Justin Verlander found himself in the hot seat after using his wife Kate Upton’s Zoom account for a recent press conference.
During a virtual press event on Monday, January 13, an NBC Sports reporter named Taylor Wirth had a hot mic moment that involved Verlander, 41 — but the MLB player didn’t mind.
As San Francisco Giants president of operations Buster Posey was speaking to the reporters, Wirth accidentally interrupted saying, “Look at Justin’s name!”
Wirth didn’t appear to know he was unmuted when he pointed out that Verlander’s Zoom moniker was his wife’s name.
After the Giants’ vice president of media relationship Matt Chisholm reminded the reporters to stay muted unless they are asking a question, Verlander poked fun at his own mishap.
“I’ll change it, alright? I’ll change it,” Verlander quipped, referring to his Zoom name.
The pitcher made good on his promise, changing his moniker to “JUSTIN VERLANDER (not Kate)” for the remainder of the press conference.
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Wirth, meanwhile, poked fun at his hot mic blunder by reposting a clip from the Zoom via X. He then shared a meme of a college guy pointing at himself while holding a beer, confirming he was the one who called out Verlander.
Verlander met Upton, 32, in 2012 while shooting a commercial for the Major League Baseball 2K12 video game. They went public with their romance in January 2013. After briefly splitting later that year, they reunited in January 2014.
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After the former Houston Astros pitcher won the 2017 World Series with his team, he and Upton jetted off to Italy to get married.
The pair celebrated their one-year anniversary in November 2018 days before welcoming their daughter, Genevieve. The following year, Verlander reflected on the past decade and all of his life changes.
“It’s been such an incredible decade! Meeting my best friend, getting married and starting a family has been the most amazing gift ever!!! Nothing tops that,” he wrote via Instagram in December 2019. “On the field … winning a championship, throwing a couple no hitters and winning a few awards along the way has been an incredible journey. The friendships that have grown or began this past decade will continue on for decades to come. Truly blessed . Now bring on the next decade!!”
Since entering the 2020s, Verlander’s baseball trajectory has changed more than once. In December 2022 he said goodbye to the Astros after six years with the ball club. That same month he confirmed he was joining the New York Mets for the 2023 season, but by August of that year he was back with the Astros.
Earlier this month, Verlander entered another new phase of his MLB career as a pitcher for the Giants. He signed a one-year contract with the team on January 11 for $15 million.
Jessica Alba was out and about for the first time since news broke of her split from husband Cash Warren.
The actress, 43, was spotted in Los Angeles, according to photos obtained by Page Six on Tuesday, January 14. In the snaps, Alba was seen at the grocery store Erewhon grabbing a bite to eat.
Alba was all smiles as she walked in the parking lot. She rocked a cozy oversized brown sweater that she paired with a light blue jacket, baggy blue jeans and white sneakers. Alba opted to run errands with her hair down while wearing sunglasses on the bright California day. She completed the look with gold hoop earrings and a tan Chanel crossbody purse.
Alba did not appear to be wearing a wedding ring on her ring finger.
The outlet also reported that Alba later spent the day with her son Hayes, 7, and one of his friends. The trio enjoyed a picnic at a park in Hollywood.
This is the first time Alba has been seen in public since TMZ first reported that she and Warren, 46, had separated after 16 years of marriage. Neither Alba nor Warren have publicly addressed the breakup.
Cash Warren and Jessica AlbaKarwai Tang/WireImage
Alba and Warren met in 2004 while they were working together on the set of Fantastic Four. Alba starred in the superhero blockbuster as Storm, while Warren worked behind the scenes as a production assistant.
In May 2008, the pair tied the knot. At the time of their nuptials, Alba was nine months pregnant with their first child Honor, now 16, whom they welcomed the following month. Alba and Warren expanded their family in August 2011 with daughter Haven, followed by Hayes in December 2017.
Six months before calling it quits, Warren opened up to Us Weekly about his relationship with Alba and how much effort they’ve devoted to their romance over the years.
“I think, ultimately, the friendship and support and just knowing that your partner has your back means everything to us,” Warren exclusively told Us in July 2024. “I think that would be the secret, is just having each other’s back. It’s hard work, but we roll up our sleeves and we do it. It’s wild. It’s the longest relationship I could have ever imagined.”
Three months prior, Alba got candid about her and Warren’s marriage in a conversation with Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt.
“It’s all rosy for 2 ½ years, but then after that you become roommates,” Alba revealed on Schwarzenegger’s “BDA Baby” podcast. “And it’s just, like, you’re roommates. You’re just going through the motion. It’s the responsibility. It’s a lot of, like, checking the boxes.”
Justin Baldoniand his legal team are asking Marvel and Disney to “preserve evidence” relevant to anticipated claims against Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively and other parties.
According to a litigation hold letter obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 14, The Walt Disney Company’s Bob Iger and Marvel Studio’s Kevin Feige received a request from Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, to “preserve all existing documents and data relevant to the Anticipated Claims.”
This information includes, but is not limited to, any and all documents and communications involving Reynolds’ conduct in connection with any film in the Deadpool franchise.
It also includes any and all documents “relating to or reflecting a deliberate attempt to mock, harass, ridicule, intimate or bully Baldoni through the character of ‘Nicepool.’”
“It is important that Marvel take every reasonable step to preserve this information until further notice,” Freedman wrote.
The move comes as Baldoni, 40, finds himself in a legal battle with Lively, 37, who costarred alongside the director in the 2024 Sony movie It Ends With Us.
While It Ends With Us is not affiliated with Disney, Baldoni’s attorney previously alleged that Reynolds, 48, may have mocked Baldoni in Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine, which was released by Disney in July.
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According to Freedman, Reynolds’ character ‘Nicepool’ — who is a man bun-sporting version of Deadpool — says such lines as, “Where in God’s name is the intimacy coordinator?!” and compliments Ladypool (voiced by Lively) for “snapping back” into shape after giving birth.
When Deadpool points out Nicepool’s misogyny in the scene, the latter replies, “It’s OK, I identify as a feminist.” (Baldoni has previously sported a man bun and has been vocal about his avid feminism. In December 2024, Baldoni received a Voices of Solidarity Award from Vital Voices for his support of women. The reward was rescinded days later amid allegations of sexual harassment.)
Us has reached out to Baldoni’s team, Marvel, Disney and an attorney for Lively and Reynolds for comment.
In December 2024, Lively sued Baldoni for sexual harassment. The lawsuit alleged that there was a meeting conducted to address Lively’s claims that there was a “hostile work environment” on the set of It Ends With Us.
