tonight, jennifer garner breaks her silence on her crumbling marriage, telling all about ben and the nanny and what she thinks about his giant back but would she take him back? find out why they're still living on the same property. >> shees like look, i don't hate him, you don't have to hatehim, let's not beat the guy up. ♪ behind the scenes of k clarkson's "american idol" break down, making grown men cry. >> the judges take us inside her emotional performance as we go back to idol's first winner just minutes avenue her victory. >> i am so disoriented. i could not stop crying. then the oscar crush is on. the nominees last minute jit

as some stars get their party on early. plus the rush to find the perfect dress. >> i have talked to the stylists. i'll tell you everything you need to know. >> our stylist expert breaks down the dos and the don'ts of oscar fashion. >> i look like my younger o cfo brother. now for february 26, 2016, this is "entertainment tonight." >> hi, everybody, thanks so much for tuning in and michelle turner is here with me today. >> and we'll be joining kevin frazier in just a couple of mens with all the news from oscar central. >> but cameron mathison has the night's top jennifer garner breaking the story tonight. >> it had nothing to do with our the situation, we had made the decision long before that man was hired. i think that they just couldn't do it anymore. >> unsavory, cliche and bad judgment. that's how jen refers to nanny

gate, but her biggest l reveals why she and ben still live on the same property. quote, i lost the dream of dancing with my husband at my daughter's wedding. but you should see their faces when he walks through the car. but when you see your kids love someone so purely and wholly, you're going to be friends with that person. >> she said when brad and jen broke up, i wanted desperately to say that they were back together. she's like that's all wanted, you can't help it. you're sucked into it, you're just drawn in. but at the same time, her next sentence was that you can't let my life become a soap opera. >> described as wounded, jen looks somber but still stunningly beautiful in the "vanity fair" photo shoot. >> she's completely offline, she had like a come jesus one morning when she's sitting there and there they pop-up, the headlines pop she realized that she can't go down this robert hole. ben's like how can you not care? actually it's the opposite, i

care too much, it's too painful. >> but this is one moment jen confessed she laughed at. >> he's also the on person who ben affleck hasn't been unfaithful to. please welcome matt damon. >> her response, n needs to hate him for me, i don't h him, we certainly don't need to beat the gay up. >> she said she's the love of my life and what am i going to do about that. >> despite t in the "vanity fair" article, they won't be getting back together. it's breaking as she still calls him the most brilliant person in any room, the most charismatic, she says when his sun shines on you you feel, but when his sun shines elsewhere, it's colder, you can feel a shadow. >> she just kind of said, you know, in my part of the world, we just say bless his heart. she had a strength of broken engainments and a string of high profile relationships.

she says i would run down that beach and marry him again, i have no regrets about t >> she just kind of said, you know, in my part of the world, we just say bless his heart. was it a phoenix rising out of the ashes? she's like i am out of the ashes. >> on some level it's got to be painful for jennifer to finally talk about this. she also reveals her 10-year-old daughter violet has helped her through all of this, she says they have even become temporary roommates. did you see kelly clarkson break down in tears on "american idol." she talks about the song about her painful child >> i think all the contestants could feel the weight of what was happening. ♪ to restore my faith >> we all had tears in our eyes, it was so captivating, she barely got through it.

and i think that also got her. ♪ and the father should be straight ♪ >> and very pregnant kelly clarkson closed "american idol" with "piece by peace" that's about her relationship with her father who she says abandoned her and her husband brandon blackstock who she says helped heal the wounds. ♪ can ever walk away >> her humanity in that moment was just -- you never see that, especially on television. >> especially for judge keith urban whose father passed away three months ago. >> i figure you're either crying a at this performance or you need to check your pulse. >> within minutes it shot to number one on i-tunes and for

the hopefuls, there was a message, this is what a true star looks lik >> when i see her standing there on the stage, it seems like it wasn't all that long ago. >> actually sh years, flash back to "e.t's" first interview when she was a finalist. kelly clarkson. >> llss than a month later, "e.t" had her first post win interview. >> i could in the stop crying. >> kelly also served as a judge last night, creating a kind of full circle moment for the show's first winner during its final season. >> it's cool to be here now 14 years later and be all knocked up and nostalgic. ♪ piece by piece >> so emotional. now kelly wrote "piece by piece" when she was pregnant with her daughter river, now she's having a boy, and she hasn't said when the due date is exactly but jennifer lopez told us last night kelly is due in seven weeks.

