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It’s Passover, and everyone is digitally invited!

A ton of stars came together online to sit around a virtual Seder table with music and comedy to raise funds for the CDC Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund for Tasty on Saturday (April 11).

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Seder guests included Pamela Adlon, Jason Alexander, Reza Aslan, Skylar Astin, Shoshana Bean, Mayim Bialik, Rachel Brosnahan, Rabbi Sharon Brous, D’Arcy Carden, Andy Cohen, Darren Criss, Fran Drescher, Billy Eichner, Cynthia Erivo, Beanie Feldstein, Harvey Fierstein, Tan France, Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Josh Groban, Richard Kind, Julie Klausner, Nick Kroll, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, Dan Levy, Judith Light, Camryn Manheim, Milo Manheim, Alan Menken, Idina Menzel, Debra Messing, Isaac Mizrahi, Busy Philipps, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Stephen Schwartz, Michael Solomonov, Shaina Taub, Nina West, Henry Winkler, Finn Wolfhard and Rabbi David Wolpe, among even more stars.

Watch them all celebrate the Jewish holiday in the one-hour digital special…

Fran Drescher is opening up about the virtual table reading for the pilot episode of The Nanny, which debuted today (April 6) on YouTube.

Talking with EW, the 62-year-old actress shared that the table read was a gift to the show’s amazing fans.

“We are doing this completely for the fans that have supported the show for all these decades. We thought, what better gift than to get together virtually from our living room to yours?”

She adds that “No one got paid for it [and] it’s been a blessing and kept us all busy and active. We feel like we’re accomplishing something and are very excited to deliver this present. It made us feel so good to see each other. If the fans get even a fraction of the uplifting experience we had, it will be worth it.”

Fran also shared that the table read was pre-recorded a week ago.

“We didn’t want to do it live-live. We thought some other things that were done that way with other groups didn’t have reliable sound,” she says. “We didn’t want it to be a frustrating experience, if we had a sound glitch we did a take two.”

Fran reunited with Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima, Renee Taylor, Alex Sternin, Ann Hampton Callaway, DeeDee Rescher, Rachel Chagall and Jonathan Penner for the table read.

Watch it in full below!

The Nanny is back – but not in the way you’d expect.

Fran Drescher and the cast of the original series are returning for a virtual table read, Variety reports.

The virtual table read will take place on Monday, April 6 via Zoom, and will be posted on the Sony Pictures YouTube page.

“Laughter is the best medicine! So, in these challenging times, Petah and I thought, wouldn’t it be great if we pulled together the original cast of ‘The Nanny’ for a virtual read of the pilot?” Fran shared about the reunion in a statement, referring to the show’s co-creator, Peter Marc Jacobson.

She added, “It’s a once in a lifetime Pandemic Performance for our fans around the world who are currently stressing in isolation and could use a real upper! It sure has given each of us a lift and we hope it does for you as well.”

Fran will reunite with Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima, Renee Taylor, Alex Sternin, Ann Hampton Callaway, DeeDee Rescher, Rachel Chagall and Jonathan Penner.

We can’t wait for this!

Fran Drescher made an appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Monday night (February 3) and dished about the time Donald Trump was a guest on her hit sitcom, The Nanny!

Back in 1993, the now-president Trump filmed a guest spot on the sitcom and played himself as a rich friend to Charles Shaughnessy‘s Mr. Sheffield.

“I stood in this scene,” Fran recalled to host Seth Meyers, “and I said to the two of them, ‘All you millionaires are alike.’ And “Peter [Jacobson], now my gay ex-husband, he got a note from his assistant, Donald Trump’s assistant that said, ‘Mr. Trump is not a millionaire. He’s a billionaire and we’d like you to change the script.”

“I thought that seemed too on the money because I know Fran would have described anyone who was rich as a millionaire,” Fran continued. “But to say billionaire seems like a specific choice. So we asked him if it would be OK if we wrote zillionaire. And he said that was fine.”

Fran Drescher also talked about her new NBC series Indebted and learning how to use her iconic voice to her benefit overtime.

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Fran Drescher is happily single right now, but that doesn’t mean she’s celibate.

The 62-year-old The Nanny actress says that she has a friend with benefits who comes over once or twice a month for some fun.

“You know I’m kind of dating myself and it’s going quite well. I’m not dating,” she told Page Six. “I have my gay ex-husband who I love and he fulfills a lot of needs. I have someone on the side who is a friend with benefits.”

“It’s delightful and delicious but I’ve got a big life,” Fran said. She only sees her friend with benefits once or twice a month due to their busy schedules.

“[We’re] very comfortable with each other and we have our routine,” she said. “It’s always the same experience. We really don’t go out, we don’t go to restaurants, we don’t date. What we do, we do great.”

“He comes over, we hang out and we do the hot tub and I make us some food and we lay in bed and maybe we’ll watch tennis together, whatever it is or a movie. We talk, we have good conversations,” Fran said. “Of course we have sex and it’s delightful and it keeps me going.”

Fran was married to Peter Marc Jacobson for 21 years. They got divorced in 1999 after he came out as gay, but they remain close friends to this day. See photos of them in the gallery!

Melissa Roxburgh and J.R. Ramirez happily strike a pose together while stepping out for NBC and The Cinema Society’s NBC Midseason 2020 Party held at The Rainbow Room on Thursday (January 23) in New York City.

The co-stars and real-life couple were joined at the event by their Manifest co-stars Parveen Kaur and Jack Messina, as well as Will & Grace‘s Eric McCormack and Indebted‘s Fran Drescher, Steven Weber, Adam Pally, Abby Elliott and Jessy Hodges.

This Manifest‘s Melissa Roxburgh and J.R. Ramirez very first official appearance since keeping their relationship relatively private.

Also in attendance to represent their shows were Good Girls stars Retta and Reno Wilson, The Blacklist‘s Amir Arison, Brooklyn Nine-Nine‘s Terry Crews, Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector‘s Russell Hornsby, Brooke Lyons, Roslyn Ruff, Arielle Kebbel and Tate Ellington, and New Amsterdam‘s Margot Bingham and Ana Villafañe.

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The Nanny is being re-imagined for Broadway!

The popular ’90s sitcom, fronted by Fran Drescher, is being developed into a Broadway musical, with Fran and series co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson writing the book and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom and Adam Schlesinger writing the music.

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“We are SO excited to be working on the Broadway musical The Nanny. We’re equally excited that the wildly talented Rachel Bloom will be writing the lyrics and music with the fantastic Adam Schlesinger, and to have the brilliant Marc Bruni directing. Nobody is cast yet – we’re plotting – but we feel confident we will find a fabulous actress who is funny, charming and has a great voice, said Fran and Peter in a statement.

“Of course I would do it myself but we’d have to change the title to The Granny,” Fran added.

“The Nanny was a fundamental part of my childhood because it was the first time I saw an openly Jewish female protagonist on television. The story of Fran Fine, however, is a universal one that has touched the hearts of people of every race, religion and orientation. I am so proud to be using the characters established by The Nanny to tell a new story about one woman’s journey to becoming proud of who she is and what makes her different,” said Rachel.

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