Jim Parsons Is the Highest Paid Actor on Television — Morning Brief

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Welcome to the Morning Brief. These are some of the top celebrity and pop culture news stories making news this a.m.

TV pays well. Forbes’ annual list of the highest-paid television actors in the world is here, and it includes actors from just four shows. [Forbes]

The packages just keep on coming. What a scary world we are living in. Police are examining a suspicious package addressed to actor-director Robert De Niro at a building in lower Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood, two law enforcement sources said early Thursday. [Page Six]

Will The Conners last? Tuesday night’s The Conners had 7.9 million viewers and a 1.7 rating among adults 18-49, down 26 percent in the demo from last week’s premiere. That’s a pretty big dip. [Entertainment Weekly]

Megyn Kelly‘s career and role at NBC is in major flux after blackface comments. Kelly and power Hollywood agency CAA have parted ways, sources confirmed to Page Six on Wednesday night. [Page Six]

These two are the worst. Kimberly Guilfoyle gave herself and Donald Trump Jr. a couple nickname and used it in public. [AOL]

Khloe Kardashian is so over Tristan Thompson. Following month after month of constant breakups and makeups with the basketball player, sources reportedly close to 34-year-old Khloé have claimed that the relationship could be nearing its end. [Yahoo!]

This does look pretty scary. Netflix released the trailer for its upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box featuring a rather high-strung Sandra Bullock pleading with some unknown threatening entity to “PLEASE DON’T TAKE MY CHILDREN!”

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