the 88 academy awards on abc and are your complete guide to all things oscar. let's send us to kevin frazier right now who's in the middle of all the press mess at the dolby theater. >> reporter: by sunday, this will be a sea of people and stars and a a lot of stars have already rolled into town and the 2:55 p.m. l.a.x., eddie re faces a wall of paparazzi. beverly hills reece witherspoon gets her preparty on with a bunch of stars including jennifer lawrence, at the dinner for equality, hosted by patricia arquette, we're told to support equal pay for wome 10 p.m. west hollywood, a suited up chris rock outside t sunset tower hotel. chris kept mum but he's expected

to take on the oscar so white controversy tweeting with see you sunday, #blackout, #oscars. >> would you do it again? would you host again? >> if there's a lot of black people on it. >> back at l.a.x., 4:17 p.m. the p knows superman but they don't know hnoknow his 19-year- girlfriend's name. >> no comment from 19-year-old tara king and no oscar champagne for her either, but not everyone's in to 8:22 p.m., manhattan's bryant park, that's kate winslet skating. 10:46 p.m., john legend and chrissie teagan took heat only selecting a female embryo

during ivf. striking out this past changing his tactic. >> we'll actually see chrissie in miami tonight and we'll t to her about her pregnancy. meanwhile i was hear in the wee hours of the morning hanging out with th "gma" crew as they talked to robin roberts about her special oscar edition of "20/20." >> a studio apartment, with one room with a with bed that came out of the wall and my mom couldn't even afford even a happy me >> how much of this in the room mimics some of how she grew . >> we ate top ramen. but i had my mom all to myself and i remember it being the cool period of time. >> also s stallone credits director ryan cubeler for bring

ing it back. >> he's just trying my patience, or he reminds me of a guy i used to know. >> that's true, 40 years ago. >> on sunday, robin and michael strahan host a abc's preshow along with amy robach and lara spencer. >> everyone asks me, does it kind of get old? no, it doesn't get old. coming up on "e.t," our flash back friday taking us to the is the of "home improvement." >> this is my ship right here. >> and we a world tour of the u.s. versace mansion. >> my oscar fashion predictions, a to with what j-law is wearing on hollywood's big night. >> and kevin and are

>> my new girlfriend. you always make me feel better about not having a my life. >> it's not exactly up to you, now is it? >> that is patricia richard season reuniting with her old "home improvement" hubby last night on "last man standing." to the first time that we ta to them was actually 24 years ago on that classic comedy. and since this is flash back friday, we took them back to "tool time". >> we're here taping our 100th episode of "home improvement." >> look at those babies, oh, my god. >> thank you, america. >> i look like my younger brother. it's depressing. >> it's not that bad, tim. and we should know, "e.t" was there for the first ever taping of "home improvement" back in 1991. >> >> are you saying the car's not running? >> we now own a 4,000 pound

four-door >> it was so much fun on the set, we would just crack up just lose it and not be able to get it together. >> one of the most watched sitcoms of the '90s, the show made the c of one p anderson and made tim allen a household nam and when we first met the boys, get this, jonathan taylor thomas was 10, zachary ty bryan was 8. and taran noah smith was all of 6 years old. >> this is my ship. >> it was his ship. >> i see zach quite a bit because he kind of works with my oldest daughters and they have kind of hooked up in the production business. i see debby dunning a lot. >> now patricia and sam are working together again, she's reprising her role as tim's neighbor on his show "last man stan >> we both matured a little bit,

but nothing -- it's like being around f >> think you matured a lot. he's very mature. >> very mat >> here's something you may not know about "home improvement" francis fisher was originally cast as jill taylor. patricia richardson replaced her just days before they shot the pilot. and still ahead on "e.t," we go inside a famous versace mansion. haunted by the fashi >> strange doors open and close. plus oscar fashion secrets from joe zee. >> what everyone wants to know, is lady ga is wears. i've got the ins scoop in just two minutes, i'll be letting you know.

