Lala Kent is paying tribute to daughter Ocean on her 4th birthday.
“My first and forever baby is 4 today. I often look at her and think, ‘Where did you come from?’” Kent, 34, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 15. “Ocean, you are the funnest person I know. To watch you grow into your own little human is a luxury to watch. You are smart, you are brave, you are kind, you are beautiful, and girl, you know what you want! I am unbelievably proud to be your mom. I love you, O. As always, continue to make waves happy 4th birthday! God bless you.”
Alongside the message, Kent shared a series of throwback photos and videos through the years of Ocean. In one clip, Ocean blew kisses at the camera, while in another video she showed off her dance moves in a tutu.
The former Vanderpump Rules star welcomed Ocean with ex-fiancé Randall Emmett in 2021. Us Weekly confirmed that the pair, who met in 2015, split in November 2021.
“The custody battle is over. It’s officially ended. We’re done with it, so there’s my tea for the day,” Kent shared in a March 4 Amazon Live. “After over three years, we have signed an agreement that is best for our daughter, Ocean. So I’m very, very happy about that.”
The Bravo personality added that the custody battle “has weighed on [her] heart and soul” for a while. “I’m sure it’s been the same for my ex, and I’m just so happy that we were able to get to a good place for the well-being of our kid,” she said.
Kent utilized a sperm donor to conceive her second child and underwent intrauterine insemination (IUI).
“The outside world is funny. Not everybody is as progressive as we are, and I just felt like, ‘OK, I’m bringing this baby into the world because I so badly want it to be here. But I also want to eliminate as many questions as I possibly can,’” Kent said on a March 2024 episode of her “Give Them Lala” podcast. “[I wanted her to] have this same aesthetic look as me, my mom, Ocean. The world is already tough when you come from a totally normal family. I don’t want to make it any tougher for them.”
Kent welcomed daughter Sosa in September 2024. “My little dream baby entered the world. I am completely in love with her — We all are,” Kent wrote via Instagram at the time. “Sosa, you have no idea what you have brought into my life. I am blessed to call myself your mama. Welcome to our crazy world, boo boo. We are so happy you’re here .”
As a fashion writer who has the privilege of sitting front row at runway shows, I sometimes find myself gasping at the dizzying price tags attached to designer pieces. There’s good news for fashion lovers like me, though. There are plenty of budget-friendly options out there, too. A treasure trove of affordable alternatives awaits Us, allowing everyone to look effortlessly chic no matter their budget.
With a little savvy shopping, we can all exude that high-end flair of Rodeo Drive without breaking the bank. Check out our list of 21 designer-looking fashion pieces that’ll have everyone looking your way.
19 Luxe Styles That’ll Have Everyone Thinking You Shop Designer
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1. Our Favorite: A chic sheath like this tweed Jackie dress will make you look like a celeb. It’s available in several sizes and 11 fashionable colors.
2. Buttoned Up: This Donna Karan gold button blazer has all the pizzazz of a Balmain one. But at 1/100th of the price, your wallet will like it better.
3. Rue Cambone: This preppy cardigan looks just like one Coco designed. Grab it in classic pink, blue, black, mint green or cream.
4. Bohemian Dream: If you’re looking for the boho chic style that has made Chloé so famous, grab this button-down blouse. Its gauzy style is so effortless.
5. Made in Madrid: A skinny belt and strong shoulder always give off a European designer vibe. Take a look at this Mango belted blazer if you’re looking to elevate your style on a budget.
6. Fashion Weak: Want to look like you just left the runway? Grab this polka dot corset midi dress and strut your stuff.
7. Sleek Style: A long, tailored coat always looks designer. Consider adding this Avec Les Filles houndstooth maxi coat to your collection and keep them guessing.
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8. Our Favorite: This Open Edit maxi skirt looks just like the designer silk ones we saw all over Paris. It comes in nine colors and takes you from day to night.
9. Trompe L’oeil: Great tailoring contrasted with a cargo pocket is a fail-proof way to look like you keep up with current trends. We adore this high-waisted cargo midi skirt that you can wear so many ways.
11. Street Style: This tiered denim dress looks like the ones we see in Los Angeles and London, but at a fraction of the cost.
12. Personalize It: This cowl neck slip dress looks like it cost much more than it does. The adjustable spaghetti straps make it more comfortable, too.
13. Double Duty: A two-piece set always elevates your style. For a luxurious look, grab this quilted two-piece set.
14. Smooth Silhouette: This super-flattering silhouette was seen all over the runways. Luckily, Grace Karin has a version, and it’s under $50!
15. Upgrade Stade: Leather always looks luxe, and skirts are no exception. Pair this faux leather flare skirt with virtually anything.
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16. Our Favorite: Check out these teardrop earrings that look just like the Italian ones made famous by the Kardashian-Jenners. They’re a fraction of the cost.
17. Orange You Glad You Saw Me: If you don’t want to wait forever to earn an Hèrmes bag, grab this Kelly-inspired purse. The orange color adds some French flair, too!
18. Neighs the Word: The equestrian print on this square scarf silk will make people think you paid thousands.
19. Chic Cheats: The easiest way to look designer? A stylish, oversized pair of sunglasses. Luckily, Sofia Vergara’s got you covered. Grab a pair (or two) of her Foster Grant Sofia black sunglasses in brown, gold, leopard or snake.
The Wednesday star revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published on Friday, March 14, that Iron Man 3 was one of her first roles — but her part was cut from the movie’s final release.
“It was one of the first jobs I ever had,” Ortega said. “They took all my lines out.”
Ortega added that the only part of her that’s visible in the scene is “one leg.”
After Ant-Man star Paul Rudd added that sometimes Marvel likes to lay “breadcrumbs,” Ortega pushed back, “They even took my name away.”
Luckily, being cut from the film hasn’t had a negative impact on Ortega’s career —the second season of her hit series Wednesday is set to debut this year on Netflix, and the actress has already warned fans that they need to be prepared.
“I kind of want her to be darker,” Ortega told Entertainment Tonight in December 2022. “I want her to get more in the nitty-gritty of things and not play things so safe, because there are a lot of lines about her saving the school and doing whatever, but for me, her main drive with the monster is of a competitiveness. Kind of, ‘Man, how’s this guy doing this?’”
Jenna Ortega in ‘Iron Man 3’.YouTube
In February 2024, Ortega, who will also serve as a producer on the show’s second season, told Vanity Fair the show will “expand” on the supernatural themes. “I mean, in the first season, we had episodes that really stood out visually, like, the dance episode was a really big one for people, and that setting was very particular and it felt like Prom Night, a little bit, or Carrie,” she said. “Every episode [of season 2] that I’ve read so far is like that.”
She continued: “It just stands out on its own as a very memorable scene or bit or setting, which I think is what I’m most excited for, because to pull that off for eight episodes is, I think, really incredible and really lucky.”
And that’s not all — in January of this year, Ortega told E! NewsTim Burton “really had a ball” in terms of the show’s gory content in season 2. “Everything is very graphic, and it’s very exciting and inspiring to work with someone like that who gets you excited about the shots that you’re doing every day,” she said.
The second season of Wednesday will also feature a guest star – none other than Lady Gaga, whose song “Bloody Mary” was used in several TikTok videos celebrating the first season.
“We’re midway thru @thewhitelotus season three so it’s about that time to talk all things #JaclynLemon glam! ,” Monaghan, 48, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 15, in a joint post with hairstylist Tracey Cunningham. “Well we all know it takes a village with a lot of talent and inspiration.”
Monaghan explained that White, 54, asked if she would go blonde after she booked the gig. Her reaction? “Uh…YES! I’d shave my head for that man!” she wrote.
“Mike wanted the ladies to be ‘a big blonde blob,’” Monaghan continued. “He wanted us to convey the look of sameness — an interchangeable trio of sorts prior to discovering the nuances of each character as the season progresses. Going blonde was wonderful creative inspiration for me but I’d need an epic colorist to make those locks a reality.”
Monaghan, who was introduced to Cunningham by her The White Lotus costar Leslie Bibb, said she “deferred” to the hair stylist’s expertise.
