In a message to her fans, she said her ordeal had taught her the importance of early detection in fighting breast cancer and she urged other women to have mammograms.

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"You have banded together like the sassy little honey badgers you are and made this possibility happen, " said Bell in her own online message, promising fans the "sleuthiest, snarkiest" movie possible.

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And right before the ball dropped, he said, I'm going to say a message to fans: You guys out there - those players out there are working their butts off - and you sit there and boo them.

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