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welcome back to "access hollywood." time now for our hash tag happening segment where we talk about everything trending on social media this week. joining me today, youtube superstar lauren elizabeth. okay, lauren, i want to talk about your massive 1.1 million youtube subscribers and over 900,000 on instagram. holy smokes. i know you're going to have a very big opinion about twitter
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firing 8 ppt of their work force. do we feel like twitter is kind of going out of fashion? >> i don't know. i still love twitter. >> thank you. i'm glad you said that. i do, too. twitter is actually my favorite. >> i love twitter. i can send out witty tweets and delete them. >> i feel like that's the one format, besides, obviously, you two, where we really have a written voice. >> it's so different. it's so art sill and you're supposed to be supercool on twitter i just say whatever i want. on instagram, i try to be really cool. >> a lot of people don't want to read anymore. they just want to see photos of what you're doing, a selfee and some of these art sill shots that i want to take. >> i have way more followers on twitter than i do instagram. i love twitter. i hope it's not going anywhere. well, big news this week from the dating sites. sister wives mary brown
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announced that she was cat fished on a dating cite. and it's been a couple of rough months for her. >> it's been really wuf for her. basically, she was divorced by her husband so her husband can legally marry his fourth wife. >> oh, my dwosh, i don't understand this. >> i don't understand this, but to each their own. >> when you're such a big star on youtube, would you go on a dating cite to find a mate. >> it's hard to date in general because immediately, you have to get to know each other. so what do you do? >> well, i have a youtube channel and i have to do this, this, and this. what? can i google you? now i really like you. it's always difficult to date in general. and then one time mip friend made, like, a tinder and all of his friends thought he was good at cat fish.
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and she was like, it's me and then they never talked about because she she thought that he was fake. >> we're really missing that face-to-face communication. like i met my current partner in crime, you know, face-to-face, just randomly. and i don't know if i could date anybody. i mean, it is what it is. >> we see so many patch pause of social media. iliked one of their pick which i recalls and then it reached to me. maybe mary should think about joining tinder because now they have superlike, in case just a regular swipe suspect good nuch. >> you can only super-like one person once a day. it's not like you can go superlike everybody and go on thousands of dates. >> so it's like one person. >> i would just like to see how
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many we got per day. you might meet mr. right that way. >> calvin defending on twitter. kal vinl broke up after he visited a shady-like massage parlor, the happy ending types. well, he tweeted, in response, it's not going to be a happy ending for everyone, i'll sue for defamation of character for all of these stiers, buh-bye. >> the whole happy ending thing, i didn't get that at first. but i love them. >> do you like how he's using twitter to defend himself. >> a lot of people don't go out to twitter and say what they want to say, you know. everything gets so skew ds now with social media. i think if your words are out there, it's going to shut up a lot of people. >> it's amazing.
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a lot of people got to sleep that night. my boyfriend literally texted me and said hey, bad news. i said this can't be happening. oh hi god. and then i stexed him an ho hourlathour later and said calvin just texted. it's all good. >> thank you for joining me. if you want to join the kvrgs, you can follow us at "access hollywood. daniel, coming up, efl you on a per woo p universal trim. >> i oempbed out ovp this one. >> this was the once night in mile life that i had so much fund. >> but before we get to that, we were with the cast of walking dead for their season 6 premier. i said what do you mean, i many said look.
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if snib would have told me that i'm an actor and playing in madison square kbartened. >> it feels like j.d. for a day. this is not legendary stuff. this seems like it's not real. >> fan favorite made the biggest entrance of all riding up to the stage on a motorcycle. the preepisode was one of the et this season is more ambiti s ambitious, mored the et feels like every sichkle is the season finale. rit's great. >> and coming um, thoughing off her baby buf and best and worst
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style of the week. that's you will next. push push
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. well, it looks like the old tracy is back this weekend on "snl." we'll have more for that on
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monday's "access hollywood." but, first, onto a big headline from paltrow. >> you know, night's excuse to get out of the house on tuesday night. >> gywyneth poelted this to instagram. they took the night off to celebrate tkt hit the market for the first time. her baby bump was barely detectable in this white can goatty strapped. >> i just like the little circular movements with it. and then i got out and i looked like jennifer lopez, ied.
