Lucas and Lauren’s skinny dipping scene on Ransom Canyon allowed Garrett Wareing to bare himself as an actor like never before.
“I’m all about body positivity,” Wareing, 23, exclusively told Us Weeklyabout his memorable scene before quipping, “All of my friends on set saw my naked body, but now I guess everybody who has Netflix can see my naked body.”
Wareing was thankful for the opportunity, adding, “But I’m really grateful for the chance to be able to lean into that body positivity and embrace myself in that way.”
Netflix’s newest romantic western, which premiered on Thursday, April 17, introduced Us to the fictional Texas town full of drama, love and hot cowboys. Wareing plays inevitable fan favorite cowboy Lucas Russell, who charmed Us and his love interest Lauren’s (Lizzy Greene) by stripping down to take a secret swim together, which didn’t turn out as expected but fans still caught a glimpse of the actor putting quite a lot on display.
“Everyone likens me to a golden retriever. Part of me wants to be like a Rottweiler or a pit bull but it’s all golden retriever. So Lucas is very, very much that guy. It felt very close to me — not only being from Texas — but also being the golden retriever and being able to play that role,” Wareing noted. “Given some of the fun scenes I got to have — specifically the skinny dipping and the mud wrestling — I would say every character is a version of you and this is a version of myself that I’m very proud to play and very grateful to be able to share with the world.”
Wareing knew Lucas was the right role, because he would “have the most fun with” certain scenes.
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“That was going to be playing the cowboy, going to cowboy camp, skinny dipping, mud wrestling and that line dance sequence,” he detailed. “And a little secret for you about the skinny dipping scene:that was the coldest water I have ever been in. I think we were freshly past winter in New Mexico. It was at elevation, we were in the mountains and I saw God that day.”
Despite the tough conditions, Wareing was “not a wimp,” adding, “I opted to do it as many times as production needed and we did it safely. I had my dear friend who was our safety diver who I had brought in and I was definitely in there for a while. I go under the water too — to add to injury. I had to go underwater and also I’m butt naked, so that was quite the day for sure on Ransom Canyon.”
That instantly iconic scene scored Wareing a place in Us‘ Guys We Googled Shirtless selection — but it wasn’t the only highlight of the show. Wareing specifically recalled going to cowboy camp for research.
“We showed up to New Mexico and we were aware that we were going to go through the ringer for cowboy training. I — being from Texas — wanted to claim this ownership of being a cowboy. But if I showed up to that cowboy camp and told them that I knew how to ride a horse the way that they knew how to ride a horse, they’d all laugh at me,” he recalled about spending “three hours a day” for a month learning the basics. “We were learning how to rope. We also learned how to ride horses, hit marks on horses, ride in tandem with one another, get that walk into a trot, that trot into a leap and do that comfortably and safely, which was the most important part.”
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He continued: “Then once we got proficient at that, they started incorporating the lasso. We started practicing on this roping dummy and then we would upgrade to a dummy that was a mechanical bull basically pulled by a horse. We would go behind this robot bull and rope it on horseback.”
The experience allowed Wareing to “become the cowboy” he always wanted to be.
“I felt like I finally earned my stripes as a cowboy through cowboy camp with all of my friends that definitely brought us together and we bonded through that,” he added. “I think being a cowboy is a state of mind. It’s a state of being that’s a steadfast, sure and confident version of yourself.”
Bethenny Frankel is ready for a change of scenery — and is officially trading in New York’s cityscapes for Florida’s beaches.
“I am moving to Florida for personal and professional reasons,” Frankel, 54, announced via an Instagram video on Thursday, April 17. “Something has arisen that made this the best and healthiest for myself and my daughter.”
The former Real Housewives of New York City star explained, “We will maintain residences in the Hamptons and New York City because we love New York. This will be our primary and permanent residence.”
Frankel then panned the camera from her face to the ocean waves and sandy beaches of Florida’s coast. “This will be my backyard,” she gushed.
“Excited to share this with you … It’s been a concept for a while, but personal & private circumstances have made this the healthiest life choice,” Frankel reiterated in the social media caption. “#florida #sunshinestate #xoxo #moving #lifechange.”
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Earlier this month, Frankel hinted at her move by sharing a photo of U-Haul boxes stacked up in what appeared to be her house.
“Life is good albeit with some unexpected stressful surprises … Moments with good friends, food, laughs, and as always a little chaos,” she captioned the Instagram post, teasing, “So many exciting changes coming soon… but you nosy B’s will just have to wait and see xoxo #lifelately #goodlife #suprises #happy.”
Frankel’s relocation comes nearly one year after Us Weekly broke the news that the reality star called off her engagement to Paul Bernon. The couple dated six years before pulling the plug on their romance in May 2024.
“They are so different — he’s an under the radar kind of guy,” a source exclusively told Us of the reason behind their split, noting “it just wasn’t going to work.” (Bernon and Frankel lived together in Boston in 2019, but sources told Usthey were house hunting the New England area ahead of their nuptials.)
Prior to dating Bernon, Frankel was married to Jason Hoppy from 2010 to 2012, before parting ways. The exes, who share daughter Bryn, 14, finalized their divorce in March 2021 after a lengthy legal battle.
Frankel was linked to Tom Villante in 2024, before confirming last month that she was back in the dating game. “I am dating,” she said on the March 13 episode of the “Hot Mess” podcast. “I have always, sort of, wanted to know exactly what everything is, and I’m trying to let the wine breathe more vs. need to know what it is.”
Frankel explained that she doesn’t care right now about “what the label is or that I’m getting married [or not].”
The business mogul, who owns Skinny Girl and other companies, confessed that dating hasn’t been easy at times because of her success. Frankel admitted she’s been guilty of “dumbing [herself] down” with some men.
“I don’t want to make them feel bad. I’m telling them how their thing is the same thing as my thing,” she continued. “So, it’s nice to be with someone who’s not in even the same business. So, it doesn’t feel adjacent or competitive.”
“As cliché as it sounds, it was the toughest experience, the most beautiful on every level, and working with Martin Scorsese, I definitely was a student again of film,” Emmett told L.A. Business First in January 2017, recalling their first collaboration. “Now I feel like a partner and a friend and an ally after going through the war together after coming out the other side. It feels great and I’m very proud.”
While the duo’s second project, The Irishman, was an Oscar-nominated film, their first movie caused friction from the start. In April 2025, Emmett made headlines when his and Scorsese’s Wall of White was blocked from casting due to his alleged misconduct with past films.
The Writers Guild of America West claimed that Emmett “failed to pay” more than $700,000 in compensation and more to WGA writers. The union called for its members to boycott the project, prohibiting them from signing on to star in it. Emmett claimed in a statement that he was working on resolving the issue with the WGA.
Scroll down to see Scorsese and Emmett’s relationship from the beginning:
Emmett first teamed up with Scorsese to produce 2016’s Silence starring Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson. The movie was the brainchild of Scorsese, who had been trying to make it for years before Emmett signed on. Scorsese was the director as well as a producer and writer on the project. Emmett was a producer.
“I flew to New York and sat with him. It was a very simple interview. He said, ‘Well, tell me about you,’” Emmett recalled to HuffPost Entertainment in 2017 of how he got the gig. “I said, ‘I went to film school about 20 blocks from here. It’s an honor to be in the room with you.’ What else am I going to say?”