“She and her incredible assistants meticulously perfected the color over the course of a few eight hour sessions,” Monaghan explained. “Moreover, Tracey maintained the color and the roots the entire six months we were in Thailand, making multiple trips to keep that mane oh so Jaclyn (and oh so healthy – thank you @olaplex). I’m so thankful to her, and her team, because let’s be honest, blondes absolutely do have more fun. #thewhitelotus #bts #blonde #jaclynlemon #blondeambition.”
Alongside the message, Monaghan shared a series of videos and photos of her hair transformation.
“Hey guys, I’m super excited. I am outside Tracey Cunningham’s salon and I am going blonde for Jaclyn Lemon for The White Lotus,” Monaghan said in a video, referring to her character. “I can’t wait for you guys to meet her. I can’t wait to meet her. Here we go! Super pumped.”
In one image, Monaghan posed for a mirror selfie with Bibb, who was also at the salon, while in another pic the pair smiled at each other as they took a picture in front of a sign for The White Lotus alongside costar Carrie Coon.
In season 3 of The White Lotus, Monaghan’s Jaclyn takes longtime friends Kate (Bibb) and Laurie (Coon) to Thailand for a girls trip.
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“We see these women put their best feet forward in terms of their relationship and their friendship,” Monaghan explained to The Laterals earlier this month. “As the show progresses, you see their facades melting away and the cracks in their so-called perfect lives opening up. Their friendship either deteriorates from there or resolves itself. Let’s just say… Unravels. For no spoilers.”
Andrew Garfield and Monica Barbaro stepped together amid recent dating reports.
Garfield, 41, and Barbaro, 41, were spotted outside a grocery store in Malibu, California, according to photos published on Sunday, March 16, by Instagram gossip account DeuxMoi.
Garfield went incognito, sporting a red baseball cap with a pair of sunglasses as he held onto an iced coffee. Barbaro, also donned a hat as she pushed a grocery cart out of the establishment.
While neither actor has publicly addressed their relationship status, news broke in February that they had started seeing one another. (Us Weekly reached out to Garfield and Barbaro’s reps for comment at the time.)
Garfield and the A Complete Unknown standout were first publicly spotted together at W magazine’s Annual Best Performances Party in January. Weeks later, they were seen watching Jonathan Bailey’s starring turn in Richard III on the West End stage in London.
The We Live in Time star last dated Dr. Kate Tomas, a self-described “professional witch,” for several months in 2024. Tomas announced the breakup in October 2024, noting via Instagram that they called it quits “months ago.”
While Garfield also didn’t address his short-lived romance with Tomas, he has been candid about dating in the public eye.
“How many of those relationships work out?” Garfield said on an October 2024 episode of Chicken Shop Date. “I mean, it’s, like, flash-in-the-pan stuff, usually.”
Throughout his career, Garfield has been romantically linked to stars Shannon Woodward, Susie Abromeit, Aisling Bea, Rita Ora and Alyssa Miller. He also famously dated Emma Stone from 2011 to 2015 after they met on the set of 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man.
Garfield still remains friendly with Stone, 36, who is now married to Dave McCary.
“We care about each other so much, and that’s a given, that’s kind of this unconditional thing,” Garfield told Vanity Fair in January 2017. “There’s so much love between us and so much respect. … I’m her biggest fan as an artist. So for me, it’s been bliss to be able to watch her success and watch her bloom into the actress that she is.”
Garfield has further gotten a glimpse at the next phase of life when he played a husband and father in 2024’s We Live in Time opposite Florence Pugh. Speaking to Esquire that year, he admitted he was hesitant to become a dad in real life.
“I’m already a tired guy. I don’t want to be a tired dad,” he quipped. “Particularly bringing new life into the context of my life, there’s a heavy burden there.”
Sydney Leroux is taking a step back from soccer for the time being to focus on her mental health.
“This is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to say or admit to myself. But after a lot of reflection, I’ve made the difficult decision to stay away from soccer for my mental health,” Leroux, 34, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, March 16. “Anyone who knows me knows I’m a fighter — I always have been. I take pride in pushing through, in showing up, in giving everything I have.
The former United States Women’s National Team member noted that she owes it to herself and her children to “take a step back and take care” of herself. (Leroux is mom to son Cassius, 8, and daughter Roux, 5, whom she shares with ex-husband Dom Dwyer.)
She continued, “I’ve always prided myself on being honest, authentic and true to who I am both on and off the field and this moment is no different. To everyone who has supported me, loved me, and believed in me — thank you. This isn’t goodbye. I will be back, just like always in true Syd fashion.”
Leroux captioned the upload, “Taking a break from soccer to focus on my mental health was a really tough decision but I know it’s the best choice. Also I know some of you can get a little carried away so I wanted to squash the pregnancy rumors right away I’ll be back just like always..”
The Angel City star received a supportive message from her team, who wrote in the comments section of the post, “Your Angel City family is here for you and supports you always .”
Angel City confirmed to ESPN in October 2024 that Leroux signed a three-year contract through 2027 with the team. (Leroux joined Angel City in 2022 after being traded from the Orlando Pride.)
“The older I get, the more my role changes,” Leroux told ESPN at the time. “I feel like I really pushed through this year. I was able to show myself that I can still do this. I was thinking about retiring. And my kids want me to play. I’m doing this for them, and I’m doing this for me. I want to end somewhere that I started, and this is it. My career will definitely end in LA.”
Leroux noted that she’s “really happy” that the team “believes” in her. “I feel like I still have a lot to give,” Leroux said. “Help out wherever I can. I love working with the younger players and that’s been a highlight of this year for me. We have an amazing group.”
“I know I know it’s always something with me,” Teigen, 39, wrote via Instagram Stories on Saturday, March 15, “but I’m sooo happy to not be tethered to this f— BEAST anymore!!!”
The statement was accompanied by a screenshot of a digital notification which said Teigen had been vape-free for “14 days, 22 hours and 31 seconds.”
“I’m just furiously chewing nicotine gum tonight,” Teigen said during an interview with Access Hollywood at the time. “Don’t smoke, smoking is bad, stop now if you can.”
The cookbook author and model explained that she’s been an “on and off smoker for too long” and is finally trying to kick the habit for good.
“I have stopped for the last time. I’m very proud of myself,” she continued. “But I’m also extremely on edge.”
During the same interview, Teigen and her husband, John Legend, joked about being able to have a date night away from their kids. (The couple share four children: Luna, 8, Miles, 6, Esti, 2, and Wren, 20 months.)
After posting about quitting vaping on Saturday, Teigen took to Instagram stories to ask fans to “stop being miserable.”
“Honestly, like, what happened to just thinking things? Remember thinking things?” she said in a video message.
It’s unclear if Tiegen’s video was in reference to herself or a different situation. She went on to reminisce about the pre-internet era, when she said it was common to look “through a magazine” and judge celebrities’ appearances without broadcasting your opinion to the world via social media.
“We all do it, but we used to do it to, like, magazines, and then we spit it out and it would go into the universe and it would disappear,” she said.
While Taylor Haag and Daniel Hastings proved to Us that love is real (and blind), they probably wouldn’t have gotten together without the Netflix show.
“I never dated someone younger than me and Daniel never dated someone older than him,” Taylor, 33, said on the Wednesday, March 12, episode of the “What’s the Reality” podcast. “I am, in fact, older than him. So, on dating apps, I don’t know if we ever really would have matched because we had our ranges set at different times or different ages.”
Taylor and Daniel, 30, only have a three-year age gap, but the nurse previously never considered going out with anyone significantly younger than she is.
“Anytime I did try and date someone younger, I was like, ‘This is why I don’t do it,’ ‘cause I was just proved right every time,” Taylor admitted, citing a lack of maturity on their end.
“It was an immediate, like, ‘Ah, I’ll just look for someone my age,’” he said. “You just wouldn’t even give it a chance, so how cool is this type of experiment where that is not the most important thing?”
Taylor and Daniel met — and fell in love — sight unseen on Love Is Blind, which was filmed in Minneapolis in spring 2024 and aired on Netflix one year later. Before Daniel popped the question and they came face-to-face, he and Taylor bonded over shared values and a mutual love of Christmas. Taylor was also intrigued that Daniel didn’t act his age.
“He is far mature,” she gushed to podcast host and fellow LiB alum AD Smith on Wednesday’s episode.