She also accused the actor of allegedly launching a “social manipulation” campaign against her to “destroy” her reputation.
Baldoni’s lawyer called Lively’s accusations “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious” in a statement to Us, claiming that Lively filed the lawsuit to allegedly “fix her negative reputation” and “rehash a narrative” about the movie’s production.
Baldoni also responded with his own lawsuit, where he was listed as one of 10 plaintiffs suing The New York Times for $250 million after its reporting on Lively’s legal filing. Baldoni’s lawsuit alleged that Lively pursued a “strategic and manipulative” smear campaign against him and that the Times “cherry picked” communications while leaving out key details in their reporting.
A spokesperson for The New York Times said that the publication is standing by the story and plans to “vigorously defend against the lawsuit.”
Alan Rickman died on January 14, 2016, but just seven months before his death, he opened up about seeing his young Harry Potter costars thrive as adults.
“I think it’s a relief as much as anything else,” Rickman said of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint‘s success in a June 2015 episode of Josh Horowitz‘s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast. “You watch that situation and as much as I was only doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks. This was their life from 12 to 22. And you would watch it from the sidelines at times and throw the odd lifeline in because there was so little time for that.”
Rickman, who died of pancreatic cancer at age 69, played Severus Snape in all eight Harry Potter films from 2001 to 2011, and he kept in touch with Radcliffe after filming concluded.
“It’s only in recent years that, for example, I’ve managed to sit down in a cafe in New York with Daniel,” Rickman continued in the interview. “At one point, he was down the road at one theater and I was up the road in another. Huge pride to go to see him in the musical [How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying]. How dare he be dancing as well as the New York dancers? Because he worked at it.”
It wasn’t until recently that Radcliffe heard Rickman’s words. Horowitz played the clip at an April 2024 “Happy Sad Confused” recording with Radcliffe in support of Merrily We Roll Along (for which Radcliffe won his first Tony Award).
“I was so intimidated by Alan Rickman. How can you not be by that voice?” Radcliffe, now 35, said after watching the clip of his late costar. “Even hearing that voice you forget quite how low it was until it echoes through you. I was so intimidated by him for the first three movies. I was terrified by him and was like, ‘This guy hates me.’ Somewhere along the line, he saw that I really wanted to do this and work at it.”
Alan Rickman, Tom Felton, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Matthew Lewis on July 11, 2011, in New York City.Getty Images
He added that Rickman was particularly supportive of his theater career on both Broadway and London’s West End. “He cut short a vacation in Canada to come and see me in Equus,” Radcliffe said. “He saw every piece of stage work I did when he was alive. He would take me out afterwards and we would talk about it. He was one of the first people to say, like, ‘You should look at voice coaching and Alexander technique and all this stuff.’ He was like, ‘You’re probably not going to get this otherwise, so you should just investigate all this stuff.’ I am so lucky. To hear him say that is really lovely. Thank you for showing me that.”
While Rickman called Radcliffe a “phenomenal” performer in the 2015 podcast, that wasn’t always how he felt. In his personal journals, published in 2022’s Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, he recalled seeing Radcliffe become more professional during Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
“He’s so concentrated now. Serious and focused — but with a sense of fun,” Rickman’s May 2003 entry reads of the third movie. “I still don’t think he’s really an actor but he will undoubtedly direct/produce. And he has such quiet, dignified support from his parents. Nothing is pushed.”
Obviously, that changed — Radcliffe has said on several occasions that he didn’t determine he wanted to be an actor post-Potter until the fifth film — and the younger actor didn’t mind hearing the bad along with the good. He even appreciated Rickman’s suggestion.
“I would love to [try] definitely directing,” Radcliffe said on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in November 2022. “Producing seems like all the hard parts of the industry without any of the fun, so I don’t really have interest in doing that.”
Radcliffe added, “All the stuff Alan wrote was very lovely and nostalgic reading. Like, from his comments about us, being like, ‘These kids need to learn their lines. That’s kind of a nightmare right now.’ All of that stuff through to us meeting when I was over here [in NYC] when I was doing a play. It was very, very sweet to read all that.”
Jesse Tyler Ferguson recalled having to choose between working on his craft or taking unemployment so he could eat during the beginning of his career.
“I started out in theater. I got my equity card pretty easily [when] I did Shakespeare in the Park,” Ferguson, 49, told Kathy Bates during the Tuesday, January 14, episode of his “Dinner’s on Me” podcast, which was taped before the Los Angeles wildfires broke out last week.
He noted that when the show moved to Broadway it “only lasted a few months” and his career stalled. To make ends meet he worked a few odd jobs.
“I worked at a gift shop. I worked at coffee shops,” Ferguson remembered.
While he still dabbled in theater during that time frame the money was minimal. “I would do off Broadway things. But there [were] times when the paychecks that you would make doing these off-Broadway shows were not as good as the unemployment,” he explained, adding, “I would really have to think, like, ‘Do I want to eat, or do I want to grow my artistic self and take these great parts?’ And there [were] times when I was really nervous about it.”
He pointed out that “taking work would actually mean a pay cut because my unemployment was more.”
Ferguson made his Broadway debut in 1998’s On the Town. He later starred in the original cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which started in 2006. His Shakespeare in the Park gigs include 2007’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2010’s A Winter’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice and 2015’s The Tempest.
His small screen career took off in 2006 when he began playing Richie Velch on The Class before landing his biggest TV role to date playing Mitchell Pritchett on Modern Family in 2009. The sitcom lasted 11 seasons, ending in 2020. (He was nominated for five Emmys during the show’s run.)
In 2022, Ferguson made a splash on Broadway once again with Take Me Out. He won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Mason Marzac. He returned to the big screen in 2023 for Cocaine Bear and followed it up with All That We Love in 2024. Ferguson also had a guest starring role on Elsbeth last year.
Outside of acting, Ferguson hosts his podcast and raises his two children with husband Justin Mikita. (The couple welcomed sons Beckett and Sullivan via surrogates in 2020 and 2022, respectively.)
“We’re a little overbearing at times, and we want to hug them and snuggle them,” Ferguson exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2024 of his parenting style.
“Collectively, they’re both like, ‘OK, enough, back up and together we’re deciding that you guys are a little overwhelming,’” he teased. “I love that they’re kind of already, like, drawing a line in the sand together about us.”
