“I would sneak out and, you know, hang out with people I shouldn’t [and] wasn’t allowed to, and getting arrested,” Keough, 35, said during the Wednesday, January 15, episode of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
Keough admitted that she’s “never” publicly shared details of her arrest for breaking and entering as a teenager — and no, she’s never seen her mugshot.
“I was a minor,” she said. “I had an edgy moment.”
Keough thought she “went to a party at my friend’s house” but things suddenly went awry.
“I didn’t know that it wasn’t my friend’s house. It was a house for sale,” she explained. “The police came, and most people got away. Then about 10 of us got arrested. My mom was pissed.”
Presley was in Las Vegas at the time of her daughter’s arrest.
“I had to call her and tell her to come back from Vegas and take me up in prison,” Riley continued, noting that her aunt picked her up following the incident. “I’ve never told anyone this.”
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While Presley wasn’t happy about the actual arrest, the daughter of Elvis Presley wasn’t too pressed about details going public.
“She was like, ‘This is on you, girl,’” Riley recalled, laughing. “Luckily it didn’t get — it wasn’t in the papers.”
Presley shared Riley and late son Benjamin Keough (who died from suicide at age 27 in 2020) with ex-husband Danny Keough. Presley started writing her memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, prior to her January 2023 death and Riley released the book posthumously in October 2024.
Riley reflected on her mom being “an amazing parent” during Wednesday’s podcast episode but shared what she plans to do differently when raising daughter Tupelo. (Riley and husband Ben Smith-Petersen welcomed their child via surrogate in August 2022.)
“I think that the problem there could be, for some, that when you’re used to so much, it’s hard to find joy in simple things,” she said. “I really want my children to be able to find joy and just playing in the backyard and doing normal kid stuff and not need like elephants and circus and like all these things all the time. That’s probably what I would do differently. But I think her intention was really wanting to give everything she could to her kids.”
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Contract negotiations are a hot topic, especially when Barstool Sports personalities are involved.
The “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan are in the middle of negotiating a new deal with the media company and while it might have hurt their chances to win Surviving Barstool season 4, it also raised questions about the former NFL stars’ future at Barstool.
“Right now, the ‘Bussin’ With the Boys’ crew is in a negotiation for a bag on the next contract,” Compton shared during his Surviving Barstool confessional in January 2025. “You gotta think, if you’re Dave [Portnoy] and Dan [“Big Cat” Katz], you can’t have the ‘Bussin With the Boys’ guys running wild, winning $250K.”
The former football player, who won season 3 in 2024, was voted off the show shortly after his cohost, Lewan.
“Winning a quarter of a million dollars and then potentially throwing the deuces to us at the end of the year,” Compton continued. “So, my hat goes off. Tip of the cap. Dave, Big Cat, great game boys.”
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Compton, a former NFL linebacker, signed with the Washington Commanders as an undrafted free agent in 2013. He joined the Tennessee Titans in 2018 for one year before signing with the New Orleans Saints in 2019 and later the Las Vegas Raiders. He went back to the Titans for a second stint in 2020 before returning to the Raiders in late 2021. By September 2023, Compton announced his retirement from professional football.
Lewan, meanwhile, was drafted as a tackle for the Titans in 2014 and remained with the organization for the duration of his career, which came to an end in 2023 after being out for the 2022 season with a knee injury.
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Compton and Lewan launched the podcast with the Barstool Sports network in 2019.
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Compton spoke about the deals he and Lewan made with Barstool during an April 2024 episode of the “Next Up With Adam” podcast.
“Originally, [Barstool said] we’ll go 50/50, you guys get the IP. We said no, but we’ll go 60/40 and the minute we eclipse $1 million it goes up to 70/30 [in] our favor,” the former athlete explained. “They were on board with it, then I was like, ‘F—, I think we f—ing played ourselves.’”
Their “second deal” with the company was considered a “competitive offer,” meaning they couldn’t shop their show around. Compton said he and Lewan have since made a “beneficial” partnership with Barstool.
“Me, personally, I wanted to resign with Barstool. I think they are the best brand for us at this point in time,” Compton said. “We end up settling on a $3 million m.g. per year. We have the upside with that, every dollar made after $3 million.”
Is ‘Bussin’ With The Boys’ Renewing Their Barstool Sports Contract?
After Compton expressed that the “Bussin’ With the Boys” cohosts were in the middle of contract negotiations on Surviving Barstool, Big Cat confirmed the former NFL star’s speculation.
“Dave and I didn’t want Taylor or Will to win $250,000 cash on Barstool’s networks and then be, like, ‘Oh, by the way we’re leaving for a competitor,’ two seconds later,” Big Cat said during a January 2025 episode of the competition series.
“During the time of filming [Surviving Barstool] I thought we were going to resign them, but going in, I knew that they were evaluating,” the Barstool Sports founder noted. “They had an offer. They were like, ‘We’re going to look at the world, see what it is.’”
Portnoy “did not want” to hand one of them $250,000 from the game win and have them leave the company. When asked during the same podcast episode if Compton and Lewan were leaving the company, Portnoy played coy.
“I’m gonna let them handle it how they want to handle it,” he said. As of now, “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast episodes are still being released under the Barstool name.
“I just have to say something about Mark and Kelly,” Lucci, 78, said during Susan Lucci in Conversation with Andy Cohen: All My Children at 55 in New York City on Tuesday, January 14. “I was happy to be in the hair and makeup room watching their audition scenes, and we were all like, ‘Oh, get a room!’”
Ripa, 54, joined Lucci — and other former All My Children costars — for the appearance on Tuesday.
“The chemistry between you two was coming right through the screen,” Lucci told Ripa.
The future talk show host made her soap opera debut as Hayley Vaughan in 1990. Consuelos, 53, auditioned for the show in 1995 and was cast as Mateo Santos that same year. After meeting on set, the pair tied the knot in 1996 and said goodbye to their All My Children roles in 2002. (Both Ripa and Consuelos briefly returned to the soap opera in 2010.)
