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Maggie Gyllenhaal Wore a $2200 Tie Made Out of Hair on the Red Carpet

2 April 2025 at 12:18

Maggie Gyllenhaal took quirky fashion to another level.

Gyllenhaal, 47, showed off an avant-garde accessory while promoting her The Bride, which she directed, at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday, April 1. She wore a black Schiaparelli suit from the Spring 2025 line, featuring a tailored blazer equipped with a gold key lock enclosure and straight-leg trousers for the occasion. She contrasted the look with a white dress shirt and a cherry red manicure.

The most head-turning part of her ensemble, however, was easily her $2200 Schiaparelli tie, which was fashioned out of a large lock of faux hair. The ombré tresses cascaded past her waist and were styled in a neat braid.

Gyllenhaal matched the accessory to her own brunette locks, which was parted to the side and styled in textured waves. The actress opted for soft makeup, matching her lipstick with her nails. She tied her glam together with soft brown eyeshadow, feathered eyebrows and a healthy swirl of blush.

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While Gyllenhaal can effortlessly slay with an offbeat look, she has no shortage of soigné ensembles, too. In October 2024, she donned an elegant black gown by The Row at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles. The knit design was equipped with a gold hoop neckline, cut-outs at the sleeves and a column skirt. Gyllenhaal chose effortlessly understated jewelry for the evening, including a simple gold bangle and emerald beaded earrings.

Maggie Gyllenhaal Wears Braided Hair as a Tie
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One year prior, she buttoned up in a Giorgio Armani three-piece suit at the 80th Venice International Film Festival. Her timeless ensemble was complete with a velvet vest, which exposed just the right amount of skin, a fitted blazer and sleek pants.

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The Dark Knight actress teamed her look with velvet slippers, also by Giorgio Armani, to tie the look together from top to toe, literally.

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Jason and Travis Kelce’s Debate About Detaching Body Parts Is So on Brand

2 April 2025 at 12:17

Jason and Travis Kelce got into the weeds about what body part of theirs they would like to make detachable.

“From Em, no dumb questions. If you could make one of your body parts detachable, which would it be and why?” Jason, 37, said on the Wednesday, April 2, episode of the brothers’ “New Heights” podcast. “It’s a very weird question Em.”

Jason encouraged Travis, 35, to answer first, prompting the Kansas City Chiefs player to take a minute to process the question before responding.

“I don’t know, maybe my ears so I wouldn’t have to hear people?” Travis responded, which Jason agreed would be a good option.

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Travis went on to add that a detachable nose would be a good option, too.

“You’re going sense,” Jason noted. “If there’s mayonnaise in the area, you don’t want to smell that.”

Travis agreed, sharing that he didn’t want to smell that particular odor.

“I’m going senses though, I’m going ears or nose,” Travis said of his final answer.

Jason acknowledged that removing a person’s ears would be “nice,” especially when it was time for bed.

“[You’re] trying to get some shut-eye, trying to go to sleep, just take your ears off. Sleep tight,” he said.

However, Travis pointed out that waking up from a slumber could be an issue, and that he would need something in the room to jolt him awake. Then the conversation went off the rails when Jason added a new hypothetical into the mix.

“Alright, I’m just going to throw it out there. I mean if we’re being honest it usually just gets in the way,” Jason said joyfully without naming the body part. “It’s an inconvenient appendage at times … I mean I’m very happy I have one.”

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Travis picked up what his brother was putting down and asked if Jason was referring to “the ball and chain.”

“I think it’s a one-stop shop,” he countered. “I think it’s all one appendage”

Travis attempted to shut down Jason’s logic saying, “I don’t think that’s how it works.”

Jason, for his part, continued down his rabbit hole of male genitalia.

“If you could just take it all off it would eradicate … it just gets in the way sometimes. You know what I mean?” he explained. If you’re running, you gotta think there’d be less friction without that in between your legs to play sports.”

Travis cut in to point out he’s never had that issue, but Jason went further down the proverbial rabbit hole.

“If you could detach it, that means you could probably attach an upgraded one. I mean you could go bigger,” he said. “Assuming it is a universal connection point, I could attach another one.”

Travis erupted in laughter.

“You’re a f***ing psychopath man,” Travis said in between laughs. “I was waiting for you to make it make sense and you never disappoint.”

Jason called Intern Brandon to ask the Perplexity search engine to weigh in on what would be the best body part to make detachable. The result included practical options, like the appendix and tonsils, before offering creative options, like an arm, leg and head. The idea of a detachable head caught Jason’s attention, reminding him of Futurama.

“I wouldn’t mind that … why would I make my d**k detachable if I could just make my head detachable and put it on somebody with a bigger d**k,” he quipped.

Jason was then reminded of an old saying that their dad, Ed Kelce, used to tell them.

“What would Dad say? You’d lose your d**k if it wasn’t attached?” he asked. “I think that’s what he used to tell us.”

Travis agreed that he remembered hearing that from Ed back in the day.

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“Maybe that’s why I thought of this immediately.” Jason reflected. “You’re right dad, I don’t want this to be detachable cause I would definitely lose that motherf***er.”

After coming up with multiple scenarios where Jason could potentially lose the body part, he agreed making it detachable was not a good idea.

“Yeah, you’re right — we don’t want that to be detachable, it’s got to stay on,” he said. “I’m not responsible enough to have a detachable d**k.”

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Kathy Griffin’s Long-Running 'Epic War' With Ellen DeGeneres Explained

2 April 2025 at 12:05

Fellow comedy legends and TV stars Kathy Griffin and Ellen DeGeneres do not like each other.

Griffin says she finds DeGeneres to be “very naturally funny,” seeming to respect the former talk show host for her professional chops. But that’s where the compliments end.

Griffin opened up about the long-standing feud in a video for her YouTube channel, where she went back and looked at their first run-in in the 1990s.

“I have a loathing for her that is epic,” she said in the video, published Wednesday, April 1. “I know a lot of it is jealousy. I get it. She’s way more successful than I’ll ever be.”

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“You’re welcome, Ellen,” she continued. “That’s way nicer than anything you’ve ever said about me or ever will.”

The two have had more run-ins over the years, including a dispute over Griffin’s status on The Ellen Degeneres Show and an argument following the death of Joan Rivers.

Keep scrolling for a full breakdown of the Kathy Griffin and Ellen DeGeneres feud.

1996

Why Does Kathy Griffin Have Epic War With Ellen DeGeneres Breaking Down Their Feud
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As Griffin explained, the trouble began when she guest-starred on her future adversary’s 1990s sitcom, Ellen. DeGeneres came into the table read for her episode and recognized Griffin from a commercial she had recently done for Kenmore Stereos.

In the ad, Griffin recited the lyrics to Wild Cherry’s “Play That Funky Music” in an understated, deadpan way. DeGeneres insisted she do it again at the table read.

“It was just off. It wasn’t said with, like, a fun spirit,” Griffin described. “If that was me and I was the star of the show, I just wouldn’t do that to somebody who’s like the day player…I felt like she was saying ‘dance, b****, dance.”

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Eventually, Griffin recited the lyrics, only the joke didn’t work without her outfit and backup dancers. The rest of the cast and crew, some of whom had not seen the commercial, sat by in an awkward silence.

“You could hear a pin drop because I felt like the rest of the room was just going, ‘I don’t get what’s so special about this,’” she said. “[Ellen] then also kind of looked at me like, ‘what are you doing?’”

“If you know her, that is like who she is,” Griffin concluded. “She never was friendly after that. It was just rough.”

2007

In a March 2007 interview with W Magazine, DeGeneres denied Griffin’s claim that the comedian had been banned from her talk show.

“I know she had a big thing about wanting to be on the show, and we didn’t book her,” she said. “She did a whole thing that I banned her from the show. I didn’t ban her from the show, because first you have to be on the show to be banned.”

She eventually had Griffin on the show later that year, but called her “mean” during her opening monologue. Griffin later said she felt betrayed.

“I was in the dressing room like, ‘S**t! You’re another woman comic, c’mon!'” she told Us Weekly at the time.