Ferguson noted that he’s OK with his kids uniting against their parents, telling Us, “That’s really sweet. I love that they’re gonna have each other for their whole lives.”
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Members include Jenna Bush Hager and Taraji P. Henson, who defended the gold strapless gown the 13-year-old wore to the Mufasa: The Lion King premiere in Los Angeles after internet trolls questioned if the look was “age appropriate.”
Christian Siriano— who designed the metallic stunner for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s eldest daughter — appeared alongside Bush Hager and Henson on the Monday, January 14, episode of Today with Jenna & Friends who praised the Project Runway alum for the “gorgeous” gown.
“It’s so beautiful,” Henson, 54, gushed. “I thought she was age appropriate. She looked like a princess!”
Bush Hager, 43, “totally” agreed with her temporary co-host and added, “For anybody that says differently, we say bye bye.”
“People need to shut up!” Henson quipped. “It was very classy.”
Siriano and his team had a mere 48 hours to make the dress, and they wanted to focus on ensuring the teen looked like Hollywood royalty.
“What girl doesn’t want to have a princess moment?” Siriano, 39, asked hypothetically. “And when your parents are Beyoncé and Jay-Z what are you supposed to wear? A doily? Like, you’re not going to wear a tutu. You want to look like a star, come on.”
Henson was quick to point out that Blue Ivy is still just “a child” and urged everyone to keep “our opinions to ourselves.”
“Kindness really matters, and it’s not as easy to do,” she continued. “You can sit on your phone and Twitter your thumbs all you want to, but let’s see you get on the red carpet and pull off a look.”
Bush Hager also gave Siriano props for how the dress’ golden finish resembled the color scheme of the film she starred in, so it was “what she should be wearing.” (Beyoncé, 43, voiced Queen Nala in the Disney live action prequel, while Blue Ivy voiced her daughter Kiara.)
Blue Ivy initially faced some criticism from trolls who deemed the dress “inappropriate,” to which Henson (a regular on the red-carpet best-dressed list) clapped back: “It was very appropriate,”
Several other celebrities — including Sherri Shepherd and Christina Milian— have also joined the conversation to voice their support for Blue Ivy’s show-stopping style.
For her part, Beyoncé hasn’t dignified the naysayers with a response and has yet to acknowledge the mixed reviews. Instead, she proudly joined her daughter at the premiere with her husband, Jay-Z, 55, — in a coordinated black-and-gold Balmain dress from the label’s limited-edition Disney x Balmain: The Lion King collection.
Designed by Creative Director Olivier Rousteing, the strapless column was adorned with gold polka dots made from metal leaves that, while on-theme, didn’t steal the spotlight from Blue Ivy.
Beyoncé and Blue Ivy CarterJesse Grant/Getty Images
After the red carpet was rolled up, the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer praised her mini-me in a heartfelt Instagram shoutout on December 9. “My gorgeous baby girl,” she captioned the post featuring photos of her daughter posing for photographers. “This is your night. You worked hard and you did such a beautiful job as the voice of Kiara. Your family could not be prouder. Keep shining.”
After all, Blue Ivy is a rising fashion star in the making — and according to Beyoncé’s stylist Shiona Turini, Blue Ivy “makes the final choice” when it comes to her stage looks.
Case in point? The all-white wardrobe Beyoncé recently donned for her much-talked-about halftime performance during the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens Christmas Day game. (The 13-minute performance, dubbed the “Beyoncé Bowl,” aired live on Netflix and is now streaming on the platform.)
For the set, the Grammy winner sang tracks from her Grammy-nominated country album Cowboy Carter. Flanked by a massive ensemble on the field — which included Blue Ivy — they all fittingly wore Western-inspired white costumes, with Beyoncé in a custom Roberto Cavalli feather coat and more than 350 carats of diamond Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
Meanwhile, Blue Ivy dressed like a mini “Cowboy Carter” in a crystal-covered corset and wide-leg pants from Ukrainian designer Frolov that were festooned with fringe. They both topped things off with a Stetson hat.
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“When Bey said she wanted everyone in white, I knew we had to look at different textures, different patterns, different accents — whether it was fringe, suede, crystals, American flags,” Turini said in a December interview with Harper’s Bazaar. “You really have to lean into the elements that are going to make each section feel different so it doesn’t feel repetitive.”
Turini continued: “But for Blue, you can play around with her options because she will be different from anyone else, no matter what.” Standout style, indeed.
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“Of all the bands in Making the Band, we’re the only one not tied to him,” original member Jacob Underwood said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday, January 14.“The more people confuse us with a Diddy band and post our pictures with his story, the more it goes against us. We make a living touring and can’t afford to have [bookers] Googling us to find the latest Diddy clickbait.”
Underwood, 44, pointed out that he has never even met the 55-year-old rapper.
O-Town was formed during the inaugural season of Making the Band, which aired in 2000 on ABC. During season 1, Lou Pearlman — who was the infamous mastermind behind the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync — was on the hunt for the next great boyband. Underwood, Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Ashley Parker Angel and Ikaika Kahoano were selected at first. However, Kahoano departed the group and current member Dan Miller was brought in as a replacement. (Angel later exited the group for good in 2003.)
After season 1 ended, O’Town was signed to a record label. Following O-Town’s success a new season of Making the Band was in the works. However, the show left ABC and was then broadcast on MTV. The MTV version brought in Diddy to scout the talent where he formed the musical acts Danity Kane, Da Band, Day26 and solo artist Donnie Klang.
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While O-Town was not involved in Diddy’s version of the singing competition series, the group has claimed to suffer from fallout amid the rapper’s current legal situation. Diddy remains behind bars awaiting trial after being indicted on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering last year. Diddy has denied all the allegations and has pleaded not guilty.
“We already inherited our own infamous producer/manager from our version of Making the Band and now another version and its mogul is affecting us.”For our livelihood to be impacted this many years after the brand was moved to him is so unfortunate, ” Estrada, 45, said to The Hollywood Reporter, referring to Pearlman’s legal scandals. In 2008, Pearlman was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges of conspiracy, money laundering and making false statements during a bankruptcy proceeding. He died of cardiac arrest in 2016 at age 62 while in prison.
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The band’s agent Matt Rafal added that O-Town has had offers “pulled due to the perception of the group being attached to Diddy” despite making it clear there was no connection between them and Diddy.
“I can’t play victim because there are people who have experienced atrocities from this person and are scarred for life,” Estrada said to the outlet. “We have financial and booking stress, but they have emotional stress. We just have to take this on the chin and keep going.”