Despite their real-life chemistry, All My Children casting director Judy Blye Wilson told Andy Cohen on Tuesday that it was a hurdle getting Consuelos cast on the show.
“They couldn’t make a decision about Mark, and I was so behind him and I brought Kelly into my office, and I showed her a black and white picture of him and his headshot, and she really liked him, really,” Wilson recalled, noting that execs were “dragging their heels” when it came to making a decision about his part.
“They actually had him play the role, so he started playing the role, and I had to continue to search for another person,” Wilson recalled. “We screen-tested Mark several times. Finally, I begged the producer, and she relinquished, and it turned out to be the best, one of the best parts I ever cast.”
Ripa and Consuelos, who share three children together — Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 21 — have continued to work together over the years. She appeared in a 2019 episode of Riverdale as Ms. Mulwray alongside Consuelos, who played Hiram Lodge from 2017 to 2023.
The couple have also cohosted Live with Kelly and Mark every morning since 2023, and because of their openness as duo, sex is often brought up on screen.
Ripa explained during a 2020 interview that meeting Consuelos “really young” allowed them to keep a healthy relationship after all these years.
“We learned each other well, and with that comes a certain level of comfort and confidence and experimentation,” she said on SiriusXM show Quarantined With Bruce at the time. “We have fun. We enjoy [each other].”
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Sorry, Today fans. It sounds like Jenna Bush Hager will never bring her 11-year-old daughter Mila on the show again.
Following sidekick Hoda Kotb’s final episode on January 10, Jenna, 43, is set to have a rotating panel of celebrity cohosts on the new Today With Jenna & Friends until a permanent replacement joins the fold. Jenna joked that her daughter is the only member of her family “jumping” at the chance to cohost following Kotb’s retirement. However, her husband, Henry Chase Hager, has put his foot down — especially after Mila’s last appearance on the morning show.
“She said something very controversial,” Jenna explained to E! News in an interview published on Monday, January 13. “Therefore, my husband gave her a lifetime ban. We’ll see if that’s lifted maybe for bring your kids to work day. But she hasn’t been always the most supportive, let’s just say that.”
Mila’s “controversial” Today show appearance took place in December 2022. At the time, the then-9-year-old dropped some “truth bombs” about her mom — including a few intimate details.
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“One time she was laughing in our living room and she peed her pants!” Mila said. “You changed your pajamas!”
Then, after Kotb pressed Mila for one more secret about her mom, Jenna’s preference for going commando was brought up.
“She never wears underwear,” Mila declared. “She’s not wearing it right now! I saw her change!”
Jenna yelled, “OK goodbye!” in response and ushered her daughter off stage.
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While it was an embarrassing moment for sure, that was hardly the first time Jenna shared that she’s not a huge fan of undergarments. Kotb, 60, first told Today viewers that her cohost “never wears underwear” during a November 2022 broadcast.
“I was a little surprised because Jenna and I know a lot about each other,” Kotb said at the time, noting that they had to share a dressing room that particular day. “I just had a little shock with it!”
Kotb “noticed” that Jenna wasn’t wearing underwear when they had a minor outfit change.
“I think it makes a more pretty silhouette,” Jenna responded. “I also think you don’t have to pack as much. There’s a lot of pros to it! … [Hoda asked me], ‘Do you wash your clothes?’ And I said, ‘Yes, I do.’ But it’s also not like I’m sharing your jeans with you.”
Jenna also joked that Kotb “promised” the topic wouldn’t be brought up.
There’s a lot of people here,” Jenna continued. “I’m sure my mom [Laura Bush] has never been more proud.”
“I was never told anything. It’s actually not something I ever asked as an adult,” Riley, 35, shared during her Wednesday, January 15, appearance on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast. “I think it just was what it was. I don’t know, it just never came to mind, I guess.”
Riley’s mother, Lisa Marie Presley, married Jackson in 1994 following her split from Danny Keough. (Lisa Marie and Danny — who were married from 1988 to 1994 — shared Riley and late son Benjamin, who died by suicide at age 27 in 2020.)
“I would imagine that my dad was really heartbroken and reading the news and I’m sure that — I’m just imagining,” Riley said during Wednesday’s podcast. “I would imagine he said all kinds of things to my mom that we didn’t know about.”
Riley explained that Lisa Marie and Danny made it clear that they “don’t fight around the kids,” which is why she was never privy to any private conversations.
“We didn’t know anything. We didn’t know about any allegations,” she continued. “We didn’t know. We had no awareness of that.”
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Jackson, who died in 2009 at age 50, was accused of sexually abusing minors during the late 1990s and early 2000s but was never convicted on any charges.
“The one thing I know is that they were in love and that their love for one another was genuine,” Riley said. “I was there and I remember. Everything else, I don’t know, because I wasn’t there for [it].”
Lisa Marie addressed the allegations against Jackson in her posthumous memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, which Riley contributed to before it was published in October 2024. (Lisa Marie died at age 54 in January 2023 after suffering cardiac arrest.)
“I never saw a goddamn thing like that,” she wrote. “I personally would’ve killed him if I did.”
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As the granddaughter of the late Elvis Presley, the Daisy Jones & The Sixactress recalled having a crazy life growing up. During the two years Lisa Marie was married to Jackson, things “got bigger.”
“I think when she saw Michael’s life, there were things that he had that she didn’t have,” Riley shared on Wednesday’s podcast. “She didn’t have a plane at the time or things like that. She then was like, ‘Oh, I should have a plane, and I should have this and that.’”
Riley compared the differences between her mom’s “simple” marriage to her dad, Danny, and her relationship with Michael.
“At home, like, she didn’t have 10 million assistants. She didn’t need all of that [with Danny],” Riley said. “I think that changed.”
“Mauricio’s living his best life right now,” a source shares exclusively in the latest issue of Us Weekly.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star — who has recently shifted his attention to helping find housing for displaced families amid the L.A. wildfires — was spotted in Aspen packing on the PDA with model Klaudia K last month, after flying her out to Colorado, but the insider explains to Us that Umansky, 54, isn’t interested in anything serious.