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>> kate hudson and a sheer floral kreded her mom with teaching her how late to look. >> my budty icon, well, that's my mom. if i at no time say my mom, i'd be a bad daughter. >> lots of great style at that event. now totem us about the best of the best dressed. >> aboutny,i know you loved seeing your girl. >> let's just take one more second until where he hold yourd look. you know, i live if gyyneth in a r you know, she actually mixed up her hair a little bit. she used it as a stick straight. this little waive pill -- what happened is her other red kwarp et was amazing. >> well, you like the kra sids.
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>> as much as i love this look, he wasn't the first one-on-one to wear it last september, that he're both fantastic. fabulous ones. >> wud we now 3478. >> lit's take a look at sierra. she was at the last witch hundred dollarer premier in fkd. >> every single time. this is my sol it. and this dress looks inkreden on her. i'd have to say usually i'm not a a giant and the best part about this look is she's letting you dress. be the stair of the shoi. liz, you're not going to believe this. >> jies job. >> well, when it comes to classic fashions. a channel shut is iconic.
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>> there are few things that scream must be. this case, a dress and a koet armed and a h by the satin little detail on the collar and on the top of the dress. and softened it up a little bit. i lovp this. it's hay --. we'll see what we want. >> orreded to dills, i'll scream this week. thblgd for a normal o disturbance, do a fashionable display, in this case, beon than saunders. >> okay. that's fantastic. >> no, i really love this. i think if you're going to be dra maltsic, this is the kind of
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dramatic i loif. >> i have to get my hands on this, too. >> i can 5:00 kplully see you watching this. >> i mean, it's taylored perfectly and that's what she wants with when's wear. >> thank you, anthony. great fashion week vrmgt and the show is doing huge in the ratings. and we learned that tiraggi just connell peted a 21-day cleanse and lost no weight but did lose unction r inc.s. >> i think i want to get in my raji. >> and holding onto a helicopter in one of her favorite outfits. i. >> like the fare with the cake because fvs drama.
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the 45-year-old mother of anotherdown sun with rocky else one-designer more than ever. it fete like real hof faced v. she told the magazine she's considering rg e if squool: oh he closed awe tigss after her tryout when have facts is going to be taken to a whole not efl vrjts when you first meter h, she has to find her foothing in the practice gain. now. amgs, a lot of flak flash bags. >> start tsd gh ne vp snomd and building. >> when you see it, you'll be, like, oh, i nope what she meant. >> am i dating bradley cooper?
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i changed my facebook status. it's not. scott, you spoke with the newly-i newly-ism newly-ismed liz, what i said was his he knew. a so i first have to say con gratulations, man, how tid you find out about it? . not on air, but she dded to let the catout oeft bag. skbl. >> yeah, it was awesome. i texted her after. >> bradly, a great sport to the nudes that he and amy are getting married. but it turns out there's more to the story. >> i remember she was on, like, a talk show about made up some satisfactory that i present
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teds. >> hey, you made up some stories. h. >> i called her and she was like dude, what happened about. >> more row mant, this time on the bhig screen. this time they're both playing receives in the sense dpil m u bushed. >> you wanted her to be on this, right? >> begged her, yeah. well, it didn't hurt. >> we hearing-impaired that you guys tumpbs out if is this something you could see you kbies doing a litting.
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>> hshl. >> coming up, you will o is howard for a special you will nailening. whachs when you send three social need ya stars to halloween night? well, find out next. black blankble
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glass, but out here, we're on the turf. >> the movie took in nearly 1.8 billion tlars worldwide. be ep 2 mull soo 234 released this tuesday. >> there is one scene in particular where i robe gien four poop all over my body. >> riesz is della's howard, got down and and slatherred on a heavy dayer of dinosaur poop. you can see it tuesday when it's released on the film's blue ray and dvr tfr d-. p r debt that get in your mouth? >> shooting the 17b9.$.66 billin
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dlrs success sunt aunt all roughing it. >> it was a liability with chris prat being in hawaii. just every weekend he was out doing amazing things. i was like does insurance cover what you're doing right now? >> i don't think so. >> though chris's extracurriculars may have been a liability, hers were not. it looks like she's in the clear for the film's sequel slated in 2013. >> it was really funnelny when there was definitely going to be a sequel and that i was going to be a part of it. the way he told me, he just texts me. hash tag no heels 2018. >> well, it's always a big deal when steven spielburg has a new movie out. and it's an even bigger deal when he gets to team up with tom
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hanks for the fourth time. safe to say no one is more side ds with skod and his review of sbrujover skies. >> you know, i was 6 years old when my parents took me to see jaws. now, 40 years later, drek store sooechbt beemt bork is. >> em oog bragsed on a true story. i want to know how to want hanks is. >> topnotch studio entertainment. i have a feeling that it will be seen as one of spiel burks urg's west movies. i. >> i love it.