Before appearing on season 3 of Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Marion Jones had waged plenty of battles in the court of public opinion.
Jones, 49, won five medals — three gold and two bronze — at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, but was later stripped of the medals after admitting to lying about taking performance-enhancing drugs.
In addition to giving her medals back, Jones was sentenced to six months in prison in 2008 for her role in the scandal.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly before the Special Forces premiere, Jones said the show gave her the chance to “revisit the intensity level” of her Olympic past.
“I think the general public sees us excel in a small window, but you don’t know that from the time that we were 3, 4, 5 years old until whenever our sport ended, we’ve been at that level,” Jones said of her and her Special Forces castmates. “And when you’re removed from it, for whatever reason, and you start life there’s always something, at least for me, like, ‘Ah, there’s something more. I need to be challenged somehow.’”
She added, “No doubt this experience satisfied that for me.”
Special Forces soldier Rudy Reyes exclusively told Us Weekly that he looked at Jones’ appearance on the show as an attempt to rewrite her public narrative.
“She was the fastest woman on the planet,” Reyes said. “I really, really admired the work and her speed and her training. She had many world records. And then she got hit with the charges for doping, and she really became a scapegoat and a sacrificial lamb and ultimately went to prison.”
Reyes added, “I just love a comeback story. That’s really quintessentially American. We always give someone another chance. And it was really wonderful to see her out there.”
For everything to know about Marion Jones, keep reading.
Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympic GamesMike Powell/Allsport/Getty Images
Marion Jones Was A Dual Sport Athlete in College
During her time at the University of North Carolina, Jones was also a member of the women’s basketball team in addition to her starring role on the track and field team.
Jones was on the roster of the Tar Heel team that won the 1994 national title, and was a two-time All-ACC selection and the Most Valuable Player of the 1997 ACC Tournament.
Following her track and field career, Jones played two seasons in the WNBA with the Tulsa Shock from 2010-2011.
Marion Jones Lied About Her Performance-Enhancing Drug Use for Years
In December 2004, Victor Conte, the founder of a company called BALCO, said he had given Jones four different illegal performance-enhancing drugs before, during, and after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games during an interview on ABC’s 20/20.
Jones denied the allegations for years, before ultimately admitting to lying to federal agents under oath in October 2007.
In a press conference, Jones issued a mea culpa to the American public.
“It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust and you have the right to be angry with me,” Jones said. “I have let them down. I have let my country down. And I have let myself down.”
Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympic GamesAl Bello/Getty Images
In July 2006, Jones was also linked to a check-counterfeiting scheme in which documents showed a $25,000 check had been deposited into Jones’ bank account. Jones eventually pleaded guilty to her knowledge of the scheme.
Jones was sentenced to six months in jail in 2008 for her involvement in the check fraud case and her use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Marion Jones Has Been Married Twice
Jones got married to shot putter C.J. Hunter in 1998 after the pair met while Jones was a student-athlete and Hunter was a coach at North Carolina.
At the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Hunter abruptly withdrew from the shot put competition, citing a knee injury. However, the International Olympic Committee announced shortly after that Hunter had failed four pre-Olympic drug tests.
Marion Jones at the 2000 Olympic GamesMike Powell/Getty Images
The couple divorced in 2002. After their split, Hunter gave testimony to a grand jury in 2004 saying Jones’ steroid use started well before the Sydney Games.
Jones would not publicly admit to the drug use until years later.
Hunter died in 2021 at the age of 52.
In February 2007, Jones married Barbadian Olympian Obadele Thompson. Jones and Thompson had two children together before the couple divorced in 2017.
Jones also gave birth to a son with ex-boyfriend, Tim Montgomery Jr., in June 2003.
Mark Billingham and Marion Jones on ‘Special Forces’FOX
Marion Jones Now Spends Her Time Paying Things Forward
In 2024, Jones helped launch Driven Performance, which is “dedicated to helping you achieve your potential, and exceed what you thought possible by developing the discipline and mindset to start winning at every area of your life.”
During an interview with ABC’s Robin Roberts in July 2024, Jones said she wants people to look at her life and “ultimately come to the conclusion that failure isn’t forever.”
“I would hope that when people see my story ultimately they say, ‘You know what? Yeah, she went through some stuff,’” Jones said. “Lot of it [is] because of her own choices. But she didn’t stay there, and she didn’t allow it all to ultimately consume her.”
After announcing the birth of their third child, star quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes shared some insight into how he passed the time at the hospital.
Just after the start of the new year, Patrick and Brittany Mahomes welcomed their second daughter, Golden Raye, into the world on Sunday, January 12.
According to Sports Illustrated, Patrick revealed during a press conference that he managed to sneak in some playoff prep as Brittany prepared for birth.
“I’m just supporting, you know. Brittany crushed it. It’s been cool to welcome another baby girl in our family and see how my other kids react to her,” Patrick said.
“It was cool that football was on TV when I was in the hospital, so I got to watch a little bit,” he revealed.
“Brittany was kind enough to let us watch football as she was getting ready to give birth to our second daughter.”
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Patrick and Brittany are also parents to 3-year-old Sterling Skye and 2-year-old Patrick “Bronze” Lavon Mahomes III.
Patrick was able to be present for the birth of this third child after the Chiefs clinched the top seed in the AFC, giving them a bye the first round of the playoffs.
“It was cool that we got the bye,” he told reporters, according to KSBY, “just cause you can kind of really focus in on just being at the hospital and being in the moment.”
“It’s a special moment that a lot of dads and moms have experienced, and you don’t forget about that stuff. So I was glad I was able to be there and support in the best way I can.”
After Chiefs head coach Andy Reid joked that “once you have three, four and five are easy,” Patrick, who Reid described as a “great” father, said he is “good with three for right now.”
The head-to-toe jean look became iconic in 2001 when Britney Spears and her ex Justin Timberlake commanded attention at the American Music Awards. Spears, for her part, wore a strapless jean dress featuring a patchwork A-line skirt. She added just the right amount of sparkle to her look with a chunky crystal choker and chain belt.
Timberlake, meanwhile, rocked a Canadian tuxedo designed by Levi’s and Jezebel equipped with faded fabric. He teamed the look with a denim hat, tan sunglasses and a silver necklace.
Swift nailed the trend while cheering on her boyfriend Travis Kelce in a Versace corset top and shorts at a Kansas City Chiefs game in September 2024. At the time, she elevated her look with thigh-high maroon Giuseppe Zanotti boots and a Louis Vuitton purse.