“He was seen exchanging numbers with a couple of women [there] and buying groups rounds of drinks,” the source adds. “He says he’s having more fun than he’s ever had in his life.”
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“That’s not something that we have talked about yet,” Richards, 56, revealed on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen in December 2024. “It just hasn’t come up yet. We’re good friends and we get along really well. … We just live separate lives.”
While Richards has kept details of her love life under the radar, Umansky has been romantically linked to multiple women — including his former Dancing With the Stars partner Emma Slater. The professional dancer was name-dropped during a recent episode of RHOBH, but Slater and Umansky denied that anything romantic ever went on between them. (Us Weekly broke the news in October 2024 that Slater and fellow DWTS pro Alan Berstenwere “hooking up.”)
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Richards has admitted that it’s not ideal to see “photos of him walking down the street” with other women as they navigate a new normal.
“Obviously, it’s strange to see his personal life played out all the time,” Kyle told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published on Tuesday, January 14. “But while it may be strange, we’re not together like that, so it is what it is.”
Kyle noted that even though she was “dreading” the conversation, it’s something she and Umansky will discuss on camera.
“We knew it was inevitable that it was going to come up. It was out there every day in our faces,” she shared during the same interview. “I knew he wouldn’t want to talk about it, but he actually brought it up on his own because he knew it was the elephant in the room. I sat there and let him talk about that.”
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“What was really going through my head was, ‘You’re being an a—–e. right now,’” Kyle, 56, said of costar Garcelle, 58, during The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: After Show on Tuesday, January 14. “Don’t try to act like oopsie daisies. You know exactly what you’re doing.”
During Tuesday’s episode of RHOBH, Kyle was talking about her separation from Mauricio Umansky when Garcelle chimed in to be “100 percent blunt” with her friend.
“Do whatever the f— you want to do. Be whoever you want to be,” Garcelle stated. “If you want to be a lesbian, be a lesbian.”
Kyle initially looked like a deer in headlights, but all the women started laughing shortly after the comment was made.
“Where I was coming from that night when I said it, it was about we are grown ass women. We’re people’s mothers, we’re people’s grandmother,” Garcelle explained. “I wasn’t pushing her to come out. What I was saying is be whoever you want to be.”
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Morgan, 30, was discussed at length during RHOBH season 13 last year, but Kyle told Us Weekly exclusively in November 2024 that it’s “not fair” to discuss their friendship onscreen anymore.
During Tuesday’s aftershow, Kyle wondered if Garcelle was trying to “get a reaction” from her. “What I did care about it was, what are you getting at?” Kyle asked.
Kyle claimed during Tuesday’s aftershow that Garcelle didn’t apologize for what she said. Garcelle, meanwhile, further weighed in on her intentions.
“I’m not trying to call her out. Own it, be authentic,” Garcelle explained. “I feel like Kyle cares a lot about what people think and how this is gonna look and how that’s gonna look — and she’s trying to figure it out.”
Garcelle said that women of their age group “don’t have to worry so much” about what people say. The public “can connect” more with authenticity and alluded to Kyle being more open about what she’s going through.
“If this is who you are or even if you’re discovering it, discover it and own it,” she said.
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The January 7 episode of RHOBH ended with the two women screaming at each other after it was revealed that Kyle had texted with PK following his separation from Dorit. The fight bled into the beginning of the Tuesday, January 14 episode, with Kyle addressing her texts PK multiple times — but never to Dorit directly.
At one point during Tuesday’s episode, Kyle read Erika Jayne, Sutton Stracke and Garcelle Beauvais the exact text she sent PK after his separation statement went public.
“I know you have a lot of friends but I am also one and here if you need me. I’ve never repeated anything you have ever shared with me and never would. (Meaning you can trust me always),” the text read. “Will keep sending memes and won’t forget laughing emojis.”
The other woman weighed during their respective confessionals.
“Wait a minute, this is not just about memes and jokes. This is serious talk,” Sutton said.
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“So they have shared things about Dorit or relationship[s] or whatever that no one else knows about,” Garcelle added. “All this time, Kyle is really defending that it’s just memes. It’s not all true.”
Garcelle eventually paraphrased Kyle’s text to newcomerBozeman St. John and the preview for next week’s episode showed Bozeman asking Kyle to “please” read the text she sent to PK.
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“And that is all I f—ing said. Now I am done. I’m not going to be made to feel like I’ve done something wrong,” Kyle said through tears in the clip, before speaking to Dorit directly. “I’ve loved you and your family. F— everybody, I’m done with this s—. I’m not doing this anymore.”
“That scene in particular, walking off. I just don’t feel like I was myself, and I don’t feel like I was strong enough,” she shared. “Honestly, to be shooting the show at that time, I just really needed the woman to kind of be there for me and support me. And obviously I didn’t feel that at all, so it just magnified my situation.”
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During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Tuesday, Kyle further explained her regrets about that moment.
“I regretted how I handled it, but not leaving. I just didn’t have it in me anymore. I was at a point where I was so depressed, frankly. I’m not someone who gets depressed,” Kyle explained. “I’ve had anxiety my entire life but never depression, and I really felt like I was struggling with depression and I expressed that. And I just felt like I could not go into scenarios all the time and just have everyone coming at me.”
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Brooke Shields never had a baby with her ex-husband, Andre Agassi — a decision she says turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
“I’m glad I never got pregnant with my first husband because it would have been a disaster,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, published on Tuesday, January 14. “When we got divorced he made that very clear.”
Shields claimed in her book that Agassi, 54, told her to “be thankful we didn’t have children” when they split “because I would not have made this easy for you.”
“Well, thank you for that tidbit, I thought,” Shields quipped in the memoir. “You just made this particular transition much easier!”
“One of the reasons I married Andre was that I liked being in a relationship with someone more famous than I was,” Shields explained elsewhere in the memoir. “After a lifetime of always being the focus, it was a relief to be able to slink into the background a bit. He was a gallant guy, too, and I loved that.”
