>> the sexiest pumping. >> this guy like a club promoter? >> our special thursday throw back. >> the stars relive their first time on e.t. >> it's what's coming up right now. >> on entertainment tonight. >> my mom, she goes. >> stars blown away by their first e.t. interview, jessica, gwen. >> cosner. >> and rod stewart really flashes back. >> this is your 29th album. >> there he goes. >> i was going through one of the worst times of my life. >> i sit down with oprah opening up about over coming career

hurdles and her new tv project. >> i'm still always going to be a diva in certain ways. >> onset with miariah talking love and kids. >> we're with the real life spiritual leader. >> and we're with bindi irwin family, her brother spitting image of their dad. what mom really thinks of bindi's boyfriend. >> i do have a gun license. >> now, in our 35th season, this is entertainment tonight. thanks so much for joining us everybody. hope you're having a wonderful thanksgiving and we certainly have a lot to be thankful for here at e.t. >> 35 seasons and tonight we're bringing you the stars and stories that has moved us and inspired us. >> as we celebrate our 35th, we're thankful to all of the celebrities who have so much fun looking back at their very first e.t. interview. >> you have to see this. >> our flashback footage of little kate made her so emotional we had to watch it

twice. >> had you seen the movie before? >> yes, sort of. >> that is so crazy. >> kate was just 8 with mom goldy at the over board premier. >> well, i like the part where my mom she swallows a bug. >> happy birthday e.t., thank you for that. >> today, stefani struts. >> make a lot of my own clothes and one of them didn't work. it didn't turn out. i didn't even hem it. >> muffin. >> literally wearing a pair of pants that don't fit, i'll wear them unbuttoned no big deal. >> went to my first rock n roll party, i'm actually the same person, that's crazy. >> starring with jennifer garner in alias. >> nothing i've ever seen. hot, sexiest, it's incredible.

>> guy like a club promoter? >> chris o'donnel couldn't bare looking at his 19-year-old self. >> it's hollywood drug, i don't know if it's gotten me yet. i enjoy coming out here and i think it's exciting. >> i can't watch this. i'm sorry, you're killing me. >> not bad, kevin. that was back in '85 while promoting american flyers, today he has advice for his 30-year-old sell. >> i've been lucky in the films. don't go into this business. don't do it. it's going to break your heart 100 times. >> my son loves it here. >> jason ritter just a boy in his first e.t. appearance. >> i've been coming to the zoo for a week. he goes zoo. >> oh my god. that is a cool outfit. >> it's hard not to get a little sentimental looking at that face and remembering the special relationship e.t. had with his

dad. he was hamming it up for our cameras and we loved him for it. >> i remember the first time i saw him on tv and in the room at the time. you don't go in there and shrink and be a weird0 and come back out. >> name nick carter and i'm from tampa, florida. >> that was before i met -- right before i met them. >> oh my god. >> nick carter's first interview, 1992. he was a contestant on the amateur hour. >> i just like being noticed. >> i always remember thinking, oh i was always second best and it's funny, you know, like this whole dancing with the stars, there's a little chip on my shoulder, you know, still from then. >> well, i've got to say look at all those interviews it makes us thankful e.t. cameron joins me now and you have a star that's in the holiday spirit mariah carey. >> now she's directing and

starring in a christmas movie for the hallmark channel and i am very thankful she invited me to the set. mariah has a bit of reputation for being a diva and that's fine with her. >> i'm still going to be a diva in certain ways, i mean, like, you know, there's a make up bottle there and they don't mind touching me up while i'm directing. >> leave it to mariah, it's a new start for me, really. >> part of mariah's new start relgt with australian billionaire james packer. >> we saw you and james packer making your red carpet debut. >> i don't felt here we are making a debut. i mean, he's not that guy. >> you're used to the red carpet, the attention flashes, how did james do with all of that. >> it was a lot for him. >> did you try to give him tips. >> i mean, if i did that i would have coach him, i would have looked at him. >> the feedback on you as a

director is genuinely like through the roof. >> well, here is the thing, i've been directing like so much of my own work for a really long time. >> onset in 1995 as mariah got her first directing credit for fantasy. >> it's not like whoa i want to be a director now and here i am director woman, it's to get the results that i want. >> now, she's directing and starring in a christmas melody for hallmark channel airing december 19 and she almost seems star struck over her costar. >> how much did you love lacy in mean girls. >> we've worn pink on wednesday and what about this, on wednesdays we wear pink. >> on wednesdays we wear pink. >> i'm obsessed with it. i was obsessed with mean girls. >> i saw your two beautiful kids running around, climbing all over their mommy. >> i think they're cause ago