After Scorsese asked Emmett’s opinion on the movie, he responded, “All I have to say is one thing: ‘Whatever you want, you can have. I just want to be side by side with you. It’ll be like my graduate film school.’” Emmette remembered Scorsese laughing and saying, “‘I like this kid.’ The rest is history.”
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Following the release of Silence, Emmett had nothing but nice things to say about working with Scorsese, whom he now considered a friend.
“It’s the pinnacle for any actor or producer or financier. For me, going to film school, I don’t think I ever thought in my mind I would make a Martin Scorsese movie,” Emmett told HuffPost Entertainment in December 2017. “The moment came, and it was surreal.”
The High Rollers producer remembered being in awe of Scorsese once he was seated in front of him brainstorming their project.
“There were these moments in the south of France when we were sitting after doing the work all day. It’s 6 or 7 o’clock at night and we’re having a glass of wine, and he starts talking about film preservation and restoration. It’s just surreal,” Emmett gushed. “The greatest filmmaker talking about movies and making Raging Bull. It’s overload.”
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When Emmett signed on for Silence, he was also bookmarked to reunite with Scorsese on The Irishman. The gangster film premiered on Netflix in November 2019 and starred Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci. Scorsese was once again the director on the project and both he and Emmett were producers. The Irishman was nominated for 10 Oscars.
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Working alongside the legendary director inspired Emmett when he made his directorial debut with Midnight in the Switchgrass. Emmett recalled learning how to lead from his time on Scorsese’s sets.
“He really made me feel like family, and he didn’t have to do that,” Emmett told Variety in July 2021 of Scorsese. “I want to be that kind of filmmaker, I want everybody to feel part of the journey. When you make a film, it takes a whole village of all of us together. And Marty taught me that you need everybody; everybody’s important. I’m really grateful that I got to learn that from him.”
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During Emmett’s relationship with Vanderpump Rules alum Kent, the couple spent time with Scorsese. Following their 2018 engagement, Kent exclusively told Us Weekly that Emmett was in “such a different world than I am. It’s like, while I’m filming a reality TV show, he’s producing movies with Martin Scorsese.”
In addition to the name drop, the duo were photographed with the Goodfellas director at an Oscars after party in 2020 before Kent and Emmett called it quits in November 2021.
Despite parting ways, Kent and Emmett appear to both have a connection to Scorsese. “He actually said to me, ‘You do great work,’” Kent told Rolling Stone in May 2023, while reflecting on Scorsese’s love of her Bravo reality show. “His producing partner at the time was a Vanderpump fanatic, so it could have been shown to him that way as well.”
She teased, “I don’t know if he’s tuning in every Wednesday to catch the new episode of Vanderpump Rules, but Martin Scorsese knows that Vanderpump Rules exists. And that is good enough for me.”
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Emmett and Scorsese’s third project, Wall of White, hit a roadblock in April 2025 when the Writers Guild of America West slammed Emmett via social media. The Writers Guild of America west coast affiliate revealed via X that Emmett, who founded Convergence Entertainment Group, “has been on the WGA/Unfair List since 2020.”
The union claimed that two companies Emmett founded “failed to pay over $700,000 in compensation, P&H contributions and interest due to WGA writers.” As a result of the alleged misconduct, the union told its members they are forbidden to work on Wall of White.
“Emmett has a long history of refusing to honor obligations to writers and the Guild has filed numerous arbitration claims against companies owned by Emmett over the last decade,” the email sent by the union claimed, according to the Los Angeles Times, adding that the guild prohibits “members from working for or selling literary material to companies or individuals who are on the Strike/Unfair List.”
Emmett responded to the accusations in April 2025, issuing a statement to The Times. “We are fully financing this movie, and we have every intention to settle this dispute in the coming weeks,” the statement read. “Our representatives will be reaching out to the Writers Guild so we can put this matter from six years ago behind us.”
Us Weekly reached out to Scorsese for comment at the time.
Ashley Greene is proud of her new horror film, It Feeds — but shooting her first movie after giving birth wasn’t always easy.
“This [movie] was tough for me because it was my first movie post having my little girl, and I think we were six months in, and so I’d been on set for the longest that I’d ever been on set,” Greene, 38, exclusively told Us Weekly. “I was breast-feeding, and so I was pumping on set and your hormones are going everywhere. And then I was, like, having to go home to this little angel and try to separate these two things. It really was challenging for me.”
In the supernatural thriller, Greene portrays Cynthia, a clairvoyant mother who is on a mission with her daughter, Jordan (Ellie O’Brien), to save a girl named Riley (Shayelin Martin) from a demonic entity. While having to balance new motherhood — Greene gave birth to daughter Kingsley, whom she shares with husband Paul Khoury, in September 2022 — with such a heavy role was admittedly “hard” for Greene, she used the character’s strengths to help her along.
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find stuff that you can use to your advantage also vs. letting it work against you,” Greene explained. “And so I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I’m gonna find a way through it and I’m gonna use this, these moments when I’m on set.’ It’s one of the things I’m most proud of coming out of this project.”
“Thankfully, I think, with Cynthia, you can always find stuff that you can use to your advantage also vs. letting it work against you,” Greene explained. “And so I said, ‘This is really hard for me, but I’m gonna find a way through it and I’m gonna use this, these moments when I’m on set.’ It’s one of the things I’m most proud of coming out of this project.”
One of the film’s overall themes centers around the battle against one’s deepest traumas, as director and writer Chad Archibald created the story after both his parents were diagnosed with cancer. Greene, who has been open about her battle with anxiety and panic attacks over the years, said she immediately understood the layered representation and believed she could do something “powerful” with her performance.
“When you’re ready, I think you have to look inside of yourself and you have to face your demons and you have to be able to allow yourself to have the strength to overcome things that have happened to you, not because of you,” she explained. “I loved that throughout the course of the film.”
In juxtaposition to the empathetic Cynthia was Greene’s costar Shawn Ashmore as Randall, the father of the possessed Riley who has a more extreme (and violent) approach to saving his daughter. Like Greene, Ashmore used his own experience as a parent to place a human and empathetic spin on his character’s motives. (Ashmore and wife Dana Renee welcomed their son, Oliver, in 2017.)
“I’d never looked at Randall as a villain. If we were watching this movie through Randall’s perspective, he would be the hero,” Ashmore, 45, explained to Us. “He’s making horrible choices, but I understood the bad choices he was making, because he is in an impossible situation. He’s just watched his wife wither away from a circumstance that he cannot understand as he starts to grasp that he’s now at risk of losing his daughter. I just looked at him as a loving father who is doing anything that he can.”
Ashmore said he had to figure out how to “reconcile” how his character could make the decisions he does without being an “evil” person at heart, which is where being a father himself became crucial to his process.
“When I really started to think about his circumstance, and if I was in that circumstance, what would I do? I would do anything to protect my son,” he explained. “And he’s not doing the right thing, but he’s doing the only thing that he knows how to do in this impossible situation that he’s being put in.”
Ashmore hopes when people see the film that they lean into the “great thrill ride” It Feeds provides while also recognizing the complexity — and intelligence — of the characters on screen.
“In genre films, it’s so frustrating when you [can] tell the characters are making the decision to further the story or to put a character in a bad or a perilous position. And I never, ever felt that way when I read [this script],” he explained. “And then when I watched It Feeds [and then] characters make bad decisions …. I completely understood why.”
