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Sam Hunt Welcomes Baby No. 3 with Wife Hannah Lee Fowler

7 July 2025 at 18:05

Sam Hunt is a father of three!

The singer, 40, and wife Hannah Lee Fowler welcomed their third child, son Weyman Allen Hunt, on May 21, according to a Facebook post by the Cedartown First Methodist Church. At the time of his birth, the baby weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces.

Hunt and Fowler tied the knot in April 2017, and also share daughter Lucy Louise, 3, and son Lowry Lee, 21 months.

“They’re good,” Hunt told Taste of Country in an interview published on Monday, July 7. “A little sleep-deprived. Our most recent child got here in May, so he’s finally starting to sleep a little better.”

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He added, “We got spoiled with the first two — they were fairly easy — but Weyman, my third one, Weyman’s his name, he likes to beat to his own drum, I guess you could say.”

Hunt confirmed Fowler’s pregnancy in November 2024, telling the “Katie & Company” podcast, “It’s about to get real. I’m elated. I can’t wait.”

At that point, Lucy and Lowry had been marginally aware that they would soon have a new sibling. 

“[Lucy] sort of [understands.] We talk about it,” Hunt previously remarked. “I say, ‘Mama has a baby on the way,’ and we’ll point to her belly and she says, ‘No. I have a baby on the way.’ So, not quite.”

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In July 2023, Hunt said that fatherhood had forced him to mature as an adult.

“There were years there where, you know, maybe I didn’t realize how much growing up I had needed to do,” he told ET Canada at the time. “And having a child forces you to do that. It shifts something in your nervous system. There’s a skin that I needed to shed, and I did that when I had my child.”

He characterized the experience of first-time parenthood as waking him up “out of this, I wouldn’t say I was sleepwalking, but I had definitely gotten into a routine after years of doing the same thing over and over. … I was just at a place in my life where I really needed that, and I’m grateful for it and I feel like I leveled up in a lot of ways.”

He added that he had “a long way to go in general now, but I feel up for the challenge,” especially when his children act “like a mirror in some ways” for him to review his own behavior.

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“All this self-awareness comes over me and I want to make sure I’m carrying myself in a way that is responsible. … I have so much more perspective on myself,” he said. “What I’m saying, how I’m saying it, how I’m carrying myself, and that’s powerful to see yourself through your child’s eyes.”

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Below Deck’s Captain Kerry Threatens to Deport ‘Uncomfortable’ Guests

7 July 2025 at 17:59

Below Deck’s Captain Kerry Titheradge stepped in after a group of particularly difficult guests made the crew potentially uncomfortable.

During the Monday, July 7, episode of the hit Bravo series, the crew prepared to host a group of people who own multiple strip clubs. Before they even stepped foot on the St. David, chief steward Fraser Olender realized they had their hands full. The situation only intensified as the charter kicked off, with the guests’ demands and attitude getting worse and worse.

“So these guests are getting very rowdy,” Kerry told the interior team after walking by lunch service. “If at any point you feel uncomfortable, let me know.”

Kerry noted that they can deal with “demand,” adding, “Rude and demeaning we cannot do. If anybody doesn’t have the respect [for my crew] then you have no time on my boat. I don’t give a s*** who you are. I have no worries getting a water taxi and deporting some people if I have to.”

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This isn’t the first time guests have pushed the limits, ultimately forcing a captain to call them out. Season 9 of Below Deck Mediterranean featured a challenging charter where guest Neysla Paltsev and several friends called Chef Johnathan Shillingford down to question his choice of caviar before making a dig about chief stew Aesha Scott‘s dinner service. Captain Sandy Yawn ultimately intervened and subtly defended her staff to the guests during the charter.

After receiving backlash on social media, Neysla issued an apology.

“The dinner was definitely not my best moment and I should not have handled it the way I did,” Neysla said via her Instagram Story in August 2024. “I was emotional and I couldn’t reel it back in. It wasn’t nice at all and for that I am really sorry about that.”

Neysla walked some of those comments back after watching her behavior on screen, saying, “The confusion with the knives was silly. But the way I handled it was not OK. For that, I am truly sorry. Although getting knives confused is not a crime, neither is being rude. But I should not have been [that rude].”

Johnathan subsequently weighed in on the public amends.

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“I think their apology was great for sure [where they were] taking responsibility for some of their snarky comments,” he exclusively told Us Weekly at the time. “While that’s not OK, some people may have a bad day. The fact that they took responsibility for it was a great move on their part.”

The chef clarified that he didn’t think the show gave the group a bad edit, saying, “In any show, there are things that are cut [or] things that maybe were dramatized because the camera does that anyways. Regardless of all of that, they did say things that were offensive.”

Johnathan concluded: “We all kind of learned from it. As a crew, it was great that Captain Sandy had our backs. I think it’s great that in retrospect — or in seeing themselves — these guests maybe took responsibility for how rude or snarky they were.”