little bit of havoc on the set. i'm trying -- they're only four. i love when they come to visit me onset i get a little bit concerned because they have no filter and they'll say anything. >> being there onset and watching mariah jug both mom duties and deck toir yal duties i was impressed. christmas melody airs december 19th on the hallmark channel. it has been a year to remember for bindi irwin, i knew she could do it and i was grateful i got to witness firsthand the amazing bond that's shared with her mother and her own brother. >> we are so close because we truly believe in the meaning of unconditional love. as a family, we're always there for each other. >> you're out there in the auld yents and you're watching, that's your big sister doing all of that, do you get butterflies an nervous. >> whenever she walked out on stage there's an incredible

presence and, you know. >> thank you, i love you. >> those you get the sense of this family hero, husband and father is what keeps them strong. they keep his legacy alive by being respectful honored and fun. robert definitely got that. >> it's a sprinkle. >> ready? >> yeah. >> all right. >> like this. >> the young ladies out there, the young girls watching the show, they're like wow, he's so cute. >> thank you very much, i'm a lot more interested in wild life at the moment. i would much rather go over and hug a crocodile. >> if you love photography, you have that mountain biking. >> preferably all three. >> as for bindi everyone has loved watching she and derrick on dancing. they're cheering for their relationship. >> do you offer any parental

advice on relationships to my daughter. i do, i remind them that i do have a gun license. >> and we have access to crocodiles as well. >> provided the perfect example for true love as their kids the kind of bond that can't be replaced ch she told us she could consider dating again. >> i think, i've had my happily ever after and i still feel a mince love and loyalty to steve. and got great kids. i've got very full life. while i'm lonely for steve, i'm not a lonely person. so i'm doing okay. but, i think if i had not met steve i probably would have never married. >> that's kind of how we go through life. if we can talk about what we've experienced and it can help other people, it's worth talking about. it was like these beautiful dance commemorating her dad. i think that was so special because she was doing everyone grief journey with her on her

her journey and saying you can lose someone and then find joy again. >> i love her. she's so likable. bindi said one of the greatest benefits is all of the exposure it's brought to her family conservation effort, something that's very important to hem. >> obviously. coming up, only we're with rod stewart talking abhis new music, his family and his first time on e.t. >> this is your first appearance e.t. >> this is your first appearance (nature sounds) she can rage, and roar, and crack, and storm. but mother nature can't stop us. the new 2016 ford explorer. be unstoppable. ♪

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call and switch to x1 from xfinity today. >> that is the one and only rod stewart singing about being thankful, how appropriate. he''s sold more than 100 million albums jennifer got him talking about the kids and acting like one himself. >> this is your 29th album. >> 29th. >> what inspired you to write this? >> there you go. [ laughter ] >> come on. talk. sorry. [ bleep ]. >> you wouldn't show that to your mom x would you? >> that was beginning of our wild interview. >> e.t. is turning 35 years old. >> really? >> this is your first

appearance. >> shut up. >> can't be. >> look at this guy. >> yeah. >> radio is our life blood. without radio we'll all be finding other jobs. >> have things changed a lot since then for you? >> i've got more children. >> eight children and you recorded this album at home. >> the kids would run in and tell me what they think, which was usually a lot of rub badge, it's just a wonderful environment. >> we're getting down to if you think i'm sexy. it looks good. >> now, we absolute loved your carpool karaoke. 8 million views. >> i haven't seen it. >> i can't stand watching me. >> i'm sorry i just totally showed you a clip then. >> that was a while ago, pretty good looking in those days. >> come on, you're forever young. >>. ♪ i make sunshine and

happiness ♪ ♪ forever young ♪ forever young >> critics are going to keep him young because they're raving at rod's new music, rolling stone ranked another country no. 7 on their list of the 30 must year albums this fall. coming up next i'm talking to oprah winfrey about over coming a difficult time in her career. >> there were all those stories. >> and then we're at church with the war room star in real life filling stadiums. >> on film it's the exact opposite of being in front of a large crowd. >> couldn't crush him. >> that is straight >> closed captions provided by -- ♪