He added, “I think that’s a distinction specifically in horror movies, where, if a character’s making the decision just to further the plot or to put themselves in peril, that’s a bad writing choice as opposed to, ‘We understand who this character is and that the choice of they’re making is true to who they are.’ And I think that this film is full of decisions and actions like that. And I think that is great storytelling.”
Greene, for her part, wants It Feeds to provide plenty of supernatural fun while also holding up a mirror to viewers.
“What I loved about Cynthia and Jordan is that once we see Cynthia grappling with past traumas and things that had happened to her — [but] when she realizes that she has to overcome those things to help her daughter, she does it no questions asked and is able to do that for someone else,” she told Us. “And I think that’s what we are as a society, right? When you heal yourself, you have the ability to heal others too.”
It Feeds premieres in theaters and on demand Friday, April 18.
You don’t have to own a yacht — or even a boat — to channel the yacht wife aesthetic. Yacht wives exude a unique, polished style and carry themselves with confidence.
If you’re looking for a yacht-style outfit that is flattering, versatile and doesn’t break the bank, you’re in the right place. We did the heavy lifting and found 17 comfy, ultra-classy dresses that fit the bill. You’ll wear these dresses on the bow and errand runs, to brunch and even to the office. Read on for your new outfit obsession!
1. European Gal: Everything about this tiered maxi dress is swoon-worthy, from the flattering high waist to the print and short puff sleeves.
2. Striped Stunner: This knee-length dress was practically made for yacht wives. Pair it with an oversized tote for an ultra-luxe look!
3. Breezy Find: If you’re looking for a go-to dress to wear from the beach to the party, this spaghetti-strap wonder has your name on it.
4. Boho Twist: Fake an hourglass figure with this loose maxi dress. It has dainty short sleeves and a boutique-style hem design.
5. Expensive-Looking: Whether you wear tie-sleeve dress to a wedding or dinner is up to you, but either way, you’re guaranteed to look rich.
6. Bye-bye, Belly: Designed to conceal your midsection, this wrap dress is the flattering outfit you’ve been searching for.
Brazilian influencer Kat Torres rose to fame on social media because of her wellness content — but things took a sinister turn.
Torres, who is currently incarcerated, had millions of social media followers and built a brand off of self-help videos and a wellness subscription service. The disgraced internet star also alleged that she had spiritual powers and connected with her followers on a deeper level.
However, she became the focus of an FBI investigation which led to a 2024 arrest.
Keep reading for everything to know about Torres — and the fallout:
Who Is Kat Torres?
Prior to her internet career, Torres was a model and pageant girl in her native Brazil.
Multiple followers claimed to the BBC in interviews published in July 2024 that as they got in deeper with Torres and her content, they felt “isolated” from friends and family. One even uprooted their life to become Torres’ live-in assistant.
In September 2022, two Brazilian women were reported missing after moving into Torres’ Texas house. (Torres called them her “witch clan” on social media.)
Eventually, their “profiles on escort and prostitution websites were discovered.” At this point, Torres had moved from Texas to Maine with the women — who asked for the search to stop — in tow. In November 2022, a wellness check tipped off law enforcement and the missing women were back home in Brazil the following month.
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By April 2024, Torres had already stood trial in Brazil and denied all wrongdoing in an interview with the BBC.
“When I was seeing the people testifying, they were saying so many lies,” she alleged. “So many lies that at one point, I couldn’t stop laughing.”
She added: “You choose to believe whatever you choose to believe. I can tell you I’m Jesus. And you can see Jesus, or you can see the devil, that’s it. It’s your choice. It’s your mind.”
Torres was convicted for human trafficking and slavery and sentenced to eight years in prison in July 2024. (She has appealed the conviction.)
Did Kat Torres Publish a Book?
In 2017, Torres book A Voz, was released. She claimed to be able to make predictions because of her spirituality in the memoir.
A (second) Clueless TV series without Alicia Silverstone as queen bee Cher Horowitz? As if!
A revival TV series of the iconic 1995 film with Silverstone attached to star and executive produce is currently in development at Peacock. The show will be written by Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage‘s Fake Media and Dollface’sJordan Weiss, with the 1995 movie’s writer-director Amy Heckerling and producer Robert Lawrence also serving as executive producers.
The original Clueless, loosely adapted from Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma, centered on Silverstone’s Cher, the most popular girl at Bronson Alcott High School, who sets out to become a successful matchmaker to her friends — and even her teachers.
The film’s box-office success sparked a follow-up TV series in 1996, created by Heckerling and starring Stacey Dash, Donald Faison and Elisa Donovan in their film roles as Cher’s inner circle. Silverstone and Paul Rudd — who portrayed Cher’s love interest and former stepbrother Josh in the film — did not return. The part of Cher was recast and played by Rachel Blanchard. The show aired on ABC for three seasons before its cancellation.
While Peacock picked up a different Clueless reboot centered around Dash’s Dionne in 2019, the project ultimately never moved forward.
Keep scrolling for everything to know about the Clueless TV series starring Silverstone:
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Who Would Star on the ‘Clueless’ TV Series?
Silverstone will return as Cher after reprising the role for a Super Bowl commercial in 2023. It’s unknown whether anyone else from the 1995 cast will return.
Where Can I Watch the ‘Clueless’ TV Series?
The show will air on NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock.
Schwartz and Savage (who are behind shows like Gossip Girl and The O.C.) and Weiss (creator of Dollface) will serve as showrunners and executive producers. Heckerling, who wrote the original film and the follow-up series in the ’90s, and Silverstone will also executive produce.
Keith McNally revealed that his waitstaff had a negative experience with Patti Smith at one of his New York City restaurants.
In an excerpt of McNally’s upcoming memoir, Regret Almost Everything, obtained by New York magazine’s Grub Street and published on Thursday, April 17, McNally, now 73, recalled how Smith, now 78, frequently visited his establishment One Fifth in the ‘70s. The singer would be joined by her then-boyfriend Robert Mapplethorpe.
“Smith and Mapplethorpe could be very difficult to wait on,” McNally wrote per the outlet. “Smith, unfortunately, was incredibly rude to the servers.”
McNally shared that he has a hard time listening to Smith’s music when recalling an alleged incident.
“It’s impossible for me to listen to a Patti Smith song today without remembering her reducing a waitress to tears because she forgot to put bread on the table,” he claimed.
McNally alleged that Smith would “belittle” his staff while Mapplethorpe “could be terse with the servers.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Smith for comment.
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This is not the first time McNally has publicly called out a celebrity who has patronized one of his restaurants. In October 2022, he sparked a feud with James Corden after accusing the former late night host, 46, of mistreating the staff at his establishment Balthazar.
“James Corden is a Hugely gifted comedian, but a tiny Cretin of a man,” McNally wrote via his Instagram Story at the time. “And the most abusive customer to my Balthazar servers since the restaurant opened 25 years ago.”
According to McNally, one of his managers told him that Corden sent back an egg yolk omelette because it included “a little bit of egg white.” After the kitchen remade the dish and a waiter delivered it with the wrong side, Corden allegedly began “yelling like crazy” at the staffer.
McNally shared that he banned Corden from his restaurant following the incident.