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2014

Why Does Kathy Griffin Have Epic War With Ellen DeGeneres Breaking Down Their Feud
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DeGeneres never liked comedian Joan Rivers’ brand of comedy, according to Griffin, because she felt the late comic was “too vulgar.” When Rivers died in 2014, Griffin reached out to DeGeneres hoping to get her help for a tribute.

“I just called her and I just said, ‘Look, woman to woman, comic to comic, I think you need to let go of your hatred for Joan Rivers. She’s passed away, just do a f—ing tribute, be cool,’” Griffin explained in a 2018 story for Variety.

When DeGeneres refused, allegedly saying, “there’s a difference between mean and funny,” Griffin fired back.

“That f***ing set me off,” she said. “So we had a fight in which I used inflammatory words like, ‘Look you f***ing untalented hack.’ … You know when you’re fighting with someone and you can kind of laugh at a point? Yeah, not that day.”

Griffin claims she later reached out to DeGeneres to apologize but received no response.

2016

Griffin published her book, Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index in 2016 and included a story that seemed to be about DeGeneres kicking her out of a dressing room at the Emmys.

“I’m almost positive a certain beloved daytime talk show host once had me kicked out of a backstage dressing room at the Emmy Awards.” she wrote: “I can’t prove it, but this person, who has short blonde hair, has a mean streak that all of Hollywood knows about.”

Griffin later told the Hollywood Reporter that an angry DeGeneres called her after the book was published.

“The only angry call I got was from Ellen DeGeneres, which is, by the way, not fun to get when you’re like, a female comic who loves her and her accomplishments,” she said in a December 2016 interview. “She was extremely upset, and I think she had a thought that she was going to, like, put me in my place, or whatever, but as you know I’m not shut-uppable.”

“We kind of got into it, and I’m not going to lie, after I hung up, I sobbed like a baby,” she admitted. “I admire her and, you know, it was a difficult conversation. But hey, it came with the territory.”

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Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Bring's Relationship Timeline

2 April 2025 at 12:00

Dave Coulier and Melissa Bring formed a strong relationship before saying “I do.”

Coulier met Bring in 2005, over a decade after he and his ex-wife, Jayne Modean, ended their two-year marriage in 1992. (The exes welcomed their only child, son Luc, in 1990.)

Coulier popped the question to Bring after nine years of dating in 2014 and the two wed later that year. “I’m a lucky man — since 7-2-2005. ❤ mi familia,” the Full House alum captioned a July 2020 Instagram pic of Bring with their two dogs, Shorty and Ziggy.

In November 2024, Coulier announced that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Discussing the news during an episode of Today, Coulier said Bring didn’t believe the news at first.

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“She said, ‘Have you heard anything?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I have cancer.’ And she said, ‘C’mon, quit making jokes.’ And I said, ‘No, I did,’” he shared. “And once that settled in, it was a gut punch.”

He went on to praise Bring for being a source of support amid his cancer battle, stating, “She has been so incredible from when we first got the news. … She has been there every step of the way.” (News broke that Coulier was cancer-free in March 2025.)

Scroll down to see Coulier and Bring’s biggest relationship moments:

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Brings Relationship Timeline 2012
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2005

The pair met in 2005 after Coulier accidentally tripped the photographer during a vacation to Montana. “Melissa has been my best friend since I met her nine years ago,” the actor exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2014.

Bring poked fun at their meet cute in a June 2017 Instagram post, captioning a black-and-white snap of the two of them, “12 years ago today this guy tripped me and I fell for him, literally! ❤.”

June 2012

“7 Years,” Bring captioned a sweet Instagram pic with the Fuller House alum.

May 2013

Bring supported Coulier’s son Luc at his graduation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. “So proud to be a step-parent to this guy!!!” she captioned an Instagram pic of them at the ceremony.

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Brings Relationship Timeline 2013
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June 2014

“I feel like the luckiest man on the planet,” Coulier exclusively told Us following news of the couple’s engagement. “I get to marry my best friend, and she doesn’t mind that I have a really bad gas problem.”

Bring celebrated their big news via Instagram. “Word is out // #happiestgirlintheworld // Marrying my best friend @dcoulier! ❤,” she wrote alongside a news story screenshot about their engagement.

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July 2014

Coulier and Bring got married during a picturesque ceremony in Paradise Valley, Montana. Several of Coulier’s Full House costars were in attendance, including John Stamos, Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber, Bob Saget and show creator Jeff Franklin.

June 2015

“10 years ago today I met this wonderful man and we took this photo! ❤,” Bring captioned their first-ever photo together via Instagram.

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Brings Relationship Timeline 2015
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February 2016

Bring joined her husband at the Fuller House season 1 red carpet premiere in Los Angeles. “It’s a good one. … This Fuller House! 🏡,” she wrote via Instagram. “So excited for all my loves on and off screen of this show.”

June 2018

“Even though I’m married to this beautiful photographer, sometimes I get the shot right. #happybirthday @melissacoulier love ❤,” Coulier captioned a rare Instagram pic of his wife.

September 2019

Bring commemorated Coulier’s 60th birthday by sharing a cute Instagram pic of them sharing a kiss. “It’s officially this spectacular human’s Birthday @dcoulier — and sixty looks good on you, husband!” she captioned the post. “There is no one else I’d rather adventure with. My favorite days are the ones with just us, no cell service, in nature. ILYMTA!!!!!”

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Brings Relationship Timeline
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March 2022

Bring praised Coulier via Instagram after the TV personality opened up about his struggles with alcohol. “SO proud of you. I love you and your strength so much!! ❤❤,” she wrote in the comments of Coulier’s post, which featured a snap of his face covered in blood after falling while drunk.

In an Instagram post of her own, Bring wrote, “Yesterday, @dcoulier vulnerably and beautifully opened up about one of the most transformative parts in this journey, sobriety. This has served as a great reminder that as we step with one foot in front of the other, we are able to reach our desired destination, no matter how rough the road may get. I love you and I am proud to be your wife, @dcoulier.”

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December 2022

The duo posed on the ice while enjoying a hockey outing with friends and family. “Every year during the holidays, we rent the ice for a day of family skating. Happy Holidays everyone!” Coulier captioned Instagram pics from their fun day out.

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Brings Relationship Timeline 2022
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July 2024

“I thank my lucky stars we were put on this planet at the same time to walk side by side through life, @dcoulier,” Brings wrote alongside an Instagram photo from their wedding in celebration of their anniversary. “You’re our family’s team captain, my teammate, and best friend. Raising a glass to you and this big, big, love! Happy Anni, DB – LYMTA.”

November 2024

While opening up about his cancer diagnosis, Coulier told People he and Bring consulted friends within the medical field to create “a very specific plan for how they were going to treat this.”

Reflecting on breaking the news to his wife, he added: “I looked at how those words affected [Melissa] and I thought, you know what, I’m going to be strong throughout this, not just for me, but I’m going to be strong for her.”

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January 2025

Bring gave fans an update on Coulier’s cancer journey, telling local Detroit news station WXYZ, “He has some really tough days, and as the chemo has been accumulating it gets a little tougher and more difficult.”

Despite his health hardships, Bring noted that her husband maintained his “positive attitude.” She shared, “Every morning, if he’s feeling up for it, we try to put on a song and do a little dance party with the dogs, because when you do feel good, you have to celebrate that too.”

She also credited Coulier’s family for giving him the strength to fight cancer.

“He has had a lot of loss in his life when it comes to having to deal with cancer. He lost his mother, his sister, his niece. His other sister had it,” Bring explained. “I think for him, he takes every stride and really pulls strength from seeing the women that were so close in his life to powering through it, and he just wants to honor them.”

February 2025

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Bring Relationship Timeline
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Coulier and Bring celebrated Valentine’s Day by writing a love letter to fans who have shown their support throughout the actor’s cancer battle. “Your kind messages, prayers, and positive thoughts have meant the world to us. We feel so incredibly grateful for this beautiful community that surrounds us,” they captioned a joint Instagram post featuring a photo from their wedding.