Taylor and Daniel’s romance hit a snag — albeit briefly — when she thought he recognized her when they met in person. Taylor claimed that Daniel had attempted to follow her on social media before the experiment, which he denied. Since then, they were able to move past any drama.
Taylor and Daniel were, ultimately, the only couple to tie the knot during season 8.
“To say that it’s been a wild ride would be quite the understatement,” Daniel said in his wedding vows. “It’s crazy to think that just five weeks ago to the day, I was getting on a knee after our first date. I fell in love with you because … the way that you process things, the way that you think about things, the way that we instantly became best friends, the way that I can see you being plugged into my life as the mother of my children and as my wife for the rest of my life. Like, this is it. I can see it.”
Coming up on their first anniversary, Taylor and Daniel are now looking forward to even more milestones.
“We’ve traveled quite a bit,” Daniel said on the podcast. “I travel a little bit for work, so Taylor was able to tag along with some of that, which was fun.”
Taylor chimed in, adding that their honeymoon in the Bahamas was “amazing” before they bought their first house together back in the Twin Cities.
Colton, the season 23 Bachelor, wrote in his 2020 book, The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV, that he felt betrayed by producers when they called his frontrunner Cassie Randolph’s dad and invited him to Thailand during the final weeks of filming.
“It made me feel like production was working against me and trying to help Cassie break up with me,” he wrote.
During Peter Weber’s season of the show, fans learned that he briefly met Kelley before filming began. While they had a spark, the pilot sent her packing before hometown dates on season 24, which aired in 2020. Kelley later alleged that production prevented her from forming a relationship with Peter.
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Victoria opened up about her negative experiences while filming the show via her Instagram Story in 2021, calling it the “worst experience of my life.”
She said at the time, “I hate the producers, truly,” adding that “they’re manipulative and pick and choose ‘story lines.’”
In March 2025, Victoria claimed she was “manipulated” by producers into being the villain on her season of The Bachelor. Victoria, who was accused of bullying her fellow contestants, added that she received “death threats and hate mail every day for two years” as a result of the storyline.
The Bachelorette season 11 winner and Bachelor season 20 winner recorded a podcast together in July 2023, reflecting on their experiences on the show. When they discovered they had the same assigned producer, Lauren claimed the producer started fake crying when she didn’t have a big enough reaction to Ben potentially picking JoJo Fletcher over her.
“I’m calling Todd out right now. … He just started showing emotion and, like, started crying,” she said. “He wasn’t really crying. It put me in this weird place where I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, like, where am I? What am I doing?’ I had this weird realization of, ‘They have an agenda.’ And it’s not bad — his agenda in itself is not bad. He just wants me to open up and show emotion. … He’s trying to, like, bring that out of me.”
Shawn agreed with Lauren and said the producer tried to "trigger" him. He added, “They’ll start playing music on their phone, like, really sad songs and you haven’t heard a song in, like, eight weeks, you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, that feels so good.’”
After she was eliminated by Zach Shallcross on season 27, Christina called out the show for seemingly airing a confessional from week 2 during week 3’s episode.
“Yaaaas!! I LOVED my rose dress from date #1 so much! Thrilled to see it featured in the middle of the group date again in tonights episode!!” she captioned clips from the series via Instagram.
The Bachelor season 25 alum questioned the way editors cut her conversation with Tyler Norris during an October 2022 episode of Bachelor in Paradise. "Just having a friendly conversation with someone I literally never met," she tweeted at the time, implying that she had no intention of flirting with the New Jersey native, who'd established a romance with Brittany Galvin. When a fan commented that the chat with Tyler looked "friendly" and "producers did you dirty" with the edit, Jessenia reposted the tweet, adding: "Nothing but friendly vibes here. That’s just #BachelorInParadise for you."
The Bachelor season 19 alum claimed that producers intentionally placed a black box over her bottom, even though there was nothing to hide. “[The executive producer] was like, ‘Well, your butt’s a little big and sometimes things got a little cheeky, so we had to blur it out. Disney made us,’ which I don’t believe,” she said on the “She’s All Bach” podcast in October 2021. “‘Instead of doing a little blur, we did a giant black bar, really over-exaggerated it,’ and I was just mortified. At that point, you are experiencing a level of humiliation that you thought you could be prepared for, but you really aren’t. I could tell you, I don’t think any contestant understands before going on how bad it’s actually going to be.”
While tuning into an August 2021 episode of Bachelor in Paradise, the season 24 Bachelor alum debunked contestant Chasen Nick's claim that "it doesn't get much better" than being on the BiP beach. "Have you ever heard of paying for your own trip to Mexico and not getting harassed by producers?" she teased in an Instagram Story video.
In an op-ed for New York Magazine, Lindsay detailed her time on Bachelor Nation, explaining that after Vanessa Grimaldi called her a bully and started crying, she lost it on producers.
"When it was over, I stormed out — and of course the producers said, 'Let’s talk about that. Why would you not show emotion?' I lost it in the interview. I was bawling. I tried to explain, 'You do not understand what it is to be a Black woman in this house full of white folks and for a white woman to cry in your face and call you a bully,'" Lindsay wrote in the story published in June 2021. "Did she call any of the other women a bully? No, she picked me. One, because she knew I was a threat — Nick [Viall] liked me the second most. Two, I felt she was projecting an unconscious bias onto me. I said, 'I hope y’all show this in its entirety.' An executive producer pulled me to the side and said, 'This will never air.'"
The Bachelorette season 15 alum tweeted he wanted to “air out” ABC’s “dirty laundry” in January 2021 before making a series of claims about the franchise.
“You gotta understand the game. They get paid off you doing s—t that warrants screen time,” he tweeted about producers. “It’s easy to make a bad person look worse, it’s hard to make a good person look bad.”
Dylan, who met fiance Hannah Godwin on season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise, went on to allege that the producers have “nearly all control” over which contestants receive roses, don’t let cast members sleep “normal hours” and “purposely edit things to warrant bullying.” Dylan also denied that season 15 winner Jed Wyatt “cheated” on Bachelorette Hannah Brown.
“It’s about the other 99% of people who don’t have the same outcome that Hannah and I were lucky to have,” he wrote. “This public figure world is fake, and sometimes it needs to be called out.”
After Dylan’s tweets made headlines, Jed, who was dumped by Hannah shortly after he proposed amid allegations that he had a girlfriend at home, spoke out.
“I was highly manipulated and from it deeply mentally affected from the show, and 2. No, I never cheated. Ever. On [ex-girlfriend] Haley [Stevens] or Hannah,” he said via Instagram in January 2021.
The Bachelorette season 15 villain wasn’t happy with how he was portrayed on Hannah Brown’s season. While his family initially defended him in the media, Luke later appeared on Reality Steve’s podcast in October 2019, months before his contract with NZK Productions Inc. ended. The production company subsequently filed a lawsuit again Luke in May 2020, accusing him of doing unauthorized media appearances. Us confirmed in October 2020 that Luke has been ordered to pay producers $100,000 for violating his contract.
“The first couple of weeks I saw [Peter] look at me differently compared to when we got on our one-on-one and I could tell a hundred percent that like producers were in his head,” Kelley told Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti on the “Almost Famous” podcast in April 2020. “Because on the one-on-one, nothing happened between us but he had this demeanor toward me that was so pissed off and I was looking at him, like, ‘What the hell were you told?’ because nothing happened here for you to have this attitude."
She continued, “And so right then and there, I knew something was going on behind the scenes, and I was like, ‘This is bulls—’. … [I told him], ‘They don’t let me see you. They locked me up in a closet for three hours last week, and they won’t let me see you.’ I said, ‘You clearly know they push some people forward and they don’t push others forward.’”
Despite Kelley’s struggles filming The Bachelor, she and Peter reconnected post-show. They split in December 2020 after eight months of dating. Harrison also revealed she apologized for her remarks.
"She said, 'That was not what I meant to say.' She's like, 'I'm so sorry that it came out that I was locked in a closet,'" he told ET. "So, everybody, it's OK. Kelly was not locked in a closet, she's safe and she's good, and she apologized, and I laughed it off. I was like, 'I get it, I knew what you were trying to say.'"
While the season 13 Bachelor winner was angry with Jason Mesnick for dumping her for runner-up Molly Malaney in 2009, she was just as angry with producers for how they planned out the After the Final Rose taping.