Keep scrolling to see the beast denim-on-denim looks of all time:
Perry looked effortlessly chic in a plunging Marques' Almeida jumpsuit featuring a large bow at her hip while attending the Country Music Awards in November 2022.
The former couple set the standard for denim outfits at the 2001 American Music Awards. Spears, for her part, looked iconic in a strapless dress and bedazzled choker while Timberlake opted for a Canadian tuxedo designed by Levi’s and Jezebel.
Dorinda Medley was just as bummed as Us to get the boot on season 3 of TheTraitors.
The Real Housewives of New York City star, 60, gushed about what fans could have seen if she wasn’t the first to get “murdered” by Danielle Reyes, Carolyn Wiger and Bob the Drag Queen during The Traitors, which aired on January 1. “I went in strong. if you saw my outfits, you would have been very appreciative,” Medley told “Out & About” podcast cohosts Pat McAuliffe and Joey Camasta on Tuesday, January 14.
“I got a screener so I did see [some] of them,” Camasta reassured Medley.
“Yes, but that was only a handful,” she replied, noting she had many more fabulous ensembles packed.
Medley previously gushed to Glamourabout the looks she planned to wear on Traitors in an interview published on Monday, January 13.
“I had the best outfits ever,” she said. “I broke out all my old Vivienne Westwood. I had all my Prada tartans, I had a lot of Libertine. Endless amounts of Burberry. I didn’t get to break out any of it. And the shoe situation was out of control.”
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As for her emotional exit, Medley admitted that she wanted fans to feel “both disappointed and angry.” She quipped, “Yeah, that’s a good combo I think for this one. They should feel betrayed.”
During her short time on the show, Medley rocked a number of statement styles, including an Americana red, white and blue patterned jacket with glittery eye embellishments. She teamed the look with a white blouse with an oversized collar, black bedazzled pants and beaded earrings.
Brooke Shields never had a baby with her ex-husband, Andre Agassi — a decision she says turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
“I’m glad I never got pregnant with my first husband because it would have been a disaster,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, published on Tuesday, January 14. “When we got divorced he made that very clear.”
Shields claimed in her book that Agassi, 54, told her to “be thankful we didn’t have children” when they split “because I would not have made this easy for you.”
“Well, thank you for that tidbit, I thought,” Shields quipped in the memoir. “You just made this particular transition much easier!”
“One of the reasons I married Andre was that I liked being in a relationship with someone more famous than I was,” Shields explained elsewhere in the memoir. “After a lifetime of always being the focus, it was a relief to be able to slink into the background a bit. He was a gallant guy, too, and I loved that.”
On the other hand, Shields called her marriage a “controlling, rigid relationship” and shared a discussion she had with Agassi about her body.
“When I would profess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’ However, when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his response,” Shields wrote, noting that she was referring to herself as a pregnant woman.
Agassi’s reply, according to Shields, was: “I love you too much to let you get big and fat!”
Shields acknowledged that this was “an unfair question” to ask but she “definitely did not” anticipate that reply.
“I started to spin a bit,” she continued. “But we all know how that relationship turned out, so let’s move on.”
Following their divorce, Shields moved on with Chris Henchy. She met Henchy in 1999 “at the gym on the Warner Bros. lot” while she was still married to Agassi.
“We became friendly because we’d see each other at that gym from time to time — I was working on Suddenly Susan, he was writing for a show on the lot — but we didn’t start to date until the following year, after I’d gotten divorced,” she wrote.
Shields and Henchy married in 2001 and share two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is out now.
If we’re ever going to get Jennifer Lopez’sstyle . . . we’re going to have to recreate it. The mega movie and music star is always dressed head-to-toe in designer and if we had her budget, we honestly would too. But for now we don’t, which is why recreated her designer sneaker look — and the style is just $37.
The This Is Me… Now: A Love Story star was spotted in December in some designer shoes we haven’t stopped thinking about since. Shopping at the Brentwood Country Mart is Los Angeles, California, the singer nailed a casual day slay, wearing a Coach herringbone coat, a black Hermès Kelly croc bag, some silver hoop earrings from Jennifer Fisher and oversized dior shades.
She must’ve known she’d be doing a lot of walking, seeing that she reached for the Chloe Kick sneakers, which are a sleek and comfy tennis shoe style. Like with most things J.Lo wears, the shoes were an expensive buy (per our standards), coming in at $690. And since we could use a casual kick style for ourselves, we searched the internet to find a similar version and landed on this $34 style on Amazon.
So, the Belos Lightweight Casual Retro Tennis Shoes aren’t an exact lookalike . . . but they’re close enough to Us! They still have that rich-looking, upscale aesthetic, made with a similar mesh woven upper. They also have a similar neutral color combination, lace-up closure and slip on design.
Of course, the shoes have their differences too. Unlikes the singer’s pick, the shoes are made with a thick rubber sole, which allows for greater traction and shock absorption. They also feature an exposed knit detail around the bottom, which provides added visual interest. You could keep the neutral aesthetic going like Lopez with their cream option, or switch it up with something different. Find them in several color options like multi, gold and black and sizes 5 to 11 too.
They’re “a show stopper,” one buyer exclaimed. After having several people give her compliments on them, the reviewer said that they’re an “ amazing addition” to their collection.
“Not only do they look amazing, they are also very, very comfortable, [are] true to size and are] very well made,” they said.
Lopez’s outfit is a template for how the shoes can be worn for running a few errands, while thrown with some jeans, a t-shirt and your favorite winter coat. They can be styled way beyond just that though. They can go with leggings and sweater outfits for spring travels, and will even be able to go with dresses and skirts once the spring rolls around. They’re not meant for anything drastic like a hike, but they’ll certainly make you look stylish while walking miles.
Maybe one day ( when we win the lottery), we’ll be able to buy Lopez’s actual designer shoe picks. But for now, these make a fantastic lookalike in our closet and our wallets will be singing about them too.
Looking for something else? Explore more from Belos here and more fashion sneakers here! Don’t forget to check out all of Amazon’s Daily Deals for more great finds!
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Sunny Hostin’s husband, Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin, made headlines after he was named in an insurance fraud lawsuit.
According to legal documents viewed by Us Weekly on January 7, 2025, Emmanuel is one of almost 200 defendants included in a lawsuit filed with the New York Eastern District Court.
The orthopedic surgeon, based in New York, is accused of federal insurance fraud and “getting kickbacks by performing surgery and … billing a company that insured taxi companies and Uber and Lyft drivers,” as reported by the Daily Mail.