On the other hand, Shields called her marriage a “controlling, rigid relationship” and shared a discussion she had with Agassi about her body.
“When I would profess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’ However, when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his response,” Shields wrote, noting that she was referring to herself as a pregnant woman.
Agassi’s reply, according to Shields, was: “I love you too much to let you get big and fat!”
Shields acknowledged that this was “an unfair question” to ask but she “definitely did not” anticipate that reply.
“I started to spin a bit,” she continued. “But we all know how that relationship turned out, so let’s move on.”
Following their divorce, Shields moved on with Chris Henchy. She met Henchy in 1999 “at the gym on the Warner Bros. lot” while she was still married to Agassi.
“We became friendly because we’d see each other at that gym from time to time — I was working on Suddenly Susan, he was writing for a show on the lot — but we didn’t start to date until the following year, after I’d gotten divorced,” she wrote.
Shields and Henchy married in 2001 and share two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is out now.
“You know what I have words for? F—ing people who are saying that it’s good, ‘It’s Hollywood, and those stupid Hollywood people,’ like you’ve got to be kidding me,” Applegate, 53, said during the Tuesday, January 14 episode of her “Messy” podcast. “I think that people that don’t live here just feel like just celebrities are just walking around, running everything.”
She said that celebrities make up just “a small portion” of the city’s population.
Her cohost Jamie Lynn Sigler added, “Do you know what makes up L.A.? The most diverse group of people you have ever seen in one place.”
“This is a city of people that are working their asses off at fast food chains or, you know, f—ing builders and painters and it’s myriad groups of humans here,” Applegate continued. “So to say good riddance is real sick and I’m not liking that whatsoever.”
Sigler, 43, said that the citizens of L.A. are “there for big dreams” and “work their f—ing asses off” to achieve their personal and professional goals.
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“Is there a group of people that have been affected that will have the ability to rebuild their lives? I wouldn’t say easily, but soon, yes,” Sigler added. “And are there thousands of other people that literally have no idea where they will begin? Yes. And we have to hold both of them in our hearts.”
On January 7, an extreme wind storm caused by Santa Ana gusts sparked brush fires that have since burned more than 40,000 acres and killed 24 people thus far. Several celebrities, including Mandy Moore and Paris Hilton, have spoken publicly about losing their homes.
Applegate told listeners during Tuesday’s podcast episode that she was able to return home after spending two nights in a hotel last week.
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“We have our go bags. We actually evacuated last week for a couple of days, and then we came home,” Applegate said. “I just have, like, a backpack and a thing of important things. The important papers and things that mean something to you.”
The Dead to Me star said that she gets updates about the fires through an app on her phone.
“We’re just kind of on this constant alert,” she continued. “Right now, we’re OK. Just giving our thoughts out to anyone who’s lost homes, people that I’ve known who have lost their homes and are displaced.”
Brooke Shields is getting real about why she parted ways with the Hallmark Channel after signing a massive deal with the network in 2014.
Shields, 59, recalled signing a 16-film deal with Hallmark Network more than a decade ago in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, which was released on Tuesday, January 14.
“I’d completed only three when I realized I had to renegotiate. I’d been hired, I was told, to help change the face of the network,” she wrote. “They wanted me to be funny and bring more comedy to their offerings, but as filming progressed on each of the Flower Shop Mysteries — the franchise I was hired to headline — all the humor had evaporated.”
Shields starred as Abby Knight, a flower shop owner and ex-lawyer, in the three films. Her first movie with the network, titled Mum’s the Word: A Flower Shop Mystery, premiered in January 2016. Her second, Flower Shop Mystery: Snipped in the Bud, aired in April 2016. Shields’ third and final appearance as Abby Knight came in June 2016 with Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted.
“Not everything is for everyone, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Hallmark Channel — God knows it has a huge fan base — but it was not the future I wanted for my career,” Shields wrote. “I’m never against hard work, but I am now a believer in only saying yes to work that serves me.”
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The actress explained that she could “make a living with other opportunities,” especially ones that allowed her to spend more time with her family. (Shields shares daughters Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, with husband Chris Henchy.)
“I simply could not do ten more films that were not what I was promised and felt completely wrong for me,” she wrote. “So I quit. I definitely surprised some people, and in plenty of ways I surprised myself. I certainly would never have done that in my 20s.”
Despite ending her partnership with the network, Shields returned years later for one of their famous holiday films. She starred in the 2021 flick A Castle for Christmas alongside Cary Elwes.
A lot of Shields’ latest memoir focuses on how her mindset has changed by getting older in the public eye. The actress did tell Us Weekly exclusively in a recent cover story that she feels “more confident” than ever ahead of her 60th birthday.
“It doesn’t mean I’m less ambitious. If anything, I’m probably more ambitious because I feel I deserve it more. I still get afraid. I still get nervous I’m not good enough,” she shared. “I still have to force myself to push through, [but] we are becoming unignorable. We’re pretty formidable, and I think that’s a little frightening for everybody.”
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is out now.
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Lindsay Hubbard is speaking out for the first time about Dorinda Medley allegedly spreading rumors about her pregnancy.
“I bit my tongue,” Hubbard, 38, shared during the Tuesday, January 14, episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “I haven’t spoken ever about this. I’ve never had this conversation with anybody.”
Hubbard revealed “what happened” with Medley, 60, when addressing whether the Real Housewives of New York City alum actually “blew up” her pregnancy.
The Summer House star shared that she heard in May 2024 that Medley apparently “got really drunk” at Real Housewives of New Jersey star Margaret Josephs’ house during a Cinco de Mayo party.
“Now, I don’t speak to Dorinda. We have always been very friendly when we have run into each other. I actually really have enjoyed my interactions with Dorinda in the past,” Hubbard said. “Dorinda is drunk, going around telling everyone that I’m pregnant, but unfortunately, I lost the baby, and I had a miscarriage.”