“I was so angry with the whole production. I was like, ‘They all lied to me. They all got me here. They got me dressed up.’ [And] I was furious with him for doing it to me,” Melissa recalled on Us' “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast in August 2020. “[Production] put me in that shiny foil, strapless mini dress, they put the ring on my finger and backstage they had me watch the engagement video, which I’d never seen before [because] it hadn’t aired [yet]. They got me all dolled up and all emotional.”
The Bachelorette season 9 contestant shed light on recording the “in the moment (ITM)” interviews in Amy Kaufman’s 2018 book Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure.
"They'd try to get me to talk about something from my childhood, for example, or say something really personal about a family member …” Brooks alleged. “Then try to attach that to what's happening in the world of The Bachelor."
Clare’s journey to becoming the Bachelorette wasn’t smooth. Over the years, she denied that she had sex with Juan Pablo Galavis in the ocean during season 18 and called out the show for editing it to look like she spoke to a raccoon during season 1 of Bachelor in Paradise, but she was seemingly the most upset with production during her brief stint as the season 16 lead.
After Clare met ex-fiancé Dale Moss during the October 2020 premiere, it was clear she only had eyes for the model. As a result, the first two episodes of the season were focused on her relationship with Dale. Clare subsequently “liked” a series of tweets blaming the show for the “Dale-obsessed story line.”
One post read, “People saying that @Clare_Crawley is wasting everyone’s time without realizing that she’s contractually obligated to do so. I would also wager that there are many seasons where the lead talks about their frontrunner just as much, we just don’t see it #BacheloretteABC.”
Clare also blamed the show for the controversial strip dodgeball date.
Colton and Cassie went public with their split in May 2020. He slammed producers again during an August 2020 interview with Reality Steve after Cassie appeared on an episode of The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons Ever! post-split.
“Those people sold her on come and let’s let the audience get to know you, the real Cassie and then you have Chris Harrison, pointing questions, saying, ‘I sense you don’t want to make Colton mad,’ or ‘You’re afraid you’re going to upset Colton,'” he said. “It’s like, ‘No, Chris. I literally talked to her the morning of that interview. We’re good. Stop worrying about me or painting me to be this controlling or angry person.’ I’m not angry. If there’s anybody I’m upset about or upset with it’s you guys.”
The Bachelor in Paradise season 6 contestant claimed producers wouldn’t let her wear her engagement ring with then-fiancé Chris Bukowski during the reunion.
"The producers kept me in a trailer for six hours. Their plans were to bring me on stage alone,” she said on the “Mouthing Off with Olivia Caridi” podcast in September 2020. “I asked for [the ring], and they said no. They brought it out during a time when they felt it was necessary. .. Whenever I get really stressed, I'll also randomly cry. So, Chris Harrison said, 'I see you're not wearing your ring,' And that was a breath of like, if I could only f--king say it … I didn't know how to say that this wasn't my choice."
The OG Bachelorette dished behind-the-scenes scoop of her and now-husband Ryan Sutter’s televised bachelor and bachelorette parties at Le Meridien Resort on the island of Saint Martin in 2003.
“One of the producers left their binder out — like, they forgot their binder somewhere and one of the people who was at the bachelor/bachelorette party picked it up and gave it to us,” she said on the “LadyGang” podcast in November 2020. “It had, like, their characters — the story lines for every person. They had all of our friends who were invited to the bachelor/bachelorette parties, and they had all their bios and probably some stuff that they interviewed about. I think they had titles like … ‘the villain’ or ‘the sweetheart.’ I know that it has been going on since my season, but that’s TV. That’s what they have to do. The editors need to know who these people are and be able to pull certain clips from their ITMs (in-the-moments). It’s a TV show, it’s always going to be a TV show. It’s getting [to be] more of a TV show, I feel like, compared to how it was back in the day.”
The Bachelor in Paradise season 6 contestant took to Twitter after Rachel Lindsay urged Bachelor Nation to stop bullying contestants during Peter’s Women Tell All special in March 2020.
“Loved the message from Rachel last night! Unfortunately messages like that are too common. Frustrating seeing people from BIP and producers act like they didn’t bully me for an entire season,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Told things like I was a ‘terd that won’t flush,’ ‘ugly’ etc. #practicewhatyoupreach.”
The season 13 Bachelorette was upset with how the show edited her 2017 finale and engagement to now-husband Bryan Abasolo, suggesting the series put too much focus on her split from runner-up Peter Kraus.
“Do you ever recall seeing Bryan profess how excited he was to propose to me? Do you recall seeing me cry about how I was so excited to say yes to Bryan and get my fairytale ending? The answer would be ‘no’ to both of those questions,” she wrote in her season 14 finale blog for Us in 2018. “And it is a shame because both of those things actually happened. You just did not see them. See, you know more about the journey of my breakup than the journey to my proposal acceptance. I think it is fair to say that I was denied my on-camera happy ending. … [Becca] was protected and I was placed on display for three hours and labeled an angry Black female. And there will always be that stigma attached to my finale because it has been said that when truth is blurred by misinformation, perception becomes reality and all is lost.”
Victoria Larson claims she was “manipulated” into being the villain on her season of The Bachelor.
Larson, 32, first appeared on season 25 of The Bachelor in 2021 in an attempt to win the heart of Matt James. In a video shared via TikTok on Friday, March 14, Larson wrote that she was “manipulated into being the villain” for the series “[because] I wanted airtime and to entertain during covid when everything was cancel culture.” Larson added that she “got death threats and hate mail every day for two years” as a result.
In the comments of her video, Larson wrote, “Tbh it hurt that no one stood up for me in the media and had my back, they were more concerned for their images and brand deals, in fact Matt is the only one who spoke up to the truth of how it was.”
Larson had gained notoriety as a villain during her time on The Bachelor and, later, Bachelor in Paradise, likening herself to a goddess or a queen and being accused of bullying by her fellow contestants.
As for Larson, she previously opened up about her negative experiences while filming the show, calling it the “worst experience of my life” via her Instagram Story in 2021.
“However, I try and look with greater perspective,” Larson continued. “There are way more significant issues in the world and mine are minuscule in comparison. Focus on my blessings always. … One of my favorite things is when people recognize me and are purposefully rude to me [because] they think I’m an awful person. It’s almost as great as the online trolls.”
Larson said at the time, “I hate the producers, truly,” adding that “they’re manipulative and pick and choose ‘story lines.’”
In a January 2021 interview with Good Morning America, Larson shared that she didn’t regret her actions on the show.
“Honestly, it was all in good fun,” she said. “If my words or actions hurt anyone, like, I sincerely apologize and I’ll do better and hold myself accountable. I’m not a bully. I’m really not. … [The other contestants] knew me and knew my heart and knew that I really never have ill intent, so I think they viewed it differently just because they know me.”
Larson explained she had “anticipated being well-received” so receiving “the bullying messages and the hate mail and the death threats, [I] wasn’t really prepared for that at all.”
She added, “100 percent, it was shocking. I don’t think my kindness really got to show through and I really do have a good heart. I actually became friends with one of the new girls.”
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Former Bachelor Jason Mesnick and his wife, Molly Mesnick, are celebrating their daughter’s latest milestone.
“ 12 . Today is her big day and she deserves every ounce of celebration!!” Molly, 41, wrote via Instagram on Friday, March 14. “In the last year, Riley has matured into the most special young lady, beyond my wildest dreams! She is conquering middle school, making so many amazing new friendships, getting all A’s, trying new things (volleyball starts Monday ) and is just overall so so happy!”
Alongside the sweet message, Molly shared a carousel of photos from Riley’s birthday party earlier this month. In one image, Riley concentrated on blowing out her birthday candle atop a cake as her friends watched.
“This year has been the best transition for her and it has been so much fun watching her grow and flourish! Happy happy bday my sweet girl! ,” Molly wrote, adding that Riley’s nails in the photos are real.
Jason, for his part, gushed over his daughter in a separate post alongside a series of throwback photos of Riley through the years. In one pic, Riley posed with brother Ty, now 20, at a playground. (Jason welcomed son Ty with ex-wife Hilary Buckholz-Monrean, to whom he was married to for four years until 2007.)
