UPDATE: 5/21/25 at 2:27 p.m. ET — Sophie Cunningham has released a statement denying she had an affair with Phoenix Suns and Mercury CEO Josh Bartelstein.

“I am deeply saddened by the recent false accusations made against me by Gene Traylor, someone I do not know and have never met,” she wrote via X. “Let me be clear his statements are untrue and extremely hurtful.”

She continued: “I am here to compete, play basketball at the highest level and win for my team and my fans, while inspiring other women that they can do or be anything they ever dream of becoming. I hold myself to the highest integrity and my values are what guide me on and off the court.To the media who reported on this, I have always spoken the truth and been transparent with any press inquiry. In this instance it feels irresponsible that I was never asked for a comment about the accusation before several clickbait stories went to print.”

Cunningham concluded, “I will not let untrue gossip take my focus away from what is most important to me, which is basketball, my supportive team and my fans.”

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The Phoenix Suns have denied a claim that team CEO Josh Bartelstein had an affair with the Indiana Fever’s Sophie Cunningham.

The Suns and the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury share ownership, and Cunningham, 28, played for the Mercury from 2019 to 2024.

“The recent reports concerning Josh Bartelstein and Sophie Cunningham are entirely false and morally reprehensible,” Suns spokesperson Stacey Mitch told Front Office Sports in a story published Tuesday, May 20. “Let’s be absolutely clear about the origin of these claims.”

The report came from a lawsuit filed by Gene Traylor, the Suns’ former director of security, against the team, in which he accused the Suns of racial discrimination and claimed the franchise ignored major security concerns. Traylor’s suit alleged that the team’s vice president of security and risk management, Cornelius Craig, was hired to get rid of him.

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To illustrate Craig’s alleged erratic behavior, Traylor claimed that Craig was telling people, “Josh Bartelstein is f***ing Sophie Cunningham.”

Us Weekly has reached out to Cunningham for comment.

Mitch added that Sheree D. Wright, the attorney behind the lawsuit, is also representing the plaintiffs in three additional suits against the Suns.

In a separate statement to ESPN on May 15, a Suns spokesperson called the allegations against the organization “delusional and categorically false.”

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“The Supreme Court of Arizona has twice disciplined attorney Sheree Wright for committing numerous violations of the rules of professional conduct, and she is currently serving a two-year probation with the State Bar of Arizona,” the statement read.

Wright and Courtney Walters, the other attorney representing Traylor, responded to the statement by accusing the Suns of resorting “to personal and defamatory attacks” against Wright in a “transparent and calculated attempt to shift the public narrative, discredit the attorneys involved, and avoid accountability for their own misconduct.”

Mitch told Front Office Sports that Wright is attempting to “coerce” the organization into settling.

“Sheree Wright will not extort our organization and never see a single dollar,” she said.

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The Mercury drafted Cunningham with the 13th overall pick in the 2019 WNBA Draft. A consistent contributor for Phoenix during her six seasons with the club, she wound up in Indiana via a four-team trade in February that sent All-Star Satou Sabally to the Mercury.

Now playing alongside Caitlin Clark, Cunningham told Us in March that she is focused on empowering the women of the WNBA as the league continues to grow.

“To me, it’s not about competition,” she said. “I’m all about empowering other women. I’m about helping my teammates be their best selves. I’m all about being my best self. And I just feel like that if we can do that together, then great things are gonna happen.”

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The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Mikayla Matthews claims she was sexually abused by multiple individuals when she was a child.

“I feel like it’s hard … to pinpoint an age of where it all started because I did open up [during season 2 of Mormon Wives] about being sexually abused, and that happened before we moved to Utah,” Matthews, 25, said on the Wednesday, May 21, episode of “The Squeeze” podcast. “I don’t know what age I was, anywhere from, I’m guessing 6, 7 [or] 8.”

Matthews and her six siblings were raised in California until their parents divorced and her now-estranged mother moved them to Utah. (The reality TV star has not publicly shared who allegedly assaulted her in her early childhood.)

According to Matthews, another incident occurred after she moved to Utah with an unidentified man she claimed was “definitely touchy with [her].”

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“Now thinking back, I was already being sexually abused before, and so I didn’t quite get it,” she recalled. “I was still pretty young. I think when I was probably 11 or 12, I started to notice a little bit more that it wasn’t OK, but I still hadn’t told anybody about it.”

According to Matthews, “a lot of” the abuse occurred when her mom would go to work.

“She worked late and early, so she would go to the back room and take a nap or whatever,” Matthews claimed. “And I would be left alone with [this man] … or we would come over to ride his four-wheelers and he’d be like, ‘If you want to ride the four-wheeler, you have to do this first for me.’ She never saw any of that, and I never told her.”

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Matthews first spoke to her siblings about the alleged abuse in 2015 when she was 15 years old shortly before she left home.

“I moved out down to my friend’s house and my [older] sister moved out with me,” Matthews recalled. “I feel like that’s another time period in my life that I blocked out a lot of it. It was, like, another part of my brain shut off.”

Matthews only started to understand the nature of what she called her “sexual trauma” when she started seeing a therapist during filming for Mormon Wives season 2.

“I went to a sexual trauma therapist who was telling me about the shame you get growing up around sex, in general,” she explained to podcast host Tay Lautner. “I think it’s very common in a lot of households, but also in Mormon culture. You don’t talk about sex.”

According to Matthews, the shame of hiding the alleged abuse also “carried over into [her] marriage.” (Matthews married husband Jace Terry when they were 16 and 21, respectively, after she got pregnant with their first child. They are now expecting baby No. 4.)

“That’s been one of the hardest parts of our marriage ‘cause you don’t realize it’s happening,” she said. “You’re so young, you’re not processing it, and then you are raised up with … [this] circumstance of ‘This isn’t for me. It’s for somebody else’s pleasure.’”

