Empire: Scoop on the aftermath of Jamal sleeping with Skye from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Empire from this week's (Posted on 12/17/15) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Still obsessed with Empire, and dying to know: Is Jamal’s unexpected night of passion with Skye going to come back to haunt him? —Mona
Ausiello: Depends on what you mean by the word “haunt.” Seeing how Season 1 already found Jamal dealing with a back-in-the-day, opposite-sex romance (and the adorable little girl who ultimately turned out to — ick — be Lucious’), don’t look for Skye to swoop in with a Clearblue Easy box and tickets to Maury Povich. But when we asked showrunner Ilene Chaiken if there’d be any fallout from Lucious telling David Geffen-esque benefactor Jameson (William Fichtner) about Jamal’s hookup with Alicia Keys’ R&B diva, here’s what she had to say. “Without wanting to give away a whole lot of story, Jamal has definitively said ‘I’m gay.’ And I believe Jamal can say that, even if he might have had sex with a woman once or twice,” Chaiken reasons. “Who Jamal has sex with is nobody else’s business. We all know that, yet that’s the fight we fight as gay people. But then there’s Lucious Lyon — and Lucious will stoop low to get what he wants.” Uh-oh, Daddy Dearest had better not screw up that Pepsi endorsement!

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Empire: Lucious related scoop on the season 2 premiere and more from TVLine's Michael Ausiello

Here's some scoop on Empire from this week's (Posted on 6/4/15) Ask Ausiello column.

Question: Did you happen to score any Empire scoop at Sunday’s Critics Choice Awards? —Mark
Ausiello: Sure didn’t. I was way too busy trading gossip with my tablemate Jessica Lange to do any actual work. Luckily, Vlada Gelman hit up Empire‘s Emmy FYC panel last Friday and managed to coax two respectable scoops out of exec producers Ilene Chaiken and Danny Strong: There will be a time jump between Seasons 1 and 2 (although neither would specify how big it would be); and when the show returns on Sept. 23, Lucious will still be in prison. But he’ll be a busy little jailbird. “Lucious can do what he does no matter where he is,” teased Chaiken. “Lucious, basically, has tentacles.”

Question: Will Chris Rock and Alicia Keys be playing themselves on Empire next season? —Jennifer
Ausiello: Nope. They’ll be playing characters.

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