"Entertainment Tonight's" Maria Menounos is ramping up her acting activities outside the syndicated strip. Menounos joins Jessica Alba, Michael Chiklis, Chris Evans, Ioan Gruffudd and Julian McMahon in "Fantastic Four," based on the Marvel Comics property about the adventure-seeking quartet who develop superpowers when their spaceship is exposed to cosmic radiation. Before that, she anchored the national high school newsmagazine "Channel One."

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