Matthews ultimately distanced herself from her mom after she got pregnant at age 16.

“I see her here and there, [but] she moved further away,” Matthews said on the podcast. “After my grandpa passed away, she still comes to take care of my grandma every two weeks, but we don’t really see her unless it’s for holidays or we have a birthday. That’s not a conversation we’ve ever had. … I don’t think I’m ever going to have that conversation and, I think, I’m OK with that now.”

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).

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The WNBA is investigating allegations of “hateful fan comments” made during the season-opening Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever game in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 17. The league did not call out specific players, but it is believed the alleged comments were directed toward second-year Sky star Angel Reese.

“The WNBA strongly condemns racism, hate and discrimination in all forms — they have no place in our league or in society. We are aware of the allegations and are looking into the matter,” the league said in a statement on Sunday, May 18.

The game, which the Fever won 93-58, was one of the most anticipated early-season matchups on the schedule, with Reese, 23, facing off against Caitlin Clark. As the two stars of the 2024 rookie class and former opponents in the 2023 NCAA championship game, their growing rivalry has become one of the most exciting story lines in the WNBA.

Keep scrolling for everything you need to know about the WNBA’s investigation and the rest of the fallout from the Sky-Fever game.

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The Key Players

Clark, 23, is a point guard for the Indiana Fever who was selected No. 1 overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft. Reese, 23, is a forward for the Chicago Sky who was selected 7th overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft. The two players faced off in the 2023 NCAA women’s championship game, where Reese’s LSU Tigers beat Clark’s Iowa Hawkeyes 102-85.Clark and Reese have both downplayed their perceived rivalry, saying there is no animosity between them.

“Me and Caitlin Clark don’t hate each other,” Reese said last season. “I want everybody to understand that. It’s just a super competitive game.”

Clark also addressed their rivalry during her 2023 NCAA Tournament run with the Iowa Hawkeyes, saying she and Reese “have always been great competitors.”

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“Obviously she played in the Big Ten for a while to begin her career, and that’s what makes women’s basketball so fun is you have great competition, and that’s what we’ve had all year long,” she added.

It’s only natural, however, that fans would manufacture a rivalry between the two. Reese made her now infamous “can’t see me” gesture at Clark during the final moments of her LSU Tigers’ championship game win over Iowa, only adding fuel to the fire.

When the two entered the WNBA, they quickly emerged as the best two rookies in the league and were involved in a competitive Rookie of the Year race before Clark charged ahead late in the season and Reese suffered a season-ending injury.

The Gist

We don’t know what exactly the WNBA alleges was said, but the incident came during a game in which Clark and Reese had a brief altercation.

In a rare show of tension between the two, Clark was issued a flagrant 1 foul in the third quarter. Reese had secured an offensive rebound before Clark slapped at the ball and knocked her to the ground when she had a clean look at the basket. When Reese got up, she appeared to try and confront Clark before teammates stepped in.

The players themselves say they did not hear the comments, but media and fans alike reported hearing racial insults directed at Reese.

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Why It’s a Big Deal

After multiple incidents last year of players reporting racist or threatening treatment from fans, the WNBA launched its No Space for Hate campaign at the beginning of the 2025 season.

In one instance, DiJonai Carrington, then of the Connecticut Sun, inadvertently poked Clark in the eye during a 2024 game. Even after both players acknowledged it was an accident, Carrington, 27, said she received death threats, assault threats and racist comments from fans.

Reese also alleged that fans last season either followed her home or showed up at her house to threaten her. She also said fans used AI to share fake nude photos of her on social media.

The WNBA touts its “No Space for Hate” campaign as “a multidimensional platform designed to combat hate and promote respect across all WNBA spaces — from online discourse to in-arena behavior.”

“We believe that basketball can be a unifying force — a place where people from all walks of life come together not just to watch a game, but to connect,” WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said in a statement last week. “We want our arenas, and our social platforms filled with energy and fandom — not hate and vitriol.”

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What People Are Saying

Clark met with the media on Tuesday, May 20, before the Fever faced the Atlanta Dream and expressed her support for the WNBA’s investigation.

“There’s no place for that in our game, there’s no place for that in society,” she said. “Certainly, we want every person who comes into our arena — whether player or fan — to have a great experience. I appreciate the league doing that [investigation]. I appreciate that the Fever organization has been at the forefront of that.”

Reese also spoke out, crediting the WNBA for stepping in.

“Obviously, there’s no place in this league for that,” she said after practice on Tuesday. “I think the WNBA and our team and our organization have done a great job supporting me. I’ve had communication from everyone, from so many people across this league.

“Going through this process, obviously if it could happen to me, it could happen to anyone,” she added. “I think they’ve done a great job supporting us in this.”

Aliyah Boston, the Fever player who stepped between Reese and Clark during their scuffle, told reporters “no type of hate is ever welcomed here.”

“We, as athletes, have to make sure that fans know it’s OK to be passionate, to cheer us on, to get loud,” she said. “But at the end of the day, it’s about respect. If it was your daughter out on the court, you would want that respect being shown. That has to be the mindset for every fan when they step into an arena.”

What’s Next

Both teams have expressed their support for the investigation, which is ongoing. When it concludes, it will be on the league and the Fever to determine what — if any — action it should take against the fan or fans involved.

The Fever and Sky will meet again on June 7 in Chicago. The Sky will make two more trips to Indianapolis, facing Indiana on the road August 9 and September 5.

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No bra? No problem for Whoopi Goldberg.

During the Tuesday, May 20, episode of The View, Joy Behar, Sara Haines, Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin found themselves discussing the ideal way to put on the undergarment.

“You know what I feel like doing right now?” Behar, 82, asked her cohosts. “I feel like letting these girls loose. Back up.”

After causing the audience to erupt into laughter, the comedian proceeded to share a surprising revelation. According to Behar, her longtime friend and cohost doesn’t wear a bra.