Emmanuel’s attorney has denied all the allegations on behalf of his client.
In addition, Sunny has defended her husband and claims that the plaintiff, American Transit, an insurance group that primarily works with ride-share drivers, has “a history of filing frivolous claims.”
Keep reading for an overview of the ongoing case:
Who Is Dr. Emmanuel ‘Manny’ Hostin?
Emmanuel is an orthopedic surgeon based out of New York City with nearly 29 years of experience. He graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1996 and is the owner of Hostin Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, a practice the surgeon established in Manhattan in 2006.
Married to Sunny since 1998, the couple share son Gabriel, a student at Harvard University, and daughter Paloma, a student at Cornell University.
What Is Dr. Emmanuel Hostin Being Accused of?
According to the lawsuit viewed by Us, Emmanuel is accused of allegedly and “knowingly” providing “fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries to Covered Persons through Hostin Orthopaedics.” The surgeon is also accused of fraudulently billing American Transit for the costs.
Emmanuel allegedly perpetrated this fraud “in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.” He denies the allegations.
What Has Dr. Emmanual Hostin Said About the Lawsuit?
Emmanuel addressed the allegations via his attorney, Daniel John Thwaites, who told the Daily Mail that his client “denies each and every allegation.”
Thwaites added that the lawsuit is a “blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.”
“It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,” Thwaites continued. “American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers. The real story here is about an insurance carrier abusing the legal system to limit and restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations.”
What Has Sunny Hostin Said About the Lawsuit?
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In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Sunny slammed the “frivolous civil lawsuit” against her husband and approximately 200 other doctors.
“In an attempt to poison the well of public opinion because it does not have a valid case against my husband, American Transit instead used my celebrity status to start a disgusting media smear campaign against my husband, which included me and our children,” she said. “They plastered pictures of our family all over tabloid publications.
American Transit is harassing me and my family in a frantic attempt to not pay its bills. Our family will not be intimidated and harassed. We remain unbowed.”
Hostin confirmed she retained Mark Geragos as her attorney and has “put American Transit on notice and will file a $5 million counter lawsuit for their defamatory claims, an amount that is likely to increase as the reputational damage that American Transit has intentionally caused is difficult to quantify at this time.”
“Further, we demand that they withdraw these false allegations, pay my husband what he is owed and issue a public apology,” Sunny continued. “Insurance companies like American Transit make an already broken healthcare system nearly impossible for Americans to navigate and get good healthcare by engaging in despicable tactics like harassing doctors. Let me be clear, where I come from, American Transit will receive a PHD from FAFO University.”
Katie Holmes‘ fashion choices get a lot of love, whether we’re talking about her elegant red carpet looks or her chic, Brooklyn mom street style. We adore the Dawson’s Creek alum’s relatable and practical choices, from cute flat shoes to sleek tote bags that everyone needs in their wardrobe. Somehow, Holmes knows how to elevate everyday staples!
While the actress has been spotted with her fair share of pricey pieces, we’ve found a ton of affordable styles inspired by her looks. Whether you’re lusting after the outfits she wears around Manhattan’s Theater District, heading to perform her Our Town role, or into her shoes and coats from her Starbucks coffee run, we’ve got a lookalike coming right up. Ahh, Holmes — a well-dressed, working commuter like the rest of Us!
Scroll on to shop 14 Holmes-inspired pieces that cost far less than their designer counterparts!
14 Katie Holmes Fashion Lookalikes to Shop Now
1. Daily Luxe: Steal the star’s $750 Manu Atelier tote bag look with this $31 alternative. Shoppers say, “This purse is awesome, not too heavy, good quality for the price and the color chocolate is beautiful.” — $31 at Amazon!
2. Kickin’ It: Holmes was spotted running to work in her $200 sneakers, but you can grab a similar pair on Amazon for a fraction of the price. The low, faux leather design is the kind of all-weather shoe that matches any pants or dress — $24 (originally $50) at Amazon!
3. Shady Lady: Make these retro aviator sunnies your own while getting practical UV protection. They’re nearly identical to the sunglasses Holmes rocked a few months ago and have nearly 2,000 5-star reviews! — $14 at Amazon!
4. Fresh Cut: Celebs like Holmes are all in on barrel-leg jeans, a.k.a. wide-leg denim’s funky cousin. While the silhouette is polarizing, we love the fresh spin on these wear-anywhere pants and expect the style to stay on-trend through 2025. With a touch of stretch to the fabric, this pair passes for a much pricer brand — $40 at Amazon!
5. So Gucci: Black loafer shoes are always stylish, and Holmes’ go-to Gucci pair is gorgeous. But, there’s still a lot to love about a similar Dream Pairs option, which is about $900 less! One shopper wrote, “I am really impressed with the quality and comfort.” — $40 at Amazon!
6. A Little Layer: Holmes is not alone in loving a knit sweater vest, which can be worn as alone as a top or layered over a long-sleeve blouse. Both the actress and Meghan Markle have proven that a sleeveless V-neck option helps complete an outfit in any kind of weather — $20 at Amazon!
7. Denim Love: Holmes’ Banana Republic wide-leg jeans are now out of stock, but you can score a similar high-rise pair at Quince for less than half the price. One review said, “These high waist wide-leg jeans have just the right amount of stretch to make them comfortable. The fit and price were wonderful!” — $50 at Quince
9. Daily Hero: Holmes has worn a black Mansur Gavriel leather tote countless times, proving it’s a working mom essential. The practical shoulder bag adds a stylish upgrade to your fit, and this lookalike Sqlp Large work tote features a beautiful red lining. It even has a pouch built-in for peak function and ease — $39 at Amazon!
10. Sweet Tee: Rather than spending $78 on the Leset underlayer worn by the star, everyone’s favorite American Eagle offers a similar Baby Pointelle T-Shirt that’s on sale for just $12. Made of cotton with a touch of stretch, shoppers are calling it “fresh and girly.” Plus, it matches with nearly everything! — $12 (originally $20) at American Eagle!
11. The Flats Have It: Velvet Mary Janes are a wardrobe staple for the actress. Personally, we love the soft fabric and texture, which gives a refined look to denim, skirts and more. Incorporate the trend into your own wardrobe by snagging this foldable pair that’s perfect for travel or slipping into a work bag — $15 at Amazon!