welcome back, everybody, right now we're going to take a deep dive into oscar f and joining me now is editor-in-chief of yahoo! style joe zee. welcome. >> i'm so excited, fashion oscars, what could be better? >> let's start with the dos and the don'ts of the oscar red carpet. >> oscar do, be bold. 2012 angelina showed up as the very last person on the red carpet in that black versace gown. but the best win of the night our legs sticking out of that slit, she owned that dress. they're calling her jolene. >> how about a don't? >> don't is having no support, i'm talking about undergarments he i actually want to give an

award the best supporting undergarment. >> that's an award worth giving. >> remember gwynethhpaltrow approximate in that dress all the way back in 2002, even gwyneth herself said i loved that dress, but i wish i had worn a >> andhow about another do. >> a do, ey popping co-already, nicole kidman, in 1997, th first person to wear a dior red dress on the red carpet. and people either liked it or hated it, but to this day, it's one you remember. >> i also liked halle berry, that was one of my favorites, that stunning burr gun can did gown she wore. >> that was so beautiful. >> that was one of my all-time favorites. >> how about the last don't? >> you don't want to stand out too much, remember in 2004, charlize theron won for "monster" and she looked beautiful, but she was a little too orange and i don't mean her dress, i mean her skin tone. >> now we know all the dos and don'ts.

of the red carpet. but i want to know what the stars are actually going to be wearing this year. >> let's start with jennifer lawrence, we know she's a dior girl so we definitely know she's going to wear dior. but i'm going to guess that she's not going to wear red. she wore red to the golden globes and red twice at the oscars. so aim going to cross that off my list. she wore that beautiful pink gown when she won. so it will be interesting to >> i think so too. all right, lady gaga. >> remember last year at the oscars, she wore that white dress, but very controversial red gloves with it. so i think she's probably going to leave that behind again this year, but we do know she's very support tiff of her stylist/the designer brandon maxwell, but during fashion week, did model in the marc jacobs fashion show. so i'm going to go out on a limb here and i'm going to predict that she may actually wea

dress like this, a mark cho. maybe in a bold color or maybe something a bit more unexpected. >> cate blanchett, we saw her on the red >> she really likes to support all of her designers,she's worn mcqueen, she's wo versace, i think she's actually going to go with armani. i actually love this particular gown from the couture show. and i can see it on cate right now. >> how about rachel mcadams. >> rachel has been working with the same stylist as jennifer lopez. so for all of the fashion go we have seen on j-lo, she's been working with the same designers. i love this run way look from peaks and valleys, so we could see something like that on rachel. >> i can can't wait to see what is on the red carpet and usually whatever you see is a go. >> and there are no secrets with me, if i know it, you know it. >> i leek one name that certain is an it name when it comes to defining oscar elegance,

verss the versace palace in miami, it's a massive awesome estate and it's been turned into one of the ritziest hotels in the world carly steel got a private tour. >> reporter: and we got a private tour. in south beach's village, 10 bedrooms, 11 baths, set up on 23,000 square feet of mediterranean decadence. >> this is the villa suite, and this actually was gianni versace's suite. . >> reporter: this is the biggest bed i have ever seen in my life. who's actually stayed here sn >> this is where kim kardashian stayed. >> the kardashians actually rented out the whole mansion. >> they hung out and i think this is where they all hung out. you see them all thrown acr the bed chitchatting and hanging out. >> the suites from one $1,000 to $4,200 a night and they're worth

every penny. moz sayics on the floor, gold on the pictures, in the beds and on the pal. kiley jenner swam in that pool and so did the biebs. >> i justin bieber was clothed. >> partially. >> justin stayed at the venus room at $3,000 per night. service, hor d'oeuvres or anything lake that. >> he kept somebody busy around the clock. >> liz taylor, elton john, sly and madonna. >> it feels like madonna in here. >> with in 1997, versace was murdered on the doorstep of his palace. >> quite a lot of people who believe in the supernatural who feel that he literally still is hear. >> the spirit of gianni? >> they claim they have seen spirits and they have gone to certain rooms and strange doors open and close and things of that nature. >> we're back at bieber just a minute, we're actually told that bieber booked a room there after

a girl he was seeing stayed there. he actually stayed up late and had spa treatments by the pool. in tonight's "e.t" birth days, which grammy winner was once in a heavy metal band. is it rick springfield, michael bolton or billy joel? the answer is next.

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welcome back to the show, everybody, in tonight's "e.t" birthdays, which grammy winner was once in a heavy metal band? that was michael bolton who turns 63 today. the >> i want him to sing happy birthday to me. >> he it's got the voice. >> yes, he does. >> we are out of time for now. >> that's a good one, nancy, don't forget to join us on monday for our big oscar show. we will have all the big winner& and those moments that you just cannot forget. so we'll see you then, everybody. bye-bye.

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