Elsewhere in Monday’s episode of Below Deck, the group was introduced to their new bosun after Caio Poltronieri was fired. There was also a love triangle between Solène Favreau, Jess Theron and Kyle Stillie, which will continue to unfold this season.

Below Deck airs on Bravo Mondays at 8 p.m. ET. New episodes stream the next day on Peacock.

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Why Trump’s undeniable winning streak is drawing a barrage of negative coverage

Donald Trump has just had the best few weeks of his presidency. 

No question. No argument. Period, end of paragraph. 

It began with a bold gamble to send pilots to destroy Iran's nuclear sites. 

Then Trump managed to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran. 

TRUMP’S ACHIEVEMENTS EMBOLDEN HIM TO BE EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVE

Meanwhile, as Trump delayed his sky-high tariffs, the stock market hit record highs. 

And he won a $16-million settlement from CBS's parent company in his lawsuit against unfair editing by "60 Minutes." That means he has now beaten two of the three broadcast networks, having won the same sum from ABC in a suit involving a crucial mistake by George Stephanopoulos. 

And after days of pressure and arm-twisting, he managed to pass the Big Beautiful Bill. 

Make no mistake, the bill was always going to pass. What were Republicans going to say, never mind, we just tanked the president's main legislative priority because we didn't like this or that? 

They didn't need Democratic votes, under so-called reconciliation. And Trump controls the GOP. So its members fell into line. 

Now the question is why, through this successful stretch, has Trump continued to draw such negative coverage?

TRUMP SIGNS 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL' BILL IN SWEEPING VICTORY FOR SECOND TERM AGENDA, OVERCOMING DEMS AND GOP REBELS

For starters, many in the media just can’t stand the guy. And this has largely been true since 2015. So anything that helps him must be wrong and must be denigrated. 

Even the successful strike on Iran drew only scattered instances of grudging praise, when under any other president there would have been standing ovations. 

The press immediately reframed this as a debate over whether the bunker-busting bombs had only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months. 

In fairness, that’s what the preliminary, classified Intel report leaked to the press said. And there’s nothing wrong with reporting that accurately, even though the assessment was made with low confidence. 

But Trump wants reporters for CNN and the New York Times, which broke the story, fired over this, and with an FBI leak probe under way, says he may force journalists to reveal their confidential sources. 

Once the White House could no longer blame anonymous sources, there is nothing wrong with quoting a government report – even if if turns out to be wrong. 

The cease-fire between Israel and Iran was fine, but that quickly morphed into chatter about why Trump couldn’t pull off an end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas, a far more difficult task. 

AFTER SETBACK TO IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, TRUMP EXPECTED TO LEVERAGE MILITARY SUPPORT IN NETANYAHU MEETING

Not to mention his freezing of weapons shipments to Ukraine, when despite his "very disappointing" call with Vladimir Putin, who promptly unleashed the biggest drone and missile attack against Kyiv since the illegal invasion of its sovereign neighbor. 

Perhaps the president is learning what has been obvious to the rest of us: Putin has no conceivable interest in peace. 

Everyone had to report the stock market surge, though not with the enthusiasm of the earlier plunge, and Trump yesterday announced that he’d hit Japan and South Korea, two allies, with a 25 percent hike in tariffs. But they don’t take effect till Aug. 1, so this could just be another negotiating tactic. 

There was almost no television coverage of Trump’s $16 million settlement with Paramount, which is nothing more than the news business protecting its own. If this had been any other kind of company – with the backstory that someone like Shari Redstone needed administration approval to sell the company and pocket $2 billion – the press would have gone haywire. 

Now there’s a new twist. Fox’s Charlie Gasparino, writing for the New York Post, reported the Paramount settlement includes a side deal between Trump and for the buyer David Ellison, son of tech mogul Larry Ellison, for him to run $15 to $20 million in advertising supporting causes backed by the president. 

And Trump confirmed it. 

"We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million, or maybe more than that in advertising," he told reporters. 

Paramount denied any knowledge of the side deal. 

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The president has also been drawn into a war of words with Elon Musk, calling him a "train wreck" who’s gone "off the rails" in forming a third party and raising the Epstein files again. Musk says the lack of an Epstein client list is the "final straw" – he had once apologized for raising it – and there’s no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. 

But there was one moment, in my view, that was a misstep by Trump.

The president had no need to negotiate with Democrats, who strongly opposed a tax cut tilted toward the wealthy while making deep cuts to Medicaid.

"Every Democrat in Congress voted against the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill…They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country."

I don’t believe the overwhelming majority of Democrats hate their country. And that was hardly a unifying message on July 4 weekend. Maybe many in the media hate him and he was just counterpunching. But he didn’t need to go there.

On the other hand, Donald Trump has been getting terrible coverage since 2015, and he’s clearly grown tired of it.

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