12. Comfy and Warm: Even stars want to unwind sometimes and what better way than running errands in your favorite sweatpants? Despite being a fraction of the cost of Holmes’ pick, the Automet Women’s Wide Leg Sweatpants offer the same effortless comfort. Made of a soft fleece, reviews say “They have 2 pockets big enough for an iPhone and a drawstring to make the pants tighter if need be.” — $23 at Amazon!
14. Boat N’ Tote: It’s not just a celebrity staple — everyone can obsess over the classic monogrammed Land’s End tote. Fill it with French baguettes or fresh flowers and call it a perfectly accessorized day — $45 at Amazon!
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Hallmark Media made headlines in 2022 when they upped their exclusive contracts following a mass exodus of their talent to competitor Great American Media.
“It’s usually for either two movies, and some of them are for a Christmas movie,” Hallmark executive vice president Lisa Hamilton Daly told Deadline in May 2022 of their approach to keeping stars such as Lacey Chabert and Nikki DeLoach. “It’s really to make sure that we have access to that talent during the year.”
While the contract was lucrative, the actress ended the working relationship after just three Flower Shop Mysteries films.
“I’d completed only three when I realized I had to renegotiate. I’d been hired, I was told, to help change the face of the network,” she wrote. “They wanted me to be funny and bring more comedy to their offerings, but as filming progressed on each of the Flower Shop Mysteries — the franchise I was hired to headline — all the humor had evaporated.”
Scroll down to see which Hallmark stars past and present have talked about their respective contracts:
Brooke Shields
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After playing flower shop owner and ex-lawyer Abby Knight in three Flower Shop Mysteries movies in 2016, Shields cut ties with Hallmark.
“Not everything is for everyone, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Hallmark Channel — God knows it has a huge fan base — but it was not the future I wanted for my career,” Shields wrote in her Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old memoir, which was released in January 2025. “I’m never against hard work, but I am now a believer in only saying yes to work that serves me.”
The actress realized, “I simply could not do ten more films that were not what I was promised and felt completely wrong for me. So I quit. I definitely surprised some people, and in plenty of ways I surprised myself. I certainly would never have done that in my 20s.”
“I’ve had overall deals with them and in [the terms it says,] I’m gonna commit to five Christmas movies or five movies, but I can’t work for any other network — and they name all the other networks — and they can’t be holiday-related movies,” he explained during an appearance on Tosh Show in December 2023. “So I was able to do [Netflix’s Single All the Way] because I was outside my deal with them.”
The actor noted that Netflix paid less than his Hallmark projects which pay “well.” Macfarlane is also a fan of his residuals from the network.
“They have to air a certain amount of time before you start getting [residuals],” he said of Hallmark. “If you end up doing one of the ones that kind of hits and is popular, it gets aired more and more, so you eventually get residuals.”
Candace Cameron Bure
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Cameron Bure stepped away from her role as Hallmark’s “Queen of Christmas” in April 2022. She gave insight into her decision to move to Great American that September, claiming it was partially because of negotiations.
“The truth is I’ve been under contract with Hallmark for a very, very long time. And those have been absolutely wonderful,” she told Variety at the time. “It just so happened that my contract was expiring when Great American Family started up.”
Cameron Bure — who starred in 18 Aurora Teagarden Mysteries on Hallmark Mysteries — alleged that she waited until the contract was up before talking with Great American Media. “We did not start having those discussions until we were well into negotiations with Hallmark Channel for renewing,” she continued. “And as every businessperson knows, you’ve got to do what’s right for contracts. It didn’t work out with Hallmark and so we started talking to Bill.”
Danica McKellar
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McKellar became a fixture on Hallmark in 2015, but parted ways with the network in October 2021 as one of the first stars to ink a deal with Great American Media. In November 2024, she revealed that she wasn’t under contract with Hallmark at any point.
“At Hallmark, I never had an overall deal. And, with Great American, I had these multi-picture deals,” McKellar claimed during an episode of the “Sex, Lies and Spray Tans” podcast. “They let me be way more involved in the writing and the producing. It is so creatively fulfilling.”
Lindsay Hubbard has been more private when it comes to her relationship with boyfriend Turner Kufe after documenting ups and downs in her personal life for Bravo’s Summer House.
The reality TV star initially dated Kufe briefly in 2020 following her split from Stephen Traversie. The romance fizzled out and Hubbard moved on with costar Carl Radke. Hubbard and Radke got engaged in 2022 after one year of dating but he ultimately ended the engagement in August 2023 — three months before their planned nuptials.
“It was absolutely humiliating. It would’ve been one thing if this conversation happened over the summer during the normal filming schedule,” Hubbard exclusively revealed in her November 2023 Us Weekly cover story. “The whole world found out within 30 minutes of me.”
The split paved the way for Hubbard to reconcile with Kufe, whom she kept out of the public eye when they were initially linked again in early 2024. At the time, Hubbard stood by her decision not to name her partner, who is a doctor working in biotech investing.
“He’s, like, unfazed by it. He’s like, ‘[I] respect you and that’s what you do,’ but he doesn’t care about it,” she explained on the “Bitch Bible” podcast in June 2024 about her boyfriend’s reaction to her job. “He’s successful in his own field and has a great job. He works very hard, is extremely driven and ambitious and, yeah, and keeps me happy in the bedroom.”
One month later, Hubbard announced that she and Kufe were expecting their first child. The pair were excited for the major milestone even if they didn’t initially plan to expand their family so soon into their relationship.
“He’s already the best support system, the best partner,” Hubbard told Us in October 2024. “He comes to every single appointment, whether it’s my OB or an ultrasound scan. He talks to [the baby] every single night. He’ll put my compression socks on before flights, ties my shoes. He’s so sweet. He really is such a great support.”
Hubbard ultimately started to name Kufe as her boyfriend ahead of their daughter Gemma’s arrival in December 2024. Keep scrolling to relive their romance:
Late 2020
According to Hubbard, she dated Kufe “at the end of 2020″ but it didn’t last long.
“We met at the end of 2020 and went on three or four dates. Then he broke things off with me because he just wasn’t in a place to be in a relationship and didn’t want to waste my time,” she said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast in January 2025. “It was very, very respectful.”
Hubbard went on to explore a romance with Radke, whom she briefly dated while filming season 4 of Summer House. They gave their relationship another try and this time that led to an engagement in 2022. Before their wedding nearly one year later, however, Radke called it off in a scene that was captured for their hit Bravo series.
Four months later, Kufe reached back out to Hubbard and they picked up where they left off.