Hubbard said she wasn’t at the party herself, but “multiple people” told her what was apparently being said.
At the time, rumors started swirling that Hubbard was supposed to appear on The Traitors season 3. Medley allegedly shared details about Hubbard’s pregnancy with the show’s producers. (Hubbard’s Traitors casting was never confirmed by Peacock. Her Summer House costar Ciara Miller is featured on the show, which premiered earlier this month.)
“This big rumor comes out about how Dorinda had such a problem that she found out I was pregnant, but I shouldn’t be able to compete,” Hubbard shared on Tuesday’s podcast episode. “Now, I have a problem with this because why? I’m not affecting you, OK? Now, yes, is it hard to compete on Traitors when you’re pregnant because it’s physically and mentally just a lot on your body?”
She continued, “Why also are you getting drunk and running around a party and talking about how I had a miscarriage when I didn’t? Especially because I’ve already had a miscarriage in my life.”
“I’ve never spoken to Dorinda about any of this,” Hubbard continued. “It was so random to me.”
Hubbard said it was a “really brutal time” during the early days of her pregnancy, especially as she attempted to figure out who leaked her pregnancy. (Hubbard announced in July 2024 that she and boyfriend Turner Kufe were expecting their first baby together. Their daughter, Gemma, was born in December 2024.)
A Bravo source told Us Weekly in July 2024 that there was “absolutely no truth” to the rumor that Medley leaked Hubbard’s pregnancy.
Kyle, 56, sat down with Sutton, 52, and Garcelle Beauvais to discuss her ongoing feud with Dorit Kemsley in a clip from the Tuesday, January 14 episode of RHOBH, shared by E! News.
Kyle started the conversation by telling the women that PK Kemsley was having “a really hard time” amid his separation from Dorit, 48. Kyle explained that she had told Mauricio, 54, that Dorit did not want her to have a friendship with PK — even amid his struggles. (The women fought in last week’s episode after Kyle confirmed that she still texts PK after he and Dorit separated.)
“If it was me, I would be upset,” Garcelle said about the texting. “I wouldn’t like it.”
Kyle noted that Garcelle had a “very different situation” with her ex-husband, Michael Nilon, who cheated on her.
“I feel like in a way it’s similar to Dorit — not infidelity — but being angry at one another,” Garcelle explained.
Sutton was quick to chime in, claiming that Kyle “also had infidelity” in her marriage. (Kyle and Mauricio separated in July 2023 after 27 years of marriage and denied any “wrongdoing” in their marriage.)
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“Let’s not forget that part,” Sutton continued. Kyle responded, “What part? … Who did?”
Kyle denied any infidelity in her marriage, but Sutton doubled down. (Mauricio has been accused of cheating on Kyle multiple times throughout their RHOBH tenure.)
“With Mau? You’ve talked about him,” Sutton said, referring to Kyle’s breakdown during RHOBH season 13 when she admitted to losing her “trust” in Mauricio.
“With the Instagram?” Kyle questioned, referencing another RHOBH season 13 scene where she admitted to having a fight with Mauricio over him communicating with other women over social media. “That’s different. I think that’s different.”
In her confessional, however, Sutton said the Instagram situation was not what she had been referring to. “I always have a problem with things slipping out of my mouth,” she added.
Garcelle also weighed in on the rather awkward encounter during her own confessional.
“This is definitely the unspoken thing. No one brings that up,” she said. “I mean, listen, we’ve been hearing rumors for years that either Mau has stepped out or is doing this or is doing that. Nobody has confirmation but it’s been all over.”
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“I was talking to a doctor recently who inquired about my sex life, and I explained to her that I have no desire and I’m fine with it,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, published on Tuesday, January 14. “Turned out, she was not fine with it.”
Shields wrote that she “had a fervent sex drive” when she was younger. “But I never felt like I could step into that appetite in the way that I wanted to,” the actress added.
Shields detailed how losing her virginity, and in turn, having sex with previous boyfriends, impacted her relationship with her late mom, Teri Shields.
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“My connection with my boyfriend was a personal affront to her, because having a man in my life in such a real way meant that she was losing me,” she wrote. “Oh, how I wish I’d just let the lust take over! But regrettably I was never able to do that.”
This has continued to play out in her marriage to Henchy, 60. (Shields and Henchy have been married since 2001. They share daughters Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.)
“Here I am, more than thirty-five years later, sometimes pretending I’m asleep when I know Chris is in the mood,” Shields admitted in the book. “That has nothing to do with Chris —he’s hot! He’s been working out at a boxing gym recently, and he looks incredible.”
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Shields explained to readers that her lack of sex drive comes alongside all the “bodily s—” that she has experienced as an aging woman. She also noted that pretending to be asleep is “not great” — but she’s working on that.
After telling the doctor about her lack of sex, Shields recalled being “on the receiving end of a lecture about how important sex is to a relationship.” The actress also admitted that because of a previous surgery, sex has become “painful.” (Shields told Us Weekly exclusively earlier this month about a plastic surgeon giving her a vaginal rejuvenation surgery without consent.)
“For me to fully enjoy sex at this point, I need my lotions and potions, the right sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax,” she wrote, noting “again” that Henchy is “not at all the problem.”
“Listen, there’s nothing wrong with using whatever you need!” she stated. “Whatever it takes.”
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is out now.
Josh Gad’s career is full of highs and lows — plus a lot of strange moments with A-list stars, at least according to his memoir, In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some.
“It sort of became the theme of the book,” Gad, 43, told Us Weeklyexclusively while promoting the book, which was released on Tuesday, January 14. “In the face of adversity, how do you overcome obstacles in order to achieve bigger dreams than you could have set out for yourself? That has been the story of my life.”
Gad explained that he’s had “stumbles” during his rise to fame which have acted as “learning curves” throughout his career.
“I love failing because it gives me a platform to succeed,” he shared. “Don’t let others force you to give up on yourself. I think perseverance is as important as skill. Those two things together can be a very powerful elixir.”