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fwr one too p to another, his latest movie, the walk, is in theaters now. i hear that seeing it in imax 3d is the only way to go. >> it is the only way to go. >> what a body of work. forest gump, who framed roger rabbit. but walk is one of his best movies. he's always izing is in this case. it plays out like a high school brew veal, but it has a bighearted. if you will you have not seen the waux, trust me, you recalled missing out. it is a fantastic movie. >> i'm sold. i'm sold. thank you, skothd. i can't wait to check it out. all right. well, nec wooek end, we'll be feeling a litting nos stal jik when the komd classic returns.
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beloved '80s cartoon sensation g.e.m. is back. >> the internet sensation i want's so cool to step into a beloved personalitity. >> and there's some eye candy, handsome ryan goosman. for the family way, of course. >> he's trying to manage these girls to superstardom and keep them on track. >> you need to trust the people you're closest to.
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>> stacey is an incredibly inspiring person. law to get to be a small part of telling their story was an inkreden opportunity. >> in theaters now, stafring in hill battling health ben sfits after she's nice nozs with sustaining four cancer. >> i think the supreme kourtsd decision ench acknowledge ez.ed too is. >> e know people were upset. where you blgt br bld sfwr i mandic reunion, doids topped
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pill forge wrk. b, brchts amican and hibted that fans may kbet what they ask for when the show returns to fox in january. push bush >> it's exciting for me as his little sister to see him studdenly be a sex symbol. although i deaf lit fill are to can. >> liz sad down with master to audiocassette about book lt it another else a conform r comp ligs of fictional tales. >> it is the seedy side of lchlt a. she catches herself into trouble slouly and slewly. >> i sthaugt he was dead. >> thnks get fkt siz sill the
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she and her co-ske r sicked you have is meal. >> and skoming up, you know them from youtube. but you've never seen them quiet like this. we acceptability the roseboros to the scariest place on earth. will they survive? find out next.
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halloween came a little early for three of our faif rilt social media stars. we sent daniel prada along with
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youtube's aaron and fossil rode. let's just say we're happy the terrified trio managed to find their way out. bye, everyone. >> hey, guys, it's daniel prada. and we're at universal studios hollywood halloween horror night. >> the carefree intro of three youtubers who have no idea what they signed up for. but their laughter turned into screams very quickly. >> hey, guys, we're about to head into the "walking dead" maze. there were a lot of jump scares in that one, guys. sweating and terrified, that was just one of the six mazes he made it through.
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even with austin's emphatic cut sign, we did not let them off the hook.
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something is not right. i just flipped out. i lost it. we could not understand how anybody would want to murder him. >> he looked like he was sleeping except for the bullet hole. >> he was in bed. his head was on the pillow. his entire upper body was tucked in. >> the first guess was suicide. but -- >> there's no gun on the scene. >> hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. >> that's right. >> and this was a man who had everything to live for. >> eric loved life. >> he loved his family and
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women, too. many women. did one of them love him too much? >> jealousy leads to murder. >> no shortage of lovers to question. >> i knew he was a ladies' man. i'm not stupid. >> no sign of a break-in either. >> somebody would have to have a key or be let in by eric. >> so it must have been someone he trusted. or maybe someone who didn't trust him. >> inside the safe was a .380 handgun. >> that's the same kind of gun that killed eric. >> same kind of gun. >> everybody loved him. so who killed him? >> we knew in our hearts that this murder was going to be solved. we believed that justice was going to be served for eric. >> i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." here's josh mankiewicz with "while he was sleeping." he was the life of every party. at 34, eric somuah was charming, magnetic, successful.