Hours after McNally’s post made headlines, he announced that he’d decided to “rescind” Corden’s ban after the actor reached out to apologize.
“James Corden just called me and apologized profusely. Having f***ed up myself more than most people, I strongly believe in second chances. So if James Corden lets me host his Late Late Show for 9 months, I’ll immediately rescind his ban from Balthazar,” he wrote via Instagram . “No, of course not. But … anyone magnanimous enough to apologize to a deadbeat layabout like me (and my staff) doesn’t deserve to be banned from anywhere. Especially Balthazar. So Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Corden, Jimmy Corden. All is Forgiven. xx.”
Molly Ringwald has never shied away from bluntly reassessing the 1980s teen rom-coms that made her a Hollywood legend.
Ringwald’s work with filmmaker John Hughes defined an entire era of moviemaking in the ’80s, even if their collaborations on Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink each contain problematic elements. The actress has publicly grappled in recent years with how those movies dismissed concerns about consent and racial insensitivity as well her own misgivings about being Hughes’ romantic muse as a teenager.
Keep scrolling for a look back at Ringwald’s reflections on the movies that made her a 1980s teen idol:
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Ringwald was only 15 years old when Hughes personally selected her, based on her publicity photo, to star in 1984’s Sixteen Candles as Samantha Baker, a high schooler with a crush on older heartthrob Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling).
During a March 2025 appearance on Monica Lewinsky’s podcast “Reclaiming,” the actress touched on the complexities of Hughes writing an entire romantic comedy based on a 15-year-old’s headshot.
“Sixteen Candles was his directorial debut,” she mentioned. “I had done a few movies … I had actually had more experience but I was still only 15 years old so I didn’t have a lot of life experience. It didn’t seem that strange to me [that I was Hughes’s muse]. Now, it does.”
One of Sixteen Candles’ most problematic scenes involved a trade between Jake and The Geek (Anthony Michael Hall), in which Jake offered up his drunk girlfriend, Haviland (Caroline Mulford), for the night in exchange for Samantha’s underwear. The Geek and Haviland wake up the next morning in bed together, drawing contemporary and modern criticism that the sequence made light of date rape.
Ringwald wrote about this scene in a 2018 New Yorker essay in light of the #MeToo movement, in which she broached Sixteen Candles’ blassé treatment of consent with her costar Mulford 30 years after the film’s release.
“Thinking about that scene, I became curious how the actress who played Caroline, Haviland Morris, felt about the character she portrayed,” Ringwald wrote. “So I sent her an email. We hadn’t seen or spoken to each other since she was 23 and I was 15. We met for coffee, and after we had filled each other in on all the intervening years, I asked her about it. Haviland, I was surprised to learn, does not have the same issues with the scene as I do.”
She continued, “In her mind, Caroline bears some responsibility for what happens, because of how drunk she gets at the party. ‘I’m not saying that it’s OK to then be raped or to have nonconsensual sex,’ Haviland clarified. ‘But . . . that’s not a one-way street. Here’s a girl who gets herself so bombed that she doesn’t even know what’s going on.’”
Ringwald took an opposing view, explaining, “Haviland, like me, has children, and so I decided to frame the question hypothetically, mother to mother, to see if it changed her point of view. If one of our kids had too much to drink, and something like that happened to one of them, would she say, ‘It’s on you, because you drank too much?’ She shook her head: ‘No. Absolutely, positively, it stays in your pants until invited by someone who is willing and consensually able to invite you to remove it.’ Still, she added, ‘I’m not going to black-and-white it. It isn’t a one-way street.’”
Another one of Sixteen Candles’ frequently criticized elements is its depiction of the character Long Duk Dong, a Chinese exchange student played by Gedde Watanabe. The racially-insensitive portrayal of an Asian character was controversial even at the time of Sixteen Candles’ release, with a contemporary review in The New York Times calling Long Duk Dong “unfunny” and “potentially offensive” to Asian people. Ringwald pulled no punches in her 2017 New Yorker retrospective when she referred to Long Duk Dong as “a grotesque stereotype.”
Decades after the 1984 movie’s release, Ringwald showed Sixteen Candles to her now-21-year-old daughter, Mathilda — she also shares fraternal twin daughters Adele and Roman with husband Panio Gianopolous — and came away with a complex view of the project.
“I do see it differently,” she told NPR in 2018. “I mean, there were parts of that film that bothered me then. Although everybody likes to say that I had, you know, John Hughes’ ear and he did listen to me in a lot of ways, I wasn’t the filmmaker.”
She continued, “Sometimes I would tell [John], ‘Well, I think that this is kind of tacky’ or ‘I think that this is irrelevant’ or ‘this doesn’t ring true,’ and sometimes he would listen to me but in other cases he didn’t. And, you know, you don’t want to speak up too much. You don’t want to cross the line. Or at least that’s the way that I felt at the time.”
While Ringwald publicly shared her problems with Sixteen Candles and several of her 1980s movies, she told Andy Cohen in 2021 that they shouldn’t be erased from history simply because of their problematic elements.
“I feel like that’s what makes the movies really wonderful, and it’s also something I wanted to go on record talking about — the elements that I find troubling and that I want to change for the future,” she insisted. “But that doesn’t mean at all that I want them to be erased. I’m proud of those movies, and I have a lot of affection for them. They’re so much a part of me.”
‘The Breakfast Club’
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Ringwald continued working with Hughes, and Sixteen Candles costar Hall, on 1985’s The Breakfast Club. The coming-of-age comedy takes place entirely at Shermer High’s Saturday detention, where popular girl Claire Standish (Ringwald) slowly opens up to a group of misfit students about the facade of her high school status.
One objectionable scene involves loner John Bender (Judd Nelson) ducking under Claire’s desk to avoid detection. The film alludes to Bender touching Claire inappropriately while he’s hiding but doesn’t dwell on the moment.
In an essay for The New Yorker in 2018, Ringwald wrote, “I kept thinking about that scene. I thought about it again this past fall, after a number of women came forward with sexual-assault accusations against the producer Harvey Weinstein, and the #MeToo movement gathered steam. If attitudes toward female subjugation are systemic, and I believe that they are, it stands to reason that the art we consume and sanction plays some part in reinforcing those same attitudes.”
Ringwald noted that Hughes, who died from a heart attack at 59 in 2009, was “hailed as a genius” for his 1980s movies, though his legacy may, in fact, be much more complicated.
“That two of Hughes’s films had female protagonists in the lead roles and examined these young women’s feelings about the fairly ordinary things that were happening to them, while also managing to have instant cred that translated into success at the box office, was an anomaly that has never really been replicated,” she acknowledged.
However, Ringwald returned again to Bender’s treatment of Claire in The Breakfast Club to argue that some of Hughes’ work was now out of step with modern sensibilities.
“I can see now, Bender sexually harasses Claire throughout the film,” she wrote in 2018. “When he’s not sexualizing her, he takes out his rage on her with vicious contempt, calling her ‘pathetic,’ mocking her as ‘Queenie.’ It’s rejection that inspires his vitriol. Claire acts dismissively toward him, and, in a pivotal scene near the end, she predicts that at school on Monday morning, even though the group has bonded, things will return, socially, to the status quo. ‘Just bury your head in the sand and wait for your f**kin’ prom!’ Bender yells. He never apologizes for any of it, but, nevertheless, he gets the girl in the end.”