“Happy 12th Birthday, Riley! . Twelve years ago, the world got way cooler because YOU arrived! Now you’re officially 12, which means you’re 3.14159 times more awesome than last year (math doesn’t lie ),” Jason, 48, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 15.
He continued, “You’re smart, kind, and full of so much joy — I couldn’t be prouder to be your dad. Love you more than all the pie in the world (and that’s saying a LOT)! . Hope your day is as sweet and fun as you are, Riley! Let’s celebrate YOU! #HappyBirthdayRiley #PiDayBaby #InfiniteAwesomeness #12YearsOfFun.”
Bachelor Nation met Jason when he appeared on DeAnna Pappas’ season 4 of The Bachelorette in 2008. He went on to star as the lead of The Bachelor season 13, where he ultimately chose Melissa Rycroft before splitting from her during the taping of the After the Final Rose special and pursuing a romance with his runner-up, Molly. The pair tied the knot in 2010 and welcomed daughter Riley three years later.
While celebrating the couple’s 15th anniversary last month, Molly shared a sweet social media tribute to Jason.
“We are ships, passing in the night, these days … at 6am we didn’t think it would even be possible for us to have dinner together tonight (that’s 15 years of marriage for ya ) BUT … we made it happen and I’m so glad because I love EVERY minute with this man,” Molly wrote via Instagram.
She continued, “@jasonmesnick is the real hero for putting up with my crazy day in and day out. He is my calm, my voice of reason and my safe place. On top of that, there is no question he is the most amazing dad. Thank you for being you, Jason Mesnick. There is not a single person I would rather do life with! I love you!”
Former NFL coach Bill Belichick proved that he’s a young and spry 72 as he helped his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, with some beachside yoga.
“ #SpringBreak #UsTime #StillGotIt ,” Hudson, 24, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 15, sharing images of the couple in Jupiter Beach, Florida.
During the beach excursion, Hudson turned to Belichick, 72, for assistance as she attempted a handful of acrobatic yoga poses. For one, Belichick laid on his back, extending his feet up into the hair. Hudson, for her part, laid atop his parallel feet as they held hands. During a second pose, she lifted her arms back behind her shoulders to mimic a “Superman” position.
“That’s a 6x Super Bowl champion,” one social media user wrote of Belichick in the comments section.
Another added, “You got coach doing anything. Love this sista!”
A third fan, meanwhile, replied, “He is enjoying life with you!”
Hudson, a former cheerleader, and Belichick have been together since October 2024. They initially met three years earlier during a commercial airline flight while Hudson was still in college. Hudson and Belichick later made their red carpet debut at the American Museum of Natural History’s annual gala in December 2024.
Courtesy of Jordon Hudson/Instagram
“The evening was saturated with all of my favorite things: friendship, education, philanthropy, glamour, beet salad, Billy, dance-worthy music, ornithological & oceanic exhibits,” Hudson gushed via Instagram at the time. “We created so many great memories together while supporting a great cause; my heart is filled to the brim!!!”
Hudson also followed Belichick when he relocated to North Carolina to coach the UNC Tarheels football team.
While Belichick and Hudson have seemingly never been happier, their age gap has raised eyebrows among outsiders and online commentators. Hudson, meanwhile, hasn’t been one to shy away from clapping back at any internet haters.
“Let’s take a deeper dive into the hot topic of the day: LOVE’… ‘What constitutes love?’ or ‘What makes someone worthy of loving?’ are questions that require a deep analysis and could possibly enable one to understand the romances that they may not understand nor relate to,” Hudson wrote via Instagram last month. “With such a limited character count.”
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She added, “The ways in which we develop our biological preferences are deeply personal in which we owe no justification nor explanation. Love does not discriminate against sex, skin color, religion, age or ability. Love does not fluctuate along with someone’s body weight. Love does not lie within a perfect complexion. Love is not as deep as one’s pockets. Love does not look the same every time you see it.”
Hudson further noted at the time that it’s “never OK to harass or abuse a person based upon who they love.”
For Sister Wives star Maddie Brown, it doesn’t get any better than baby snuggles.
On Sunday, March 16, Maddie shared her first public postpartum pic via her Instagram Story, featuring herself and her new baby, Emilia Estelle Brush.
“Nothing better than the sweet baby snuggles,” Maddie, 28, wrote over the photo,
Maddie welcomed her fourth daughter, Emilia, on Friday, March 14. “Absolutely worth the wait, Miss Emilia Estelle Brush has finally made her grand entrance!” she wrote via Instagram, alongside a photo of the newborn.
“Our sweet girl took her time, keeping us all in suspense, but when she decided it was time — she didn’t waste a second,” Maddie’s caption continued. “Born on 3/14, she arrived absolutely perfect. We are completely smitten with our newest little love.”
Maddie and Caleb Brush are also parents to children Axel, 7, Evie, 5, and Josephine, 2.
The pair announced their engagement in September 2015. “Happy to share this with you guys,” Maddie tweeted at the time, alongside a link announcing her engagement news. She also shared some details about what to expect from her upcoming nuptials. “I showed Caleb the song I have wanted to walk down the [aisle] to since I was 15,” she continued. “He got a little emotional when hearing it. So sweet!!”
On Saturday, March 15, Maddie shared that she and Caleb named the newest addition to the family after her late brother, Garrison Brown. A fan wrote online that “I love her name, especially Estelle. Is it like a tribute to Garrison since Estelle means Star in Latin.”
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Maddie confirmed the name was intentional. “That is exactly what it is,” the mother of four wrote back.
Garrison died by suicide in March 2024. His parents Kody Brown and Janelle Brown announced his death on March 5. Us Weekly confirmed that police arrived at Garrison’s home in Flagstaff, Arizona and discovered him dead at the scene.
“Janelle and I are deeply saddened to announce the loss of our beautiful boy Robert Garrison Brown,” Kody, 55, wrote via Instagram at the time. “He was such a bright spot in the lives of all who knew him. Our loss will leave such a big hole in our lives, that it takes our breath away. We ask that you please respect our privacy and join us in honoring his memory.”
Following his unexpected death, Garrison’s close friend Kenia Gutierrez reflected on his “shocking” passing.
“I did not expect it. … He was always a person you wanted to see, and he’d always say hello to you. His presence was being gracious,” she told Us on March 7. Gutierrez added that “everything was normal” in the days leading up to Garrison’s death. “He was always happy. What happened was shocking.”
Dick Vitale is sharing an emotional message as he bids farewell to the final game he will call this season.
“It’s been a great thrill for me. I get emotional. I’m probably going to be emotional, you know, tomorrow, this weekend. It’s my last game this year, I pray and hope I can be back next year. Maybe even better,” Vitale, 85, said at the Saturday, March 15, ACC Championship game. “I hope and pray my doctor really helps me with my voice. …I have to listen to my doctor right now. He told me, voice rest right after this game for a week.”
Vitale gave a shout-out to his fans and the people who have supported him, including ESPN for “tolerating and putting up with me in terms of my issues I’ve had.”
“It’s been a miracle, really. To sit here with you guys. I can’t tell you how much it meant to me. It’s been unbelievable,” Vitale said through tears, per ESPN. “Tough three years, those four cancer battles. I don’t wish on anybody. Cancer sucks.”
“I can’t tell you how much it’s meant to me. Really, it’s been unbelievable.”@DickieV gets emotional thanking the fans and the broadcast for supporting him through his cancer treatments pic.twitter.com/F8ndycDWC8
He continued, “I’ll tell you this, anybody battling cancer, please listen, think positive always, and have faith and believe that if you’re out there, a person that knows somebody who has cancer, send them a text message, send them a phone call, make a phone call. The bottom line is it means so much. I know it meant a lot to me in my darkest moment when I was in the hospital doing chemo and had a bad dad day. Man, it was a tough, tough time. I had to stay overnight and my family left.”
Vitale recalled “crying like crazy” before a nurse came in and “cheered” him up. He recalled having “messages from all over the country” on his phone.
The sports announcer received treatment for melanoma and lymphoma in 2021 and couldn’t speak for four months following surgery for precancerous dysplasia and ulcerous lesions. He was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer in 2023 and stepped away from announcing.
“SANTA CLAUS came early as Dr Rick Brown called & said that my PET SCAN at 7 AM came back CLEAN OF CANCER ! OMG thanks so much to ALL of YOU for your [prayers],” he wrote via X in December 2024. “Yes I’m cutting the nets down baby it’s my National Championship!”