Gad continued, “I didn’t love it at the time, certainly hated it — but rejection was as important to me and continues to be as important to me as acceptance. A part of it is, ‘F— me? F— you. I’m gonna prove you wrong.’”
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Part inspirational story about success and part reflecting on his upbringing (Gad grew up with a single mother and absent father), his book offered moments of levity with some major name drops.
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of the celebrity encounters from Gad’s memoir:
Sharing the Classroom With the Stars
Gad went to high school in Florida where the early days of his acting career started. He wrote that Scott Weinger (Steve on Full House or the voice of Aladdin, depending on what generation you grew up in) was one of his “school heroes.”
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When Gad went to Carnegie Mellon University, the actor discovered that he had shared the halls with other industry giants, including “a young nebbish boy from Southern California with a very rich singing voice named Josh Groban, a ferociously talented and fiercely confident kid from Philly named Leslie Odom Jr., and a fair-skinned Irish boy from Cleveland named Rory O’Malley.” Gad also noted that Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello were his “big brothers” at school.
Longtime Besties
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Gad has been friends with Seth Gabel from childhood. Gabel, as some may know, went on to marryBryce Dallas Howard. Gad admittedly “hated” Howard when he first met her, but they became “lifelong friends” after one night where he wore her “pink fluffy bathrobe” all over New York City.
Couch-Surfing Roommates
At the beginning of his career, Gad would crash on Gabel and Howard’s couch in Los Angeles. He wrote that two others were also couch surfing: Katherine Waterston and Jeremy Strong, who Gad referred to as “an interesting recent Yale drama grad who was working as an apprentice to Daniel Day-Lewis.”
A Memorable Encounter With a Legend
Those same early years in Los Angeles brought “an exciting or thrilling moment” — one of which included Robert Downey Jr.
Gad wrote that he spotted the actor during a trip to The Coffee Bean in 2003. The pair spoke about Downey’s role in the movie Chaplin.
“I took a deep breath, tapped him on the shoulder, introduced myself, and for the next five minutes the two of us shared a beautiful and inspiring conversation about our admiration for one of the world’s great comedians,” Gad recalled, noting that he “felt so moved” by the interaction.
“As we approached the cashier, [Downey] suddenly turned to me and said: ‘Hey, I forgot my wallet. Do you mind covering this?’” Gad wrote.
Whose House Is This?
Gad wrote about meeting his friend at her boyfriend’s house, not knowing who owned the home.
“I rang the bell and a few seconds later my friend, dressed in a bathrobe, answered the door. Before I had time to ask why she was in a bathrobe, her boyfriend, the owner of this monstrous house, strolled up beside her in a matching bathrobe,” he wrote. “It was Jeff Goldblum.”
The trio “made small talk” until Goldblum started practicing a Meisner method acting exercise on Gad. “Why I was playing it with a robed Jeff Goldblum in his Mount Olympus home on a small uncomfortable cushion, I had and still have no idea,” Gad shared.
Tax Advice From Kelsey Grammer
Gad worked with Grammer on the 2007 series Back to You and the Frasier star once discussed the importance of being “a fiscal conservative” while they were on set.
“Emmy Award–winning actor Kelsey Grammer shared the virtues of paying less in taxes and encouraged me to join the cause (which for the record, had I not been brought up in a very liberal household, I probably would have run with because, well, money is really nice to keep once you’ve earned it),” Gad wrote, sharing that they have stayed “incredibly close” over the years.
‘The Artist Formerly Known as’ Kevin Spacey
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Gad appeared alongside Spacey in the 2008 movie 21. While filming the movie, Spacey would take Gad out to dinner and “force” him into an “impression-off.” In an aside included in the memoir, Gad explained this was years before Spacey’s legal troubles. (The disgraced actor has faced multiple sexual assault allegations since 2017, which he has denied. He was acquitted of nine charges in July 2023.)
“It was such a strange thing,” Gad told Us about working with Spacey. “But also it felt like a sign of respect where he was really, I think, tickled by the fact that I could do voices.”
Harrison Ford Says No
Despite working on the 2008 movie Crossing Over with Ford, the Hollywood legend wouldn’t take a photo with Gad years later.
“I was hanging out with a young Hailee Steinfeld, whom my agent also represented, when she approached him and got a selfie. After Hailee took the pic, I asked Harrison if we could also snap a picture together,” Gad wrote. “Harrison looked at me and said in that iconic gruffy snarl, ‘No.’”
How Jake Gyllenhaal Is Connected to ‘The Book of Mormon’
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Gad played Gyllenhaal’s friend in the 2010 movie Love and Other Drugs. When they were driving home from set, Gad played the Broadway movie’s soundtrack.
“I played the opening number. Jake laughed his ass off,” Gad wrote. “I skipped to another track on the album and his face slowly went from joyful enthusiasm to abject fear and terror.”
Hello, My Name Is Elder Price
Before Andrew Rannells was cast alongside Gad in The Book of Mormon, stars like Cheyenne Jackson, T.R. Knight and Nick Lachey auditioned for the role.
A Meaningful Friendship
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Gad met Robin Williams (one of his longtime heroes) backstage at The Book of Mormon and they started a friendship that would last until the comedian’s 2014 death.
“It’s so frustrating because you imagine somebody’s gonna be around forever. There was so much I planned to talk to him about. We had been speaking less and less. I saw him, I think, the year before he passed,” Gad told Us. “I could tell he was down. He wasn’t his vibrant self, but I didn’t really know what was going on. I didn’t want to burden him with any conversations, certainly about myself. I feel grateful that he would’ve had an opportunity to hear me talk about how he inspired me — it’s something I said to him personally.”
A-List Fans
Throughout the course of the book, Gad mentioned some stars who proved themselves to be fans. Henry Winkler saw the actor in The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee on Broadway, while Philip Seymour Hoffman went to The Book of Mormon. Multiple stars — Sacha Baron Cohen, Adam Sandler and Melissa McCarthy — have asked Gad to do the Olaf voice from Frozen at parties over the years.