Reminding fans to take care of themselves as well as others, they continued, “So today, on Valentine’s Day, we’re sending all our love to you. Thank you for being a source of strength and light. Keep taking care of yourselves, even in the smallest ways, because every bit of it matters. Love, Dave & Mel.”

March 2025

Dave Coulier and Wife Melissa Bring Relationship Timeline
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In an interview with Parade, Bring revealed that Coulier was preparing for the worst after going through his fifth round of chemotherapy. “He was like, ‘I’m prepared either way. If I die, I die. And if I can stay here, great. I want to,’” she shared. “Those conversations were obviously so tough.”

Coulier, for his part, said he was trying to be realistic about his condition at the time. “I think everybody’s mind goes there,” he said of thinking about death. “It’s part of the reality of life. Like, ‘Wow, this is really serious’ and ‘What’s the worst that could happen?’ I’ve seen it so often in my family.”

Luckily, Coulier got the good news that there was an absence of cancer cells halfway through his treatments. “I’m in a position where I can inspire others. A negative attitude doesn’t inspire anybody,” he told the outlet. “Positivity, though, can take you a long way.”

One day after Cameron Bure broke the news that he was cancer-free, Coulier thanked fans in a message of his own. “I’d like to give a heartfelt thank you to family, friends and fans for their continued prayers, love and support throughout my emotional roller coaster ride through cancer,” he said in a statement, per multiple outlets. “I will continue to encourage others to check in with doctors to get early screenings like breast exams, colonoscopies and prostate exams.”

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Glen Powell Plays Coy About Sydney Sweeney Attending Sister's Wedding

2 April 2025 at 11:49

Glen Powell has seen the internet’s reaction to Sydney Sweeney attending his sister Leslie Powell’s wedding amid her split from fiancé Jonathan Davino.

“The wedding caused a little bit of a stir. Did that surprise you?” Jenna Bush Hager asked the Twisters star, 36, on the Wednesday, April 2, episode of Today With Jenna & Friends. Powell chuckled as he replied, “You know, timing is everything in this world, isn’t it?”

Though Glen didn’t specifically mention Sweeney’s recent split, he did drop her name while chatting about Leslie’s big day. “She and Syd are obviously great friends, and it was a hell of a wedding,” he shared. “The Powells know how to do it right, and so, all the people that love her were there.”

Powell went on to call his sister’s new husband, Thomas Gillespie, “the best guy” and revealed that he gave a speech during the wedding. “I’m a groomsman, but I think there were, sort of, I guess everybody sort of had other roles, but I’m like the master of ceremonies, I guess, at the wedding,” he explained to Bush Hager, 43, and her guest cohost, Olivia Munn.

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Less than a week before Leslie’s Saturday, March 29, wedding, a source exclusively confirmed to Us Weekly that Sweeney and Davino, 41, had called off their spring nuptials after facing major issues,” some of which stemmed from Sweeney’s busy schedule.

Sweeney was spotted hanging out with Powell at a local Dallas restaurant during Leslie’s wedding weekend, per pics obtained by DeuxMoi on Sunday, March 30. However, another source exclusively clarified to Us that “there is nothing going on romantically between Glen and Syndey.”

The insider noted that Sweeney is “close friends” with Leslie and the Powell family and “brought one of her girlfriends to the wedding as a guest and she RSVP’d months ago.”

Glen Powell Plays Coy About Sydney Sweeney Attending
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One day later, a separate source confirmed to Us that Sweeney and Davino had called it quits. “Sydney and Jonathan are officially split,” the insider shared on Monday, March 31. “[Sydney is] telling friends she is single.”

Sweeney got engaged to Davino after four years of dating in 2022 but famously sparked romance rumors with Powell while promoting their 2023 rom-com Anyone But You. The pair played up their chemistry but denied dating speculation, something which a source told Us back in May 2023 served as a “huge test” for Sweeny and Davino’s relationship.

Following Sweeney’s split news, Powell’s mother, Cyndy Powell, addressed the reignited chatter about her son and the Euphoria actress’ relationship status. “They’re definitely not together,” she told the Daily Mail on Monday, adding, “We love Sydney. We’ve considered her just a really, really good friend. We all were together so much, and we haven’t seen her in a long time. She’s a really good friend and we all enjoy her.”

While Sweeney sported a light blue dress at Leslie’s nuptials, she donned a wedding-inspired look while promoting her upcoming film The Housemaid at CinemaCon on Tuesday, April 1. She sported a silver metallic dress by the bridal brand Wiederhoeft but noticeably did not accessorize the look with her engagement ring.

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Kathy Griffin Recalls Wanting to Get John Travolta 'Out of Scientology'

2 April 2025 at 11:49

Kathy Griffin is recalling her interactions with John Travolta during her brief cameo in 1994’s cult classic Pulp Fiction.

“It’s still exciting, but it was so mind-blowing to just be, like, milling around to see Christopher Walken [on set],” Griffin, 64, said in a Tuesday, April 1, YouTube video. “I didn’t talk to him. I was too afraid to talk to him. … Anyway, it was just a wild party to be at. Like, Travolta was there.”

According to Griffin, she initially hoped to get insights from Travolta, 71, about his experience with the Church of Scientology.

“Of course, I wanted to ask him about Scientology and what it’s like to be a [member],” Griffin recalled. “I wanted to get him out of Scientology, but I was also telling myself the whole time I was at that party, ‘Don’t do it, Kathy. Do not go up to John Travolta and try to get him to leave Scientology. Quentin [Tarantino, the director] is not going to like that.’”

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She added, “It was a big inner struggle, but I didn’t do it. There’s a little part of [me] now that regrets not doing it because that would have been, if nothing else, a very good chunk of my [stand-up] act.”

Kathy Griffin Says She Wanted to Get John Travolta Out of Scientology During Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman and John Travolta in ‘Pulp Fiction.’ Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection

Griffin made a brief appearance as herself in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, which starred Travolta and Uma Thurman. During that time, Travolta was a noted member of the Church of Scientology. The Grease actor joined the organization in 1975 when he was 21 years old.

Travolta later told Us Weekly exclusively in 2019 that Scientology helped him and wife Kelly Preston cope with their son Jett’s death in 2009. Jett, who was 16 years old, had suffered a fatal seizure. (Travolta and Preston, who died in 2020, also shared daughter Ella and son Benjamin.)

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“The church never left our sides for two years,” Travolta exclusively told Us in January 2019. “I don’t know if I would have made it through without their support. Our church is the No. 1 thing that keeps us grounded.”

Travolta has also frequently defended Scientology as the religious organization has faced various criticisms over the years. During a 2015 appearance on Good Morning America, the actor called his religion “misunderstood.”

“You know, people really need to take time and read a book … that’s my advice,” Travolta said on GMA. “You could read New Slant on Life or Dianetics, and I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it. But unless you do, you’ll speculate, and I think it’s a mistake to do that.”

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This Plant-Based Protein Powder Helps Burn Fat Fast

2 April 2025 at 11:35

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One key ingredient in the protein powder is leucine. According to the brand, leucine “helps transform your body composition and support your metabolism, so you lose the right kind of weight, burn fat, build lean muscle to meet your fitness goals and retain muscle as you age.”

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Juliana Claps Back at Comment About Litia’s Connection With Bachelor Grant

2 April 2025 at 11:30

Juliana Pasquarosa is firing back at a hater reminding her of fiancé Grant Ellis’ connection with Litia Garr on The Bachelor.

“Hey remember when Grant said on television ‘Should I just stop right now and pick litia?’” one user commented on Juliana’s Tuesday, April 1, TikTok. Juliana, 28, replied, “Hey so this is a really odd thing to take time of out your day to type.. hope that helps!!!! 🫡.”

In Juliana’s video, she lipsynced and danced to No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.” She wrote over the video, “When u have to stay in separate hotels from your fiancé bc the world doesn’t know ur together yet.”

Grant, 31, took to the comments section to write, “I can’t waittttttttt 🤘🏾💜💜.”