Travis Barker is running all over Los Angeles — and making great time doing it.
Barker, 49, participated in the Big 5 Sporting Goods LA 5K at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, March 15, per photos shared via Instagram by the LA Marathon’s official account. He crossed the finish line in 22 minutes and 31 seconds.
“Travis Barker lit up today’s @big5 Sporting Goods LA 5K at Dodger Stadium, clocking 22:31 (7:15/mi) and placing 95th out of 8,000+ runners!” the caption read, noting the drummer’s impressive runtime. “The Blink-182 drummer has been running more since launching @run.travis.run last year.”
Barker, who launched a running community called Run Travis Run in 2024, commented on the social media post, writing, “So fun .”
Per the Run Travis Run website, Barker became an avid runner after surviving a plane crash in 2008, which claimed the lives of four people and left him critically injured, with “70% of [his] body” burned.
“I was told by doctors that I may never be able to walk or play drums the same again,” he wrote. “I was never athletic and I never played sports but I immediately had this urge to prove everyone wrong including myself.”
He continued, “It started off with short walks and then that turned into short runs every day. I felt this sense of calmness and a rush of dopamine every time I ran. I’ve kept this up for years now, and I always start my day with it. I even run 3 miles every day before my shows when I’m on tour.”
The musician added that after running his first half-marathon last year, he was inspired by “how everyone from all walks of life ran together and supported one another,” which led him to create Run Travis Run.
He wrote, “The running community is massive and it really inspired me to create Run Travis Run as a way to bring like-minded people together. I wanna motivate people to get outside and walk or run for a few hours, as well as make healthy decisions and create healthy habits.”
Barker has hosted several other runs around the country, including in New Orleans and Queens. He hosted a Run Travis Run 5K at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles in Inglewood, California, in July 2024, where he was joined by wife Kourtney Kardashian.
“I don’t want it to be discouraging. It should just be fun,” Barker told People of the event at the time. “I feel like everyone can get out and do 5Ks. Even if they see this and they don’t run it, maybe it motivates them to get outside.”
“We’re super chill, very slow in San Diego,” Barbour, 30, exclusively told Us Weekly at the Aaron Rodgers and RX3’s 2025 Charity Flag Football Tournament on Saturday, March 15. “I feel like a lot of people have moved there recently in the last 12 months, but I’ve been there for almost eight years.”
“The show can work. Hannah and I have been together for coming up on six years,” Barbour, wearing pink Poppi socks, gushed to Us on Saturday. “So it’s been a long time. It feels like yesterday, but it works. People should go on [and] people should tune in. Maybe we’ll show up. Maybe if they film and they ask us, we’ll go this year.”
Bachelor in Paradise was recently renewed for a 10th season, though it is not currently known when filming will begin or who will drop in on the beach to either find love or dispense advice.
Bachelor Nation aside, Barbour and Godwin have their hands full juggling “a ton of really exciting work opportunities” that have further pushed back a timeline for expanding their family.
“I think kids-wise, we’re still a couple years away. We’ve got a ton of really exciting work opportunities that we want to just give all to that,” Barbour explained. “Because the second you have kids, they, obviously, become your sole focus. We have some really awesome things getting in the works that we want to focus on right now.”
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One of Barbour’s exciting opportunities is a slot on Aaron Rodgers’ team during his annual charity flag football match held on Saturday.
“I idolized Aaron growing up. It’s cool to be on his team last year with Aaron Rodgers, and then this year, it’s definitely just so surreal again,” the Bachelorette alum quipped. “Aaron and I have had very similar athletic careers, I would say. He played professionally [football and] I played D3. He’s won a Super Bowl MVP. I’ve won the RX3 championship once. I’d like to think we have similar backgrounds, but he’s, like, the coolest, most down-to-earth, nice guy.”
Barbour also had the support of Godwin on Saturday, who watched the tournament from the stands.
“She said she feels like a ‘WAG’ for the day, which is great,” Barbour joked on Saturday. “I tell her, ‘I’m good at sports. Just believe me.’ So today is, like, one of the days where I get to prove it. So, hopefully, she can tell [our] kids one day that ‘Dylan’s a total beast.’”
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Reese Witherspoon is recalling a sweet moment with one of her children — and the lesson they learned from her.
Witherspoon, 48, reposted Hello Sunshine’s quote from The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood via her Instagram Story on Saturday, March 15, which read, “I spent a lot of my life worrying about being weird, and now I’m realizing it could be my superpower.” Witherspoon, for her part, wrote, “I love this!”
In a subsequent Story, Witherspoon elaborated on why the quote from Wood resonated with her.
“I just want to say one thing about that quote from Aimee Lou Wood, who is amazing. I love her on [The] White Lotus. Everybody on [The] White Lotus is amazing. I’m watching, I’m loving it, quoting it,” Witherspoon said. “But we were out to dinner the other night — me and my girlfriend and my two boys — and my girlfriend said, ‘What is one thing that your mom says to you that you always remember?’ And one of them said, ‘She tells me, if I have a choice to be normal or if I have a choice to be weird, I should be weird and it’s OK to stand out and be different.’”
Witherspoon said the moment filled her heart “with the deepest joy” that her son learned that message from her.
“It just meant so much to me that my kids know that it’s OK to be different and that it can actually end up being your superpower,” she said.
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Witherspoon is mom to daughter Ava, 25, and son Deacon, 21, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe. She also shares son Tennessee, 12, with ex-husband Jim Toth. (Witherspoon and Phillippe, 50, split in 2006 after seven years of marriage while the Big Little Lies actress and Toth, 54, called it quits in March 2023 more than a decade after tying the knot.)
The Morning Show star has shared a close bond with her kids through the years, bringing Deacon as her plus one to the August 2024 premiere of Blink Twice — and meeting up with Ava inside the event. Months later, Witherspoon brought Deacon as her date to the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards in October 2024.
While exclusively speaking with Us Weekly at the event, Witherspoon gushed about “the thing that makes [her] happy.” She told Us, “My kids and my company and really it’s having Deacon here tonight. That is so fun for me, and I hope [for] him too!”
Many celebrities have shared some spooky supernatural stories based on their encounters with the paranormal.
Succession star Sarah Snooksaid she spotted a ghost in London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket while performing Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in 2024.
“I do feel like I saw one. I saw somebody get up, and I was, like, ‘Oh, cool. They’re getting up and leaving. They must need to go to the toilet.’ But I look back and they were not there,” she told The New Yorker in an interview published in March 2025. “They were in a very white, kind of Victorian play-dress, a big floofy white dress and a bow. I did ask the people who run the theatre, and they said that it’s haunted, but they’ve never seen that ghost.”
And breakout country star Dasha, whose song “Austin” went viral on TikTok earlier this year, claims she not only had a brush with a ghostly apparition – she actually grew up with a spirit in her house.
“This family had died like 200 years ago when it was built of, like, some crazy fever, and this little girl had died in my room and I had no idea,” she related.
Although Dasha herself never saw the child’s ghost, her stepsister reportedly did, describing her as wearing “a white nightgown” and sitting on Dasha’s bed. She even claimed the little girl turned and looked at her.
Luckily for Dasha, her stepsister did not reveal this spooky information until the family moved out. “Thank God,” noted Dasha. “Or else I never would have stepped foot in that room!”
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Snook said she not only saw a ghost in the audience at the theater she was performing Dorian Gray in, she sensed the spirit of author Wilde all around her in London.
“I will say this: when we moved into our apartment in London it was very f---ing cold, so we went out quickly to get beanies and gloves, a scarf. When we came back, the lights were going [makes flashing gesture] and the heaters were going up to twenty-nine and down to three and up and down, up and down. And then everything went out. We went downstairs, and there’s a gunpowder smell — and my stepson was, like, ‘Gunpowder! That means there’s a ghost!’ The fuse box had blown in the basement,” she told The New Yorker.
“We had to go to Brown’s Hotel, and our room was directly opposite the Albemarle Club, where Oscar Wilde had been, which was the beginning of the end of him, where he was accused of being a sodomite by the Marquess of Queensbury. The argument happened on the steps which we could see from our window.”