Johnny Depp, Huge YouTube Guy
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Gad appeared alongside Depp in the 2017 movie Murder on the Orient Express. The two actors would often “watch TV” in Depp’s trailer while on set, which meant “old YouTube videos” like “Charlie Bit My Finger.”
According to Gad’s book, these clips “blew Johnny’s mind.” While talking with Us, Gad said “it was so wild” to have this experience, which he noted was “the last thing” anyone would expect to do with Depp.
“This was an out of body experience to just sit on a couch and be like, ‘Oh, yes, I remember seeing these YouTube videos 10 years ago.’ But I loved the novelty of them to him,” Gad shared with Us. “Watching him see these things with the eyes of a child was fascinating and wonderful and just sort of amazing.”
His Last Text With Chadwick Boseman
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The late Boseman appeared alongside Gad in the 2017 movie Marshall.
“The production, which was shot in Buffalo, got off to a somewhat choppy start because Chad had something wrong with his stomach that he was being treated for in LA,” Gad wrote. “It wouldn’t be until almost three years later that I would realize the medical issue was in actuality colon cancer, and that Chad was somehow shooting our film in the early stages of the disease that would ultimately take his life.”
Gad shared his final text exchange with Boseman, from June 2020. “Love you too brother Gad,” the actor wrote. Boseman died two months later.
Brooke Shields is offering more details about her public falling-out with Tom Cruise — and why she wrote that 2005 op-ed.
“Had Tom taken a public swing at me before I became a mother, I probably would have stayed quiet. I would have ignored his ridiculous rant. I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own (deluded) agenda,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman. “I would have been satisfied that his behavior would speak for itself.”
Cruise’s comments from 2005 came just after Shields turned 40. She explained in the book — released on Tuesday, January 14 — how this changed her perspective.
“Sitting quietly and letting myself be attacked might have been my approach a decade earlier — I might have even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that maybe my career was stalling while a powerful male movie star was singling me out, sure that I’d never stand a chance in that fight — but now I was emboldened by life experience,” Shields wrote, adding that she was “growing into my self-confidence.”
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For a little backstory, Shields released her Down Came the Rain memoir in May 2005, detailing her experience with postpartum depression after welcoming daughter Rowan, now 21. (Along with Rowan, Shields and husband Chris Henchy also share 18-year-old daughter Grier.)
Following the release, Cruise went on the Today show and “disparaged me,” Shields wrote. Cruise, she recalled, referred to her “use of antidepressants” as “dangerous.”
“I was, according to Tom, spreading misinformation,” she wrote. “An interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries.”
In response, Shields published an op-ed in The New York Times.
“I was sticking up for myself, and for women who were suffering, against irrational and dangerous comments from an unschooled actor who was speaking way out of his depth,” Shields wrote in Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old, noting that while her op-ed “sparked outrage” at Cruise, it also “spurred discussions on the reality and prevalence of postpartum depression.”
Shields confirmed in her book that Cruise “eventually” apologized for starting the feud, albeit “not publicly.” Per Shields, the actor went to her house and they had a conversation.
It wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it,” she wrote.
Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is out now.
Ben Affleck is not in any trouble with the law despite getting a visit from the FBI and Los Angeles Police Department.
“Members of the FBI‘s Ground Intercept task force are conducting activity in the area of the Palisades fire relative to unauthorized drone activity,” a representative from the FBI’s press relations told Page Six in a statement on Monday, January 13. “Agents and our local partners may be visible throughout the area, including at various residences, for this reason.”
Photos obtained by multiple outlets showed FBI agents standing outside of Affleck’s Brentwood home on Sunday, January 12. TMZ reported at the time that law enforcement was investigating an incident regarding a private drone and firefighting aircraft and Page Six added that the agents were seeking potential CCTV footage from Affleck’s home.
The news came amid the ongoing wildfires impacting those living in the Los Angeles area, including various celebrities who have been forced to evacuate their homes. A wind storm caused by the Santa Ana gusts started the brush fires on January 7. The fires have continued to escalate, killing at least 24 people so far. Certain areas of L.A., including Pacific Palisades, have been impacted.
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Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024 after two years of marriage. She submitted the paperwork on the anniversary of their Georgia wedding, despite being separated since April 2024. Court documents obtained by Us on January 6 confirmed that the former couple had finalized their divorce.
Both parties “agreed to divide all assets and liabilities” to avoid further litigation and expenses, the court documents stated. Lopez kept her personal belongings and earnings from their date of separation, plus half of their bank accounts. Affleck received the same. Their $60 million mansion, which is currently on the market, will be divided between them. Specific terms were not revealed.
Their divorce was settled by mediation in September 2024 and, at the time, Lopez requested to drop Affleck from her name. Details of the divorce also state that Lopez will get to keep all the items “individually or by entities of which [Lopez] is the sole owner, member or shareholder.”
Affleck, for his part, will keep his interest in the Artists Equity production company, which was founded in 2022 alongside longtime friend Matt Damon. He “shall pay, indemnify and hold [Lopez] harmless from any and all liabilities, claims, debts, actions, causes of action and/or tax liabilities associated with” the company, the docs read.
“I speak to Stephen’s mom. My mom and her were speaking weekly at some point. I don’t know if it’s still like that. Me and my mom haven’t talked about it,” Weslie shared in a since-deleted Instagram video previously shared on January 9. “Since Stephen died, I feel like I’ve seen his family more than when he was alive. We would only see them once or twice a year.”
Weslie explained that tWtich’s family “lives in another state,” which is the only reason why the blended family didn’t spend too much time together.
“It’s not, like, we’re neighbors. It’s not, like, we could just see them whenever we wanted, and now my mom’s constantly making the effort so the kids are a part of their lives,” she continued. “I don’t make the effort, but that’s just how I am.”
TWitch died by suicide at age 40 in December 2022. Holker, 36, shared details about her late husband’s alleged drug addiction and alleged childhood sexual abuse in her memoir, This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light, which is set to be released next month.