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>> whenever i get the chance to go talk exclusively with oprah, ill couldn't be more thankful. the conversation is emotional, empowering and inspirational and those three words describe perfectly her tv show. i didn't think oprah could out do yourself i think you have with belief, here you are trying to understand the misstri of our existence. >> life is about trying to grow yourself. so this belief series is the next level for me. it's really one of the reasons why i wanted to create a network and to be able to connect, really meaningful, important ideas that allow people to see themselves in different ways. >> for many pilgrims, being among tens of millions of fellow believers has a spiritual power all its own. oprah narrates the week long tv event three years in the making, the inspiration for the series came during a difficult time in

her career. >> i was being challenged by starting the network, there were all those stories you could have kept your day job, you know, literally what happens to me when i am facing a challenge, i go inward and i ask, god, what would you have me do? and the answer was this belief sere ris. >> were you worried at all in portraying different people's religion. >> i wasn't worried at all because there is a thread of truth that goes through all religions, the thread of compassion and love. >> her belief team condensed more than 800 hours of footage into 7 one-hour episodes. >> my favorite part is at the beginning of the series where you say my confidence comes from going there is a force greater than myself. >> my confidence does -- this is the interesting thing about social media, people can find a reason to complain about anything, what is the name of the force, oprah, you know, this

is the thing, if you're a force, if you're a power of force, being, entity, you really don't care about the title. but i call the force god. and i have always known that i come from something that's not just myself. and that grounding in knowing that, that belief has allowed me to really. >> be oprah. >> to be who i am. >> that's why she's gone so far. believing in something big. belief will reair as a marathon on christmas day. >> beautiful too. >> it is beautiful. >> this year fall film called war room became the no. 1 movie in america, and the woman who stars in it isn't even a actress, she's inspired millions with her message of faith. i had a chance to go spend some time with priscilla shire. >> i don't know where you are,

devil, but i know you can hear me. >> you're the lead actress in this movie, what happened? >> i just broke down and cried. i sobbed because i realized how nervous i was. i think it was occurring to me, i'm going to be in a movie. >> priscilla's performance was raw, parent and real. she's a wife and mother. >> how does it feel to be the lead actress in the no. 1 movie in the country. >> gratitude. i'm grateful that god let me be a part of this project that is blessing and touching so many people. it's less about being in a movie and more about the opportunity that it is to to be a part of a movie that's drawing people towards spiritual things and the importance of prayer. >> i don't have time to pray that much every day. >> you have time to fight losing battles with your husband. >> big name actresses wanted i priscilla's role. >> couldn't kill him, the new

age cannot replace him and oprah cannot explain him away. >> acting, on film is the exact opposite of being in front of a large crowd. i had to reign in my impulse to project and do all the things that i normally have to do when i'm standing on a stadium or large church, speaking to a group of people, i have to do the opposite of that. >> this is my church. >> how many people are here on sunday. >> there are about probably between 7 and 10,000 that will come here on a sunday. i loved being back at church after filming the moochlt because coming here, it just -- filming the movie because coming here it feels like home again. >> oak cliff bible ship church and like many women she worked at balancing her work, faith and family. >> my friend will tell you, that most of the time my hair is up on bun on top of my head, no make up and i'm doing laundry and figuring out what's going to

be for dinner at the table with my boys, that's my priority for now. ♪ he's fighting the good fight ♪ >> are you going to act again? will there be another movie? >> well, i don't know. >> come on. come on. >> if you would told me i would act one time in a movie, i would have laughed. if there is a project that came along that gave me the opportunity to still ride in line with the purpose that i know that's for me and for my life, i would be open to it. >> we know her book inspired by war room became the number one best selling christian book in the nation. >> wow. in our entertainment tonight birthday which twilight start played a villain on law and order, is it peter, stewart, or robert? >> robert. >> the answer is coming up next.

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destination for entertainment >> well comb back to the show, which twilight star made their tv debut playing a villain on law and order? that's peter who turns 42 today, bax on the streets. >> we're out of time. we'll leave you with one of our favorite new albums, 25. >> oh, yeah it is, here it is singing hello, a thanksgiving present to you. ♪ out from the outside ♪ at least i can say that i've tried ♪

♪ i'm so sorry for breaking your heart ♪ ♪ it doesn't take you apart ♪ any more . >> the insider from hollywood. your 24/celebrity conversation. >> do you cook? >> oh, yes. >> hollywood is in the thanksgiving spirit as the stars share their gratitude list. >> i'm thankful for family, health. >> marsh mellow and yams. >> i don't understand your country. >> and then the set you ought to know. >> frankly i stopped wanting to be alive. >> her battle with postpartum depression. >> it was like being covered in tar. >> estefan love story hit