Juliana Claps Back at Comment About Litia
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Ahead of the season 29 finale of The Bachelor, Grant dropped the L-bomb to Litia, 31, and questioned whether he should end the show because of his declaration of love.

“I think the maturity that you bring is big. I like the ground that you stand on, and I know where your priorities are, and I know what’s important to you, it’s what you are on the inside that I can see myself with you,” Grant told Litia. “And see you as my wife, because I do love you.”

In the finale episode, Grant told Juliana he was in love with her and appeared torn between his final two. He eventually sent home Litia, who appeared blindsided by the split, and told Grant that she would have “a lot of questions” if she were Juliana based on what the lead had said. While the exes reunited at the live portion of the episode in March, Litia said she was “glad” that the events were not a part of her “love story.”

While recalling the comments, Grant exclusively told Us Weekly after the finale that there was “a lot” that he “didn’t align with” when it came to Litia’s perspective.

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“I’m not gonna sit up there and argue with her on stage about what she thought I said. But I think that having a little more clarity — when you are the Bachelor, you do see your final two contestants as somebody that could be your wife,” he told Us. “That’s where some confusion came into play. There’s room for interpretation when things are said, ‘off camera.’ At that point in time, I can’t really say much. I’m not gonna argue, I just have to accept whatever the conditions are and apologize and let her feel how she feels because she’s in a tough situation and she’s hurt. I understand.”

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Juliana, who accepted a proposal from the lead in the Bachelor season finale, was upset with Litia for name-dropping her in the breakup with Grant.

“I think that that was uncalled for,” Juliana said on the Tuesday episode of “The Viall Files” podcast of the comment Litia made. “Then to continue to make kind of those jabs on stage, saying she is glad that this isn’t a part of her love story and that she deserves a man that’s not so confused up until the last second, when Grant and I know the reality of it and that was strictly a jab at me, I think that those things took me back.”

She continued, “I want her to be supported. I’m not saying by any means that I don’t want her to feel like she has a girl gang behind her lifting her up because I can’t imagine what it’s like to get to that point and maybe have your heart and your ego bruised. But I think at the end of the day, I had relations with a lot of the girls, and at no point were they making digs at him or our relationship. Where now it’s like, maybe that’s a platform that’s being used for whatever purpose it is, but it’s hurtful and it’s not anything I want to surround myself with at any point in my life.”

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Haley Joel Osment Reveals He Is Living With Sister Emily After L.A. Fires

2 April 2025 at 11:22

While Haley Joel Osment was displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires, he is grateful he now gets to spend more time with sister — and current roommate — Emily Osment.

“Because I lost my house in the fires, I’ve been living with her for the past a couple months,” Haley Joel, 36, exclusively told Us Weekly while attending the Poker Face panel at PaleyFest on Saturday, March 29. “So she’s been very generous and helping me out there. She’s fantastic.”

Haley Joel has enjoyed getting to cohabit with Emily, 33, as they focus on their careers, adding, “She’s great. Her show [Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage] is just wrapping up season 1 right now. Great community of people there.”

While the siblings have leaned on each other off screen, they have yet to showcase their bond in front of the cameras Haley Joel acknowledged how long fans have waited in the hope that he would share a scene with Emily in any of their individual projects.

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“It’s funny that we have never had a scene together on screen,” he quipped to Us. “We were both in The Kominsky Method and we were in a wedding scene together — but we didn’t have any interaction. I know something will happen eventually because she’s great and I’m so proud of everything she’s done.”

Both of the Osment siblings got their start as child stars, with Haley Joel appearing in Forrest Gump and The Sixth Sense before his more recent opportunities, like Blink Twice and season 2 of Wednesday. Emily, for her part, was on Hannah Montana before transitioning to more mature projects, including Young & Hungry and now Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.

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Despite not working together yet, Emily and Haley Joel haven’t ruled it out as a future possibility. They are currently focused on their own projects though, with Emily’s CBS sitcom being renewed for a second season amid her split from now-ex-husband Jack Anthony and Haley Joel making a guest appearance on Peacock’s Poker Face.

“I’ve had the opportunity several times to go on a show that I had just enjoyed as a fan. What We Do in the Shadows is like that, too. You watch the first season and then a couple of weeks later you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m on the set now,'” Haley Joel told Us. “That is kind of a fun experience. But I love Natasha [Lyonne]’s work and everybody involved with this show is so cool. I love a murder mystery and gory stuff, too. It’s cool being a part of that atmosphere.”

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Haley Joel’s upcoming episode pairs him off with Taylor Schilling and Justin Theroux, which he teased to Us, saying, “Everybody was great. We had a really fun lineup in our episode and getting to work with Natasha after watching her and all of her work for all these years is just really exciting because she’s such a creative person.”

He concluded: “I play a social media influencer entrepreneur bro who is getting married but he’s using the wedding to advertise an energy drink he just came up with. He’s kind of on thin ice with the rest of the wedding party.”

Poker Face season 2 premieres on Peacock Thursday, May 8.

With reporting by Nicole Brajer

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Jinger Duggar Explains Why She Hasn't Considered Nursing 3rd Baby

2 April 2025 at 11:21

Jinger Duggar’s anxieties surrounding motherhood have affected her decision to breast-feed her newborn son.

“We have a four-year age gap between Evie and this little boy because I was not ready,” Duggar, 31, said on the Wednesday, April 2, episode of her and husband Jeremy Vuolo’s eponymous podcast. “I think postpartum for me with Evie was hard. It was really hard. Once I think I was about 14 months or so, I was still nursing and it was something that I just felt, like, I was in a dark hole and I didn’t know what to do.”

Jinger, one of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, and husband Vuolo, 37, are parents of three. They share daughters Felicity, 6, and Evangeline, 4, and son Finnegan, who was born late last month.

While Jinger navigated what she said was a bout of postpartum depression, several of her friends advised her to stop nursing  Evangeline.

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“When I did, it just felt like I came out of this dark cloud that I’ve been in for so long,” the Counting On alum recalled. “You saw it.”

Vuolo, for his part, noted that his wife “was struggling” before weaning Evangeline.

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“I don’t think you knew the cause [of your postpartum depression] and I don’t know the dimensions of it,” Vuolo added. “When you did [stop nursing], it was, like, [instantaneous].”

Jinger replied that she felt “so overwhelmed” with the concept of continuing to nurse her second daughter.

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“I was like, ‘I’m just done,’” she recalled. “I didn’t know how to do the weaning process because I was already in such a dark hole, but then just talking to a couple friends [and] my pediatrician gave me suggestions and it actually went smoothly. She had the easiest transition [and] she started taking a pacifier at 14 months.”

According to Jinger, she hadn’t initially “considered” nursing to be part of the reason for her postpartum depression. Once she did realize its apparent contribution to her mental health struggles, the former reality TV star was able to navigate certain feelings better while pregnant with Finn. (Jinger filmed Wednesday’s podcast episode before giving birth.)

“Realizing that about yourself and then working past it, that’s helpful,” Jinger said. “Even with this pregnancy, there’s a certain fear that comes back [and] that starts to creep in where I’m like, ‘Oh, now, this is going to happen again and [I’m] going back to that dark place’ where you’re just so down. I never want to be back there again.”

Jinger has also come to terms with the realization that she might not be able to nurse Finn.

“Of course I want to be able to nurse this baby, but if that doesn’t happen [and] if I need to pump instead and that’s just what I have to do to not [go] back into that postpartum depression then that might be what I need to do,” she said.

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Kelly Clarkson's Daughter Hilariously Bosses Her Around: 'Go to Break'

2 April 2025 at 11:21

Kelly Clarkson’s daughter is cementing her place in the family business.

On Wednesday, April 2, Clarkson’s 10-year-old daughter, River Rose, joined her mom on the set of The Kelly Clarkson Show.

While her younger brother, 8-year-old Remi, stole the show last year singing Frank Sinatra tunes, River had other plans in mind.

River wasn’t just a member of the audience. Instead, she shadowed one of the show’s producers, Alex Duda, becoming the “mini producer.”