The actress admitted her reassessment of The Breakfast Club may seem “overly critical” to some, but her views were based on significant reflection.
Ringwald took some other light-hearted jabs at The Breakfast Club over the years. At a 40th anniversary cast reunion in April 2025, Ringwald took issue with a climactic scene where Claire made over moody goth student Allison (Ally Sheedy) so she was more conventionally attractive to their jock classmate Andrew (Emilio Estevez).
“I just want to say that I am not responsible for the makeover,” Ringwald told the crowd at C2E2. “And I was really not happy.”
According to Entertainment Weekly, Ringwald stressed that she was particularly opposed to Claire stipping away all of Allison’s personal style.
“I thought that it would’ve been better just to strip off all of the makeup and just have Ally’s face fresh-scrubbed because it’s so beautiful,” she argued. “I didn’t like the way that they did her hair at the end … I was not responsible.”
During The Breakfast Club’s 40th anniversary reunion, Ringwald suggested that a remake or reboot of the ’80s classic wouldn’t work today, People reported.
“I personally don’t believe in remaking that movie, because I think this movie is very much of its time,” Ringwald insisted. “It resonates with people today. I believe in making movies that are inspired by other movies but build on it and represent what’s going on today. This is very, you know, it’s very white, this movie. You don’t see a lot of different ethnicities. We don’t talk about gender. None of that. And I feel like that really doesn’t represent our world today.”
‘Pretty in Pink’
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The star’s third collaboration with Hughes was for 1986’s Pretty in Pink, which revolved around high school senior Andie Walsh’s (Ringwald) love triangle with the suave Blane McDonnagh (Andrew McCarthy) and geeky best friend Duckie Dale (Jon Cryer).
One of the more infamous behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Pretty in Pink is that director Howard Deutch shot a scrapped ending where Andie chose Duckie over Blane. Test audiences hated the Andie-Duckie ending so much that a new climax was hastily written and shot.
Much of the modern debate around Pretty in Pink deals with Duckie’s sexuality. Speaking to Out Magazine in 2012, Ringwald lent credence to a fan theory that Duckie may have been coming to terms with his sexuality throughout the movie.
“Duckie doesn’t know he’s gay. I think he loves Andie in the way that [my gay best friend] always loved me,” she said. “That ending fell so flat — it bombed at all the screenings. I didn’t realize it then — I just knew that my character shouldn’t end up with him, because we didn’t have that sort of chemistry. If Jon was here now, and I could talk to him, I think that he would completely acknowledge that.”
Cryer disagreed with Ringwald’s interpretation of Duckie, telling Zap2It in 2012 his costar was basing her assessment on a real person who partially inspired the character.
“[Molly] said that the guy whom Duckie was based on was gay. It’s a different thing. Let’s be clear here,” Cryer said. “No, she actually said that if one projected beyond the movie, that Duckie would be out by now. And I respectfully disagree.”
Duckie’s casting is another hot-button topic. Ringwald admitted to Vanity Fair in 2021 that she had unsuccessfully lobbied Hughes to cast her friend Robert Downey Jr. as Duckie, instead of Cryer.
“I had wanted Robert for the role. I think John wanted either Anthony or Michael J. Fox, who was gonna do it at one point but had to drop out because he got Back to the Future,” she revealed. “It would’ve made for a completely different movie had any of them played Duckie. But once Jon [Cryer] stepped into that role, there was no question that he was the guy. He put so much of himself into that role that it’s impossible to imagine anybody else.”
There have also been rumors of on-set tension surrounding Pretty in Pink. Director Deutch alleged in 2020 that Ringwald and McCarthy grew to hate each other on set because she harbored an unrequited crush on her costar. Ringwald offered a more nuanced explanation in 2021 about her off-screen dynamic with McCarthy.
“I was only 17, and Andrew was already in his 20s, so we were definitely living very different lives,” Ringwald clarified to Vanity Fair. “But we got along fine and ended up doing another movie together a few years later. I feel like we had an interesting dynamic because we definitely were not a couple, and we weren’t really friends either, but we had a lot of chemistry.”
Another element of Pretty in Pink that Ringwald has routinely criticized is the triangular pink prom dress designed by Marilyn Vance. While Andie’s grown became the definitive prom attire for the 1980s, Ringwald was never a fan of Vance’s design choices.
“[I’d want] pretty much anything but what I wore,” she told Good Morning America in 2024. “Anything would have been better. Marilyn Vance did the dress, the very ’80s sort of inverted triangle. It was not what I had imagined. I was not very happy with it and I really did want to change it, but now that I look back on it, it was very much of its time.”
Kelly Stafford is doing her best to keep her daughters humble — but so far the results are a mixed bag.
Stafford, 35, and her husband, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, share four girls: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 6 and Tyler, 4.
On the Thursday, April 17, episode of her podcast “The Morning After,” Kelly said she and Matthew, 37, are in a constant “battle” to make sure their daughters are thankful for their lifestyle.
“My kids have been on a couple playdates and this has come out of their mouth, two of them,” Kelly recalled. “Different playdates, two different kids. I was like, ‘How was the playdate, did you guys have fun?’ They were like, ‘Yeah, it was really fun. Their house is kinda small, though.’”
Kelly continued, “I think Matthew and I just stopped in our steps and sat them down and said, ‘First off, the size of the house does not matter at all. Literally. It’s who’s in the house. If you were in a mansion and you didn’t have your friend there, would you have had fun? No.’”
Matthew signed a restructured deal in February to stay with the Rams, though specific details have not been revealed. He was due to make $27 million next season and the new contract has reportedly given him a “significant” raise.
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“Whenever we have an opportunity to give back and it is something that we can take the kids to, we do,” Kelly said. “I also don’t think there’s anything wrong when there’s a homeless person on the side of the street, educating [the girls].”
Kelly explained it’s been a learning curve for herself and Matthew because “neither of us grew up like this.”
“Do you take [the girls] in the car and do you drive them through and show them like, ‘Alright, this is this and this is that?’ Kelly pondered. “We have to realize how blessed we are and how grateful we should be for what we have. At the same time, when they’re young that’s a hard thing for them to conceptualize. They’re like, ‘Great, can we go back home now?’”
When her daughters are back at home, Kelly has found herself facing a battle of a different kind.
“The worst comment that comes out of their mouths [is]: ‘I’m bored,’” Kelly said. “I want to shake them. I’m like, ‘You don’t understand boredom. You have everything at your fingertips here. We shouldn’t, but you do.’”
Kelly Marie Tran opened up about her experience of coming out as “a queer person” after facing intense backlash from Star Wars fans.
“I was already being ridiculed. There were comments about my race or comments about me being a woman [from Star Wars fans]. I already felt like I was being persecuted for those things,” Tran, 36, told Entertainment Weeklyin an interview published Thursday, April 17.
The actress was thrust into international fame overnight when she was cast as Rose Tico in 2017’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Before anyone had even seen Tran’s performance as Rose, she became the target of complaints from a subset of Star Wars fans who opposed efforts to diversify the franchise. John Boyega and Jodie Turner-Smith have both spoken out about enduring similar mistreatment from the Star Wars fandom.
Tran related the scrutiny of her Star Wars casting to her decision to come out as queer, telling EW, “[After the backlash], I’m like, ‘Am I going to publicly come out?’ It was a complicated thing to think about.”