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in 2012, he was living the kind of life that young men liked to brag about to one another. call it the good life, the lush life, the fast life. it's a world without too many rules. one in which you get close in a hurry. to a lot of people you don't know too well. and it was perfect for eric. living just outside the nation's capital, eric somuah was not only living the american dream, he was selling it, too. the son of immigrants from ghana, eric was a top salesman delivering luxury cars and the fantasies that come with them at this jaguar dealership in bethesda, maryland. >> he was focused and motivated to be the best, and he turned out to be our number one salesperson. >> reporter: this was the guy that could sell ice in alaska. >> right.
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>> oh, yeah. i tell him, eric, you can sell anything. >> reporter: eric's older sisters, suzie and cynthia, spotted his drive and business savvy at an early age. >> he started a lawn cutting business in our neighborhood, the neighborhood kids, they were actually working for him. and he would pay them what, $2 to cut the grass. >> reporter: a born capitalist. >> he tell me, suzie, i'm going to be really rich one day. >> he wanted to go all the way to the top. >> reporter: from the day he was born, eric was a charmer and his sisters and big brother michael always adored him. >> just a wonderful, wonderful joy to our family and to my sisters and i. >> eric was the baby of the family, but we enjoyed him because he was very vibrant. >> it was just the three of us, then he came along. he was sort of our little doll. >> reporter: then eric grew up and became a living doll to the women of the nation's capital.
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>> he was a ladies' man, it's no secret. he loved women. >> he walked in a room and everyone liked him, like, oh, who's this guy? he's so nice, had a beautiful smile. and he'll just start a conversation with anyone. i mean, he just had that type of personality where women liked him. >> reporter: but his sisters hoped their playboy brother would finally settle down. in fact, they were counting on it. >> we were waiting for a huge wedding that my sister and i were planning for him. >> reporter: the bride hadn't been picked out yet. >> no, the bride hadn't -- >> reporter: but the wedding planning was already going. >> the bride had not been picked out yet, but we knew pretty much how the wedding was going to be. >> reporter: eric's sisters admit they knew little about his dating life. his big brother knew much more. >> our relationship was very, very close, even though he's my sibling, my younger brother, he was my best friend as well. we talked about everything. >> reporter: eric's thousand watt charm and his work ethic
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had earned him success on the job, a high-rise apartment in the d.c. suburbs and a busy and exciting social life. he was a young man on top of the world. but his big brother still felt the need to occasionally offer advice like that playing the field has its risks and can't last forever. >> he really respected me, the fact that i've been with my wife, we've been together 28 years. he always would communicate and say, hey, i want to be that, but i just can't find the right one. >> reporter: even as the youngest and the only one who hadn't married, eric was the glue that bonded his family. >> eric was the person that kind of brought the family together. he remembered everyone's birthday. he made everyone feel really special. >> reporter: so it wasn't just his customers he was charming. >> no, he was charming his family too. >> reporter: all of you. >> he wanted everyone to come together. >> reporter: in june 2012 he brought them together again, but this time it wasn't for a
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holiday or birthday. it was because they were worried sick about him. june 5th, a tuesday, eric didn't show up for work at the jaguar dealership. initially his boss, brian armstrong, led it slide. >> i chalked it up to, hey, he was taking the day off, unscheduled day off, i didn't think too much about it. then the following day, which was a wednesday, again scheduled to come in. no call, no show, then i got worried. >> reporter: word spread and soon eric's sisters and the rest of their close-knit family were trying to find him. >> no one had heard from him. >> reporter: now you're really worried. >> i'm really worried. >> reporter: cynthia took a deep breath and called 911. police were dispatched to check out eric's apartment in silver spring, maryland. his family raced to meet them. eric somuah, a man about town who lived life at full throttle,
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had seemingly fallen off the map. what had happened to him? >> when we come back, an unanswered knock and lots of questions. >> we were all in shock. we were just shocked. >> i said there's no way. there's no way. here's a little .