Fully prepared with her own headset and clipboard, River stood behind the producer podium alongside Duda and helped her mom navigate the taping of the episode.

“My daughter is here today,” she told the audience before noticing that River was dressed identical to Duda.

“Oh my God, you have a mic and everything. You’re so fancy,” Clarkson gushed. “Oh, my God, I love it. You’re like a little mini producer. They didn’t even plan it, but look, you have to come out. Show them what you look like.”

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In addition to the matching headsets, River and Duda also happened to wear similar outfits with dark leggings and light pink sweaters over white collared shirts — something they didn’t intentionally plan. “They just happened to wear the same thing,” the host told the audience.

“So she’s been to all the meetings this morning like an adult,” Clarkson, 42, said as she continued to brag about River. “Yes, she’s very professional.”

In a snippet of the upcoming episode, Clarkson is seen talking with her guest, comedian Whitney Cummings, who shared that River knows how to push her mom’s buttons.

“OK, so I was interrogating River earlier,” Cummings shared. “I said, ‘What’s the thing that annoys your mom the most?’”

“What do you think it is?” Cummings asked Clarkson.

“Is it when she calls me Kelly?” Clarkson asked as Cummings enthusiastically confirmed Clarkson got it right.

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In response to Clarkson, River shared her quick wit, saying, “Mommy should be in break.”

“I got a leader. She’s gonna rule the world one day, y’all,” an impressed Clarkson told the audience. “All right, we need a quick break, apparently.”

In 2023, while a guest on Today, Clarkson admitted that she hoped her kids, both of whom she shares with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock, wouldn’t want to get involved in the music industry.

“I mean, I’m not going not push,” she said at the time. “I’m not the parent — whatever you want to do, it’s hard for me to sit here and go, ‘Don’t do this because it’s a hard industry,’ because I’m in it. But, I do think kids that grow up in it, it’s hard for them not to be inspired by it or want to be a part of it. So I kind of understand it if they do.”

“But also,” she said, half-jokingly, “be a teacher, or a doctor, or anything else.”

It seems like the television industry may be more River’s vibe.

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Malcolm in the Middle’s Erik Per Sullivan Seen for the 1st Time in 18 Years

2 April 2025 at 11:00

Erik Per Sullivan has kept his personal life private since retiring from acting — however, he was recently spotted in public for the first time in 18 years.

On Wednesday, March 26, Per Sullivan, 33, who played Dewey on Malcolm in the Middle from 2000 to 2006, was photographed grabbing a coffee in Boston while wearing a brown coat, a newsboy cap, green pants and boots.

Per Sullivan’s rare outing came the day after Variety confirmed that the former actor’s role of Dewey would be played by Caleb Ellsworth-Clark in the Malcolm in the Middle revival series on Disney+.

After wrapping Malcolm in the Middle in 2006, Per Sullivan appeared in 2010’s Twelve before taking a step back from acting to focus on his education. According to E! News, Per Sullivan is now a graduate student studying Victorian literature.

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Although he has managed to stay out of the spotlight, Per Sullivan’s on-screen mother, Jane Kaczmarek, recently said that he is doing “very very well” and just lost interest in acting after Malcolm in the Middle.

“He did Malcolm for seven years,” Kaczmarek, 69, shared during an appearance at the Paris Manga Sci-fi Show in April 2024. “He started at 7, he ended at 14. He wasn’t interested in acting at all. So many people think being in show business is the greatest thing in the world, [but] it’s not for everyone.”

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Malcolm in the Middle, a Fox sitcom which ran for seven seasons, followed the life of a dysfunctional working-class family with a focus on the intelligent middle child, Malcolm (Frankie Muniz.) Aside from Per Sullivan, Kaczmarek and Muniz, 39, the series also starred Bryan Cranston, Christopher Masterson and Justin Berfield.

In December 2024, Disney+ announced that there would be a four-episode Malcolm in the Middle revival coming soon with Muniz, Cranston, 69, Kaczmarek, Masterson, 45, and Berfield, 39, all reprising their roles. The miniseries will revolve around Hal (Cranston) and Lois’ (Kaczmarek) 40th wedding anniversary — which Malcolm and the other brothers will play a role in.

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Malcolm in the Middle literally changed the face of the television comedy landscape when it premiered two decades ago, redefining what the genre could be,” Karey Burke, the president of 20th Television, which is producing the series with New Regency, said in a statement at the time. “When [Malcolm in the Middle creator] Linwood Boomer suggested it might be time to bring everyone’s favorite dysfunctional family back for a bit of a reunion, we couldn’t think of a more iconic and influential series to revisit, along with a truly brilliant cast to reunite.”

Aside from the main cast, the revival series will also feature newcomers Ellsworth-Clark, Kiana Madeira, Keeley Karsten, Anthony Timpano and Vaughan Murrae.

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Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson and More Stars Who've Played Batman

2 April 2025 at 10:50

Batman is arguably one of the most iconic superheroes of all time, and several lucky stars have sported the caped crusader’s iconic outfit.

George Clooney, Michael Keaton and Val Kilmer are part of a growing list of actors who have stepped into the dual role of billionaire Bruce Wayne/Batman. Lewis Wilson was the first to don the suit for 1943’s Batman, followed by Robert Lowery in The New Adventures of Batman & Robin in 1949.

Christian Bale’s performance as Batman in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight franchise remains one of the most iconic versions of the character. Ben Affleck succeeded Bale by portraying Batman in several movies throughout the DC Extended Universe before the film franchise was rebooted under new DC Studios head James Gunn.

2023’s The Flash featured not one, but three versions of Batman. Keaton’s Batman teamed up with Ezra Miller’s Flash and Sasha Calle’s Supergirl, while Affleck and George Clooney made brief appearances as the superhero.

Scroll down to see the actors that have tackled the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, across film and television, over the years:

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The Twilight alum was cast in the coveted part in 2019, beating out Nicholas Hoult and Armie Hammer. Directed by Matt Reeves, the movie — simply titled The Batman — showed a younger version of Bruce Wayne, only in the second year of his career as the Dark Knight. The "Patman" made his big screen debut in March 2022.

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Affleck made his Batman debut in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He made a brief cameo in 2016’s Suicide Squad before teaming up with more DCEU heroes in 2017’s Justice League. Director Zack Snyder released his cut of the film in 2021. 2023’s The Flash marked Affleck’s last time in the super suit before the DCEU was rebooted.

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The Arrested Development alum was the perfect choice to voice Batman in 2014’s The Lego Movie and 2019’s The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. His version of the character was so beloved that he received his own spinoff film in 2017, The Lego Batman Movie, which earned nearly $312 million worldwide.

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The Welsh-born star played Batman/Bruce Wayne across three films in Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy: Batman Begins in 2005, The Dark Knight in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. The franchise’s last two films grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.
Ahead of The Dark Knight Rises’ release, Bale opened up to Collider about whether he would miss wearing the Batman suit. “For all the discomfort and the heat and the sweat and the headaches and everything from it, when you sit back and watch the movie at the end of the day, you go: ‘Well, that’s f***ing cool. I will miss that, I liked the good bit of rubber,’” he said in May 2012.

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The Academy Award winner played the caped crusader in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin in 1997, but the film was panned amongst critics and fans alike. Years after the film’s release, Clooney, told Variety in April 2019 that he “screwed it up so badly.” He also told Deadline in September 2013 that the poorly-received movie is “a cautionary reminder of what can happen when you make movies solely for commercial reasons.”

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Kilmer succeeded Keaton in the dual role in 1995’s Batman Forever, but this was a part he only got to play once in his career. During an appearance at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in 2012, he compared Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy to his own Batman film.
“[Nolan’s films] are doing what I hoped we would do, but didn’t do. I think because of Tim Burton’s success on the first film and [Jack] Nicholson being so amazing that they kind of got carried away with the idea of the bad guy being immune to rules somehow,” he explained. “In the original film, the Joker gets the hell kicked out of him and thrown off the bell tower. He suffers, and that sort of went away. Things became cute. It’s entertaining, but I think what they’re doing with the Batman films now is more in the original spirit of the character.”
After previously battling throat cancer, Kilmer died of pneumonia at age 65 in April 2025.