Holker has faced backlash for the content of the book — tWitch’s mom said she was “appalled by the misleading and hurtful claims” written about her son. (Holker has since addressed the backlash in a social media statement.)
“The recent publications spreading untruths about Stephen have crossed every line of decency,” Connie wrote via Instagram on January 9. “As his mother, I will not let these accusations go unanswered. We will not stand by while his name and legacy are tarnished. He doesn’t deserve this, and the kids don’t deserve this.”
Holker shares Zaia, 5, and son Maddox, 8, with tWitch, who is also Weslie’s adoptive father.
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At one point in her video, Weslie directly addressed rumors that Connie was not allowed to see tWitch’s body in the wake of his untimely death.
“I don’t know where it started but I’m constantly getting comments being like, ‘Your mom didn’t let Connie see the body for three weeks.’ Something like that,” she said. “Everybody who wanted to see the body had access to that information.”
Weslie said that her mom “didn’t want to” see tWitch’s body. Connie, on the other hand, was apparently asking about seeing her late son. According to Weslie, “literally everybody” allegedly advised Connie against it.
“That’s your son, you might not want to go see him,” she recalled. “With that all being said, she could have completely on her own terms gone and seen him.”
Weslie noted that she feels “disrespected” by tWitch’s family and has no plans to repair their relationship or establish lines of communication.
“They’ve gone on social media saying that ‘Blood’s thicker than water,’ and that’s a direct [hit to] me and my mom,” she alleged. “And if you don’t see me as Stephen’s daughter, that’s cool, take it how you want. I know for a fact that’s never how he saw it, and it’s literally just hurtful.”
She added, “I’ve slowly started to remove myself from [them] because they don’t make me feel comfortable, and my mom’s the one making the effort and feeling like it’s a need and a necessity to see them because she cares.”
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Princess Kate Middleton might be making her first red carpet appearance since completing chemotherapy.
Kate, 43, will reportedly attend the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) next month, according to the Daily Mail. The publication reported on Saturday, January 11, that the star-studded event will mark the Princess of Wales’ red carpet return amid her cancer journey. The 2025 BAFTA Film Awards will be held on February 16 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London.
Us Weekly has reached out to Kensington Palace for comment.
Kate’s possible return to the awards ceremony comes after she skipped out on last year’s event. Prince William walked the BAFTAs red carpet solo in February 2024, a month before Kate went public with her cancer diagnosis. (BAFTA is an arts charity and one of the royal family’s patronages. William has been President of BAFTA since 2010.)
In a March 2024 video, Kate shared that she was undergoing treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer. The Princess of Wales kept a low profile throughout most of the year, only making a few public appearances.
“I cannot tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment,” Kate stated in a video at the time. “The last nine months have been incredibly tough for us as a family. Life as you know it can change in an instant and we have had to find a way to navigate the stormy waters and road unknown.”
The royal family member noted that her “path to healing and full recovery is long” but planned on making more public engagements.
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William, 42, spoke candidly about his wife’s return to full public-facing duties during a November 2024 interview with the U.K.’s The Times.
“I think, hopefully, Catherine will be doing a bit more next year,” he shared. “So, we’ll have some more trips maybe lined up.”
During the same interview, William admitted that 2024 was the most “dreadful” year of his life. (Aside from Kate, his father, King Charles III, was also diagnosed with cancer.)
“It’s probably been the hardest year in my life,” the Prince of Wales shared. “So, trying to get through everything else and keep everything on track has been really difficult.”
William said he was “proud” of his wife and father but noted that the health crisis was “brutal” for the entire family.
“She is looking after herself and is wise to do so. She will know when she wakes up if she is well enough or not [to do something],” a family friend told the publication on Kate’s birthday, January 9.
LaPaglia, 25, was hooked up to a lie detector test during the Wednesday, January 8, episode of her “BFFs” podcast when cohost Josh Richards questioned the influencer about Bryan, 28.
“Do you know if Zach’s exes signed NDAs?” Richards, 22, asked. LaPaglia replied, “Yes.”
Richards followed up wondering if LaPaglia knew “which exes” signed the paperwork.
“I know two exes signed NDAs,” she replied, putting an end to the conversation and not sharing any names.
LaPaglia and Bryan dated for a little over a year before the country singer announced in October 2024 that they had split. The Barstool Sports personality has since spoken out against her ex-boyfriend, alleging that she was emotionally abused during their relationship. LaPaglia also claimed that Bryan offered her $12 million to sign an NDA, ensuring that she would never publicly speak about their past relationship. (Us Weekly has reached out to Bryan’s team multiple times for comment.)
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Prior to LaPaglia, the “Pink Skies” singer was in two semi-public relationships. He married Rose Madden in 2020 but filed for divorce the following year. Bryan took his relationship with Deb Peifer public that same year. He announced their breakup in May 2023 and moved on with LaPaglia shortly thereafter.
Peifer, for her part, has appeared to subtly address LaPaglia’s breakup from Bryan — and the drama that followed.
“I don’t really think that I have to say this, but I kind of think I want to,” Peifer shared in an October 2024 TikTok video. “I’m not 100 percent sure yet honestly, but I just want to be clear on the fact that I don’t find any gratification in other people hurting, specifically other women hurting.”
While she didn’t get into specifics, fans were convinced Peifer was addressing LaPaglia and Bryan’s split.
“I feel like I’ve seen some comments on my personal social media pages alluding to the fact that I do and I don’t,” Peifer continued. “I just wanted to make sure that was clear. I think emotions are so nuanced and complicated, but I don’t feel better because other people are hurting in any capacity. I don’t think you should either but that’s your journey.”
LaPaglia has not shared if she and Peifer have spoken in the breakup aftermath, but the internet personality did reveal in November 2024 that she FaceTimed Madden.
“I f—ing love her. I’ve never felt more seen and validated in my life,” LaPaglia said on the “BFFs” podcast at the time. “Oh, my gosh. She’s a great person.”