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“[Whoopi] liberated those girls a long time ago,” she said with a laugh. While Hostin, 56, was quick to describe bras as “torture devices,” Goldberg, 69, explained why they weren’t for her.

“I don’t wear one. I have not worn a bra in 50 years,” she explained during a “Hot Topics” segment. “It’s too uncomfortable, and I don’t mind if they hit the floor! They’re mine.”

Goldberg proceeded to get up from her chair and joke about what she does when her breasts get too low.

“This is what you do. You’re walking and then you go, ‘Hey girl,’” she joked while pretending to kick an object from the ground up to her body.

When Griffin, 35, asked where she puts her microphone on for every live show, Goldberg pointed to her underwear, which appeared to be a black tank top.

The conversation sparked after The View played a clip from the “Reasonably Shady” podcast, where The Real Housewives of Potomac stars Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon debated about the correct method of putting on a bra.

While Goldberg’s latest fashion revelation may come as a surprise to some, the Oscar winner has been open about her philosophy on clothes. Although she likes to get dressed up for special occasions like the Met Gala or an awards show, most of her days are focused on comfort.

“I wish I could tell you it’s deep like that, but it’s not,” she told People in March when asked about her fashion point of view. “If it fits and it’s comfortable, I put it on.”

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She reiterated her philosophy during an appearance on Good Morning America in 2018.

“I’ve spent all of my career being comfortable, and people used to get very mad at me because I would wear sneakers to really important kind of things,” she shared. “I would see people looking really pained at these things. I’d be comfortable as hell.”

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Love Is Blind alum Ashley Adionser’s estranged husband, Tyler Francis, wasn’t completely forthcoming with her about his relationship to his “sperm donor babies.”

“There’s so much more to this story than is public knowledge, and because he kept lying, I had to do my own research,” Ashley, 32, said on the Wednesday, May 21, episode of the “What’s the Reality?” podcast. “I had to resort back to old detective habits and search this man’s computer.”

She continued, “When I searched that computer, I found the mother lode on more than one thing. Not just this topic.”

Ashley and Tyler, 34, got engaged sight unseen on season 7 of Love Is Blind. After meeting in person, Tyler admitted that he is the biological father of three children conceived via sperm donation. He continually asserted that he wanted to help a friend, who identifies as a lesbian, have children and that he wasn’t involved in the kids’ lives. (The children’s mother, however, has since claimed he is a present figure. Tyler denied the accusations.)

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Ashley stuck by Tyler’s side throughout the drama before eventually realizing that his alleged lies were too much. She announced their split in January and noted on Wednesday’s episode that she finally filed for divorce six months later.

In doing her due diligence on the matter, Ashley said that she found a “series of Google Meet chats” between Tyler and his friend that spanned multiple years. (Us Weekly reached out to Tyler for comment about Ashley’s claims, which he has not publicly addressed.)

“What I will say is they both created such a messy, messy, messy, messy situation by their actions and how they went about things from beginning to end,” Ashley claimed, without revealing what was included in the messages. “There is major complexity of how those children were conceived.”

Ashley further alleged that Tyler’s friend was aware that he planned to join Love Is Blind before the season aired in fall 2024.

“He told me that he hadn’t seen her or [the kids] in years,” Ashley said. “But, in all actuality, he had seen her and the kids the day before he left, so I had no idea about that at all.”

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Now that Ashley has healed from their breakup, she believes that Tyler was “in no way shape or form” ready to get married.

“He should have never went on the show,” Ashley stated, claiming that Tyler “presented” himself as being ready to tie the knot. “This was a mind[f***] for me, big time, trying to rationalize how he slipped through the cracks. He presented himself as that man during filming, to the point that everybody loved him. He’s very charismatic … [and] he seemed like he was ready for an honest marriage.”

Ashley also claimed that Tyler told the Love Is Blind production team that he fathered children via sperm donation before filming began.

“He did tell me that he did tell the casting producers and whatever that he was a sperm donor,” she said. “Honestly, it’s his word against hers at this point, because [there’s] no proof if no one was there — if no one was right there in the room with you all. … I think that’s how he slipped through, by probably deleting everything, and maybe his mom’s [social media] page was private or whatever, I don’t know.”

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OnlyFans stars are taking center stage in a new reality show.

Smash City, which launches on OFTV in June, is set to be hosted by Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios and Too Hot to Handle’s Sophie Stonehouse. The four-episode pickleball-based competition series will be refereed by 2022 AVN Hall of Fame adult actress Rachel Starr.

Eight OnlyFans stars — Nathan Webb, Joey Joy, Adi Spiegelman, Sachia Vickery, Nellie Cronen, Kayla Fitzgerald, Trippie Bri and Steph Mi — will compete for $20,000. Complex reported that the first episode of the series has contestants play pickleball against each other with oversized bats, while in another game, the players participate in “pickleball pong” with massive cups.

“I was super excited when they told me the idea,” Kyrgios told Complex in an interview published on Monday, May 19. “I’ve hosted a couple TV shows in the past, and at this point in my career, I’m always looking to do things outside the box. So I was all for it, and it was a lot of fun for sure. I enjoyed hosting it, and I love competition in general. Pickleball for me is very close to tennis, so that instantly caught my interest.”

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Kyrgios became an OnlyFans star in December 2023, using the platform to showcase his life with followers rather than sharing intimate content. However, he’s not judgmental of creators who opt to.

“When I meet people, I don’t necessarily think about what they do straight away,” Kyrgios told the outlet. “When people meet me, obviously, they know that I’m a tennis player. But you know, I had conversations with all these people, and they all have different journeys. And I think this is just a part of my journey where we collaborated and we did something really cool together.”

Kyrgios noted that it’s a “step out of [his] comfort zone,” but it’s “exactly where [he wants] to be.”