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Keaton’s casting as the superhero in the 1989’s Batman was considered controversial at the time because of his comedic background. However, he won over comic book fans with his portrayal of the character in the Tim Burton-directed film and the 1992 sequel, Batman Returns.
He returned to the role for 2023’s The Flash and was set to appear in the since-canceled Batgirl film starring Leslie Grace.

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HBO Max’s Titans showed an older version of the caped crusader, who was introduced in 2019 during the second season. The Game of Thrones actor played an intense Bruce who trained Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) and Jason Todd (Curran Walters) as his sidekicks.

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Fox’s Gotham aired from 2014 to 2019 and focused on Jim Gordon’s (Ben McKenzie) rise to Commissioner and Batman’s ally. However, it started long before Bruce made his debut as a hero. Gordon meets Bruce as a pre-teen while searching for answers in the aftermath of Thomas and Martha Wayne’s murder.

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Conroy has gone the majority of his career — more than 27 years — helming the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series from 1992 to 1995. Thereafter, he continued to lend his voice to the Dark Knight in an assortment of animated spinoffs, including Justice League Action and Superman: The Animated Series.
Outside the cartoon realm, Conroy made an appearance on The CW’s Batwoman series as an alternate universe Bruce Wayne opposite Ruby Rose’s Batwoman/Kate Kane. “The wonderful thing is that Ruby, whom most of my work was with, is an incredibly generous and supportive actress,” he told Nerdist in December 2019 of working with Rose. “She’s very giving, and I felt really safe with her. Because I hadn’t done anything on-camera in terms of acting in almost 25 years! My career took a voice-over hard right in the mid 90s.”
Conroy died at age 66 in November 2022.

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The Alphas actor played Kate Kane’s missing cousin in the prime universe of The CW’s Batwoman. Since Bruce is MIA, he rarely appears. He first showed up when Tommy Elliot stole his face, and he then appeared in Luke Fox’s (Camrus Johnson) hallucination. 

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Bader stepped up to voice the character for Batman: The Brave & The Bold, which aired from 2008 to 2011 for three seasons. His extensive background in voice acting, including films like Ice Age and shows such as Lloyd in Space, only furthered his ability in capturing the iconic character’s voice.
Bader previously opened up about his process for finding the voice of an animated character. “You do want to come in with ideas but you don’t want to be too locked in, because they may have different ideas,” he explained to Verité Entertainment in 2016. “One of the fun things about it is getting in and creating something in a room with somebody. You have to be completely open, but you have to read the script multiple times so that you can get the sense of humor, what they’re doing [and] where they’re going.”

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The late star played the superhero with great believability for three seasons on the 1960s live-action series Batman. He starred on the show alongside Burt Ward, who played Dick Grayson/Robin — Batman’s sidekick. Later in his career, he revisited the role again by voicing Batman in two direct-to-video movies: Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders in 2016 and Batman vs. Two-Face in 2017.
Speaking to Moviefone the year before his 2017 death, West shared his biggest takeaway from playing Batman. “Well, the only feeling I really have almost every day is I’m the luckiest actor in the world,” he said in 2016. “How many of us, maybe [William] Shatner, [Clint] Eastwood, a few, get a chance to become an icon of a kind, and do something that has life, longevity, and makes people happy? Hey, I guess they’re calling me ‘The Bright Knight.’ I like to make people happy. Enough violence. Enough explosions, you know?”

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Lowery was the second actor to play Batman on the big screen. In 1949, he donned the suit for The New Adventures of Batman & Robin. His turn as the Dark Knight was better received than his predecessors. The actor died at age 58 in December 1971.

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Wilson was the first actor cast to play the Dark Knight for Batman in 1943. He was also the youngest actor to tackle the role at 23. His performance faced criticism for his voice as Batman and his physique. He died at age 80 in August 2000.

MAFS' Allen Met His ‘Future Wifey’ After Ex Madison’s Cheating Scandal

2 April 2025 at 10:35

Married at First Sight season 18 star Allen Slovick can already see wedding bells in his future so soon after his divorce from Madison Myers.

“Luckily, the way everything transpired in the months following [the reunion led me to] meeting my future wifey,” Allen, 35, said on the Wednesday, April 2, episode of the “What’s the Reality?” podcast. “So, life has become the dream that I never thought would happen.”

While Allen didn’t name his new girlfriend on the podcast, he did hint that she came to support him during the episode recording.

“She’s with me all the time. She’s my little support,” Allen gushed, blowing an air kiss in her direction. “Very much [in love and attached at the hip], but in a healthy way. I saw for the first time where we’re together, we’re out and I’ve been given trust. I’ve been given something that I haven’t been given prior. I don’t have to validate, she loves me, and I could tell. I don’t need to worry.”

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Allen also noted that he and his girlfriend wear matching bracelets with a “little magnet that attaches” whenever they hold hands.

Several hours earlier, the pair made their social media debut.

“I love you and your sock choices 🥰🥵,” Allen’s girlfriend, whose Instagram handle is Miss Adams, captioned a kissing selfie on Monday, April 1.

In a follow-up post on her Instagram Stories, Adams noted that she is “excited to share [her] life” with Allen.

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“We ask to please be respectful to us and our relationship.” Adams captioned a kissing pic set to Taylor Swift’s “All of the Girls You Loved Before.”

Allen was previously matched and married to Madison, 31, during season 18 of Lifetime’s Married at the First Sight. Throughout the Chicago-set season, Madison claimed she wasn’t attracted to Allen before it was revealed that she had an affair with costar David Trimble. (David, 36, was paired with Michelle Tomblin during the show. He is now dating Madison post-divorce.)

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“It was very easy for them to coordinate,” Allen alleged during the Wednesday podcast episode, reflecting on David and Madison’s affair during filming. “I think everything happens for a reason. It didn’t end the way [I imagined it would] when I signed up for Married at First Sight. I thought I was going to be that one [success story] because I was confident in who I am and how I conduct myself, my values and I put a lot of effort into the interviews.”

According to Allen, he and Adams also “would not have been ready for each other” if they had met six months earlier or before the MAFS process.

“It didn’t turn out as intended, however, it turned out how it should have happened,” Allen concluded.

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Love Chrissy Teigen's $519 Chambray Blouse? Get the Look for $36

2 April 2025 at 10:34

If you’re looking for versatile pieces to build endless spring outfits around, look to Chrissy Teigen for inspiration. We’ve always been fans of her looks, but recently, Teigen’s been on a roll, serving up top-notch outfits.

In early March, she arrived at the Drew Barrymore Show in an outfit that set the tone for spring style. She sported a Haikure Ronda button-down shirt with a Victoria Beckham leather midi skirt and Guiseppe Zanotti Intriigo strap sandals. The star of the look was her effortless, denim-looking blouse.

The silky, see-through blouse has a cerulean, almost light blue denim wash for a bold contrast. A single chest pocket and cuff sleeves add character. Not willing to spend $519 on a single top? No problem! We found a stylish lookalike you can wear on repeat this spring. The best part? It’s under $50 at Amazon.

Coming in at just $36, the Aoudrey Denim Blouse looks similar to Teigen’s style without the opaque, see-through fabric. The affordable find has a button-down design with a single chest pocket and lengthy sleeves that you can cuff. Ideal for springtime weather, this chambray shirt is made from soft cotton and polyester.

An undeniable closet essential, this top comes in a slew of shades outside of Teigen’s light denim style. Choose from pink, khaki, light pink, black and three other blue hues in sizes XS to 3XL. Depending on your preferred fit, you can size up for a roomier look.

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This style already boasts the seal of approval from Amazon shoppers. “I am a picky shopper. I was searching for a lightweight blouse as I live in the south and could be worn year-round. The fabric was spot on,” one happy customer shared in a five-star review. “I didn’t want a boxy shirt; [I wanted something] a little more on the feminine side. [It] looks casual with leggings or dressy with slacks,” the shopper added.