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it was just alarming when we heard that he hadn't shown up for work. wow. i mean, that's not like eric at all not to show up for work. >> reporter: as his sister cynthia and other family members arrived at eric somuah's building their fear level was off the charts. they stood vigil in the lobby as police went up to eric's sixth floor apartment. what do you think happened? >> i was just trying to figure out, well, where could he have gone. >> reporter: sister suzie was still on her way when cynthia got her answer from a police captain who had been in eric's apartment. >> when the captain came and gently placed his hand on my arm and said that, ma'am, i'm sorry, it looks like your brother has taken his life. i mean, i was raging with screams. i said, there's no way. there's no way he took his life. eric loved life.
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>> reporter: through her grief, cynthia managed to call her sister. >> and she was screaming. and she was bawling, and then when she told me eric was dead, i just flipped out. i just lost it. >> reporter: and you show up how long after that? >> we showed up about 40 minutes later. >> reporter: detective dimitry ruvin led the second wave of montgomery county maryland police, after patrol officers made that initial suicide call. >> they tried not to disturb the scene. so they didn't really look around too much. >> reporter: tell me about the scene. >> reporter: detective ruvin and a forensic team continued to work. no sign of a struggle? >> no sign of a struggle anywhere in the apartment. no signs of ransacking.
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the one thing i noticed right away was there was no gun on the scene. >> reporter: hard to have a gun suicide with no gun. >> that's correct. >> reporter: so this isn't a suicide? >> right. this was a murder. >> reporter: in some ways, dimitry ruvin was like eric somuah. young, successful, driven. but even working homicides, he had none of the world weariness of some veteran detectives. so he was the right cop to break the difficult news to the family. >> i just went downstairs and i said we have reason to believe that eric was murdered. that's when everybody lost it. i mean, his sister was just crying. his dad had just had his, you know, head buried in his hands and just like -- people just couldn't believe it. >> we were all in shock. we were just shocked. >> who would want to murder eric? >> reporter: that is exactly what detective ruvin wanted to know. >> we started right there. we started our investigation with the family and those that were close to him. just to see if he had any enemies, if there was anybody in his life that would want to hurt him. >> reporter: what's the answer? >> the answer is eric was loved by everybody. and there was no one out there that the family knew that would
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want to hurt him. >> reporter: eric's head wound, from a .380 caliber gun, indicated to detectives that he was shot at point-blank range. >> it appeared that he was sleeping when it happened. so it would be someone that eric trusted so much that he went to sleep and had that person there. >> reporter: and ruvin quickly learned that his victim, mr. popularity, had welcomed lots of people into his life and into his home. >> he used to hang out at a local bar just down the street from his house. the owner of the establishment knew him by name. and he would tell us, he would be here every night. and he would go home with a different girl. >> reporter: and his family knew that. they didn't deny that. >> no. >> reporter: it was the kind of thing eric's brother michael had already warned him about. >> could it have been some revenge situation? you know, someone wanted to have him, he didn't want to be with them, and they came in and took him out? we just didn't know. >> reporter: but michael and his sisters did know about one
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particular girlfriend named denise. >> there were several members of our family who did point to her. >> denise dated eric for a little bit over a year. >> reporter: she's older. >> about 20-some years older. >> reporter: what did you learn about his relationship with denise? >> majority of his family did not like denise. >> reporter: because? >> because they thought she was using eric or she -- they just didn't like her. >> reporter: detective ruvin's interest in denise intensified when he learned something else. he said denise told him that for a brief time months before the murder she had a key to eric's apartment. they were going out. that seems to make sense. >> right. and there was no evidence of a break-in. so someone either had to have a key or been let in by eric. >> reporter: well, denise certainly would fit the profile of somebody that eric trusted, somebody he'd be willing to go to sleep while they were still there. >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: police were eager to interview her. but they knew that, if denise had been in eric's apartment
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recently, any forensic trail she might have left might not mean much. and the same was true for all those other wo -that's all for now. i'm lester holt. thanks for joining us. this sunday morning, a new sense of urgency in/5e presidential race. on one side, hillary &0ñclinton strong debate performance ups the pressure on joe biden and whether he gets in. on the other, trump and carson are sitting on top, but is ted cruz about to have his moment? >> if you're looking far candidate who the career politicians in washington will embrace, i'm not your guy. >> my sit-down with the senator from texas. also, showdown over benghazi. hillary clinton prepares to testify befor??p benghazi committee. but has the committee been discredited even before the hearing starts. plus, did donald trump just blue jay george w. bush r

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