When asked if she had a stage-management ghost, Snook said, “I call it the benevolent haunting.”
The Phantom of the Opera composer recalled a time when he had to enlist the help of the church to remove a spirit from his home.
“I did have a house in Eaton Square which had a poltergeist,” Webber said in a January 2024 interview with the Telegraph. “It would do things like take theater scripts and put them in a neat pile in some obscure room. In the end, we had to get a priest to come and bless it, and it left.”
The Star Trek star told USA Today in October 2023 that he’s been “witnessing stuff since I was 12 years old,” including living in a haunted house in Los Angeles.
Per the outlet, he detailed the encounter in his Making It So memoir. “I moved out like a shot and immediately felt much safer in my new home,” he wrote, noting his son Daniel was the first to witness paranormal activity in the residence. Stewart’s home buyers then asked why he abruptly moved out, so he confessed the ghost appearance.
“To my relief, I never heard anything from my buyers afterward," he added before explaining that he did see the individuals who sold him the property again. “When I went over to greet them, they were clearly uncomfortable and beat a retreat from me almost immediately. I got the distinct impression that they had something to hide."
"I don't know what it is about me or my brothers but we attract ghosts," the DNCE frontman said during a November 2022 appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden. "I lived in a haunted house with a few roommates back in the day here in Los Angeles." He said that during his tenure, police would show up at the door claiming they'd gotten calls from the house asking for help. When he and his roommates checked the landline, the phone was unplugged. "Just creepy things like that," he recalled. "After we moved out, Olivia Wilde moved in. She bought the house ... they moved out pretty quick too."
The breakout country star says she “absolutely” believes in ghosts, telling “Taste of Country Mornings with Wood and Nicole” that her family once lived in a house with a tragic history. “This little girl had died in my room and I had no idea,” she explained, adding that her stepsister had actually seen the apparition of a child wearing a white nightgown sitting on the bed.
“I've had sex with a few ghosts and never got pregnant,” Behar admitted during an October 2022 appearance on The View after her fellow cohosts discussed supernatural experiences.
Whoopi Goldberg quipped: “I'm just gonna let that ride. I don't know how many of you just heard what Joy just said, but I'm going to let it ride.”
The Boo, Bitch costars revealed in July 2022 that they experienced paranormal activity while filming the Netflix series. "When we were filming in the cemetery, there was the ghost detector that we were using in the scene and it was a real ghost detector," Colletti told Entertainment Weekly. "It kept going off while we were filming in the cemetery."
Condor explained that she was drawn to the role after having “weird paranormal things” happen to her throughout her life. “I remember I had a dinner with the producers early on. I was telling them all these scary stories,” she recalled. “But yeah, listen. I'm afraid. Like, don't. Please don't. Like stop doing this. Leave me alone, ghosts. But paranormal things do happen to me and often, unfortunately.”
“I’ve accepted the fact that I see things and I hear things,” the Tick, Tick… Boom! actress claimed during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show in April 2022, noting that she’s had “a lot” of paranormal encounters over the years. “I kind of shut it down for a while [because] the unknown is scary. But I recently was like, ‘No, this is a gift and something that I have the ability to do, so I’m going to lean into it.’”
Hudgens even completed her “first real paranormal investigation” ahead of the interview, where she met a playful ghost while visiting a cemetery.
“We found this one tombstone of a spirit that we were told is very playful,” she said. “So, I turn on [the spirit box] and I said, ‘Hi Sam, I’m Vanessa [and] this is Gigi’ … And then Gigi goes, ‘Sam, can you tell us our names?’ Then we just hear ‘Vanessa’ [she makes static sounds] ‘Gigi.’ I was like, ‘Cool, do you have anything else that you want to tell me?’
The Friends alum recalled in March 2022 a scary experience with a ghost that led her to selling her house.“I didn’t believe at first. But I lived in this house in Laurel Canyon, which is in L.A., obviously, and it was Gypsy Rose Lee’s house and Carole King,” Cox said during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “So, Carole King came over to my house, and she said that there had been a divorce that was really ugly, and there was a ghost in the house. And I was, like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ But other people who would stay there with me, like friends of mine, said they felt an encounter with a woman who was sitting on the edge of the bed.”The Shining Vale star noted that after doing a seance with King she still didn’t really believe in the supernatural, but that changed when a random UPS worker came to her home.“I was at the house one day not being a believer. The doorbell rang. It was a UPS guy, or something, and I opened the door and he said, ‘Do you know this house is haunted?’” Cox continued. “And I go, ‘Yeah, why? Why do you think that?’ And he goes, ‘Because there is someone standing behind you.’ And I was like, ‘Let’s sell.’”The Scream actress listed the home soon thereafter, adding, “I couldn’t sleep there alone ever again.”
During a December 2021 appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the Oscar winner claimed that her house is haunted by the ghost of a late movie star. “I grew up watching Westerns and I bought this house, and it was owned by a guy who did Westerns, so I must have been a fan of his,” she told the comedian. “I think he is my protector. I love him because he kind of sorts out the bad people that shouldn’t be there. He runs them out."
The Ma actress said that visitors sometimes don't want to come back after staying with her, but she sees it as a test. “That’s how I know that they don’t belong there, because if you’re a person that belongs there, everybody is like, ‘Oh, your place is so welcoming, it’s so great,'" she explained.
Spencer joked that the spectral presence gets upset when she's away from the home. “When I leave for a long time, he’s a little shady. The doors close, the lights go off when I turn them on," she continued. “I love my ghost. I just don’t want you bringing your ghost to my house. I don’t want anybody’s ghost thinking they can be friends with my ghost. Because my ghost can haunt me, but he doesn’t haunt me. We have boundaries.”
The Eternals actress revealed in November 2021 that she had a lot of unexplained things happening in her London home — including the piano playing by itself and lights going on and off — which led her to calling in a professional to rid the house of ghosts.
“I get it the worst … I’ve seen the actual things,” Hayek’s daughter, Valentina, said during an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show while her mom was chatting with Ellen DeGeneres on stage. Hayek explained that although she didn’t see any ghosts, she did call in help.
“[They] found like 20 [ghosts],” the House of Gucci actress said, recalling the man seeing an “old lady and a child” spirit. There was also a nun ghost, according to Hayek, who claimed there are only two supernatural entities remaining in the home.
The "Ghost Magnet With Bridget Marquardt" podcast host claimed that she reconnected with the late Hugh Hefner in a dream. "I was standing there and then all of a sudden, I hear him coming down the stairs and he comes running down the stairs and his arms were open wide and he gave me what we used to call his big laugh and was like, 'Oh, my darling' and he gave me a big hug," she told E! News in October 2021. "I could feel his smoke in the satin on his smoking jacket. I could smell his cologne. It was just so, so real."
The reality TV star explained that she believed in ghosts after several instances of strange behavior. During an appearance on Celebrity Ghost Stories in March 2015, Rinna detailed how she used to "feel this breeze go behind me" in an old house that she lived in with her husband Harry Hamlin.
In 2018, Hager told her Today cohost Hoda Kotb about feeling like the White House was haunted when she lived there. She noted hearing "1920s piano music, as clear as day, coming out of the fireplace."
"I'm from the south and there's a lot of things that happen in the south that don't happen anywhere else," Colter told Kelly Clarkson on her talk show in 2019.The Luke Cage star described an incident that occurred "night after night," which his mother explained as a spirit being attracted to his energy."When I was a kid, I used to have this thing that was sitting on my chest when I would sleep and it was keeping me from getting up and I couldn't open my eyes and I would struggle," he detailed. "I couldn't breathe very well."
"I discovered that 3 a.m. is the time when the veil between the realms is the thinnest and one can be visited," the actress explained to The Guardian in May 2019.
“I don’t know if it’s something that follows me around,” Madison shared with Nylon in August 2021 about her history with the paranormal. “My house in L.A. is almost 100 years old. There’s all kinds of voices and door opening and disembodied voices. I enjoy it, though; I like the entertainment.”
They see dead people, too! These celebrities have claimed that they have either seen or experienced a beyond-the-grave encounter, whether it be in a home, a bathroom, or the bedroom. Find out the spooky supernatural stories of stars like Jessica Alba, Kesha, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, and more.
The "Bang Bang" singer had a terrifying supernatural encounter following a visit to Stull Cemetery in Kansas City, "which is known as one of the seven gates of hell on Earth."