Much to the delight of reviewers, this blouse is versatile. Style this blouse with loose-fitting slacks, flats and a black blazer. Or, tuck one side of the shirt into oversized joggers and trendy white sneakers.

A-listers like Teigen continue to serve as a guiding light to build flawless looks this spring. This chambray blouse is a building block for first-class style.

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Cher Pays Tribute to ‘Funny, Crazy, Pain the Ass’ Ex-Boyfriend Val Kilmer

2 April 2025 at 10:25

Cher gave fans a glimpse at her playful and sassy relationship with ex-boyfriend Val Kilmer by penning a cheeky tribute after his death.

“Will miss u,” Cher, 78, wrote via X on Wednesday, April 2, one day after Kilmer died of pneumonia at the age of 65.

She teased, “U Were [a] Funny, crazy, pain in the ass, GREAT FRIEND.”

The Grammy winner noted, “Kids💜U,” before singing Kilmer’s praises as an actor. “BRILLIANT as Mark Twain,” Cher pointed out, seemingly referring to his portrayal of the iconic figure in his one-man show, Citizen Twain, which he also wrote. (Kilmer also played Mark Twain in 2014’s Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn and was a fan of all-things Twain.)

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Cher also applauded Kilmer for his hard-fought battle against cancer, which began in 2015 when he was diagnosed with throat cancer. (He didn’t reveal his diagnosis publicly until 2017.)

“BRAVE here during ur sickness,” Cher added.

The Moonstruck actress addressed her late friend as “Valus” to start the post as well, which was a nickname she had for him when they were dating in the early ‘80s.

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Cher previously spoke about the origin of their nicknames in 2021, telling People, “Val didn’t want to yell ‘Cher’ and I didn’t want to yell ‘Val.’ We also called ourselves Valus Maximus and Cherus Reprimandus.”

Cher, who met Kilmer at one of her birthday parties, revealed, “It was just kind of who I was in the household. Of course, he was Maximus, come on.”

She noted, “We became friends because we laughed at the same things constantly.” Despite their 13-year age gap, Cher and Kilmer soon became lovers.

Cher's Star-Studded Dating History Through the Years

“He would sleep over, and it was just a friendship [at first]. That took a long time. Well, I guess not really a long time,” Cher added.

The pair dated from 1982 to 1984 and, according to the musician, it was Kilmer who called off the romance.

“Look, I was madly in love with Val Kilmer and he left … because sometimes you’re only meant to stay with someone for so long,” Cher revealed during a November 2024 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, noting, “Val was really young.”

Cher Remembers Ex Boyfriend Val Kilmer
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Although the Top Gun actor ended his relationship with Cher after two years, the pair remained friends long after their romantic split. In fact, Cher offered up her guest house to Kilmer in 2015 when he was battling throat cancer.

“One night I suddenly awoke vomiting blood that covered the bed like a scene out of The Godfather. I prayed immediately, then called 911. Then, alerted my hostess. Cher stepped in and stepped up,” Kilmer recalled in his 2020 memoir, I’m Your Huckleberry. “And yet even in my grave condition, I saw her scanning the paramedic, who was Gregory Peck drop-dead handsome. Only in Hollywood, right?”

Kilmer remembered being “covered in blood” but still managing to catch Cher’s eye and bounce his eyebrows “like Groucho Marx. Hubba Hubba.” He wrote that Cher was “bashful” but then “couldn’t help laughing out loud at the audacity.”

Michelle Pfeiffer Honors Val Kilmer in Sweet Tribute After His Death

He recalled the funny moment distracting them both from the scary ordeal that was unfolding.  “Here we were, joking about beauty and desire, while I looked like a stunt man from Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and, yes, while my life seemed to be in mortal danger,” Kilmer added. “We laughed out loud before they finished with my vitals and shut me up with an oxygen mask.”

Kilmer battled throat cancer for some time before receiving a clean bill of health in 2016. However, during his fight, he underwent tracheostomy surgery, which permanently damaged his vocal cords.

Kilmer’s daughter, Mercedes, confirmed her father’s death on Tuesday, revealing he passed away in Los Angeles. The Batman Forever actor is survived by Mercedes, 33, and son Jack, 29, whom he shares with ex-wife Joanne Whalley. The exes were married from 1988 to 1996.

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Pedro Pascal Turns 50! Look Back at His Best Photos Through the Years

2 April 2025 at 10:24

Pedro Pascal spent nearly two decades taking one-off acting gigs in film and television before he rose to fame for his role as Oberyn Martell on season 4 of Game of Thrones.

Pascal’s star continued to rise when he was cast as DEA agent Javier Peña on the Netflix series Narcos in 2015. On the silver screen, he appeared in films including Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), Triple Frontier (2019) and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), which he costarred in with Nicolas Cage.

In addition to expanding his film resume, Pascal began starring in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian in 2019. In 2023, he returned to HBO, portraying Joel in the post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us, based on the video game of the same name.

Now, the actor is gearing up for his foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which is set to premiere in July 2025.

Keep scrolling to see Pascal’s career through the years:

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The Adjustment Bureau actor took small roles, appearing in television shows including Good vs. Evil and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. 

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Pascal made appearances on series including Law & Order, Nurse Jackie and The Good Wife. 

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The Bloodsucking Bastards actor rose to prominence after his arc on season 4 of Game of Thrones. 
“Once we saw the entire season, there was no doubt Pedro was going to be a star. I thought he deserved more recognition, frankly,” Benioff told Variety in October 2020. 

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Pascal began portraying real-life DEA agent Peña on Narcos. 

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The Prospect actor appeared in Kingsman: The Golden Circle alongside A-listers including Colin Firth, Elton John and Halle Berry.
During a September 2017 appearance on the Today show, Pascal called the experience “very surreal.” 

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Pascal began portraying the titular character in The Mandalorian.

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The NYU Tisch School of the Arts alum starred in the action comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent alongside Cage. 

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The Great Wall actor began starring in The Last of Us alongside fellow GoT alum Bella Ramsey. Although the costars didn’t have scenes together in the fantasy series, their characters were both fan-favorites. 
"I feel like it made us come from a family without knowing each other already," Pascal told Entertainment Weekly of his bond with Ramsey in January 2023. “To have two characters that the fans liked make their entrance and make their exit is parallel for the both of us and a kind of bonding thing before we even got a chance to bond.”

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Pascal attended the 95th annual Academy Awards in March to present Best Animated Short and Best Documentary Short. He walked the red carpet in a Zegna suit with older sister Javiera Balmaceda. His sibling is Amazon Studios’ head of local originals for Latin America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She was attending in support of Argentina, 1985, a Best International Film nominee.

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Pascal joined his The Mandalorian costars at PaleyFest on March 31, where he gushed about his role on the Disney+ series.
“[The show] has changed my life completely. I’ve told the story many times … but meeting both Jon [Favreau] and Dave [Filoni] in this room with wall-to-wall illustrations [of] the entire first season. And, seeing the Child, Baby Grogu, and knowing that ‘Oh, people are going to die. They’re going to love this,’” he gushed during the Paley Center for Media event, which Us Weekly attended. “Also I grew up [when] Swingers came out and I [saw] Jon as an actor and then saw Swingers and sort of understood what happens if somebody takes license and starts to tell their stories. And it just hasn’t stopped since then. Whether [it’s] indie films or a comedy or incredible world-building of stories like Star Wars, I basically have seen them do exactly what I know that they set to do, and do it for the people that love the stories [as] much as they do.” 

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Pascal turned 50 in April just before reprising his role as Joel Miller in The Last of Us season 2.

'Golden Bachelorette' Runner-Up Guy Gansert Has a New Girlfriend

2 April 2025 at 10:23

Guy Gansert has found love again after vying for Joan Vassos’ affections on The Golden Bachelorette.

“I HAVE FOUND MY PERSON ❤,” Gansert, 66, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, April 1, tagging a woman named Johanna Boston. In the image, Gansert and Boston were all smiles as they posed in front of a red heart-shaped statue.