“All these different people are amazing in their own way. I started playing tennis, and now, I was able to do a TV show with some pretty crazy people, and it turned out awesome,” he said. “I enjoy being outside my comfort zone, and it felt extremely comfortable being there and hosting with Rachel. I think we all had a lot of fun and became good friends at the end of the day. And I think that’s what it’s about.”

Smash City launches on OFTV June 13.

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Jessica Simpson has come a long way since introducing herself to the world as a young singer with memorable pipes.

Simpson made her mark with songs such as “I Wanna Love You Forever, “Irresistible,” “With You” and “Take My Breath Away” at the turn of the century. After marrying longtime boyfriend Nick Lachey in October 2002, the couple made the transition to reality TV with MTV’s Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. The actress won over viewers with her string of laughable one-liners.

She tried her hand at acting, appearing in The Dukes of Hazzard, Employee of the Month, Blonde Ambition and other films, before finding her niche by launching her highly successful clothing collection.

Simpson separated from Lachey in 2005 and went on to date John Mayer and Tony Romo before getting engaged to Eric Johnson in 2010. They welcomed kids Maxwell and Ace in 2012 and 2013, respectively, before tying the knot in 2014. Their youngest child, daughter Birdie, was born in 2019.

After sparking split speculation in late 2024, the spouses officially announced their separation after 10 years of marriage in January 2025.

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New mom Amber Pike is struggling to fully accept her postpartum body.

The Love Is Blind alum, who welcomed a baby girl with husband Matt Barnett in April, got real about her linea nigra — a dark, vertical line that typically appears on the abdomen during pregnancy — in a post shared via Instagram on Tuesday, May 20.

Displaying her postpartum figure in a photo and video labeled “unaesthetic mom things,” Pike, 33, wrote, “Constantly being ocd triggered because your linea negra [sic] is crooked and not centered on your belly button.”

The caption for her Instagram post continued: “There’s a lot about my body that has changed with pregnancy obviously, and I do think I’ve coped with most of it pretty well because I accepted early on that having my baby girl would mean being remade into a new person — what I wasn’t ready for is one of those changes being irritatingly crooked! Don’t get me wrong, I can handle the new markings, but I’m the kind of person that likes things even and balanced… so the fact that my linea negra [sic] is so close to being straight down the middle but is just slightly off centered drives me nuts.”

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“I know it’s just a small thing and so dumb but it’s become a pet peeve nonetheless,” she added. “Is there anything that changed for yall with pregnancy that’s not really a big deal but still manages to annoy you, or is it just me?”

Followers flocked to the comments section of Pike’s post, with one writing, “Even and balanced just like your bedroom organization. Welcome to the TYPE C MOM club, we are proud to have you babe!”

Pike responded to the messy room comment: “lmfao when it’s good, it’s great… when it’s not… it’s reallyyyyy notttt.”

She also replied to a fan who mentioned a decline in oral health after welcoming babies.

“Oof yesss, I’m honestly dreading having to go back to the dentist and hear what they say after 9 months of vomiting nonstop from the HG,” Pike shared.

Another fan noted that the crooked linea nigra would “bug” her too, with Pike responding, “Thanks so much babe, the random ocd struggles be cray.”

According to the Cleveland Clinic, “the linea nigra is caused by an increase in hormones and fades once your baby is born.”

Pike has been open about her postpartum journey over the last six weeks. On April 27, she shared another “unaesthetic mom thing”: her shoes not fitting due to her swollen feet.

“So I’m realizing there’s a lot that people glaze over about having a baby, like how people may mention your feet swelling when pregnant but… they forget to explain that could mean having to replace all your favorite shoes,” she wrote via Instagram alongside photos of her feet in sandals. “Ngl I’m pretty disappointed that the @rainbowsandals that I spent years and innumerable blisters breaking in so that they were molded perfectly to my feet now leave my toes hanging over the edge. The odds of having to replace your entire shoe closet after birth may be low, but they’re never zero.”

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Pike also shared a candid post on Mother’s Day about her pregnancy and birth story, deeming it “the most intense hazing experience.”

“From being told that I wouldn’t be able to get pregnant, to being told that if I did it would likely be a still birth, to twice weekly infusions and injections for thirty weeks, to all of the scares and testing, to finally having a healthy happy baby in my arms that is literally the most precious thing I’ve ever encountered — I feel like I’ve been through the most intense hazing experience ever but have finally made it to the other side and feel so honored and blessed to be in this league of extraordinary moms,” she shared. “From the outside looking in I thought I knew what it was all about, but now that I’m here… I don’t just know — I understand. Happy Mother’s Day to all my fellow Mamas.”

Barnett, 34, shared a Mother’s Day dedication to his wife on May 11, writing that “becoming a mother wasn’t easy” for Pike.

He added, “And being a new mom can be crazy exhausting, but you show amazing strength every day and I’m proud to have you as the mother of our beautiful little girl. You truly are the best mom! Happy Mother’s Day! @atypicalamber.”

Pike and Barnett met and tied the knot on season 1 of Love Is Blind, which was filmed in Georgia in late 2018 but aired in February 2020. Ever since the pair got married on TV, they have offered supporters a glimpse into their relationship on social media but have chosen not to be a part of any Love Is Blind reunions.

“We are together IN SPITE of that show not because of it,” Pike shared via Instagram in 2023, adding, “I told them to stay away from us.”

 

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Jessica Simpson and former NFL player Eric Johnson have a long history together that started in 2010.

In fact, it was love at first sight for Simpson, who recalled her chance May 2010 meeting with Johnson in an Instagram post in May 2020, writing, “He knocked on my dreamy cottage door (sigh), I let him in and never let him leave.” She noted that she “fell head over slippers in love” on that day.

Johnson proposed to Simpson in November 2010 after six months of dating, but it wasn’t until four years later that the pair walked down the aisle.