“But I’m going to quote [The Wedding Banquet costar] Lily Gladstone here, someone who I love dearly and I’ve learned so much from,” she added. “She says that, ‘Joy is an act of resistance.’ And I think that is really true. When I see other people experiencing joy despite their communities being persecuted, it’s such a beautiful, brave, inspiring thing to witness. I don’t think that I could have done that without the support of my amazing cast and crew and friends.”
Tran also spoke to Us Weekly exclusively about the circumstances that led to her coming out while shooting her new movie, The Wedding Banquet, which revolves around a gay man proposing a “green card wedding” to a female friend in exchange for paying for her IVF treatments.
“I did not plan to do it at all,” she told Us. “I was on set that day. We were filming the Korean wedding scene, and this journalist from Vanity Fair, David Canfield, who we love and adore, came and did this first look. And he asked me what I was excited about, and the first thing that came out of my mouth was, ‘I’m excited to tell a queer story as a queer person.’ And then I was like, ‘Uh-oh, oh, wait, let me think about it.’”
Tran praised the reporter for being “kind” and consulting with her about the way she wanted to share her queer identity with the world.
“That was such a gift,” she told Us. “I knew that that’s not normal, and so I’m so grateful to David Canfield. But yeah, I thought about it and I also had the experience of making this movie with all of my friends who were celebrating this part of our identity. And I was like, ‘Why would I hide this?’”
The star continued, “So I’m really, really grateful to be celebrating that now here in a time when it’s become a really complicated time for the queer community. So to be able to have this thing that we get to celebrate means the world to me.”
Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn remade legendary director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy for a modern audience with help from an acclaimed cast, including Tran, Gladstone, Saturday Night Live’s Bowen Yang and Twin Peaks icon Joan Chen.
“I’m going to be honest, I don’t remember how old I was exactly when I saw the original [Wedding Banquet film], but I did do a rewatch of it recently, right before Sundance,” Tran told Us. “And I was just in awe at how beautiful that film is and how well it holds up.”
Tran went on to say, “I also had the joy of working on this reimagining of it and recognizing all these little references that Andrew and [cowriter] James [Schamus] put into our version that are from the original film. So it’s just really exciting to not only be such a fan of Ang Lee and his work, but also to be now in this little reimagining.”
The Wedding Banquet hits theaters Friday, April 18.
Kesha’s own music led her to realize that she wasn’t ready to say “I do.”
The singer revealed in an interview with SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on Thursday, April 17, that she was secretly engaged and broke off the relationship after listening back to one of her songs.
“Basically, I find that writing songs leads me to my truth,” said Kesha, 38. “I was engaged and I didn’t wanna be anymore and I didn’t even realize that I was gonna break up with him until I wrote a song about it, and then I listened back to it, and I was like, ‘Oh, no, I’m gonna break up with him now.’”
Kesha did not reveal the name of the man she was engaged to. She began dating longtime boyfriend Brad Ashenfelter in 2014 and was last seen with him in 2021. She has also been linked to entrepreneur Michael Gilvary and producer Riccardo Maddalosso.
“It led me to my truth ’cause I can’t lie in the song,” the “Tik Tok” singer continued. “You can’t lie in a song. A, your song will suck, but also, that’s not what it’s there for, you know?”
Rolling Stone reported in 2023 that Kesha wrote her song “Too Far Gone” after breaking off an engagement. The song was featured on her 2023 album, Gag Order. She told the outlet that while she didn’t want to name the man in question, the two remain friends.
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Kesha opened up more about her love life in a March interview with People, where she said she’s “explored nonmonogamy” but was looking for more in a relationship.
“I’ve dated a lot of very cool, very broke hipsters with very bad attitudes, and so I’m trying to swing the pendulum 180 degrees and go in the entirely opposite direction,” she said. “I want someone that goes to an office building because they own the office building.”
She also admitted she’s “looking for a sugar daddy.”
“I love being able to just be open and honest about it, because I’m f***ing into somebody taking care of me, putting me on a pedestal, taking me on their yacht and flying me on their plane,” she added. “I’m just into it, and I will not feel shame about that.”
Professionally, Kesha is getting ready to release her next album, Period, in July. It will be her first released under her label, Kesha Records, following the conclusion of her legal battle with her former producer Dr. Luke.
“I finally feel free. And I’m excited. I am the CEO of my own record label … and I have written every song, and I have produced every song, and I have chosen all of the artwork and every take, vocally — it’s all been up to me, and I love it,” Kesha told The Morning Mash Up. “I listen to it all the time. I listen to my own record when I need to pump myself up.”
Monica Garcia is a mom of five after welcoming her first baby with boyfriend Braxton Knight.
“Getting pregnant at 40 was never the plan, but just like the last couple years of my life, nothing has gone to plan,” Garcia, 41, wrote in an Instagram video documenting the arrival of her newborn uploaded on Thursday, April 17. “Dear God & body … thank you. Thank you for holding this baby safely through 9 months and a delivery.”
Garcia added that she was “grateful” for her baby and was going to miss “every hiccup and every kick felt.”
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum already shares daughters Bri, Jaidyn, West and Kendall with ex-husband Mike Fowler, whom she was married to from 2009 to 2023.
“It was difficult coming off such a tumultuous whirlwind with RHOSLC and all the love and hate I received from all of that,” she told People at the time. “Old friends turned on me, I was iced out by the cast, I lost my job, my relationship with my mother has never recovered, my world was crumbling. Then I had an unexpected pregnancy and miscarriage at 40. The entire time I was going through all of that, the world chose to spit on me and continue to kick me while I was down. The accusations of me lying about a pregnancy and miscarriage that I received daily while dealing with such an unexpected loss was a pain that I will never forget. I was losing a baby while being shredded apart by some of the most awful comments I’ve ever had said to and about me.”
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Garcia — who appeared on season 4 of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City from September 2023 to January 2024 — met Knight while filming a snowmobiling scene for the Bravo reality series. She revealed in April 2024 that the couple were expecting their first baby together, but she suffered a miscarriage later that month.
After her previous experience, Garcia chose to keep this pregnancy private until one month before her due date, telling People, “That miscarriage was my lowest point with being in the public eye and I wasn’t going to put myself through that again, for the sake of the pregnancy and the baby.”
“God has been there for me every single step of the way,” she added. “I have been so blessed and been silent about all of it. I just hope someone reads this and it resonates with them on some level. Reminds them that no matter what people do to you, say about you or try to take from you, they can NEVER take what God has for you.”
Per court documents obtained by Us Weekly on Thursday, April 17, Murphey’s sister Robyn Polinsky filed a petition in March seeking to be named administrator of his estate. In Touchwas the first to report the news.
“[David] was a single, unmarried man, with no children, either living or deceased,” Polinsky alleged in the documents. “He was predeceased by both of his parents.”
Polinsky claimed in the filing that she and sister Cheryl Hastings are his only immediate family members that are alive today. Polinsky alleged that their other sister Linda Murphey died before David.
“Due inquiry and search have been made to ascertain if [David] left a Last Will and Testament, or some other instrument dispositive of his estate, but none has been found and, according to [Robyn’s] best knowledge, information, and belief, [David] died intestate,” the docs claimed.
Polinsky alleged that the heirs to the estate are her and Hastings, claiming that she was “competent to serve as administrator of the estate” and “hereby consents to act as administrator.”