The comments section was flooded with Bachelor Nation alums congratulating Gansert on his relationship. “So happy for you both!!!!” host Jesse Palmer wrote, while fellow Golden Bachelorette contestant Jonathan Rone added, “Congratulations brother! Looks like my golden brother struck a heart of gold 💛.”

Susan Noles, who appeared on Gerry Turner’s season 1 of The Golden Bachelor, wrote, “Excited for you two💕.”

Golden Bachelorette Runner Up Guy Gansert Hard Launches New
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Gansert’s hard-launch comes one month after Kelly Bensimon revealed that the twosome had been texting — with him sending her “novellas” — until he shared that he was dating someone else.

“So I text back and I’m like, ‘That’s great.’ That’s how I text back. I’m like, ‘That’s great, sounds fun, look forward to, can’t wait, whatever,’” Bensimon, 56, said during a March episode of the “I Do Part 2” podcast. “And it was like … ‘I like this and I like that, and I think you’d like this, and I think you’d like that,’ and going on and on and on and on and ‘Here’s a photo of me without a pocket square.’ I was like, ‘What is going on?’”

She continued, “Because he knew we were coming here, he was like, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m dating someone. Here’s her name.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, I’m sorry, what?’”

The Real Housewives of New York City alum claimed that Ganserr continued to send her “more images” of himself and told her that he’s an “actor.” (Gansert guest starred on an episode of General Hospital that aired in March.)

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Months before, viewers watched as Vassos, 62, sent Gansert packing in the season 1 finale of The Golden Bachelorette. Gansert appeared blindsided by her decision to call it quits.

“I felt so good today. I fell in love with you. I was ready to let it all out. … This is not what I was expecting at all,” he told Vassos during the breakup, adding that he was ready to get down on one knee and propose to her.

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When the exes reunited at the live taping of After the Final Rose in November 2024, Gansert asked whether there was “something missing” in their relationship. Vassos reassured him that there was nothing.

“It comes down to it being kind of a time thing,” she said during the episode. “It was really, really hard in the end to say goodbye to you because in any other situation, I would have been with you because we would have had more time. There was a time element in this that I had to make a decision and I had just gotten farther along, my heart belonged to somebody else already. It was absolutely nothing you did. You are an amazing man.”

Vassos added that she has “missed” Gansert and hopes to go on a double-date with him in the future. Vassos ultimately accepted a proposal from Chock Chapple in the finale.

ABC has previously put out a casting call for season 2 of The Golden Bachelor, but with Gansert finding love offscreen, he’s out of the running to be the next senior lead. Other Golden alums will head to Bachelor in Paradise for the first crossover season this summer.

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Ariana DeBose Explains Sharing a Quote Criticizing Rachel Zegler

2 April 2025 at 10:11

Ariana DeBose is setting the record straight on speculation she was throwing shade at former West Side Story costar Rachel Zegler.

“I post quotes all the time and thought this one was meaningful,” DeBose, 34, shared in an Instagram Story post on Tuesday, April 1. “Will fully cop to the fact I did not do any research on where this quote came from, nor did I know of the connection until it was pointed out to me.”

She added: “I have no intention of inserting myself into a news cycle. This is not the first time I’ve posted about dealing with narcissism and it probably won’t be the last, but next time I’ll be sure to clarify its origins first.”

Earlier on Tuesday, DeBose uploaded a quote made by Jonah Platt.

“Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged,” she posted, but the Oscar winner was quick to delete the quote after learning where the context. (DeBose and Zegler appeared together in the 2021 West Side Story remake.)

Rachel Zegler Views Live-Action 'Snow White' Backlash as 'Passion'

Jonah, 38, shared his thoughts on narcissism — referring to Zegler — in a lengthy Instagram comment in defense of his father, Marc Platt, who produced the live-action Snow White movie.

It was reported late last month that Marc, 67, flew to New York City and met with Zegler, 23, and begged her to pull back on sharing political commentary on social media. Zegler allegedly refused.

A social media commenter alluded to the report on Jonah’s Instagram account, which caused him to hit back.

Ariana DeBose Says She Didn t Know She Reposted a Quote Criticizing Former Costar Rachel Zegler
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“You really want to do this? Yeah, my dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for,” he wrote in the since-deleted comment. “This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film’s box office.”

Rachel Zegler Says Backlash to Her ‘Snow White’ Reboot Made Her ‘Sad’

Jonah continued: “Free speech does not mean you’re allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism is not something to be coddled or encouraged.”

Zegler has not publicly addressed the criticism. She did, however, post a lengthy Instagram post of her own thanking the movie’s cast and crew on March 21 — but left costar Gal Gadot out of the tribute.

Despite taking the No. 1 spot at the box office during opening week last month, it’s been projected that Snow White will take a monetary hit adding up to a loss well over $100 million.

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Travis Kelce's Sweetest Moments With His 4 Nieces

2 April 2025 at 10:10

Jason Kelce’s daughters famously didn’t want Travis to win the 2022 Super Bowl, but the girls still love their “Uncle Travy.”

Travis Kelce isn’t a father himself, but he’s definitely a model uncle to brother Jason and sister-in-law Kylie Kelce’s four daughters — Wyatt Elizabeth, born in October 2019, Elliotte Ray, born in March 2021, Bennett Llewellyn, born in February 2023 and Finnley “Finn” Anne, born in March 2025.

“Travis is the perfect uncle. He really is,” Jason told E! News in September 2023 about his younger brother, noting that his daughters are “drawn to him immediately.”

“Partly because he’s gorgeous, but then also he’s just a fun human being,” Jason added. “He’s exciting. He has energy for days.”

However, it might be a while until Travis can take care of the girls on his own. “I know we give him crap. We will not leave him alone with them. They’re too young,” Jason added, noting that his brother has a “zest” for life.

Kylie echoed her husband’s sentiments about letting Travis watch their daughters.

“How long, if at all, would you allow me to babysit the girls unsupervised?” Travis asked Kylie when she appeared on the “New Heights” podcast in September 2023.

“I think my headphones just cut out,” Kylie quipped back. “Would it be by yourself? … But then who’s watching you?”

Keep scrolling to see Travis’ sweetest moments with his nieces:

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When Travis was wearing a pink wig in June 2023, Wyatt was not a fan.
“Take it off! Take it off!” she told her uncle. “Because I don’t like it!”
He responded, “I thought you said you wanted dad to have pink hair?”
“Yeah, but I don’t want you to have pink hair,” she hit back, calling Travis “naughty” and “sneaky.”

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Travis met Jason and Kylie’s third daughter for the first time following her February 2023 birth. It was filmed for the Prime Video’s Kelce documentary, which was released in September 2023.
“Just like a football,” Jason joked, putting the baby in his brother’s arms.

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Wyatt and Ellie walked in on Jason and Travis recording their “New Heights” podcast, as seen on a January 2023 episode of the Philadelphia Eagles’ Unscripted series.
“This is my favorite time of the year right here,” Travis said as he spoke with both girls. “Favorite time of the day, favorite time of the week.”

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Jason and Kylie’s eldest crashed the “New Heights” podcast recording in December 2022.
“We can hear an adorable little voice,” Travis told his brother as Wyatt came on screen, waving to her uncle. “Hey baby Wy.”

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While recording the October 11, 2023, episode of their podcast, Jason let his daughters Wyatt and Ellie briefly say hello to their uncle.
“How are you doing? You’re smiling big,” Travis asked Ellie. “You’re making my day!”
Ellie then put on her floral pair of sunglasses, to which her stylish uncle praised the look. “I love it,” Travis gushed.
Wyatt also got some face time with her uncle, showing off her pastel leotard from gymnastics practice. “How about those pink shoes from the [Eagles] game, those were fun?” Travis asked her, to which she agreed.

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After Kylie and Jason welcomed their fourth baby girl in March 2025, she quickly dropped by a taping of "New Heights" to meet her uncle. "You didn't even tell me what name you picked yet," Travis teased his brother as Kylie came into the frame with their new "little muffin."
"You happy to be out?" Travis asked Finn, whose dad playfully put a pair of headphones over her ears. 
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