The couple, both of whom were married before — Simpson to Nick Lachey and Johnson to Keri D’Angelo — welcomed daughter Maxwell and son Ace before saying “I do” in July 2014. They expanded their family once more, welcoming daughter Birdie in March 2019.

In January 2025, the spouses confirmed their split by announcing their separation after 10 years of marriage.

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The Handmaid’s Tale killed off a character that wasn’t meant to die — at least not according to the book — and not everyone is thrilled about the changes.

During the Tuesday, May 20, episode, June (Elisabeth Moss) teamed up with Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford), who agreed to sacrifice himself in order to take the rest of the Gilead hierarchy down. Lawrence joined Commander Wharton (Josh Charles) and the other leaders as they planned to fly to Washington D.C. — knowing he wouldn’t survive the trip.

In a last minute twist, June’s love interest Nick (Max Minghella) also got onboard despite not originally planning to go. June had to watch as her ex got on the plane while knowing it would explode as soon as it was airborne. The last shot of the episode was June watching the wreckage.

While the ending to the penultimate episode shocked viewers, some weren’t thrilled about how it strayed from the source material.

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“Five seasons of Nick disliking Gilead but being stuck regretting his past just for them to completely villainize him in 3 episodes & kill him,” read a post via X. “HE WAS A PLANT THAT HATED GILEAD IN THE BOOKS & WORKING WITH MAYDAY. WHAT WERE THE WRITERS THINKING WTF#TheHandmaidsTale.”

Not everyone remembered Nick’s story line in Margaret Atwood’s novel, which another response explained, “He saw gilead for what it was & how much of a monster the waterfords were. He became a spy giving them info. It was hinted at throughout the show too but i guess they scrapped it for a shocking final season.”

According to Atwood’s sequel The Testaments, which is in development at Hulu, Nick was “deep undercover” within Gilead. “When you’ve read the book, and his character was working with Mayday, it’s like being gaslit for five seasons! ,” an X user wrote.

There were some audience members who didn’t agree, with one social media user adding, “In the show he always was a nazi.”

For those who haven’t read The Handmaid’s Tale, the biggest shift came after season 1. In season 2, Hulu’s version of the series started to rely on plot lines that hinged on the show expanding the world and the characters from Atwood’s original dystopian concept, allowing the adaptation to continue for six seasons.

“None of this was in any way under my control,” Atwood told attendees at the Hay literary festival in 2018 about how the rights of the book were acquired by the distributors of the 1989 film version of The Handmaid’s Tale. “Even if I had thrown a tantrum and said you can’t do this, that would have had no legal standing.”

Despite the lack of creative control, Atwood has supported the show, adding at the time, “I think I would have to be awfully stupid to resent it because things could have been so much worse. They have done a tippety-top job, The acting is great, they’ve stuck to the central set of premises.”

She concluded: “It’s a TV series. If you’re going to have a series you can’t kill off the central character and you also can’t have the central character escape to safety in episode one of season 2. It’s not going to happen.”

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Nick’s death comes ahead of the show’s highly-anticipated series finale. He betrayed June before his death, which coshowrunners Yahlin Chang and Eric Tuchman broke down exclusively for Us Weekly.

“People aren’t all good and they don’t make all the right choices all the time,” Chang explained earlier this month. “People also aren’t all bad and make all bad choices. That what was really guiding me and Eric all along was just trying to tell the truth and to also show all aspects of all these characters this season.”

The executive producers didn’t know immediately how they would “wrap up” the June and Nick romance.

“We just knew we wanted to really examine it and be honest about it. When we did that, that’s when we knew they had to reach this inflection point,” Tuchman shared with Us. “Moving forward, there’s always hope for someone to make the right move to change their mind and do the right thing.”

He continued: “June has been Nick’s beacon all along. The times he has stuck his neck out and done the right thing has been for June. So maybe this very charged situation is a huge wake up call for him going forward. We’ll have to see.”

New episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale are released Tuesdays on Hulu.

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Alana Thompson, a.k.a. Honey Boo Boo, is opening up about feeling confident in her own skin.

“For the most part, I’m very confident in myself and what I wear. I’m kind of just like, ‘Who gives a damn?’” Thompson, 19, exclusively told Us Weekly while promoting Lifetime’s new series I Was Honey Boo Boo. “A lot of people look at bigger girls and they’re like, ‘Oh, they’re not healthy.’ But I feel like healthy bodies come in all different shapes and sizes. I’m completely healthy. I may be a little bit bigger, but I’m completely healthy.”

Thompson rose to fame when she starred on Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, which aired on TLC from 2012 to 2017. The series followed the child beauty pageant contestant and her family, including mom June “Mama June” Shannon — who stars in the WeTV spinoff series, Mama June: From Not to Hot. The show began airing in 2017, with season 7 set to premiere on May 30.

Thompson — whose mom underwent a full body transformation, including a 2015 gastric sleeve — noted that the show contributed to her own body image issues.

“That was just mainly because my mom was going from not to hot,” Thompson explained to Us. “She was a bigger girl and I’ve always been a bigger girl myself too. And just to see my mom go from 300 pounds to 100 pounds was a shock to me just because it’s like, ‘Am I going to have to do that one day because I’m a bigger girl? [Are] people not going to love me until I get surgery or I’m this thin pretty little girl?’”

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She continued, “So it was very hard on me, but after a while I noticed that either way my mom was still getting shown love, so I was like, I mean she’s still getting shown love.”

While Thompson admitted it was “definitely hard” to reminisce on her past for new series I Was Honey Boo Boo, she shared it was “empowering” to see her journey — and hopes viewers gain a deeper understanding of her story through the Lifetime biopic.

“Everybody thinks they know me in a way that they actually don’t,” Thompson said. “So I thought now would just be a perfect time to just tell my story and my voice and I think it’s going to be great.”

I Was Honey Boo Boo premieres on Lifetime Saturday, May 17, at 8 p.m. ET.

