’t care that Jaime threw him out a window and paralyzed him, but Bran also likes to say “The things we do for love” in front of Jaime constantly to make him feel like shit.
Holy crap, was that Ghost? (It was.)
Holy crap, was that “Jenny of Oldstones”? (It was.)
This show cannot make me care about Grey Worm and Missandei, but that didn’t make their decision to make travel plans for after the war any less trite. The only question now is which one of them will die—or will they both?
Hey, what the hell was up with Brienne looking to Pod when Jaime offered to knight her, and then Pod barely nodded his approval? Brienne doesn’t need shit from you, Podrick.
That was also some very good acting from Emilia Clarke when Jon is telling Dany his origin story. There are lots of conflicting emotions going on at once—and I like how Dany’s first thought is of the Iron Throne, and not the fact she has been having sex with her nephew.
That Winterfell war map was hilarious. There’s the keep, the various Winterfell forces, and then basically the entire top half of the board is the Night King’s army. Ha ha, they’re doomed!
Samwell, laying down some truth: “Everyone seems to forget I’m the first one to kill a White Walker.”

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2019-04-22 11:30:00Z
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Everyone Has Already Worked Out Who’s Going To Die In Next Game Of Thrones Episode - UNILAD

The final season of Game of Thrones continued today (April 22) and while the episode itself wasn’t action packed – aside from Arya and Gendry – it sets events up for a dramatic battle next week.

The episode sees the characters preparing for the Battle of Winterfell, which will see every major player fighting for their lives against the Army of the Dead.

And because this is Game of Thrones, fans are expecting a high death toll from the violent battle, including the deaths of much-loved characters as opposed to the regular offing of bit part players that’s been the trend of late.

Over on Reddit, fans believe they’ve already worked out who will be killed off next week.

One user pointed out that Lyanna Mormont wishes Jorah good fortunes, which as we all know is basically a death sentence in Game of Thrones.

Similarly Grey Worm told Missandei ‘I’ll take you back to Naath when this is over’, so the opposite will happen.

RIP Grey Worm and Jorah. It’s been nice knowing you.

Next week’s episode will be one of the biggest television has ever seen, with Kit Harington recently confirming it took 55 nights to film.

Appearing on The Graham Norton Show, Harington didn’t reveal much about the eighth season but did confirm the lengthy shoot knackered both the cast and crew.

He said:

I’m not sure I should tell you about it, but it was so intense we were all on the edge of killing each other.

Now, I imagine the ‘killing each other’ refers to both off- and on-screen.

You can watch his interview here:

The hype surrounding the Battle of Winterfell episode has been building since last year when a photo shared by assistant director Jonathan Quinlan leaked online.

Game of Thrones is known for its impressive production value, so it is understandable why HBO would want to go out with a bang, making the final episodes the biggest television has ever seen.

It was Quinlan who first revealed the team spent 55 nights filming the battle, sharing a quickly deleted photo on Instagram of a thank you card sent out to cast and crew.

It read:

This is for the Night Dragons. For enduring 55 straight nights. For enduring the cold, the snow, the rain, the mud, the sheep shit of Toome and the winds of Magheramorne.
When tens of millions of people around the world watch this episode a year from now, they won’t know how hard you worked. They won’t care how tired you were or how tough it was to do your job in sub-freezing temperatures.
They’ll just understand that they’re watching something that’s never been done before. And that’s because of you.

The card was signed by ‘The Producer Types’.

We only have a week to wait to see if the battle episode lives up to the hype.

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Emily Murray

Emily Murray is a journalist at UNILAD. She graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA in English Literature and History before studying for a Masters in Journalism at the University of Salford. Emily has previously worked for the BBC, ITV and Trinity Mirror. When Emily isn't writing about topics including mental health and entertainment, you can find her at the cinema which is her second home.

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2019-04-22 06:59:07Z
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Game of Thrones: Amazon error as second episode is uploaded early - BBC News

The latest episode of Game of Thrones was uploaded to Amazon early due to an "error", the company has said.

The second instalment of the eighth and final series was not supposed to be broadcast until Sunday evening.

But some Amazon Prime members were able to watch it several hours before that.

"We regret that for a short time Amazon customers in Germany were able to access episode two of season eight of Game of Thrones," an Amazon spokesman said.

"This was an error and has been rectified."

It may have been taken down soon after it was uploaded, but it was long enough for many fans to view the whole episode.

As a result, screengrabs and plot details started appearing online before the official broadcast - which led to fans worrying about accidentally coming across spoilers (which we obviously won't post here).

However, plenty of people had some fun with the leak.

US singer Mariah Carey suggested that she was about to post some "major Game of Thrones spoilers" on Twitter... before going on to upload a picture of herself on the Iron Throne.

This is the second week in a row that Game of Thrones has appeared online early.

Last week's launch episode was made available to DirecTV Now customers four hours early.

A spokesman for AT&T, which owns the service, said: "Apparently our system was as excited as we are for Game of Thrones tonight and gave a few DirecTV Now customers early access to the episode by mistake.

"When we became aware of the error, we immediately fixed it and we look forward to tuning in this evening."

Writing in Forbes, Paul Tassi said: "HBO has to be tearing their hair out that this keeps happening, but this show is so popular and there are so many of these markets to manage, it does almost seem inevitable that something will go wrong.

"At least we're not dealing with people flat-out stealing episodes like we saw in a breach a few years ago, but this is not great either."

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2019-04-22 10:39:41Z
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