January 2024
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Hubbard and Kufe started officially dating again one month after he initiated contact again. At the time, Hubbard kept his name out of the spotlight out of respect for him and his career.
“Some of my friends call it, like, a boomerang, where you go out the first time, the timing wasn’t right, and then they come back around,” she said on the “Bitch Bible” podcast several months later. “I felt like that lunch that we went on was almost like catching up on the last three years of our lives.”
February 2024
While reflecting on the timeline of their relationship, Hubbard broke down what led to her surprising pregnancy.
“Long story short, I’m not on birth control. It’s never worked for me,” she said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fact” podcast about why she and Kufe preferred the “pull out” method when they started dating again. “The two times in my past lives that I’ve been on birth control, I’ve broken up with boyfriends because it’s just made me f—– nuts.”
She continued: “So it’s just not my thing. It doesn’t work well with my body. And we had the conversation — me and my boyfriend — about how I’m not on birth control. Like, we said [in February], ‘We should just be a little careful.’”
April 2024
Hubbard mentioned on the “Not Skinny But Not Fact” podcast in January 2025 that by April 2024, she was in a serious relationship with Kufe.
“We were calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend at that point, but we had only been, like, dating for two months,” she noted. “We had been calling each other boyfriend and girlfriend for like a month by then. We were a month into exclusivity.”
Three months after they reconnected, Hubbard found out she was pregnant with her first child.
“I just started dating my boyfriend and was like, ‘Oh God. We have only been dating for a couple of months and now I’m pregnant,'” she said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fact” podcast about why she “didn’t tell him right away” about the situation.
“Immediately I was like, ‘I am not looking for a proposal. I’m not looking to get married. It is actually the last thing on my mind,’” she continued. “I was like, ‘I’m not looking to move in together either. Like we can figure that out.’ I just wanted to take everything off the table so that he doesn’t have, like, another layer of things to freak him out.”
Hubbard added: “I gave him every out possible and he looked at me and he was like, ‘No. I want to do this and we’re gonna do this together.’ And he’s like, ‘I love you and we’re gonna do this together.'”
July 2024
“Trigger Warning: This post contains more fireworks than the 4th of July! WE’RE PREGNANT!!!!!,” Hubbard wrote via Instagram at the time with a photo of her and Kufe, who was not seen in the frame. “I truly believe the universe has a bigger plan and this is it! The second I had a feeling, I took a @clearblue Early Digital Pregnancy Test and getting a clear result, in words, made the next steps sooo much easier. My boyfriend and I are beyond excited to welcome our little #HubbCub this Holiday season 2024!!”
“This is not about us being proud of each other or not. He is so beyond proud to be my boyfriend and father of my child, and vice versa,” she wrote via her Instagram Story. “We are very much in love and have a beautiful relationship. This is about his work, his privacy, and the fact that it is not his job to be public like me.”
That same month, Hubbard offered a glimpse into her dynamic with Kufe, telling People, “He’s just so excited to be a dad and proud to be having a child with me. It just means the world to have someone like him by my side.”
She continued: “Yes, it is a lot of pressure on a new relationship, but I think because he’s the right man because we are so bonded and connected and communicate very effectively with each other that it hasn’t felt like work.”
During an exclusive interview with Us, Hubbard compared her romance with Kufe to her past with Radke.
“I think in my past relationship, I wasn’t able to be soft because I had to be the one driving the ship and managing everything — for the relationship, for the future, finances, for that wedding,” she explained to Us. “I had to be the hard one, and I wasn’t given the opportunity [to be soft].”
October 2024
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“I am pregnant and having a kid really soon. So it all worked out,” she told Us ahead of her daughter’s arrival. “As hard as it is in those moments to trust the process, it is [all about] understanding that everything happens for a reason and that the universe does have your back.”
Hubbard gushed over Kufe’s support for her. “He is the most excited. He is so in love with her. I can’t even explain it. He cannot wait to meet her. He talks to her all the time,” she shared. “I swear she knows when it’s him either pressing on my belly or his voice talking to her because she just starts kicking like crazy. He’s really, really excited. I’m really lucky to have a very involved dad in him.”
“He comes to every single appointment, whether it’s my OB or an ultrasound scan,” she shared. “He talks to [the baby] every single night. He’ll put my compression socks on before flights, ties my shoes. He’s so sweet. He really is such a great support.”
“Even though technically this is my apartment, this is our HQ for the home of our daughter and me,” she told People. “He basically brought over a bunch of clothes and toiletries and is essentially going between my apartment and his apartment, but rarely ever leaves me and Gemma.”
As his team prepares for the College Football Playoff National Championship, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman is reportedly a hot commodity within the NFL job market.
Near the top of the list of interested parties is the Chicago Bears, according to the NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero.
“The Bears have done extensive research for months on Marcus Freeman,” Pelissero reported on Sunday, January 12. “He is only 39 years old. It would not be a shock if at some point he at least considers going to the NFL.”
Chicago fired head coach Matt Eberflus in November 2024 after a 4-8 start to the season. Interim head coach Thomas Brown finished the season with the Bears, who ended the year 5-12. Brown, the team’s former offensive coordinator, will not return as head coach.
“Freeman is in the midst of a magical run with the Fighting Irish to the National Championship Game,” Pelissero continued. “Obviously unlikely that he would entertain NFL overtures prior to that game.”
Notre Dame takes on The Ohio State University in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, January 20 from Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, attempting to win the school’s first national title since 1988.
Just weeks ago, ESPN’s Heather Dinichreported that Freeman signed “a long-term contract extension, believed to be a four year extension that locks him up for six more years.” Financial details of the contract were not officially disclosed.
“He did sign that deal recently. I don’t know whether that’s leverage or not. I have no idea. I don’t have direct information beyond that,” Schefter, 58, added.
Freeman confirmed he had signed a new contract with Notre Dame in a December 2024 statement.
“The investment they continue to pour into our program is invaluable to our student-athletes and staff,” Freeman said. “This commitment goes well beyond myself, as they are dedicated to ensuring all aspects of our program are competitive within the upper echelon of college football.”
The Bears have already officially completed multiple interviews with potential head coaches to fill their vacancy, including former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, Detroit Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn and Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver.
The team has an interview scheduled for former Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy on Wednesday, December 15.
For now, Freeman remains focused on Notre Dame’s quest for a national title. The College Football Playoff National Championship between the Fighting Irish and the Ohio State Buckeyes airs Monday, January 20 at 7:30 pm ET on ESPN.