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The two-part Summer House reunion is just around the corner, and it appears there’s trouble in paradise for Lindsay Hubbard and boyfriend Turner Kufe.

Lindsay, 38, hints at a possible split from Turner in the Wednesday, May 21, first look at the season 9 reunion. When host Andy Cohen asks Lindsay, “How is Turner?” she gets visibly uncomfortable, replying, “Um.”

The camera then pans to Lindsay’s housemates, including Amanda Batula who makes a surprised face and Lindsay’s ex-fiancé Carl Radke, who also looks concerned.

While the rest of Lindsay’s conversation with Andy, 56, isn’t shared in the video, the host can be overheard asking, “Really?” once again hinting at a relationship issue between the pair.

During season 9 of Summer House, Lindsay documented her pregnancy after rekindling her romance with Turner in early 2024. The pair welcomed their daughter, Gemma, in December 2024.

Lindsay, however, revealed during a super tease for the show earlier this month that she and Turner are very different people. “If I didn’t get pregnant, I don’t know if we would’ve stayed together,” she confessed during the May 14 teaser video.

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Lindsay isn’t the only one seemingly having romance problems during the upcoming reunion. Amanda, 33, and husband Kyle Cooke appear to get into an argument over their future and expanding their family while on the slumber-party themed set.

“There will be no future if all he does is work,” Amanda tells Andy in the preview, claiming, “Kyle’s not ready to have kids.”

After Kyle, 42, questions whether Amanda is ready herself after voicing concerns on the topic earlier this season, she claps back at her spouse. “I’m ready to have kids with somebody who’s ready to have kids with me,” Amanda quips.

When the reunion airs — on Wednesday, May 28, and Wednesday, June 4 — fans will also get a glimpse at the fallout from Lexi Wood and Jesse Solomon’s tumultuous summer fling. Plus, Paige DeSorbo will go into further detail about her and Craig Conover’s fall 2024 split.

According to the preview, no topic is off limits as Andy asks Lexi, 27, whether she thinks Jesse “had sex” with someone else during their time together. It’s unclear who Andy is inquiring about, but Jesse confesses, “I do think I crossed the line a little.”

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Jesse, however, is adamant in the teaser that he didn’t “pits girls against each other” during the summer like Lexi says he did. (Lexi and Jesse had a whirlwind romance during summer 2024 that ended with her claiming he “gaslit” her and that he alienated her from having female friendships in the house.)

Ciara Miller sounds off on the drama as well during the reunion after Lexi claimed that Ciara, 29, and Jesse were “flirty” when he was dating her. “You dragging me into it in your press was a low blow,” Ciara tells Lexi. “What the f*** was that?”

Summer House season 9 reunion begins on Bravo Wednesday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET. Part two will air on the network Wednesday, June 4, at the same time.

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HSN program host Suzanne Runyan is bidding a fond farewell to the network’s Florida studios.

“So last night I finished my last shift at our HSN studios in St. Petersburg, Florida!” Runyan wrote via Instagram on Sunday, May 18. “Hope you get a laugh at my attempt of re-creating a very funny movie scene.”

In her video, the longtime host packed up some of her most important work items, including an NFL jacket she can’t live without.

“All I need is my giant HSN credit card and my picture and my laptop and my [Philadelphia] Eagles jacket and this chair,” Runyan said in the video, inspired by a scene from The Jerk. “Actually, I’m super excited about moving to our new HSN studios in West Chester, PA. See you there.”

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Runywan’s final shows in HSN’s Florida studio appeared to involve Beekman 1802 Beauty products and Samantha Brown Luggage. (She is also known for hosting the HSN Gets Crafty shows on Tuesdays.)

“So honored to join you on your last hour presentation! See you in PA!” Samantha Brown wrote in the comments section. Crafter Beth Kingston added, “The execution of this was even better than we talked about .”

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Earlier this month, HSN announced several hosts will be leaving the shopping network ahead of the company’s big move to Pennsylvania.

“Over the coming months, we will be saying farewell to Natasha Lloyd, Helen Keaney, Amy Morrison, Lynn Murphy, Marlo Smith, Valerie Stup, Rebecca Vargas, Michelle Yarn and Guy Yovan,” HSN wrote via Facebook on May 9. “We will also have new faces joining our talented team of hosts and we look forward to introducing them to you soon!”

At the same time, HSN confirmed Sarah Anderson, Debbie Denmon, Adam Freeman, Nicole Hickl, Tamara Hooks, Tina Jennings, Emily Lampa, Ty Mayberry, Callie Northagen, Siaoming Wong and Runyan would be staying with the network and moving to Pennsylvania.

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While Runyan is excited to continue her work with HSN in another state, she’s also bummed to say goodbye to so many friends in her Florida hometown.

In a separate social media post, Runyan bid farewell to the gal pals she has met on the tennis court in her neighborhood.

“I’ve been so blessed for more than a decade to have great friends join me in St. Pete for my Monday Bubbles Tennis Group!” she wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, May 21. “Love you all and will miss you so much! #tennis.”

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Heidi Klum is soaking up the sun.

Klum, 51, took to Instagram on Wednesday, May 21, to show off her bikini style while tanning in Cannes, France. As she enjoyed a boat ride, Klum showed off her figure in a dusty pink Calzedonia bikini featuring a push-up triangle top equipped with a ruched top and a halter neckline. She teamed the top with matching bottoms complete with thigh straps and a thong back.

Klum accessorized her swim style with reflective aviator sunglasses, a beaded necklace and matching earrings.

The America’s Got Talent judge beamed for the camera as she caught some rays. She wore her blonde hair parted down the middle and styled in beachy waves.

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Elsewhere on social media, Klum shared a clip of her husband Tom Kaulitz rubbing sunscreen into her bum.

“Lucky me ,” Klum captioned the post.