"I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car and we smelled sulfur, which is the sign of a demon," she told Complex.
Later, "weird things" would happen to Grande when she heard "whispers" one night in bed, along with "disturbing images with, like, red shapes" and this "massive black matter."
The singer claimed she had sex with a ghost while speaking to Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS FM show in September 2012.
"I had a couple experiences with the supernatural," Kesha claimed. "I don't know his name! He was a ghost! I'm very open to it."
Later, she told Rolling Stone that she had to undergo an exorcism. "I know it sounds like the most ridiculous story, but I went to my healer… and she told me that because of my job, I exude energy."
In October 2021, the "Praying" singer announced that she's working on a new reality series tentatively titled Conjuring Kesha. According to her statement about the new show, Conjuring Kesha will follow her and her friends as they visit "paranormal hotspots" across the globe. "We will explore life’s great mysteries and aim to catch something never before seen on camera," she continued. "My hope is to show that supernatural isn’t just the thing of myths and fables. We’re embarking on a spiritual and cosmic exploration. Come with me to experience it all.”
The Amazing Spider-Man actress claimed in a July 2014 interview with David Letterman that her dead grandfather was haunting her and hilariously leaving her some pocket change.
"My grandfather leaves quarters. It's just amazing," Stone claimed. "It's him! It's absolutely him!" She added that she had never met this late relative of hers. "It's exactly like that. It's that... But it's him! You guys, it's him."
The Hobbit director recalled a terrifying experience from the '90s while he was filming Lord of the Rings on location in New Zealand.
"One night I woke up and there was a figure in the room," Jackson recalled to The Daily Telegraph. "She was really scary - her face was like a silent scream. She glided across the room and disappeared into the wall."
The Hollywood mastermind told his wife about it the next day and her response was even scarier: "She said, 'Was it the woman with a screaming face?' We had never spoken about it."
"I felt this pressure and I couldn't get up, I couldn't scream, I couldn't talk, I couldn't do anything," the Sin City star said at a 2008 junket for her film The Eye. "Something definitely took the covers off me and I definitely couldn't get off the bed, and then, once I did, I screamed, ran to my parents' room and I don't think I spent many nights in that house ever again."
The actor told Us Weekly that the crew of his 2014 horror flick, Deliver Us From Evil, experienced a haunting on set while shooting the movie.
"I know for a fact the makeup, special effects team had some truly scary things occurring," Bana told Us. "They had a ghost in their workshop — there's absolutely no doubt... It got to the point where some of them would slip on the floor, they could no longer sleep there, there was no chance."
The designer recalled a terrifying incident related to her Greenwich, Connecticut estate on Celebrity Ghost Stories.
"The feeling in the house was much more ghostlike," she said, adding that she would see "this sort of apparition in the corner of a room" of a lady wearing a scarf over her face.
One holiday season, Rowley escaped a fire in the home. The local fire chief later told her that the woman who once owned the mansion was the Diamond Match heiress "who was badly burned" in a blaze.
McConaughey was "freaked out" when he first saw an elderly female ghost one night in his home. "When I first moved in there, I had a tent and I put it up on the floor of the upstairs bedroom with my sleeping bag and my dog," he recalled to TeenHollywood.com in 2003.
That night, he heard some strange noises including "a sound like a dime dropping from 10 feet off the ground onto a glass table." The actor ran "buck naked" but couldn't find the culprit.
The Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum told the San Francisco Gate in 2003: "I have a ghost in my house… I don't think he died there because there's a law in L.A. that when you buy a house, if somebody's died there, they have to disclose that."
Still, reasoned the actress, "He's very friendly. My friend saw him first one night. She said, 'I don't mean to alarm you but I just saw a man follow us out of the house.' And I said, 'Well, at least he's gentlemanly.'"
The "I Dreamed a Dream" singer claimed in a 2011 interview with The Sun that she's seen her late mother's spirit. "Her energy is still there. I've actually seen my mother in the house," she told the British tabloid. "I think she was letting me know she was all right. There was a lovely smell."
The Star Wars actress recalled the death of a close friend, a Republican operative named Greg Stevens, who overdosed in her mansion many years ago.
"Lights would go on and off, and I had this toy machine, that when you touched it would say, 'F--k you! Eat s--t! You’re an a--hole!'" Fisher told Vanity Fair in 2006. "And it would go off in the night, by itself, in my closet." Eventually, Fisher's friends arranged an exorcist in the house. "And after that things were fine."
The X-Files actress participated in a Reddit AMA, where she said she believes in an alternate universe and has even felt its presence. "I've definitely felt other spirits," she said. "I'm quite sensitive to it. And yes. But it's not something you can really talk about with too many people, especially not me."
In the special disc set of her 2005 horror flick, The Skeleton Key, Hudson recalled a spooky supernatural story about a home in London once rented by her mom, Goldie Hawn.
"I've seen ghosts plenty of times," Hudson said. "I've seen a ghost of a woman with no face, and that was really creepy." The actress later clarified her comments on a U.K. talk show. "[It's] a fifth energy," she said. "When you see something, you are supposed to tell the energy what year it is and that they don't belong."
The singer claimed in an interview with Elle UK that she witnessed paranormal activity in a London apartment she rented in 2009.
"One night, my little sister... was standing in the shower and all of a sudden, I hear her scream," she recalled. "I run in there and the water had somehow flipped to hot but it was still…"
Cyrus, meanwhile, said she experienced a spooky bathroom experience herself. "I thought I had seen a little boy sitting on the sink watching me take a shower."
The Matrix actor admitted in an interview that he experienced a supernatural encounter as a young boy.
"I was living in New Jersey when I saw and felt this ghost," Reeves recalled. "I remember just staring at this suit, which had no body or legs in it as it came into the room before disappearing. It was a double-breasted suit in white, and I looked at my nanny, who was just as shocked as me. I just couldn't get back to sleep afterwards, and I still see the figure in my dreams."
The late comedienne told Larry King that after moving in to her Manhattan apartment, she was always cold and her dog refused to enter the home.
"You felt awful and scary, and things were locked that shouldn't be locked," she said. "I used to say, 'This is stupid. This is nonsense. There's a reason for this.' And then at one point you'd say, 'You cannot say that anymore. Something is going on here.'" The reason? "This lady had died in the apartment. And she just was angry."
Washington Post political reporter Bob Woodward recalled a particular incident in his book, The Choice, from 1995 when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton consulted the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt.
According to Woodward, spiritual adviser Jean Houston was called to the White House to help Clinton reach out to the late lady Roosevelt, who spoke through the politico at one point. "'I was misunderstood,'" Clinton said at one point, as a conduit for Roosevelt.
Maroon 5's guitarist claimed he saw a ghost in the L.A. country home of Harry Houdini.
"I was the only one who ever stayed there the entire time," Valentine said on A&E's Private Sessions in 2008, while the rest of his bandmates, including Adam Levine, refused. "One night, I was there with my girlfriend at the time and we were about to go to bed," he recalled. "She went upstairs.. There was a hallway that went up to the second and third floors and I saw somebody walk up... no one was there."
The performer recalled a terrifying episode from when they were allegedly haunted on the Mack at Nite radio program. "I totally believe in ghosts," Lovato said, recollecting one horrifying incident from when they were 8 years old, involving their closet.
"When I shut it," Lovato said on the show, "I saw a little girl. She was dressed like she was from the 1800s, and was standing in my closet."
The American Idol season 10 house was a scary place, according to contestants. James Durbin told reporters in 2011 that he "saw something white that looked like an arm." The singer added that he and Pia Toscano were upstairs one day when "the doors flew open."
The Grammy winner moved into a 10-bedroom, $6 million home in Sussex, England in 2012, but the home reportedly gave the singer a big scare.
According to The Sun, the performer told a friend her home — which used to be a convent — gave her "the creeps" after she heard strange noises. The "Someone Like You" singer reportedly hired around-the-clock security personnel to help her sleep at night — in peace and safety.
The pop star told Harper's Bazaar UK that the ghost of Alexander McQueen helped her write her smash hit, "Born This Way," after his suicide. "I think he planned the whole thing," she said. "Right after he died, I wrote 'Born This Way.' I think he’s up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing."