“So far as known to [her], the property of [David] within the State of Nevada consists of real and personal property of a gross value, which after deducting encumbrances, exceeds” $300,000,” the filing read. “All liquid assets of the estate should be placed in an attorney trust account, pending further order of this court.”
Weeks after filing her petition, In Touch reported that Polinsky filed new information explaining she learned that David owned a Montana LLC named Daves Nomadic Life. She alleged that the company owned a 2023 Cornerstone, 45-B, motor vehicle.
“It is in the best interest of the estate, and it is necessary that the administrator have authority to continue the operation of such company and to have authority to access bank accounts, receive payments and pay bills, execute agreements, contracts and other legal documents on behalf of the company and to liquidate and dispose of the motor vehicle.”
“We are deeply saddened to announce that David Murphey, of Las Vegas, Nevada, passed away at home on December 11, 2024 after experiencing health issues over the last several years. He was 66 years old,” they wrote.
In the statement, the family referred to David as a “veteran, small business owner and software engineer.” The statement claimed that he recently retired from the Clark County Treasurer’s office in Nevada, and worked for H&R Block and IGT.
“He was also well known for his time as a cast member on 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days,” they wrote. “His time on the show allowed him to connect with viewers, see the world, and share his experiences with his thousands of followers on Instagram. He will be deeply missed by his family, friends, and fans. David has survived by his two sisters and his cat Gamera. The family asked for privacy during this difficult time.”
Later that month, a Clark County, Nevada, spokesperson told Us that David — who had a history of pulmonary embolism — died from “cardiac arrhythmia and hypertensive cardiovascular disease.” His death was ruled natural.
John Frieda is no stranger to launching effective products for all hair types. The drugstore haircare brand is a household staple . . . especially among curly haired gals (hello, Frizz Ease). Now the brand’s viral blowout spray has shoppers canceling their expensive keratin treatments — here’s why.
Boasting over 3.2 million views on TikTok, the John Frieda Frizz Ease Smooth Operator Blowout Spray transforms hair into a “flawless, salon-quality masterpiece.” The spray shields against humidity, adds shine and acts as a heat protectant all in one. Even better, it’s just $11 at Amazon.
Crafted with the brand’s Humidity Shield Complex, the blowout spray forms an invisible barrier on your strands to block out frizz-causing humidity and environmental stressors, like UV and thermal damage. Additionally, it protects hair against heat up to 450 degrees. Bonus: It’s infused with keratin to keep hair silky.
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Even though the blowout spray has yet to rack up reviews on Amazon, here’s what reviewers praise about its results on the John Frieda website.
“As someone whose hair tends to get frizzy at all times, this blowout spray has done wonders for my hair,” one shopper said. “It helps reduce frizziness so your hair looks glossy with a healthy shine. It works against humidity and is also a heat protectant.”
If you want smooth, sleek hair, give this blowout spray a spot in your beauty cabinet.
Those closest to Michelle Trachtenberg continue to grieve the actress’ sudden death.
“The whole family is still very much in mourning and still devastated,” a source exclusively shares with Us Weekly.
On February 26, the Gossip Girl star’s death was confirmed by her rep after she was found unconscious inside her New York City apartment. She was 39.
While her cause of death was initially deemed “undetermined,” the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner later confirmed to Us on Wednesday, April 16, that Trachtenberg died as a result of complications from diabetes mellitus. Her death was deemed natural.
“Michelle’s family knew what the cause of death was likely to be,” the insider adds. “They were aware of her health issues, so it’s not a surprise.”
Us has reached out to Trachtenberg’s rep for comment.
According to the Mayo Clinic, diabetes mellitus refers to a “group of diseases that affect how the body uses blood sugar,” a.k.a. glucose. Glucose is the brain’s main source of fuel and a key source of energy for cells in the human body.
“She was very open with those close to her about having the transplant,” a friend of Trachtenberg said in March, adding that the late actress “never went into detail.”
Director Casey Tebotold TMZ in March that the actress had written a screenplay based on the book Toy Monster: The Big, Bad World of Mattel. According to Tebo, it was one of the best screenplays he’d read, and the pair were in talks with a studio to make the potential film a reality.
Since her passing, Trachtenberg has received countless tributes from costars and friends.
“I loved her very much,” Rosie O’Donnellsaid about her Harriet the Spy costar. “She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford also honored his coworker with a social media post.
“Michelle was one of a kind,” he wrote via Instagram. “I remember her coming on set for the first time and just absolutely owning it. She was a force of nature and just so so unapologetically funny and magnetic.. remembering those years with a big smile. Just a terrible loss. Love you .”
Sean Lowe and his wife, Catherine Giudici, are eager to get back to their normal lives after dealing with their tragic dog attack.
On Thursday, April 17, Lowe, 41, and Giudici, 38, gave an update on how they and their kids — Samuel, Isaiah and Mia — are coping.
“Once again, thank you so much to everyone who sent us really nice DMs, we appreciate it more than you know,” Lowe explained in an Instagram video. “But if it’s OK with you I think we would like to be getting back to what we do best, and that is really just making fun of our kids and creating really dumb content.”
Giudici agreed with her husband, adding that they want to go back to “having fun.”
“On Thursday, I was having some friends of mine over to barbecue,” Lowe shared in an Instagram post. “Catherine took the kids to the mall, and we’re just barbecuing here on my patio, and it was a really nice night, so I had the doors and windows open, and some of the smoke from the barbecue started to drift inside, and our smoke alarm started going off. So I grab a dish rag and I’m going over to waft the smoke away from the smoke alarm, because the siren was insanely loud. And as I’m holding the dish rag, Moose comes up and, like, bites it and kind of nips my finger really aggressively, which is something that he does not do. So, you know, I kind of gave him a, ‘No, Moose.’”
Lowe went on to explain that Moose began biting his feet and eventually started attacking him.
“I feel him just kind of ripping into the flesh of my arm,” Lowe recalled. “And at this point, I am doing everything I possibly can just to fend this dog off.”
The former Bachelor had to be rushed to the ER and received stitches in “five or six different places.” The following day, Lowe’s parents came to the house to take the children as he researched “the best plan of action” to take Moose away.
“I’m waiting in the front yard for my parents to show up with the kids. They show up, and we’re getting the kids in the car so that they can go with them, and the next thing I know, I hear a ‘No, no, no, no.’ And it’s Catherine from inside the house,” Lowe remembered. “And I look at the front door because I’m standing in the front yard, and I see Moose running out the front door.”
Moose began attacking Lowe again, “ripping into” his flesh before the family called 911 and he received more stitches.
“We miss our dog, as weird as that sounds. He was a really, really good dog,” Lowe added. “And we miss him.”
On Tuesday, April 15, Lowe confirmed that he is “doing great” now and is “healing.”
“My scars aren’t as bad as I thought they would be,” he shared on his Instagram Story. “Isaiah likes to kiss this one here. The doctor told me that one is about as good as it’s going to get, it’s kind of red. It won’t be red forever, but I’ll have a cool scar there forever.”
Haley Joel Osment was involved in an argument with staff at the Mammoth Mountain resort in California shortly before his arrest earlier this month.