Klum has been as busy as a bee during the 2025 Cannes Festival, making time to hit the red carpet and hang out with her friends.

On Wednesday, the model posted a selfie of her and her America’s Got Talent costar Sofia Vergara enjoying a boat day. Klum nuzzled her head underneath Vergara’s as they enjoyed the warm weather.

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Vergara, 52, for her part, looked chic in a strapless black-and-white top and sheer brown sunglasses.

Klum previously hit the red carpet on May 13 at the Partir Un Jour premiere in a pink floral Elie Saab dress, ignoring the festival’s new ban on dramatic trains. Her strapless number nearly took up the entire carpet with her ruffled train. Her look was complete with a thigh-high slit. She let the dress speak for itself, opting for no jewelry and nude pumps.

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Michelle Williams’ love life has been a topic of conversation since the start of her career.

The actress made her TV debut on Baywatch in 1993 and struck up a romance with costar Jeremy Jackson. They managed to keep their relationship under wraps for nearly two decades, with Jackson revealing that Williams was his “first crush” during a 2011 interview.

Williams’ most high-profile relationship started in 2004 with Heath Ledger, who played her husband in Brokeback Mountain. Their love story began on set before the pair welcomed their daughter, Matilda, in 2005. (Ledger died from an accidental drug overdose at age 28 in 2008.)

Following Ledger’s death, Williams moved on with some notable partners including Spike Jonze, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Jason Segel, Dustin Yellin, Jonathan Safran Foer and Andrew Youmans.

Williams married Phil Elverum in 2018, but the pair split the following year. She later married Thomas Kail, with whom she shares three kids.

Keep scrolling to look back at Williams’ dating history:

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The Summer I Turned Pretty will finally commit to either Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah — but fans shouldn’t expect the show to stick to the book for inspiration.

Author Jenny Han teased that there are “definitely changes” in the third season of the show — despite the events that took place in the 2011 conclusion of the book series: We’ll Always Have Summer.

“There are surprises,” Han, 44, teased to Entertainment Weekly in an interview that was published on Tuesday, May 20. “And there are things that aren’t exactly like the books.”

Stars Lola Tung, Christopher Briney and Gavin Casalegno remained tight-lipped on who Belly would choose. Casalegno, 25, claimed die-hard fans “don’t really know” what’s coming, while Tung, 22, said viewers “have no clue” about onscreen shakeups.

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Despite the changes, Han confirmed a “satisfying” ending for everyone.

“A successful love triangle is one where, no matter what happens, people are going to be devastated and heartbroken,” Han hinted. “Because if the answer feels really clear and easy, then there’s no real conflict. No matter what you do, someone’s going to be hurt by it.”

The Summer I Turned Pretty, which premiered in 2022, is based on Han’s book series of the same name that focuses on Belly (Tung), who gets caught up in a love triangle with brothers Conrad (Briney) and Jeremiah (Casalegno). After exploring her feelings for Conrad, Belly starts to question whether Jeremiah is her perfect match.

In the original book trilogy, Belly made her final choice in We’ll Always Have Summer. That doesn’t mean that the decision will play out the same way when the show returns for its third and final season.

“I do feel like there’s a strong chance that that’s a possibility,” Casalegno exclusively told Us Weekly in June 2023 about the show potentially straying from the original events in the books. “Obviously, I know where [my character Jeremiah] ends up going and what ends up happening. But I don’t emphasize on that. Because I think Jenny writes it so well that I’m able to kind of get there naturally without having to force it in a certain direction.”

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Tung, meanwhile, explained why she didn’t mind the show not following the book exactly.

“The one thing I’ve always admired about Jenny is that every season and every decision about what’s coming next is purely to serve the story,” she told EW in March. “She’s never going to do anything that doesn’t make sense for the story.”

Tung continued: “It’s all about this beautiful world she’s created and giving the fans something really, really special and giving us something really special to work with.”

The Summer I Turned Pretty returns to Prime Video on July 16.

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A Pittsburgh-area man has been charged with allegedly providing alcohol to Kavan Markwood, 20, the former college football player who fell 21 feet onto the field at PNC Park last month.

Ethan Kirkwood, 21, was arrested on Tuesday, May 20, and charged with two third-degree misdemeanor counts of furnishing alcohol to an underage person, according to court documents viewed by The Athletic.

A criminal complaint obtained by WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh said an officer with the state police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement viewed surveillance video from the night of the incident, which led to Kirkwood’s arrest. 

The video showed Kirkwood buying two 24-ounce Miller Lites, and later showed Kirkwood and Markwood walking together, each holding a beer.

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After Markwood’s fall, cameras showed two women “running down the stairs and looking for Kirkwood. Kirkwood is then seen handing a can to a female who throws it in the trash and jumping over a railing and then jumped on the field to help his friend.”

Kirkwood admitted to buying Markwood alcohol inside the stadium, per the complaint.

Markwood’s girlfriend, Alonna Brown, told Pittsburgh police that Markwood did not drink before entering the game and that he had two beers inside the ballpark.

Kirkwood is set to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on June 23.

Markwood, who played college football at Division II Wheeling University, broke his silence about the incident on May 7.

“I’m alright,” he told Pittsburgh’s TribLive. “I can’t really sleep. I have a lot of back pain.”

Markwood sustained injuries to his spine, ribs and lungs, as well as a brain injury. The former athlete said it felt like he had “broken everything” after his fall.

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“I’m happy to say that he’s progressed well,” Dr. Allan Philp said during a May 7 press conference, “He’s at a point now where he’s off the breathing machine, he’s out of the intensive care unit and is preparing to move on to the next step, which will be physical therapy, rehab.”

A GoFundMe started by Jennifer Phillips, the mother of Markwood’s girlfriend, has raised over $67,000 for Markwood’s recovery.

