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Some of TV's hottest shows have been recognized for their "outstanding" portrayal of same-sex equality issues.
Fox's Glee, HBO's True Blood, ABC's Modern Family and Grey's Anatomy have all been nominated by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation for the group's 22nd annual Media Awards, which recognize the entertainment industry's impact on same-sex equality issues.
Other nominees among a total of 147 include the films Burlesque, Easy A and The Kids are All Right.
The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 19, in Los Angeles on April 16, and in San Francisco on May 14.
– Sara Hammel
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True Blood heartthrob Joe Manganiello asked his true love, actress-model Audra Marie, to marry him during a recent Italian vacation because he realized she was it.
"I knew early on that she was the one for me," Manganiello, 33, told PEOPLE Saturday night at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek's "Haunting" weekend event in south Florida. "I wasn't expecting to get married just yet, but when I felt this was the right situation for me, I decided to go ahead."
In September, Manganiello, who plays the wondrous werewolf Alcide Herveaux on HBO's hit vampire series, told PEOPLE that Marie is a "great dresser, gorgeous, tall, sweet, and she makes crazy English breakfasts."
Some people hydrate for sporting competitions with water or energy drinks.
Some people – like True Blood star Ryan Kwanten – prefer booze.
"I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well," the Australian actor, 33, tells Men's Health magazine in its November issue.
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Sorry ladies, Joe Manganiello is off the market.
While on vacation in Italy the True Blood heartthrob, 33, popped the question to his girlfriend, actress/model Audra Marie, his rep tells PEOPLE.
Manganiello, who plays werewolf Alcide Herveaux on the HBO drama, and Marie met at a 2009 Super Bowl party, but it was anything but love at first sight.
"She wouldn't go out with me for six months," Manganiello told PEOPLE in September. "We started dating a few months before I got cast [on True Blood]."
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Always pay attention to your instincts. That's what Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) learned on the season finale of True Blood Sunday.
Earlier in the season, Sookie wondered if she could really trust her on-again, off-again vampire beau Bill Compton, played by Paquin's real-life husband Stephen Moyer.
After Sunday, it seems like the answer is no – or is it?
SPOILER ALERT!
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And to think, the screen's longtime Dracula, Bela Lugosi, died practically broke. But by a brand new count, the current vampire craze – on TV and in movies, books and merchandising – is estimated to be pumping some $7 billion (that's with a b) into the showbiz economy. Suddenly, money is flowing like blood.
Taking into account the $20 million box-office of this past weekend's batty Twilight parody Vampires Suck, the 5 million devotees of HBO's weekly True Blood, and the bestselling titles from authors Justin Cronin (The Passage), Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn) and Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone), the Hollywood Reporter estimates that in the past two years, bloodsuckers have pumped new life into Tinsel Town, creating what the trade paper terms an "entire inexhaustible industry."
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From True Blood to true love – Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have tied the knot.
"Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin were married on Saturday evening in Malibu surrounded by their family and friends," the couple's reps tell PEOPLE.
Paquin – wearing a white halterneck gown and Neil Lane jewelry with her hair in an updo – and Moyer, clad in a dark suit, exchanged vows at sunset under a white tent at a beachside villa.
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Skin is definitely in for the cast of True Blood.
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Hey mom, everybody's doing it! But does everyone look so good in nude scenes?
The exposure comes easy to Joe Manganiello as protective and loyal werewolf Alcide on HBO's True Blood because, hey, his costars are shedding their clothes too!
"[It's not] uncomfortable as long as everyone else has to do it," Manganiello told PEOPLE at the 9th Annual InStyle Summer Soiree in Hollywood. "Everyone else has to do it, so when it's your turn, it's your turn."
And fans of the new Hollywood heartthrob, 33, can rest assured, those racy scenes will keep coming. "I'm never going to stop shape shifting," Manganiello said. "So I'm sure there will be more [nudity] in the future. I would bet money on that."
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Some actors rehearse their lines over and over. Others practice with their coaches. But True Blood's Theo Alexander prefers a more unconventional routine to prepare for a scene.
"I remember that I went back to my trailer and I concentrated. I did some acting exercises. I was playing the archetype of a lover, so I put on a sexy, slow song and almost did like a belly dance," the Greek actor tells Movieline.com about getting ready for his vampire-on-vampire sex scene with Alexander Skarsgard.
Though Alexander – who plays Talbot, the lover of the vampire King of Mississippi, on the hit HBO series – says he and Skarsgard were "both a little anxious" the week leading up to the shoot, he thinks he was even more terrified than his costar since his nerves kicked in immediately after he received the script. "The part about kissing another man" was what scared him the most, he says.
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