Video obtained by TMZ shows Osment, 37, prepared to board a chairlift despite not having his snowboard with him. As a staff member pleads with him to get out of line, onlookers can be heard seeming to grow frustrated with the delay. One even pleaded for security to step in.
A witness told TMZ that one guest tried to tug on him, encouraging him to get out of line, leading to both falling over.
When the staffer told Osment that security was on its way, the Sixth Sense actor finally relented and exited the line. Another bystander alleged to the outlet that Osment “absolutely reeked of alcohol” and that after leaving the line, he walked over to his snowboard and appeared to “fumble around with it.”
Osment was arrested on April 8 after police received a call around 2 p.m. local time regarding an allegedly intoxicated individual at the resort. He was charged with public intoxication and possession of a controlled substance. The unknown substance was sent to the lab for testing, per TMZ.
He stayed in jail overnight before being released. Us Weekly has reached out to Osment for comment.
This isn’t Osment’s first run-in with law enforcement. The actor was arrested in 2006 for driving under the influence after an automobile accident. He pleaded no contest to a DUI and one count of marijuana possession. Osment was sentenced to three years probation and fined $1,500. He was also required to seek treatment for alcohol use.
His most recent arrest comes three months after he lost his home in the Los Angeles wildfires. Osment told Us Weekly exclusively that he is now living with his sister, actress Emily Osment.
“Because I lost my house in the fires, I’ve been living with her for the past a couple months,” he told Us in a story published April 2. “So she’s been very generous and helping me out there. She’s fantastic.”
He spoke glowingly of life with Emily, 33, who is currently starring in Young Sheldon spinoff Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
“She’s great. Her show is just wrapping up season 1 right now,” he said. “Great community of people there.”
Though Haley and Emily have yet to work together on a project, they’ve stayed close, even before the older brother moved in. The two were spotted celebrating Emily’s 33rd birthday in March, grabbing lunch together in Studio City.
Emily had finalized her divorce from ex-husband Jack Anthony just two days before.
After decades in Hollywood, Tori Spelling isn’t going anywhere.
“This is my reclaim era. I’m not chasing anything — I’m choosing everything,” Spelling, 51, tells Us Weekly exclusively. “I’m making decisions that serve me, my family and my future. There’s power in that.”
As part of her new era, Spelling recently signed with celebrity brand management agency For The Love Of E, founded by Eman Nafisa.
“This partnership is all about intentional moves. I’ve been in the industry a long time, but this chapter is about owning my narrative, shaping my legacy, and aligning with things that truly reflect who I am — whether that’s through campaigns, creative projects, or conversations I want to be having,” Spelling explains. “Expect meaningful partnerships, elevated storytelling, and content that reflects all sides of me: the entertainer, the mom, the entrepreneur.”
When it comes to storytelling, Spelling has her most meaningful conversations on her “missSPELLING,” which often makes headlines. Most recently, she sat down with Brandi Glanville and the two women wasted no time talking about their complicated past, hashing out their previous animosity toward each other. Spelling told Us that the conversation was both therapeutic and enlightening.
“I’m not in the business of holding onto drama — it’s exhausting. Brandi and I had our past, but we’re both moms, both women in a tough industry, and I wanted to give us space to talk it out,” she says. “It felt real, and I think that’s why people connected to it.”
Speaking of motherhood, Spelling often uses her platform to speak about raising her kids: Liam, 18, Stella, 16, Hattie, 13, Finn, 12, and Beau, 8.
Following her 2024 split from Dean McDermott, Spelling is happy to learn “how capable I am” as a single mom. “I think I always knew it deep down, but being in it every day has shown me just how strong, resourceful, and resilient I can be,” she tells Us.
Keep reading for more insights from Spelling:
Part of this new chapter for you through this partnership is to continue to shape your legacy across entertainment, lifestyle and motherhood. When did you think about the importance of leaving a legacy — was that something you learned from your dad (late TV producer Aaron Spelling)? And what do you want yours to be?
Legacy has always been in the background of my life, especially growing up with a father who helped shape pop culture. But over the years, I’ve realized it’s not about what people remember you for — it’s how they remember you as. For me, that means being authentic, being bold in my choices, and creating space for other humans to do the same. I want my legacy to be one of strength, evolution, and reinvention.
When did you realize you needed to be in the driver’s seat when it came to building strategy and your brand? Were there times in your career where you felt you didn’t know enough and there were deals made that didn’t financially benefit you the way they should — or that you were taken advantage of because you weren’t as business-savvy or strategically focused?
Yes, absolutely. I think a lot of women in this industry can relate to that—especially those of us who started young. There were times when I went along with decisions that didn’t serve me long-term, just to keep things moving. But now, I’m intentional about every move.
You have such an engaged audience on social media—what do you credit your ability to keep your fans coming back for more?
Honestly? I’ve always been myself. I think people connect to vulnerability and honesty. I’ve never pretended to be perfect, and that’s resonated with people who are also just figuring it out as they go.
After your episode with Brandi, are there other people who you hope to hash things out with on “misSPELLING?” Any names you can give or tease?
There are definitely a few people I’d love to reconnect with or have honest conversations with. No names yet — but I’m open. misSPELLING is a space for that kind of growth and realness.
Do you and Jennie Garth have a dream guest for “9021OMG?”
We’d love to have some of our original castmates who haven’t come on yet—just to bring it full circle. And maybe a surprise celeb who’s a secret 90210 fan!
Liam is now 18! What is it like to have an adult in the house? How will you feel when he’s ready to flee the nest?
It’s surreal. I still see glimpses of the little boy who used to follow me around the house, but now he’s this amazing young man with his own dreams. I’m excited for whatever’s next for him, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t emotional. We’re super close, and I know that bond won’t change — just evolve.
Who knew that a simple pink cardigan could make such a sweet spring moment? Bryce Dallas Howard sure did! She recently wore the cutest pastel layer — and we were able to find a stylish lookalike for less.
The Jurassic World actress was spotted in Midtown Manhattan doing press for the new Disney Plus documentary she directed, Pets. The outfit, which even made a grid post on her Instagram, checks every box for daytime spring dressing. Her look consisted of softly faded, cropped denim jeans, a sweet butterfly top, bright red loafers and a canvas tote. The delicate pink cardigan pulled the entire look together.
Her exact cardigan remains unknown, but luckily we don’t have to go far to get the look for ourselves — we can recreate it with this $29 version on Amazon.
The Satuun V-Neck Long-Sleeve Cropped Cardigan brings a cozy layer and playful color to your spring wardrobe. It’s easy to drape over all sorts of layers, from dresses to basic tees. While keeping you warm against cool spring mornings, it also keeps you comfy, thanks to its fabric blend that consists of polyamide, viscose, microfiber and elastane.
Thanks to its affordable price point of just $29, it only makes sense to snag a few colors. Grab it in navy or white if you’re looking for versatile picks or orange or green when you need a dose of color. Plus, it caters to a range of body types as well, coming in sizes S to XXL.
Thanks to its simple and elevated appeal, this cardigan can be dressed up for Sunday brunches or baby showers. On these occasions, you’ll want to wear it with a wrap dress, strappy heels and a cute clutch. It’s something you’ll reach for on casual days too, whether you want to pair it with leggings to run errands or jeans for dinner with friends.
Inspired by the idea of a pink cardigan for spring but need a different silhouette? Maybe you need something a little longer? We got you! Check out more pink cardigans below!