“We wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for your incredible support,” Phillips wrote on May 8. “Our family is beyond grateful. Kavan is continuing his recovery with strength and resilience and preparing for the next stage of treatment. Your donations will help to cover the immediate medical expenses that he will endure until he can get back on his feet and back to work.”

The post continued, “We still have a journey ahead, but knowing that we have this amazing community behind us makes all the difference. Please continue to share this fundraiser, and keep Kavan in your thoughts and prayers.”

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Jason Sudeikis shared some of his fondest memories of his real-life uncle George Wendt in an interview that resurfaced following the Cheers actor’s death at age 76 on Tuesday, May 20.

A spokesperson for Wendt’s family confirmed to Us Weekly on Tuesday that the six-time Emmy Award nominee “died peacefully in his sleep” while surrounded by family and friends.

Wendt was the maternal uncle of the Ted Lasso star — and they actually shared similar career paths by training at Chicago’s famed Second City improv theater before becoming TV stars. Sudeikis was in attendance when Second City hosted “The Roast Of George Wendt” in 2017 and even walked the red carpet with his uncle.

While speaking to The AV Club at the event, Sudeikis revealed one of his favorite memories of Wendt was his uncle taking him and his father Daniel Sudeikis on a wild car ride through Los Angeles.

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“We all went out to California to visit and George had just gotten a new car … It was a badass BMW with, like, manual drive, which I’d never seen before, you know, I was pretty young,” Sudeikis, 46, recalled in the 2017 interview. “He took me and my dad for a ride. My dad sat shotgun. I was in the back all by myself. This is not when you needed, you know, mandatory seatbelts. He drove us through Laurel Canyon.”

Wendt laughed along as Sudeikis explained how both himself and his father were unprepared for the hilly environment they were driving through.

“He had my dad holding onto [the car] like nothing you’ve ever seen,” Sudeikis remembered. “I’m just like sliding around the background just because the seats were brand new. I hold that memory very fondly.”

Wendt shared his own perspective on the SNL star during a 2024 appearance on the “Still Here Hollywood Podcast” when asked if he ever gave his nephew career advice.

“It’s funny because he gets asked that a lot … He’s so sharp,” Wendt recalled. “[Jason] goes, ‘Yeah, [Uncle George] told me, just get on the best show on television [Saturday Night Live], one of the greatest shows of all time, and just pretty much take it from there. So, I did.’”

The Cheers star went on, “He’s such a great kid. Kid? You know, he’s 45 … I’m very proud. Proud, especially, not only for his success but have you read profiles [of Sudeikis]? He’s such a mensch, so smart, so thoughtful.”

The two rarely got a chance to act together, but Sudeikis did appear with his uncle in a 1998 comedy sketch on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. They are both connected to Saturday Night Live as well — as Wendt made regular guest appearances on the NBC show as part of the Chicago Bears-loving “Superfans” sketches over a decade before Sudeikis joined the SNL cast in 2005.

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Several of Wendt’s Cheers costars paid tribute to the late actor following the announcement of his death on Tuesday.

“[I’m] devastated to hear that Georgie is no longer with us,” Ted Danson — who played bartender Sam Malone on Cheers — told Us. “I am sending all my love to [his wife] Bernadette and the children. It is going to take me a long time to get used to this. I love you, Georgie.”

John Ratzenberger said he was “heartbroken to hear about the passing of [his] friend George Wendt.” (Ratzenberger and Wendt played drinking buddies Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson on the NBC sitcom.)

“He was a true craftsman — humble, hilarious, and full of heart,” Ratzenberger said. “What you saw on screen was exactly who he was off screen with impeccable comedic timing and a deep loyalty to those he loved. I’ll miss our conversations and the quiet moments of friendship that meant the most.”

Wendt is survived by his wife, Bernadette Birkett, whom he wed in 1978, and their three children: Joe, Hilary and Daniel.

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Rob McElhenney explained his decision to publicly support Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds amid their ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

“It’s just our way of staying connected and navigating something together,” McElhenney, 48, said in his and wife Kaitlin Olson’s Variety cover story, released on Wednesday, May 21. “And also me giving and showing as much support as I possibly can with all the other stuff that he’s got going on, that I know is so difficult and challenging.”

The It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star added, “We both are just trying to offer our support in any way that we can that doesn’t just simply add oxygen to the fire.”

McElhenney and Olson, 49, have fostered a close friendship with Reynolds, 48, and Lively, 37, over the past few years. McElhenney didn’t know Reynolds before they bought the Wrexham AFC soccer team in Wales back in 2020. Now, the actors have appeared side-by-side in four seasons of the FX docuseries Welcome to Wrexham — and, according to the Variety article, text all the time.

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Olson told Us Weekly exclusively in September 2024 that she and Lively had only crossed paths twice since their respective husbands became business partners. (Both Lively and Olson have made cameos on Welcome to Wrexham, but never together.)

“Everyone’s very, very busy,” Olson explained, noting that Lively and Reynolds “live on a different coast.” (McElhenney and Olson are California-based while Lively and Reynolds live in New York City.)

“I would love to hang out with them both more often,” Olson added. “I love Ryan.”

In December 2024, Lively accused her It Ends With Us costar and director Baldoni, 41, of sexual harassment and fostering a hostile work environment on the film’s set. (Baldoni has vehemently denied the allegations.)

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Olson was quick to show her support by sharing The New York Times article, which broke down Lively’s allegations, via Instagram.

“@blakelively is a kind, lovely, honest and generous person (and an incredible mom) FYI,” Olson shared via Instagram Stories at the time. (Lively and Reynolds are parents to daughters James, 10, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, along with son Olin, 2.)

Reynolds was pulled into the legal drama that same month when Baldoni countersued Lively, adding her husband and publicist Leslie Sloane to a $400 million lawsuit. Sloane has since asked for her name to be removed from the filing while Reynolds filed to dismiss Baldoni’s suit in March.

Lively and Baldoni are set to face off in court early next year.

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